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OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:

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HARTFORD, CONN. : :
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1876.

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PREFACE.

Ir may seem presumptuous for an ordinary woman with no particular advan-
tages of education to translate and publish alone, the most wonderful book that
has ever appeared in the world, and thought to be the most difficult to translate.
It has occupied the time and attention of the wisest and most learned of all ages,
believing, as the world has believed, that such only could give the correct rendering
of the language in which the Bible was written.

Over twenty years ago, when I had four sisters, a friend met with us weekly,
to search the Scriptures, we being desirous to learn the exact meaning of every Greek
and Hebrew word, from which King James’s forty-seven translators had taken their
version of the Bible. We saw by the margin that the text had not been given
literally, and it was the literal meaning we were seeking. I had studied Latin and
Greek at school, and began by translating the Greek New Testament, and then the
Septuagint, from which our Saviour quoted one or two texts which are not in the
Hebrew Bible, and there is now said to be no Hebrew Bible extant so old as the
Septuagint. We all had a strong desire to learn the signification of the proper
names, and I wrote to a learned friend about it, and he advised me to study Hebrew,
saying, “‘it was a simple language, and easily learned, there being but one book in
the world, of pure Hebrew, which was the Bible.” He added that, ** then 1 could see
with my own eyes, and not look through the glasses of my neighbors.” I soon gave
my attention to the Hebrew, and studied it thoroughly, and wrote it out word for
word, giving no ideas of my own, but endeavoring to put the same English word for
the same Hebrew or Greek word, everywhere, while King James’s translators have
wholly differed from this rule; but it appeared to us to give a much clearer under-
standing of the text. ;

It had never at that time entered my mind that I should ever publish the
work, but I was so much interested and entertained to see the connection from
Genesis to Revelation, that I continued my labors and wrote out the Bible five times,
twice from the Greek, twice from the Hebrew, and onee from the Latin—the Vulgate.
These three languages were written over the head of our Saviour. They are now
dead languages and cannot be altered. The whole construction is so complete,
that it does seem to be the work of inspiration, and the only communication from
God to man, for all time. The work is given in types, in figures, in parables, and
מז‎ dark sayings, a knowledge of which is gained, as all other knowledge is gained,
by the desire of the heart to learn it. It may be thought by the public in general,
that [have great confidence in myself, in not conferring with the learned in so
great a work, but as there is but one book in the Hebrew tongue, and I have
defined it word for word, I do not see how anybody can know more about it than
Ido. It being a dead language no improvements can be made upon it. As for
the Latin and Greek, I have no doubt many have searched deeper into the standard
works than I have, but I think no one has given more time and attention to the
literal meaning of the Bible text in these languages.

It is very possible that the readers of this book may think it strange that I have
made such use of the tenses, going according to the Hebrew grammar. It seems

PREFACE.

that the original Hebrew had no regard to time, and that the Bible speaks for all
ages. If I did not follow the tenses as they are, I myself should be the judge,
and man must not be trusted with regard to the Word of God. I think the prom-
iscuous use of the tenses shows that there must be something hidden, that we
must search out, and not hold to the outward, for the “letter kills, but the Spirit
gives life.” It took me about seven years to accomplish the five translations,
at least, I was engaged in it that length of time, not giving my whole time to it.
I should probably have been much longer, had it come into my head that 1 should
ever consent to have it published. There may be some little inaccuracies, like
putting the verb to be, for is, in a few instances, but I think never has the sense of
the Original Tongue been altered.

Glastonbury, March 23d, 1876. JULIA E. SMITH.

THE NAMES IN THEIR ORDER, OF THE
BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,

WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR CHAPTERS.

THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
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GENESIS.

CHAPTER I.

N the beginning God formed the

heavens and the earth.

2 And the earth was desolation and
emptiness, and darkness over the face
of the deep: and the spirit of God
moved over the face of the waters.

3 And God will say there shall be
light, and there shall be light.

4 And God will see the light that it
is good, and God will separate between
the light and between the darkness.

5 And God will call to the light day,
and to the darkness he called night:
and the evening shall be, and the morn-
ing shall be one day.

6 And God will say there shall be a
firmament in the midst of the waters,
and there shall be a separating between
waters to waters.

7 And God shall make a firmament,
and he shall separate between the wa-
ters which are from the lower part of
the firmament and between the waters
which are from the upper part of the
firmament: and it shall be so.

8 And God will call to the firma-
ment the heavens: and the evening
shall be, and the morning shall be the
second day.

9 And God will say the waters shall
be gathered together from the under
part of the heavens to one place, and
the dry shall be seen: and it shall be so.

10 And God will call to the dry,
earth; and to the gathering of the wa-
ters he called seas: and God will see
that it is good.

11 And God will say the earth shall
bring forth the tender grass, and the
green herb bearing seed, and the fruit
tree making fruit according to its kind,
תג‎ which is the seed in it upon the
earth: and it shall be so.

12 And the earth shall bring forth
the tender grass, the green herb bear-
ing seed according to its kind, and the
tree making fruit in which the seed is
in it, according to its kind: and God
will see that it is good.

13 And the evening shall be, and
the morning shall be the third day.

14 And God will say there shall be
lights in the firmament of the heavens
to separate between the day and be-
tween the night: and they shall be for
signs and for set times, and for days
and for years.

15 And they shall be for lights in
the firmament of the heavens to give
light upon the earth: and it shall be so.

16 And God will make two great
lights; the great light for the rule of
the day, and the small light for the
rule of the night and the stars.

17 And God will give them in the
firmament of the heavens to give light
upon the earth.

18 And to rule in the day and in
the night, and to separate between the
light and between the darkness: And
God will see that it is good.

19 And the evening shall be, and
the morning shall be the fourth day.

20 And God will .say the waters
shall breed abundantly creeping things,
the living soul, and birds shall fly over
the earth, over the face of the firma-
ment of the heavens.

21 And God will form great sea
monsters and every living soul creep-
ing, which the waters bred abundantly
according to their kind, and every bird
of wing according +0 its kind: and God
will see that it is good.

22 And God will praise them, say-
ing, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill
the waters in the seas, and birds shall
multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening shall be, and
the morning shall be the fifth day.

24 And God will say, the earth shall
bring forth the living soul according to
its kind, cattle and creeping things, and
living things of the earth after its kind:
and it shall be so.

25 And God will make the living
thing of the earth according to its kind,
and cattle according to its kind, and
every creeping thing of the earth ac-

4 GENKSIS II.

cording to its kind: and God will see
that it is good.

26 And God will say, We will make
man in our image according to our
likeness, and they shall rule over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the
heavens, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and every creeping thing
creeping upon the earth.

27 And God will form man in his
image, in the image of God he formed
him; male and female he formed them.

28 And God will praise them, and
God will say to them, be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue
it; and rule over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the heayens, and
over every living thing creeping upon
the earth.

29 And God will say, Lo, I gaye to
you every green herb scattering seed
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree in which is the fruit of
a tree scattering seed; to you it shall
be for food.

30 And to every living thing of the
earth, and to all the birds of the heavens
and to every thing creeping upon the
earth, in which is a living soul, every
green herb for food: and it shall be
SO.

91 And God will see every thing
which he made: and lo, very good.
And the evening shall be, and the
morning shall be the sixth day.

CHAPTER IL
ND the heavens and the earth shall
be completed and all their army.

2 And God will complete in the sey-
enth day his work which he made, and
he will rest in the seventh day from
all his work which he made.

8 And God will praise the seventh
day, and will consecrate it, because in
it he ceased from all his works which
God formed to make.

4 These the generations of the heay-
ens and the earth in creating them, in
the day of Jehovah God's making the
earth and the heavens.

5 And every green thing of the field
before it shall be in the earth, and
every green herb of the field before it
will spring up: for Jehovah God rained

not upon the earth and not a man to
work the earth.

6 And a vapor shall go up from the
earth and it watered all the face of the
earth.

7 And Jehovah God will form man
of the dust from the earth, and will
blow into his nostrils the breath of lives,
and man shall be for a living soul.

8 And Jehovah God will plant a gar-
den in Eden from the east ; and he will
put there the man which he will form.

9 And Jehoyah God will cause to
grow out of the earth every tree pleas-
ant to the sight, and good for food ; and
the tree of lives in the midst of the gar-
den, and the tree to know good and
evil.

10 And a river shall go out from
Eden to water the garden, and from
thence it shall be separated into four
heads.

11 The name of the one, Pison: it is
that surrounding all the land Havilah,
where there is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good.
There bdellium and onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river,
Gihon: that surrounding all the land
of Cush.

14 And the name of the third river,
Hiddekel, that going forth east of As-
syria. And the fourth river, Kuphrates.

15 And Jehovah God will take the
man and will set him down in the gar-
den of Eden to work it and to keep it.

16 And Jehovah God will appoint
to the man, saying, From every tree of
the garden eating, thou shalt eat.

17 But from the tree to know good
and eyil thou shalt not eat from it, for
in the day of thy eating from it, dying,
thou shalt die.

18 And Jehovah God will say, It is
not good for man to be alone; I will
make for him a help as before him.

19 And Jehovah God will form out
of the earth every hying thing of the
field, and all the birds of the heavens,
and he will bring in to the man to see
what he will call to it; and all which
the man will call it to the living soul,
that its name.

20 And the man will call the names
to all the cattle, and to the birds of the

GENESIS IIT.

heavens, and to every living thing of
the field ; but to the man was not found
a help as before him.

21 And Jehovah God will cause to
fall a deep sleep upon the man, and he
will sleep; and he will take one of his
ribs and will close up the flesh under-
neath it.

22 And Jehovah God will build the
rib which he took from the man, into a
woman, and will bring her to the man.

23 And the man will say, This is now
bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh ;
and this shall be called woman, because
she was taken from man.

24 Therefore a man will [6876 his
father and his mother and will cleave
to his woman; and they shall be into
one flesh.

25 And they two shall be naked, the
man and his woman, and they shall not
be ashamed.

CHAPTER IIL
Λ ND the serpent was crafty above
every beast of the field which Je-
hovah God made; and he will say to
the woman, Is it because God said ye
shall not eat of every tree of the gar-
den?

2 And the woman will say to the ser-
pent, From the fruit of the tree of the
garden we shall eat.

3 And from the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden,
God said, Ye shall not eat from it, and
ye shall not touch upon it, lest ye shall

le.

4 And the serpent will say to the
woman, Dying ye shall not die.

5 For God is knowing in the day of
בש‎ eating from it, and your eyes shall

6 opened, and ye shall be as God,
knowing good and evil.

6 And the woman will see that the
tree is good for food, and that it is a
desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to
make wise; and she will take from its
fruit and will eat, and will give also to
her man with her, and he will eat.

7 And the eyes of the two shall be
opened, and they shall know that they
are naked; and they shall sew together
the leaves of the fig tree, and shall
make to themselves girdles.

8 And they shall hear the voice of
Jehovah God walking in the garden at
the breeze of the day: and Adam and
his wife will hide from the face of Je-
hovah God in the midst of the wood of
the garden.

9 And Jehovah God will call to the
man, and will say to him, Where art
thou?

10 And he will will say, I heard thy
voice in the garden, and I shall be
afraid, because [ am naked, and I will
hide myself.

11 And he will say, Who showed to
thee that thou art naked? Of the tree
which I charged thee not to eat, didst
thou eat from it?

12 And the man will say, The wo-
man which thou gavest with me, she
gave to me from the tree, and 1 1
eat.

13 And Jehovah God will say to the
woman, What is this thon didst? And
the woman will say, The serpent de-
ceived me and I shall eat.

14 And Jehovah God will say to the
serpent, Because thou didst this, cursed!
art thou above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly
shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eati
all the days of thy life.

15 And I will put enmity between
thee and between the woman, and be-
tween thy seed and between her seed;
it shall lie in wait for thee as to the
head, and thou shalt he in wait for him
as to the heel.

16 To the woman he said, Multiply-
ing, I will multiply thy pain and thy
conception; in pain thou shalt bring
forth children ; and to thy husband thy
desire, and he shall rule over thee.

17 And to Adam he said, Because
thou didst listen to the voice of thy
wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree
which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth
for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of
it all the days of thy life ;

18 And thorns and weeds shall it
cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou
shalt eat the green herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of thy face thou shalt
eat food until thy turning back to the
earth; for out of it thou wert taken ;

6 GENESIS ΤΥ.’

for dust thou art, and to dust shalt
thou turn back.

20 And Adam will call his wife’s
name Life, for she was the mother of
all living.

21 And Jehovah God will make to
Adam and to his wife, coats of skin,
and will clothe them.

22 And Jehovah God will say, Lo,
Adam became as one from us, to know
good and evil: and now lest he shall
send forth his hand and take also of the
tree of lives, and eat, and live to eter-
nity :

23 And Jehovah God will send him
forth from the garden of Eden to work
the earth which he was taken from there.

24 And he will drive out Adam;
and he will set up from the east of the
garden of Kden, cherubims, and a flam-
ing sword, turning itself about to keep
the way of the tree of lives.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Adam knew Life, his wife,

Ἃ and she will conceive and bear
Cain, and said, I obtained a man of Je-
hovah.

2 And she will add to bear his bro-
ther Abel; and Abel shall be a feeder
of sheep, and Cain was a laborer of the
earth.

8. And it shall be at the end of days,
and Cain shall bring in from the fruit
of the carth an offering to Jehovah.

4 And Abel, he also brought in the
first-born of his sheep, and their fat.
And Jehovah will look to Abel and to
his gift.

ὃ And to Cain and to his offering he
looked not: and Cain will be very an-
gry, and his countenance will fall.

6 And Jehovah will say to Cain,
Why art thou angry, and why does
thy countenance fall ?

7 If thou shalt do well thou shalt be
lifted up; and if thou shalt not do
well, sin lies at the entrance; and to
thee his desire, and thou shalt rule
over him.

8 And Cain will speak to Abel his
brother; and it shall be in their being
in the field, Cain will rise up against
Abel his brother, and will 12111 him.

9 And Jehovah will say to Cain,

Where is Abel thy brother? and he
will say, I know not: am I my brother's
watcher ?

10 And he will say, What didst thou?
the voice of thy brother’s bloods, cry-
ing out to me from the earth.

11 And now cursed art thou, from
the earth, which opened her mouth to
take thy brother’s bloods from thy
hand.

12 When thou shalt work the earth
she shall not add to give her strength
to thee. Wandering and fleeing shalt
thou be in the earth.

13 And Cain will say to Jehovah,
My sin is great, above bearing.

14 Lo, thou didst drive me out this
day from above the face of the earth,
and from thy face shall 1 be hid; and
I shall be wandering and fleeing in the
earth; and it shall be, every one find-
ing me will kill me.

15 And Jehovah will say to him,
Therefore, every one killing Cain, he
shall be avenged seven fold. And Je-
hovah will put a sign upon Cain, lest
any finding him, smite him.

16 And Cain went out from the face
of Jehovah, and dwelt im the land of
Nod, eastward of Eden.

17 And Cain will know his wife, and
she will conceive and bear Enoch: and
he will be building a city, and will call
the name of the city after the name of
his son Enoch.

18 And to Enoch shall be born 11860 ;
and Irad begat Mehujael ; and Mehujael
begat Methusael; and Methusael begat
Lamech.

19 And Lamech shall take to him
two women: the name of the one Adah,
and the name of the second, Zillah.

20 And Adah will bear Jabal; he
was the father of him remaining in the
tent, and riches.

21 And his brother’s name Jubal;
he was father of all laying hold of the
harp and pipe.

22 And Zillah, she also will bear
Tubal Cain, sharpening every cutting
instrument of brass and iron: and Tu-
bal Cain’s sister was Naamah.

23 And Lamech will say his wives,
Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye
wives of Lamech, and give ear to my

GENKSIS V. 7

word: for I killed aman to my wound,
and a son to my cutting.

24 If Cain shall be avenged seven
fold, also Lamech seventy and seven.

25 And Adam will know his wife
again, and she will bear a son, and she
will call his name Seth: for God set
me a second seed instead of Abel, for
Cain slew him.

26 And to Seth, to him also a son
shall be born, and he will 6811 his name
Enos: then it was begun to call in the
name of Jehovah.

CHAPTER V.
ἢ the writing of the generations
of Adam: in the day God formed
Adam, in the likeness of Ged, he made
him.

2 Male and female he formed them ;
and he will bless them, and will call
their name Adam in the day they are
created.

3 And Adam shall live thirty and
one hundred years, and shall beget in
his likeness, according to his image,
and will call his name Seth.

4 And the days of Adam after his
begetting Seth shall be eight hundred
years: and he shall beget sons and
daughters.

5 And all the days which Adam
lived shall be nine hundred years and
thirty years, and he shall die.

6 And Seth shall live five years and
a hundred years, and he shall beget
Enos.

7 And Seth shall live after his be-
getting Enos, seven years and eight
hundred years: and he shall beget
sons and daughters.

8 And all the days of Seth shall be
twelve years and nine hundred years:
and he shall die.

9 And Enos shall live ninety years
and shall beget Kainan.

10 And Enos shall live after his be-
getting Kainan, fifteen years and eight
hundred years: and he shall beget
sons and daughters.
> 11 And all the days of Enos shall
be five years and nine hundred years,
and he shall die.

12 And Kainan shall live seventy
years and shall beget Mahalaleel.

13 And Kainan shall live after his
begetting Mahalaleel, forty years and
and eight hundred years: and shall be-
get sons and daughters.

14 And all the days of Kainan shall
be ten years and nine hundred years,
and he shall die.

15 And Mahalaleel shall live five
years and sixty years, and he shall be-
get Jared.

16 And Mahalaleel shall live after
his begetting Jared, thirty years and
eight hundred years; and he shall be- =
get sons and daughters.

17 And all the days of Mahalaleel
shall be five and ninety years and eight
hundred years, and he shall die.

18 And Jared shall live two and six-
ty years, and an hundred years, and he
shall beget Enoch.

19 And Jared shall live after his be-
getting Knoch, eight hundred years,
and shall beget sons and daughters.

20 And all the years of Jared shall
be two and sixty years and nine hun-
dred years, and he shall die.

21 And Enoch shall live five and six-
ty years, and he shall beget Methuselah,

22 And Enoch shall walk with God
after his begetting Methuselah, three
hundred years, and he shall beget sons
and daughters.

23 And all the days of Enoch shall
be five and sixty years and three hun-
dred years.

24 And Enoch shall walk with God,
and be not, for God took him.

25 And Methuselah shall live seven
and eighty years and a hundred years,
and he shall beget Lamech.

26 And Methuselah shall live after
his begetting Lamech, two and eighty
years and seven hundred years, and he
shall beget sons and daughters.

27 And all the days of Methuselah
shall be nine and sixty years and nine
hundred years, and he shall die.

28 And Lamech shall live two and
eighty years and a hundred years, and
he shall beget a son.

29 And he shall call his name Noah,
saying, This shall console us from our
work and from the labor of our hands
because of the earth which Jehovah
cursed it.

8 GENESIS VL, VIL

30 And Lamech shall live after the
begetting of Noah five and ninety years
and. five hundred years, and he shall
beget sons and daughters.

81 And all the days of Lamech shall
be seven and seventy years and seyen
hundred years, and he shall die.

32 And Noah shall be the son of five
hundred years, and Noah shall beget
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

CHAPTER VI.
ND it shall be when man begins to
multiply upon the face of the
earth, and daughters were born to them,

2 And the sons of God will see the
daughters of Adam that they are good,
and they will take to them wives of all
which they chose.

3 And Jehovah will say, My spirit
will not forever be low in man, for that
he is flesh and his days were one hun-
dred and twenty years.

4 Giants were in the earth in these
days, and also after that, when the sons
of God shall come in to the daughters of
man and they shall bring forth to them
which are men of old, men of name.

5 And Jehovah will see that great
the evil of man in the earth, and every
formation of the thoughts of his heart
only evil all the days.

6 And Jehovah will lament that he
made man in the earth, and he will be
grieved at his heart.

7 And Jehovah will say, I will wipe
out man whom I formed from above
the face of the earth; from man even
to cattle, even to the creeping thing
and even to the birds of the heavens;
and I was grieved that I made them.

8 And Noah found grace in the eyes
of Jehovah.

9 These the generations of Noah; a
just man, and was complete in his gen-
erations. Noah walked with God.

10 And Noah shall beget three sons,
Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 And the earth shall be corrupted
to the face of God; and the earth shall
be filled with violence.

12 And God shall see the earth, and
lo, it was corrupted, for all flesh cor-
rupted its way upon the earth.

13 And God will say to Noah, The

end of all flesh came in to my face, for
the earth was filled with violence from
the face of them, and behold me destroy-
ing them from the earth.

14 Make to thee a box of pitch wood ;
nests shalt thou make in the ark, and
cover it from within and from without
with pitch.

15 And this which thou shalt make
it, three hundred cubits the length of
the ark; fifty cubits its breadth, and
thirty cubits its height.

16 Light shall thou make to the ark,
and to a cubit shalt thou complete it
from the ascent; and the entrance of
the ark thou shalt set in its side; the
lower parts the two and the three shalt
thou make.

17 And I, lo I, will bring in an in-
undation of waters upon the earth to
destroy all flesh in which is the breath
of life from underneath the heavens;
all which is in the earth shall die.

18 And I set up my covenant with
thee; and thou shalt come in to the
ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife,
and thy sons’ wives with thee.

19 And from every living thing of
all flesh, two of all shalt thou bring in
to the ark, to preserve alive with thee:
male and female shall they be.

20 From birds according to its kind,
and cattle according to their kind; of
every creeping thing of the earth after
its kind, two from all shall come to
thee to preserve alive.

21 And take thou to thee of all food
which shall be eaten, and thou shalt
6011606 to thee, and it shall be to thee
and to them for food.

22 And Noah will do all which God
commanded him; so did he.

CHAPTER VIL
Λ ND Jehovah will say to Noah,
Come thou, and all thy house
into the ark, for thee I saw just to my
face in this generation.

2 From all clean cattle thou shalt
take to thee seven; seven male and fe-
male; and from cattle which are not
clean, this two, male and female.

3 Also of birds of the heavens, seven :
seven male and female, to preserve
alive seed upon the face of all the earth.

GENESIS ὙΠ]. 9

+ For yet seven days, and I will give
rain upon the earth forty days and
forty nights: and I will wipe out every
living thing which I made from the face
of the earth.

5 And Noah will do according to all
which Jehovah commanded him.

6 And Noah the son of six hundred
years, and the flood of waters was upon
the earth.

7 And Noah shall come in, and his
sons and his wife and his sons’ wives
with him to the ark from the face of
the water of the flood.

8 From clean beasts, and from cattle
which are not clean, and from birds
and all which creeps upon the earth.

9 Two and two went in to Noah to
the ark, male and female, according to
which God commanded Noah.

10 And it shall be seven days; and
the waters of the flood shall be upon
the earth.

11 In the year of six hundred years
of Noah’s life, in the second month, in
the seventeenth day of the month, in
the same day all the fountains of the
great deep were divided and the sluices
of the heavens were opened.

12 And the rain shall be upon the
earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In that very day went in Noah,
and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth;
Noah’s sons, and Noah’s wife, and the
three wives of his sons with them to
the ark.

14 They, and every living thing after
its kind, and all cattle after their kind,
and every creeping thing creeping upon
the earth, after its kind, and every bird
after his kind, and every small bird of
every wing.

15 And they shall go in to Noah to
the ark, two from all flesh in which is
the breath of life.

16 And they going in, went in male
and female from all flesh according to
which God commanded him: and Je-
hovah shut him within.

17 And the flood shall be forty days
upon the earth, and the waters shall
multiply, and shall take up the ark,
and it shall be lifted up from above the
earth.

18 And the waters shall prevail and

shall multiply exceedingly upon the
earth: and the ark shall go upon the
face of the waters.

19 And the waters prevailed exceed-
ingly exceedingly upon the earth: and
all the high mountains which are under-
neath all the heavens shall be covered.

20 Fifteen cubits from upward, the
waters prevailed: and will cover the
mountains.

21 And all flesh shall die that creep-
ing upon the earth, with birds and with
cattle and with beast and with every
ereeping thing that creeping upon the
earth, and every man.

22 All which the breath of the spirit
of life in the nostrils of all which is in
the dry land died.

23 And every living thing shall be
wiped off which upon the face of the
earth, from man even to cattle, even to
the creeping thing, and even to the birds
of the heavens; and they shall be wiped
out from the earth, and Noah only shall
remain and they which with him in the
ark.

24 And the waters shall prevail upon
the earth fifty and one hundred days.

CHAPTER VII
ND God will remember Noah, and
every living thing, and all the
681616 that with him in the ark: and
God will make a wind to pass over the
earth and the waters will settle down.

2 And the fountains of the deep, and
the sluices of the heavens shall be shut
up, and the rains from the heavens shall
be withheld.

3 And the waters shall turn back
from over the earth, going and turning
back, and the waters shall fail from the
end of fifty and one hundred days.

4 And the ark shall rest im the sey-
enth month in the seventeenth day of
the month upon the mountains of Ara-
rat.

5 And the waters were goimg and di-
minishing until the tenth month: in
the tenth, in the one of the month, the
heads of the mountains were seen.

6 And it shall be from the end of
forty days Noah shall open the window
of the ark which he made.

7 And he shall send forth the raven,

and it shall go forth, going and turning
back, till the waters dry up from over
the earth.

8 And he shall send forth the dove
from with him to see if the waters were
diminished from the face of the earth.

9 And the dove found not rest to the
hollow of her foot, and she will turn
back to him to the ark, for the waters
are over the face of all the earth; and
he will send forth his hand and will
take her and will cause her to come to
him to the ark.

10 And he will wait yet again other
seven days, and he will add to send
forth the dove from the ark.

11 And the dove will come in to him
at the time of evening, and lo, an olive
leaf plucked off, in her mouth. And
Noah will know that the waters were
diminished from over the earth.

12 And he will wait yet again, other
seven days, and will send forth the
dove; and she will not add to tur
back to him yet again.

18 And it shall be in the one and six
hundredth year, in the beginning, in
one of the month, the waters were di-
minished from over the earth: and
Noah will turn away the covering of the
ark, and he will see and behold the face
of the earth was dry.

14 And in the second month, in the
seven and twentieth day of the month,
the earth shall be dry.

15 And God will speak to Noah,
saying,

16 Come forth from the ark, thou,
and thy wife, and thy sons and thy
sons’ wives with thee.

17 Every living thing which is with
thee, from all flesh, of birds and of cat-
tle, and of every creeping thing creep-
ing upon the earth, bring forth with
thee, and increase ye abundantly in the
earth and be fruitful and multiply upon
the earth.

18 And Noah shall come forth, and
his sons and his wife, and his sons’
wives with him.

19 Every living thing, every creeping
thing, and every bird, every thing creep-
ing upon the earth according to their
families shall come forth from the ark.

20 And Noah will build an altar to

GENESIS IX.

Jehovah, and will take from all clean
cattle, and from all clean birds, and
‘tee bring up a burnt offering upon the
altar.

21 And Jehovah smelled a smell of
sw etness ; and Jehovah will say in his
heart, I will not gather to curse the
earth yet again on account of man; for
the imagination of man’s heart is evil
from his youth: and I will not gather
yet again to smite every living thing
according to which I did.

22 Yet all the days of the earth, seed
and harvest, and cold and hest, and
summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.

CHAPTER IX.
ND God will praise Noah and his
sons, and will say to them, Be
fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

2 And the fear of you, and the dread
of you, shall be upon every living thing
of the earth, and upon every bird of
the heavens, upon every thing which
shall ereep along the earth and upon all
the fishes of the sea; into your hand
they were given.

5 Every creeping thing which it lives
shall be food to you as the green herb.
I gave you all things.

4 But the flesh with its breath, its
blood ye shall not eat.

5 And surely, your blood of your
lives I will search out, from the hand
of every living thing I will search it out,
and from the hand of man; from the
hand of a man’s brother I will search
out the life of man.

6 He pouring out man’s blood, by
man his blood shall be poured out: for
in the image of God he made man.

7 And you, be ye fruitful and multi-
ply, and increase abundantly in the
earth, and multiply im it.

8 And God will speak to Noah and
to his sons, saying,

9 And I, behold I establish my cov-
enant with you and with your seed af-
ter you.

10 And with every breathing thing
which is with you, of birds, of cattle,
and of every living thing of the earth
with you, from all going out of the ark,
to every living thing of the earth.

GENESIS X.

11 And I established my covenant
with you; and all flesh shall not be
dissipated any more by the waters of a
flood; and there shall not be any more
a flood to destroy the earth.

12 And God will say, This is a sign
of the covenant which I.give between
me and between you, and between every
breathing thing living which is with
you for future generations.

18 I have set my bow in the cloud,
and it shall be for a sign of a covenant
between me and between the earth.

14 And it shall be in my giving a
cloud upon the earth, and the bow was
seen in the cloud.

15 And I remembered my covenant
which is between me and between you,
and between every breathing thing liv-
ing of all flesh; and the waters shall
not any more become a flood to destroy
all flesh.

16 The: bow shall be in the cloud;
and seeing it to remember the lasting
covenant between God and between
every breathing thing living of all flesh
which is upon the earth.

17 And God will say to Noah, This
the sign of the covenant which I estab-
lished between me and between all
flesh which is upon the earth.

18 And the sons of Noah going forth
from the ark shall be Shem and Ham
and Japheth; and Ham he the father
of Canaan.

19 These the three sons of Noah;
and from these was the whole earth
disseminated.

20 And Noah will begin a man of the
earth, and he will plant a vineyard.

21 And he will drink of the wine
and he will be intoxicated, and will be
uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham the father of Canaan
will see the nakedness of his father,
and he will declare to his two brethren
without.

23 And Shem and Japheth will take
a garment and they will put upon their
two shoulders, and will go backwards
and will cover the nakedness of their
father: and their faces backwards, and
they will not see the nakedness of their
father.

24 And Noah will awake from his

wine and will know what his young
son did to him.

25 And he will say, Cursed be Ca-
naan; a servant of servants shall he be
to his brethren.

26 And he will say, Praised Jehovah,
God of Shem ; Canaan shall be servant
to him.

27 God will dilate Japheth ; he shall
dwell in the tents of Shem; and Ca-
naan shall be servant to him.

28 And Noah shall live after the flood
three hundred years and fifty years.

29 And all the days of Noah shall
be nine hundred years and fifty years:
and he shall die.

CHAPTER X.
HESE the generations of the sons
of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japh-
eth. And sons shall be born to them
after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tu-
bal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz,
and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah,
and Tarshish, Chittim and Dodanim.

5 By these were the isles of the na-
tions divided in their lands; a man ac-
cording to his tongue, according to their
tribe, in their nations.

6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and
Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah,
and Sabtecha; and the sons 01 Raamah ;
Sheba and Dedan.

_ 8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began
to be strong in the earth.

9 He was a strong taker of prey be-
fore the face of Jehovah; for this he
will say, As Nimrod the strong hunter
before the face of Jehovah.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom
shall be Babel, and Erech, and Accad,
and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 From that land shall come forth
Asshur, and shall build Nineveh, and
the city Reheboth, and Calah,

12 And Resen between Nineveh and
Calah: this a great city.

18 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and
Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim.

14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim,
(which from the same came Philistine)
and Caphtorim.

15 And Caanan will beget Sidon, his
first-born, and Heth,

16 And the Jebusite, and the Amor-
ite, and the Girgasite,

17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite,
and the Sinite,

18 And the Arvadite, and the -Ze-
marite, and the Hamathite: and after-
ward the families of the Canaanites
were dispersed.

19 And the bound of the Canaanite
shall be from Sidon in thy coming to
Gerar, to Azzah; in thy coming to
Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and
Zeboim, even to Lasha.

20 These the sons of Ham according
to their families, according to their
tongues, in their lands, in their nations.

21 And to Shem shall be born, even
to him the father of all the sons of
Eber, the brother of Japheth the great.

22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and As-
shur, and Arphaeshad, and Lud, and
Aram.

23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and
Haul, and Gether, and Mash.

24 And Arphaeshad shall beget She-
lah, and Shelah shall beget Eber.

25 And to Eber shall be born two
sons: the name of the latter, Peleg, for
in his days the earth was divided; and
the name of his brother, Joktan.

26 And Joktan will beget Almodad,
and Sheleph, and Hazarmayeth, and
Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and
Diklah,

28 And Obal, and Abimael,
Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jo-
bab: all these the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling shall be from
Mesha, in thy going to Sephar, a moun-
tain of the east.

31 These the sons of Shem, accord-
ing to their families, according to their
tongues, in their lands, according to
their nations.

82 These the families of Noah after
their generations, in theiw nations : and
by these were the nations divided in
the earth after the flood,

and

GENKSIS ΧΙ.

CHAPTER XI.
ND all the earth shall be one lip,
and the same words.

2 And it shall be in their removing
from the east they shall find a valley in
the land of Shinar; and they shall
dwell there.

3 And they shall say a man to his
neighbor, Come, we will make bricks,
and we will burn to a burning, and
brick shall be to them for stone, and
potter’s clay shall be to them for pot-
ter’s clay.

4 And they will say, Come, we will
build to us a city, and a tower, its head
to the heavens; and we will make to
us a name, lest we shall be dispersed
over the face of the earth.

5 And Jehovah will come down to
see the city, and the tower which the
sons of men built.

6 And Jehovah will say, Behold, the
people one, and one lip to them all;
and this they begin to do: and now it
will not be restrained from them all
which they shall imagine to do.

7 Come, we will come down and mix
their lip that they shall not hear a man
the lip of his neighbor.

8 And Jehovah will disperse them
from thence over the face of all the
earth: and they will cease to build the
city.

9 Therefore its name was called con-
fusion, for there Jehovah confounded
the lip of all the earth: and froin thence
Jehovah dispersed them over the face
of all the earth.

10 These the generations of Shem:
Shem the son of a hundred years, and
he will beget Arphaeshad, two years
after the flood.

11 And Shem shall live after his
begetting Arphaeshad, five hundred
years, and he shall beget sons and
daughters.

12 And Arphaeshad will live five
and thirty years, and will beget Shelah.

18 And Arphaeshad shall live after
his begetting Shelah, three years and
four hundred years, and he will beget
sons and daughters.

14 And Shelah will live thirty years
and will beget Eber.

15 And Shelah will live after his be-

GENESIS 1.

getting Eber, three years and four hun-
dred years, and will beget sons and
daughters.

16 And Hber will live four and thirty
years and will beget Peleg.

17 And Eber will live after his be-
getting Peleg, thirty years and four
hundred years, and will beget sons and
daughters.

18 And Peleg will live thirty years
and will beget Reu.

19 And Peleg will live after his be-
getting Reu, nine years and two hun-
dred years, and he will beget sons and
daughters. ’

20 And Reu will live two and thirty
years, and he will beget Serug.

21 And Reu shall live after his be-
getting Serug, seven years and two
hundred years, and he will beget sons
and daughters.

22 And Serug will live thirty years
and will beget Nahor.

23 And Serug will live after his be-
getting Nahor, two hundred years, and
will beget sons and daughters. >

24 And Nahor will live nine and
twenty years, and will beget Terah.

25 And Nahor will live after his be-
getting Terah, nineteen years and a
hundred years, and he will beget sons
and daughters.

26 And Terah will live seventy years
and will beget Abram, Nahor, and Ha-
ran.

27 And these the generations of Te-
rah: Terah begetting Abram, Nahor,
and Haran: and Haran begetting Lot.

28 And Haran will die at the face of
Terah his father in the land of his birth,
in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor will take
to them wives, the name of Abram’s
wife Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s
wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran,
the father of Milcah, and the father of
1308.

30 And Sarai shall be barren; to her
not a child.

81 And Terah will take Abram his
son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son’s
son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his
son Abram’s wife, and they shall come
forth with them from Ur of the Chal-
dees, to move to the land of Canaan;

and they will come to Haran, and will
dwell there.

32 And the days of Haran shall be
five years and two hundred years; and
Terah shall die in Haran.

CHAPTER 1
ND Jehovah will say to Abram,
Go for thyself from thy land,
and from thy kindred, and from thy
father’s house, to the land which I will
shew 11006. _

2 And I will make thee into a great
nation, and 1 will bless thee, and I will
make thy name great; and thou shalt
be blessed.

3 And I will praise them praising
thee, and I will curse him cursing thee,
and in thee shall all the families of the
earth be praised.

4 And Abram went according to
which Jehovah spake to him, and Lot
went with him: and Abram the son of
five years and seventy years in his
coming out of Haran.

5 And Abram will take Sarai his wife,
and Lot his brother’s son, and all their
riches which they acquired, and the
souls which they acquired in Haran,
and they came forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and they shall come into
the land of Canaan.

6 And Abram shall pass over the
land to the place Sichem, to the erect
oak tree. And the Canaanite then in
the land.

7 And Jehovah shall be seen to
Abram, and will say, To thy seed will
I give 'this land, and he will build there
an altar to Jehovah, being seen to him.

8 And he will remove from thence to
the mountain from the cast of the house
of God, and shall stretch forth his tent;
Bethel from the sea, and Hai from the
east, and he shall build there an altar
to Jehovah, and will call upon the
name of Jehovah.

9 And Abram will remove, going
and removing to the desert.

10 And there shall be a famine in
the land; and Abram will go down to
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine
was strong in the land.

11 And it shall be when he came
near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sa-

rai his wife, Behold, now I knew that
thou wert a fair woman to see.

12 And it shall be when the Egyp-
tians shall see thee, they shall say,
This is his wife ; and they will kill me,
and thee they will permit to live.

13 Say, now, thou my sister, that it
shall be well to me because of thee, and

‘my soul shall live by means of thee.

‘14 And it shall be when Abram goes
to Heypt,and the Egyptians will see
the woman that she was very fair.

15 And Pharaoh’s rulers will see her,
and will praise her to Pharaoh, and the
woman shall be taken into Pharaoh’s
house.

16 And he will do good to Abram
on account of her; and there shall be
to him sheep and oxen and he-asses,
and servants and maids, and she-asses
and camels.

17 And Jehovah will touch Pharaoh
with great strokes, and his house on
account of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18 And Pharaoh will call to Abram,
and will say, What this thou didst to
me? why didst thou not declare to me
that she is thy wife ?

19 Why saidst thou, She is my sister
and I shall take her to me for a wife?
and now behold thy wife, take and go.

20 And Pharaoh will command the
men concerning him, and they will send
him away, and his wife and all that 15
to him.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND Abram shall goup from Egypt,
he, and his wife, and all that 15 to
him, and Lot with him, to the desert.

2 And Abram was very abundant in
cattle, in silver and in ₪010:

8 And Abram shall go his journey
from the desert to the house of God to
the place which was there his tent in
the beginning, between Bethel and be-
tween Hai;

4 To the place of the altar which h
made there in the beginning ; and there
he will call on the name of Jehovah.

5 And to Lot also going with Abram,
were sheep and oxen and tents.

6 And the land supported them not
to dwell together, for their acquisition
was a multitude, and they were not
able to dwell together.

GENESIS XIIL, XIV.

7 And there shall be a strife between
the shepherds of Abram’s cattle, and be-
tween the shepherds of Lot’s cattle;
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite
then dwelt in the land.

8 And Abram will say to Lot, Now
there shall not be strife between me
and between thee, and between my
shepherds and between thy shepherds,
for we are men brethren.

9 Is not all the land before thy face?
Now be separated from me; if to the
left hand, 1 will go to the right; and if
to the right hand, I will go to the left.

10 And Lot will lift his eyes and
will see all the environs of Jordan, that
all was watered, before that Jehovah
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as
the garden of Jehovah as the land of
Egypt in thy coming to Zoar.

11 And Lot shall choose to him all
the environs of Jordan: and Lot will re-
move from the east and they shall be
separated each from his brother.

12 Abram shall dwell in the land of
Canaan, and’ Lot shall dwell in the
cities of the country round about, and
will pitch the tent at Sodom.

18 And the men of Sodom were evil
and sinful before Jehovah exceedingly.

14 And Jehovah said to Abram after
Lot separated from him, Lift up now
thine eyes and see from the place which
thou art there to the north and the des-
ert, and the east and the sea.

15 For all the land which thou seest,
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed
forever.

16 And I made thy seed as the dust
of the earth, that if a man shall be able
to reckon up the dust of the earth, thy
seed also shall be reckoned up.

17 Arise to walk in the land accord-
ing to its length and according to its
breadth ; for to thee will I give it.

18 And Abram will pitch his tent,
and will come and will dwell by the oaks
of Mamra which is in Hebron, and he
will build there an altar to Jehovah,

CHAPTER XIV.
ND it shall be in the days of Am-
raphel, king of Shinar, Arioch
king of Alasar, Chedorlaomer, king of
Elam, and Tidal, king of nations,

GENESIS א‎

2 Made war with Bera, king of Sod-
om, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah,
Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber,
king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela,
this is Zoar.

8 All these joined together in the
valley of Siddim ; this is the sea of salt.

4 Twelve years they served Chedor-
laomer, and the thirteenth year they
revolted.

5 And in the fourteenth year came
Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were
with him, and they shall smite the Re-
phaims in Ashtaroth Karnaim, and the
Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims.in
Shaveh Kiriathaim.

6 And the Horites in their mountain
Seir to Ael Paran, which is by the wil-
derness.

7 And they shall turn back and shall
come to En-Mishpat; this is Kadesh ;
and they shall smite all the field of the
Amalekites and also of the Amorites
dwelling in Hazezon Tamar.

8 And there shall come forth the king
of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah,
and the king of Admah, and the king
of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (this
is Zoar), and they shall set in array
with them the war in the valley of Sid-
dim,

9 With Chedorlaomer king of Elam,
and Tidal, king of nations, and Amra-
phel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of
Alasar ; four kings with five.

10 And the valley of Siddim, pit, pit
of pitch; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah shall flee and shall fall there ;
and those having remained shall flee to
the mountain.

11 And they will take all the sub-
stance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
all their food, and will go away.

12 And they shall take Lot and his
substance, the son of Abram’s brother,
and will go away, and he will dwell in
Sodom.

13 And he having escaped, will come
and declare to Abram, the Hebrew ; and
he dwelt by the oaks of Mamra, the
Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, and the
brother of Aner: and these having a
covenant with Abram.

14 And Abram shall hear that his
brother was carried away captive, and

he will draw forth his trained, born in
his house, eighteen and three hundred,
and will pursue, even to Dan.

15 And he will divide against them
at night, he and his servants, and will
smite them, and will pursue them even
to Hobah, which is on the left hand of
Damascus.

16 And he shall turn back all the
substance, and also Lot, his brother,
and haying turned back his cattle, ang
also the women and the people.

17 And the king of Sodom shall
come forth to his meeting (after his re-
turn from the destroying of Chedorlao-
mer and the kings which were with
ee the valley of Shaveh; this is
the king’s valley.

18 And Melchise-dek, king of Salem,
bringing forth bread and wine: and he
is priest of the most high God.

19 And he will bless him, and will
say, Blessed be Abram of the most
high God, possessing the heavens and
the earth.

20 And praised be the most high
God who delivered thine oppressors
ito thy hand; and he will give him of
the tenth of all.

21 And the king of Sodom will say
to Abram, Give to me the living crea-
ture, and take the susbtance to thyself.

22 And Abram will say to the king
of Sodom, I lifted up my hand to Je-
hovah God the most high, possessing
the heavens and the earth.

23 11 from a line and to a shoe-string
and if I shall take from all which is to
thee, and thou shalt not say I enriched
Abram :

24 Nothing yet for me except what
the young men ate, and the portion of
the men who went with me, Aner, Esh-
col, and Mamra; they shall take their
portion.

CHAPTER XV.

A. FTER these words, the word of

Jehovah was to Abram in a vis-

ion, saying, Thou shalt not fear, Abram :

Ι ἃ shield to thee, thy reward great ex-
ceedingly.

2 And Abram will say, My Lord Je-

hovah, what wilt thou give to me, and >

I going childless, and the son of Masek

in my house, he Hhezer of Damas-
cus?

3 And Abram will say, Behold, to
me thou gavest no seed, and behold
the son of my house shall inherit me.

4 And behold, the word of Jehovah
was to him, saying, This shall not in-
herit thee, for truly he who shall come
forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee.

5 And he will bring him forth with-
out, and will say, Now look to the
heavens and count the stars, if thou
shalt be able to count them: and he
will say to him, So shall be thy seed.

6 And he believed in Jehovah; and
it shall be reckoned to him justice.

7 And he will say to him, I am Je-
hovah who brought thee from Ur of
the Chaldees to give thee this land to
inherit it.

8 And he will say, My Lord Jeho-
vah, how shall I know that I shall in-
herit it?

9 And he will say to him, Take to
me a heifer of three, and a goat of three,
and a ram of three, and a turtle dove,
and a young pigeon,

10 And he will take to him all these,
and he will divide them, asund ע‎ in the
midst, and will put each of its parts di-
vided, opposite its companion: and the
birds he divided not.

11 And the birds will come down
upon the dead carcases, and Abram
will drive them together.

12 And the sun shall be going down,
and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and
behold terror and great darkness fell
upon him, :

18 And he will say to Abram, Know-
ing thou shalt know that thy seed shall
be a sojourner in the land not to them ;
and they shall serve them and they
shall humble them four hundred years.

14 And also the nation whom they
shall serve, I will judge, and after this
they shall come forth with great sub-
stance,

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in
tranquillity ; thou shalt be buried in a
good old age.

16 And the fourth generation they
shall turn back hither; for the crime of
the Amorite has not been completed till
now.

GENESIS XVL

17 And the sun shall be going down,
and it was thick darkness, and behold a
furnace of smoke and a lamp of fire
that passed over between these pieces.

18 In that day Jehovah cut out a οον-
enant with Abram, saying, To thy seed
gave I this land from the river of Egypt,
to the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites and the Kenizzites,
and the Kadmonites ;

20 The Hittites, and the Perizzites,
and the Rephaims;

21 And the Amorites and the Canaan-
ites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebu-
sites.

CHAPTER XVI.
‘A ND Sarai, Abram’s wife, brought
not forth to him; and to her a
maid servant, an Egyptian, and her
name Hagar.

2 And Sarai will say to Abram, Be-
hold now, Jehovah restrained me from
bringing forth ; go now to my maid ser-
vant; perhaps 1 shall have children
from her. ‘And Abram will listen to
the voice of Sarai.

8 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, will take
Hagar the Egyptian, her maid servant,
at the end of ten years of Abram’s rest-
ing in the land of Canaan, and will give
her to Abram her husband, to him for
a wile.

4 And Abram will go in to Hagar,
and she will conceive, and she will see
that she conceived ;* and her mistress
will be despised in her eyes.

5 And Sarai will say to Abram, My
wrong upon thee: I gave my maid ser-
vant into thy bosom, and she will see
that she conceived, and I shall be de-
spised in her eyes. Jehovah will judge
between me and between thee.

6 And Abram will say to Sarai, Be-
hold thy maid servant in thy hand; do
to her the good in thine eyes. And Sa-
rai shall afflict her, and she will flee
from her face.

7 And the messenger of Jehovah
shall find her by a fountain of water m
the wilderness, by the fountain in the
way to Shur.

8 And he will say, Hagar, Sarai’s
maid servant, how camest thou here?
and whither wilt thou go? And she

GENESIS XVIL

will say, I flee from the face of Sarai, |nations, and kings shall come forth

my mistress.

9 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to her, Turn back to thy mis-
tress and be humbled under her
hands.

10 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to her, Multiplying, 1 will mul-
tiply thy seed, and it shall not be
counted for multitude.

11 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to her, Behold, thou being great
with child, and will bring forth a son,
and shalt call his name Ishmael, for
Jehovah listened to thy humiliation.

12 And he shall be an unrestrained
man; his hand against every one, and
every one’s hand against him; and
before the face of all his brethren shall
he dwell.

13 And she will call the name of
Jehovah, having spoken to her, Thou
God seest me: for she said, Here also
I looked after him seeing me.

14 For this, the well was called, The
well of him seeing me; behold, between
Kadesh and between Bered.

15 And Hagar brought forth a son
to Abram, and Abram shall call his
name which Hagar brought forth, Ish-
mael.

16 And Abram the son of eighty
years and six years, in Hagar’s bear-
ing Ishmael to Abram.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND Abram shall be the son of
ninety years and nine years: Je-
hovah shall be seen to Abram and will
say to him, I am God Almighty; walk
thou before me, and be complete.

2 And I will give my covenant be-
tween me and between thee, and I will
multiply thee with might exceedingly.

3 And Abram will fall upon his face,
and God will speak to him, saying,

4 1, behold my covenant with thee,
thou being father of a multitude of na-
tions.

5 And thy name shall no more be
called Abram, and thy name shall be
Abraham, for the father of a multitude
of nations have I given thee.

6 And I made thee fruitful with
might exceedingly, and I gave thee for

from thee.

7 And I set up my covenant be-
tween me and between thee, and be-
tween thy seed after thee to their gen-
erations for a covenant of eternity ; to be
a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I gave to thee and to thy seed
after thee, the land of thy sojournings
with all the land of Canaan for an eter-
nal possession ; and I was God to them.

9 And God will say to Abraham,
Thou shalt watch my covenant, thou,
and thy seed after thee to their genera-
tions.

10 This my covenant which ye shail
watch between me and beween you,
and between thy seed after thee; every
male among you to be circumcised.

11 And ye circumcised the flesh of
your uncircumcision; and it was fora
sign of the covenant between me and
between you.

12 And the son of eight days shall
be cireumcised, every male of your gen-
erations being born in the house, and he
bought with silver, from every son of
the stranger which is not of thy seed.

19 He shall be circumcised with
circumcising, he being born in thy
house, and bought with thy silver: and
my covenant was in your flesh for an
eternal covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised male
which shall not be circumcised in the
flesh of his uncirecumeision, and that
soul shall be cut off from its people:
he broke my covenant.

15 And God will say to Abraham,
Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, for Sarah her name.

16 And 1 blessed her, and I gave thee
also a son of her: and 1 blessed her
and she was for nations, and kings of
people shall be from her.

17 And Abraham will fall upon his
face and laugh, and will say im his
heart, Shall there be born to the son of
a hundred years? and shall Sarah the
daughter of ninety years, bring forth?

18 And Abraham will say to God,
O for Ishmael to live before thee!

19 And God will say, Truly, Sarah
thy wife, shall bring forth to thee a
son, and shall call his name Isaak: and

I set up my covenant with him for a
lasting covenant, and to his seed after
him.

20 And for Ishmael, I have heard
thee: Behold, I blessed him and made
him fruitful, and I multiplied him with
might exceedingly: twelve chiefs shall
he beget, and I will give him into a
great nation.

21 And my covenant will I set up
with Isaak whom Sarah shall bring
forth to thee at this appointed time in
another year.

22 And he will finish speaking with
him, and God will go up from Abraham.

23 And Abraham will take Ishmael
his son, and all born in his house and
bought with his silver, every male
among the men of Abraham’s house,
and he will circumcise the flesh of their
uncireumcision, in the self-same day,
according to which God spake to him.

24 And Abraham, the son of ninety
and nine years in his circumcising the
flesh of his uncireumcision.

25 And Ishmael his son, the son of
thirteen years in his cireumcising the
flesh of his uncireumcision.

26 And in the self-same day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his
son ;

27 And all the men of his house,
born in his house, and bought with sil-
ver of the son of the stranger, were cir-
cumcised with him.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND Jehovah will be seen to him
at the oaks of Mamra: and he
will sit at the entrance of his tent at
the heat of the day.

2 And he shall lift up his eyes and
shall see, and behold, three men stood
by him: and he will see and will run
to mect them from the door of the tent,
and will bow himself to the earth.

8 And he will say, Lord, if now I
found grace in thine eyes, now thou
wilt not pass away from thy servant.

4 Now he shall take a little water,
and will wash your feet, and rest your-
selves under the tree.

5 And I will take a bit of food, and
‘strengthen your heart, afterwards ye
shall pass away; for, for this ye passed

GENESIS XVIIL

over to your servant. And they will
say, Thou shalt do according to what
thou saidst.

6 And Abraham will hasten to the
tent to Sarah, and will say, Hasten
thou measures of the finest flour ; knead
and make cakes.

7 And Abraham running to the oxen,
will take the son of a cow, tender and
good, and will give to the youth, and
he will hasten to do it.

8 And he will take curdled milk, and
new milk, and the son of the cow which
he did, and he will give before their
face; and he stood by them under the
tree, and they shall eat.

9 And they will say to him, Where
is Sarah thy wife? and he will say, Be-
hold, in the tent.

10 And he will say, Returning, I will
return to thee according to the time of
life; and behold, a son to Sarah thy
wife. And Sarah heard at the door of
the tent, and she behind him.

11 And Abraham and Sarah were
old, being gone in days; the way ac-
cording to women ceased to be to Sarah.

12 And Sarah will laugh within her,
saying, After it has not been to me till
now, and my lord, being old.

13 And Jehovah will say to Abra-
ham, For what did Sarah laugh, saying,
Shall truly even I bring forth, and I
have become old?

14 Shall the word of Jehovah be dif-
ficult, at the appointed time? I will re-
turn to thee, according to the time of
life, and a son to Sarah.

15 And Sarah will deny, saying, I did
not laugh; for she was afraid. And
he will say, Nay, for thou didst laugh.

16 And the men will rise up from
thence, and will look forth upon the
face of Sodom: and Abraham went
forth with them to accompany them.

17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide
from Abraham what I do?

18 And Abraham being, shall be for
a great and numerous nation, and all
the nations of the earth shall bless them-
selves in him.

19 For I know him, for that he will
command his sons and his house after
him; and they watched the way of Je-
hovah to do justice and judgment, for

GENESIS XIX.

Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what
he spake to him.

20 And Jehovah will say, The ery
of Sodom and Gomorrah became great,
and because their sin was exceedingly
heavy,

211 will go now and see whether
they did wholly according to its cry
coming to me; and if not, I shall know.

22 And the men will turn back from
thence, and will go forth to Sodom:
and Abraham stood yet before the face
of Jehovah.

23 And Abraham will draw near, and
will say, Wilt thou also destroy the
just with the wicked ?

24 Perhaps there is fifty just in the
midst of the city : wilt thou also destroy
and not forgive the place for the sake
of the fifty just which are within it?

25 Far be it with respect to thee do-
ing as this word to kill the just with
the wicked; and for the just to be as
the wicked, far be it with respect to
thee: shall not the judge of all the
earth do judgment?

26 And Jehovah will say, If I shall
find in Sodom fifty just, in the midst of
the city, I forgive all the place for their
sakes.

27 And Abraham will answer and
say, Behold now, I have undertaken to
speak to my Lord, and I dust and
ashes.

28 1] the fifty just shall lack five:
wilt thou destroy for sake of five all
the city? And he will say, I will not
destroy, if I shall find there forty and
five.

29 And he added yet to speak to him,
and he will say, If forty shall be found
there? And he will say, I will not do
for sake of forty.

30 And he will say, Now will it not
kindle to the Lord, and I will speak:
If thirty shall be found there? And
he will say, I will not do, if I shall find
thirty there.

31 And he will say, Behold now, I
have begun to speak to the Lord If
twenty shall be found there? And he
will say, I will not destroy for sake of
twenty. j

32 And he will say, Now will it not
be angry to the Lord, and I will speak

only this once: If ten shall be found
there? And he will say, I will not
destroy for sake of ten.

33 And Jehovah went forth after that
he finished to speak to Abraham: and
Abraham returned to his place.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND two messengers shall come to
Sodom in the evening; and Lot
will sit in the gate of Sodom; and Lot
will see, and will rise up to meet them,
and will bow himself with the face to
the earth.

2 And he will say, Behold now,
lords, turn aside now to the house of
your servant, and pass the night, and
wash your feet, and ye shall rise early
and go forth to your ways. And they
will say, Nay; for in the street we will
pass the night.

8 And he will press upon them
greatly; and they will turn aside to
him, and they will come in to his
house; and he will make to them a
drinking, and he baked unleavened
loaves, and they will eat.

4 Before the men of the city shall
lie down, the men of Sodom surround-
ed the house about, from youth, even
to old age, all the people from the
end.

5 And they will call to Lot, and
will say to hi 1, Where the men which
came to thee this night? bring them
out to us and we shall know them.

6 And Lot went forth to them to the
entrance, and shut the door after him,

7 And he will say, Now my brothers,
ye shall not be evil.

8 Behold now, to me two daughters
who have not known man; now 1 will
bring them forth to you, and do ye to
them as is good in your eyes: only to
these men ye shall not do any thing;
for, for this they came in the shadow of
my city.

9 And they will say, Stand off. And
they will say, This same came to sojourn,
and shall he judge judgment: now will
we do evil to thee above them: and
they will press upon the man, upon Lot
greatly, and they will come near to
break the door.

10 And the men will stretch out the

‘20

‘hand, and will bring in Lot to them to
the house, and they shut the door.

11 And the men which were at the
‘door of the house, they struck with
blindness, from small to great: and they
will be wearied to find the door.

12 And the men will say to Lot, Who
to thee here yet? son-in-law, and thy
sons, and thy daughters, and all which
are to thee in the city, bring forth out
‘of this place.

13 For we destroy this place, for their
cry was great at the face of Jehovah;
and Jehovah will send us to destroy it.

14 And Lot will go out, and will
speak to his sons-in-law, haying taken
his daughters, and he will say, Rise ye
up, go forth out of this place; for Jeho-
vah destroys the city : and he will be as
‘laughing in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

15 And when the dawn arose, the
messengers will hasten upon Lot, say-
ing, Rise up, take thy wife, and thy two
daughters, being found, lest thou shalt
be destroyed in the iniquity of the city.

16 And he shall linger, and the men
sill hold fast wpont his hand, and upon
the hari of his wife, and upon the hand
of his two daughters ; in Jehovah's hay-
ing compassion upon him ; and they
shall bring him forth, and lead him
without the city. ᾿

17 And it shall be when having
brought them forth without, he will
say, Escape for thy life; thou shalt not
look behind thee, and thou shalt not
stay in all the circuit : escape to the
mountain, lest thou shalt be destoyed.

18 And Lot will say to them; Nay,
now, Lord!

19 Behold now, thy servant found
grace in thine eyes, and thou wilt mag-
nify thy kindness, what thou didst ‘by
me to make my soul live: and I shall
not'be able to escape to the mountain
so evil over-taking me, andI αἴθ,

20 Behold now, this city drawing
nigh to flee there, and it is small; now
I shall be saved there, is it not small?
and my soul shall live.

91 And he will say to him, Behold,
T lifted wp thy face also for thy word,
not to overthrow this city for which
thou spakest.

22 Hasten, to escape there, for I shall

GENESIS XIX.

not be able to do the word till thy com-
ing there: for this the name of the city
was called Zoar.

23 The sun came forth upon the
earth, and Lot came to Zoar.

24 And Jehovah rained upon Sodom
and upon Gomorrah, sulphur and fire
from Jehovah out of the heavens.

25 And he will overturn these cities,
and all the circuit, and all inhabiting
the cities, and the sprouting of the earth.

26 And his wife will look back from
behind him, and will become a pillar of
salt.

27 And Abraham will rise early in
the morning to the place in which he
stood there by the face of Jehovah.

28 And he will look out upon the
face of Sodom and Gomorrah and upon
all the face of the earth of the cireuit,
and he will see, and behold the smoke
of the earth ascended as the smoke of a
furnace.

29 And it shall be in God's destroy-
ing the cities of the circuit, and God
will remember Abraham, and he will
send forth Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow in overthrowing the cities
in which Lot dwelt in them.

30 And Lot will go up from Zoar and
will dwell in the mountain, and his two
daughters with him, for he will fear to
dwell in Zoar; and he will dwell ina
cave, he and his two daughters.

31 And the first-born will say to the
small, our father has become old, and
not a man in the earth to come in to us
according to the way of all the earth:

32 Come, we will give to our father
wine to drink, and we will lie down
with him, and we shall preserve alive
seed from our father.

33 And they will give their father
wine to drink in that night, and the
first-born will go in and will lie down
with her father; and he will not know
in her lying down, and in her rising up.

34 And it shall be on the morrow,
and the first-born will say to the small,
Behold, I lay down yesterday with my
father: we will also give him wine to
drink this night; and go thou, lie down
with him, and we shall preserve alive
seed from our father.

85 And they will give their father

GENESIS

wine to drink also in that night, and
the small will arise and will le down
with him, and he will not know in her
lying down and her rising up.

86 And the two daughters of Lot
will conceive by their father.

87 And the first-born will bring forth
a son, and she will 6811 his name Moab:
this the father of Monb till this day.

88 And the small also, she will bring
forth a son, and she will call his name
the son of my people: this the father
of the sons of Ammon till this day.

CHAPTER XX.

ND Abraham will remove from

thence to the land of the south,
and will dwell between Kadesh and be-
tween Shur, and will sojourn in Ge-
rar.

2 And Abraham will say as to Sarah
his wife, This my sister: and Abime-
lech, king of Gerar, will send and take
Sarah.

8 And God will come to Abimelech
in a dream at night, and say to him,
Behold, thou dead, for the woman which
thou didst take, and she haying mar-
ried a husband.

4 And Abimelech came not near to
her: and he will say, Lord, wilt thou
also slay a just nation ?

5 Did he not say to me, This my
sister? and she also, she said he is my
brother : in the uprightness of my heart,
and in cleanness of my hands have I
done this.

6 And God will say to him in a
dream, I knew also that in the upright-
ness of thy heart thou didst this; and
ך‎ also will restrain thee from sinning
against me: for this I suffered thee not
to touch her.

7 And now turn back to the man the
wontan; for he is a prophet, and 6
shall pray for thee, and do thou live:
and if thou turn her not back, know
that dying, thou shalt die, thou and all
which are to thee.

8 And Abimelech will rise early in
the morning, and will call to all his ser-
vants, and will speak all these words in
their ears: and the men shall be greatly
afraid.

9 And Abimelech will call to Abra-

XXL 21‏ אא
ham, and say to him, What didst thou‏
to us? and what did we sin against thee,‏
that thou didst bring upon me and up-‏
on my kingdom a great sin? thou didst‏
works to me which shall not be done.‏

10 And Abimelech will say to Abra-
ham, What sawest thou that thou didst
this thing?

11 And Abraham will say, For I
said, Surely there is not the fear of God
in this place; and they will kill me be-
cause of my wife.

12 And truly also my sister; she is
the daughter of my father, but not the
daughter of my mother: and she was to
me for wife.

18 And it shall be when God causes
me to wander from my father’s house,
and I said to her, This thy kindness
which thou shalt do by me; at every
place to which we shall come, there say
of me, He is my brother.

14 And Abimelech will take sheep
and oxen and servants, and maid-ser-
vants, and will give to Abraham, and
will return to him Sarah his wife.

15 And Abimelech will say, Behold,
my land before thy face: dwell in the
good in thine eyes. :

16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I
gave a thousand of silver to thy brother ;
behold, he is to thee for a garment of
the eyes to all who are with thee, and
with all: and she was set right. .

17 And Abraham will pray to God,
and God will heal Abimelech, and his
wife, and his maid-servants; and they
will bring forth.

18 For shutting up, Jehovah shut up
without every womb to the house of
Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abra-
ham’s wife.

CHAPTER XXL
ND Jehovah reviewed Sarah as he
said; and Jehovah will do to
Sarah as he spake.

2 And Sarah shall conceive, and
bring forth to Abraham a son to his
old age, at the appointed time which
God spake to him.

5 And Abraham shall call the name
of his son being born to him, whom
Sarah will bear to him, Isaak.

4 And Abraham shall circumcise

Isaak his son, the son of eight days, as
God commanded him.

5 And Abraham the son of an hun-
dred years in the bringing forth to him
Tsaak his son.

6 And Sarah will say, God made me
laugh; all hearing will laugh with me.

7 And she will say, Who spake to
Abraham, Sarah suckles sons? for I
brought forth a son in his old age.

8 And the child will become great,
and shall be weaned; and Abraham
will make a great drinking in the day
of weaning Isaak.

9 And Sarah will see the son of Ha-
gar the Egyptian, which she brought
forth to Abraham, laughing.

10 And she will say to Abraham,
Cast out this maid-servant and her son ;
for the son of this maid-servant shall
not inherit with my son, with Isaak.

11 And the word was greatly evil
in the eyes of Abraham, on account of
his son.

12 And God will say to Abraham, It
shall not be evil in thine eyes concern-
ing the boy, and concerning thy maid-
servant; all which Sarah shall say to
thee, hear to her voice; for in Isaak the
seed shall be 681160 to thee.

13 And also the son of this maid-ser-
vant, I will make him into a nation, for
he is thy seed.

14 And Abraham will rise early in
the morning, and take food, and a leath-

ern bottle of water, and give to Hagar]:

(putting upon her shoulder), and the
child, and will send her away: and she
will go forth and wander in the desert
to the well of the oath.

15 And the waters shall be spent in
the water skin, and she will cast the
child under one of the shrubs.

16 And she will go and seat herself
from over against, being far off as the
bending of a bow: for she said, I will
not see the death of the child. And
she will seat herself from over against,
and she will lift up her voice and weep.

17 And God will hear the voice of
the child: and the messenger of God
will call to Hagar from the heavens, and
will say to her, What to thee Hagar?
thou shalt not fear, for God heard the
voice of the child, from where he is.

GENESIS XXI.

18 Arise, lift up the child, and fasten
thy hand upon him; for I will make
him into a great nation.

19 And God will open her eyes, and
she will see a well of waters, and will
go and fill the water skin with water,
and will give the child to drink.

20 And God will be with the child;
and he will be great, and dwell in the
desert, and will be to increase the
bow.

21 And he will dwell in the desert
Paran: and his mother will take to
him a wife from the land of Egypt.

22 And it shall be in that time, and
Abimelech will speak, and Phicol,
leader of his army, to Abraham, say-
ing, God is with thee in all that thou
doest.

23 And now swear to me in God,
whether if thou shalt [16 to me and to
my progeny, and to my progenies; 80- .
cording to the kindness which I did to
thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the
land in which thou didst sojourn in it.

24 And Abraham will say, I will
swear.

25 And Abraham rebuked Abime-
lech on account of the well of waters
which Abimelech’s servants took away
by force.

26 And Abimelech will say, I knew
not who did this thing; and also thou
didst not announce to me, and also I
heard not except this day.

27 And Abraham will take sheep and
oxen, and give to Abimelech ; and they
two made a covenant.

28 And Abraham set seven ewe
lambs of the sheep alone.

29 And Abimelech will say to Abra-
ham, What here these seven ewe lambs
which thou didst set alone?

30 And he will say, For the «even
ewe lambs thou shalt take from m
hand, in order to be to me for a testi-
mony that I dug this well.

31 For this he called that place, The
well of the oath, for there they two
sware.

32 And they will make a covenant,
at the well of the oath, and Abimelech
will rise up, and Phicol, the leader of his
army, and they will turn back to th
land of the Philistines, /

GENESIS XXII

83 And he will plant the tamarisk by | will call to him out of the heavens, and

the well of the oath, and will call there} will say, Abraham, Abraham.

upon the name of Jehovah, the eternal
God.

84 And Abraham will sojourn in the
land of the Philistines many days.

CHAPTER! ΧΤΙ.
ND it shall be after these words,
and God tried Abraham, and he
will say to him, Abraham: and he will
say, Behold, here I.

2 And he will say, Take now thy son,
thine only, whom thou didst love,
Isaak, and go by thyself to the land of
Moriah; and carry him there for a
burnt offering upon one of the moun-
tains of which I told thee.

3 And Abraham will rise early in the
morning, and will saddle his ass, and
will take two of his boys with him, and
Tsaak his son, and he will cleave the
wood for the burnt offering, and will rise
up and go to the place God spake to him.

4 In the third day, Abraham will lift
up his eyes and will see the place from far

5 And Abraham will say to his boys,
Sit ye here in this place with the ass;
I and the boy will go even: there and
worship, and will turn back to you.

6 And Abraham will take the wood
of the burnt offering, and put upon
Isaak his son; and will take תג‎ his
hand the fire and the knife, and they
will go, they two together.

7 And Isaak will say to Abraham his
father, and he will say, My father: and
he will say, Behold, me, my son: And
he will say, Behold the fire and the
wood, and where the sheep for a burnt
offering ?

8 And Abraham will say, God will
see to himself the sheep for a burnt-of-
fering my son: and they will go, they
two together.

9 And they will come to the place
which God said to him; and Abraham
will build an altar there, and put in or-
der the wood; and he will find Isaak
his son, and put him upon the altar,
upon the wood.

10 And Abraham will stretch out the
hand and will take the knife to slaugh-

~ ter his son.

11 And the messenger of Jehovah

And
he will say, Behold me.

12 And he will say, Thou shalt not
put forth thy hand upon the boy, and
thou shalt do nothing to him; for now
I know that thou fearest God, and thou
didst not spare thy son thine only, from
me. :

18 And Abraham will lift up his
eyes, and will see and behold a ram be-
hind, being held in a thicket by his
horns: and Abraham will come and
take the ram and bring it for a burnt
offering instead of his son.

14 And Abraham will call the name
of that place, Jehovah will see: which
shall be said to this day, Jehovah will
see in the mountain.

15 And the messenger of Jehovah
will call to Abraham the second time
out of the heavens.

16 And he will say, By myself did I
swear, says Jehovah, for because that
thou 01086. this word, and didst not
spare thy son, thine only.

17 That praising, I will praise thee,
and multiplying I will multiply thy
seed as the stars of the heavens, and as
the sand upon the lip of the sea; and
thy seed shall inherit the gate of his
enemies.

18 And in thy seed all the nations of
the earth shall be praised; because that
thou didst listen to my voice.

19 And Abraham will turn back to
his boys, and they will rise up, and go
together to the well of the oath; and
Abraham will dwell at the well of the
oath.

20 And it shall be after these words,
it will be announced to Abraham, say-
ing, Behold, Mileah, she also will bring
forth sons to Nahor, thy brother.

21 Uz, his first-born, and Buz, his
brother, and Kemuel, the father of
Aram.

22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pil-
dash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

23 And Bethuel will beget Rebekah :
these eight, Milcah will bring forth to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.

24 And his coneubine, and her name
Reumah, and she will bare Tebah, and
Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

24
CHAPTER XXIII.

ND the life of Sarah shall be a

hundred years, and twenty years,
and seven years; the years of the life
of Sarah.

, 2 And Sarah shall die in the city of

four; this is Hebron, in the land of
Canaan. And Abraham will come to
mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

8 And Abraham will rise up from
the face of his dead, and speak to the
sons of Heth, saying,

4 I am a sojourner and stranger with
you: give me the possession of a grave
with you, and I will bury my dead from
my face.

5 And the sons of Heth will answer
Abraham, saying to him,

6 Hear us, lord; thou a prince of God
in the midst of us: in the choice of our
graves, bury thy dead; a man of us
shall not withhold from thee his grave
from burying thy dead.

7 And Abraham will rise up and
will bow himself to the earth before the
sons of Heth.

8 And he will speak to them, saying,
If it is your soul to bury my dead from
my face, hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron, son of Zohar.

9 And he shall give to me the cave
of Machpelah, which is to him, which is
in the end of his field; for the full sil-
ver he shall give it to me in the midst
of you for the possession of a grave.

10 And Ephron dwelt in the midst
of the sons of Heth. And Ephron the
Hittite will answer Abraham in the
ears of the sons of Heth, of all going to
the gate of his city, saying,

11 Nay, lord, hear me; the field I
gave thee, and the cave which is in it,
to thee I gave it before the eyes of the
sons of my people; I gave to thee:
bury thy dead.

12 And Abraham will bow himself
down before the face of the people of
the land.

13 And he will speak to Ephron in
the ears of the people of the land, say-
ing, Surely, if thou art for it, hear me:
1 eave silver for the field, tale of me:
and I will bury my dead there.

14 And Ephron will answer Abra-
ham, saying to him,

GENESIS XXIII, XXIV.

15 Lord, hear me: the land, four
hundred shekels of silver; between me
and between thee, what is that? and
bury thy dead.

16 And Abraham will listen to Eph-
ron, and Abraham will weigh to Ephron
the silver, which he spake in the ears
of the sons of Heth, four hundred shek-
els of silver, passing for traffic.

17 And Ephron’s field will stand,
which is in Machpelah, which is before
the face of Mamra, the field and cave
which are in it, and every tree which is
in the field, which is in all the bounds
round about.

18 To Abraham for a possession be-
fore the eyes of the sons of Heth, with
all going to the gate of his city.

19 And after this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field
of Machpelah, before the face of Mamra:
this is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

20 And the field will stand, and the
cave which is in it, to Abraham for the
possession of a burying place, from the
sons of Heth.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND ‘Abraham was old and come
into days: and Jehovah praised
Abraham in every thing.

2 And Abraham will say to the old
man of his house ruling over all which
is to him, Put now thy hand under my
thigh.

3 And I will cause thee to swear by
Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God
of the earth, that thou wilt not take a
wife to my son, from the daughters of
the Canaanites in the midst of whom I
shall dwell.

4 For thou shalt go to my land and
to my native country, and take a wife
to my son, to Isaak.

5 And the servant will say to him,
Perhaps the woman will not be willing
to come after me to this land: shall 1
turning back, turn back your son to the
land from whence thou camest ?

6 And Abraham will say to him,
Observe to thyself that thou shalt not
turn back my son there.

7 Jehovah, God of the heavens, who
took me from my father’s house, and
from the land of my birth, and who

GENESIS XXIV.

spake to me, and who sware to me, say-
ing, To thy seed will I give this land:
he will send his messenger before thy
face, and thou shalt take a wife to my
son from thence.

8 And if the woman shall not be
willing to come after thee, and thou
shalt be clear from this thine oath;
only thou shalt not turn back my son
there.

9 And the servant will put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham his lord,
and swear to him concerning this word.

10 And the servant shall take ten
camels from the camels of his lord, and
will go, and all the goods of his lord in
his hand; and he will rise and go to
Syria of the rivers to the city of Nahor.

11 And he will make his camels to
kneel down without the city by the
well of waters, at the time of evening,

"01 the going forth to draw water.

12 And he will say, Jehovah, God of
lord Abraham, light upon my face this
day, and do kindness with lord Abra-
ham.

13 Behold, I stand at the fountain of
waters, and the daughters of the men of
the city come forth to draw water.

14 And it shall be the girl to whom
saying to her, incline now thy bucket,
and 1 will drmk; and she said, Drink,
and I will also give thy camels to drink ;
thou didst appoint for thy servant Isaak;
and by it I shall know that thou didst
kindness with my lord.

15 And it shall be before he finished
speaking, and behold Rebekah came
forth, who was born to Bethuel, son of
Mileah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s
brother, and her bucket upon her
shoulder.

16 And the girl good of aspect ex-
ceedingly ; a virgin, and man knew her
not: and she will go down to the fount-
ain and fill her bucket, and come up.

17 And the servant will run to meet
her, and he will say, Give me to drink
now a little water from thy bucket.

18 And she will say, Drink, lord:
and she will hasten, and she will bring
down her bucket upon her hand, and
will give him to drink.

19 And she will finish to give him to
drink, and will say, I will draw also for

thy camels, till they finished drink-
ing.

20 And she will hasten and empty
her bucket into the watering trough,
and will run again to the well to draw,
and will draw for all his camels.

21 And the man looking with atten-
tion at her, being silent to know whether
Jehovah prospered his way or not.

22 And it shall be when the camels
finished drinking, and the man will
take a gold ring of half a shekel, and
two bracelets for her hands of ten shek-
els of gold.

23 And he will say, Whose daughter
thou? announce now to me: is there
place in thy father's house for us to
pass the night?

24 And she will say to him, I the
daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah,
who was born to Nahor.

25 And she will say to him, also straw,
and also much fodder to us; also a
place to pass the night.

26 And the man will bow down and
prostrate himself to Jehovah.

27 And he will say, Praised be Jeho-
vah, God of lord Abraham, who let not
go his kindness and his truth from my
lord: Iin the way, Jehovah led me to
the house of my lord’s brother.

28 And the girl will run and an-
nounce to the house of her mother, ac- -
cording to these words.

29 And to Rebekah a brother, and
his name Laban: and Laban will run
to the man without at the fountain.

30 And it will be after seeing the ring
and the bracelets upon his sister's hands,
and when hearing the words of Rebekah
his sister, saying, Thus the man spake
to me; and he will come to the man,
and behold, he stood by the camels at
the fountain.

31 And he will say, Come thou bless-
ed of Jehovah, why wilt thou stand
without? and I prepared the house, and
a place for the camels.

32 And the man will come into the
house and will loosen the camels, and
give straw and fodder to the camels,
and water to wash his feet, and the feet
of the men which are with him.

83 And he will set before his face to
eat, and he will say, Not to eat till I

have spoken my word. And he will
say, Speak.

84. And he will say, 1 am Abraham’s
servant.

35 And Jehovah blessed my lord
greatly, and he will be great; and he
will give to him sheep and oxen, and
silver and gold, and servants and maids
and camels and asses.

36 And Sarah my lord’s wife will
bring forth a son to my lord after she
was old, and to him he will give all
which is to him.

37 And my lord will cause me to
swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a
wife to my son from the daughters of
the Canaanites in whose land I dwell.

88 If not, thou shalt go to my father’s
house, and to my family, and take a
wife to my son.

39 And saying to my lord, If the wo-
man will not come after me?

40 And he will say to me, Jehovah,
before whose face I walked, will send
his messenger with thee, and prosper thy
way, and thou shalt take a wife to my
son from my family, and from my
father’s house.

41 Then shalt thou be clean from
mine oath, when thou shalt come to my
family ; if they will not give to thee,
and thou shalt be pure from mine oath.

42 And 1 will come this day to the
fountain, and say, Jehovah, God of lord
Abraham, if thou wilt now incline thy-
self to prosper my way in which I go:

43 Behold, I stand by the fountain
of waters, and the virgin coming forth
to draw, and I said to her, Now give me
to drink a little water from thy bucket.

44 And she saying to me, Both
drink thou, and I will also draw for thy
camels: she the woman which Jehovah
appointed for my lord’s son.

45 Before I shall finish speaking to
my heart, and behold, Rebekah went
forth, and her bueket upon her shoul-
der; and she will go down to the foun-
tain and draw; and saying to her, Give
me to drink now.

46 And she will hasten and will bring
down her bucket from her, and will
say, Drink, and I will water thy camels
also: and 1 shall drink, and she watered
the camels also.

GENKESIS XXIV.

47 And I shall ask her and say,
Whose daughter thou? And she will
say, The daughter of Bethuel, son of
Nahor, whom Mileah brought forth to
him: and I shall place the ring upon
her face, and the bracelets upon her
hands,

48 And I shall bow down and wor-
ship Jehovah, and bless Jehovah, God
of lord Abraham, who led me in the
way of truth to take the daughter of
my lord’s brother to his son.

49 And now if ye are doing kindness
and truth with my lord, announce to
me, and if not, announce to me; and I
shall turn to the right hand or to the
left.

50 And Laban will answer, and Be-
thuel, and they will say, This word
came from Jehovah; we shall not be
able to speak to thee, evil or good.

51 Behold, Rebekah before thy 1807
take and go, and she shall be wife to
thy lord’s son, according to what Jeho-
vah spake.

52 And it shall be when Abraham’s
servant heard their words, and he will
worship Jehovah to the earth.

53 And the servant will bring forth
silver vessels, and gold vessels, and gar-
ments, and he will give to Rebekah;
and giving precious things to her bro-
ther and to her mother.

54 And they will eat and drink, he
and the men which were with him; and
they will pass the mght; and they will
rise up in the morning, and he will say,
Send me forth to my lord.

55 And her brother will say, and her
mother, The girl shall remain with us,
perhaps ten days; after that she shall

Ὁ.
ל‎ 56 And he will say to them, Ye shall
not delay me, and Jehovah prospered
my way; send me forth, and I shall go
to my lord.

57 And they will say, We will call
to the girl, and ask her mouth.

58 And they will call to Rebekah,
and will say to her, Wilt thou go with
this man? And she will say, I will go.

59 And they will send forth Rebekah
their sister, and her nurse, and Abra-
ham’s servant, and his men.

60 And they will bless Rebekah and

GENESIS XXV 27

will say to her, Thou our sister; be thou
into thousands of ten thousands, and thy
seed shall inherit the gate of his enemies.

61 And Rebekah will rise up, and
her maidens, and ride upon the camels,
and will go after the man: and the ser-
yant will take Rebekah and will go.

62 And Isaak came from going to the
well to the living vision, aud he dwelt
in the south land.

63 And Isaak will go forth to inves-
tigate in the field at the face of evening:
and will lift up his eyes, and will see,
and behold, the camels coming.

64 And Rebekah will lift up ג‎ her eyes,
and see Isaak; and she will descend
from the camel.

65 And she will say to the servant,
Who this man going in the field to meet
us? And the servant will say, He is my
lord: and she will take a covering and
cover herself.

66 And the servant will recount to
Isaak all the words which he did.

67 And Isaak will come into Sarah’s
his mother’s tent, and will take Rebek-
ah and she will be to him for a wife;
and he will love her: and Isaak will be
comforted after that for his mother.

CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Abraham will add and take
a wife; and her name Keturah.

2 And she will bring forth to him,
Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, Mid:
ian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and De-
dan. And the sons of Dedan were As-
shurim, and Letushim and Leummim.

4 And the sons of Midian ; Ephah,
and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah,
and Eldaah. All these the sons of
Keturah.

5 And Abraham will give all which
is to him to Isaak.

6 And to the sons of the concubines
which were to Abraham, Abraham gave
gifts, and he will send them away from
Isaak his son (in his yet living) from
the east to the east land.

7 And these the days of the years of
the life of Abraham which he lived, a
hundred years and seventy years and
five years.

8 And Abraham shall expire, and

shall die in a good old age, and being
filled; and he shall be 806100 to his peo-
ole.

: 9 And his sons Isaak and Ishmacl
will bury him in the cave 01 Machpelah,
in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the
Hittite, which is at the face of Mamra;

10 The field which Abraham bought
from the sons of Heth: there Abraham
was buried, and Sarah his wife.

11 And it shall be after the death of
Abraham, God will bless Isaak his son ;
and Isaak will dwell by the well at the
living vision.

12 These the generations of Ishmael,
son of Abraham, whom Hagar brought
forth, the Egy ptian, Sarah's maid, to
Abraham.

13 And the names of the sons of Ish-
mael, by their names according to their
generations: the first-born of Ishmael,
Nebajoth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and
Mibsam,

14 And Mishma,; and Dumah, and
Massa,

15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish,
and Kedemah.

16 These the sons of Ishmacl, and
these their names, in their villages, and
in then fortresses; twelve princes, ac-
cording to their nation.

17 And these the years of the life of
Ishmael: a hundred years, and thirty
years and seven years: and he will ex-
as and die; and he will be added to
ais people.

18 And they will dwell from Iavilah,
even to Shur, which is upon the face of
Egypt, in thy going to Assyria: and he
fell before the face of all his brethren.

19 And these the generations of Isaak,
son of Abraham: Abraham begetting
Isaak.

20 And Isaak shall be the son of forty
years in his taking Rebekah, daughter
of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram,
sister of Laban the Syrian, to him for a
wife.

21 And Isaak will supplicate to Je-
hovah for his wife, beeause she was bar-
ren: and Jehovah will be supplicated
for him, and Rebekah his wife will con-
ceive.

22 And the sons will struggle within
her: and she will say, If so, wherefore

am I thus? And she will go to inquire
of Jehovah.

23 And Jehovah will say to her, Two
nations are in thy womb, and two peo-
ples shall be separated from thy belly:
anda people shall be strong above a peo-
ple, and the great shall serve the small.

24 And her days shall be completed
to bring forth ; and behold, twins in her
belly.

25 And the first shall come forth red,
wholly as a mantle of hair: and they
will call his name Ksau.

26 And after this, his brother will
come forth, and his hand having laid
hold upon Ksau’s heel; and his name
was called Jacob: and Isaak the son of
sixty years in her bringing them forth.

27 And the boys will become great;
and Hsau will be a man knowing the
chase, a man of the country; and Jacob
an upright man, dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaak will love Esau for the
chase in his mouth : and Rebekah loved
Jacob.

29 And Jacob will boil a boiling, and
Esau will come from the country, and
he faint.

30 And Esau will say to Jacob, Give
me now to eat from the red; this red,
for I faint: for this he called his name
Edom.

31 And Jacob will say, Sell this day
thy birth-right to me.

99 And Ksau will say, Behold, 1 am
going to die, and what to me this birth-
right ?

383 And Jacob will say, Swear to me
this day: and he will swear to him:
and he will sell his birth-right to Jacob.

84 And Jacob gave Esau food, and
the boiling of lentiles; and he will eat
and drink and will rise and’ go forth:
and Esau will despise the birth-right.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND a famine shall be in the land,
besides the first famine which was
in the days of Abraham. And Isaak
will go to Abimelech king of the Phil-
istines to Gerar.

2 And Jehovah will be seen to him,
and will say, Thou shalt not go down
to Egypt: dwell in the land which I
shall say to thee.

GENKSIS XXVI.

8 Sojourn in this land, and I will be
with thee, and will bless thee, for to
thee and to thy seed will I give all these
lands; and 1 established the oath which
I sware to Abraham thy father.

4 And I will increase thy seed as the
stars of the heavens, and 1 will give to
thy seed all these lands: and in thy
seed shall all the nations of the earth be
praised.

5 Because that Abraham listened to
my voice, and he will watch my watches,
my commands, my statutes, and my
precepts.

6 And Isaak dwelt in Gerar.

7 And the men of the place will ask
concerning his wife; and he will say,
She is my sister : for he will be afraid
to say, My wife, lest the men of the
place will kill me for Rebekah, because
she is good in appearance.

8 And it was when the days there
were long to him, and Abimelech king
of the Philistines shall bend forward
through the window, and will see, and
behold, Isaak playing with Rebekah
his wife.

9 And Abimelech will 0811 to Isaak,
and will say, Surely, behold, she thy
wife; and how saidst thou, She is my
sister? And Isaak will say to him, Be-
cause I said, Lest I shall die for her.

10 And Abimelech will say, What
this thou didst to us? nearly one of the
people lay with thy wife, and thou
broughtest blame upon us.

11 And Abimelech will command
all the people, saying, He touching this
man and his wife, dying, shall die.

12 And Isaak will sow in that land,
and will find in that year a hundred
measures; and Jehovah will praise
him.

18 And the man will become great,
and went going, and he became great,
until that he became very great.

14 And there will be to him posses-
sion of flocks, and possession of oxen,
and service of many; and the Philis-
tines will envy him.

15 And all the wells which his father’s
servants digged in the days of Abra-
ham. his father, the Philistines stopped
them and filled them with dust.

16 And Abimelech will say to Isaak,

GENESIS XXVII.

Go from us: for thou wert strong
above us exceedingly.

17 And Isaak will go from thence,
and will sit down in the valley of Ge-
rar, and will dwell there.

18 And Isaak will dwell, and he will
dig the wells of waters which they dig-
ged in the days of Abraham his father ;
and the Philistines will stop them after
Abraham died: and he will call them
the names after the names which his
father called them.

19 And Isaak’s servants will dig in
the valley and will find there a well of
living waters.

20 And the shepherds of Gerar will
contend with Isaak’s shepherds, saying,
The waters are to us: and he will call
the name of the well Esek; because
they strove with him.

21 And they will dig another well,
and will strive for that also: and he
will call its name Sitnah.

22 And he will remove from thence,
and will dig another well; and they
strove not for that: and he will call its
name Rehoboth; and he will say, For
now Jehovah made wide for us, and
made us fruitful in the earth.

23 And he will go up from thence to
the well of the oath.

24 And Jehovah will be seen to him
in that night, and will say, I am the
God of Abraham thy father: thou shalt
not be afraid, for 1 am with thee, and 1
praised thee, and I increased thy seed,
for sake of Abraham my servant.

25 And he will build an altar there,
and will call on the name of Jehovah,
and will stretch out there his tent: and
there Isaak’s servants will dig a well.

26 And Abimelech went to him from
Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and
Phicol, leader of his army.

27 And Isaak will say to them,
Wherefore came ye to me, and ye hated
me, and will send me away from you?

28 And they will say, Seeing we
saw that Jehovah was with thee: and
we will say, There shall be an oath be-
tween us, between us and between thee,
and we will make a covenant with thee.

29 Wilt thou do evil to us as that we
touched thee not, as that we did to thee
only good, and we sent thee away in

peace, thou now art praised of Jeho-
vah.

30 And he will make to them a drink-
ing, and they will eat and drink.

31 And they will rise early in the
morning, and they will swear, a man to
his brother, and Isaak will send them
away and they will go from him in
peace.

82 And it shall be in that day, and
Tsaak’s servants will come and announce
to him concerning the well which they
digged, and they will say to him, We
found water.

83 And he will call it oath: for this
the name of the city the well of the oath
till this day.

34 And Esau will be the son of forty
years, and he will take a wife, Judith,
the daughter of 120011 the Hittite, and
Bashemah, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

85 And they will be bitterness of
spirit to Isaak and to Rebekah.

CHAPTER XXVIL.
ND it shall be as Isaak grew old,
and his eyes shall be weak for
seeing, and he will call Esau his son the
great, and he will say to him, My son:
and he will say to him, Behold me.

2 And he will say, Behold now, I
grew old; I knew not the day of my
death.

3 Therefore take now, thy weapon,
thy quiver and thy bow, and go forth
to the field and hunt for me a hunting.

4 And make for me dainties as that
I loved, and bring it to me, and eating,
that my soul shall praise thee before I
shall die.

5 And Rebekah heard in the speak-
ing of Isaak to Esau his son: and Hsau
went to the field to hunt, a hunting, to
bring.

6 And Rebekah spake to Jacob her
son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father
speaking to ὕδατι thy brother, saying,

7 Bring to me a hunting, and make
for me dainties, and eating, and I will
praise thee before Jehovah, before my
death.

8 And now my son, hear to my voice,
according to that I command thee.

9 Go now to the flocks, and take to
me from thence two kids of the she-goats

good, and I will make them dainties
for thy father, as that he loved.

10 And thou shall bring to thy father,
and eating, so that he will praise thee
before his death.

11 And Jacob will say to Rebekah
his mother, Behold, Ksau my brother
aman of hair, and I a smooth man:

12 Perhaps my father will feel me,
and I was in his eyes as mocking; and
I brought a curse and not a praise.

13 And his mother will say to him,
Upon me thy curse my son; only hear
to my voice, and go take to me.

14 And he will go, and will take, and
bring to his mother: and his mother
will make dainties as that his father
loved.

15 And Rebekah will take desirable
covering of Esau her son, the great,
which was with her in the house, and
will put upon Jacob her son, the small.

16 And the nakedness of the skins
of the shegoats, she put upon his hands
and upon the smoothness of his neck.

17 And she will give the dainties,
and the bread which she made, into the
hand of Jacob her son.

18 And he will go to his father and
will say, My father. And he will say,
Behold me; who thou my son?

19 And Jacob will say to his father,
Lam Ksau thy first-born; I did accord-
ing to that thou spakest to me: arise,
now, sit and eat from my hunting, so
that thy soul shall praise me.

20 And Isaak will say to his son,
How this, thou wert quick to find my
son? and he will say, Because Jehovah
thy God caused to meet before me.

21 And Isaak will say to Jacob,
Come near, now, and I shall feel thee,
my son, if thou this my son Esau or
not.

22 And Jacob will come near to Isaak
his father, and he will feel him, and he
will say, The voice, the voice of Jacob ;
and the hands, the hands of Esan.

23 And he knew him not, for his
hands were as the hands of Esau, his
brother of hair,: and he will praise him.

24 And he will say, Thou this my
son Hsau? and he will say, I.

25 And he will say, Bring near to
me, and eating of my son’s hunting, so

GENESIS XXVILI

that my soul shall praise thee. And he
will bring near to him and he will eat:
and he will bring wine to him, and he
will drink.

26 And Isaak his father will say to
him, Come near, now, and kiss me, my
son.

27 And he will come near, and will
kiss him: and he will smell the smell
of his garment, and he will bless him,
and he will say, See, the smell of my son
as the smell of a field which Jehovah
praised.

28 And God will give to thee from
the dew of the heavens, and from the
fatness of the earth, and a multiude of
corn and new wine.

29 And nations shall serve thee, and
peoples shall bow down to thee; be
lord over thy brother, and thy mother's
sons shall bow down to thee : cursed
he cursing thee, and blessed he praising
thee.

80 And it shall be after that Isaak
finished to praise Jacob, and it shall be
Jacob going will but go out from the
face of Isaak his father, and Esau his
brother came from his hunting.

81 And he also will make dainties,
and will bring to his father; and he
will say to his father, Will my father
rise and eat from his son’s hunting,
that thy soul shall bless me?

32 And Isaak his father will say to
him, Who art thou? And he will say,
I thy son, thy first-born, Esau.

33 And Isaak will tremble a great
trembling, even exceedingly; and he
will say, Who now is he haying hunted
a hunting, and will bring to me, and I
ate from all before thou wilt come, and
I shall praise him? also he shall be
praised.

84 When Esau heard the words of
his father, and he will ery out with a
great cry, even bitter exceedingly, and
he will say to his father, praise me, me
also, my father |

85 And he will say, Thy brother
came with deceit and he will take thy
blessing.

36 And he will say, Is it not that his
name was called Jacob? he will defraud
me this twice: he took my birthright.
and behold, now he took my blessing

GENESIS XXVIIL

And he will say, Didst thou not put
aside a blessing for me?

87 And Isaak will answer and say
to Esau, Behold, 1 made him mighty
over thee, and all his brethren I gave to
him for servants; and with corn and
new wine 1 supported him: and what
shall I do to thee my son?

88 And Esau will say to his father,
Is but this one blessing to thee my
“father? bless me, also me, my father!
and Esau will lift up the voice and weep.

89 And Isaak his father will answer
and say to him, Behold, from the fat-
ness of the earth shall be thy dwelling,
and from the dew of the heavens above.

40 And by thy sword shalt thou live
and shalt serve thy brother: and it shall
be when thou shalt wander about and
thou shalt break his yoke from thy neck.

41 And Hsau will lie in wait for Ja-
cob, because of the blessing which his
father blessed him: and Esau will say
in his heart, The days of mourning of
my father will draw near, and I ‘will
lall Jacob my brother.

42 And the words of Esau her son,
the great, will be announced to Rebe-
kah; and she will send and call to Ja-
cob her son, the small, and she will say
to him, Behold, Esau thy brother will
avenge himself toward thee by killing
thee.

43 And now my son, hear to my
voice: and arising escape for thyself to
Laban my brother, to Haran.

44 And thou shalt dwell with him
days afterwards, until thy brother's
wrath shall turn away ;

45 Until thy brother's anger turning
away from thee, and forgetting what
thou didst to him: and I have sent and
have taken thee from thence, lest I
shall be bereaved of you two in one day.

46 And Rebekah will say to Isaak, I
was finished in my life from the face of
the daughters of Heth: if Jacob took a
wife from the daughters of Heth, as
these from the daughters of the land,
for what to me life?

CHAPTER XXVIII.
ND Isaak will call to Jacob, and
will bless him, and will command

him, and will say to hm, Thou shalt |

not take a wife from the daughters of
Canaan.

2 Rising, go to Padan Aram, to the
house of Bethuel thy mother’s father,
and take to thee from thence a wife
from the daughters of Laban, thy moth-
er’s brother.

ὃ And God Almighty will bless thee,
and will make thee fruitful, and will
multiply thee, and thou wert for an as-
sembly of nations.

4 And he will give to thee the praise
of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed
with thee; for thee to inherit the land
of thy sojourning, which God gave to
Abraham.

5 And Isaak will send away Jacob;
and he will go to Padan Aram, to La-
ban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, bro-
ther of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and
Esau.

6 And Esau will see that Isaak
praised Jacob, and sent him away to
Padan Aram, to take to him from thence
a wife; in blessing him, and he will
command him saying, Thou shalt not
take a wife from the daughters of Ca-
naan ;

7 And Jacob will hear to his father,
and to his mother, and will go to Pa-
dan Aram.

8 And Hsau will see that the daugh-
ters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of
Tsaak his father.

9 And Ksau will go to Ishmael, and
will take Mahalath, daughter of Ish-
mael, Abraham's son, sister of Neba-
joth, to his wives, to him for a wife.

10 And Jacob will go from the well
of the oath, and will come to Haran.

11 And he will light upon a place
and he will remain there, for the sun
was gone down: and he will take from
the stones of the place and put at his
head and will lie down in that place.

12 And he will dream, and behold a
ladder placed in the earth, and the head
of it reaching to the heavens: and_be-
hold the messengers of God ascending
and descending upon it.

18 And behold, Jehovah was set upon
it, and he will say, I Jeliovah, the God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of
Isaak: the land which thou lest upon
it, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

14 And thy seed was as the dust of
the earth, and thou didst spread abroad
to the sea and east, and north, and south:
and in thee shall all the tribes of the
earth be blessed, and in thy seed.

15 And behold, I am with thee, and
I preserved thee in all which thou shalt
go, and I turned thee back to this land ;
for I will not forsake thee, till that I
have done what I said to thee.

16 And Jacob will awake from his
sleep, and he will say, surely there is
Jehovah in this place and I knew
not.

17 And he will be afraid, and will
say, How terrible this place! is not this
but the house of God, and this the gate
of the heavens?

18 And Jacob will rise early in the
morning, and take the stone which he
put at his head, and will set it a pillar,
and pour oil upon its head.

19 And he will call the name of that
place the house of God: and Ailam
1 גה‎ the name of the city at the begin-
ning.

20 And Jacob will vow a vow, say-
ing, If God will be with me, and will
preserve me in this way which I went,
and gave to me bread to eat, and cover-
ing to put on,

21 And 1 turned back in peace to my
father’s house; and Jehovah was to me
for God.

22 And this stone which I set a pillar
shall be the house of God, and all which
thou shalt give to me, the tenth I will
tithe it to thee.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND Jacob will lift up his feet and
will go to the land of the sons of
the east.

2 And he will see, and behold, a well
in the field, and behold there three
flocks of sheep lying by it; for from
that well they will water the flocks;
and the great stone upon the mouth of
the well.

5 And they gather there all the
flocks; and they rolled away the stone
from the mouth of the well and watered
the sheep, and turned back the stone
upon the mouth of the well to its place.

4 And Jacob will say to them, My

GENESIS XXIX.

brethren, whence are ye? and they will
say, We are from Haran.

5 And he will say to them, knew ye
Laban the son of Nahor? and they will
say, We knew.

6 And he will say to them, Is health
to him? and they will say, Health:
Behold, Rachel his daughter came with
the sheep.

7 And he will say, Behold, yet the
day great, not the time of gathering the
cattle ; water ye the sheep, and go feed.

8 And they will say, We shall not
be able, till that all the flocks shall be
gathered together, and they roll the
stone from the mouth of the well; and
we water the sheep.

9 He yet speaking to them, and Ra-
chel came with the sheep were to her
father; for she fed them.

10 And it shall be when Jacob saw
Rachel the daughter of Laban, his
mother’s brother, and the sheep of La-
ban his mother’s brother, and Jacob
will come near, and will roll away the
stone from the mouth of the well, and
will water the sheep of Laban his moth-
er’s brother.

11 And Jacob will kiss Rachel, and
will lift up his voice and weep.

12 And Jacob will announce to Ra-
chel that he is her father’s brother, and
that he is Rebekah’s son; and she will
run and announce to her father.

18 And it shall be when Laban heard
the hearmg of Jacob his sister’s son,
and he will run to meet him, and he
will embrace him, and kiss him and
bring him to his house, and he will re-
count to Laban all these words.

14 And Laban will say to him, Sure-
ly my bone and my flesh art thou: and
he will dwell with him a month of days.

15 And Laban will say to Jacob, Be-
cause thou art my brother shalt thou
serve me gratuitously ? announce to me
what thy reward.

16 And to Laban two daughters:
the name to the great, Leah; and the
name to the small, Rachel.

17 And the eyes of Leah weak, and
Rachel was fair of form and fair of look.

18 And Jacob will love Rachel, and
will say, I will serve thee seven years
for Rachel thy daughter the small,

GENESIS XXX.

19 And Laban will say, Good for
me to give her to thee rather than for
me to give her to another man. Dwell
with me. t

20 And Jacob will serve for Rachel
seven years, and they will be in his eyes
as a few days in his loving her.

21 And Jacob will say to Laban,
Give my wife, for the days were com-
pleted, and I will go in to her.

22 And Laban will gather together
all the men of the place, and will make
a drinking.

23 And it will be in the evening, and
he will take Leah his daughter, and
bring her to him, and he will go in to
her.

24 And Laban will give to her, Zil-
pah his maid, to Leah his daughter a
maid.

25 And it will be in the morning,
and behold, she was Leah. And he
will say to Laban, What this thou didst
to me? did I not serve with thee for
Rachel? and wherefore didst thou de-
ceive me?

26 And Laban will say, It shall not
be done so in our place, to give the
small before the first-born.

27 Complete her seven, and we will
give to thee also this for work which
thou shalt work with me yet other

> seven years.

28 And Jacob will do so, and he will
complete her seven, and he will give to
him Rachel his daughter to him for a
wife.

29 And Laban will give to Rachel
his daughter, Bilhah his maid to her
for a maid.

30 And he will go in also to Rachel,
and he will also love Rachel more than
Leah, and he will serve with him yet
other seven years.

31 And Jehovah will see that Leah
was hated, and he will open her womb:
and Rachel barren.

32 And Leah will conceive and will
bring forth a son, and she will call his
name Reuben: for she said that Jeho-
vah saw my affliction, for now my hus-
band will love me.

33 And she will yet again conceive
and bear a son, and she will say that
Jehovah heard that I am hated, and he

will give to me this also; and she will
6811 his name Simeon.

34 And she will conceive yet again,
and will bear a son, and she will say,
The time now, my husband will join
himself to me, for I bare to him three
sons: for this his name was called
Levi.

35 And she will conceive yet again
and will bear a son, and she will say,
This time I will confess to Jehovah: for
this she called his name Judah; and
she will stand from bearing.

CHAPTER XXX.
ND Rachel will see that she shall

ἃ not bring forth to Jacob, and Ra-
chel will envy her sister, and will say to
Jacob, Give me sons, and if not, I die.

2 And Jacob’s anger will burn at
Rachel, and he will say, Am I instead
of God, who kept back from thee the
fruit of the belly ? ἡ

3 And she will say, Behold my maid
Bilhah ; go in to her, and she shall bring
forth upon my knees, and I also shall
be built from her.

4 And she will give to him Bilhah
her maid for a wife, and Jacob will go
in to her.

5 And Bilhah will conceive and will
bear to Jacob a son.

6 And Rachel will say, God judged
me and also heard my voice, and he will
give to mea son; for this she called
his name Dan.

7 And Bilhah, Rachel’s maid will
yet again conceive and bare a second
son to Jacob.

8 And Rachel will say, The wrest-
lings of God I wrestled with my sister ;
also 1 was able. And she will call his
name Naphtali.

9 And Leah will see that she stood
from bringing forth, and she will take
Zilpah her maid and will give her to
Jacob for a wife.

10 And Zilpah, Leah’s maid, will bear
to Jacob a son.

11 And Leah will say, In geod for-
tune: and she will call his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah, Leah’s maid, will bear
a second son to Jacob.

13 And Leah will say, In my happi-

ness, for the daughters will pronounce

me happy ; and she will call his name
Asher.

14 And Reuben will go in the day of
the harvest of wheat, and will find ap-
ples of mandrakes in the field, and he
will bring them to Leah his mother:
and Rachel will say to Leah, Give now
to me of thy son’s apples of mandrakes.

15 And she will say to her, Is it little,
thy taking my husband? and thou
didst take also my son's apples of man-
drakes? And Rachel will say, For this
he shall lie with thee this night, for thy
son’s apples of mandrakes.

16 And Jacob will come from the
field in the evening, and Leah will go
forth to his meeting, and she will say,
Thou shalt come in to me, for hiring I
hired thee for my son’s apples of man-
drakes: and he will lie with her in that
night.

17 And God will listen to Leah, and
she will conceive and bear to Jacob the
fifth son.

18 And Leah will say, God gave me
my hire because I gave my maid to my
husband: and she will call his name
Issachar. |

19 And Leah will conceive yet again,
and will bear the sixth son to Jacob.

20 And Leuh will say, God gave me
a good gift; this time will my husband
dwell with me, for I have borne to him
six sons. And she will call his name
Zebulon.

21 And afterwards she bare a daugh-
ter, and she will call her name Dinah.

22 And God will remember Rachel,
and God will listen to her, and he will
open her womb.

23 And she will conceive and will
bare a son, and she will say, God took
away my reproach.

24 And she will call his name Joseph,
saying, God will add to me another
son.

25 And it shall be when Rachel bare
Joseph, and Jacob will say to Laban,
send me away, and I shall go %0 לג‎
place and to my land.

26 Give my wives and my children,
for whom I served thee, and I will go
forth ; for thou knewest my work which
I served thee.

27 And Laban will say to him, If

GENKSIS XXX.

now I found grace in thine eyes, I prog-
nosticated, and Jehovah will praise me
because of thee.

28 And he will say, Specify thy hire
to me, and I will give.

29 And he will say to him, Thou
knewest what I served thee, and what
was thy cattle with me.

30 For little which was to thee before
me, and it will break forth into a mul-
titude; and Jehovah will praise thee at
my foot: and now when shall I make
to myself a house?

91 And he will say, What shall 1
give to thee? and Jacob will say, Thou
shalt not give tome anything. If thou
wilt do to me this word, I will return;
I will feed thy sheep; I will watch.

821 will pass over among all thy
sheep this day, removing from thence
every sheep speckled and patched, and
every sheep black among the lambs;
and the patched and speckled among
the she-goats ; and it shall be my hire.

33 And my justice shall speak for
me in the day to-morrow, when it shall
come for my hire before thy face: every
one which is not speckled and patched
among the she-goats and black among
the lambs, that to be stolen with me.

34 And Laban will say to him, Be-
hold, it shall be according to thy word.

30 And he will remove in that day
the he-goats banded and patched, and
all the she-goats speckled and patched ;
every one which being white on it, and
every one black among the sheep, and
he will give into the hand of his sons.

36 And he will set a way of three
days between him and between Jacob ;
and Jacob fed Laban’s sheep the rest.

37 And Jacob will take to himself a
rod of green storax, and the almond
tree, and the plane tree, and he will
strip off of them the white strippings,
uncovering the white which was upon
the rods.

38 And he set the rods which he
stripped, in the flowings of channels of
water, when the flock shall come to
drink before the sheep, and they shall be
in heat in coming to drink.

39 And the sheep shall conceive at
the rods, and shall bring forth sheep
banded and speckled and patched.

GENESIS XXXI.

40 And Jacob separated the lambs,
and he will give’the faces of the sheep
to the banded and every one black
among the sheep of Laban: and he will
set to himself the flocks, to himself
alone, and not put them with Laban’s
sheep.

41 And it was in every one conceiy-
ing of the strong sheep, and Jacob put
the rods before the eyes of the sheep in
the floorings, to conceive among the
rods.

42 And in the sheep being feeble, he
will not put in: and those being feeble,
were to Laban, and those being strong,
to Jacob.

43 And the man will break forth
greatly, greatly; and there will be to
him many sheep and maids, and ser-
vants, and camels and asses.

CHAPTER XXXI.
ND he will hear the words of La-
ban’s sons, saying, Jacob took all
which was to our father, and from what
was to our father he made all this mul-
titude.

2 And Jacob will see the face of La-
ban, and behold, it was not towards
him as yesterday, the third day.

3 And Jehovah will say to Jacob,
Turn back to the land of thy fathers,
and to thy lineage ; and I will be with
thee.

4 And Jacob will send and call to
Rachel and to Leah in the field to his
sheep.

5 And will say to them, I saw the
face of your father that it is not towards
m2 as yesterday the third day: and
te God of my father was with me.

6 And ye yourselves knew that with
all my strength I served your father,

7 And your father deceived me and
changed my wages ten parts ; and God
gave him not to do evil by me.

8 If thus he will say, The speckled
shall be thy hire; and all the sheep
shall bring forth speckled: and if thus
he will say, The banded shall be thy
hire, and all the sheep will bring forth
white-footed.

9 And God will take away the cattle
of your father and will give them to me.

10 And it shall be in the time the

sheep shall conceive, and I shall lift up
mine eyes, and I shall see in a dream,
and behold, the he-goats ascending
upon the sheep, banded, speckled and
sprinkled with spots.

11 And the messenger of God will
say to me in a dream, Jacob: and I
shall say, Behold me.

12 And he will say, Lift wp now thine
eyes and see all the he-goats ascending
upon the sheep, banded, speckled and
sprinkled with spots; for I saw all that
Laban did to thee.

18 I the God of the house of God,
where thou didst anoint there a pillar ;
where thou didst vow to me there a vow:
now arise, go forth from this land, and
turn back to the land of thy kindred.

14 And Rachel will answer, and Leah,
and they will say to him, Is yet to us
a portion and inheritance in our father’s
house ?

15 Were we not reckoned strangers
by him? for he sold us, and also eating,
he ate up our silver.

16 For all the riches which God took
away from our father, that is to us and
to our sons: and now all which God
said to thee, do.

17 And Jacob will rise, and lift up
his sons and his wives upon the camels.

18 And he will lead away all his cat-
tle and all his horse which he acquired,
the cattle of his acquisition, which he
acquired in Padan Aram, to go to Isaak
his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to shear his
sheep; and Rachel will steal the family
gods which were to her father.

20 And «8600 will steal the heart of
Laban the Syrian, for not announcing
to him that he broke away.

21 And he will break away, and all
which was to him; and he will rise and
pass over the river, and will 56% his face
to Mount Gilead.

22 And it will be announced to La-
ban in the third day, that Jacob broke
away.

23 And he will take his brethren
with him, and pursue after him a way
of seven days: and he will overtake
him in Mount Gilead.

24 And God will come to Laban the
Syrian in a dream of the night, and will

say to him, Watch to thyself, lest thou
shalt speak with Jacob from good to
evil.

25 And Laban will overtake Jacob.
And Jacob pitched his tent in the
mount; and Laban pitched with his
brethren in Mount Gilead.

26 And Laban will say to Jacob,
What didst thou and thou didst steal my
heart, and will carry away my daughters
as captives of the sword ?

27 For what didst thou hide to break
away, and didst steal me, and didst not
announce to me? and I will send thee
away with gladness and with songs, with
the drum and with the harp?

28 And didst not permit me to kiss
my sons and to my daughters? now
thou wert foolish doing it.

29 It is for the power of my hand
mighty to do with you evil: and the
God of your father yesterday spake to
me, saying, Watch to thyself from
speaking with Jacob from good to eyil.

80 And now going thou didst go, for
desiring thou didst greatly desire after
the house of thy father; for what didst
thou steal my gods?

31 And Jacob will answer and say to
Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said,
Lest thou wilt tear away my daughters
from me;

32 With whom thou shalt find thy
> gods, he shall not live: before our breth-
ren, behold for thyself what is with me
and take to thee: and Jacob knew not
that Rachel stole them.

83 And Laban will go into Jacob's
tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the
tent of the two maids, and he found
them not. And he will go out from the
tent of Leah and will go into Rachel’s
tent. 2

84 And Rachel took the family gods,
and she will put them in the camel’s sad-
dle and will sit upon them. And Laban
will feel all the tent, and he found not.

35 And she will say to her father, My
lord will not be angry in his eyes, that
I shall not be able to rise from thy face,
for the way of women isto me. And
he will search and he found not the
family gods,

86 And it kindled to Jacob, and he
will contend with Laban, and Jacob

GENESIS .אא‎

will answer and say to Laban, What my
fault? what my sin that thou didst
hotly pursue after me?

37 That thou didst feel all my ves-
sels, what didst thou find of all the ves-
sels of thy house? Set here before my
brethren and thy brethren, and they
shall decide between us two.

38 These twenty years I am with
thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were
not barren, and the rams of thy flock,
I ate not.

39 The torn I brought not to thee; I
shall bear the blame of it; from my
hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day,
and thefts of the night.

40 I was in the day, the drought con-
sumed me, and cold im the night, and
sleep will flee away from mine eyes.

41 Here to me twenty years in thy
house; I served thee fourteen years for
thy two daughters, and six years for
thy sheep; and thou wilt change my
hire ten portions.

42 If the God of my father, the God
of Abraham, and the fear of Isaak was
not with me, then now, empty thou
hadst sent me away. My affliction and
the labor of my hand God saw and he
rebuked yesterday.

43 And Laban will answer and say
to Jacob, The daughters, my daughters,
and the sons, my sons, and the sheep,
my sheep, and all which thou sawest,
this to me, and to my daughters: what
shall I do to these this day, or to their
sons which they brought forth ?

44 Now come thou we will make a
covenant, I and thou; and it was for
witness between me and between thee.

45 And Jacob will take a stone and
raise up a pillar.

46 And Jacob will say to his breth-
ren, Gather stones; and they will take
stones and make a heap; and they will
eat there upon the heap.

47 And Laban will 6811 it the heap of
testimony, and Jacob called it the heap
of witness.

48 And Laban will say, This heap a
witness between me and between thee
this day, for this its name was called
Gilead :

49 And watchtower: for he said Jeho-
yah will watch between me and _ be-

GENESIS ΧΧΧΊΤΙ.

tween thee when we shall be concealed
a man from his friend.

50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters,
and if thou shalt take wives to my

daughters, no man is with us, seeing.

God a witness between me and between
thee.

51 And Laban will say to Jacob, Be-
hold this heap, and behold the pillar
which I cast between me and between
thee.

52 A witness this heap, and a witness
the pillar, if I will not pass over this
heap to thee, and thou shalt not pass
over to me, this heap and this pillar for
evil.

53 The God of Abraham and the God
of Nahor shall judge between us, the
God of their father: and Jacob will
swear by the fear of his father Isaak.

54 And Jacob will sacrifice a sacrifice
upon the mount, and will call to his
brethren to eat bread, and they will eat
bread, and they will pass the night in
the mount.

CHAPTER XXXIL
ND Laban will rise up in the morn-
ing and will kiss his sons and his
daughters, and will bless them: and
Laban will go and turn back to his

lace. ,

2 And Jacob went on his way and
the messengers of God met with him.

8 And Jacob will say when seeing
them, This the camp of God: and he
will call the name of that place the
camps.

4 And Jacob will send messengers
before his face to Esau his brother, to
the land of Seir, the field of Adam.

5 And he will command them, say-
ing, Thus shall ye say to my lord to
Esau, Thus thy servant Jacob said, With
Laban I sojourned and lingered till now.

6 And there will be to me ox and
ass, Sheep and servant, and maid; and
1 shall send to announce to my lord to
find grace in thine eyes.

7 And the messengers will turn back
to Jacob, saying, We came to thy bro-
ther, to Esau, and also he came to thy
meeting, and four hundred men with
him.

8 And Jacob will be greatly afraid

and it will press upon him: and he will
divide the people which were with him,
and the sheep and the oxen, and the
camels, into two camps.

9 And he will say, If Esau shall come
to the one camp and smite it, and the
remaining camp was to escape.

10 And Jacob will say, God of my
father Abraham, and God of my father
Tsaak, Jehovah having said to me, Turn
back to thy land and to thy family, and
I will do well with thee.

11 I was little from all the kindness
and from all the truth which thou didst
to thy servant; for with my rod I
passed over this Jordan, and now I be-
came into two camps.

12 Take me away now from the hand
of my brother, from the hand of Esau,
for 1 am afraid of him, lest he shall
come and smite me, the mother upon
the sons.

13 And thou saidst, Doing well I
will do well with thee, and I set thy
seed as the sand of the sea, which shall
not be counted for multitude.

14 And he will pass the night there
in that night, and he will take from
what came into his hand, a gift to Esau
his brother.

15 Two hundred she-goats, and twen-
ty he-goats, two hundred sheep and
twenty rams.

16 Camels giving suck, and their
young, thirty; forty heifers and ten
bulls; twenty she-asses and ten foals.

17 And he will give into the hand of
his servants a flock, a flock itself alone ;
and he will say to his servants, Pass
over before me, and ye shall put en-
largement between flock and between
flock.

18 And he will command the first,
saying, When Esau my brother shall
meet thee and ask thee saying, 70 whom
thou? and whither wilt thou go? and
to whom these before thee ?

19 And thou saying, To thy servant,
to Jacob: this a gift sent to my lord to
HKsau, and behold also he is behind us.

20 And he will command also the
second, also the third, also all going be-
hind the flocks, saying, According to this
word shall ye speak to Esau in your
finding him.

21 And ye said, Also behold thy ser-
vant Jacob behind us. For he said, 1
will appease his face with the gift gomg
before me, and after this I will see his
face ; perhaps he will receive my face.

22 And the gift will pass over before
his face, and he remained in that night
in the camp.

23 And he will rise in that night and
take his two wives and his two maids,
and his eleven sons, and he will pass
over the passage of Jabbols.

. 24 And he will take them and will
cause them to pass through the torrent,
and he will cause to pass through what
3s to him.

25 And Jacob will be left alone by
himself, and a man will wrestle with
him till the ascending of the morning.

26 And he will see that he will not
prevail over him and he will touch
upon the hollow of his thigh; and the
hollow of Jacob’s thigh will be alienated
in his wrestling with him.

27 And he will say, Send me away,
for the morning ascended: and he will
say, I will not send thee away, unless
thou didst bless me.

28 And he will say to him, What thy
name? and he will say, Jacob.

29 And he will say, Thy name shall
no more be said Jacob, but Israel, for
thou wert a prince with God and with
men, and thou shalt prevail.

80 And Jacob will ask and will say,
Announce now, thy name: and he will
say, For what this thou wilt ask for my
name? and he will bless him there.

81 And Jacob will call the name of
the place, the face of God: for I saw God
face to face, and my soul shall be saved.

82 And the sun will rise to him when
he passed through the face of God, and
he limped upon his thigh.

83 For this, the sons of Israel will
not eat the sinew which dried up which
is upon the hollow of the thigh, even
till this day; for he touched upon the
hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew
which dried up.

CHAPTER וזא אא‎
ND Jacob will lift wp his eyes and
will see, and behold Esau came,
and with him four hundred men. And

GENESIS אא‎

he will divide the children to Leah and
to Rachel and to the two maids.

2 And he set the maids and their
children first, and Leah and her child-
ren behind, and Rachel and Joseph be-
hind them.

3 And he passed through before them,
and he will bow himself upon the earth
seven times till he brought himself near
to his brother.

4 And Esau will run to his meeting
and he will embrace him and will fall
upon his neck and will kiss him, and
they will weep.

5 And he will lift wp his eyes and
will see the women and the children,
and he will say, To whom these to thee?
And he will say, The children with
whom God compassionated thy servant.

6 And the maids will draw near,
they and their children, and they will
bow themselves.

7 And Leah also will draw near, and
her children, and they will bow them-
selves; and after, Joseph will draw near
and Rachel, and they will prostrate
themselves.

8 And he will say, What to thee all
this camp which I met? and he will
say, To find grace in thine eyes, my
lord.

9 And Esau willtsay, There is much
to me, my brother; what is to thee
shall be to thee.

10 And Jacob will say, Nay, now, if
now I found grace in thine eyes, and
take my gift from my hand, for, for
this, I saw thy face as seeing the face
of God, and thou wilt be satisfied with
me.

11 Take now my blessing which was |
brought to thee, for God compassion-
ated me, and because all things are to
me; and he will press upon him, and
he will take.

12 And he will say, We will remove
and go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he will say to him, My lord
knew that the children are tender, and
the sheep and the oxen bringing forth
with me, and they overdrive them one
day all the flock will die.

14 Now my lord, shall pass through
before his servant, and I will drive out
softly, according to the foot of the work

GENESIS XXXIV.

before me and according to the foot of
the children, till I shall come to my lord
to Seir.

15 And Esau will say, I will leave
now with thee, from the people which
are to me; and he will say, For what
this ? I shall find grace in the eyes of
my lord.

16 And Esau will turn back in that
day on his way to Seir.

17 And Jacob will remove to the
booths, and he will build for himself a
house, and he made booths for his eat-
tle; for this he called the name of the

lace Booths.

18 And Jacob will go to Shalem, a
city of Shechem, which is in the land
of Canaan, in his going from Padan
Aram; and he will encamp before the
city.

19 And he will buy a part of the
field where he spread there his tent,
from the hand of the sons of Hamor,
the father of Shechem, for a hundred
lambs.

20 And he will set there an altar,
and he will call upon it, God the God
of Israel.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
ND Dinah, the daughter of Leah,
which she brought forth to Ja-
cob, will go forth to see the daughters
of the land.

2 And Shechem will see her, the
son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the
land; will take her, and lie with her,
and will humble her.

8 And his soul will cleave to Dinah,
the daughter of Jacob, and he will love
the maiden, and he will speak to the
heart of the maiden.

- 4 And Shechem will say to Hamor
his iather, saying, Take to me this maid
for ἃ wife.

5 And Jacob heard: that he defiled
Din.) his daughter: and his sons were
wit his cattle in the field, and Jacob
was silent till their coming,

6 And Hamor the father of Shechem
will go forth to Jacob to speak to him.

7 And the sons of Jacob came from
the field when they having heard: and
the men will be grieved, and it will be
kindled to them exceedingly because he

‘was

did folly in Israel, to lie with Jacob’s
daughter ; and thus it shall not be done.

8 And Hamor will spealx with them
saying, The soul of Shechem my son,
attached with his soul to your
daughter; now give her to him fora
wife.

9 And contract ye marriages with
us; ye shall give your daughters to us,
and ye shall take our daughters to you.

10 And ye shall dwell “with us, and
the land shall be before you; dwell ye
and traffic in it, and take possession in it.

11 And Shechem will say to her fa-
ther, and to her beeen, Shall I find
favor in your eyes? and what ye shall
say to me I will give.

‘12 Increase to me greatly the dowry
and gift, and I will give according to
that ye ‘shall say to me; and ye shall
give to me this maiden for a wife.

13 And the sons of Jacob will an-
swer Shechem and Hamor his father
with deceit, and will say, Because he
defiled Dimah their sister.

14 And they will say to them, We
shall not be able to do this word, to
give our sister to a man which to him
is uncireumcision ; for this a reproach
to us.

15 But in this will we consent to
you, if ye will be as we to circumcise
to you every male;

16 And we will give our daughters to
you, and we will tuke your daughters
to us, and we will dwell with you and
be one people.

17 And if ye will not listen to us to
be cireumeised, and we will take our
daughter and depart.

18 And their words will be ו‎
in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes
of Shechem, Hamor'’s son.

19 And the youth deferred not to do
the word, for he delighted in Jacob's
daughter, and he was honorable more
than all his father’s house.

20 And Hamor will come, and She-
chem his son, to the gate of their city,
and they will speak to the men of the
city, saying,

21 These men they are living peace-
fully with us, and they shall dwell in
the land, and traffic in it; and the land,
behold, being broad to the hands be-

fore them: we will take their daughters
to us for wives, and give our daughters
to them.

22 Only in this will the men consent
to us to dwell with us to be for one
people, in the circumeising to us every
male according as they having been
circumcised.

23 Their cattle and their possession
and all their quadrupeds, shall they not
be to us? only we will consent to them,
and they will dwell with us.

24 And to Hamor and to Shechem
his son, will listen all going out of the
gate of the city: and they will cireum-
cise every male, all going out of the
gate of the city.

25 And it will be in the third day,
in their having pain, and the two sons
of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s
brethren, will take a man his sword,
and will go against the city securely,
and will kill every male.

26 And they 11160 Hamor and She-
chem his son, with the mouth of the
sword; and they will take Dinah from
the house of Shechem, and go forth.

27 The sons of Jacob came upon the
wounded, and they will plunder the
city, because they defiled their sister.

28 Their sheep and their oxen and
their asses, and what was in the city,
and what in the field, they took.

29 And all their force and all their
little ones, and their wives they led cap-
tive, and they will plunder all which is
in the house.

80 And Jacob will say to Simeon
and to Levi, Ye troubled me to make
me evil to him dwelling in the land to
the Canaanites, and to the Perizzites:
and I men of number, and they will
gather together and smite me, and I
shall be destroyed, and my house.

31 And they will say, Shall he do to
our sister as an harlot?

CHAPTER טאאא‎

ND God will say to Jacob, Arise,

co up to the house of God and

dwell there: and make there an altar

to God, having been seen to thee in

thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy
brother.

2 And Jacob will say to his house,

GENESIS טאאא‎

and to all which are with him, Put
away the strange gods which are among
you, and be cleansed and change your
garments,

3 And we will arise and go to the
house of God; and I will make there
an altar to God, having answered me
in the day of my distress; and he will
be with me in the way which I go.

4 And they will give to Jacob all
the strange gods which are in their
hand and the earrings which are in
their ears, and Jacob will hide them
under the turpentine tree which is in
Shechem.

5 And they will remove; and the
terror of God will be upon the cities
which are surrounding them; and they
pursued not after the sons of Jacob.

6 And Jacob will come to Luz, which
is in the land of Canaan (this the house
of God), he and all the people which
are with him.

7 And he will build there an altar,
and will call the place, God, the house
of God; for there God appeared to him
in his fleeing from the face of his
brother.

8 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, will
die, and be buried from below the house
of God, under the oak: and its name
shall be called, The Oak of Weeping.

9 And God will be seen to Jacob
yet again in his going from Padan
Aram; and he will bless him.

10 And God will say to him, Thy
name, Jacob: shall no more be called
thy name Jacob, but Israel shall be
thy name; and he will call his name
Israel.

11 And God will say to him, I am
God Almighty: be fruitful and multi-
ply; a nation and an assembly of na-
tions shall be from thee, and kings
shall come forth from thy loins.

12 And the land which I gave to
Abraham and to Isaak, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed after thee will
I give this land.

13 And God will go up from him
in the place in which he spake with
him.

14 And Jacob will set up a pillar in
the place which God spake with him ;
a pillar of stone: and he will pour out

GENESIS

upon it a libation, and he will pour out
upon it oil.

15 And Jacob will call the name of
the place which God spake with him
there, The House of God.

16 And they will remove from the
House of God; and there will be yet a
measure of land to come to Ephrath:
and Rachel will bring forth, and she
will be hard in bringing forth.

17 And it will be in her being hard
in bringing forth, and the midwife will
say to her, Thou shalt not fear, for also
this a son to thee.

18 And it will be in her soul going
forth (for she will die) and she will call
his name the son of my strength: and
his father called him the son of the right
hand.

19 And Rachel will die, and she will
be buried in the way to Ephrath, it is
the house of bread.

20 And Jacob will set up a pillar
meen her grave: this the pillar of Ra-
chel’s grave to this day.

21 And Israel will remove and will
extend the tent from afar off to the
tower of Edar.

22 And it will be in the dwelling of
Israel in that land, and Reuben will go,
and will lie with Bilhah, his father’s
concubine: and Israel will hear. And
the sons of Jacob will be twelve.

23 The sons of Leah, the first-born
of Jacob, Reuben; and Simeon and
Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
Zebulon ;

24 The sons of Rachel, Joseph and
Benjamin.

25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid :
Dan and Naphtali ;

26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid:
Gad and Asher. ‘These the sons of Ja-
cob which were born to him in Padan
Aram.

27 And Jacob will go to Isaak his
father to Mamra, the city of Arba (this
Hebron), where Abraham sojourned
there, and Isaak.

, _ 28 And the days of Isaak will be a
hundred years and eighty years.

29 gh Isaak will expire and will
die, and will be gathered to his people,
old and full of days ; and Esau and
Jacob his sons will bury him,

XXXVI.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

\ ND these the generations of Esau ;

this is Adam.

2 Esau took his wives from the
daughters of Canaan. Adah the daugh-
ter of Elon, the Hittite, and Aholiba-
mah, daughter of Anah, daughter of
Zibeon, the Hivite ;

ὃ And Bashemath, daughter of Ish-
mael, sister of Nebajoth.

4 And Adah will bear to Esau, Eli-
phaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel ;

5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and
Jaalam and Korah; these the sons of
Esau which were born to him in the
land of Canaan.

6 And Esau will take his wives, and
his sons and his daughters and all the
souls of his house, and his cattle and
all his quadrupeds, and all his acquisi-
tion which he acquired in the land of
Canaan; and he will go to the land
from the face of Jacob his brother.

7 For their possessions were much
above dwelling together; and the land
of their sojournings will not be able to
bear them from the face of their pos-
sessions.

8 And Esau will dwell in mount
Sei. Esau, this is Adam.

9 And these the generations of Esau,
the father of Adam, in mount Seir.

10 These the names of the sons of
Esau: Kliphaz, son of Adah, the wife
of Esau; Reuel, son of Bashemath, the
wife of Esau.

11 And the sons of Eliphaz shall be
Teman, Omar, Zepho and Gatam and
Kenaz.

12 And Timna was concubine to
Eliphaz, Esau’s son; and she will bear
to Eliphaz, Amalek; these the sons of
Adah, Esau’s wife.

13 And these the sons of Reuel;
Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Miz-
zah: these were the sons 01 Bashemath,
Ksau’s wife.

14 And these were the sons of Aholi-
bamah, daughter of Anah, daughter of
Zibeon, Esau’s wife; and she will bear
to Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. .

15 These the chiefs the sons of Esau,
the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of
Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief
Zepho, chief Kenaz.

16 Chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief
Amalek: these the chiefs of Eliphaz
in the land of Adam: these the sons
of Adah.

17 And these the sons of Reuel, the
son of Esau; chief Nahath, chief Zerah,
chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these
the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Adam :
these the sons of Bashemath, Esau’s
wife.

18 And these the sons of Aholiba-
mah, Hsau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief
Jaalam, chief Korah: these the chiefs
of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah,
Esau’s wife.

19 These the sons of Esau, and these
the chiefs of Adam.

20 These the sons of Seir the Horite,
dwelling in the land; Lotan and Sho-
bal, and Zibeon and Anah,

21 And Dishon and Ezer, and Di-
shan: these the chiefs of the Horites
the sons of Seir in the land of Adam.

22 And the sons of Lotan were
Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister
Timna.

98 And these the sons of Shobal:
Alvan, and Manahath, and Kbal, She-
pho and Onam.

24 And these the sons of Zibeon;
and Ajah and Anah; this Anah which
found the springs in the desert, in feed-
ing the asses for Zibeon his father.

25 And these the sons of Anah: Di-
shon, and Aholibamah, the daughter of
Anah.

26 And these the sons of Dishon:
Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran and
Cheran.

27 These the sons of Ezer: Bilhan
and Zaavan and Akan.

28 These the sons of Dishan:
and Aran.

29 These the chiefs of the Horites:
chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon,
chief Anah,

80 Chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief
Dishan: these the chiefs of the Horites,
to the chiefs in the land of Seir.

51 And these the kings which reigned
in the land of Edom, before a king
reigned over the sons of Israel.

82 And Bela will reign in Edom,
the son of Beor; and the name of his
city Dinhabah.

GENESIS XXXVII.

89 And Bela will die, and Jobab
will reign instead of him, the son of
Zerah from Bozrah.

84 And Jobab will die, and Husham
from the land of Temani will reign in
his stead.

385 And Husham will die, and Hadad
will reign in his stead,the son of Be-
dad, haying smitten Midian in the field
Moab: and the name of his city, Avith.

86 And Hadad will die, and Sam-
lah from Masrekah will reign in his
stead. ,

87 And Samlah will die, and Saul
will reign in his stead, from Rehoboth
of the river.

88 And Saul will die, and Baal-Ha-
nan will reign in his stead, the son of
Achbor.

89 And Baal-Hanan will die, the son
of Achbor, and Hadar will reign in his
stead: and the name of his city, Pau;
and the name of his wife, Mehetabel,
the daughter of Matred, the daughter
of Me-Zahab.

40 And these the names of the chiefs
of Esau according to their tribes, 86-
cording to their places, in their names:
chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jeheth,

41 Chief Aholibamah, chief Elah,
chief Pinon,

42 Chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mibzar.

48 Chief Magdiel, chief Tram: these
the chiefs of Edom according to their
restings in the land of their possessions :
this is Esau the father of Adam.

CHAPTER XXXVIIL
ND Jacob will dwell in the Jand
of his father’s sojournings, in the
land of Canaan.

2 These the generations of Jacob:
Joseph the son of seventeen years, was
feeding the sheep with his brethren,
and this youth with the sons of Bilhah
and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s
wives: and Joseph will bring their evil
slander to their father.

8 And Israel loved Joseph above -
all his sons, for to him he was the son
of old age: and he made for him a
tunic (reaching to the soles of the feet).

4 And his brethren will see that
their father loved him above all his

GENESIS XXXVII.

brethren, and they will hate him, and
will not be able to speak to him for
peace.

5 And Joseph will dream a dream,
and he will announce to his brethren:
and they will add yet to hate him.

6 And he will say to them, Hear,
now, this dream which I dreamed.

7 And behold, we binding sheaves in
the midst of the field; and behold, my
sheaf arose, and also stood; and behold
your sheaves will turn about and will
worship to my sheaf.

8 And his brethren will say to him,
Reigning, shalt thou reign over us? or
ruling, shalt thou rule over us? And
they will add yet to hate him for his
dreams and for his words.

9 And he will dream yet another
dream, and he will recount it to his
brethren, and he will say, Behold I
dreamed a dream yet again: and be-
hold, the sun and the moon and the
eleven stars worshipping to me.

10 And he will recount to his father
and. to his brethren. And his father
will rebuke him, and will say to him,
What this dream which thou didst
dream? Coming, shall I and thy moth-
er and thy brethren come to worship to
thee upon the earth ?

11 And his brethren will envy him;
and his father observed the word.

12. And his brethren will go to feed
their father’s sheep in Shechem.

13 And Israel will say to Joseph,
Are not thy brethren feeding in She-
chem? Come, and I will send thee to
them. And he will say, Behold me.

14 And he will say to him, Go, now,
see the peace of thy brethren, and the
peace’ of the sheep; and turn back to
me word: and he will send him from
the valley of Hebron and he will go to
Shechem.

15 And a man will find him, and
behold, he wandered in the field. And
the man will ask him, saying, What
wilt thou seek ?

16 And he will say, I am seeking
my brethren; announce to me now
where they are feeding.

17 And the man will say, They re-
moved from this: for I heard them say-
ing, We will go to Dothan. And Jo-

seph will go after his brethren and will
find them in Dothan.

18 And they will see him from far
off and before he will draw near to
them, and they will act deceitfully with
him, to kill him.

19 Andaman will say to his brother,
Behold, this lord of dreams coming.

20 And now, come, and we will kill
him, and throw him into one of the pits;
and we will say, An evil beast devour-
ed him; and we shall see what will be
his dreams.

21 And Reuben will hear, and will
take him away out of their hands; and
he will say, We will not strike the
soul,

22 And Reuben will say to them,
Ye shall not pour out blood ; cast him
into this pit which is in the desert, and
ye shall not stretch forth the hand
upon him; in order to take him away
out of their hands to bring him back to
his father.

23 And it shall be as Joseph came to
his brethren, and they will strip off his
tunic, the tunic reaching to the soles of
the feet which was upon him.

24 And they will take him and will
throw him into the pit; and the pit
empty ; water not in it.

25 And they will sit down to eat
bread, and they will lift up their eyes,
and will see, and behold travellers, Ish-
maelites come from Gilead, and their
camels bearing perfumes and balsam
and myrrh, going to carry down to
Egypt.

26 And Judah will say to his breth-
ren, What the profit that we shall 1
our brother, and conceal his blood ?

27 Come, and we will sell him to the
Ishmaelites, and our hand shall not be
upon him ; for he our brother, our flesh:
and his brethren will hear.

28 And men will pass by, Midianites,
merchants; and they will draw and
bring up Joseph from the pit, and they
will sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for
twenty of silver: and they will bring
Joseph to Egypt.

29 And Reuben turned back to the
pit; and behold, Joseph not in the pit:
and he rent his garments.

80 And he will turn back to his

brethren, and he will say, The child is
not: and I, where shall I go?

31 And they will take Joseph’s tunie,
and will slaughter a he-goat of the goats,
and will dip the tunic in the blood.

82 And they will send the tunic,
reaching down to the soles of the feet,
and will bring to their father, and they
will say, We found this: recognise now,
is this thy son’s tunic or not?

83 And he will recognise it, and will
say, My son’s tunic! an evil beast de-
voured him: tearing in pieces, he tare
Joseph in pieces.

34 And Jacob will rend his garments,
and will put sackcloth upon his loins,
and will mourn for his son many days.

88 And all his sons and all his
daughters, will rise up to comfort him ;
and he will refuse to be comforted ; and
will say, For I will go down to my son
mourning to hades; and his father will
weep for him.

36 And the Midianites sold him in
Egypt to Potiphar, an eunuch of Pha-
raoh, chief of the cooks,

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
ND it shail be in that time, and
Judah will go down from his
brethren, and will turn to a man, an
Adullamite, and his name Hirah.

2 And Judah will see there the
daughter of a man, a Canaanite, and his
name Shuah, and he will take her and
will go in to her.

3 And she will conceive and bring
forth a son, and he will call his name Er.

4 And she will conceive yet again
and bear a son. and will call his name
Onan.

5 And she will add yet and bear a
son, and will call his name Shelah:
and he was in Chezib, in her bearing
him.

6 And Judah will take a wife for Er
his first-born, and her name Tamar.

7 And Ex, Judah’s first-born, will be
evil in the eyes of Jehovah: and Jeho-
vah will kill him.

8 And Judah will say to Onan, go in
to thy brother’s wife, and marry her,
and raise up seed to thy brother.

9 And Onan will know that not to
him will be the seed; and it was when

GENESIS XXXVIIL

he went in to his brother’s wife, he de-
stroyed upon the earth, not to give seed
to his brother.

10 And it will be evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, what he did, and he will kill
him also.

11 And Judah will say to Tamar his
daughter-in-law, Sit a widow in thy
father’s house, till Shelah my son shall
be great; (for he said, Lest this also
shall die as his brethren.) And Tamar
will go and will sit in her father’s house.

12 And the days will be multiplied,
and the daughter of Shuah, Judah’s
wife, will die; and Judah will be com-
forted, and will go up to the shearers of
his sheep, he and Hirah his friend the
Adullamite, to Timnath.

13 And it will be announced to Ta-
mar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law
going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.

14 And she will remove the garments
of her widowhood from her, and she
will be covered with a veil, and will
veil herself and will sit in the entrance
of the eyes, which is upon the way to
Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was
great, and she was not given to him for
a wife.

15 And Judah will see her, and will
think her a harlot, because she covered
her face.

16 And he will turn to her by the
way, and will say, Now I will come in
to thee; for he knew not that she was
his daughter-in-law: and she will say,
What wilt thou give to me that thou
wilt come in to me?

17 And he will say, I will send a kid
of the goats from the flock: and she
will say, If thou wilt give a pledge till
thy sending.

18 And he will say, What the pledge
which I shall give to thee? And she
will say, Thy seal, and thy cord, and
thy - which is in thy hand: and he
will give to her, and will go in to her,
and she will conceive by him.

19 And she will arise and go, and
will put away her veil from her, and
will put on the garments of her widow-
hood.

20 And Judah will send the kid of
the goats by the hand of his friend the
Adullamite, to take the pledge from

GENESIS XXXIX.

the hand of the woman; and he found
her not.

21 And he will ask the men of the
place, saying, Where the harlot, she in
the eyes upon the way? and they will
say, No harlot was here.

22 And he will turn back to Judah,
and will say, I found her not; and also
the men of the place said, No harlot
was here.

23 And Judah will say, She shall
take to her, lest we shall be for a con-
tempt: Behold, I sent this kid, and
thou didst not find her.

24 And it will be after three months,
and it will be announced to Judah,
saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law com-
mitted fornication; and also, behold,
she conceived by fornication. And
Judah will say, Bring her forth, and
she shall be burnt.

25 She being brought forth, and she
sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the
man whose are these, by him I con-
ceived. And she will say, Recognise,
now, to whom the seal, the cords, and
the rod, these.

26 And Judah will recognise, and
will say, She was justified more than I,
because that I gave her not to Shelah
my son: and he will not add to know
her yet again.

27 And it will be in the time of her
bringing forth, and behold, twins in her
womb.

28 And it will be in her bringing
forth, and he will give the hand; and
the midwife will take and bind upon
his hand, scarlet, saying, This came
forth first.

29 And it will be after turning back
his hand, and behold his brother will
come forth; and she will say, How
didst thou break forth? the breach
upon thee: and his name shall be called
Pharez.

30 And afterward his brother will
come forth, whom upon his hand the
scarlet, and his name shall be called
Zarah.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
Λ ND Joseph was brought down to
Egypt: and Potiphar will buy
him, Pharaoh's eunuch, chief of the

cooks, an Egyptian man, from the hand
of the Ishmaelites who brought him
down there.

2 And Jehovah will be with Joseph,
and the man will be prospering: and
he will be in the house of his lord the
Egyptian.

3 And his lord will see that Jehovah
is with him, and all that he did Jeho-
yah prospering in his hand.

4 And Joseph will find grace in his
eyes, and he will serve him, and he
will appoint him over his house, and
all which is to him he gave into his
hand,

5 And it will be from the time he
appointed him over his house, and over
all which is to him, and Jehovah will
bless the Egyptian’s house on account
of Joseph; and the blessing of Jehovah
will be upon all which is to him in the
house and in the field.

6 And he will let go all which is to
him into the hand of Joseph; and he
will not know anything except the
bread which he is eating: and Joseph
will be fair of form, and fair of look.

7 And it will be .after these words,
and his lord’s wife will lift up her eyes
to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with
me.

8 And he will refuse, and will say to
his lord’s wife, Behold, my lord knew
not what is with me in the house, and
all which is to him he gave into my
hand;

9 Nothing is great in this house
above me: and he kept not back any-
thing from me except thee, because
thou his wife : and how shall I do this
great evil and sin before God?

10 And it will be in her speaking to
Joseph day by day, and he listened not
to her to 116 by her, to be with her.

11 And it will be about this day, and
he will come into the house to do his
work: and no man from the men of the
house there in the house.

12 And she will seize him by his gar-
ment, saying, Lie with me. And he
will let go his garment in her hand, and
will flee and come forth without.

13 And it will be when she saw that
he let go his garment in her hand and
will flee without,

14 And she will call the men of her
house and will say to them, saying,
See ye, he brought to us a Hebrew man
to mock us: he came to me to lie
with me, and I shall cry with a great
voice.

15 And it will be as he heard me
that I lifted up my voice and I will ery,
and he will let go his garment by me,
will flee and come forth without.

16 And she will leave his garment
by her till his lord came to his house.

17 And she will speak to him accord-
ing to these words, saying, The Hebrew
servant which thou broughtest to us,
came in to me to mock me.

18 And it will be as I lifted up my
voice, and I will cry out, and he will
let go his garment by me and will flee
without.

19 And it will be as his lord heard
the words of his wife which she spake
to him, saying, According to these
words thy servant did to me; and his
anger will be kindled.

20 And Joseph’s lord will take him
and put him into the house of the fort-
ress, the place where the king’s prison-
ers were bound; and he shall be there
in the house of the fortress.

21 And Jehovah will be with Joseph,
and will extend to him kindness, and
will give his grace in the eyes of the
chief of the house of the fortress.

22 And the chief of the house of the
fortress will give into Joseph’s hand all
the prisoners that were in the house of
the fortress; and all which was done
there he was doing.

23 The chief of the house of the fort-
ress saw not all the things in his hand,
because Jehovah was with him: and
what he did Jehovah prospering.

CHAPTER ΧΙ,
ND it will be after these words,
The cup-bearer of the king of
Egypt, and the baker, sinned to their
lord the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh will be angry against
his two eunuchs, against the chief of
the cup-bearers, and against the chief of
the bakers.

3 And he will give them in guard in
the house of the chief of the cooks, to

GENESIS XL.

the house of the fortress, the place where
Joseph was bound there.

4 And the chief of the cooks will
appoint Joseph over them, and he will
serve them; and they will be days in
guard.

5 And they will dream a dream, they
two, aman his dream in one night, a
man according to the interpretation of
his dream; the cup-bearer and the ba-
ker which were to the king of Egypt,
who were bound in the house of the
fortress.

6 And Joseph will come to them in
the morning, and will see them, and be-
hold, they sad.

7 And he will ask Pharaoh’s eunuchs
which were with him in guard of the
house of his lord, saying, Why are
your faces evil this day?

8 And they will say to him, We
dreamed a dream, and there is none in-
terpreting it. And Joseph will say to
them, Are not interpretations to God?
Relate now to me.

9 And the chief of the cup-bearers
will relate his dream to Joseph, and
will say to him, In my dream, and be-
hold a vine before me;

10 And in the vine three shoots;
and this as flourishing, its leaf went
forth; the clusters of grapes were ri-
pened.

11 And Pharaoh's cup in my hand;
and I shall take the grapes and press
them into Pharaoh’s eup, and I shall
give the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

12 And Joseph will say to him, This
its interpretation : The three shoots they
are three days.

13 Yet in three days Pharaoh will
lift up thy head, and restore thee to th
place, and thou shalt give Pharaoh's
cup into his hand, according to thy first
judgment, when thou wert his cup-
bearer.

14 But remember me with thyself,
when it shall be well to thee, and now
do kindness to me, and remember me to
Pharaoh and bring me out of this house.

15 For by stealing, I was stolen from
the land of the Hebrews: and also here.
I have not done anything that they pu
me inthe pit. <<

16 And the chief of the bakers π΄

GENESIS XLIL

see that he interpreted good, and he will
say to Joseph, I also in my dream, and
behold, three wicker-baskets of white
bread upon my head.

17 And in the high basket of all, food
of Pharaoh, the work of baking; and
the birds ate them from the basket
above my head.

18 And Joseph will answer and say,
This its interpretation: the three bas-
kets, they are three days;

19 Yet in three days, Pharaoh will
lift up thy head above thee, and hang
thee upon a tree, and the birds shall eat
thy flesh from thee.

20 And it will be in the third day,
the day of the birth of Pharaoh, and he
will make a drinking to all his servants ;
and he will litt up the head of the chief
of the cup-bearers, and the head of the
chief of the bakers, in the midst of his
servants.

21 And he will restore the chief of
the cup-bearers to his possession; and
he will give the cup into Pharaoh’s
hand.

22 And he will hang the chief of the
bakers, according to what Joseph inter-
preted to them.

23 And the chief of the cup-bearers
did not remember Joseph, and he will
forget him.

CHAPTER XLI.
ND it will be the end of two years
of days, and Pharaoh dreamed ;
and behold, he stood by the river.

2 And behold, from the river came
up seven heifers, fair of look and fat in
flesh ; and they will feed in marsh grass.

5 Behold, seven other heifers coming
up after them out of the river, evil of
look, thin in flesh; and they will stand
by the heifers by the lip of the river.

4 And the heifers evil of look and
thin of flesh, will devour the seven
heifers fair of look, and fat. And Pha-
raoh -will awake.

5 And he will sleep, and will dream
the second time, and behold seven ears
coming upon one stalk, fat and good.

6 And behold, seven ears thin and
blasted by the east, springing up after
. them.

7 And the thin ears will devour the

seven ears fat and full. And Pharaoh
will awake, and behold, a dream.

8 And it will be in the morning, and
his soul will be troubled; and he will
send and call all the sacred scribes of
Egypt, and all his wise; and Pharaoh
will relate to them his dream ; and none
interpreting them to Pharaoh.

9 And the chief of the cup-bearers
will speak to Pharaoh, saying, I, re-
membering my sin this day.

10 Pharaoh was angry with his ser-
vants, and gave me in guard in the
house of the chief of the cooks, me and
the chief of the bakers.

11 And we dreamed a dream in one
night, 1 and he: we dreamed a man
according to the interpretation of his
dream.

12 And there with us a Hebrew
youth, servant to the chief of the cooks:
and we shall relate to him, and he will
interpret to us our dreams; and he in-
terpreted a man according to his dream.

13 And it will be according to that
he interpreted to us, thus it was: me
he restored to my place, and him he
hung.

14 And Pharaoh will send and call
Joseph, and they will cause him to run
from the pit; and he will be shaved
and will change his garments; and he
will come to Pharaoh.

15 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
I dreamed a dream, and there is none
interpreting it, and I heard concerning
thee, saying, Thou wilt hear a dream to
interpret it.

16 And Joseph will answer Pharaoh,
saying, Not m me: God will answe~
Pharaoh with peace.

17 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
In my dream I stood by the lip of the
river.

18 And behold, from the river came
up seven heifers, fat of flesh and fair of
form, and they will feed in marsh grass.

19 And behold, seven other heifers
coming up after them, poor and eyil
exceedingly, in form, and thin in flesh :
I saw not like them in all the land 0
Egypt for evil.

20 And the heifers thin and: evil wil
devour the first seven fat heifers.

21 And they shall come into thei

48 GENESIS 1.

belly, and they shall not know that they
came into their belly ; and evil 01 form
as that in the beginning. And I shall
awake.

22 And I shall see in my dream, and
behold, seven ears coming up in one
stallx, full and good.

23 And behold, seven ears dry, thin,
blasted by the east, springing up after
them.

24 And the thin ears will swallow
the seven good ears: and I spake to
the sacred scribes, and there was none
announcing to me.

25 And Joseph will say to Pharaoh,
The dream of Pharaoh, one: this which
he did, God announces to Pharaoh.

26 The seyen good heifers, they are
seven years; and the seven good ears,
they are seven years : this dream one.

27 And the seven heifers, thin and
evil, coming up after them, they are
seven years; and the seven ears, thin,
blasted by the east, shall be seven years
of famine.

28 This the word which I spake to
Pharaoh: what God did, he showed
Pharaoh.

29 Behold, seven years coming of
great plenty, in all the land of Hgypt.

80 And seven years of famine arose
after them, and all the plenty was for-
gotten in the land of Egypt; and the
famine consumed the land.

81 And the plenty shall not be known
in the land on account of the famine
after this; for it shall be exceedingly
heavy.

82 And because of the repeating of
Pharaoh’s dream twice, that the word
was prepared from God; and God is
hastening to do it.

58 And now will Pharaoh look out a
man discerning and wise, and set him
over the land of Egypt.

81 And will Pharaoh make and ap-
point overseers over the land, exacting a
fifth part of the land of Egypt, in the
seven years of plenty.

35 And they shall gather all the food
of these good years coming, and they
shall heap up the grain under the hand
of Pharaoh, and they shall watch food
in the cities.

86 And the food was for a deposit to

the land, for the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt;
and the land shall not be cut off in the
famine.

37 And the word will be good in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all
his servants.

38 And Pharaoh will say to his ser-
vants, Shall we find such as this man
which has the spirit of God in him?

39 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
After that God showed thee all this,
none discerning and wise as thou.

40 Thou shalt be over my house, and
to thy mouth all my people shall bend:
only upon the throne I shall be great
above thee.

41 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
See, I gave thee over all the land of
Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh will remove his sig-
net ring from his hand, and will give it
upon Joseph’s hand; and will put upon
him a white garment, and will put a
gold collar about his neck.

43 And he will cause him to ride in
the second chariot which is to him.
And they will cry out before him,
Aback. And he gave him over all the
land of Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
I am Pharaoh; and without thee, a
man shall not lift up his hand and his
foot in all the land cf Egypt.

45 And Pharaoh will call Joseph’s
name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he will
give to him Asenath, daughter of Poti-
Pherah, priest of Ain, for a wife; and
Joseph will go forth over the land of
Egypt.

46 And Joseph the son of thirty
years in his standing before Pharaoh,
king of Egypt; and Joseph will go
forth from the face of Pharaoh, and will
pass over all the land of Egypt.

47 And the earth will make in the
seven years of plenty by handfuls.

48 And he will gather all the food of
the seven years which were in the land
of Egypt, and he will give the food in
the cities: the food of the field of the
city which round about her, he gave in
the midst of her.

49 And Joseph will gather grain as
the sand of the sea, exceedingly much

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till that he ceased to number; for there|ren will come, and will worship before

was no numbering.

50 And to Joseph will be born two
sons before the years of the famine will
come; which Asenath, daughter of
Poti-Pherah, priest of Ain, bare to
him.

51 And Joseph will call the name of
the first-born, Manasseh ; for God made
me forget all my toils and all my fath-
er’s house.

52 And the name of the second, he
called Ephraim; for God caused me to
flourish in the land of my affliction.

53 And the seven years of plenty
will be completed, which was in the
land of Egypt.

54 And the seven years of famine
will begin to come, according to that
Joseph said: and the famine will be in
all the lands; and in all the land of
Egypt was bread.

55 And all the land of Egypt shall
hunger, and the people will ery out to
Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh will
say to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what
he shall say to you, ye shall do.

56 And the famine was upon all the
face of the earth: and Joseph will open
all which in them, and he will sell to
Egypt; and the famine was strong in
the land of Egypt.

57 And all the earth came to Egypt
to Joseph to buy, for the famine was
strong in all the earth.

CHAPTER XLII.
ND when Jacob shall see there is
sellmg in Egypt, Jacob will say
to his sons, For what will ye look?

2 Behold I heard that there is selling
in Egypt: go ye there, and buy grain
for us from thence; and we shall live
and shall not die.

8 And Joseph’s brethren, the ten,
will go to buy grain from Egypt.

4 And Benjamin, Joseph’s brother,
Jacob sent not with his brethren; for
he said, Lest harm should meet him.

5 And the sons of Israel will come
to buy in the midst of those coming ; for
the famine was in the land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph, he the ruler over the
land, and he selling grain to all the peo-
ple of mi earth; and Joseph’s breth-

him the face to the earth.

7 And Joseph will see his brethren,
and will know them, and he will not let
himself be known to them. And will
speak with them hard things: and he
will say to them, From whence came
ye? And they will say, From the land
of Canaan to buy food.

8 And Joseph will know his breth-
ren, and they knew him not.

9 And Joseph will remember the
dreams which he dreamed concerning
them, and he will say to them, Ye spy-
ing ; to see the naked places of the land
ye came.

10 And they will say to him, Nay
my lord, and thy servants: came to buy
food.

11 We all one man’s sons; we true;
we thy servants were not spying.

12 And he will say to them, Nay, to
see the naked places of the land ye came.

13 And they will say, Thy servants
twelve brethren; we the sons of one
man in the land of Canaan: and behold,
the little one with our father this day,
and one, not.

14 And Joseph will say to them, This
which I spake to you, saying, Ye spy-
ing:

15 In this ye shall be proved; Phara-
oh living, if ye shall go forth from here
except in the coming of your brother,
the little one hither.

16 Send one of you and he shall take
your brother, and ye to be bound, and
your words shall be proved, whether
the truth with you; and if not, Pharaoh
living, for ye are spying.

17 And Hs will gather them to guard
three days.

18 And Joseph will say to them in
the third day, This do ye, and live, I
fearing God.

19 If ye true, one of your brethren
shall be bound in the house of your
guard, and ye yourselves go carry the
selling for the famine of your houses.

20 And ye shall bring your little
brother to me, and your words shall be
believed, and ye shall not die. And
they will do so.

21 And they will say, a man to his
brother, Truly we guilty concerning our

brother, when we saw the straits of his
soul in his entreating us, and we heard
him not; for this, these straits are come
to us.

22 And Reuben will answer them,
saying, Spake I not to you, saying, Ye
shall not sin against the child; and ye
heard not? and also behold his blood
was required.

23 And they will not know that Jo-
seph heard them, for an interpreter be-
tween them.

24 And he will turn about from them,
and will weep; and he will turn back
to them and speak to them, and he will
take from them Simeon, and will bind
him before their eyes.

25 And Joseph will command, and
they will fill their vessels with grain,
and turn back their silver to a man,
into his sack, and give to them provi-
sion for the way: and he will do thus
to them.

26 And they will lift up the grain
upon their asses, and they will go from
thence.

27 And the one will open his sack to
give food to his ass in the lodging place,
and he will see his silver; for behold,
it in the mouth of his sack.

28 And he will say to his brethren,
My silver restored; and also behold in
my sack: and their heart will go forth
and they will tremble, a man saying to
his brother, What this God did to us?

29 And they will come to Jacob their
father, to the land of Canaan, and they
will announce to him all having hap-
pened to them, saying,

80 The man, the lord of the land,
spake to us hard things, and he will
give us for spying the land.

31 And we shall say to him, We are
true; we were not spying;

32 We are twelve brethren, sons of
our father: one is not, and the little one,
he with our father in the land of Ca-
naan.

33 And the man, the lord of the land,
will say to us, In this I shall know that
ye are true; leave one of your brethren
with me, and take for the famine of
your houses and go.

84 And bring your little brother to
me, and I shall know that ye are not

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spying, but ye are true: I will give to
you your brother and ye shall traffic in
the land.

35 And it will be in their emptying
their sacks, and behold, the bundle of
silver of each in his sack: and they will
see the bundles of their silver, they and
their father, and they will be afraid.

36 And Jacob their father will say to
them, Me ye bereaved of children : Jo-
seph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye
will take Benjamin: all these things
were against me.

387 And Reuben will speak to his
father, saying, Kill my two sons, if I
shall not brmg him to thee: give him
into my hand, and I will turn him back
to thee.

38 And he will say, My son shall not
go down with you, for his brother died,
and he alone was left: and harm meet-
ing him in the way in which ye shall
go, and ye bring down my old age with
grief to hades.

CHAPTER: XLII

A ND the famine was heayy upon

the earth.

2 And it shall be when they finished
eating the grain which they brought
from Egypt, their father will say to them,
Turn back, buy for us a little food.

3 And Judah will speak to him, say-
ing, Protesting, the man protested to us,
saying, Ye shall not see my face, except
your brother is with you.

4 If thou art sending our brother with
us we will go down and will buy food
for thee.

5 And if thou art not sending, we will
not go down, for the man said to us,
Ye shall not see my face except your
brother is with you.

6 And Israel will say, For what did
ye evil to me to announce to the man
to be yet a brother to you?

7 And they will say, Asking, the man
asked about us and about our family,
saying, Is your father yet living? is
there a brother to you? and we an-
nounced to him according to the mouth
of these words: Knowing, did we know
that he will say, Bring down your
brother ?

8 And Judah will say to Israel his

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father, Send the youth with me, and we
will arise and go; and we shall live and
not die, also we, also thou, also our
little ones.

9 I will be surety for him; from my
hand shalt thou seek him, if I brought
him not to thee and set him before thee,
I sinned before thee 811 the days.

10 For unless we lingered we had
turned back this twice.

11 And Israel their father will say to
them, If so now, do this; take of the
best fruits of the land in your vessels,
and carry down to the man a gift of a
little balsam, and a little honey and spice
and resin, pistacia nuts, and almonds.

12 And take of twice the silver in|-

your hands; and the silver turned back
in the mouth of your sacks, ye shall
turn back in your hand; perhaps it
was an error.

13 And take your brother and arise,
turn back to the man.

14 And God Almighty will give to
you mercy before the man, and send
you your one brother and Benjamin:
and when I was bereaved of children, I
was bereaved of children.

15 And the men will take this gift,
and they took double the silver in their
hand, and Benjamin ; and they will rise
up and go down to Egypt, and they
will stand before Joseph.

16 And Joseph will see Benjamin
with them, and he will say to him over
his house, Bring the men to the house,
and slaughter a slaughter, and make
ready, for the men shall eat with me at
noon,

17 And the man will do according to
what Joseph said: and the man will
bring the men into Joseph’s house.

18 And the men will be afraid, be-
cause they were brought into Joseph’s
house; and they will say, For the word
of the silver turned back in our sacks
at the beginning, we were brought in;
to roll himself upon us and to fall upon
us and to take us for servants and our
asses.

19 And they will come near the man
which was over Joseph’s house, and
they will say to him at the entrance of
the house,

20 And they will say, With leave

my lord, coming down, we came down
at the beginning to buy food.

21 And it will be as we came to the
lodging place, and we opened our sacks,
and behold, the silver of each in the
mouth of his sack, our silver in weight :
and we turned it back in our hand.

22 And other silver we brought down
in our hand to buy food: we knew not
who put our silver in our sacks.

23 And he will say, Peace to you, ye

shall not be afraid; your God, and the
God of your father, gave to you treas-
ure in your sacks: your silver came to
me. And he brought forth to them
Simeon.
24 And the man will bring the men
into Joseph’s house; and will give water,
and they will wash their feet; and he
will give fodder to their asses.

25 And they will make ready the gift
at the coming of Joseph at noon: for
they heard that they shall eat bread
there.

26 And Joseph will come to his house
and they will bring to him the gift
which is in their hand to the house,
and they will worship towards him to
the earth.

27 And he will ask them concerning
peace, and he will say, Is it peace to
your father, the old man of whom ye
spake? Is he yet living?

28 And they will say, Peace to thy
servant to our father, he is yet living:
and they will bow down ae worship.

29 And he will [18 up his eyes and
see his brother Benjamin, the son of his
mother, and he will say, This your lit-
tle brother of whom ye spake to me?
and he will say, God will compassionate
thee my son.

30 And Joseph will hasten; for his
bowels will move to his brother: and
he will seek to weep, and he will go to
his store-chamber and will weep there.

31 And he will wash his face and
come forth, and will restrain himself,
and will say, Place bread.

32 And they will set for him alone,
and for them alone, and the Egyptians
eating with him, alone; for the Egyp-
tians will not be able to eat bread with
the Hebrews ; for it is abomination to
the Egyptians.

83 And they will set before him, the
first-born, according to his seniority, and
the small according to his minority:
and the men will wonder each at his
friend.

34 And he will take gifts from before
him to them: and Benjamin’s gift will
increase above all their gifts, five parts.
And they will drink and be intoxicated
with him.

CHAPTER XLIV.
ND he will command him over

Ἃ his house, saying, Fill the men’s
sacks with food, as much as they shall
be able to lift up, and put the silver of
each in the mouth of his sack.

2 And my cup, the silver cup, thou
shalt put in the sack’s mouth of the
small one, and the silver of his grain;
and he will do according to the word
which Joseph spake.

3 The morning shone, and the men
were sent away, they and their asses.

4 They came forth out of the city,
they were not far off, and Joseph said
to him over his house, Arise, pursue
after the men, and haying overtaken
them, and say to them, For what did
ye requite evil for good ?

5 Is it not this which my lord will
drink in it, and divining he will divine
in it? ye were evil in which ye did.

6 And he will overtake them, and
will speak to them these words.

7 And they will say to him, For
what will my lord speak according to
these words? far be it for thy servants
to do according to this word.

8 Behold, the silver which we found
in the mouth of our sacks, we turned
back to thee from the land of Canaan:
and how shall we steal from thy lord’s
house, silver or gold?

9 With whomsoever of thy servants
it shall be found, and he shall die, and
also we will be for servants to my
lord.

10 And he will say, Also now accord-
ing to your words let it be thus: with
whomsoeyer it shall be found, he shall
be servant to me, and ye shall be pure.

11 And they will hasten, and will
take down each his sack to the earth,
and they will open each his sack,

GENESIS XLIV.

12 And he will search, beginning at
the great and finishing at the small:
and he will find the cup in Benjamin's
sack,

18 And they will rend their gar-
ments, and will lift wp each upon his
ass, and will turn back to the city.

14 And Judah and his brethren will
come to Joseph’s house, and he yet
there: and they will fall before him to
the earth.

15 And Joseph will say to them,
What this deed ye did? knew ye not
that divining, a man shall divine such
as 7?

16 And Judah will say to him, What
shall we say to my lord? what shall we
speak? and how shall we be justified?
God found the iniquity of thy servants:
behold we are servants to my lord, also
we, also him the cup being found in
his hand.

17 And he will say, Far be it for me
to do this: the man in whose hand the
cup being found, he shall be servant to
me; and ye, go ye up in peace to your
father.

18 And Judah will come near to him
and will say, With leave my lord, now
shall thy servant speak a word in the ear
of my lord, and thine anger shall not be
kindled against thy servant; for with
thee as Pharaoh.

19 My lord didst ask thy servants,
saying, Is there a father to you, ora
brother ?

20 And we said to my lord, There is
a father to us, an old man, and a child
of old age, a little one: and his brother
died, and he will be left alone to his
mother; and his father loved him.

21 And thou wilt say to thy servants,
Bring him down to me, and 1 shall set
mine eyes upon him.

22 And we shall say to my lord, The
youth will not be able to leave his
father; and did he leave his father, he
died.

23 And thou wilt say to thy servants,
If your little brother shall not come
down with you, ye shall not add to see
my face.

24 And it shall be when we went u
to thy servant our father, and announce
to him the words of my lord.

GENKSIS XLV.

25 And our father will say, Turn
back and buy for us a little food.

26 And we shall say, We shall not
be able to go down: if our little brother
is with us, and we will go down; for
we shall not be able to see the man’s
face, and our little brother not with us.

27 And thy servant my father will
say tous, Ye knew that my wife brought
forth to me. two.

28 And the one went forth from me
and it was said, Surely he was torn in
pieces, he was torn in pieces; and I saw
him not till now.

29 And took ye this also from my
face, and harm befell him, and ye
brought down my old age with evil to
hades.

30 And now if I came to thy servant
my father, and the youth not with us,
for his soul is bound upon his soul,

81 And it was when he having seen
that the youth is not, and he will die:
and thy servants brought down the old
age of thy servant our father in grief to
hades. :

82 For thy servant became surety
for the youth with my father, saying, If
I shall not bring him to thee, I sinned
against my father all the days.

33 At this time thy servant shall now
remain for the youth, a servant to my
lord; and the youth shall go up with
his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up to my
father and the youth not with me? lest
Τ shall look upon the evil which shall
find my father.

CHAPTER XLV.
ND Joseph will not be able to re-
strain himself before all standing
by him; and he will ery out, Take out
every man from me: and a man stood
not with him, in Joseph’s making him-
self known to his brethren.

2 And he will give forth his voice in
weeping, and the Eeyptians will hear
and the house of Pharaoh will hear.

3 And Joseph will say to his breth-
ren, 1 am Joseph; is my father yet liv-
ing? and his brethren will not be able
to answer him; for they trembled from
before him.

4 And Joseph wlll say to his breth-

ren, Come near now to me: and they
will come near, and he will say, I am
Joseph, your brother, whom ye sold me
into Kgypt.

5 And now, ye shall not be grieved,
and it shall not burn in your eyes, be
cause ye sold me here: for God sent
me before you for the preservation
of life.

6 For this the second year of the fam-
ine in the midst of the land: and yet
five years in which no ploughing and
reaping.

7 And God will send me before you
to put for you a remnant upon the
earth, and to preserve life for you by a
great deliverance.

8 And now not you sent me here,
but God: and he placed me for a father
to Pharaoh, and for lord to all his house,
and ruler over all the land of Kgypt.

9 Hasten and go up to my father,
and say to him, Thus said thy son Jo-
seph, God placed me for lord to all
Egypt; come down to me, thou wilt
not remain.

10 And thou didst dwell in the land
of Goshen, and thou wert near to me,
thou, and thy sons, and thy sons’ sons,
and thy sheep and thine oxen and all
which 15 to thee.

11 And I nourished thee there (for
yet five years of famine), lest thou shalt
be poor, thou and thy house, and all
which is to thee.

19 And behold, your eyes sceing,
and the eyes of my brother Benjamin,
that my mouth is speaking to you.

13 And ye announced to my father
all my glory in Egypt, and all which ye
have seen: and haste ye, and bring ye
down my father here.

14 And he will fall upon his brother
Benjamin’s neck, and will weep; and
and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 And he will kiss all his brethren,
and will weep upon them: and after
this his brethren spake with him.

16 And the voice was heard in the
house of Pharaoh, saying, Joseph’s
brethren came; and it will be good in
the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of
his servants.

17 And Pharaoh will say to Joseph,
Say to thy brethren, This do ye: load

your cattle and come, go to the land of
Canaan,

18 And take your father and your
houses, and come to me: and I will
give to you the good of the land of
Kgypt, and ye shall eat the heart of the
land.

19 And thou being commanded, this
do ye; take to you from the land of
Egypt, wagons for your little ones, and
for your wives, and take your father
and come.

20 And your eye shall not spare upon
yous vessels: for the good of all the
and of Egypt is to you.

21 And the sons of Israel will do so:
and Joseph will give to them wagons,
by the mouth of Pharaoh, and he will
give to them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave, to each,
changes of garments: and to Benjamin
he gaye three hundred of silver and
five changes of garments.

23 And to his father he sent accord-
ing to this: ten asses lifting up from the
good of Egypt, and ten she-asses lifting
up grain and bread: and food for his
father for the way.

24 And he will send his brethren
away, and they will go; and he will say
to them, Ye shall not be angry in the
way.

25 And they will go up from Egypt,
and will come to the land of Canaan to
Jacob their father.

26 And they will announce to him,
saying, Joseph is yet living, and that
he the ruler over all the land of Egypt.
And his heart will be cold for he be-
lieved them not.

27 And they will say to him all the
words of Joseph which he spake to
them: and he will see the wagons
which Joseph sent to take him, and the
spirit of Jacob their father will live.

28 And Israel will say, It is much:
Joseph my son is yet living: I will go
and see him before I shall die,

CHAPTER XLVL
Λ ND Israel will remove and all
which is to him, and he will come
to the well of the oath, and he will sac-
rifice sacrifices to the God of his father
Isaak.

GENESIS XLVI

2 And God will speak to Israel in a
vision of the night, and he will say, Ja-
cob! Jacob! and he will say, Behold
me.

3 And he will say, I am God, the
God of thy father : thou shalt not fear
going down to Egypt; for I will there
make thee into a great nation.

4 I will go down with thee to Egypt,
and I will raise thee up; and Joseph
shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

5 And Jacob will rise up from the
well of the oath: and the sons of Israel
will take up Jacob their father, and
their little ones, and their wives, in the
wagons which Pharaoh sent to take him.

6 And they will take their cattle and
their goods which they acquired in the
land of Canaan, and they will come to
Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

7 His sons, and his sons’ sons with
him, his daughters, and his sons’ daugh-
ters, and all his seed, he brought with
him to Egypt. /

8 And these the names of the sons
of Israel having come to Egypt. Jacob
and his sons: the first born of Jacob,
Reuben. :

9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch
and Phallu and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel
and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin, and
Zohar and Saul, son of the Canaanitess.

11 And the sons of Leyi: Gershon
and Kohath and Merari.

12 And the sons of Judah: Er and
Onan and Shelah and Pharez and Za-

‘rah; and Er will die, and Onan in the

land of Canaan. And the sons of Pha-
rez will be Hezron and Hamu.

13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola
and Phuvah, and Job and Shimron.

14 And the sons of Zebulon, Sered

and Elon and Jahleel.

15 These the sons of Leah, which she
bare to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and Di-
nah his daughter; all the souls of his
sons and his daughters thirty and three.

16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion
and Haeei, Shumi and Ezbon, Eri and
Ayrodi and Areli. ᾿

17 And the sons of Asher: Jimnath
and Ishuah and Isui and Beriah, and
Sarah their sister. And the sons of
Beriah; Heber and Malchiel.

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18 These the sons of Zilpah whom
Laban gave to Leah his daughter.
And she will bear these to Jacob, six-
teen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife:
Joseph and Benjamin.

20 And to Joseph will be born in the
land of Egypt, whom Asenath will bear
to him, the daughter of Poti-Phera,
priest of Ain: Manasseh and Ephraim.

21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela
and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera and Naa-
man, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Hup-
pim and Ard.

22 These the sons of Rachel which
she bare to Jacob; all the souls fourteen.
23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.

24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jah-
zeel, and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

25 These the sons of Bilhah, whom
Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and
she will bear these to Jacob; all the
souls seven.

26 All the souls going with Jacob to
HKeypt, coming forth from his thigh, be-
sides Jacob's sons’ wives, all the souls,
sixty and six.

27 And the sons of Joseph which
were born to him in Egypt, two souls:
to the house of Jacob coming to Egypt,
seventy.

28 And he sent Judah before him to
Joseph to cast his face to Goshen, and
they came to the land of Goshen.

29 And Joseph will harness his char-
jot, and will go up to meet Israel his
father, to Goshen; and he will be seen
to him: and he will fall upon his neck,
and will yet weep upon his neck.

30 And Israel will say to Joseph,
Now will I die, after I saw thy face, be-
cause thou art yet living.

81 And Joseph will say to his breth-
ren, and to his father’s house, I will go
up and announce to Pharaoh, and sa
to him, My brethren and my father’s
house which were in the land of Canaan,
came to me.

32 And the men are shepherds of
sheep, for they were men of catile;
| and they brought their sheep and their
τ cattle, and all which is to them.

88 And it will be when Pharaoh
shall call to you and say, What your
work?

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84 And saying, Thy servants were
men of cattle from our childhood and
till now ; also we, also our fathers; that
ye shall dwell in the land of Goshen ;
for every shepherd of sheep is an abom-
ination to the Egyptians.

CHAPTER XLVIL
ND Joseph will come and an-
nounce to Pharaoh, and will say,
My father and my brethren, and their
sheep and their cattle and all which is
to them, came from the land of Canaan,
and behold, in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took from the whole num-
ber of his brethren five men and set
them before Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh will say to his breth-
ren, What your work? and they will
say to Pharaoh, Thy servants were feed-
ing sheep, also we, also our fathers.

4 And they will say to Pharaoh, To
sojourn in the land we came: for no
pasture is to the sheep which are to thy
servants, for the famine was heavy in
the land of Canaan: and at this time
now will thy servants dwell in the land
of Goshen.

5 And Pharaoh will speak to Joseph,
saying, Thy father and thy brethren
came to thee.

6 This land of Egypt is before thee ;
in the best of the land cause thy father
and thy brethren to dwell; they shall
dwell m the land of Goshen; and if
thou knowest and there is among them
men of strength, set them leaders of the
cattle which are to me.

7 And Joseph will bring Jacob his
father and will set him before Pharaoh,
and Jacob will bless Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh will say to Jacob,
nat many the days of the years of thy
life

9 And Jacob will say to Pharaoh,
The days of the years of my sojourning,
thirty and a hundred years:, little and
evil were the days of the years of my
life, and they reached not the days of
the years of the life of my fathers in
their sojournings.

10 And Jacob will bless Pharaoh, and
he will go out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph will place his father
and his brethren, and will give to them

possession in the land of Egypt, in the
best of the land, in the land of Rameses,
according to what Pharaoh commanded.

12 And Joseph will nourish his father
and his brethren, and all the house of his
father, with bread according to the
mouth of the little ones.

18 And no bread in all the land; for
the famine was heavy exceedingly, and
the land 01 Egypt was exhausted, and
the land of Canaan, from before the
famine.

14 And Joseph will gather together
all the silver being found in the land of
Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for
the grain which they bought: and Jo-
seph will bring the silver to the house
of Pharaoh.

16 And the silver will be spent from
the land of Egypt and from the land of
Canaan; and all the Egyptians will go
to Joseph, saying, Give to us bread:
and for what shall we die before thee?
for the silver failed.

16 And Joseph will say, Give your
cattle; and I will give to you for your
cattle if silver failed.

17 And they will bring their cattle
to Joseph, and Joseph will give to them
bread for horses, and for the possession
of the sheep, and for the possession of
the cattle, and for the asses; and he
will feed then with bread, for all their
cattle for that year.

18 And that year will be ended, and
they will come to him in the second
year, and will say to him, We will not
hide from my lord if the silver was
spent; and the possession of the cattle
to my lord; and there was not left be-
fore my lord except but our bodies and
our lands.

19 For what shall we die before thine
eyes, also we, also our land? buy us
and our land for bread, and we and our
land will be servants to Pharaoh: and
give seed, and we shall live and not die,
and the land shall not be laid waste.

20 And Joseph will buy all the land
of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyp-
tians sold each his field, for the famine
was strong over them: and the land
will be to Pharaoh.

21 And the people he made them
pass over to the cities from the extrem-

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ity of the bounds of Egypt, and even
to the extremity.

22 Only the land of the priests he
bought not; for to the priests a portion
from Pharaoh, and they ate their por-
tion which Pharaoh gave to them; for
this they sold not their lands.

23 And Joseph will say to the people,
Behold, I bought you this day and your
land for Pharaoh : lo, seed for you, and
sow ye the land.

24 And it was in the produce, and ye
gave the fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts
shall be to you, for the seed of the field
and for your food, and for those in your
houses, and for food to your little ones.

25 And they will say, Thou didst
preserve us alive: shall we find grace
in the eyes of my lord, we were servants
to Pharaoh.

26 And Joseph set it for an ordinance
to this day, of the land of Egypt, for a
fifth to Pharaoh; only the land of the
priests alone was not to Pharaoh.

27 And Israel dwelt m the land of
Egypt in the land of Goshen; and they
will have possession in it, and be fruit-
ful, and will multiply greatly.

28 And Jacob will live in the land of
Egypt seventeen years: and the days of
the years of the life of Jacob will be
seven years and forty years, and a hun-
dred years.

29 And the days of Israel will draw
near to die: and he will call to his son
Joseph, and will say to him, If now I
found grace in thine eyes, put now thy
hand under my thigh, and thou shalt do
to me kindness and truth: now thou
shalt not bury me in Egypt.

30 1 will he down with my fathers,
and thou shalt lift me up out of Eeypt,
and thou shalt bury me in their grave.
And he will say, I will do according to
thy word.

31 And he will say, Swear to me.
And he will swear to him. And Israel
will worship upon the head of the rod.

CHAPTER XLVIIL
ND it shall be after these words,
and it will be said to Joseph, Be-
hold, thy father was sick: and he will
take his two sons with him, Manasseh
and Ephraim.

GENESIS XLIX.

2 And it will be announced to Jacob,
and it will be said, Behold, thy son Jo-
seph came to thee: and Israel will be
strengthened and will sit upon the rod.

8 And Jacob will say to Joseph, God
Almighty was seen to me in Luz in the
land of Canaan, and he will bless me.

4 And he will say to me, Behold, I
making thee fruitful, and I multiplied
thee, and I gave thee for an assembly
of people; and I gave this land to thy
seed after thee a possession forever.

5 And now, thy two sons haying been
born to thee in the land of Egypt, be-
fore I came to thee to Egypt, they are to
me: Ephraim and Manasseh shall be to
me as Reuben and Simeon.

6 And thy progeny which thou didst
beget after them, shall be to thee; after
the name of their brethren shall they be
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7 And Tin my coming from Padan,
Rachel died by me in the land of Ca-
naan, in the way, in yet a length of land
to go to Ephrath: and I shall bury her
there in the way of Ephrath; this the
house of bread.

8 And Israel will see Joseph’s sons,
and will say, Who are these?

9 And Joseph will say to his father,
They are my sons which God gaye me
here. And he will say, Bring them
now to me, and I will bless them.

10 And the eyes of Israel were heavy
from old age; he will not be able to see ;
and he will draw them near to him, and
he will kiss them, and embrace them.

11 And Israel will say to Joseph, To
see thy face I thought not; and behold,
God caused me to see also thy seed.

12 And Joseph will bring them forth
from his knees, and will bow himself
with his face to the earth.

13 And Joseph will take the two,
Ephraim in his right hand from Israel's
left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand
from Israel’s right hand, and will draw
near to him.

14 And Israel will put forth his right
hand, and will place upon Ephraim’s
head, and he the small; and his left
hand upon Manasseh’s head, attending
to his hands wisely ; for Manasseh was
the first-born.

15 And he will bless Joseph, and will

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say, God, before whom my fathers went,
Abraham and Isaak, the God having
fed me, from ever since I was till this
day.

16 The messenger redeeming me from
all evil, shall bless the youths; and my
name shall be called upon them, and the
name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak:
and they shall be increased into a mul-
titude in the midst of the earth.

17 And Joseph will see that his father
will put his right hand upon Ephraim’s
head, and it will be evil in his eyes:
and he will take hold of his father’s
hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head
to Manasseh’s head.

18 And Joseph will say to his father,
Not so, my father: for this is the first-
born; put thy right hand upon his
head.

19 And his father will refuse and will
say, I knew my son, I knew: this also
shall be into a people, and this also shall
be great: and yet his brother the small,
shall be great more than he, and his
seed shall be a fulness of nations.

20 And he will bless them in that
day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,
saying, Will God set thee as Hphraim
and as Manasseh: and he will set Kph-
raim before Manasseh.

21 And Israel will say to Joseph, I
am dying: and God was with you and
turned you back to the land of your
fathers.

22 And I gave to thee one shoulder
over thy brethren, which I took from
the hand of the Amorite with my sword
and with my bow.

CHAPTER XLIX.
ND Jacob will call to his sons,
and will say, Be ye gathered toge-
ther, and I will announce to you what
shall happen to you in the last part of
the days.

2 Be gathered together, and hear ye
sons of Jacob, and hear to Israel your =
father. :

3 Reuben, my first-born, thou my
streneth, and the beginning of m
streneth, the abundance of elevation,
and the abundance of might.

4 Vain glorious as water, thou shalt
not be pre-eminent; for thou didst go

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up out of thy father’s bed; then didst
thou defile, going up to my couch.

5 Simon and Levi, brethren; their
swords instruments of violence.

6 My soul shall not come into their
consultation; in their assembly, my
honor shall not be united, for in their
anger they killed a man and in their
will, houghed a bullock,

7 Cursed their anger, for it was hard ;
and their wrath, for it was hardened: I
will divide them in Jacob, and I will
disperse them in Israel.

8 Judah, thee, thee shall thy brethren
praise ; thy hand upon the back of thine
enemies; thy father’s sons shall wor-
ship before thee.

9 Judah, a lion’s whelp; from the
green leaf, my son, thou didst go up:
bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a
lioness: who shall raise him up?

10 The rod shall not depart from Ju-
dah, and a leader from between his feet,
till that Shiloh shall come: and to him
the obedience of the nations.

11 Binding his colt, to the vine, and
to the purple vine the son of the she-
ass; he washed in wine his garment, and
his clothing in the blood of grapes.

12 The eyes flashing from wine, the
teeth white from milk.

13 Zebulon shall dwell by the coast
of the sea; and he by a coast of ships,
and the extremities, even to Zidon,

14 Issachar, an ass; a heap of bone
lying down in the midst of the tribes.

15 And he will see the rest that 10 was
good, and the land that it was pleasant ;
and he extended his shoulder to bear,
and he will be a servant to tribute.

16 Dan shall judge his people as one
of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent upon the
way, creeping upon the path, biting the
heels of the horse and his beast for rid-
ing shall fall behind.

18 I waited for thy deliverance, Jeho-
vah,

19 Gad, a troop, shall press upon him ;
and this shall press upon the heel.

20 From Asher his bread, fat, and he
will give the dainties of a king.

21 Naphtali a mighty shoot, giving
fair words.

22 Joseph a fruitful son, a fruitful son |

GENESIS L.

upon a fountain, the daughters mount-
ing over a wall.

23 This adversary will embitter him,
and the lords of the arrows will 116 in
wait.

24 And his bow will dwell in strength,
and the seed of his hands will be firm
by the hands of the mighty one of Ja-
cob; from whence the shepherd, the
stone of Israel.

25 By the God of thy father, and he
will help thee, and by the Almighty,
and he will bless thee with the blessing
of the heavens above, the blessing of
the sea lying under, the blessing of the
breasts and the womb.

26 The blessings of thy father were
strong above the blessings of the ever-
lasting mountains; the delight of the
eternal hills, they shall be upon the head
of Joseph and upon the crown of the
head of him separated from his brethren.

27 Benjamin, a wolf, tearing in pieces ;
in the morning will he eat the prey,
and at evening he will divide the prey.

28 All these tribes of Israel, twelve:
and this what their father spake to them,
and he will bless them; each according
to his blessing he blessed them.

29 And he will command them, and
will say to them, I am added to my peo-
ple: bury me with my fathers in the
cave which is in the field of Ephron the
Hittite.

30 In the cave that is in the field of
Machpelah, which is before Mamra in
the land of Canaan, which Abraham
bought with the field from Ephron the
Hittite, for the possession of a grave.

81 There they buried Abraham and
Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaak
and Rebekah his wife; and there 1 bur-
ied Leah.

82 The possession of the field and the
cave which is in it, from the sons of
Heth. - ;

98 And Jacob will finish to command
his sons, and he will gather his feet to
the bed, and will expire, and will be
gathered to his people.

CHAPTER L.
ND Joseph will fall upon his fa-
ther’s face, and will weep over
him and he will kiss him.

GENESIS L.

2 And Joseph will command his ser-
vants the physicians, to embalm his fa-
ther: and the physicians embalmed
Israel.

3 And they will fill up forty days

for him: for so will they fill up the
days of the embalmed: and the Egyp-
tians will weep for him seventy
days.
4 And the days of his weeping will
pass over, and Joseph will speal to the
house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I
found grace in thine eyes, speak now in
the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father caused me to swear, say-
ing, Behold I am dying: in my grave
which I dug for me in the land of Ca-
naan, there shalt thou bury me. And
at this time will I now go up and bury
my father, and I will turn back.

6 And Pharaoh will say, Go up and
bury thy father, according to what he
caused thee to swear.

7 And Joseph will go up to bury his
father; and all the servants of Pharaoh
will go up with him, the old men of his
house, and all the old men of the land
of Kgypt.

8 And all the house of Joseph and his
brethren, and the house οὗ. his father:
ony their little ones and their sheep
and their oxen they left in the land of
Goshen.

9 And also will go up with him char-
iot, also horseman; and there will be a
very great camp.

10 And they will come to the thresh-
ing floor of Atad, which is beyond
Jordan, and they will mourn there a
mourning great and strong exceeding-
ly: and he will make for his father a
mourning, seven days.

11 And the Canaanites dwelling in
the land will see the mourning in the
threshing-floor of Atad, and they will
say, A great mourning this to the Egyp-
tians; for this its name was called, the
Mourning of the Egyptians, which is
beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons will do to him thus
according to what he commanded them.

13 And his sons will take him up to
the land of Canaan, and they will bury
him in the cave of the field of Machpe-
7 Jah, which Abraham bought with the

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field for the possession of a grave, from
Ephron the Hittite, before Mamra.

14 And Joseph will turn back to
Egypt, he and his brethren and all going
up with him, to bury his father, after
they buried his father.

15 And Joseph’s brethren will see that
their father died, and they will say to
him, Joseph will he in wait for us, and
turning back, will turn back to us all
the evil which we did to him.

16 And they will come forth to Jo-
seph, saying, Thy father commanded be
fore his death, saying,

17 So shall ye say to Joseph, I pray
thee now take away the trespass of thy
brethren and their sin; for they did to
thee evil: and at this time now take
away upon the trespass of the servants
of the God of thy father. And Joseph
will weep in their speaking to him.

18 And they will come and will fall
down before him, and they will say, Be-
hold, we are for servants to thee.

19 And Joseph will say to them, Ye
shall not fear, for 1 am for God.

20 And you, ye even purposed evil
against me; God purposed it for good,
for the sake of doing as this day, to pre-
serve alive much people.

21 And now ye shall not fear: I will
give you to eat, and your little ones.
And he will comfort them, and will
speak to their hearts.

22 And Joseph will dwell in Egypt,
he and the house of his father: and Jo-
seph will live a hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph will see sons to Eph-
raim of the third generation ; also the
sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were
brought forth upon Joseph’s knees.

24 And Joseph will say to his breth-
ren, lam dying; and God reviewing,
will review you, and will bring you up
from this land to the land which he
sware to Abraham, to Isaak and to Ja-
cob.

25 And Joseph will cause the sons of
Israel to swear, saying, God reviewing,
will review you and bring ye up my
bones from here.

26 And Joseph will die, the son of a
hundred and ten years; and they will
embalm him and will put in an ark in
Egypt.

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CHAPTER I.

HESE the names of the sons of Is-

rael coming into Egypt with Ja-
cob; a man and his house came.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin,

4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

5 And these will be all the souls that
came out of the thigh of Jacob, seventy
souls: and Joseph was in Egypt.

6 And Joseph will die, and all. his
brethren, and all that generation.

7 And the sons of Israel were fruitful,
and they will multiply abundantly, and
they will increase, and will become
strong with might exceedingly ; and the
land will be filled with them.

8 And a new king will arise over
Egypt, who will not know Joseph.

9 And he will say to his people, Be-
hold, the people of the sons of Israel,
many, being strong above us.

10 Come, we will be wise with them,
lest they shall multiply, and it was when
war shall happen, and also being added
to our armies and fighting against us,
and they went up from the land.

11 And they will set over them lead-
ers of the tributes in order to afflict
them in their burdens. And they will
build cities of stores for Pharaoh, Pit-
hom and Raamses.

12 And as they will afflict them, so
they will multiply and will increase.
And they will feel disgust from the face
of the sons of Israel.

13 And the Egyptians will make the
sons of Israel serve by oppression.

14 And they will embitter their lives
by hard work in clay, and in bricks, and
in all work in the field: all their work
in which they made them serve by op-
pression.

15 And the king of Egypt will say
to the midwives of the Hebrews, of
whom the name of the one Shiprah, and
the name of the second, Puah;

16 And he will say, In the delivering
the Hebrew women, and seeing upon
the stools, if it is a son, ye shall Jull

DUS.

him; and if it is a daughter, preserve
alive.

17 And the midwives will fear God,
and they did not according to what the
king of Egypt said to them, and they
will preserve alive the boys.

18 And the king of Egypt will call
to the midwives, and will say to them,
Wherefore did ye this word, and ye will
preserve alive the boys?

19 And the midwives will say to
Pharaoh, That the Hebrewesses are not
as the Egyptian women, for they giving
life before the midwives shall come in
to them, and they will bring forth.

20 And God will do well to the mid-
wives, and the people will multiply and
be greatly strong.

21 And it will be because the mid-
wives will fear God, and he will make
houses for them.

22 And Pharaoh will command to all
the people, saying, Every son being
brought forth ye shall cast into the
river, and every daughter ye shall pre-

serve alive.

CHAPTER II.
ND a man from the house of Levi
will go and take a daughter of
Levi.

2 And the woman will conceive and
will bring forth a son; and she will see
him that he is good, and she will hide
him three months.

3 And she will not be able any more
to hide him, and she will take for him
an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with
bitumen and with pitch, and she will
put in it the child, and will put in the
sedge by the lip of the river.

4 And his sister will stand afar off
to know what will be done to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh will
come down to wash at the river; and
her maids going by the side of the river:
and she will see the ark in the midst of
the sedge, and she will send her maid
and she will take it.

6 And she will open and will see the

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EXODUS 1.

child: and behold, the boy weeping:
And she will have pity upon him, and
will say, This from the children of the
Hebrews.

7 And his sister will say to Pharaoh's
daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a
nurse from the Hebrew women, and she
will suckle the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh’s daughter will say
to her, Go. And she will go and call
the child’s mother.

9 And Pharaoh’s daughter will say
to her, Take this child and suckle it for
me, and 1 will give thy wages. And
the woman will take the child and will
suckle it.

10 And the child will become great,
and she will bring him to Pharaoh’s
daughter, and he will be to her for a
son. And she will 6811 his name Mo-
ses; and she will say, Because I drew
him out of the water.

11 And it will be in these days, and
Moses will become great, and he will go
forth to his brethren, and he will see
their burdens: and he will see a man,
an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew,
from his brethren.

12 And he will turn hither and thith-
er, and will see that there is no man,
and he will smite the Egyptian, and
hide him in the sand.

18 And he will go forth in the sec-
ond day, and behold, two men, He-
brews, quarreling; and he will say to
the unjust one, For what wilt thou
smite thy friend ?

14 And he will say, Who set thee for
a chief man and judge over us? dost
thou think to kill me as thou didst kill
the Egyptian ? and Moses will be afraid,
and will say, Surely, this word was
known.

15 And Pharaoh will hear this word,
and he will seek to kill Moses. And
Moses will flee from the face of Pha-
raoh, and he will dwell in the land of
Midian: and he will sit down by the
well.

16 And to the priest of Midian, seven
daughters: and they will come and will
draw and fill the watering troughs to
water the sheep of their father.

17 And the shepherds will come, and
will expel them: and Moses will rise

up and help them, and will water their
sheep.

18 And they will come to Reuel their
father, and he will say, Wherefore has-
tened ye to come this day ?

19 And they will say, A man, an
Egyptian, delivered us from the hand of >
the shepherds, and also drawing, drew
for us, and watered the sheep.

20 And he will say to his daughters,
Where is he? for what this left ye the
man? call to him and he shall eat
bread.

21 And Moses will be contented to
dwell with the man, and he will give
Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

22 And she will bear a son, and he
will call his name Gershom ; for he said,
I was a sojourner in a strange land.

23 And it will be in these many days,
and the king 01 Kegypt will die: and the
sons of Israel will groan, from the work ;
and they will ery out, and their suppli-
cation will go up to God from the work.

24 And God will hear their groaning,
and God will remember his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaak and with
Jacob.

25 And God will see the sons of Is-
rael, and God will know.

CHAPTER III.
ND Moses was feeding the sheep
of Jethro, his father-in-law, the
priest of Midian: and he will lead the
sheep behind the desert, and he will
come to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

2 And the messenger of Jehovah will
be seen to him ina flame of fire from
the midst of the bramble; and he will
see, and behold, the bramble burning in
fire, and the bramble was not consumed.

3 And Moses will say, I will now turn
aside and see this great sight, why the
bramble will not burn.

4 And Jehovah will see that he turn-
ed aside to see, and God will call to him
from the midst of the bramble, and he
will say, Moses, Moses! And he will
say, Behold me.

5 And he will say, Thou shalt not
draw near hither; draw off thy shoes
from thy feet, for the place which thou
standest upon it, this is holy land.

6 And he will say, I am the God of

thy father, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaak and the God of Jacob.

And Moses will hide his face, for he} ₪

will be afraid to look to God.

7 And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I
saw the affliction of my people who are
. in Egypt, and I heard their ery from
the face of their pressers; and I knew
their pains.

8 And I will come down to deliver
them from the hand of the Egyptians
and to bring them up out of this land to
a good and great land, to a land flow-
ing milk and honey ; to the place of the
Canaanites and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites and the Jebusites.

9 And now behold the ery of the sons
of Israel came to me: and also I saw
the oppression which the Egyptians op-
pressed them.

10 And now come, and 1 will send
thee to Pharaoh, and bring thou forth
my people, the sons of Israel out of
Egypt.

11 And Moses will say to God, Who
am I that I shall go to Pharaoh, and
that I shall bring forth the sons of Israel,
out of Egypt?

12 And he will say, That I will be
with thee; and this a sign to thee that
I sent thee; m thy bringing forth the
people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God
upon this mountain.

13 And Moses will say to God, Be-
hold me going to the sons of Israel, and
I spake to them, The God of your fathers
sent me to you; and they said to me,
What his name? what shall I say to
them ?

14 And God will say to Moses, I
shall be that I shall be: and he will say,
So shalt thou say to the sons of Israel,
I Shall Be sent me to you.

15 And God will yet say to Moses,
Thou shalt say to the sons of Israel, Je-
hovah the God of your fathers, the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaak and the
God of Jacob, sent me to you: this my
name for eternity, and this my remem-
brance to generation and generation.

16 Come, and gather together the old
men of Israel, and say to them, Jeho-
vah, the God of your fathers, was seen
to me, the God of Abraham, Isaak and

EXODUS IV.

Jacob, saying, Reviewing, I reviewed
you and what was done to you in
gypt.

17 And saying, I will bring you up
from the affliction of Egypt, to the land
of the Canaanites, and the Hittites and
the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and
the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land
flowing with milk and honey.

18 And they heard thy voice; and
thou camest, thou and the old men of
Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye said
to him, Jehovah the God of the He-
brews, met with us; and now will we
go a way of three days into the desert,
and we will sacrifice to Jehovah our
God.

19 And I knew that the king of
Egypt will not give you to go and not
with a strong hand.

20 And I sent my hand and struck
Egypt with all my wonders which I
will do in its midst: and after that he
will send you forth.

21 And I gave favor to this people m
the eyes of the Egyptians, and it shall
be when ye shall go, ye shall not go
empty.

22 And a woman asked of her neigh-
bor, and of her sojourning in her house,
vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and
clothing; and put upon your sons and
upon your daughters; and ye stripped
the Egyptians.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Moses will answer and say,
And behold, they will not believe
in me, and they will not hear to my
voice: for they will say, Jehovah was
not seen to thee.

2 And Jehovah will say to him, What
this in thy hand? and he will say, A
rod.

3 And he will say, Cast it upon the
earth. And he will cast: it upon the
earth and it will be into a serpent, and
Moses will flee from before it.

4 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand, and seize by its
tail. And he will stretch forth his
hand, and will hold fast upon’ it, and it
will be for a rod in his hand.

5 That they shall believe that Jeho-
vah was seen to thee, the God of their

EXODUS IV.

fathers, the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaak, and the God of Jacob.

6 And Jehovah will say to him yet
again, Bring now thy hand into thy
bosom. And he will bring his hand
into his bosom, and he will bring it forth,
and behold his hand leprous as snow.

7 And he will say, Turn back thy
hand into thy bosom. And he will turn
back his hand into his bosom, and he
will bring it forth from his bosom, and
behold, it turned back as his flesh.

8 And it shall be if they will not be-
lieve in thee, and will not hear to the
voice of the first sign, and they believed
the voice of the latter sign.

9 And it shall be, if they will not be-
lieve in the two signs, and will not hear
to thy voice, and take thou from the
water of the river and pour out upon the
dry; and the water which thou shalt
take from the river shall be and shall
be for blood upon the dry.

10 And Moses will say to Jehovah,
With leave my Lord, I not a man of
words, also from yesterday, also from
the third day, also from the time of thy
speaking to thy servant; for I being
heavy of mouth, and heavy of tongue.

11 And Jehovah will say to him,
Who set a mouth to man? or who set
the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or
blind? is it not I Jehovah?

12 And now go, and I will be with
thy mouth, and teach thee what thou
shalt say.

13 And he will say, With leave, my
Lord, send by the hand thou shalt send.

14 And Jehovah will be angry with
anger against Moses, and he will say,
Is not Aaron thy brother, the Levite?
I know that speaking, he will speak.
And also behold him coming forth to
thy meeting: and seeing thee and rejoic-
ing in his heart.

15 And speak to him, and put words
in his mouth: and I will be with thy
mouth, and with his mouth, and teach

| you what ye shall do.

16 And he the word for thee to the
people: and being, he shall be to thee
for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him
for God.

17 And this rod shalt thou take in thy
hand, with which thou shalt do signs.

18 And Moses will go and turn back
to Jethro his father-in-law, and will say
to him, I will go now and turn back to
my brethren which are in Egypt, and
I will see whether they are yet living.
And Jethro will say to Moses, Go in
peace.

19 And Jehovah will say to Moses
in Midian, Go, turn back to Eeypt, for
all the men died having sought thy soul.

20 And Moses will take his wife and
his sons, and will cause them to ride
upon an ass, and he will turn back to
the land 01 Egypt. And Moses will
take the rod of God in his hand.

21 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
In thy going to turn back to Egypt, see
all the wonders which I put in thy
hand: do them before Pharaoh; and I
will bind fast his heart and he shall not
send forth the people.

22, And say thou to Pharaoh, So said
Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel.

23 And saying to thee, Send forth my
son, and he shall save me: and shalt
thou refuse to send him, behold me kill-
ing thy son, thy first-born. :

24 And it shall be m the way in the
inn, and Jehovah will meet with him
and will seek to kill him.

25 And Zipporah will take a stone,
and will cut off the uncircumcision of
her son, and will come to his feet, and
will say, For a spouse of bloods, thou
to me.

26 And he will desist from him: then
she said, A husband of bloods, for the
circumcision.

27 And Jehovah will say to Aaron,
Go to the meeting of Moses, to the des-
ert. And he will go, and will meet
with him in the mount of God, and
will kiss him.

28 And Moses will announce 0
Aaron all the words of Jehovah who
sent him, and all the signs which he
commanded him.

29 And Moses will go, and Aaron,
and they will gather together all the old
men of the sons of Israel.

80 And Aaron will speak all the
words which Jehovah spake to Moses,
and he will do the signs in the eyes of
the people.

81 And the people will believe: and

they will hear that Jehovah reviewed
the sons of Israel, and that he saw their
affliction, and they will bow down and
worship.

CHAPTER V.
ND afterwards Moses and Aaron
came, and they will say to Pha-
raoh, Thus said Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Send forth my people, and they
shall keep a festival to me in the desert.

2 And Pharaoh will say, Who is Je-
hovah, whose voice I shall hear to send
forth Israel? I knew not Jehovah, and
also I shall not send Israel forth.

3 And they will say, The God of the
Hebrews called to us; we will go now
a way of three days into the desert, and
we will sacrifice to Jehovah our God,
lest he fall upon us with death or with
the sword.

4 And the king of Egypt will say to
them, For what Moses and Aaron, will
ye let go loose the people from their
works? go ye to your burdens.

5 And Pharaoh will say, Behold, many
now are the people of the land, and ye
turned them away from their burdens.

6 And Pharaoh will command in that
day those urging on over the people,
and their scribes, saying,

7 Ye shall not gather straw to give
to the people to make bricks as yester-
day, and the third day: they shall go
and gather straw for themselves.

8 And the measure of bricks which
they made yesterday and the third day,
ye shall put upon them; ye shall not
take away from it, for they are slack ;
for this they cried, saying, We will go
to sacrifice to our God.

9 The work shall be heavy upon the
men, and they shall work in it, and they
shall not look upon empty words.

10 And the urgers on of the people
will go forth, and the scribes, and they
will speak to the people, saying, Thus
said Pharaoh, I gave you not straw.

11 Go ye, take straw for yourselves,
from where ye shall find it; for not a
word shall be taken away from your
works. .

12 And the people will be dispersed
m all the land of Kgypt to gather stub-
ble for straw,

EXODUS V., VL

13 And the urgers on will hasten
them, saying, Complete your work;
the word of a day, in its day, as in there
being straw.

14 And the scribes of the sons of Is-
rael will be beaten, which Pharaoh’s
urgers on set over them, saying, Where-
fore did ye not complete your allow-
ance of brick as yesterday and the third
day, also 8 also this day ?

15 And the scribes of the sons of Is-
rael will come in, and will ery to Pha-
raoh, saying, For what wilt thou do
thus to thy servants?

16 Straw was not given to thy ser-
vants, and they said to us, Make bricks:
and behold, thy servants were beaten;
and the sin, thy people.

17 And he will say, Ye are idle, ye
are idle: for this ye said, We will go to
sacrifice to Jehovah.

18 And now go, work; and straw
shall not be given to you, and ye shall
give the measure of bricks.

19 And the scribes of the sons of
Israel will see themselves in evil, for
saying, Ye shall not take away from the
bricks the word of a day in its day.

20 And they will light upon Moses
and Aaron, going forth to their meeting
in their coming out from Pharaoh.

21 And they will say to them, Jeho-
vah will look upon you and will judge,
because ye made our odor hateful in the
eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his
servants, to give a sword into their
hand to 1111 us.

22 And Moses will turn back to Jcho-
vah, and he will say, My Lord, why
didst thou evil to this people? where-
fore for this didst thou send me?

23 And from the time I came to Pha-
raoh to speak in thy name, he did evil
to this people: and delivering, thou
didst not deliver thy people.

CHAPTER VI
\ ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Now thou shalt see what I will
do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand
will he send them forth, and with a
strong hand will he drive them out of
his land.
2 And God will speak to Moses, and
will say to him, I am Jehovah.

EXODUS VI.

8 And I shall be seen to Abraham,
to Isaak, and to Jacob, by God ΑἹ-
mighty; and my name Jehovah I was
not known to them.

4 And also have I set my covenant
with them to give to them the land of
Canaan, the land of their sojournings,
which they sojourned upon it

5 And also I heard the groaning of
the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians
have made to serve: and I will remem-
ber my covenant.

6 For this say thou to the sons of Is-
rael, [am Jehovah, and I brought you
forth from under the burdens of the
Egyptians, and I delivered you from
their work, and I redeemed you with an
arm stretched out and with great judg-
ments.

7 And I took you to me for a people,
and I was to you for God: and ye
knew that I was Jehovah your God,
having brought you forth -from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.
> 8 And I brought you to a land which
1 lifted up my hand to give it to Abra-
ham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, and I gave
it to you a possession: I am Jehovah.

9 And Moses spake thus to the sons
of Israel: and they heard not to Moses
for shortness of spirit, and from hard
work.

10 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

11 Go, speak to Pharaoh king of
Hegypt, and he shall send forth the sons
of Israel out of Egypt.

12 And Moses will speak before Je-
hovah, saying, Behold, the sons of Israel
heard not to me; and how shall Phara-
oh hear me, and I of uncircumcised lips ἢ

13 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron and will command them
to the sons of Israel, and to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring forth the sons
of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

14 These the heads of the house of
their father: the-sons of Reuben the
first-born of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu,
Hezron and Carmi: these the tribes of
Reuben.

15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel
and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and
Zohar and Saul, the son of a Canaan-
itess ; these the tribes of Simeon.

16 And these the names of the sons
of Levi, according to their generation ;
Gershon, and Kohath and Merari.
And the years of the life of Levi, seven
and thirty and a hundred years.

17 And the sons of Gershon, Libni
and Shimi, according to their tribes.

18 And the sons 01 Kohath; Amram
and Izhar and Hebron, and Uzziel: and
the years of the life of Kohath, three and
thirty and a hundred years.

19 And the sons of Merari: Mahali
and Mushi: these the tribes of Levi ac-
cording to their generations.

20 And Amram will take Jochebed
his father’s sister, to him for a wife; and
she will bare to him Aaron and Moses,
And the years of the hfe of Amram,
seven and thirty and a hundred years,

21 And the sons of Izhar; Korah
and Nepheg and Zithri.

22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael
and Elzaphan, Zithri.

23 And Aaron will take Elisheba,
daughter of Amminadab, ‘sister of Na-
ashon, to him for a wife; and she will
bare to him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar
and Fthamar.

24 And the sons of Korah; Asir and
Elkanah and Abiasaph ; these the tribes
of Korhites.

25 And Eleazar the son of Aaron,
took to him from the daughters of Pu-
tiel, for a wife; and she will bare to him
Phinehas: these the heads of the fathers
of the Levites according to their
tribes.

26 This Aaron and Moses, whom Je-
hovah said to them, Bring forth the sons
of Israel out of the land of Hgypt with
their army.

27 They having spoken to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, to bring forth the sons
of Israel out of Egypt; this Moses and
Aaron.

28 And it will be in the day Jeho-
vah spake to Moses in the land of
Egypt.

29 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying, lam Jehovah; speak to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, all which I say to
thee.

80 And Moses will say before Jeho-
vah, Behold, I of uncircumcised lips;
and how shall Pharaoh hear to me?

CHAPTER VIL.
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
See, I gave thee a God to Pha-
raoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be
thy prophet.

2 'Thou shalt speak all that I shall
command thee; and Aaron thy brother
shall speak to Pharaoh, and he sent
forth the sons of Israel out of his
land.

3 And 1 will harden Pharaoh’s heart,
and I multiplied my signs and my won-
ders in the land of Egypt.

4 And Pharaoh will not hear to you;
and I gave my hand upon 1906 and
I brought forth my army, my people
the sons of Israel, out of Egypt, with
great judgments.

5 And the Egyptians shall know
that I am Jehovah, in my stretching
out my hand over Egypt, and my bring-
ing forth the sons of Israel from the
midst of them.

6 And Moses will do, and Aaron, as
Jehovah commanded them, so did they.

7 And Moses the son of eighty years,
and Aaron the son of three and eighty
years, in their speaking to Pharaoh.

8 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying,

9 When Pharaoh shall speak to you,
saying, Give ye a wonder for you; and
say to Aaron, Take thy rod and cast
down before Pharaoh, it shall be into a
dragon.

10 And Moses will go, and Aaron,
to Pharaoh, and they will do thus
as Jehovah commanded: and Aaron
will cast down his rod before Pharaoh,
and before his servants, and it will be
into a dragon.

11 And Pharaoh also will call to the
wise men and to the magicians; and the
sacred scribes.of Egypt, they also will
do so with their enchantments.

12 And they will cast down each their
rod, and they will 06 for dragons: and
Aaron's rod swallowed their rods.

13 And Pharaoch’s heart will be
strenethened, and he will not hear to
them; as Jehovah said.

14 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Pharaoh’s heart was heavy; he refused
to send forth the people.

165-690 to Pharaoh in the morning;

EXODUS VIL

behold, he will go forth to the water,
and standing to meet him at the lip of
the river: and the rod which was
turned into a serpent thou shalt take in
thy hand.

16 And say to him, Jehovah, the God
of the Hebrews, sent me to thee, saying,
Send forth my people, and they shall
serve me in the desert: and behold,
thou didst not hear until now.

17 Thus said Jehovah, In this thou
shalt know that 1 מזה‎ Jehovah: Behold
me smiting with the rod which is in my
hand upon the waters that in the river,
and they were turned into blood.

18 And the fish which is in the river
shall die, and the river be loathsome:
and the Egyptians labored in vain to
drink the water from the river.

19 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
Say to Aaron, Take thy rod and stretch
out thy hand over the waters of Egypt,
upon their rivers, upon their canals, and
upon their pools, and upon all the col-
lections of their waters, and they shall
be blood: and blood was in all the land
of Egypt, and in wood, and in stones.

20 And Moses and Aaron will do so
as Jehovah commanded; and he will
lift up the rod and will smite the water
which is in the river, in the eyes of
Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants ;
and all the waters which are in the
river shall be turned to blood.

21 And the fish which was in the
river died; and the river will be loath-
some; and the Egyptians will not be
able to drink the water from the river:
and the blood will be upon all the land
of Keypt.

22 And the sacred scribes of Egypt
will do so with their enchantments : and
Pharaoh’s heart will be strong, and he
heard not to them as Jehovah spake.

23 And Pharaoh will turn and will
go to his house, and he did not set his
heart also to this.

24 And all the Egyptians will dig
round about the river for water to
drink ; for they will not be able to drink
from the water of the river.

25 And seven days will be filled up
after Jehovah struck the river.

26 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Go to Pharaoh and say to him, So said

EXODUS VIII

Jehovah, Send forth my people, and
they shall serve me.

27 And if thou refusest to send forth,
behold, I smite all thy bounds with
frogs ;

28 And the river abounded with frogs,
and they went up and came into thy
house, and into the chamber of thy bed,
and upon thy bed, and into the house
of thy servants, and upon thy people,
and into thine ovens, and into thy
kneading troughs:

29 And upon thee, and upon thy peo-
ple, and upon all thy servants shall the
frogs go up.

CHAPTER VIII.
Λ ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy
hand with thy rod upon the rivers, and
upon the canals, and upon the pools,
and bring up frogs upon the land of
Egypt.

2 And Aaron will stretch forth his
hand upon the waters of Egypt; and
the frog will come up and will cover
the land of Heypt. /

3 And the sacred scribes will do so
with their charms; and they will bring
up frogs upon the land of Keypt.

4 And Pharaoh will call to Moses and
to Aaron, and will say, Pray to Jeho-
vah, and he will remove the frogs from
me and from my people: and I will
send forth the people and they shall sac-
rifice to Jehovah. -

5 And Moses will say to Pharaoh, Be
honored over me: at what time shall I
pray for thee and for thy servants and
for thy people, to cut off the frogs from
thee and from thy houses, only in the
river shall they remain? |

6 And he will say, To-morrow. And
he will say, According to thy word:
for thou shalt know, that there is not
as Jehovah our God.

7 And the frogs shall turn away from
thee and from thy houses and from thy
servants and from thy people; only in
the river shall they remain.

8 And Moses will go forth and Aaron
from Pharaoh; and Moses will ery to
Jehovah, for the word of the frogs which
he set against Pharaoh.

9 And Jehovah will do according to

the word of Moses, and the frogs will
die out of the houses, out of the villages
and out of the fields.

10 And they will gather them togeth-
er, heaps, heaps: and the land will be
loathsome.

11 And Pharaoh will see that there
was enlargement, and he made his heart
heavy, and he heard not to them; as
Jehovah spake.

12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod and
smite the dust of the-earth, and it shall
be for gnats upon all the land of Keypt.

13 And they will do so; and Aaron
will stretch forth his hand with his rod,
and will smite the dust of the earth, and
it will be gnats upon man and in quad-
rupeds: all the dust of the earth was
gnats upon all the land of Egypt.

14 And the sacred scribes will do so
with their enchantments to bring forth
gnats, and they will not be able: and
there will be gnats upon man and upon
quadrupeds.

15 And the sacred scribes will say to
Pharaoh, This the finger of God: and
Pharaoh’s heart will be strengthened,
and he heard not to them: as Jehovah
said.

16 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Rise early in the morning, and thou
shalt stand before Pharaoh (behold he
will go forth to the water); and say to
him, Thus said Jehovah, Send forth my
people, and they shall serve me.

17 For if thou sendest not my people
forth, behold me sending upon thee and
upon thy servants, and upon thy people
and upon thy houses, the gad-fly: and
the houses of the Hgyptians shall be
filled with the gad-fly, and also the land
which they are upon it.

18 And 1 separated in that day the
land of Goshen, which my people stood
upon it, for no gad-fly to be there; that
thou shalt know that I am Jehovah in
the midst of the earth.

19 And I put a redemption between
my people and between thy people ; and
in the morrow shall be this sign.

90 And Jehovah will do so; and the
gad-fly will come forth a multitude into
the house of Pharaoh and the house of
his servants, and into all the land -of

Egypt: and the land will be destroyed
from before the gad-fly.

21 And Pharaoh will 6811 to Moses,
and to Aaron, and will say, Go, 58011-
fice to your God in the land.

22 And Moses will say, It not being
right to do so; for we shall sacrifice the
abomination of the Egyptians to Jeho-
vah our God: Behold, shall we sacri-
fice the abomination of the Egyptians in
their eyes, and will they not stone us?

23 A way of three days will we go
into the desert and sacrifice to Jehovah
our God as he shall say to us.

24 And Pharaoh will say, I will send
you forth and sacrifice ye to Jehovah
your God in the desert ; only departing,
ye shall not go far away: pray for
me,

25 And Moses will say, Behold, I
will go forth from thee, and pray for
thee to Jehovah; and the gad-fly shall
depart from Pharaoh, from his servants
and from his people, to-morrow: only
Pharaoh shall not add to deceive, not
to send away the people to sacrifice to
Jchoyah.

26 And Moses will go forth from
Pharaoh, and will pray to Jehovah.

27 And Jehovah will do according
to the word of Moses; and he will re-
move the gad-fly from Pharaoh, and
from his servants, and from his people ;
not one was left over.

23 And Pharaoh will make his heart
heavy also in this time; he sent not
forth the people.

CHAPTER IX.
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Go to Pharaoh, and speak to him,
Thus said Jehovah, the God of the 116-
brews, Send forth my people and they
shall serve me.

2 For if thou refusest to send forth,
but yet thou holdest fast upon them,

8 Behold, the hand of Jehovah is
upon thy cattle which are in the field;
upon the horses, wpon the asses, upon
the camels, upon the oxen and upon
the sheep: death exceedingly heavy.

4 And Jehovah separated between
the cattle of Israel and between the cat-
tle of Ngypt: and nothing shall die
from all the sons of Israel, spoken of.

EXODUS IX.

5 And Jehovah will set an appoint-
ment, saying, To-morrow Jehovah will
do this word in the land.

6 And Jehovah will do this word in
the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt
will die: and from the cattle of the sons
of Israel, not one died.

7 And Pharaoh will send, and be-
hold, from the 681116 of Israel, there
died not even one. And the heart of
Pharaoh will be heavy, and he sent not
forth the people.

8 And Jehovah will say to Moses
and to Aaron, Take to you your two
fists full of ashes of the furnace; and
Moses sprinkled it towards the heavens
in the eyes of Pharaoh.

9 And it was for dust upon all the
land of Egypt, and it was upon man,
and upon quadruped for a burning sore
breaking forth with pustules over all
the land of Egypt.

10 And they will take ashes of the
furnace and will stand before Pharaoh ;
and Moses will sprinkle it towards the
heavens; and it will be a burning sore,
breaking forth with pustules upon man
and upon quadruped.

11 And the sacred scribes will not be
able to stand before Moses on account
of the burning sore: for the burning
sore was upon the sacred scribes, and
in all Heypt.

12 And Jehovah will bind fast the
heart of Pharaoh, and he heard not to
them: as Jehovah spake to Moses.

13 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Rise early in the morning, and stand
before Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus
said Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews,
Send forth my people, and they shall
serve me.

14 For in this time I send all my
plagues into thy heart, and upon thy
servants, and upon thy people: so that
thou shalt know that there is not as I
in all the earthi

15 For now 1 sent forth my hand,
and surely I will smite thee and th
people with death; and thou shalt be
destroyed from the earth.

16 And yet for this I raised thee up
in order to cause thee to see my strength ;
and for the sake of declaring my name
in all the earth.

EXODUS X. .

17 As yet lifting up thyself against
my people not to send them forth ?

18 Behold, I rain at this time to-mor-
row, hail exceedingly heavy, which was
not as thisin Eeypt from the day it was
founded even till now.

19 And now send forth to secure thy
cattle, and all which is to thee in the
field: every man and quadruped which
shall be found in the field, and shall
not be gathered together to the house,
and the hail shall come down upon
them, and they shall die.

20 He fearing the word of Jehovah
from the servants of Pharaoh, caused
his servants to flee, and his cattle to the
houses.

21 And he who set not his heart to
the word of Jehovah, will leave his ser-
vants and his cattle im the field.

22 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand toward the
heavens, and there. shall be hail upon
all the land of Egypt, upon man and
upon quadruped, and upon the green
herb of the field in the land of Egypt.

23 And Moses will stretch forth his
rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah
gave voices, and hail; and fire will go
upon the earth: and Jehovah will rain
hail upon the land of Eeypt.

24 And there will be hail and fire
taking hold in the midst of the hail, ex-
ceedingly heavy, which was not as this
upon all the land of Egypt from the
time it was for a nation.

25 And the hail will strike in all the
land of Egypt, all which is in the field,
from man, and even to quadruped, and
every green herb of the field; the hail
smote and broke in pieces every tree of
the field.

26 Only in the land of Goshen, there
were the sons of Israel, was no hail.

27 And Pharaoh will send and call
for Moses and for Aaron, and will say
to them, I sinned this time: Jehovah is
just, and I and my people unjust.

28 Pray ye to Jehovah and much,
from there being voices of God and hail ;
and I will send you forth, and ye shall
not add to stand.

29 And Moses will say to him, When
Ihave gone forth from the city, I will
spread forth my hands to Jehovah; the

voices shall cease, and the hail shall be
no more; for thou shalt know that to
Jehovah is the earth.

80 And thou and thy servants, I
knew that ye will not yet fear from be-
fore Jehovah God.

31 And the flax and the barley were
struck: for the barley was ripe, and the
flax high.

82 And the wheat and spelt were not
struck, for they were late.

83 And Moses will go forth from Pha-
raoh out of the city, and he will spread
forth his hands to Jehovah, and the
voices will cease; and the hail and the
rain was not poured upon the earth.

34 And Pharaoh will see that the rain
ceased, and the hail and the voices; and
he will add to sin, and he will make his
heart heavy, he and his servants.

85 And Pharaoh’s heart will be bound
fast, and he sent not forth the sons of
Israel; as Jehovah spake by the hand
of Moses.

CHAPTER .א‎
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Go to Pharaoh: for I made his
heart heavy, and the heart of his ser-
vants; for sake of my setting these my
signs within him.

2 And that thou shalt recount in the
ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son,
what I performed in Egypt, and my
signs which I set up among them; and
ye knew that I am Jehovah.

3 And Moses will come, and Aaron,
to Pharaoh, and they will say to him,
Thus said Jehovah the God of the He-
brews, Until long didst thou refuse to
humble thyself from before me. Send
forth my people and they shall serve
me.

4 For if thou refusest to send forth
my people, behold me bringing to-mor-
row the locust into thy bounds.

5 And it covered the eye of the earth,
and he shall not be able to see the earth:
and it shall eat the remainder of that
escaping, being left to you from the hail ;
and it shall eat every tree springing up
to you out of the field.

6 And they filled thy houses and all
the houses of thy servants, and the
houses of all Egypt; which thy fathers

saw not, and thy fathers’ fathers, from
the day they were upon the earth, even
till this day. And he will turn away
and go forth from Pharaoh.

7 And Pharaoh’s servants will say to
him, How long will this be to us fora
snare? Send forth the men, and they
shall serve Jehovah their God, before
thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed.

8 And he will turn back Moses and
Aaron to Pharaoh, and he will say to
them, Go, serve Jehovah your God:
who and who are they going.

9 And Moses will say, With our
youths and with our old men will we
go; with our sons and with our daugh-
ters, with our sheep and with our oxen
will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is
to us.

10 And he will say to them, So will
Jehovah be with you, as I will send you
forth, and your 1116 ones: see ye, for
evil is manifest before you.

11 Not so: go now, ye men, and serve
Jehovah; for this ye yourselves were
seeking. And he will drive them out
from before Pharaoh.

12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand upon the land
of Egypt, with the locust, and it will
come up upon the land of Egypt; and
it shall eat every green herb of the land,
all which the hail left.

13 And Moses will stretch forth his
rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jeho-
vah drove an east wind upon the earth,
all that day and all the night: it was
morning, and the east wind raised up
the locust.

14 And the locust will come up upon
all the land of Kgypt, and it willrestin all
the bounds of Egypt exceeding many:
before it was there no locust thus like
it, and after it, it shall not be thus.

15 And it will cover the eye of all the
earth, and the land will be dark; and it
will eat every green herb of the land,
and all the fruit of the tree which the
hail left: and not a green thing was left
in the tree, and in the green herb of the
field, in all the land of Egypt.

16 And Pharaoh will hasten to call
for Moses and for Aaron; and he will
say, I sinned against Jehovah your God,
and against you.

» EXODUS ΧΙ.

17 And at this time take away now
my sin, only this time, and pray ye to
Jehovah your God, and he will remove
from me only this death.

18 And he will go forth from Phara-
oh, and will pray to Jehovah.

19 And Jehovah will turn a wind of
the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will
take away the locust and will drive it
into the sea of sedge: not one locust
remained in all the bounds of Egypt.

20 And Jehovah will bind fast the
heart of Pharaoh, and he sent not forth
the sons of Israel.

21 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand towards the
heavens, and darkness shall be upon
the land of Egypt, and the darkness
shall be felt.

22 And Moses will stretch forth his
hand toward the heavens, and there
shall be thick darkness in all the land
of Egypt three days.

23 They saw not a man his brother,
and they rose not up each from his lower
part, three days: and to all the sons of
Israel there was light in their dwellings.

24 And Pharaoh will 6911 to Moses,
and will say, Go ye, serve Jehovah:
only your sheep and your oxen shall be
left; also your little ones shall go with

ou.

25 And Moses will say, Thou also
shalt give imto our hand sacrifices and
burnt-offerings, and we sacrificed to Je-
hovah our God.

26 And also our cattle shall go with
us; a hoof shall not be left; for from us
we shall take to serve Jehovah our God ;
and we shall not know what we shall
serve Jehovah till we come there.

27 And Jehovah will bind fast the
heart of Pharaoh, and he not being
willing to send them forth.

28 And Pharaoh will say to him, Go
from me, watch to thyself; thou shalt
not add to see my face, for in the day of
thy seeing my face thou shalt die.

29 And Moses will say, Thou spakest
well: I will no more add to see thy face.

CHAPTER XI.
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Yet one blow will I bring upon
Pharaoh and upon Egypt; after this he

EXODUS 1.

will send you forth from here; when
his sending forth to go, driving, he will
drive you out from here.

2 Speak now in the ears of the peo-
ple; they shall ask each from his friend,
and a woman from her friend, vessels of
silver and vessels of gold.

8 And Jehovah will give favor to the
people in the eyes of the Egyptians:
also the man Moses was exceedingly
great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes
of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the eyes
of the people.

4 And Moses will say, Thus said Je-
hovah, About the middle of the night
I will go forth into the midst of Egypt.

5 And every first-born in the land of
Egypt shall die, from the first-born of
Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, even
to the first-born of the maid which is
behind the two mill-stones; and every
first-born of quadruped.

6 And a great cry was in all the land
of Egypt, such as was not, and such
shall not be added.

7 And against all the sons of Israel,
a dog shall not sharpen his tongue, from
man and eyen to cattle: so that ye shall
Imow that Jehovah will separate be-
tween Keypt and between Israel.

8 And all these thy servants shall
come down to me, and worship to me,
saying, Go forth, thou, and all the peo-
ple which are at thy feet: and after this
Twill go forth. And he will go forth
from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

9 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Pharaoh will not hear to you; so that
my wonders be multiplied in the land
of Egypt.

10 And Moses and Aaron did all
these signs before Pharaoh; and Jeho-
vah will bind fast Pharaoh’s heart, and
he sent not forth the sons of Israel from
his land.

CHAPTER XIL
ND Jehovah will say to Moses
and to Aaron in the land of
HKegypt, saying,

2 This month is to you the beginning
of months: this to you the first month
of the year. -

3 Speak ye to all the assembly of
Israel, saying, In the tenth of this

month and they shall take to them each
a sheep, according to the house of the
fathers; a sheep for a house. :

4 And if the house shall be little from
being for a sheep, and he taking, and
his neighbor drawing nigh his house ac-
cording to the number of souls; ‘each
according to the mouth of his eating
shall ye reckon for the sheep.

5 A perfect sheep, a male, the son of
a year, shall be to you from the he-
lambs and from the goats ye shall take.

6 And it shall be to you for a preser-
vation till the fourteenth day of this
month; and they shall slaughter it, all
the convocation of the assembly of Is-
rael, between the two evenings.

.7 And they took from the blood and
gave upon the two door-posts, and upon
the lintel within the houses which they
shall eat it in them. .

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that
night roasted with fire and unleavened ;
upon bitter herbs shall they eat it.

9 Ye shall not eat from it raw and
boiled from boiling with water, but
roasted with fire, its head with its legs
with its inner part.

10 Ye shall not leave from it till
morning: and that remaining from it
till morning, ye shall burn with fire.

11 And so shall ye eat it, your lois
girded, your shoes on your feet and
your staff in your hand: and ye ate it
in hasty flight; a passing over to Jeho-
vah.

12 And I passed over in the land of
Egypt in this night, and I struck every
first-born in the land of Egypt from man
even to quadruped: and against all the
gods of Egypt I will do judgments: I
Jehovah.

13 And the blood was to you for a
sign upon the houses where you are
there: and I saw the blood and I passed
over you, and the blow shall not be
upon you to destroy, in my striking
upon the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be to you for
a remembrance; and ye kept it a festi-
val to Jehovah for your generations:
ye shall keep a festival a law forever.

15 Seven days ye shall eat unleaven-
ed; wholly im the first day shall ye turn
away leaven in your houses; for all eat-

ing leavened and that soul was destroy-
ed from Israel from the first day even
to the seventh day.

16 And in the first day a calling of
holiness, and in the seventh day a call-
ing of holiness shall be to you; every
service shall not be done in them only
what shall be eaten by every soul; this
only shall be done by you.

17 And ye watched the unleavened ;
for in this self-same day I brought forth
your armies out of the land of Kgypt:
and watch ye this day for your genera-
tions a law forever.

18 In the first, in the fourteenth day
of the month, in the evening, ye shall
eat unleavened till the one and twen-
tieth day of the month in the evening.

19 Seven days leaven shall not be
found in your houses; for all eating
from the leavened, that soul shall be
destroyed from the assembly of Israel,
for the sojourner or for the native of
the land.

20 All leavened ye shall not eat: in
all your dwellings ye shall eat unleay-
ened,

21 And Moses will eall for all the old
men of Israel, and he will say to them,
Draw out and take to yourselves a
sheep according to your tribes, and
slaughter the passing over.

22 And take ye a bundle of hyssop,
and dip in the blood that is upon the
threshhold, and touch upon the lintel,
and upon the two door-posts from the
blood which is upon the threshhold:
and ye shall not come forth each from
the door of his house till morning.

23 And Jehovah passed over to strike
the Egyptians; and he saw the blood
upon the lintel, and upon the two door-
posts, and Jehovah passed by the door
and will not give him destroying to
come in to your houses to strike.

24 And wateh ye this word for a law
to thee and to thy sons forever.

25 And it shall be when ye shall
come to the land which Jehovah will
give to you, as he spake, watch ye this
service.

26 And it shall be when your sons
shall say to you, What this service to

ou?

27 And they said, This the sacrifice

EXODUS XII

of the passing over to Jehovah, who
passed over the houses of the sons of
Israel in Egypt in his striking the Egyp-
tians, and he delivered our houses.
And the people will bow down and
will worship.

28 And the sons of Israel will go,
and will do as Jehovah commanded
Moses and Aaron ; thus did they.

29 And it will be in the middle of the
night, and Jehovah struck every first-
born in the land of Egypt, from the
first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his
throne, to the first-born of the captive
which is in the house of the pit; and
every first-born of the cattle.

30 And Pharaoh will rise up in the
night, he and all his servants, and all
the Egyptians; and there will be a
great ery in Egypt: for not a house
where there was not the dead there.

31 And he will call for Moses and
for Aaron by night, and he will say,
Arise, go forth from the midst of my
people, also ye, also the sons of Israel ;
and go, serve Jehovah as ye spake.

32 Also your sheep, also your oxen
take as ye spake, and go and bless also
me.

83 And Egypt will be strong upon
the people to hasten to send them forth
out of the land; for they said, We are
all dying.

34 And the people will take up their
dough before it will be leavened, their
kneading-bowls bound in their gar-
ments upon their shoulders.

35 And the sons of Israel did as Mo-
ses spake: and they will ask of the
Egyptians, silver vessels and gold ves-
sels, and garments.

86 And Jehovah gave favor to the
people in the eyes of the Egyptians,
and they will lend them; and they
will strip the Egyptians.

37 And the sons of Israel will remove
from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand footmen ; men apart
from the little ones.

38 And also a great mixture went up
with them; and sheep and oxen, very
much cattle.

39 And they will cook the dough
which they brought out of Egypt un-
leavened cakes, for it was not leavened ;

EXODUS XIIL

for they were driven out of Egypt, for
they could not linger, and also they
made not for themselves food.

40 And the dwelling of the sons
of Israel which they dwelt in Egypt,
was thirty years and four hundred
years.

41 And it will be from the end of
thirty years and four hundred years, in
this self-same day all the armies of Je-
hovah will go forth out of the land of
Keypt.

42 This a night of watchings to Je-
hovah, for bringing them forth out of
the land of Egypt: it is this night to
Jehovah of watching to all the sons of
Israel for their generations.

43 And Jehovah will say to Moses
and Aaron, This the law of the passing
over: every son of a stranger shall not
eat of it.

44 And every servant of a man
bought with silver, and thou hast cir-
cumcised him, then he shall eat of it.

45 The sojourner and the hireling
shall not eat of it.

46 In one house shall it be eaten;
thou shalt not bring forth out of the
house from the flesh without, and ye
shall not break a bone of it.

47 All the assembly of Israel shall
do it.

48 And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee, and do the passing over to
Jehovah, all the males to him being
circumcised, and then he shall draw
near to do it; and he was as a native
of the land: and every one uncircum-
cised shall not eat of it.

49 One law shall be to the native and
to the stranger sojourning in the midst
of you.

50 And all the sons of Israel will do
as Jehovah commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.

51 And it will be in this self-same
day, Jehovah brought forth the sons of
Israel out of the land of Egypt with
their armies.

CHAPTER XIII.
Λ ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,
2 Consecrate to me every first-born
bursting open every womb among the

sons of Israel, of man and of cattle: it
is to me.

8 And Moses will say to the people,
Remember this day which ye came forth
out of Kgypt, out of the house of ser-
vants; for by strength of hand Jehovah
brought you forth from here: and leay-
ened shall not be eaten.

4 The day ye came forth in the
month of Abib.

5 And it was when Jehovah shall
bring thee forth to the land of the Ca-
naanites and the Hittites, and the Am-
orites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
which he sware to thy fathers to give
to thee, a land flowing with milk and
honey ; and do thou this service in this
month.

6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleav-
ened, and in the seventh day a festival
to Jehovah.

7 Unleavened shall be eaten seven
days: and leavened shall not be seen
to thee in all thy bounds.

8 And announce to thy son in this
day, saying, For this Jehovah did to
me in my coming out of Eeypt.

9 And it was to thee for a sign upon
thy hand, and for a memorial between
thine eyes; so that the law of Jehovah
shall be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand Jehovah brought thee forth out of
Kgypt.

10 And watch this law according to
its appointment from days to days.

11 And it was when Jehovah shall
bring thee to the land of the Canaanites,
as he sware to thee and to thy fathers,
and he gave it to thee.

12 And thou madest pass over all
bursting open the womb, to Jehovah ;
and every one bursting forth young of
the quadruped which shall be to thee;
the males are to Jehovah.

13 And every first-born of the ass,
thou shalt redeem with a sheep; and
if thou shalt not redeem, thou shalt
break his neck: and every first-born of
man among thy sons thou shalt redeem.

14 And it was when thy son shall ask
thee to-morrow, saying, What this?
and thou saidst to him, With strength
of hand Jehovah brought us forth out
of Egypt from the house of servants.

15 And it shall be when Pharaoh was

hard to send us forth, and Jehovah will
kill every first-born in the land of Egypt,
from the first-born of man to the first-
born of cattle; for this I sacrifice to Je-
hovah all bursting forth the womb, the
males; and all the first-born of my sons
I will redeem.

16 And it was for a sign upon thy
hand, and for bands between thine eyes :
for with a strong hand Jehovah brought
us forth from Heypt.

17 And it shall be m Pharaoh’s send-
ing forth the people, and God directed
not the way of the land of the Philis-
tines, for it is near; for God said, Lest
the people shall grieve in their seeing
war, and they turn back to Egypt.

18 And God will turn the people
about the way of the desert, the sea of
sedge: and the sons of Israel went up
active out of the land of Egypt.

19 And Moses will take the bones of
Joseph with him: for swearing he caus-
ed the sons of Israel to swear, saying,
For reviewing, God will review you;
and carry wp my bones with you from
here.

20 And they will remove from Suc-
coth, and they will encamp in Etham,
in the extremity of the desert.

21 And Jehovah went before them
the day in a pillar of cloud, to direct
them the way ; and the night in a pillar
of fire to give light to them; to go the
day and the night.

22 And the pillar of cloud will not
give way, the day, and the pillar of fire,
the night, before the people.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and
they shall turn back and shall encamp
‘before the mouth of Hahiroth, between
Migdol and between the sea, before Baal-
Zephon: before them shall ye encamp
by the sea.

3 And Pharaoh will say concerning
the sons of Israel, They are wandering
in perplexity in the land; the desert
closed upon them.

4 And I bound fast Pharaoh’s heart,
and he pursued after them; and I will
be honored in Pharaoh and all his army ;

EXODUS XIV.

and the Egyptians shall know that Iam
Jehovah. And they will do so.

5 And it was announced to the king
of Keypt that the people fled: and the
heart of Pharaoh will be turned, and
his servants, against the people, and
they will say, What this we did, that
we sent forth Israel from serving us?

6 And he will harness his chariot,
and he took his people with him.

7 And he will take six hundred cho-
sen chariots, and all the horsemen of
Egypt, and rulers over them all.

8 And Jehovah will bind fast the
heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and
he will pursue after the sons of Israel:
and the sons of Israel went forth with a
high hand.

9 And the Egyptians will pursue af-
ter them, and they will enclose them,
having encamped by the sea; all the
horse, the chariots of Pharaoh, and his
horsemen and his army, by the mouth
of Hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

10 And Pharaoh drew near, and the
sons of Israel will lift up their eyes, and
behold, Egypt encamped behind them ;
and they will be exceedingly afraid:
and the sons of Israel will ery to Jeho-
vah.

11 And they will say to Moses, Be-
cause no tombs are in Egypt, didst thou
take us to die in the desert? what this
thou didst to us to bring us forth out
of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word which we
spake to thee in Egypt, saying, De-
sist from us, and we will serve the
Egyptians? For it is good to us to
serve Egypt rather than that we died in
the desert.

13 And Moses will say to the people,
Ye shall not fear; stand ye and see the
deliverance of Jehovah, which he will
do to you this day: for the Egyptians
whom ye saw this day, ye shall not add
to see them more forever.

14 Jehovah will wage war for you
and ye shall be silent.

15 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Why wilt thou ery to me? speak to
the sons of Israel and they shall remove.

16 And thou, lift up thy rod, and
stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and
break it up: and the sons of Israel

EXODUS XV.

shall go in the midst of the sea on dry
land.

17 And I, behold me binding fast
the heart of the Egyptians, and they
shall go after them: and I will be hon-
ored in Pharaoh, and upon all his army,
and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians shall know
that I am Jehovah in the getting me
honor in Pharaoh, in his chariots and
in his horsemen.

19 And the messenger of God going
before the camp of Israel will remove,
and will go from behind them ; and the
pillar of the cloud will remove from be-
fore them, and will stand from behind
them,

20 And it will come between the
camp 01 EKeypt and between the camp
of Israel; and it will be the cloud, and
the darkness, and it will make the night
light: and this drew not near to this
all the night.

21 And Moses will stretch forth his
hand over the sea, and Jehovah will
cause the sea to go by a strong east
wind all the night; and he will set the
sea for dry land, and the waters will be
rent.

22 And the sons of Israel will go in
the midst of the sea on dry land; and
the waters to them a wall from their
right hand and from their left.

23 And the Egyptians will pursue
and will go after them, all the horse of
Pharaoh and his chariots and his horse-
men to the midst of the sea.

24 And it will be in the watch of the
morning, Jehovah will look forth to the
camp of Egypt in the pillar of fire and
the cloud, and he will disturb the camp
of Egypt.

25 ‘And he will remove the wheel of
their chariots, and they will drive in
heaviness; and Egypt will say, I will
flee from ‘the face of Israel; for Jeho-
vah waged war for them against Egypt.

26 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Stretch forth thy hand over the sea,
and the waters shall turn back upon
Egypt, upon its chariots and upon its

. horsemen.

27 And Moses will stretch forth his
hand over the sea, and the sea will turn
back before the morning to its perpetu-

ity. And the Egyptians fled at meet-
ing it, and Jehovah will shake off Egypt
in the midst of the sea.

28 And the waters will turn back,
and will cover the chariots and the
horsemen, to all Pharaoh’s army com-
ing after them into the sea: and there
was not left among them even one.

29 And the sons of Israel came upon
dry land in the midst of the sea; and
the waters were to them a wall from
the right hand and from the left.

80 And Jehovah will save Israel in
that day, from the hand 01 Egypt: and
Israel will see the Egyptians dead upon
the lip of the sea.

81 And Israel will see the great hand
which Jehovah did upon Egypt; and
the people will fear Jehovah, and they
will believe in Jehovah, and in Moses
his servant.

CHAPTER XV.
HEN will Moses sing, and the sons
of Israel, this song to Jehoy ah ;
and they will speak, saying, I will smg
to Jehovah, for exalting himself, he was
exalted: the horse and his horsemen he
threw into the sea.

2 Jehovah my strength and song,
and he shall be to me for salvation:
this my God, and I will cause him to
rest; the God of my father, and I will
exalt him.

8 Jehovah, a man of war:
his name.

4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his
army he threw into the sea; his chosen
rulers sank in the sea of sedge.

5 The depths will cover them: they
will go down into the deep as a stone.

6 Thy right hand, Jehovah, was mag-
nified in strength: ‘thy right hand, Je-
hovah, will א הסינ‎ in pieces the enemy.

7 And in the multitude of thy ma-
jesty thou wilt destroy those rising up
against thee: thou wilt send forth thme
anger; it shall eat them as straw.

8 And by the spirit of thme anger
the waters shook them off, the flowings
stood up as a heap: the depths were
contracted in the heart of the sea.

9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I
will enclose, I will divide the spoil: my
soul shall be filled with them: I will

Jehovah

draw out my sword, my hand shall dis-
possess them.

10 Thou didst blow with thy spirit ;
the sea covered them: they rolled down
as lead in the great waters.

11 Who like thee among the gods,
O Jehovah? who lke thee magnified in
in holiness, wonderful in praise, domg
a wonder?

12 Thou didst stretch forth thy right
hand, the: earth will swallow them.

13 Thou didst lead in thy kindness
this people thou didst redeem: thou
didst conduct with thy strength to thy
holy dwelling.

14 The peoples heard, and they will
be angry: pain took those inhabiting
Philistia.

15 Then the chiefs of Edom trem-
bled; the mighty of Moab, trembling,
shall take thern; all those ‘dwelling i in
Canaan melted away.

16 Dread shall fall upon them and
terror: by the greatness of thine arm
they shall be dumb as a stone; till thy
people pass over, O Jehovah: "till this
people pass over, thou didst buy.

17 Thou shalt bring them in and
shalt plant them in the mountain of
thine inheritance, into the place of thy
Sabbath. thou didst make, O Jehovah:
a holy place, O Jehovah, which thy
hands prepared.

18 Jehovah shall reign forever and

et.

19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in
with his chariots and with his horse-
men, into the sea, and Jehovah will
turn back over them the water of the
sea: and the sons of Israel went on the
dry land in the midst of the sea.

20 And Miriam the prophetess, the
sister of Aaron, will take the drum in
her hand; and all the women will go
forth after her, with drums and with
lutes.

21 And Miriam will sing to them,
Sing ye to Jehovah, for being lifted up,
he was lifted up: the horse and his
horseman he threw into the sea.

22 And Moses will remove Israel
from the sea of sedge, and they will
come forth to the desert of Shur; and
they will go three days into the desert,
and they found not water.

EXODUS 1

23 And they will come to Marah, and
they will not be able to drink the wa-
ters of Marah, for they are bitter: for
this he called the name bitterness.

24 And the people will murmur
against Moses, saying, What shall we
drink ?

25 And he will ery to Jehovah, and
Jehovah will show him a tree, and he
will cast into the waters, and the waters
will become sweet: then he set to him
a law and judgment, and there he tried
him.

26 And he will say, If hearkening
thou wilt hear to the voice of Jehovah
thy God, and thou wilt do the right in
his eyes, and give ear to his commands,
and watch all his laws, every disease
which I put upon Egypt I will not put
upon thee: for I am Jehovah healing
thee.

27 And they will come to Ailam;
and twelve fountains of water there,
and seventy palm trees: and they en-
camped there by the waters.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND they will remove from Ailam,

A. and all the assembly of the sons
of Israel will come to the desert of Sin,
which is between Ailam and between
Sinai, the fifteenth day of the second
month of their coming out of the land
of Eeypt.

2 And all the assembly of the sons
of Israel will murmur against Moses
and against Aaron in the desert.

ὃ And the sons of Israel will say to
them, Who will give to die by the hand
of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our
sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eat-
ing bread to satiety? for ye brought us
forth to this desert to kill all this con-
vocation with hunger.

4 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Behold me raining for you bread from
the heavens; and the people shall go
forth and shall gather the word of a
day in its day, so that Τ shall try them,
whether they will go im my law or not.

5 And it was in the sixth day, and
they prepared what they shall bring in;
and it was double to what they will ga-
ther day by day.

6 And Moses will say, and Aaron,

EXODU

to all the sons of Israel, The evening,
and ye knew that Jehovah brought you
out of the land of Egypt:

7 And the morning, and ye saw the
glory ot Jehovah, in his hearmg your
murmurings against Jehovah: and what
are we that ye will murmur against us?

8 And Moses. will say, In Jehovah

giving you in the evening flesh to eat,
and bread in the morning to satiety ;
in Jehovah hearing your murmurings
which ye murmur ed against him: and
what are we? not against us your mur-
murings but against ; Jehovah.

9 And Moses will say to Aaron, Say
to all the assembly of the sons of Israel,
Come near before Jehovah: for he
heard your murmurings.

10 And it shall be as Aaron spake to
all the assembly of the sons of Israel,
and they will turn to the desert, and be-
hold, the glory of Jehovah was seen in
the cloud.

11 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

12 1 heard the murmurings of the
sons of Israel; speak to them, say-
ing, Between the two evenings ye shall
eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall
be filled with bread: and ye knew that
Iam Jehovah your God.

13 And it shall be in the evening, the
quail shall come up and shall cover the
camp: and in the morning the dew was
lying round about the camp.

14 And the dew lying will go up,
and behold, upon the face of the desert
a small thing being peeled off thin, as
pitch upon the earth,

15 And the sons of Israel will see,
and they will say, each to his brother,
What this? for they knew not what it
was. And Moses will say to them,
This the bread which Jehovah gave to
you to eat.

16 This the word which Jehovah
commanded, Gather ye from it, each
according to the mouth of his eating :
an omer ‘for the head from the number-
ing of your souls, ye shall take each for
those in his tent.

17 And the sons of Israel will do so,
and they will gather this much, and
this little.

18 And they will measure by the

8 XVL 77
handful, and the abundance did not ex-
ceed, and the little was not diminished:
they gathered a man according to the
mouth of his eating.

19 And Moses will say to them, No
man shall leave from it till morning.

20 And they heard not to Moses;
and the men will leave from it till
morning, and it will rot with worms,
and it will stink: and Moses will be
angry with them.

21 And they will gather it in the
morning by morning, a man according
to the mouth of his eating: and the sun
was hot and it melted.

22 And it will be in the sixth day,
they gathered double the bread, two
handfuls for one; and all the chiefs of
the assembly will come and announce
to Moses.

23 And he will say to them, This
what Jehovah spake, To-morrow the
Sabbath, a holy rest to Jehovah: what
ye will cook, cook; and what ye will
boil, boil; and all exceeding, leave for
you for preservation till the morning,

24 And they left it till morning as
Moses commanded: and it did not
stink, and no worm was in it.

25 And Moses will say, Hat this day ;
for the Sabbath this day to Jehovah:
this day ye shall not find in the field.

26 Six days ye shall gather, and in
the seventh day, the Sabbath, it shall
not be in it.

27 And it will be in the seventh day,
and they will go forth from the people
to gather, and they found not.

28 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
How long refused ye to watch my com-
mands and my law?

29 See, for Jehovah gave to you the
Sabbath ; for this he gave to you in the
sixth day, bread of two days: sit ye
each in his station; a man shall not go
forth from his place in the seventh day.

80 And the people shall rest in the
seventh day.

81 And the house of Israel will call
its name portion: as the seed of corian-
der, white, and its taste asa flat cake
with honey.

82 And Moses will say, This the
word which Jehovah commanded, Fill
the omer from it for a preservation to

your generations; so that they shall see
the bread which I gave you to eat in
the desert in my bringing you forth out
of the land of Egypt.

88 And Moses will say to Aaron,
Take one vase and give there an omer
full of manna, and deposit it before Je-
hovah for a preservation to your gene-
rations.

84 As Jehovah commanded Moses,
and Aaron will deposit it before the
testimony for preservation.

85 And the sons of Israel ate the
manna forty years till they came to a
land inhabited: they ate the portion
till they came to the extremity of the
land of Canaan.

86 And the omer the tenth of this
ephah.

CHAPTER XVII
ND all the assembly of the sons of
Israel will remove from the desert
of Sin, according to their removings by
the mouth of Jehovah; and they will
encamp in Rephidim; and no water for
the people to drink.

2 And the people contended with
Moses, and they will say, Give to us
water and we will drink. And Moses
will say to them, Why will ye contend
with me, and why will ye tempt Jeho-
vah?

3 And the peopl? will thirst there for
water; and the people will murmur
against Moses, and will say, For what
this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to
lall us and our sons and our cattle with
thirst ?

4 And Moses will cry to Jehovah,
saying, What shall I do to this people?
yet a little and they will stone me.

5 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Pass over before the people and take
with thee from the old men of Israel ;
and thy rod which thou didst strike
with it the river, take in thy hand and

Ὁ.
5 6 And behold, I stand before thee
there upon the rock in Horeb; and
strike upon the rock, and waters shall
come forth from it, and the people
drank. And Moses will do so before
the eyes of the old men of Israel.

7 And he will call the name of the

EXODUS XVIL, XVIII.

place, Temptation, and Strife, for the
contention of the sons of Israel, and be-
cause they tempted Jehovah, saying,
Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?

8 And Amalek will come and will
wage war with Israel, in Rephidim.

9 And Moses will say to Joshua,
Choose to us men, and go forth, wage
war with Amalek: to-morrow I stand
upon the head of the hill and the rod
of God in my hand.

10 And Joshua will do as Moses said
to him to wage war with Amalek: and
Moses, Aaron and Hur, went up to the
head of the hill.

11 And it was as Moses will lift up
his hand, Israel prevailed: and as he
will put down his hand and Amalek
prevailed.

12 And the hands of Moses were
heavy ; and they will take a stone and
put under him, and he will sit upon it:
and Aaron and Hur took hold upon
his hands, one from here, and one from
there; and his hands will be in firm-
ness till the sun went forth.

13 And Joshua will overthrow Ama-
lek and his people with the mouth of
the sword.

14 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Write this a remembrance in the book,
and set in the ears of Joshua: for wip-
ing off 1 will wipe off the remembrance
of Amalek from under the heavens.

15 And Moses will build an altar,
and he will call its name, Jehovah my
Standard.

16 For he will say, Because the hand
upon the throne of Jehovah, war to Je-
hovah with Amalek from generation to
generation.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND Jethro, priest of Midian, the
father-in-law of Moses, will hear
all which God did to Moses and to Is-
rael his people, for Jehovah brought
forth Israel out of Egypt:

2 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
will take Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after
her sending forth,

3 And her two sons, which the name
of the one Gershom, for he said I was a
stranger in a strange land ;

4 And the name of the one Eliezer;

כ יבור פמ תוקעמ כ אישו

EXODUS XIX.

for the God of my father for my help,
and he will take me away from the
sword of Pharaoh.

5 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
will come, and and his sons and his
wife, to Moses to the desert, where he
encamped there in the mountain of God.

6 And he will say to Moses, 1 thy
father-in-law, Jethro, came to thee, and
thy wife and her two sons with her.

7 And Moses will go forth to the
meeting of his father-in-law, and will
worship him and kiss him: and they
will ask each his friend of peace; and
they will come into the tent.

8 And Moses will recount to his fa-
ther-in-law all which Jehovah did to
Pharaoh, and to Egypt on account of Is-
rael, all the distress which found them in
the way ; and Jehovah will deliver them.

9 And Jethro will rejoice for all the
good which Jehovah did to Israel,
whom he took away out of the hand of

Egypt.

10 And Jethro will say, Praised be
Jehovah who took you away out of the
hand of Egypt, and out of the hand of
Pharaoh, who took away the people
from under the hand of Egypt.

11 Now I knew that Jehovah is great
above all gods; for in the word they
acted proudly over them.

12 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law,
will take a burnt-offering and sacrifices
to God: and Aaron will come, and all
the old men of Israel, to eat bread with
Moses’ father-in-law before God.

13 And it will be on the morrow,
and Moses will sit to judge the people:
and they will stand by Moses from the
morning to the evening.

14 And Moses’ father-in-law will see
all which he did for the people, and he
will say, What this thou doest to the
people? Wherefore wilt thou sit alone
by thyself, and all the people stand by
thee from morning to evening?

15 And Moses will say to his father-
in-law, Because the people will come to
me to seek God.

16 For when the word will be to
them, they came to me, and I judged
between a man and between his friend,
and I made known the laws of God and

his precepts.

17 And Moses’ father-in-law will say
to him, The word is not good which
thou doest.

18 Fading, thou wilt fade away, also
thou, also this people that is with thee:
for this word is heavy for thee; thou
wilt not be able to do it thyself
alone.

19 Now hear to my voice, I will ad-
vise thee, and God will be with thee:
be thou for the people towards God,
and bring thou their words to God;

20 And teach them the laws and the
precepts and make known to them the
way they shall go in it, and the work
which they shall do.

21 And thou shalt look out from all
the people men of ability, fearing God,
men of truth, men hating gain; and set
thou over them chiefs of thousands,
chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and
chiefs of ten.

22 And they judged the people in all
time: and it will be every great word
they will bring to thee, and every small
word they shall judge: and it will be
light for thee, and they shall lift up
with thee.

23 If thou shalt do this word, and
God commanded thee, and thou shalt
be able to stand, and all this people -
shall go to their place in peace.

24 And Moses will hear to the voice
of Jethro, and will do all that he said.

25 And Moses will choose men of
ability from all Israel, and he will give
them heads over the people, chiefs of
thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of
fifties, chiefs of ten.

26 And they judged the people in
all time; and the hard word they
brought to Moses, and every small
word they will judge themselves.

27 And Moses will send away his
father-in-law, and he will go for himself
to his land.

CILAPTER XIX.

N the third month, in the coming
forth of the sons of Israel out of the
land of Egypt, in that day they came

to the desert of Sinai.
2 And they will remove from Rephi-
dim, and they will come to the desert
of Sinai, and they will encamp in the

desert; and Israel will encamp there
before the mountain.

3 And Moses went up to God, and
Jehovah will call to him from the
mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say
to the house of Jacob and shalt an-
nounce to the sons of Israel :

4 Ye saw what I did to Egypt, and
Twill lift you up upon the wings of
eagles, and I will bring you to me.

5 And now if hearing, ye shall hear
to my voice, and watch my covenant,
and ye were to me wealth above all
peoples, for to me is all the earth.

6 And ye shall be to me a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation. These
the words which thou shalt speak to
the sons of Israel.

7 And Moses will go and will call to
the old men of the people, and he will
set before them all these words that
Jehovah commanded him.

8 And all the people will answer to-
gether, and will say, All which Jeho-
vah spake, we will do. And Moses
turned back the words of the people to
Jehovah.

9 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Behold me coming to thee in the dark-
ness of the cloud, so that the people
shall hear in my speaking with thee,
and also in thee shall they believe for-
ever. And Moses will announce the
words of the people to Jehovah.

10 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Go to the people and consecrate them
this day, and the morrow; and they
washed their garments,

11 And be ye prepared for the third
day, for in the third day Jehovah will
come down before the eyes of all the
people upon mount Sinai.

12 And set bounds to the people
round about, saying, Watch for your-
selves to go up into the mount, and to
touch upon its extremity: every one
touching upon the mount, dying, shall
die.

13 No hand shall touch upon it, for
being stoned, he shall be stoncd, or be-
ing shot, shall be shot; whether quad-
ruped or man, it shall not live: in pro-
tracting the shouting, they shall go up
upon the mount.

14 And Moses will come down from

EXODUS XX.

the mount to the people, and he will
consecrate the people; and they will
wash their garments.

15 And he will say to the people, Be
prepared; for three days ye shall not
come near to a woman.

16 And it shall be in the third day,
it bemg in the morning, and there shall
be voices, and hghtnings, and a heavy
cloud upon the mount, and the voice of
the trumpet exceedingly strong; and
all the people in the camp will tremble.

17 And Moses will bring forth the
people to the meeting of God out of the
camp; and they will stand in the lower
parts of the mount.

18 And mount Sinai smoked all of
it, because that Jehovah came down
upon it in fire: and its smoke will go
up as the smoke of the furnace, and all
the mountain will tremble exceedingly.

19 And the voice of the trumpet will
be going and strengthening exceedingly,
Moses will speak and God will answer
him by a voice.

20 And Jehovah will come down
upon mount Sinai to the head of the
mount: and Jehovah will call for Moses
to the head of the mount and Moses
will go up.

21 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Go down: protest to the people lest
they shall break in to Jehovah to see,
and a multitude fall from them.

22 And also the priests drawing near
to Jehovah, shall be consecrated, lest
Jehovah shall break forth upon them.

23 And Moses will say to Jehovah,
The people shall not be able to come
up to mount Sinai, for thou didst pro-
test to us, saying, Set bounds to the
mountain, and consecrate it. ,

24 And Jehovah will say to him,
Go; come down, and come up, thou
and Aaron with thee: and the priests
and the people shall not break in to
come up to Jehovah lest he shall brealx
forth upon them.

25 And Moses will come down to
the people and will say to them.

CHAPTER XX.
ND God will speak all these
words, saying,

2I am Jehovah thy God, which

EXODUS 1אא‎

brought thee forth out of the land of|shake, and they will stand from far
1

Egypt, out of the house of servants,

8 There shall be no other God to
thee to my face.

4 Thou shalt not make to thee a
carved image, and every appearance
that is in the heavens above, and that
is in the earth beneath, and that is in
the water under the earth.

5 Thou shalt not worship to them,
and thou shalt not serve them: for I
am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God,
striking the iniquity of the fathers upon
the sons to the third and to the fourth, to
them hating me;

6 And doing kindness to thousands
to them loving me and to them watch-
ing my commands.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of
Jehovah thy God in vain: for Jehovah
will not cleanse him who shall take his
name in vain.

8 Remember the day of the Sabbath
to consecrate it.

9 Six days thou shalt work and do
all thy service:

10 And the seventh day the Sabbath
to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no
service, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, thy servant, and thy maid,
and thy cattle, and thy stranger which
is in thy gates.

11 For six days Jehovah made the
heavens and the earth, the sea and all
which is in them, and he will rest in the
seventh day: for this Jehovah praised
the seventh day and consecrated. it.

12 Honor thy father and thy mother,
so that thy days shall be prolonged
upon the land which Jehovah thy God
gave to thee.

13 Thou shalt not kill.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 Thou shalt not steal.

16 Thou shalt not testify against thy
friend for falsehood.

17 Thou shalt not desire thy friend’s
house, thou shalt not desire thy friend’s
wife, and his servant and his maid and
his ox and his ass and all which is to
thy friend.

18 And all the people saw the voices
and the flames, and the voice of the
trumpet, and the mountain smoking:
and me people feared, and they will

off.

19 And they will say to Moses,
Speak thou with us and we will hear:
and God shall not speak with us lest
we shall die.

20 And Moses will say to the people,
Ye shall not fear; for for this cause
God came to try you, that his fear shall
be to your faces, so that ye shall not
sin.
21 And the people will stand from
far off, and Moses will draw near to the
darkness where God is there.

22 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel,
Ye saw that from the heavens I spake
with you.

23 Ye shall not make tome gods of
silver, and gods of gold ye shall not
make to yourselves.

24 An altar of earth shalt thou make
to me, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt-
offering and thy peace, and thy sheep
and thy cattle: and in every place
where I shall cause my name to be re-
membered, I will come to thee and
bless thee.

25 And if thou shalt make to me an
altar of stones, thou shalt not build
them, cutting, for didst thou lift up thy
sword upon it, and thou shalt defile it.

26 And thou shalt not go up by
steps upon mine altar, that thou shalt
not uncover thy nakedness upon it.

CHAPTER ΧΧΙ.
ND these the judgments which
thou shalt set before them.

2 If thou shalt buy a Hebrew ser-
vant, six years shall he serve: and in
the seventh he shall go forth free gra-
tuitously.

3 If he shall come in by himself, he
shall go out by himself: if he possessed
a wife, and his wife shall go forth with
him.

4 If his lord shall give to him a wife,
and she brought to him sons or daugh-
ters, the wife and her children shall be
to her lord, and he shall go forth by
himself.

5 And if saying, the servant shall
say, I loved my lord, my wife and my
sons; I will not go forth free:

82 EXODUS תא‎

6 And his lord brought him near to
God, and he brought him near to the
door, or to the door-post, and his lord
pierced his ear with an awl; and he
served him forever.

7 And if a man shall sell his daugh-
ter for a maid, she shall not go forth as
the servants went forth.

8 If evil in the eyes of her lord, he
did not betroth her and he ransomed
her: to a strange people he shall not
have power to sell her, in his acting de-
ceitfully by her.

9 And if to a son he shall betroth
her, according to the judgment of
daughters he shall do to her.

10 If he shall take to him another,
her food and her covering and her co-
habitation he shall not take away.

11 And if he shall not do these three
to her, she shall go forth gratuitously
without silver.

12 He striking a man and he died,
dying, he shall die.

13 And when he hunted not after,
and God let fall into his hand, and I
set to thee a place where he shall flee
there.

14 And if a man shall act proudly
against his friend to kill him with craf-
tiness, from mine altar shalt thou take
him to die.

15 And he striking his father and his
mother, dying he shall die.

16 And he stealing a man, and sell-
ing him, and being found in his hand,
dying, he shall die.

- 17 And he making light of his father
and his mother, dying, he shall die.

18 And if men shall contend, and a
man struck his friend with a stone or
with the fist, and he shall not die, and
he fell upon the bed:

19 If he shall rise and go forth with-
out upon his support, and he smiting
being innocent, only he shall give his
resting, and healing, he shall be healed.

20 And if a man shall strike his ser-
vant or his maid with a rod, and he
died under his hand, avenging, he shall
be avenged.

21 But if a day or two days he shall
stand, he shall not be avenged, for he
is his silver.

22 And if men shall quarrel and

strike a woman pregnant, and her child
shall go forth, and there shall not be
harm, punishing, he shall be punished,
as the husband of the woman shall put
upon him; and he giving in justice.

23 And if there shall be harm, and
he gave soul for soul,

24 Kye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand

for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe.

26 And if a man strike the eye of his
servant or the eye of his maid, and he
destroyed it; he shall send him forth
free for the sake of his eye.

27 And if the tooth of his servant or
the tooth of his maid he shall cast out,
he shall send him forth free for his
tooth.

28 And if an ox shall push (with the
horns) a man or a woman, and he died ;
stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he
shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of
the ox being innocent. :

29 And if this ox pushed (with the
horns) from yesterday the third day,
and being testified to its lord, and he
will not watch him and he killed the
man or the woman; the ox shall be
stoned, and also his lord shall be put to
death.

80 If an expiation shall be put upon
him, the price of redemption of his soul
according to all which shall be put
upon him.

31 If he shall push (with his horns)
a son, or shall push a daughter, accord-
ing to this judgment it shall be done to
him.

82 If the ox shall push a servant, or
a maid, he shall give thirty shekels of
silver to his lord, and the ox shall be
stoned.

88 And if a man shall open a pit, or
if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not
cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass:

34 The lord of the pit shall recom-
pense; he shall turn back silver to his
lord and the dead shall be to him.

35 And if a man’s ox shall strike
the ox of his friend and he died, and
they shall sell the living ox and divide
the silver, and also the dead ox they
shall divide.

36 Or if this ox was known to push

EXODUS XXII.

from yesterday, the third day, and his
lord guarded him not; recompensing,
he shall recompense, ox for ox, and the
dead shall be to him.

37 If a man shall steal an ox or a
sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he
shall recompense five oxen for an ox,
and four sheep for a sheep.

CHAPTER XXIL
1" in breaking in a thief shall be
found, and he was smitten and died,
no bloods for him.

2 Τὸ the sun was risen upon him,
bloods for him: recompensing, he shall
recompense; if nothing to him, to be
sold for his theft.

3 If finding, the theft shall be found
in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a
sheep ; living, he shall recompense two.

4 If a man shall feed a field or vine-
yard, and send forth the cattle and feed
in another field: from the good of his
field and from the good of his vineyard
shall he recompense.

5 If fire shall come forth, and find
thorns, and it consume the heap of
sheaves or stalk of grain, or the field ;
he having kindled the fire, recompens-
ing, he shall recompense.

6 If a man shall give to his friend
silver or vessels to watch, and it was
stolen out of the man’s house, if the
thief shall be found he shall recompense
double.

7 If the thief shall not be found, and
the lord of the house being brought to
God, if he put not forth his hand upon
his friend’s goods.

8 For every word of transgression,
for ox, for ass, for sheep, for garment,
for every loss which if this say is.his:
to God the word of both of them shall
come; whom God shall condemn, he
shall recompense double to his friend.

9 If a man shall give to his friend an
ass or ox or sheep or all cattle to watch ;
and it died, or being broken or being
taken captive, not being seen:

10 An oath of Jehovah shall be be-
tween them both 11 he put not forth his
hand to his friend’s goods; and its lord
shall take and he shall not recom-
pense.

11 And if stealing, it shall be stolen

from him, he shall recompense to his
lord.

12 If tearing in pieces, it shall be
torn in pieces, he shall bring it a wit-
ness; the torn in pieces he shall not
recompense.

13 And if a man shall ask from his
friend, and being broken or dying, its
lord not with it, recompensing, he shall
recompense.

14 If its lord be with it, he shall not
recompense: if hired, it came for its
hire.

15 If a man shall seduce a virgin who
was not betrothed, and lying with her,
endowing, he shall endow her to him
for a wife.

16 If her father refusing shall refuse
to give her to him, he shall weigh the
silver according to the dowry of virgins.

17 Thou shalt not preserve alive a
sorceress,

18 Every one lying with a quadru-
ped, dying, shall die.

19 He sacrificing to a God except to
Jehovah himself alone, shall be devoted
to destruction.

20 Thou shalt not treat evil the stran-
ger, and thou shalt not press him: for
ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

21 Every widow and orphan ye shall
not afflict.

22 If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him,
if crying, he shall ery to me, hearing, I
will hear his ery.

23 And my anger kindling, I killed
you with the sword; and your wives
were widows, and your sons orphans.

24 If thou shalt lend silver to m
people being poor with thee, thou shalt
not be to him, as lending; ye shall not
put interest upon him.

25 If taking in pledge, thou shalt
take in pledge the garment of thy friend,
at the going down of the sun thou shalt
turn it back to him.

26 For it is his covering alone; his
garment for his nakedness in which he
shall lie; and it was when he shall ery
to me, and I heard, for I am compas-
sionate.

27 Thou shalt not make light of God,
and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of
thy people.

28 Thy fulness and thy tears thou.

shalt not delay: the first-born of thy
sons thou shalt give to me.
29 Thus shalt thou do to thine ox, to

thy sheep: seven days shall it be with’

its mother; in the eighth day thou
shalt give it to me.

30 And ye shall be holy men to me,
and ye shall not eat flesh torn in pieces
in the field; ye shall cast it to the dog.

CHAPTER XXIII.
HOU shalt not take up a false re-
port: thou shalt not put thy hand
with the unjust one to be a witness of
wrong.

2 Thou shalt not be after multitudes
for evil; thou shalt not answer for the
multitude to stretch out after multi-
tudes to pervert justice.

8 And the poor one thou shalt not
make proud in his cause.

4 If thou shalt meet thine enemy’s
ox or his ass wandering, turning back,
thou shalt turn him back to him.

5 If thou shalt see the ass of him
hating thee, lying down under his load,
and thou didst desist from cutting loose
for him, releasing, thou shall release
with him.

6 Thou shalt not pervert the judg-
ment of thy needy in his cause.

7 From the word of falsehood thou
shalt go far away; and the imnocent
and the just one thou shalt not kill:
for 1 will not justify the unjust one.

8 And thou shalt not take a gift; for
the gift will blind the seeing, and will
pervert just words.

9 Thou shalt not press the stranger :
and ye knew the soul of the stranger,
for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt.

10 Six years shalt thou sow thy land,
and gather its produce :

11 And the seventh thou shalt remit,
and let it be; and the poor of thy peo-
ple shall eat; and the remains, the
beast of the field shall eat. So shalt
thou do to thy vineyard and to thy
olive tree.

12 Six days thou shalt do thy works,
and in the seventh day thou shalt rest:
that thine ox shall rest, and thine ass,
and the son of thy maid shall be re-
freshed, and the stranger.

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13 And in all which I said to you ye
shall watch; and ye shall not call to
mind the name of other gods; it shall
not be heard above thy mouth.

14 Three times thou shalt keep a fes-
tival to me in the year.

15 Thou shalt watch the festival of
unleavened: seven days shalt thou eat
unleavened as 1 commanded thee ac-
cording to the appointment of the month
Abib; for in it thou camest forth out
of Egypt: and they shall not be seen
before me empty.

16 And the festival of the harvest,
the first fruits of thy works, which thou
shalt sow in the field: and the festival
of gathering in the going out of the
year, in thy gathering thy works out of
the field.

17 Three times in the year every
male of thine shall be seen to the face
of the Lord Jehovah.

18 Thou shalt not sacrifice upon lea-
ven: the blood of my sacrifice, and the
fat of my festival shall not remain over
till morning.

19 The sacrifice of the first fruits of
thy land thou shalt bring to the house
of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not
boil a kid in his mother’s milk.

20 Behold, I send a messenger before
thee to guard thee in the way, and to
bring thee to the place which I prepared.

21 Watch from his face, and hear to
his voice; thou shalt not rebel against
him: he will not hft up your transgres-
sion; for my name is in the midst of
him.

22 For if hearing thou shalt hear to
his voice, and to all that I shall speak ;
and I was an enemy to thine enemies,
and I was hostile to thine adversaries.

23 For my messenger shall go before
thee, and bring thee to the Amorites,
and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and
the Canaanites, the Hivites and the
Jebusites; and I destroyed them.

24 Thou shalt not worship to their
gods, and thou shalt not serve them,
and thou shalt not do according to their
works: for destroying, thou shalt de-
stroy them, and breaking, thou shalt
break in pieces their pillars.

25 And serve ye Jehovah your God,
and he blessed thy bread, and thy wa-

EXODUS XXIV.

ters; and [ turned away disease from
the midst of thee.

26 And there shall not be bereaving
of children or barren upon thy land:
the number of thy days I will fill wp.

27 1 will send my terror before thee
and I killed all the people which thou
shalt come to them; and I gave all
thine enemies the back to thee.

28 And I sent hornets before thee
and to drive out the Hivite, the Ca-
naanite, and the Hittite from before thee.

29 I will not drive them out from thy
face in one year, lest the land shall be
desolate, and the beast of the field mul-
tiply upon thee.

30 By little and little I will drive
them out from thy face, till when thou
shalt be fruitful and thou didst inherit
the land.

31 And I put thy bounds from the
sea of sedge, and even to the sea of the
Philistines, and from the desert even to
the river: for I will give into your hand
those inhabiting the land, and thou
drove them out from before thee.

32 Thou shalt not make a covenant
with them and to their gods.

33 They shall not dwell in thy land,
lest they shall cause thee to sin against
me: if thou shalt serve their gods,
surely shall it be to thee for a snare.

CHAPTER XXIV.
Λ ND he said to Moses, Come up to
Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Na-
dab, and Abihu, and seventy from the
old men of Israel; and worship from
far off.

2 And Moses alone drawing near to
Jehovah: and they shall not draw
near; and the people shall not go up
with him.

3 And Moses will come and recount
to the people all the words of Jehovah,
and all the judgments: and all the peo-
ple will answer with one voice, and
will say, All the words which Jehovah
spake, we will do.

4 And Moses will write all the words
of Jehovah, and he will rise early. in
the morning, and will build an altar
under the mountain, and twelve pillars
for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 And he will send forth young men

sons of Israel, and they will bring up
burnt-offerings, and they will sacrifice
sacrifices of peace to Jehovah of bul-
locks.

6 And Moses will take half of the
blood, and put in basins; and half the
blood he sprinkled upon the altar.

7 And he will take the book of the
covenant and read in the ears of the
people: and they will say, All which
Jehovah spake we will do, and we will
heed.

8 And Moses will take the blood,
and sprinkle upon the people, and will
say, Behold the blood of the covenant,
which Jehovah made with you con-
cerning all these words.

9 And Moses will go up, and Aaron,
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy from
the old men of Israel.

10 And they will see the God of Is-
rael: and under his feet as the work of
the whiteness of sapphire, and as the
body of the heavens for cleanness.

11 And to the sides of the sons of

Israel he stretched not forth his hand:
and they will see God, and eat and
drink.
12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Come up to me to the mountain, and
be there: and I will give to thee tab-
lets of stone, and the law and the com-
mands which I wrote, to teach them.

185 And Moses will rise up, and
Joshua, his minister; and Moses will go
up to the mountain of God.

14 And he said to the old men, Abide
for us here, till when we shall turn back
to you: and behold, Aaron and Hur
with you; whoever having words shall
draw near to them.

15 And Moses will go up to the
mountain and the cloud will cover the
mount.

16 And the glory of Jehovah will
settle down upon mount Sinai, and the
cloud will cover it six days: and he
will call to Moses in the seventh day
from the midst of the cloud.

17 And the appearance of the glory
of Jehovah as consuming fire upon the
head of the mountain in the eyes of the
sons of Israel.

18 And Moses will come into the
midst of the cloud, and will go up to

the mountain: and Moses will be in
the mountain forty days and forty
nights.

CHAPTER XXV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and
they shall take for me an offering:
from every man whose heart shall im-
pel him, ye shall take my offerings.

3 And this the offering which ye
shall take from them ; gold, and silver,
and brass.

4 Cerulean purple, and reddish pur-
ple, and double scarlet and fine cotton,
and goats’ hair,

5 And skins of rams made red, and
tahash skins, and acacia wood ;

6 Oil for a light, spices for the oil of
the anointing, and for the incense of
aromatics ;

7 And stones of onyx, and stones
filling up for the ephod and the breast-
plate.

8 And make ye to me a holy place;
and I will abide in the midst of you.

9 According to all which I having
shewn to thee, the pattern of the tent
and the pattern of all its vessels; and
thus shall ye do.

10 And make ye an ark of acacia
wood: two cubits and a half its length,
a cubit and a half its breadth, and a
cubit and a half its height.

11 And thou shalt spread pure gold
over it, from within and from without
thou shalt spread over it; and make to
it a wreath of gold round about.

12 And thou shalt cast to it four
rings of gold, and give upon its four
steps: and two rings upon its one side,
and two rings upon its second side.

18 And make bars of acacia wood,
and spread over them gold.

14 And bring the bars into the rings
upon the sides of the ark, to lift up the
ark with them.

15 The bars shall be in the rings of the
ark: they shall not remove from them.

16 And give to the ark the testimony
which I shall give to thee.

17 And make a cover of pure gold:
two cubits and a half its length, and a
cubit and a half its breadth ;

EXODUS ΧΧΥ.

18 And make two cherubs of gold;
of turned work shalt thou make them,
from the two ends of the cover.

19 And make the one cherub from
this end, and one cherub from this end:
thus of the mercy seat shall ye make
the cherubs upon its two ends,

20 And the cherubs shall be spread-
ing their wings on high, covering with
their wings over the cover; and their
faces each to the other; to the cover
shall be the faces of the cherubs.

21 And give the cover upon the ark
from on high; and to the ark thou
shalt give the testimony which I shall
give to thee.

22 And 1 was known to thee there,
and I spake to thee from above the
cover, from between the two cherubs
which are upon the ark of the testimo-
ny, all which I shall command thee to
the sons of Israel.

23 And make a table of acacia wood ;
two cubits its length, and a cubit its
breadth, and a cubit and a half its
height.

24 And spread over it pure gold, and
make to it a wreath of gold round
about.

25 And thou shalt make to it a clos-
ing a hand breadth round about, and
make a wreath of gold to its closing
round about.

26 And make to it four gold rings,
and give the rings upon the four parts
which are to its four feet.

27 And over against the closings shall
be the rings for houses for the bars to
lift up the table.

28 And make the bars of acacia wood,
and spread over them gold, and lift up
with them the table.

29 And make its dishes, and its cen-
sers, and its bowls, and its bowls for
libation which to pour into them, pure
gold shalt thou make them.

80 Give upon the table the bread of
the face before me continually.

31 And make a candlestick pure
gold: turned work shalt thou make
the candlestick: its thigh, its shaft, 115
cups, its chaplets, and flowers, shall be
from it.

32 And six stems coming out from
its sides; three branches of the chande-

EXODUS XXVIL

lier from the one side, and three stems
of the chandelier from the second side.

83 Three bowls made like almonds,
in one stem a chaplet and a flower; and
three bowls made like almonds in the
one stem, a chaplet and a flower: thus
to the six stems going forth from the
chandelier.

84 And in the chandelier, four bowls
made like almonds, its chaplets and its
flowers.

385 And a chaplet under two stems
from it, and a chaplet under two stems
from it, and a chaplet under two stems
from it, to the six stems coming out of
the chandelier.

80 Their chaplets and their stems
shall be from it: all of it one turned
work of pure gold.

37 And make its seven lights: and
raise up its lights to give light over
against its face.

88 And its tongs and its fire pans,
pure gold.

39 A talent of pure gold he shall
make it, with all these vessels.

40 And see, and make in their pat-
tern which thou wert seeing in the
mountain.

CHAPTER תטאא‎
ND thou shalt make the tent, ten
curtains, white linen twisted, and
cerulean purple, and reddish purple,
and double scarlet: and cherubs the
work of the artificer shalt thou make
them.

2 The length of one curtain, eight
and twenty cubits, and the breadth,
four cubits of the one curtain: one
measure to all the curtains,

3 The five curtains shall be joined
one to the other; and five curtains
joined one to the one.

4 And make loops of cerulean purple
upon the lip of the one curtain from the
end in the joining: and so shalt thou
make in the lip of the curtain of the
extremity, in the joining of the second.

5 Fifty loops in the one curtain, and
> fifty loops shalt thou make in the lip of
> the curtain that is in the joining of the
second, from the receiving the loops
one to the other.

6 And make fifty hooks of gold, and

join the one curtain to the other with
the hooks: and it was one tent.

7 And make a curtain of goats’ hair
for the dwelling of the tent: eleven cur-
tains shalt thou make them.

8 The length of the one curtain, of
thirty cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain of four cubits: one measure to
the eleyen curtains.

9 And join the five curtains by them-
selyes, and the six curtains by them-
selves, and double the sixth curtain in
front before the tent.

10 And make fifty loops upon the
lip of the one curtain of the extremity
in the joining, and fifty loops upon the
lip of the curtain joining the second.

11 And make fifty brass hooks, and
bring the hooks to the loops, and join
the tent, and it was one.

12 And the remainder of that being
over in the curtains of the tent, the half
of the remaining curtain, thou shalt
spread over behind the tent.

13 And a cubit from this, and the
cubit from this, in the remainder in the
length of the curtains of the tent; it
shall be spread upon the sides of the
tent from this, and from this, for its
covering.

14 And make a covering for the tent
of the skins of rams made red, and a
covering of tahash skins from above.

15 And make boards for the tent of
acacia wood, standing up.

16 Ten cubits the length of the board,
and a cubit and half a cubit the breadth
of one board.

17 Two hands for the one board, con-
nected the one to the other: so shalt
thou do to all the boards of the tent.

18 And make the boards to the tent,
twenty boards to the south side on the
right hand,

19 And forty silver bases thou shalt
make under the twenty boards: two
bases for the one board for its two hands.

20 And for the second rib of the
tent, to the north side, twenty boards.

21 And forty silver bases; two bases
under the one board, and two bases un-
der the one board.

22 And for the hinder parts of the
tent to the sea, thou shalt make six
boards. ;

88 EXODUS XXVIL

23 And two boards shalt thou make
to the angles of the tent in the two
hinder parts.

24 And they shall be doubled from
below, and they shall be one; they
shall be complete above the head to the
one ring: so it shall be; for the two
corners shall they be.

25 And there shall be eight boards ;
and their bases of silver, sixteen bases ;
two bases under the one board, and two
bases under the one board.

26 And make bars of acacia wood ;
five.ior the boards of the one rib of the
tent.

27 And five bars for the boards of
the rib of the tent, and five bars for the
boards of the rib of the tent, for ‘the
two hinder parts to the sea.

28 And the middle bar in the midst
of the boards passing through from end
to end.

29 And the boards shalt thou spread
over with gold, and thou shalt make
their rings gold, houses for the bars:
and spread over the bars with gold.

30 And raise up the tent according
to its judgment which thou sawest in
the mount.

81 And make a vail of cerulean pur-
ple, and red purple, and double scarlet,
and twisted byssus, the work of the
artificer: he shall make with it che-
rubs.

82 And give it upon four acacia pil-
lars spread over with gold: their pegs
of gold upon four silver bases.

88 And give the vail under the hooks,
and bring in there from the inside of
the vail, the ark of the testimony: and
the vail separating to you between the
holy and between the holy of holies.

34 And give the vail upon the ark of
the testimony in the holy of holies.

385 And put the table from without
the vail, and the chandelier over against
the table upon the nib of the tent at the
right hand: and the table thou shalt
give upon the north rib.

86 And make a covering for the door
of the tent, cerulean purple, red purple,
and double scarlet and white byssus, a
variegated work.

87 And make for the covering five
acacia pillars, and spread them over

with gold, their pegs gold: and cast for
them five bases of brass.

CHAPTER XXVIL
ND make the altar acacia wood,
five cubits the length, and five
cubits the breadth; and the altar shall
be quadrated: and three cubits its
height.

2 And make horns upon its four
faces: its horns shall be from it: and
spread over it brass.

8 And make pots for its ashes, and
its shovels, and its vessels, and its flesh
hooks, and its fire pans: and for all its
vessels, thou shalt make brass.

4 And make to it a grate a net work
of brass; and make upon the net four
four brass rings over its four ends.

5 And set it under the border of the
altar from below, and the net shall be
even to half the altar.

6 And make bars for the altar, bars
of acacia wood, and spread them over
with brass.

7 And bring the bars into the rings,
and the bars shall be upon the two ribs
of the altar, in lifting it up.

8 Hollow with boards shalt thou
make it: as was seen to thee in the
mountain, so shall they make.

9 And make an enclosure to the
tent: for the side south of the right
hand, curtains for the enclosure, twisted
byssus a hundred of cubits the length,
for the one side.

10 And twenty pillars and their twen-
ty brass bases: the pegs of the pillars
and their joinings of silver.

11 And thus for the north side, in
length, hangings a hundred the length,
and its pillars twenty, and their bases
twenty of brass: the pegs of the pillars
and their joinings of silver.

12 And the breadth of the enclosure
for the side of the sea, hangings fifty
cubits: their pillars twenty and their
bases twenty.

13 And the breadth of the enclosure
for the east side from the rising, fifty
cubits.

14 And fifteen cubits the hangings
for the shoulder: their pillars three,
and their bases three.

15 And the second shoulder fifteen

EXODUS XXVIII

the hangings; their pillars three, and
their bases three.

16 And for the gate of the enclosure
a covering twenty cubits, cerulean pur-
ple, and red purple, and double scarlet,
and twisted byssus, a variegated work:
their pillars four, and their bases four.

17 All the pillars of the enclosure
round about, joined with silver: and
their pegs of silver, and their bases of
brass.

18 The length of the enclosure a hun-
dred by cubits, and the breadth, fifty
by fifty, and the height five cubits of
twisted byssus, and the bases brass.

19 For all the vessels of the tent in
all its work, and all its pegs, and all
the pegs of the enclosure, brass.

20 And thou shalt command the
sons of Israel, and they shall take to
thee pure olive oil, beaten for the light,
to lift up the light continually.

21 In the tent of appointment from
without the vail, which is over the tes-
timony, Aaron shall arrange it, and his
sons, from evening to morning, before
Jehovah: a law forever for their gene-
rations for the sons of Israel.

CHAPTER XXVIIL
A ND thou, bring thou Aaron thy
brother, and his sons with him,
from the midst of the sons of Israel, for
him to be a priest to me, Aaron, Nadab,
Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, sons of
Aaron.

2 And make a holy covering for
Aaron thy brother, for glory and for
beauty.

3 Thou shalt speak to all the wise of
heart, whom I filled with the spirit of
wisdom, and they shall make the gar-
ments of Aaron to consecrate him, for
him to be a priest to me.

4 And these the garments which
they shall make: the ornament, and
the girding on, and the upper garment
and the tesselated tunic, the turban and
girdle: and they made holy garments
for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons
to be priests to me.

5 And they shall take gold and the
cerulean purple, and the red purple and
the double scarlet, and the byssus.

6 And they shall make the ephod of

gold, cerulean purple, and red purple,
and double scarlet, and twisted byssus,
the work of the artificer.

7 Two shoulder pieces shall be joined
to it, to its two ends: and it being joined
together.

8 And the girdle of its ephod, which
is upon it, shall be according to the
making of it from it; gold, cerulean
purple, red purple, double scarlet, and
twisted byssus.

9 And take two stones of onyx, and
engrave upon them the names of the
sons of Israel.

10 Six from their names upon the one
stone, and the six remaining names upon
the second stone, according to their gen-
erations.

11 The work of a stone eneraver,
the engravings of a signet, engrave the
two stones with the names of the sons
of Israel: surrounded with textures of
gold thou shalt make them.

12 And put the two stones upon the
shoulders of the ephod, stones of re-
membrance for the sons of Israel: and
for Aaron to lift up their names before
Jehovah upon his two shoulders for a
remembrance.

13 And make textures of gold.

14 And two chains of pure gold be-
ing wreathed, thou shalt make them a
work interlaced, and give the chains in-
terlaced upon the textures.

15 And make the ornament of judg-
ment a work of the artificer; according
to the work of the ephod thou shalt
make it; gold, cerulean purple, red
purple, and double scarlet, and byssus,
thou shalt make it.

16 Four-square shall it be, doubled;
a span its length, and a span its breadth.

17 And fill in it a filling of stone,
four rows of stone: the row, a ruby,
topaz, and emerald, the one row.

18 The second row, a carbuncle, sap-
phire, and onyx.

19 And the third row, amber, agate,
and amethyst.

20 And the fourth row, a topaz, and
sardonyx, and jasper: they shall be set
with gold in their fillings.

21 And the stones shall be over the
names of the sons of Israel, twelve, ac-
cording to their names, the engravingg

of asignet; each according to his name
shall be the twelve tribes.

22 And make upon the breast-plate
wreathen chains, a worl: of interlacing
pure gold.

23 And make upon the breast-plate
two gold rings, and set the two rings
upon the two ends of the breast-plate.

24 And give the two interlaced of gold

upon the two rings at the ends of the}.

breast-plate.

25 And the two ends of the two in-
terlaced thou shalt give upon the two
textures, and give upon the shoulder-
pieces of the ephod in front of its face.

26 And make two gold rings, and
set them upon the two ends of the
breast-plate upon its lip, which is to the
other side of the ephod within it.

27 And make two gold rings, and
give them upon the two shoulder-pieces
of the ephod from below, from the front
of its face, with its jomings above the
girdle of the ephod.

28 And they shall bind the breast-
plate from the rings to the rings of the
ephod by a thread of cerulean purple,
to be upon the girdle of the ephod;
and the breast-plate shall not be moved
from the ephod.

29 And Aaron lifted up the names
of the sons of Israel upon the breast-
pte of judgment upon his heart, in

is going in to the holy place, for a re-
membrance before Jehovah continually.

30 And give to the breast-plate of
judgment, the lights and the truth; and
they shall be upon Aaron’s heart in his
going before Jehovah: and Aaron lift-
ing up the judgment of the sons of Is-
rael upon his heart before Jehovah
continually.

81 And make the upper garment of
the ephod, complete, of cerulean purple.

82 And the mouth of its head shall
be in the midst of it: the lip shall be
before it round about a plaited work,
as the mouth of a coat of mail shall be
to it: it shall not rend.

83 And make upon. its train, pome-
granates of cerulean purple, and red
purple, and double scarlet, upon its
train round about; and bells of gold in
the midst of them round about.

84 A gold bell and a pomegranate, a

EXODUS XXIX.

gold bell ana a pomegranate, upon the
train of the robe round about.

35 And it was upon Aaron to serve:
and to hear his voice in his going to the
holy place before Jehovah, and in his
coming out; and he died not.

80 And make a plate of pure gold,
and engrave upon it the engravings of
a seal, HOLINESS TO JEHOVAH.
87 And put it upon a thread of ceru-
lean purple, and it was upon the tur-
ban; to the fore-front of the face of the
turban shall it be.

38 And it shall be upon the forehead
of Aaron, and Aaron lifted up the in-
iquity of the holies, which the sons of
Israel shall consecrate for all their holy
gifts; and it shall be upon his forehead
continually for acceptance to them be-
fore Jehovah,

39 And interweave the tunic of bys-
sus, and make the turban of byssus,
and the girdle thou shalt make of vari-
egated work,

40 And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt
make tunics, and make for them gir-
dles, and caps shalt thou make for them,
for glory and for beauty.

41 And put them upon Aaron thy
brother, and upon his sons with him:
and anoint them, and fill their hand and
consecrate them, and they shall be
priests to me.

42 And make for them drawers of
linen to coyer the flesh of nakedness:
from the loins and even to the thighs
they shall be.

48 And they shall be upon Aaron
and upon his sons in their going into
the tent of the appointment, or in their
drawing near to the altar to serve in
the holy place; and they shall not lift
up to sin and die. A law forever to
him and to his seed after him,

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND this the word thou shall do to
them to consecrate them, to be
priests to me: Take one bullock, the
son of a cow, two complete rams,

2 And unleavened bread, and un-
leavened cakes, poured over with oil,
and thin unleavened cakes, anointed
with oil: of fine flour of wheat thou
shalt make them,

EXODUS XXIX.

8 And put them upon one basket,
and bring them near in the basket with
the bullock and the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt
bring near to the door of the tent of the
appointment, and wash them in water.

5 And take the garments, and put
upon Aaron the tunic and the robe of
the ephod, and the ephod, and the
breast-plate, and gird on him with the
girdle of the ephod.

6 And put the turban upon his head,
and give the holy diadem upon the tur-
ban.

7 And take the oil of anointing, and
thou shalt pour upon his head and
anoint him.

8 And his sons thou shalt bring near
and put tunics upon them.

9 And gird them with girdles, Aaron
and his sons, and bind to them turbans ;
and the priesthood shall be to them for
a law forever: and fill the hand of
Aaron and the hand of his sons.

10 And bring near the bullock be-
fore the tent of the appointment; and
Aaron and his sons put their hands
upon the head of the bullock,

11 And slaughter the bullock before
Jehovah at the door of the tent of the
appointment.

12 And take from the blood of the
bullock, and give upon the horns of the
altar with thy finger, and all the blood
thou shalt pour at the foundation of the
altar.

13 And take all the fat of the cover-
ing upon the bowels, and the lobes upon
the liver, and the two kidneys, and the
fat that is upon them, and burn upon
the altar.

14 And.the flesh of the bullock and
his skin, and his dung shalt thou burn
with fire from without the camp: this
the sin.

15 And the one ram thou shalt take ;
and Aaron and his sons put their hands
upon the head of the ram.

16 And slaughter the ram, and take
his blood and sprinkle upon the altar
round about.

17 And the ram thou shalt eut into
his pieces, and wash his bowels, and
his legs, and give upon his pieces and
upon his head.

18 And burn all the ram upon the
altar: this a burnt-offering to Jehovah:
this a sacrifice, a smell of a sweet odor
to Jehovah,

19 And take the seeond ram; and
Aaron put, and his sons, their hands
upon the head of the ram,

20 And slaughter the ram, and take
from his blood, and give upon the ex-
tremity of the ear of Aaron, and upon
the extremity of the right ear of his
sons, and upon the thumb of their right
hand, and upon the great toe of their
right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon
the altar round about.

21 And take from the blood that is
upon the altar, and of the oil of anoint-
ing, and sprinkle upon Aaron, and upon
his garments, and upon his sons, and
upon the garments of his sons with
him: and he shall be consecrated, and
his garments and the garments of his
sons with him.

22 And take' from the ram the fat
and the fat tail, and the fat covering
the bowels, and the lobe of the liver,
and the two kidneys, and the fat which
is upon them, and the right leg, for it
is a ram of fulness.

23 And one round of bread, and one
cake of fat bread, and one thin cake
from the basket of the unleavened that
is before Jehovah.

24 And put all upon the hands of Aa-
ron and upon the hands of his sons; and
lift them up a waving before Jehovah.

25 And thou shalt take them from
their hand and burn upon the altar
upon the burnt-offermg for a smell of
sweet odor before Jehoyah: this a sac-
rifice to Jehovah.

26 And take the breast from the ram
of completion which is to Aaron, and
lift up a waving before Jehovah: and
it was to thee for a portion.

27 And consecrate the breast of the
waving and the shoulder of the offer-
ing, which shall be lifted up, and which
is lifted up from the ram of fulness
from that to Aaron, and from that to
his sons.

28 And it was to Aaron and to his
sons for a law forever from the sons of
Israel: for it is an offering; and it shall
be an offering from the sons of Israel

92 EXODUS XXX.

from the sacrifices of peace their offer-
ings to Jehovah.

29 And the garments of the holy
ἘΣ which are to Aaron shall be to

is sons after him to anoint them in
them, and to fill in them their hands.

30 Seven days he from his sons beg
priest im his stead, shall put them on
when he shall come into the tent of the
appointment to serve in the holy place.

31 And the ram of completion thou
shalt take and boil his flesh in the holy
place.

382 And Aaron shall eat and his sons,
the flesh of the ram, and the bread that
is in the basket by the door of the tent
of appoimtment.

83 And they shall eat these which
covered up in them to fill their hand to
consecrate them: and a stranger shall
not eat for they are holy.

84 And if there shall remain from
the flesh of the completions, and from
the bread, till the morning, burn the re-
mainder with fire, for it shall not be
eaten for it is holy.

85 And do to Aaron and to his sons,
thus according to all which 1 command-
ed thee: seyen days shalt thou fill their
hand.

86 And the bullock of sin, thou shalt
do in the day of expiations, and make
an atonement upon the altar in thy
making an atonement upon it, and
anoint it to consecrate it.

97 Seven days thou shalt expiate
upon the altar, and consecrate it; and
it was the holy altar of holies: all
touching upon the altar shall be holy.

88 This which thou shalt do upon
the altar; two: he lambs the sons of a
year for the day continually.

39 The one he lamb thou shalt do in
the morning; and the second he lamb
thou shalt do between the two evenings.

40 A tenth of fine flour mixed with
beaten oil, the fourth of an hin, and a
libation, the fourth of an hin of wine,
for the one he lamb.

41 And the second he lamb thou
shalt do between the two evenings, ac-
cording to the sacrifice of the morning,
and according to its libation, thou shalt
do it for a smell of sweet odor, a sacri-
fice to Jehovah.

42 A burnt-offering of continuance
for your generations at the door of the
tent of appointment before Jehovah,
where I will meet with you there, to
speak to thee there.

43 And I met with the sons of Israel
there; and it shall be consecrated by
my glory.

44 And I consecrated the tent of ap-
pointment, and the altar; and Aaron
and his sons I will conseerate to be
priests to me.

45 And I dwelt in the midst of the
sons of Israel, and I was to them for
God.

46 And they shall know that I am
Jehovah their God, who brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, to dwell
in the midst of them; I Jehovah their
God.

CHAPTER XXX.
ND make an altar. for burning in-

Ἃ cense: of acacia wood shalt thou
make it.

2 A cubit its length, a cubit its
breadth ; it shall be four-square; and
two cubits its height: its horns out of it.

3 And spread it over with pure gold
its top, and its walls round about, and
its horns; and make to it a gold wreath
round about.

4 And two gold rings shalt thou
make to it from under its crown, upon
its two ribs, shalt thou make upon its
two sides; and it was for inner parts
for staves to lift it up by them.

5 And make staves of acacia wood,
and spread them over with gold.

6 And give it before the vail that is
upon the ark of the testimonies, before
the cover which is upon the testimonies,
where I will meet with thee there.

7 And Aaron to burn upon it incense
of spices in the morning: in the morn-
ing in his adorning the lamps, he shall
burn incense upon it.

8 And in Aaron’s causing the lamps,
to ascend between the two evenings, he
shall burn incense upon it; continually
before Jehovah for your generations.

9 And ye shall not bring up upon it
strange incense; and a burnt-offering, a
sacrifice and a libation thou shalt not
pour out upon it. ,

EXODUS XXX.

10 And Aaron to expiate upon its
horns once in a year, from the blood of
the sin of the expiations: once in a year
he shall expiate upon it for your gene-
rations: it is boly of hohes to Jehovah.

11 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying, ו‎

19 When thou shalt take up the head
of the sons of Israel for their reviewing,
and they gave each a ransom of his
soul to Jehovah, and in reviewing
them; and a stumble shall not be in
them in reviewing them.

13 This they shall give, all passing
by upon their reviewing, from half the
shekel by the holy shekel; (twenty ge-
rahs the shekel:) from half a shekel
an offering to Jehovah.

14 All passing by upon their review-
ing, from the son of twenty years and
aboye, shall give an offering to Jeho-
vah.

15 The rich one shall not multiply,
and the poor one shall not diminish from
half the shekel, to give an offering
to Jehovah to expiate for your souls.

16 And take the silver of the expia-
tions from the sons of Israel and give
it for the work of the tent of appoint-
ment; and it was for the sons of Israel a
remembrance before Jehovah to expiate
for your souls.

17 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

18 Make a brass wash-basin, and its
pedestal brass, for washing: and give it
between the tent of appointment and
between the altar, and give water
there.

19 And Aaron and his son washed
from it their hands and their feet.

20 In their coming into the tent of
appointment, they shall wash with
water, and they shall not die: or in
their drawing near to the altar to serve,
to burn a sacrifice to Jehovah.

21 And they shall wash their hands
and their feet, and they shall not die:
and it was to thema law forever, to
him and to his seed and to their gene-
rations.

22 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying.

23 Take thou to thee spices of head
of flowing myrrh, five hundred: and

fragrant cinnamon of its half, fifty and
two hundred; and fragrant reed, fifty
and two hundred.

24 And cassia, five hundred by the
holy shekel, and the oil of olive, a
hin:

25 And make it an oil a holy anoint-
ing, a perfumed unguent the work of the
perfumer: it shall be an oila holy
anointing.

26 And anoint the tent of appoint-
ment, and the ark of the testimony,

27 And the table and all its vessels
and the chandelier and its vessels, and
the altar of incense,

28 And the altar of burnt-offering
and all its vessels, and the wash-basin
and its pedestal.

29 And consecrate them, and they
shall be holy of holies ; every one touch-
ing upon them shall be holy.

380 And Aaron and his sons thou
shalt anoint and consecrate them to be
priests to me.

81 And to the sons of Israel thou
shalt speak, saying, An oil a holy anoint-
ing shall this be to me for your genera-
tions.

32 Upon the flesh of man it shall
not be poured, and according to its
measure ye shall not make like it: it is
holy ; holy shall it be to you.

33 A man who shall perfume like it,
and shall give to the stranger, and he
shall be cut off from his people.

34 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Take to thee aromatics, resin, and ony-
cha, and galbanum; aromatics and
pure frankincense: it shall be part for
part.

85 And make it a perfume, an oint-
ment, a work of the perfumer, salted,
pure, holy.

80 And pound fine from it to small
dust, and give from it before the testi-

| mony in the tent of appointment where

I will meet with thee there: holy of
holies, shall it be to you.

87 And the perfume which thou
shalt make, according to its measure ye
shall not make to you: it shall be holy
to you for Jehovah.

38 A man who shall make like it to
smell in it, and he shall be cut off from
his people.

CHAPTER ΧΧΧΙ.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 See, I called by name Bezaleel the
son of Uni, the son of Hur, of the tribe
of Judah.

8 And I will fill him with the spirit
of God, in wisdom and in understand-
ing, and in knowledge, and in all work.

4 To meditate work of skill, to work
in gold and im silver and in brass.

5 And in graving stone for filling up,
and in graying wood, to work in all
work.

6 And 1, behold, I gave him Aholiab,
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan ;
and in the heart of all the wise of heart
I gave wisdom; and they shall make
all which I commanded thee :

7 The tent of appointment, and the
ark of testimony, and the cover which
is upon it, and all the vessels of the
tent,

8 And the table and its vessels, and
the pure chandelier and all its vessels,
and the altar of incense,

9 And the altar of burnt-offering and
all its vessels, and the wash-basin and
its base,

‘10 And the garments of service, and
the holy garments for Aaron the priest,
and the garments of his sons to be
priests,

11 The oil of anointing, and the in-
cense of aromatics for the holy place:
according to all which I commanded
thee they shall do.

12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
saying.

18 Speak thou to the sons of Israel,
saying, Vernly my Sabbaths shall ye
watch: for it 15 ἃ sign between me and
between you for your generations, to
know that I am Jehovah consecrating

ou.

14 And watch ye the Sabbath, for it
is holy to you. He profaning it, dying,
shall die; for all doing work in it, and
that soul shall be cut off from the midst
of his people. J

15 Six days shall work be done, and
the seventh day the Sabbath, a holy
rest to Jehovah: all doing work in the
day of the Sabbath, dying, shall die.

16 And the sons of Israel shall watch

EXODUS XXXI, XXXII

the Sabbath to do the Sabbath for their
generation, a covenant forever.

17 Between me and between the sons
of Israel it is a sign forever: for six
days Jehovah made the heavens and
the earth, and in the seventh day he
rested and he wall be refreshed.

18 And he will give to Moses when
he ceased to speak to him in mount
Sinai, two tables of the testimony, ta-
bles of stone written by the finger of
God.

CHAPTER XXXII.

Λ ND the people will see that Moses
delayed to come down from the
mount, and the people will assemble to
Aaron, and will say to him, Arise, make
to us gods who shall go before us: for
this Moses, the man who brought us up
out of the land of Egyt, we shall not

know what was to him.

2 And Aaron will say to them, Break
off the gold ear-rings which are in the
ears of your wives, your sons and your
daughters, and bring to me.

3 And all the people will break off
the gold ear-rings which are in their
ears, and they will bring to Aaron.

4 And he will take from their hand,
and will form it with a graver, and he
will make it a molten calf: and they
will say, These thy gods, Israel, who
brought thee up from the land of Egypt.

5 And Aaron will see, and he will
build an altar before it; and Aaron will
call and say, A festival to Jehovah to-
morrow.

6 And they will rise early early on
the morrow, and they will raise up a
burnt-offering, and they will bring near
peace; and the people will sit down to
eat and drink, and they will rise up to
play.

7 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
Go, descend: for thy people were cor-
rupted whom thou didst bring up out
of the land of Egypt.

8 For they turned aside quickly from
the way which I commanded them:
they made for them a molten calf, and
worship to it, and will sacrifice to it,
and will say, These thy gods, Israel,
which raised thee up out of the land of

Kgypt.

EXODUS XXXII

9 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Τ saw this people, and behold, it a peo-
ple of a hard neck.

10 And thou be at rest to me, and my
wrath shall kindle against them, and I
will consume them: and I will make
thee into a great nation.

11 And Moses will supplicate the
face of Jehovah, his God, and will say,
For what will thy wrath kindle against
thy people which thou didst bring forth
out of the land of Egypt by thy great
power and with a strong hand?

12 Lest the Eeyptians shall speak,
saying, With evil he brought them forth
to kill them in the mountains, and to
finish them from the face of the earth.
Turn back from the heat of thy wrath,
and repent concerning evil towards thy
people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaak, and
Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst
swear to them by thyself, and thou wilt
speak to them, I will multiply your
seed as the stars of the heavens, and all
this land which I said, I will give to
your seed and they inherited forever.

14 And Jehovah repented concerning
the evil which he spake to do to his
people.

15 And Moses will turn and will go
down from the mount, and the two ta-
bles of testimony in his hand: the
tables were written from the two oppo-
site sides; from hence and from thence
they were written.

16 And the tables they the work of
God, and the writing the writing of
God, it being cut in the tables.

17 And Joshua will hear the voice
of the people in making a loud noise,
and he will say to Moses, A voice of
war in the camp.

18 And he will say, Not the voice of
the shouting of victory, and not the
voice of the shouting of defeat: the
voice of shouting I heard.

19 And it will be when he drew near
to the camp, and he will see the calf
and the lute: and the wrath of Moses
will kindle, and he will cast the tables
out of his hand, and he will break them
under the mount.

20 And he will take the calf which
they made, and will burn it in fire, and

which he will crush even to small dust,
and will scatter upon the face of the
water, and will give the sons of Israel
to drink.

21 And Moses will say to Aaron,
What did this people to thee that thou
didst bring upon it a great sin?

22 And Aaron will say, The wrath
of my lord shall not kindle: thou know-
est the people that it is in sin.

23 And they will say to me, Make to
us gods which shall go before us: for
this Moses, the man who brought us up
from the land of Egypt, we knew not
what was to him.

24 And 1 said to them, To whom is
gold, he shall break it off. And they
will give it to me, and 1 shall cast it
into the fire and this calf will come out.

25 And Moses will see the people
that it was uncovered (for Aaron un-
covered it for overthrow among their
enemies).

26 And Moses will stand in the gate
of the camp, and will say, Who for Je-
hovah? to me. And all the sons of
Levi will assemble together to him.

27 And he will say to them, Thus
said Jehovah the God of Israel, Put ye
each his sword upon his thigh, and pass
ye through and turn ye back from gate
to gate in the camp, and slay ye each
his brother, and each his friend, and
each his near one,

28 And the sons of Levi will do ac-
cording to the word of Moses: and
there will fall from the people in that
day about three thousand men. .

29 And Moses will say, Fill your
hand this day to Jehovah, for each upon
his son and upon his brother, to give to
you a blessing this day.

30 And it shall be from the morrow,
and Moses will say to the people, Ye
sinned a great sin: and now I will go
up to Jehovah; perhaps I shall expiate
for your sin.

31 And Moses will turn back to Je-
hovah, and say, Ah, now, this people
sinned a great sin, and they will make
to them golden gods.

32 And now if thou wilt, lift up their
sin; and if not, wipe me off from thy
book which thou didst write.

98 And Jehovah will say to Moses,

96 EXODUS

whoever that sinned against me I will
wipe him off from my book.

34 And now go, lead the people to
where I spake to thee: behold, my mes-
senger shall go before thee: and in the
day 01 my reviewing, and I reviewed
upon them their sin.

85 And Jehovah will smite the peo-
ple for their making the calf which
Aaron made.

CHAPTER XXXIIL

ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,

Go, come up from here, thou, and

the people which thou didst bring up

out of the land of Egypt to the land

which I sware to Abraham, to Isaak,

and to Jacob, saying, to thy seed will I
give it.

2 And I sent a messenger before thee,
and I drove out the Canaanite, the
Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Per-
izzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

3 To a land flowing with milk and
honey: for I will not go up in the midst
of thee; for thou art a people of a hard
neck; lest I shall consume thee in the

way.

4 And the people will hear this evil
word, and they will mourn: and they
put not each his ornaments upon him.

5 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Say to the sons of Israel, Ye are a peo-
ple of a hard neck: one moment I will
come up in the midst of thee, and fin-
ish thee: and now bring down thy or-
naments from thee, and I shall know
what I shall do to thee.

6 And the sons of Israel will take
ava their ornaments from mount Ho-
reb.

7 And Moses will take the tent and
stretched it from without the camp afar
off from the camp, and he called it the
tent of appointment. And it was every
one seeking Jehovah went forth to the
tent of appointment, which is from
without the camp.

8 And it was when Moses went forth
to the tent, all the people will rise up,
and they stood each at the door of his
tent, and they looked after Moses till
his going into the tent,

9 And it was as Moses went to the
tent, the pillar of the cloud came down

XXXII

and stood at the door of the tent, and
spake with’ Moses.

10 And all the people saw the pillar
of the cloud standing at the door of the
tent: and all the people rose up and wor-
shipped it, each at the door of his tent.

11 And Jehovah spake to Moses face
to face, as a man will speak to his friend.
And he turned back to the camp; and
his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a
young man, departed not from the midst
of the tent.

12 And Moses will say to Jehovah,
See, thou sayest to me, Bring up this
people: and thou madest not known to
me whom thou wilt send with me.
And thou saidst, I knew thee by name,
and also thou didst find favor in mine
eyes.

13 And now, if now I found grace in
thine eyes, make known to me now thy
way, and I shall know thee, so that I
shall find grace in thine eyes: and see
that thy people is this nation,

14 And he will say, My face and my
rest shall go to thee.

15 And he will say to him, If thy
face led them not, thou wilt not bring
us up from here.

16 And in what shall it be known
here that I found favor in thine eyes, I
and thy people? Is it not in thy go-
ing with us? and we shall be distin-
guished, I and thy people, above all the
people which are upon the face of the
earth.

17 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Also this word which thou spakest, I
will do: for thou didst find grace in
mine eyes and I shall know thee by
name,

18 And he will say, Cause me now
to see thy glory.

19 And he will say, I will cause all
my good to pass by before thee, and I
called upon the name of Jehovah be-
fore thee; and I compassionated whom
I will compassionate, and I pitied whom
I will pity.

20 And he will say, Thou shalt not
be able to see my face: for none shall
see my face, and live.

21 And Jehovah will say, Behold, a
place with me, and stand thou upon the
rock.

δ τυνώπ‏ ות

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δ νὰν»‏ ו

EXODUS XXXIV.

22°And it was in the passing by of|ated in all the earth, and in all nations;
my glory, and I put thee in a cavern of|and all the people where thou art

the rock; and 1 hedged in with my
hand upon thee till I passed by.

23 And I turned aside my hand, and
thou sawest behind me: and they shall
not see my face.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Carve to thyself two tables of
stones like as the first: and I wrote
upon the tables the words which were
upon the first tables which thou didst
brake.

2 And be prepared at morning, and
come up in the morning to mount Sinai,
and stand by me there upon the head
of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with
thee, and also a man shall not be seen
in all the mountain: also the sheep and
the cattle shall not feed before that
mountain.

4 And he will carve the two tables
of stones as the first; and Moses will
rise early in the morning, and will go
up to the mount Sinai as Jehovah com-
manded him, and he will take in his
hand the two stone tables.

5 And Jehovah will come down in a
cloud, and he will stand with him there,
and will call upon the name of Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah will pass by before
him, and Jehovah will call, Jehovah
God merciful and compassionate, defer-
ring anger, and much in kindness and
truth,

7 Watching kindness for thousands,
taking away iniquity and transgression
and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse ;
striking the iniquity of the fathers upon
the sons and upon the sons’ sons, upon
the third and the fourth,

8 And Moses will hasten and bow
down to the earth, and will worship.

9 And he will say, If now I found

among them saw the work of Jehovah:
for it is a fearful thing which I do with
thee.

11 Watch to thyself what I command
thee this day: behold me driving out
from before thee the Amorite, and the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Per-
izzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt
make a covenant with those dwelling in
the land which thou goest upon it, lest
it shall be for a snare in the midst of
thee.

13 For their altars thou shalt lay
waste, and their pillars thou shalt break,
and their images thou shalt cut off.

14 For thou shalt not worship an-
other God: for Jehovah, his name is
Jealous; he is a jealous God.

15 Lest thou shalt make a covenant
to those dwelling in the land and they
committed fornication after their gods,
and sacrificed to their gods, and call to
thee, and thou didst eat from his sacri-
fice ;

16 And thou didst take from his
daughters to thy sons, and they com-
mitted fornication after their gods, and
they made thy sons commit fornication
after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make to thee no molt-
en gods.

18 The festival of unleavened thou
shalt watch. Seven days thou shalt
eat unleavened, which I commanded
thee, for the appointment of the month
Abib: for in the month Abib thou
camest forth out of Egypt.

19 All opening the womb is to me:
all thy cattle, the male, the firstling of
the ox or sheep.

20 And the first-born of the ass thou
shalt redeem with a sheep: and if thou
shalt not ransom, thou shalt break his
ineck. Every first-born of thy sons

grace in thine eyes, my lord, my lord|thou shalt ransom, and he shall not be
will go now in the midst of us (for it is}seen before me empty.

a people of a hard neck), and forgive |

our iniquity and our sin, and take pos-
session of us.

21 Six days thou shalt work, and in
ithe seventh day thou shalt cease: and
in ploughing and in harvest thou shalt

10 And he will say, Behold, I make | cease.

a covenant before all thy people: and

99 And the festival of seven thou

I will 1 wonders which were not cre-|shalt make to thee, the first fruits of the

harvest of wheat, and the festival of
collection of the circuit of the year.

23 Three times in the year all thy
males shall be seen before the Lord Je-
hovah, the God of Israel.

24 For I will dispossess the nations
from before thee; and I enlarged thy
bound: and a man shall not desire thy
land in thy coming up to see the face
of Jehovah thy God, three times in the

ear.

25 Thou shalt not slaughter upon
leaven, the blood of my sacrifice; and
the sacrifice of the festival of the pass-
over shall not be left to morning.

26 The first of the first fruits of thy
land thou shalt bring to the house of
Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil
a kid in his mother’s milk.

27 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Write to thyself these words; for upon
the mouth of these words, I made a
covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he will be there with Jeho-
vah forty days and forty nights; he
ate not bread and drank not water.
And he will write upon the tables the
words of the covenant, the ten words.

29 And it shall be in Moses’ coming
down from the mount Sinai (and the
two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand
in his coming down from the mount)
and Moses knew not that the skin of
his face shone in his speaking with him.

80 And Aaron and all the sons of
Tsrael will see Moses, and behold, the
skin of his face shone; and they will
fear coming near to him.

81 And Moses will call to them ; and
Aaron and all the chiefs of the assem-
bly will turn back to him: and Moses
will speak to them.

82 And after this all the sons of Is-
rael drew near: and he will command
them all what Jehovah spake to him
in mount Sinai.

83 And Moses will finish speaking
to them and he will give a vail upon
his face.

84 And in Moses’ going in before
Jehovah to speak with him, he will
turn away the covering till his coming
out, And he will come forth and speak
to the sons of Israel what will be com-
manded,

EXODUS טאאא‎

85 And the sons of Israel saw the
face of Moses that the skin of Moses’
face shone: and Moses turned back the
vail upon his face till his going in to
speak with him.

CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Moses will convoke together

-\ all the assembly of the sons of
Israel, and will say to them, These the
words which Jehovah commanded to
do them.

2 Six days thou shalt do work and
in the seventh day a holy cessation, a
cessation to Jehovah: all doing work
in it shall die.

8 Ye shall not burn a fire in all
your dwellings in the day of the rest.

4 And Moses will say to all the as-
sembly of the sons of Israel, saying,
This the word which Jehovah com-
manded, saying,

5 Take ye from you an offering to
Jehovah: all of a willing heart shall
bring an offering to Jehovah; gold and
silver and brass,

6 And cerulean purple, and red pur-
ple, and double scarlet, and byssus,
and goats’ hair,

7 And skins of rams made red, and
tahash skins, and acacia wood,

8 And oil for the light, and aroma-
ties for the oil of anointing and for the
fragrant incense,

9 And stones of onyx, and stones of
filling up for the ephod, and for the
breast-plate.

10 And all the wise of heart among
you shall come, and shall do all which
Jehovah commanded ;

11 The temple, its tent, and its cover-
ing, its hooks, and its boards, its bars,
and its pillars, and its bases ;

12 The ark and its staves, the cover,
and vail of the covering ;

13 The table and its staves and all
its vessels, and the bread of the face;

14 And the chandelier of the light,
and its vessels, and its lamps, and the
oil of the light;

15 And the altar of incense, and its
staves, and the oil of anointing, and the
incense of aromatics, and the covering
of the door at the door of the temple ;

16 The altar of burnt-offering, and

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the grate of brass which is to it, its
staves, and all its vessels, and the wash-
basin and its base ;

17 The curtains of the enclosure, its
pillars, its bases, and the covering of
the gate of the enclosure;

18 And the pegs of the temple, and
the pegs of the enclosure and their
cords ;

19 The garments of service to serve
in the holy place; the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons to be priests.

20 And all the assembly of the sons of
Israel will go forth from before Moses.

21 And they will come, every man
whose heart lifted him up and every
one whose spirit impelled him, and
they brought the offering of Jehovah
to the work of the tent of appointment,
and for all its work, and for the gar-
ments of the holy place.

22 And they will come, the men
with the women, all of a willing heart,
they brought rings, and ear-rings, and
seals, and globules of gold, all vessels
of gold: and every man who lifted up
a waving of gold to Jehovah.

23 And every man with whom was
found cerulean purple, and red purple,
and double scarlet, and byssus, and
goats’ hair, and skins of rams made red,
and tahash skins, brought.

24 All litting up an offering of sil-
ver and brass, brought the offering of
Jehovah: and all with whom was
found acacia wood for all the work of
the service, brought.

25 And every woman wise of heart
spun with her hands, and they will
bring the spinning, the cerulean purple,
and the red purple, the double scarlet
and the byssus.

26 And all the women whose heart
was lifted up in wisdom, spun goats’
hair.

27 And the chiefs brought stones of
onyx, and stones of filling up for the
ephod, and for the breast-plate.

28 And spice and oil for the light
and for the oil of anointing, and for the
incense of aromatics.

29 Every man and woman whose
heart impelled them to bring for all the
work which Jehovah commanded to 6

done by the hand of Moses, the sons of
Israel brought a voluntary gift to Je-
hovah.

80 And Moses will say to the sons of
Israel, See, Jehovah called by name
Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah.

31 And he will fill him with the
spirit of God, in wisdom, in understand-
ing, and in knowledge, and in all work;

82 And to invent works of skill, to
work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

33 And in working stone for filling
in, and in working wood, to work in all
work of works of skill.

34 He gave in his heart to teach, he
and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of
the tribe of Dan.

35 He filled them with wisdom of
heart, to do all the work of engraving,
of imventing, and variegating in cerule-
an purple, and in red purple, and in
double scarlet, and in byssus, and of
weaving, and of those doing all work,
and of those devising works of skill.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
ND Bezaleel made, and Aholiab,

Ἃ and every man wise of heart, to
whom Jehovah gave wisdom and un-
standing in them to know to do all the
work of service of the holy place ac-
cording to all which Jehovah com-
manded.

2 And Moses will call to Bezaleel
and to Aholiab, and to every man wise
of heart, to whom Jehovah gave wis-
dom in his heart, every one who lifted
up his heart to draw near to the work
to do it:

3 And they will take from before
Moses all the offering which the sons of
Israel brought for the work of the ser-
vice of the holy place to do it. And
they brought to him yet a voluntary
gift in the morning by morning.

4 And all the wise will come, doing

the work of the holy place; a man a
man from his work which they were
doing.
5 And they will say to Moses, saying,
The people are multiplying to bring
more than enough to the service for the
work which Jehovah commanded to
do it.

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6 And Moses will command, and
they will make a voice pass through in
the camp, saying, A man and woman
shall do no more work for the offermg
of the holy place. And the people will
withhold from bringing.

7 And the work was enough for all
the work to do it, and more than enough.

8 And all the wise of heart will work
in doing the work of the temple: ten
curtains of twisted byssus and cerulean
purple, and red purple, and double scar-
let; cherubs a skilful work he made
them.

9 The length of the one curtain, eight
and twenty by the cubit, and the
breadth, four by the cubit of the one
curtain: one length to all the curtains.

10 And he will bind together the five
curtains, the one to the one: and the
curtains he joined the one to the one.

11 And he will make loops of cerulean

urple upon the lip of the one curtain
yon the end from the joining: thus he
made in the lip of the last curtain in
the joming of the second.

12 Fifty loops he made in the one
curtain, and fifty loops he made im the
end of the curtain which is in the join-
ing of the second; the loops being over
against the one to the one.

13 And he shall make fifty gold
hooks, and shall join together the cur-
tains, one to the one, with the hooks:
and it shall be one temple.

14 And he shall make curtains of
goats’ hair for the tent over the temple:
eleven curtains he made them.

15 The length of the one curtain
thirty by the cubit, and four cubits the
breadth of the one curtain: one length
to the eleven curtains.

16 And he will join five curtains by
themselves, and six curtains by them-
selves.

17 And he will make fifty loops upon
the lip of the curtain the extreme part
in the joining, and fifty loops he made
upon the lip of the curtain joining the
second. aa

18 And he will make fifty brass
hooks to join the tent together to be one.

19 And he will make a covering for
the tent, skins of rams made red, and a
covering of tahash skins from above.

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20 And he will make boards for the
temple of acacia wood, standing up.

21 Ten cubits the length of the board,
and a cubit and a half a cubit, the
breadth of the one board.

29 סא"‎ hands to the one board,
joined together one to the one: thus he
made for all the boards of the temple.

23 And he will make boards for the
temple, twenty boards for the south side
southward.

24 And forty bases of silver, he made
the twenty boards; two bases under the
one board, for its two hands, and two
bases under one board for its two hands.

25 And for the second rib of the tem-

le for the north side, he made twenty
oards,

26 And their forty bases of silver;
two bases under the one board, and two
bases under the one board.

27 And for the hinder parts of the
temple to the sea he made six boards.

28 And two boards he made for the
angles of the temple in the hinder parts.

29 And they were double from be-
neath, and they will be joined, they
will be complete at its head to the one
ring; thus he did to two of them for
the two angles.

30 And there were eight boards; and
their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two
bases, two bases under the one board.

31 And he will make bars of acacia
wood; five for the boards of the one
rib of the temple,

82 And five bars for the second rib
of the temple, and five bars for the
boards of the temple, for the hinder
parts to the sea.

33 And he made the middle bar to
pass through in the midst of the boards
from the end to the end.

34 And he spread over the boards
with gold, and he made their rings of
gold, the inner parts for the bars, and
he will spread over the bars with gold.

85 And he will make a vail of ceru-
lean purple, red purple, double scarlet
and twisted byssus: a skilful work he
made it cherubs.

36 And he will make to it four aca-
cia pillars, and he will spread them over
with gold: and their pegs gold; and
he cast for them four bases of silver,

EXODUS

87 And he will make a covering for
the door of the tent of cerulean purple,
and red purple, and double scarlet, and
twisted byssus, a variegated work;

38 And its five pillars and their pegs:
and he spread over their heads and
their joinings with gold; and their five
bases brass.

CHAPTER XXXVII.
ND Bezaleel will make the ark

acacia wood: two cubits and a
half its length, and a cubit and a half
its breadth, and a cubit and a half its
height.

2 And he will spread it over with
pure gold within and without, and he
will make to it a gold wreath round
about.

3 And he will cast for it four rings
of gold over its four steps, and two
rings upon its one rib, and two rings
upon its second rib.

4 And he will make poles of acacia
wood, and he will spread them over
with gold.

5 And he will bring the bars into the
rings over the ribs of the ark to lift up
the ark.

6 And he will make the cover of
pure gold: two cubits and a, half its
length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

7 And he will make two cherubs of
gold of turned work; he made them
from the two ends of the cover.

8 One cherub from the end from this,
and one cherub from the end from this:
out of the cover he made the cherubs
out of its two ends.

9 And the cherubs shall be spreading
out the wings from upwards, covering
with their wings over the cover, and
their faces each to his brother: to the
cover were the faces of the cherubs.

10 And he will make the table acacia
wood: two cubits its length, and a cu-
bit its breadth, and a cubit and a half
its height.

11 And he will spread it over with
pure gold, and he will make to it a
wreath of gold round about.

12 And he will make to it a border
a hand breadth round about; and he
will make a wreath of gold for its en-
closing round about,

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13 And he will cast for it four rings
of gold, and set the rings upon the four
sides which are for its four feet.

14 Over against the border were the
rings, the inner parts for the poles to
lift up the table.

15 And he will make the poles of
acacia wood, and he will spread them
over with gold to lift up the table.

16 And he will make the vessels
which are upon the table, its dishes,
and its pans, and its bowls, and its
hbation cups which poured out in
them, of pare gold.

17 He will make the chandelier pure
gold; turned work he made the chan-
delier ; its thigh and its stem, its bowls,
its chaplets and its flowers were from it.

18 And six stems coming forth out
of its sides; three stems of the chande-
lier from the one side, and three stems
of the chandelier from the second side.

19 Three bowls made like almonds,
in the one stem, a chaplet and a flower ;
and three bowls made like almonds, in
one stem, a chaplet and a flower: thus
for the six stems coming forth out of
the chandelier.

20 And in the chadelier four bowls
made like almonds, its chaplets and its
flowers.

21 And a chaplet under two stems
out of it, and a chaplet under two
stems out of it, and a chaplet under
two stems out of it, for the six stems
coming forth out of it.

22 Their chaplets and their stems
were out of it: all of it a turned work
of pure gold.

23 He will make its seven lamps and
its snuffers, and its fire pans of pure
gold.

24 A talent of pure gold he made it
and all its vessels.

25 He will make the altar of incense
of acacia wood: a cubit its length and
a cubit its breadth; quadrated; and
two cubits its height; out of it were
its horns.

26 And he will spread it over with
pure gold, its top and its walls round
about, and its horns: and he will make
to it a wreath of ₪010 round about.

27 And two rings of gold he made
to it from underneath for its wreath,

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upon its two ribs, upon its two sides
for the inner parts for the poles to lift
it up by them.

28 And he will make the poles of
acacia wood, and he will spread them
over with gold.

29 And he will make the holy oil
of anointing and the pure incense of
aromatics, the work of the perfumer.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
ND he will make the altar of
burnt-offering of acacia wood:
five cubits its length, and five cubits its
breadth ; four-square; and three cubits
its height.

2 And he will make its horns upon its
four faces ; from out of it were its horns:
and he will spread it over with brass.

3 And he will make all the vessels
of the altar, the pots and the shovels
and the vases and the forks, and the fire
pans; all its vessels he made of brass.

4 And he will make for the altar a
erate of brass net worl: under 118 bor-
der from below; even to the half
of it.

5 And he will cast four rings for the
four ends for the grate of brass, the in-
ner parts for the poles.

6 And he will make the bars of aca-
cia wood; and he will spread them
over with brass.

7 And he will bring the bars into
the rings upon the ribs of the altar to
lift it up by them; he made it hollow.

8 And he will make the wash-basin
of brass, and its foot of brass, in the
sight of those coming who came to the
door of the tent of appointment.

9 And he will make the enclosure:
to the south side southward, the cur-
tains of the enclosure twisted byssus, a
hundred cubits.

10 Their pillars twenty, and their
brass bases twenty ; the pegs of the pil-
lars and their joinings, of silver.

11 And for the north side, a hundred
by the cubit, their pillars twenty, and
their bases twenty: the pegs of the pil-
lars and their joinings, of silver.

12 And for the side of the sea, the
curtains fifty by the cubit, their pillars
ten, and their bases ten; the pegs of the
pillars, and their joinings, of silver.

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13 And for the east side from the
sun rising, fifty cubits.

14 The curtains fifteen cubits to the
side; their pillars three, and their bases
three.

15 And for the second side, from
hence and from thence, for the gate of
the enclosure the curtains fifteen cubits ;
their pillars three, and their bases three.

16 All the curtains of the enclosure
round about, twisted byssus.

17 And the bases for the pillars, brass ;
the pegs of the pillars and their join-
ings, silver; and the overspreading their
heads, silver; and all the pillars of the
enclosure, their joinings, silver.

18 And the covering of the gate of
the enclosure a variegated work, ceru-
lean purple, and red purple, and double
scarlet, and twisted byssus: and twenty
cubits the length, and the height in
breadth, five cubits, even as the cur-
tains of the enclosure.

19 And their pillars four, and their
bases four, of brass; and their pegs of
silver, and the spreading over the heads
and their joinings of silver.

20 And all the pegs for the temple
and for the enclosure round about of
brass.

21 These the mandates of the temple,
the temple of the testimony which was
reviewed according to the mouth of
Moses, the service of the Levites by the
hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the
priest.

22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made
all that Jehovah commanded Moses.

23 And with him Aholiab, the son
of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an
engraver and an artificer, and variega-
tor in cerulean purple, and in red pur-
ple, and in double scarlet, and in byssus.

24 All the gold wrought for the work
in all the works of the holy place, ana
the gold of the waving, will be nine ana
twenty talents, and seven bundred and
thirty shekels, by the shekel of the holy
place.

25 And the silver of those being re-
viewed of the assembly, a hundred tal-
ents, and a thousand seven hundred
and five and seventy shekels, by the
shekel of the holy place.

EXODUS XXXIX.

26 A bekah for a head, being half of a
shekel by the shekel of the holy place,
for all passing through upon reviewing,
from the son of twenty years and from
above, for six hundred thousand and
three thousand and five hundred and
fifty.

27 And the hundred talents of silver
shall be to cast the bases of the holy
place, and the bases of the vail; a hun-
dred bases to the hundred talents, a
talent to a base.

28 And the thousand seven hundred
and five and seventy, he made pegs for
the pillars, and spread over their heads
and joined them.

29 And the brass of the waving, sev-
enty talents, and two thousand and four
hundred shekels.

80 And he will make with it the
bases to the door of the tent of appoint-
ment, and the altar of brass, and the
grate of brass which is to it, and all the
vessels of the altar.

81 And the bases of the enclosure
round about, and the bases of the gate
of the enclosure, and all the pegs of the
temple, and all the pegs of the enclo-
sure round about.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

ND from the cerulean purple, and

the red purple, and the double

scarlet, they made garments of stuff to

serve in the holy place; and they will

make the garments of the holy place

which are for Aaron, as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

2 And he will make the ephod, gold,
cerulean purple, red purple, and double
scarlet, and twisted byssus.

3 And they will beat out the plates
of gold, and it was eut off threads to
work in the midst of the cerulean pur-
ple, and in the midst of the red purple,
and in the midst of the double scarlet,
and in the midst of the byssus, a skl-
ful work.

4 Shoulders they made to it to join
together: upon its two ends it was
joined together.

5 And the girdle of his ephod which
is upon it, this from out of it according
to its work; gold, cerulean purple, and
red purple, and double scarlet, and

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twisted byssus, as Jehovah commanded
Moses.

6 And they will make stones of onyx
turned in textures of gold, engraved
with engravings of a seal, with the
names of the sons of Israel.

7 He will put them upon the shoul-
ders of the ephod, stones of remembrance
to the sons of Israel, as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

8 And he will make the breast-plate
a skilful work, as the work of the eph-
od; gold, cerulean purple, aud red pur-
ple, and double scarlet, and twisted
byssus.

9 It was four-square ; they made the
breast-plate double: a span its length,
and a span its breadth; double.

10 And they will fill in it four rows
of stone: a row, a ruby, a topaz and an
emerald, the one row.

11 And the second row, a carbuncle,
a sapphire, and an onyx.

12 The third row, amber, agate and
amethyst.

18 The fourth row, chrysolite, sard-
onyx, and jasper: surrounded in tex-
tures of gold in their fillings in,

14 And the stones according to the
names of the sons of Israel; they are
twelve according to their names, the
engravings of a seal each, according to
his name for the twelve tribes.

15 And they will make upon the
breast-plate, chains, wreathen, a work
of interweaving of pure gold.

16 They will make two textures of
gold, and two rings of gold, and they
will set the two rings upon the two
ends of the breast-plate.

17 And they will set the two inter-
weavings of gold upon the two rings
upon the ends of the breast-plate.

18 And the two ends of the two in-
terweavings they set upon the two tex-
tures, and they will put them upon the
shoulders of the ephod, to the front of
its face.

19 And they will make two rings of
gold, and will put upon the two ends of
the breast-plate, upon its lips, which are
to the other side of the ephod within it.

20 And they will make two rings of
gold, and will set them upon the two
shoulders of the ephod from below, from

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the front of its face over against its
joinings, from above the girdle of the
ephod.

21 And they will bind on the breast-
plate by its rings to the rings of the
ephod, by a thread of cerulean purple,
to be upon the girdle of the ephod, and
the breast-plate shall not be moved
from the ephod; as Jehovah command-
ed Moses.

22 And he will make the robe of the
ephod a woven work, all cerulean pur-

le.

23 And the mouth of the robe in the
midst of it as the mouth of a coat of
mail, a lip to its mouth round about, it
shall not rend.

24 And they will make upon the
skirts of the robe, pomegranates, ceru-
lean purple, and red purple, and twined
double scarlet.

25 And they will make bells of pure
gold, and will set the bells between the
pomegranates upon the skirts of the
robe, round about between the pome-
granates.

26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell
and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of
the robe round about, to serve ; as Jeho-
vah commanded Moses.

27 And they will make tunics of bys-
sus, a woven work, for Aaron and for
his sons.

28 And the turbans of byssus, and
the beautiful caps of byssus, and the
drawers of thread of twisted byssus.

29 And the belt of twisted byssus,
and cerulean purple, and red purple,
and double scarlet, a variegated work ;
as Jehovah commanded Moses.

80 And they will make a brightness,
a diadem of the holy place of pure gold,
and they will write upon it a writing,
the engravings fo a seal, HOLY TO
JEHOVAH.

31 And they will set upon it a thread
cerulean purple to give upon the tur-
ban from above; as Jehovah command-
ed Moses,

32 And all the work of the dwelling
of the tent of appomtment will be com-
pleted: and the sons of Israel will do
aceording to all which Jehovah com-
manded Moses: thus did they.

33 And they will bring the dwelling

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to Moses, the tent and all its vessels;
its hooks, its boards, its bars, and its
pillars, and its bases ;

34 And the covering of skins of rams
emade red, and the covering of tahash
skins, and the vail of the covering ;

35 The ark of the testimony and its
bars, and the cover ;

86 The table and all its vessels, and
the bread of the face;

87 The pure chandelier, and its
lamps; the lamps being set in order,
and all its vessels, and the oil of the
light ;

38 And the altar of gold and the oil
of anointing, and the incense of aroma-
tics, and the covering for the door of
the tent ;

39 The altar of brass, and the grate
of brass which is to it, its bars and all
its vessels, and the wash-basin and its
foot ;

40 The curtains of the enclosure, its
pillars, and its bases, and the covering
for the gate of the enclosure, its cords,
and its pegs, and all the vessels of the
service of the dwelling for the tent of
appointment ;

41 The garments of stuff to serve in
the holy place, and the garments of the
holy place for Aaron the priest, and the
garments of his sons to be priests.

42 According to all which Jehovah
commanded Moses, thus the sons of
Israel did all the work. i

43 And Moses will see all the work,
and behold, they made it as Jehovah
commanded, thus did they: and Moses
praised them.

CHAPTER XL.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying, ᾿
_ 2In the day of the first month, in
the one of the month, thou shalt raise
up the dwelling of the tent of the ap-
pointment.

3 And put there the ark of the tes-
timony, and cover over the ark with
the vail.

4 And bring in the table and arrange
its arrangement; and bring in the chan-
delier and raise up its lamps.

5 And set the altar of gold for mn--
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and put the covering of the door to the
dwelling.

6 And set the altar of the burnt-of-
fering before the door of the dwelling
of the tent of appointment.

7 And set the wash-basin between
the tent of appointment and between
the altar, and set water there.

8 And put the enclosure round about,
and give the covering of the gate of the
enclosure.

9 And take the oil of anointing, and
anoint the dwelling and all that is in it,
and consecrate it, and all its vessels:
and it was holy.

10 And anoint the altar of burnt-of-
fering and all its vessels, and consecrate
the altar: and the altar was the holy
of holies.

11 And anoint the wash-basin and its
foot, and consecrate it.

12 And bring near Aaron and his
sons to the door of the tent of appoint-
ment and wash them in water.

13 And put upon Aaron the garments
of the holy place, and anoint him and
consecrate him ; and he was priest to me.

14 And his sons thou shalt bring
near, and put tunics upon them.

15 And anoint them as thou didst
anoint their father, and they were
priests to me; and it was to be to them
an anointing for the priesthood forever
for their generations.

16 And Moses will do according to
all which Jehovah commanded him;
so did he.

17 And it will be in the first month,

in the second year, in the one of the
month, the dwelling was raised up.

18 And Moses will raise up the
dwelling and will set its bases, and
will put up its boards, and will give its
bars, and will raise up its pillars.

19 And he will spread out the tent
upon the dwelling, and will put the cov-
ering of the tent upon it from above;
as Jehovah commanded Moses.

20 And he will take and give the
testimony to the ark, and will put the
poles upon the ark and will give the
cover upon the ark from above.

21 And he will bring the ark to the
dwelling and will put up the vail of
the covering, and he will cover over

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the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah
commanded Moses.

22 And he will give the table in the
tent of appointment, upon the thigh of
the dwelling northward from without
the vail.

23 And he will set in order upon it
the arrangement for the bread before
Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Mo-
ses.

24 And he put the chandelier in the
tent of appointment, opposite the table,
upon the thigh of the dwelling south-
ward.

25 And he will raise up the lamps
before Jehovah, as Jehovah command-
ed Moses.

26 And he will put the altar of gold
in the tent of appointment, before the
vail.

27 And he will burn upon it incense
of aromatics; as Jehovah commanded
Moses.

28 And he will put up the covering
of the door of the dwelling.

29 And the altar of burnt-offering
he put at the door of the dwelling of
the tent of appointment, and he will
bring up upon it the burnt-offering
and the gift; as Jehovah commanded
Moses,

30 And he will put up the wash-
basin between the tent of appointment
and between the altar, and he will give
there water to wash.

31 And Moses and Aaron and his
sons washed from it their hands and
their feet :

32 In their going into the tent of
appointment, and in their drawing near
to the altar, they will wash; as Jeho-
vah commanded Moses.

83 And he will raise up the enclosure
round about to the dwelling and to the
altar, and he will give the covering of
the gate of the enclosure: and Moses
will finish the work.

84 And a cloud will cover the tent of
appointment, and the glory of Jehovah
filled the dwelling.

35 And Moses was not able to come
in to the tent of appointment, for the
cloud settled down upon it, and the
glory of Jehovah filled the dwelling.

86 And in the going up of the cloud

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from above the dwelling, the sons of
Israel removed in all their departures.

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38 For the cloud of Jehovah was
upon the dwelling the day, and fire was

37 And if the cloud shall not go up,|upon it the night, in the eyes of all
they will not remove till the day it|the house of Israel in all their depart-

went up.

ures.

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CHAPTER ia
ND Jehovah will call to Moses,
and speak to him from the tent
of appointment, saying,

2 Speal to the sons of Israel and say
to them, A. man when he shall bring
near from you an offering to Jehovah,
from the cattle, from the oxen and from
the sheep, ye shall bring near your of-
fering.

3 Ifa burnt-offering, his sacrifice from
the oxen, a blameless male: they shall
bring it near to the door of the tent of
appointment; he shall bring it near ac-
cording to his will before Jehovah.

4 And he placed his hand upon the
head of the burnt-offering, and it was
accepted for him to expiate for him.

5 And he slaughtered the son of the
cow before Jehovah: and the sons of
Aaron the priests brought near the
blood, and they sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about, which is at
the door of the tent of appointment.

6 And he flayed the burnt-offering,

and cut in pieces according to its pieces. |

7 And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
gave fire upon the altar, and arranged
the wood upon the fire.

8 And Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall
arrange the pieces, the head and the
fat, wpon the wood which is upon the
fire which is upon the altar.

9 And its bowels and its legs he shall
wash in water: and the priest burnt all
upon the altar, a burnt-offering a sacri-
fice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah. |

10 And if from the sheep his offer-
ing, from the lambs, or from the goats,
for a burnt-offering; a blameless male
he shall bring it near.

11 And he slaughtered it upon the

thigh of the altar, northward before Je-
hovah: and Aaron’s sons, the priests,
sprinkled his blood upon the altar
round about.

12 And he cut it in pieces, according
to its pieces, and his head and his fat:
and the priest arranged them upon the
wood which is upon the fire which is
upon the altar:

13 And the bowels and the legs he
shall wash in water: and the priest
shall bring near all, and burn upon the
altar: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice,
an odor of sweetness to Jehovah.

14 And if from the birds he brought
near a burnt-offering to Jehovah, and
he brought near from the turtle-doves,
or from the sons of the dove his offering,

15 And the priest brought it near to
the altar, and broke off the head, and
burnt upon the altar: and pressed out
its blood upon the wall of the altar.

16 And he took away the crop with
its feathers, and cast it at the side of the
altar eastward, at the place of the ashes.

17 And he cleft it with its wings;
he shall not divide; and the priest
burnt it upon the altar, upon the wood
which is upon the fire: it is a burnt-
offering, a sacrifice, an odor of sweet-
ness to Jehovah.

CHAPTER IL
ND when a soul shall bring near
an offering, a gift to Jehovah, his
offering shall be fine flour; and he
shall pour oil upon it, and give frank-
incense upon it.

2 And he brought it to Aaron’s sons
the priests: and he pressed together
from it his hand full from its fine flour,
and from its oil, upon all its frank-

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incense, and the priest burnt its memo-
rial upon the altar, a sacrifice, an odor
of sweetness to Jehovah.

8 And the remainder from the gift,
to Aaron and his sons; holy of holies
from the sacrifice to Jehovah.

4 And when thou shalt bring an of-
fering, a gift, a baking of the oven, fine
flour of unleavened cakes mingled with
oil, and thin unleavened cakes anointed
with oil.

5 And if a gift upon the frying pan
their offering, fine flour mingled with
oil, unleavened it shall be.

6 Break it to bits and pour oil upon
it: it is a gilt.

7 And if a gift of the pot thine offer-
ing, fine flour with oil it shall be made.

8 And bring the gift which shall be
made from these to Jehovah: and bring
it near to the priest, and he brought it
near to the altar.

9 And the priest lifted up from the
gift its memorial, and burnt upon the
altar: a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness
to Jehovah.

10 And the remainder from the gift
for Aaron and for his sons: holy of ho-
lies, from the sacrifices to Jehovah.

11 Every gift which ye shall bring
near to Jehovah shall not be made
leavened: for all leaven and all honey
ye shall not burn from it a sacrifice to
Jehovah.

12 The offering of the first fruits ye
shall bring them near to Jehovah: and
to the altar they shall not go up for an
odor of sweetness.

13 And every offering of thy gift,
thou shalt salt with salt; and thou shalt
not cause the salt of the covenant of thy
God to cease from thy gift: upon every
offermg of thine thou shalt bring near
salt.

14 And if thou shalt bring near a
gift of the first fruits to Jehovah, green
ears parched in the fire, grits of early
grain crushed shalt thou bring near, the
gift of thy first fruits.

15 And give oil upon it and put
frankincense upon: it is a gift.

16 And the priest burnt its memorial
from its crushing and from its oil, upon
all its frankincense: a sacrifice to Je-

hoyah:

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CHAPTER IIL
ND if his offering a sacrifice of
peace, if from the oxen he is
bringing near, if a male, if a female,
blameless shall he bring it near before
Jehovah.

2 And he placed his hand upon the
head of his offering, and slaughtered it
at the door of the tent of appointment:
and Aaron’s sons the priests sprinkled
the blood upon the altar round about.

3 And he brought from the sacrifice
of peace a sacrifice to Jehovah; the fat
covering the bowels, and all the fat
which is upon the bowels,

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat
which is upon them, which is upon the
loins, and the lobe upon the liver, upon
the kidneys, he shall take away.

5 And Aaron’s sons burnt it upon
the altar, upon the burnt-offering which
is upon the wood, which is upon the
fire: a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to
Jehovah.

6 And if from the sheep his offering
for a sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, a
male or a female, blameless he shall
bring it.

7 If he is bringing a lamb his offer-
ing, he brought it before Jehovah.

8 And he placed his hand upon the
head of his offering, and slaughtered it
before the tent of appointment. And
the sons of Aaron sprinkled the blood
upon the altar round about.

9 And he brought from the sacrifice
of peace a sacrifice to Jehovah : its fat
of the whole fat tail, with the back bone,
shall he take it away; and the fat cov-
ering the bowels, and all the fat which
is upon the bowels,

10 And the two kidneys, and the fat
which is upon them, which is upon the
loins, and the lobe upon the liver, upon
the kidneys, he shall take it away.

11 And the priest burnt it upon the
altar: the bread of the sacrifice to Je-
hovah.

12 And if a goat his offering, and he
offered it before Jehovah.

13 And he placed his hand upon his
head and slaughtered it before the tent
of appointment: and Aaron’s sons
sprinkled the blood upon the altar
round about.

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14 And he brought from it his offer-
ing, a sacrifice to Jehovah; the fat coy-
ering the bowels, and all the fat which
is upon the bowels,

15 And the two kidneys, and the fat
which is upon them, which is upon the
loins, and the lobe upon the liver, upon
the kidneys, he will take it away.

16 And the priest burnt them upon
the altar; the bread of the sacrifice for
an odor of sweetness: all the fat to Je-
hoyah.

17 A law forever to your generations
in all your dwellings, all the fat and all
the blood, ye shall not eat.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
When a soul shall sin in error from all
the commands of Jehovah which shall
not be done, and doing from after any
of them: \

3 If the priest being anointed shall
sin according to the guilt of the people ;
and he brought for his sin which he
sinned, a bullock, the son of a cow,
blameless to Jehovah for the sin.

4 And he brought the bullock to the
door of the tent of appointment, before
Jehovah; and he placed his hand upon
the head of the bullock, and slaughtered
the bullock before Jehovah.

5 And the priest being anointed,
took the blood of the bullock, and
brought it to the tent of appointment.

6 And the priest dipped his finger
in the blood, and sprinkled from the
blood seven times before Jehovah,
before the vail of the holy place.

7 And the priest gave from the
blood upon the horns of the altar of
the incense of aromatics before Jeho-
vah, which isin the tent of appointment ;
and all the blood of the bullock he
shall pour out at the foundation of the
altar of burnt-offering, which is at the
door of the tent of appointment.

8 And all the fat of the bullock of
the sin, he shall lift up from it: the fat
covering over the bowels, and all the
fat, which is upon the bowels.

9 And the two kidneys, and the fat
which is upon them, which is upon the

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loins, and the lobe upon the liver,
upon the kidneys, he shall take it
away,

10 As it shall be lifted up from the
bullock of the sacrifice of peace: and
the priest burnt them upon the altar of
burnt-offering.

11 And the skin of the bullock and
all its flesh with its head and with its
legs, and its bowels and its dung,

12 And he brought forth all the
bullock to from without the camp to a
clean place, to the pouring out of the
ashes, and burnt it upon the wood in
fire: upon the pouring out of the ashes
it shall be burnt.

13 And if all the assembly of Israel
shall err, and the word was hid from
the eyes of the assembly, and they did
behind from the commands of Jehovah,
which shall not be done, and they were
guilty,

14 And the sin which they sinned
against it being known, and the assem-
bly brought a bullock, the son of a
cow, for the sin, and they brought it
before the tent of appointment.

15 And the old men of the assembly
placed their hands upon the head of
the bullock before Jehovah: and
slaughtered the bullock before Jehovah.

16 And the priest being anointed
brought the blood of the bullock to
the tent of appointment.

17 And the priest dipped his finger
from the blood and sprinkled seven
times before Jehovah, before the vail.

18 And from the blood he will give
upon the horns of the altar, which is
before Jehovah in the tent of appoint-
ment, and he shall pour out all the
blood at the foundation of the altar of
the burnt-offering, which is at the door
of the tent of appointment.

19 And he shall lift up all the fat
from it, and he burnt it upon the
altar.

20 And he did to the bullock as he
did to the bullock of sin, thus he did
to it; and the priest shall expiate for
them, and it was forgiven to them.

21 And he brought forth the bul-
lock from without the camp, and he
burnt it as he burnt the first bullock:
it is the sin of the assembly : ΄

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22 When a chief shall sin, and do
one from all the commands of Jehovah
his God, which he shall not do im err-
ing, and being guilty,

23 Or his sin being made known to
him while he sinned in it; and he
brought his offering, a he goat of the
goats, a blameless male.

24 And he placed his hand upon the
head of the goat, in the place where he
shall slaughter the burnt-offering before
Jehovah: it is sin.

25 And the priest took from the
blood of the sin with his finger, and
gave upon the horns of the altar of the
burnt-offering, and he shall pour out
the blood at the foundation of the altar
of the burnt-offering.

26 And all the fat he shall burn
upon the altar as the fat of the sacrifice
of peace: and the priest expiated for him
from his sin, and it was forgiven to
him.

27 And if one shall sin from the peo-
ple of the land in erring, in doing one
from the commands of Jehovah which
shall not be done, and being guilty ;

28 Or his sin being made known to
him which he sinned: and he brought
a she goat of the goats, a blameless fe-
male for his sin which he sinned.

29 And he placed his hand upon the
head of the sin, and he slaughtered the
sin in the place of the burnt-offering.

30 And the priest took from its blood
with his finger, and gave upon the horns
of the altar of the burnt-offering; and
all the blood he will pour out at the
foundation of the altar.

31 And all the fat he will take away,
as the fat shall be taken away from the
sacrifice of peace; and the priest burnt
upon the altar, for an odor of sweetness
to Jehovah: and the priest shall expiate
for him, and it shall be forgiven to
him.

82 And if he shall bring a lamb his
offering for sin, a blameless female shall
he bring.

33 And he placed his hand upon the
head of the sin, and slaughtered it for
sin, in the place where he will slaugh-
ter the burnt-offering.

34 And the priest took from the blood
of the sin with his finger, and gave

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upon the horns of the altar of the burnt-
offering ; and all its blood he will pour
out at the foundation of the altar.

35 And all the fat he shall take away,
as the fat of the lamb from the sacrifice
of peace shall be taken away; and the
priest burnt them upon the altar for
sacrifices of Jehovah: and the priest
expiated for him for his sin which he
sinned, and it was forgiven to him.

CHAPTER V.
ND when a soul shall sin, and he
heard the voice of an oath, and
he a witness, if he saw or knew; if he
shall not announce, he bore his sin.

2 Or when a soul shall touch upon
any unclean thing, if upon a carcase of
an unclean beast, or upon the carcase
of unclean cattle, or upon the carcase
of an unclean creeping thing, and it
was hidden from him: and he is un-
clean and guilty.

3 Or when he shall touch upon the
uncleanness of man, for all uncleanness
which he shall be unclean in it, and it
was hidden from him; and he shall
know, and be guilty.

4 Or when a soul shall swear to talk
idly with his lips for evil, or for good,
for all which the man shall talk idly
with an oath, and it was hid from him ;
and he shall know, and be guilty for
one from these.

5 And it was when he shall be guilty
for one from these, and he shall confess
that he sinned upon it.

6 And he brought his trespass to Je-
hovah for his sin which he sinned, a
female from the sheep, a lamb or she
goat of the goats, for the sin; and the
priest expiated for him from his sin,

7 And if his hand shall not reach the
sufficiency of a sheep, and he brought
his trespass which he sinned, two turtle-
doves, or two sons of a doye, to Jeho-
vah; one for the sin, and one for the
burnt-offering.

8 And he brought them to the priest,
and he brought near that for the sin
first, and broke off its head from the
front of its neck ; and he shall not divide.

9 And he sprinkled from the blood of
the sin upon the wall of the altar ; and
that remaining of the blood he shall

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press out at the foundation of the altar :
it is sin.

10 And the second he shall make a
burnt-offering according to the judg-
ment: and the priest expiated for him
from his sin which he sinned, and it was
forgiven to him.

11 And if his hand shall not reach to
the two turtle-doves, or to the two sons
of a dove; and he brought his offering
who sinned, the tenth of the ephah of
fine flour for the sin; he shall not put
oil upon it, and he shall not give frank-
incense upon it; for it is sin.

12 And he brought it to the priest,
and the priest pressed from it his hand
full, its memorial, and burnt upon the
altar for sacrifices to Jehovah: it is
sin.

13 And the priest shall expiate for
him for his sin which he sinned, from
one from these; and it was forgiven to
him: and it was to the priest for a gift.

14 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

15 When a soul shall cover transgres-
sion and sin in erring from the holy
things of Jehovah; and he brought his
trespass to Jehovah, a blameless ram
from the sheep, by thy estimation of
shekels of silver, by the shekel of the
holy place, for the trespass.

16 And what he sinned from the holy
place he shall recompense, and he shall
add its fifth upon it, and he gave it to
the priest: and the priest shall expiate
for him with the ram of the trespass,
and it was forgiven to him.

17 And if a soul shall sin and do one
from all the commands of Jehovah
which shall not be done; and he knew
not, and he was guilty, and bore his sin.

18 And he brought a blameless ram
from the sheep, by thy estimation, for
the trespass to the priest ; and the priest
expiated for him for his error which he
erred and he knew not; and it was for-
given to him.

19 It is guilt: being guilty, he tres-
passed to Jehovah.

20 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

21 When a soul shall sin and cover
a transgression against Jehovah, and 116
against his neighbor in a deposit, or in

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trust of the hand, or in robbery, or op-
pressing his neighbor ;

22 Or he found the lost thing, and
hed concerning it, and swore upon false-
hood; upon one of all which the man
will do, for sinning in them.

23 And it was when he shall sin and
being guilty, and he turned back the
robbery which he robbed, or the oppres-
sion which he oppressed, or the deposit
which was deposited with him, or the
lost thing which he found,

24 Or from all which he shall swear
upon it for falsehood; and he recom-
pensed it in its head, and he shall add
its fifth part upon it, and he shall give
it to whom it is to him, in the day of
his trespass.

25 And he shall bring his trespass to
Jehovah, a blameless ram from the sheep
by thy estimation, for the trespass, to
the priest.

26 And the priest expiated for him
before Jehovah ; and it was forgiven to
him for one from all which he shall do
for being guilty in it.

CHAPTER. VI.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Command Aaron and his sons, say-
ing, This the law of the burnt-offering :
it is the burnt-offering upon its burning
upon the altar all the night till the
morning; and the fire of the altar shall
burn upon it.

3 And the priest put on his garment
of thread, and his drawers of thread he
shall put upon his flesh, and he took up
the ashes which the fire shall consume,
with the burnt-offering upon the altar,
and he put it beside the altar.

4 And he put off his garments and
put on other garments, and brought
forth the ashes without the camp, to a
clean place.

5 And the fire upon the altar shall
burn in it; and it shall not go out: and
the priest burnt wood upon it in the
morning, in the morning, and he ar-
ranged upon it the burnt-offering ; and
burnt wpon it the fat of the peace.

6 The fire shall always burn upon the
altar; it shall not go out.

7 And this the law of the gift: the

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sons of Aaron bringing it before Jeho-|ment, what shall be sprinkled upon it

vah, before the altar.

8 And he took up from it his hand-
ful from the fine flour of the gift, and
from its oil, and all the frankincense
which is upon the gift, and he burnt
upon the altar, an odor of sweetness, a
remembrance to Jehovah.

9 And the remainder from it Aaron
and his sons shall eat: unleavened shall
it be eaten in the holy place; in the
enclosure of the tent of appointment
they shall eat it.

10 It shall not be cooked leavened.
I gave it their portion from my sacri-
fices. It is holy of holies, as the sin
and the trespass.

11 Every male of the sons of Aaron
shall eat it. A law forever for your
generations, from the sacrifices of Jeho-
vah; all which touch upon them shall
be holy.

12 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

13 This the offering of Aaron and his
sons, which they shall bring to Jehovah,
in the day of anointing him; the tenth
of the ephah of fine flour a perpetual
gift, its half in the morning and its half
in the evening.

14 Upon a frying-pan with oil it shall
be made; being dipped, thou shalt bring
it in the cookings of the gift, in bits
thou shalt bring near, an odor of sweet-
ness to Jehovah.

15 And the priest being anointed, of
his sons, instead of him shall do it: a
law forever to Jehovah: it shall be
wholly burnt.

16 And every gift of the priest shall
be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

17 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

18 Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, This the law of the sin: in the
place where the burnt-offering shall be
slaughtered, the sin shall be slaughtered
before Jehovah: it is holy of holies.

19 The priest offering it for sin, shall
eat it: in the holy place shall it be
eaten, in the enclosure of the tent of ap-
pointment,

20 Every one touching upon its flesh
shall be consecrated : and when shall be
sprinkled from its blood upon his gar-

thou shalt wash in the holy place.

21 And the earthen vessel in which
it shall be boiled, shall be broken; and
if it was boiled in a brass vessel, it was
scoured and washed in water.

22 Kvery male among the priests shall
eat it: it is holy of holies.

23 And all sin, the blood of which
shall be brought into the tent of appoint-
ment to expiate in the holy place, shall
not be eaten: it shall be burnt in fire.

CHAPTER VIL
eee the law of the trespass: it is
holy of holies.

2 In the place where they shall
slaughter the burnt-offering they shall
slaughter the trespass: and he shall
sprinkle its blood upon the altar round
about.

3 And he shall bring from it all its
fat; the fat tail, and the fat covering
the bowels,

4 And the two kidneys, and the fat
which is upon them, which is upon the
loms, and the lobe upon the liver, with
the kidneys, he shall take it away.

5 And the priest burnt them upon
the altar, a sacrifice to Jehovah: it is a
trespass.

6 Every male among the priests shall
eat it: in the holy place it shall be eat-
en: it is holy of holes.

7 As the sin, so the trespass: one law
for them: the priest who shall expiate
upon it, to him it shall be.

8 And the priest bringing near a
man’s burnt-offering, the skin of the
burnt-offering which was brought near
for the priest, to him it shall be.

9 And every gift which shall be baked
in an oven, and all being done in a pot
and upon the frying-pan, to the priest
bringing it, to him it shall be.

10 And every gift mixed with oil, and
dry, to all the sons of Aaron it shall be,
each as his brother.

11 And this the law of the sacrifice of
peace which he shall bring to Jehovah.

12 If for praise he shall bring it, and
he brought with the sacrifice of praise,
unleayened cakes mixed with oil, and
thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil,
and fine flour dipped, cakes mixed in oil.

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18 With the cakes, leavened bread he|any of your dwellings, of fowl, and of

shall bring, an offermg upon the saeri-
fice of praise of his peace.

14 And he brought from it one from
all the offering an oblation to Jehovah,
for the priest sprinkling the blood of
peace, to him it shall be.

15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of
praise of his peace, in the day of his
offering shall be eaten; he shall not
leave from it till morning.

16 And if a vow or a voluntary gift,
the sacrifice of his offering in the day
he brought it, his sacrifice it shall be
eaten; and from the morrow that re-
maining from it shall be eaten.

17 And the remainder from the flesh
of the sacrifice in the third day shall be
burnt in fire.

18 And if eating, he shall eat from
the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace in
the third day, it shall not be accepted ;
he bringing it near, it shall not be im-
puted to him: it shall be an abomina-
tion, and the soul eating from it shall
bear its iniquity.

19 And the flesh which shall touch
upon any unclean thing shall not be
eaten; it shall be burnt in fire: and of
all clean flesh, the flesh shall be eaten.

20 And the soul which shall eat the
flesh of the sacrifice of peace which to
Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him,
that soul was cut off from its people.

21 And when a soul shall touch upon
anything unclean, upon the unclean-
ness of man, or upon unelean cattle, or
upon any abominable unclean thing, and
eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace, which is to Jehovah, that soul
was cut off from its people.

22 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

23 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
Any fat of ox, and lamb, and goat, ye
shall not eat.

24 And the fat of a carcass, and the
fat of the torn in pieees shall be worked
for all work; and eating, ye shall not
eat it.

25 For every one 681188 the fat from
the cattle that will be brought from it,
a sacrifice to Jehovah, and the soul eat-
ing was cut off from its people.

26 And any blood ye shall not eat in

cattle.

27 Every soul which shall eat any
blood, and that soul was cut off from its
people.

28 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

29 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
He bringing near the sacrifice of his
peace to Jehovah, shall bring his offer-
ing to Jehovah from the sacrifice of his

eace.

30 His hands shall bring the sacrifices
of Jehovah: the fat upon the breast he
shall bring it, the breast to lift it up a
waving before Jehovah.

31 And the priest burnt the fat upon
the altar: and the breast was to Aaron
and to his sons.

32 And the right leg ye shall give an
oblation to the priest from the sacrifices
of your peace.

89 And he bringing near the blood
of the peace, and the fat, from the sons
of Aaron, to him shall be the right leg
for a portion.

34 For the breast of the waving and
the leg of the oblation, I took from the
sons of Israel from the sacrifices of
peace, and I will give them to Aaron
the priest, and to his sons for a law for-
ever, from the sons of Israel.

35 This the anointing of Aaron and
of his sons from the sacrifices of Jeho-
vah, in the day of bringing them to be
priests to Jehovah ;

86 Which Jehovah commanded to
give to them in the day of his anointing
them from the sons of Israel, a law for-
ever to their generations.

37 This the law of the burnt-offering,
for the gift, and for the sin, and for the
trespass, and for the fulness, and for the
saerifice of the peace ;

88 Which Jehovah commanded Mo-
ses in mount Sinai, in the day of his

!commanding the sons of Israel to bring

near their offerings to Jehovah, in the
desert of Sinai.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,
2 Take Aaron and his sons with him,
and the garments, and the oil of anoint~

LEVITICUS 1.

ing, and a bullock of the sin, and two
yams, and a basket of the unleavened ;

3 And gather together all the assem-
bly to the door of the tent of appoint-
ment. ἢ

4 And Moses will do as Jehovah
commanded him: and the assembly
will be gathered together to the door of
thé tent of appointment.

5 And Moses will say to the assem-
bly, This the word which Jehovah com-
manded to do.

6 And Moses will bring near Aaron
and his sons, and will wash them in
water.

7 And he will give upon him the tu-
nic, and he will gird him with the gir-
dle, and he will put upon him the robe,
and will give upon him the ephod, and
will gird him with the ‘girdle of the
ephod, and will gird on him with it.

8 And he will put upon him the
breast-plate: and will give to the breast-
plate the Lights and the Truth.

9 And he will put the turban upon
his head; and he will put upon the tur-
ban, at the front of his face, the bright-
ness of gold, the holy diadem, as Jeho-
vah commanded Moses.

10 And Moses will take the oil of
anointing, and will anoint the dwelling
and all which is in it, and he will con-
secrate them.

11 And he will sprinkle from it upon
the altar seven times, and anoint the
altar and all its vessels, and the wash-
basin, and its foot, to consecrate them.

12 And he will pour out from the oil
of anointing upon the head of Aaron,
and anoint him to consecrate him.

13 And Moses will bring near the
sons of Aaron, and he will put tunics
upon them, and he will gird on them
with the girdle and he will bind to
them caps; as Jehovah commanded

oses.

14 And he will bring near the bul-
lock of sin: and Aaron and his sons
will place their hands upon the head of
the bullock of sin.

15 And he will slaughter ; and Moses
will take the blood and give upon the
horns of the altar round about with his
finger, and he will purify the altar, and
he will gout out the blood at the found-

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ation of the altar, and he will consecrate
it to expiate upon it.

16 And he will take all the fat which
upon the bowels, and, the lobe of the
liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat,
and Moses will burn upon the altar.

17 And the bullock and his skin, and
his flesh, and his dung, he burnt in fire
without the camp, as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

18 And he will bring the ram of the
burnt-offering: and Aaron and his sons
will place their hands upon the head of
the ram.

19 And he will slaughter, and Moses
will sprinkle the blood upon the altar
round about.

20 And he cut the ram into its pieces;
and Moses will burn the head and the
pieces, and the fat.

21 And the bowels and the legs he
washed in water; and Moses will burn
all the ram upon the altar : it is a burnt-
offering for an odor of sweetness; it 15
a sacrifice to Jehovah; as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

22 And he will bring the second ram,
the ram of the filling up: and Aaron
and his sons will place their hands upon
the head of the ram.

23 And he will slaughter, and Moses
will take from its blood, and will give
upon the extremity of Aaron’s right ear,
and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right
foot.

24 And he will bring near Aaron’s
sons, and Moses will give from the blood
upon the extremity of their right ear,
and upon the thumb of their right hand,
and upon the great toe of their right
feet: and Moses will sprinkle the blood
upon the altar round about.

25 And he will take the fat and the
fat tail, and all the fat which is upon
the bowels, and the lobe of the liver,
and the two kidneys and their fat, and
the right leg:

26 And from the basket of unleay-
ened which is before Jehovah he took
one unleavened cake and a cake of
bread of oil, and one thin cake, and he:
will put upon the fat and upon the
right leg:

27 And he will give the whole upon

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the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands
of his sons, and he shall lift them up a
waving before Jehovah.

28 And Moses will take them from
their hands and burn upon the altar
upon the burnt-offering: they fillmgs up
for an odor of sweetness: it 1s a sacrifice
to Jehovah.

29 And Moses will take the breast
and will lift it up; a waving before Je-
hovah: from the ram of the fillings up
it was to Moses for a portion; as Jeho-
vah commanded Moses.

30 And Moses will take from the oil
of anointing, and from the blood which
is upon the altar, and will sprinkle upon
Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his
sons, and upon his sons’ garments with
him; and will consecrate Aaron and his
garments, and his sons, and his sons’
garments with him.

81 And Moses will say to Aaron and
to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of
the tent of appointment; and there ye
shall eat it, and the bread which is in
the basket of the fillings up, as I com-
manded, saying, Aaron and his sons
shall eat it.

82 And the remainder of the flesh
and of the bread ye shall burn in fire.

83 And ye shall not go out from the
door of the tent of appointment, seven
days, till the day of filling up the days
of your fillings up: for seven days shall
he fill your hands.

34 As he did in this day, Jehovah
commanded to do, to expiate for you.

86 And.at the door of the tent of ap-
pointment shall ye sit day and night
seven days,.and watch the watches of
Jehovah, and-ye shall not die: for so I
was commanded. .

86 And Aaron did and his sons al
the word which Jehovah commanded by
the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER IX.
ND it shall be in the eighth day,
/ Moses 081160 +0 Aaron and to his
sons, and-to the old men of Israel.

2 And ‘he will say to Aaron, Take
to thee a calf, the son of a cow, for sin,
and a blameless ram for a burnt offer-
ing, and bring before Jehovah.

B¢And to the sons of «Israel thou‏ ה

LEVITICUS IX.

shalt speak, saying, Take ye a he goat
of the goats for sm; and a calf anda
lamb, sons of a year, blameless, for a
burnt-offering ;

4 And a bullock and a ram for peace,
for a sacrifice before Jehovah ; and a gift
mingled in oil: for the day of Jehovah
was seen to you. 1

5 And they shall take what Moses
commanded before the tent of appoint-
ment: and all the assembly shall draw
near and stand before Jehovah.

6 And Moses will say, This 6
word which Jehovah commanded ye
shall do: and the glory of Jehovah
shall be seen to you.

7 And Moses will say to Aaron,
Draw near to the altar and do thy sin,
and thy burnt-offering, and expiate for
thyself, and for the people: and do the
offering of the people, and expiate for
them; as Jehovah commanded.

8 And Aaron shall draw near to the
altar and slaughter the calf for sin,
which is to him.

9 And Aaron’s sons will bring the
blood to him, and he will dip his finger
in the blood, and give upon the horns
of the altar, and he will pour out the
blood at the foundation of the altar.

10 And the fat, and the kidneys, and
the lobe from the liver, from the sin, he
burnt upon the altar; as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

11 And the flesh and the skin he
burnt in fire without the camp.

12 And he will slaughter the burnt-
offering; and the sons of Aaron will
bring the blood to him, and they will
sprinkle it upon the altar round about.

18 And the burnt-offering they
brought to him according to its pieces,
and the head: he will burn upon the
altar.

14 And he will wash the bowels, and
the legs, and he will burn upon the
burnt-offering upon the altar.

15 And he will bring the offering of
the people, and take the he goat of the
sin which to the people, and he will
slaughter it and purify it as the first.

16 And he will bring the burnt-offer-
ing, and do according to judgment.

17 And he will bring the gift, and
fill his hand from it, and burn upon

LEVITICUS .א‎

the altar, besides the burnt-offering of
the morning.

18 And he will slaughter the bullock,
and the ram of the sacrifice of peace,
which is for the people: and the sons
of Aaron will bring the blood to him,
and he will sprinkle it upon the altar
round about.

19 And the fat from the bullock, and
from the ram, the fat tail and the cover-
ing, and the kidneys, and the lobe of
the liver:

20 And they will put the fat upon
the breasts, and he will burn the fat
upon the altar.

21 And the breasts, and the right
leg, Aaron lifted up a waving before
Jehovah; as Moses commanded.

22 And Aaron will lift up his hand
to the people, and bless them; and
come down from the doing the sin, and
the burnt-offering, and the peace.

23 And Moses will go in, and Aaron,
to the tent of appointment, and they
will come forth and they will bless the
people: and the glory of Jehovah will
be seen to all the people.

24 And fire will come forth from be-
fore Jehovah, and will consume upon
the altar the burnt-offering, and the fat:
and they will shout and fall upon their
faces.

CHAPTER X.
ND Nadab and Abihu, sons of
Aaron, will take each his censer,
and give in them fire, and put upon it in-
cense, and bring before Jehovah strange
fire, which he commanded them not.

2 And fire will come forth from be-
fore Jehovah, and will consume them,
and they will die before Jehovah.

3 And Moses will say to Aaron, This
which Jehovah spake, saying, In draw-
ing near me I will be consecrated, and
before all the people I will be honored.
And Aaron will be silent.

4 And Moses will call to Mishael and
to Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s
uncle, and say to them, Draw near; lift
up your brethren from before the holy
place, to without the camp.

5 And they will draw near and lift
> them up in their tunics to without the
camp; as Moses spake.

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6 And Moses will say to Aaron, and
to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons, Ye
shall not uncover you heads, and ye
shall not rend your garments; and ye
shall not die, and there shall be anger
upon all the assembly : and your breth-
ren, all the house of Israel shall weep
for the burning which Jehovah burnt.

7 And from the door of the tent of
appointment ye shall not go forth, lest
ye shall die: for the oil of anointing of
Jehovah is upon you. And they will
do according to the word of Moses.

8 And Jehovah will speak to Aaron,
saying, ,

9 Wine and strong drink thou shalt
not drink, thou and thy sons with thee,
in your going in to the tent of appoint-
ment; and ye shall not die: a law for-
ever to your generations.

10 And to separate between the holy
and between the unholy, and between
the unclean and between the clean ;

11 And to teach the sons of Israel all
the laws which Jehovah spake to them
by the hand of Moses.

12 And Moses will speak to Aaron,
and to Eleazar, and to Ithamar, his sons
being left, Take ye the gift remaining
from the sacrifices of Jehovah, and eat
it unleavened by the altar: for it is
holy of holies.

13 And eat it in the holy place, for
it is thy portion, and thy sons’ portion
from the sacrifices of Jehovah: for thus
I was commanded. .

14 And the breast of waving and the
leg of oblation ye shall eat ina clean
place; thou and thy sons, and thy
daughters with thee; for it is thy por:
tion and the portion of thy sons; they
were give from the sacrifices of peace of
the sons of Israel. .

15 The leg of oblation, and the breast
of waving upon the sacrifices of the fat
shall they bring, to lift up a waving be-
fore Jehovah; and it was to thee, and
to thy sons with thee, for a law forever ;
as Jehovah commanded.

16 And the he goat of the sin, seek-
ing, Moses sought, and behold, it was
burnt: and he will be angry with Ele-
azar and with Ithamar, Aaron’s sons,
being left, saying, ;

17 Wherefore ate ye not the sin in

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the holy place? for it is holy of holies,
and he gave it to you to lift up the ini-
quity of the assembly, and to expiate
for them before Jehovah.

18 Behold, he brought not its blood to
the holy place before it: eating, ye shall
eat it in the holy place as 1 was com-
manded.

19 And Aaron will speak to Moses,
saying, Behold, this day they offered
their sin and their burnt-offering, before
Jehovah; and behold, such as these will
befall me: and I ate the sin this day
will it be good in the eyes of Jehovah ?

20 And Moses will hear and it will
be good in his eyes.

CHAPTER XI.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying to them,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying
These the beasts which ye shall eat from
all the cattle which are upon the earth.

3 All cleaving the cloven hoof, and
splitting, split the cloven hoof, and lift-
ing up rumination among the cattle, γε
shall eat it.

4 But this ye shall not eat: from
them bringing up rumination, and from
them cleaving the cloven hoof; the
camel, for it bringing up rumination,
and cleaving not its cloyen hoof; it is
unclean to you.

5 The coney, for this bringing up ru-
mination, and will not cleave the clo-
ven hoof ; it is unclean to you.

6 And the hare, for this bringing up
rumination, and cleaving not the cloven
hoof; it is unclean to you.

7 And the swine, for this cleaving the
cloven hoof and dividing, divided the
cloven hoof, and it will not excite ru-
mination ; it 18 unclean to you.

8 From their flesh ye shall not eat,
and upon their carcass ye shall not
touch ; they are unclean to you.

9 And this shall ye eat from all
which are in the water: all which to it
is a fin and scale in the water, in the
seas, and in the rivers, ye shall eat them.

10 And every one which to it is not
8 fin and scale in the seas and in the riy-
ers, from all creeping in the water, and
from every living soul which is in the
water, they an abomination to you.

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11 And they shall be an abomination
to you: from their flesh ye shall not
eat, and their carcasses ye shall abhor.

12 Every one which is not to it a fin
and seale in the water, this 18 abomina-
tion to you.

13 And these ye shall abhor from the
birds; they shall not be eaten; they
are an abomination: the eagle, the sea-
eagle, and the ospray.

14 And the vulture, and the kite ac-
cording to its kind.

15 Every raven according to its kind;

16 And the daughter of the ostrich,
and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull,
and the hawk according to its kind;

17 And the cormorant, and the gan-
net, and the owl;

18 And the swan, and the pelican,
and the earrion vulture ;

19 And the stork, the parrot accord-
ing to its kind, and the hoopo and the
bat.

20 All creeping birds going upon
four, it is an abomination to you.

21 But this ye shall eat, from every
creeping bird going upon four, to which
legs from above its feet to spring with
them upon the earth.

22 These from them ye shall eat; the
locust according to its kind, the winged
locust according to its kind, and the
locust without wings according to its
kind, and the leaping locust according
to its kind.

23 And every creeping bird which to
it is four feet, it is abomination to you.

24 And for these ye shall be unclean:
all touching upon their carcass shall be
unclean till evening.

25 And every one lifting up from
their carcass shall cleanse his garments,
and be unclean till evening.

26 For all cattle of which it is cleay-
ing the cloven foot and not splitting the
cleft, and not bringing up rumination,
they are unclean to you; every one
touching upon them shall be unclean.

27 And every one going upon his
hands among all beasts going upon four,
they are unclean to you: every one
touching upon their carcass shall be un-
clean till evening.

28 And he lifting up their carcass
shall cleanse his garments, and be un-

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clean till evening: they are unclean to
ou.

29 This being unclean to you among
the creeping, creeping upon the earth;
the weasel, and the mouse, and the liz-
ard according to its kind;

30 The shrew mouse, and the cha-
meleon, and the salamander, and the
snail and the mole.

81 These are unclean to you, among
all the creeping: every one touching
upon them in their dying, shall be un-
clean till even.

32 And all which shall fall from them
upon it in their dying, shall be unclean ;
from all vessels of wood, or garment,
or skin, or sack, every vessel which
work shall be done in them, into water
shall it go, and be unclean till the even-
ing; and it shall be clean.

33 And every vessel of earthen upon
which it shall fall from them, into its
midst, all which is in its midst shall be
unclean, and ye shall brealk it.

84 From all food which shall be eaten

which water shall come upon it, shall
be unclean: and all drink which shall
be drunk from every vessel shall be un-
clean.

30 And every thing which their car-
cass shall fall upon it shall be unclean ;
oven and cooking-furnace shall be bro-
ken down: they are unclean, and they
shall be unclean to you.

36 Buta fountain and pit, a gathering
of waters, shall be clean: and he touch-
ing upon their carcass shall be unclean.

37 And when from their carcass shall
fall upon any seed of sowing which shall
be sown, it 15 clean.

98 And when water shall be given
upon the seed and from their carcass
fall upon it, it is unclean to you.

39 And when there shall die from the
cattle which is to you for eating, he
touching upon its carcass shall be un-
clean till the evening.

40 And he eating from its carcass
shall cleanse his garments, and be un-
clean till the evening; and he lifting
up its carcass shall wash his garments
and be unclean till the evening.

41 And every creeping thing creeping
upon the earth, it is abomination; it
shall not be eaten.

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42 Every thing going upon the belly,
every thing going upon four always,
every thing multiplying feet, of all creep-
ing things creeping upon the earth, ye
shall not eat them; for they are abomi-
nation.

43 Ye shall not make your souls
abominable by any creeping thing creep-
ing, and ye shall not be unclean by
them, and be defiled by them.

44 For I am Jehovah, your God, and
ye were consecrated and ye were holy,
for 1 am holy: and ye shall not make
your souls unclean by any creeping
thing creeping upon the earth.

45 For Iam Jehovah bringing you
up from the land of Egypt, to be to
you for God: and ye shall be holy, for
1 am holy.

46 This the law of cattle, and of bird,
and of every living soul creeping in the
water, and for every soul creeping upon
the earth.

47 To separate between the unclean
and between the clean, and between the
beast being eaten and between the beast
which shall not be eaten.

CHAPTER XII
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
When a woman shall bear seed and
bring forth a male, and she was un-
clean seven days: according to the days
of removal of ‘being sick she shall be
unclean.

3 And in the eighth day the flesh of
his uncireumcision shall be circumcised.

4 And thirty days and three days, she
shall sit down in the blood of purifica-
tion: she shall not touch upon any holy
thing, and into the holy place she shall
not come till the completing of the days
of her purification.

5 And if she shall bear a female, and
she was unclean two sevens, as her re-
moval: and sixty days and six days
she shall sit down upon the blood of her
purification.

6 And in completing the days of her
purification, for a son, or for a daughter,
she shall bring a lamb, the son of his
year, for a burnt-offering, and the son of
a dove, or a turtle-doye, for the sin, to

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the door of the tent of appointment, to
the priest.

7 And he offered it before Jehovah,
and expiated for her, and cleansed her
from the flowing of her blood. This
the law of the bringing forth for a male,
or for a female.

8 And if her hand shall not find the
sufficiency of a sheep, and she took two
turtle-doves or two sons of the dove;
one for a burnt-offering and one for sin :
and the priest expiated for her, and she
was clean.

CHAPTER XIII
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
and to Aaron, saying,

2 When to a man there shall be a lift-
ing up in the skin of his flesh, or a scab,
or brightness, and it was in the skin of
his flesh for the stroke of leprosy ; and
he shall be brought to Aaron the priest,
or to one of his sons the priests.

3 And the priest saw the stroke in
the skin of the flesh: and the hair in
the stroke turned white, and the sight
of the stroke deep from the skin of his
flesh, it is the stroke of leprosy : and the
priest saw him and defiled him.

4 And if the brightness it white in
the skin of his flesh, and its sight not
deep from the skin, and the hair not
turned white; and the priest shut up
the stroke seven days.

5 And the priest saw him in the sey-
enth day : and behold, the stroke stood ;
in his eyes, the stroke spread not in the
skin, and the priest shut him up the sec-
ond seven days.

6 And the priest saw him in the sev-
enth day, the second time, and behold,
the stroke dim, and the stroke spread
not in the skin, and the priest cleansed
him: it isascab: and he washed his
garments and was clean.

7 And if spreading, the scab shall
spread in the skin, after his being seen
to the priest for his cleansing, and he
was seen the second time to the priest.

8 And the priest saw, and behold, the
scab spread in the skin, and the priest
defiled him : it is leprosy.

9 When the stroke of leprosy shall
be in a man, and he shall be brought to
the priest :

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10 And the priest saw, and behold,
a lifting up white in the skin, and it
turned the hair white, and the quicken-
ing of living flesh in the lifting up:

11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of
his flesh, and the priest shall defile him ;
he shall not shut him up for he is un-
clean.

12 And if breaking out, the leprosy
shall break out in the skin, and the lep-
rosy covered all the skin, the stroke
from his head and even to his feet,
to all the sight of the eyes of the
priest :

18 And the priest saw, and behold,
the leprosy covered all his flesh, and he
cleansed the stroke: all of it turned
white: he is clean.

14 In the day of seeing in him the
living flesh, he shall be unclean.

15 And the priest saw the living flesh,
and he defiled him: the living flesh it
is unclean: it is leprosy.

16 Or when the living flesh shall turn
back and turn to white, he shall be
brought to the priest.

17 And the priest saw him, and be-
hold, the stroke turned to white; and
the priest cleansed the stroke: he is
clean.

18 And when the flesh shall be in it,
in his skin, a burning sore, and was
healed,

19 And there was in the place of the
burning sore a white rising, or bright-
ness, white, reddish, and he was seen to
the priest ;

20 And the priest saw, and behold,
the sight low from the skin, and its hair
turned white: and the priest defiled
him: it is the stroke of leprosy broken
out in the burning sore.

21 And if the priest shall see it, and
behold, no white hair in it, and it not
low from the skin, and it was dim; and
the priest shut him up seven days:

22 And if spreading, it shall spread
in the skin, and the priest defiled him:
it the stroke.

23 And if the brightness shall stand
still, lowest, spreading not, it the scar
of the burning sore; and the priest
cleansed him.

24 Or when there shall be flesh in his
skin a burning of fire, and there was a

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quickening of the burning, a brightness
reddish white, or white;

25 And the priest saw it, and behold,
the hair in the brightness was turned
white, and the sight was deep from the
skin; it leprosy in the burning broken
out: and the priest defiled him: it the
stroke of leprosy.

26 And if the priest shall see it, and
behold, no white hair in the burning,
and it not being low from the skin, and
it was dim; and the priest shut him up
seven days.

27 And the priest saw him in the sey-
enth day: if spreading, it shall spread
in the skin, and the priest shall defile
him: it the stroke of leprosy.

28 And if the brightness shall stand
still, the lowest, spreading not in the
skin, and it was dim; it a rising of the
burning, and the priest cleansed him:
for it a scar of the burning.

29 And when a man or woman there
shall be in him a stroke upon the head,
or in the beard ;

30 And the priest saw the stroke, and
behold, its sight deep from the skin, and
in it thin, yellow hair; and the priest
defiled him: it a scall, it a leprosy of
the head, or of the beard.

31 And when the priest shall see the
stroke of the scall, and behold, its sight
not deep from the skin, and no black
hair in it; and the priest shut up the
stroke of the scall seven days.

32 And the priest saw the stroke in
the seventh day: and behold, the scab
spread not, and there was no yellow
hair in it, and the sight of the scall not
deep from the skin;

33 And he was shaved, and the scall
he shall not shave, and the priest shut
up the 56811 seven days the second time.

34 And the priest saw the scall in the
seventh day, and behold, the 50811 spread
not in the skin, and its sight not deep
from the skin; and the priest cleansed
him; and he washed his garments and
was clean.

85 And if spreading, the scall shall

* spread in the skin after his purification ;

86 And the priest saw him: and be-
hold, the scall spread in the skin, the
pues shall not search for yellow hair ;

6 is unclean.

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37 And if in his eyes the scall stood
still, and black hair sprang up in it, the
seall was healed; he is clean: and the
priest cleansed him.

88 And when a man or woman shall
be in the skin of their flesh a brightness,
a white brightness ;

39 And the priest saw, and behold,
in the skin of their flesh a brightness, a
dim white; it is a white scurf breaking
out in the skin: he is clean.

40 And if a man when his head shall
become bald, he being bald ; he is clean.

41 And if from the side of his face
his head shall become bald, he is bald;
he is clean.

42 And when there shall 06 in his
baldness behind, or in his baldness in
front, a stroke, reddish white, it is a lep-
rosy broken out in his baldness behind,
or in his baldness in front.

43 And the priest saw it, and behold,
the rising of the stroke, a reddish white,
in his baldness behind, or in his bald-
ness in front, as the sight of leprosy, in
the skin of the flesh ;

44 Hea leprous man, he unclean: he
being unclean the priest shall defile
him ; his stroke in his head.

45 And the leprous in whom the
stroke, his garments shall be rent, and
his head shall be uncovered, and upon
the lips he shall be covered, and he
shall ery, Unclean, unlcean.

46 All the days which the stroke is
in him, he shall be unclean: he is un-
clean: he shall dwell separately ; with-
out the camp is his dwelling.

47 When a garment the stroke of lep-
rosy shall be in it, whether in the gar-
ment of wool or in the garment of linen ;

48 Or in the warp, or in the woof,
to the linen or to the wool: or in the
skin, or in any work of skin:

49 And the stroke was greenish, or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin,
or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any
vessel of skin ; 1518 the stroke of leprosy,
and it was seen to the priest.

50 And the priest saw the stroke, and
shut up the stroke seven days.

51 And he saw the stroke in the sey-
enth day: when the stroke spread in
the garment, or in the warp, or in the
woof, or in the skin, and all which made

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of skin for work; the stroke a painful
leprosy ; 15 unclean.

52 And he burnt the garment, or the
warp, or the woof, or in wool, or in
linen, or any vessel of skin which shall
be in it the stroke: for it a painful lep-
rosy; in fire shall it be burnt.

53 And if the priest shall see, and
behold, the stroke spread not in the
garment, or in the warp or in the woof,
or in any vessel of skin ;

54 And the priest commanded, and
they washed that in which was the
stroke, and he shut it up seven days,
the second time.

55 And the priest saw after the wash-
ing, the stroke, and behold, the stroke
turned not its eye, and the stroke spread
not; it unclean; in fire thou shalt burn
it; it a hollow in his baldness behind,
or in his baldness in front.

56 And if the priest saw, and behold,
the stroke dim after washing it: he rent
it out of the garment or from the skin,
or from the warp, or from the woof.

57 And if it shall be seen still in the
garment, or in the warp, or in the woof,
or in any vessel of skin; it is breaking
out: in the fire thou shalt burn it, that
in which is the stroke.

58 And the garment, or the warp or
the woof, or any vessel of skin which
thou shalt wash, and the stroke departed
from them, and it was washed the sec-
ond time, and it was clean.

59 This the law of the stroke of lep-
rosy of the garment of wool, or of linen,
or the warp or the woof, or every ves-
sel of skin, to cleanse it or to defile it.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND Jehovah will spealx to Moses,

A. saying,

2 This shall be the law of the leprous
in the day of his cleansing: he was
brought to the priest.

8 And the priest shall go forth with-
out the camp: and the priest saw, and
behold, the stroke of leprosy was healed
from the leprous.

4 And the priest commanded, and
took for him being cleansed, two clean
living birds, and cedar wood, and dou-
ble searlet, and hyssop.

5 And the priest commanded, and

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killed one of the birds into a vessel of
earthen, over living water.

6 The living bird he will take it, and
the cedar wood and the double scarlet,
and the hyssop, and he dipped them
and the living bird in the blood of the
bird slain over the living water.

7 And he sprinkled upon him, being
cleansed from the leprosy, seven times,
and cleansed him, and he sent forth the
living bird upon the face of the field.

8 And he being cleansed, washed his
garments and shaved all his hair, and
washed in water and was clean: and
afterwards he shall come into the camp
and dwelt without his tent seven days.

9 And it was in the seventh day, he
shall shave all his hair off his head, and
his beard, and the front of his eyes:
and all his hair shall he shave off; and
he washed his garments, and washed
his flesh in water, and was clean,

10 And in the eighth day he shall
take two blameless lambs, and one
blameless ewe lamb, the daughter of
her year, and three tenths of fine flour,
a gift mingled with oil, and one meas-
ure of oil.

11 And the priest cleansing, made
the man being cleansed stand, and the
things, before Jehovah, at the door of
the tent of appointment.

12 And the priest took one he lamb
and brought him near for trespass, and
the measure of oil, and lifted them up,
a waving before Jehovah.

13 And he slaughtered the lamb in
the place where he shall slaughter the
sin and the burnt-offering, in the holy
place:. for as the sin the trespass, it is
to the priest; it is the holy of holies.

14 And the priest took from the
blood of the trespass, and the priest
gave upon the extremity of the right
ear of him being cleansed, and upon the
thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot.

15 And the priest took from the
measure of oil, and poured upon the
priest’s left hand.

16 And the priest dipped his right
finger from the oil which upon his left
hand, and he sprinkled from the oil
with his finger, seven times before Je-

hovah,

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17 And from the remainder of the oil
which was upon his hand, the priest
will give upon the extremity of the
right ear of him being cleansed, and
upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot,
upon the blood of the trespass.

18 And that remaining of the oil
which was upon the priest’s hand, he
will give upon the head of him being
cleansed, and the priest expiated for
him before Jehovah.

19 And the priest did the sin, and
expiated for him being cleansed from
his uncleanness; and afterwards he will
slaughter the burnt-offering.

20 And the priest brought up the
burnt-offering and the gift wpon the al-
tar: and the priest expiated for him,
and he was cleansed.

21 And if he be poor, and his hand
attaining not; and he took one lamb a
trespass, for a waving to expiate for
him, and one tenth of fine flour min-
gled with oil, for the gift, and a measure
oi oil,

22 And two turtle-doves, or two sons
of the dove, which his hand shall at-
tain; and one was the sin, and one the
burnt-offering.

23 And he brought them in the eighth
day for his cleansing, to the priest at
the door of the tent of appoimtment be-
fore Jehovah.

24 And the priest took the lamb of
the trespass and the measure of oil, and
the priest lifted them up, a waving be-
fore Jehovah.

25 And he slaughtered the lamb of
the trespass, and the priest took from
the blood of the trespass, and gave upon
the extremity of the right ear of him
being cleansed, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe
of his right foot:

26 And from the oil the priest poured
out upon the priest’s left hand.

27 And the priest sprinkled with his
right finger from the oil which was
upon his left hand, seven times, before
Jehovah.

28 And the priest gave from the oil
which was upon his hand, upon the ex-
tremity of the right ear of him being
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his

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right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the place of the
blood of the trespass.

29 And that remaining from the oil
which was upon the priest’s hand, he
will give upon the head of him being
cleansed; and he expiated for him be-
fore Jehovah.

30 And he did the one from the
turtle-doves, or from the sons of the
dove, from what his hand shall attain.

31 What his hand shall attain, the
one the sin, and the one the burnt-offer-
ing upon the gift. And the priest ex-
piated for him being cleansed, before
Jehovah.

32 This the law of him in whom
the stroke of leprosy, which his hand
attained not in his cleansing.

33 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying,

34 When ye shall come into the land
of Canaan which I give to you for a
possession, and I gave the stroke of lep-
rosy in a house of the land of your pos-
session ;

99 And he to whom is the house,
came and announced to the priest, say-
ing, It was seen to me as a stroke in the
house.

86 And the priest commanded, and
they cleared the house, before the priest
shall go in to see the stroke, and all
which is in the house shall not be un-
clean; and after this the priest shall go
in to see the house.

87 And he saw the stroke; and be-
hold, the stroke in the walls of the
house, the hollows greenish, or reddish,
and their sight low from the wall.

38 And the priest shall go forth from
the house to the door of the house, and
he shut up the house seven days.

39 And the priest turned back in the
seventh day, and saw, and behold, the
stroke spread in the walls of the house.

40 And the priest commanded, and
they took away the stones which in
them was the stroke, and they cast them
without the city into an unclean place.

41 And he shall serape the house
from within round about, and they
poured out the dust which they scraped
off without the city, into an unclean
place.

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42 And they took other stones and
brought instead of these stones; and he
shall take other clay and spread over
the house.

43 And if the stroke shall turn back
and breal out in the house after he took
away the stones, and after he scraped
off the house, and after it was spread
over;

44 And the priest came and saw, and
behold, the stroke spread in the house ;
it a painful leprosy in the house’: it is
unclean.

45 And he tore down the house, and
its stones, and its wood, and all the dust
of the house: and he brought forth with-
out the city, into an unclean place.

46 And he coming in to the house all
the days it is shut up, shall be unclean
till the evening.

47 And he lying in the house shall
wash his garments: and he eating in
the house shall wash his garments.

48 And if the priest coming in, shall
come in and see, and behold, the stroke
spread not in the house after spreading
over the house: and the priest cleansed
the house, for the stroke was healed.

49 And he took to cleanse the house
two birds, and cedar wood, and double
scarlet, and hyssop.

50 And he slaughtered the one bird
into a vessel of earthen, over living wa-
ter.

51 And he took the cedar wood, and
the hyssop and the double scarlet, and
the living bird, and dipped them in the
blood of the slain bird, and in the living
water, and sprinkled into the house
seven times,

52 And he cleansed the house with
the blood of the bird in living water,
and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the double scarlet.

53 And he sent away the living bird
without the city to the face of the field,
and ‘he expiated for the house: and it
was clean.

54 This the law for every stroke of
leprosy and for scall,

55 And for the leprosy of a garment,
and for a house,

56 And for a rising, and for a scab,
and for a brightness ;

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unclean, and in the day of cleansing:
this the law of leprosy.

CHAPTER טא‎

Λ ND Jehovah will speak to Moses

und to Aaron, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, When a man, a man, there
shall be a flowing from his flesh, his
flowing unclean.

3 And this shall be his uncleanness
מו‎ his flowing: his flesh running with
his flowing, or his flesh sealed up from
his flowing, it is his uncleanness.

4 Every bed which he flowing shall
he upon it, shall be unclean: and every
vessel which he shall sit upon it, shall
be unclean.

5 And aman who shall touch upon
his bed, shall cleanse his garments and
shall wash in water, and be unclean till
evening.

6 And he sitting upon a vessel which
he flowing, shall sit wpon it, shall cleanse
his garments, and wash in water, and
shall be unclean till the evening.

7 And he touching upon the flesh of
him flowing, shall. wash his garments,
and wash in water, and shall be unclean
till the evening.

8 And if he flowing shall spit upon
the clean; and he washed his garments,
and washed in water, and was unclean
till the evening.

9 And every seat which he flowing
shall ride upon it, shall be unclean.

10 And every one touching upon
any thing which shall be under him,
shall be unclean till the evenmg: and
he lifting up these things, shall wash
his garments, and he washed in water,
and was unclean till the evening.

11 And every one which he flowing
shall touch upon him (and washed not
his hands in water), he washed his gar-
ments, and washed in water and was
unclean till the evening.

12 And the vesse] of earthen which
he flowing shall touch upon it, shall be
broken: and every vessel of wood shall
be washed in water.

18 And when he flowing shall be
cleansed from his flowing, and he num-
bered to him seven days for his cleans-
ing, and he washed his garments: and

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washed his flesh in living water, and
was clean.

14 And in the eighth day he shall
take to him two turtle-doves, or two
sons of the dove, and he came before
Jehovah at the door of the tent 01 ap-
pointment, and he gave them to the
priest.

15 And the priest did them, one a sin
and the one a burnt-offering; and the
priest expiated for him before Jehovah
from his flowing.

16 And a man, when the effusion of
seed shall go forth from him, and he
washed in water all his flesh, and was
unclean till the evening.

17 And every garment and every
skin, which shall be upon it the effusion
of seed, and it was washed in water,
and was unclean till the evening.

18 And a woman whom a man shall
lie with her, with the effusion of seed,
and they washed in water, and were
unclean till the evening.

19 And when a woman shall be flow-
ing, and her flowing shall be blood in
her flesh, seven days shall she be in her
uncleanness: and all touching upon her
shall be unclean till the evening.

20 And every thing which she shall
lie upon it in her uncleanness, shall be
unclean: and every thing which she
shall sit upon it shall be unclean.

21 And every one touching upon her
bed shall wash his garments; and he
washed in water and was unclean till
the evening.

22 And every one touching upon any
vessel which she shall sit upon it, shall
wash his garments, and he washed in
water and was unclean till evening.

23 And if it is upon the bed or upon
the vessel which she sat upon it, in his
touching upon it he shall be unclean till
the evening.

24 And if lying down a man shall lie
with her and her uncleanness shall be
upon him, and he was unclean seven
days: and every bed which he shall lie
upon, it shall be unclean.

25 And when a woman shall flow a
flowing of her blood many days out of
the time of her uncleanness, or when
she shall flow upon her uncleanness;
all the days of the flowing from her un-

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cleanness shall be as the days of her
uncleanness: she shall be unclean.

26 Every bed which she shall lie upon
it all the days of her flowing, shall be to
her as the bed of her uncleanness; and
every vessel which she shall sit upon it
shall be unclean, as the impurity of her
uncleanness.

27 And every one touching upon
them shall be unclean, and he washed
his garments, and washed in water, and
was unclean till the evening.

28 And if she was cleansed from her
flowing, and she numbered to her seven
days, and afterward she shall be clean.

29 And in the eighth day she shall
take to her two turtle-doves, or two sons
of the dove, and she brought them to
the priest to the door of the tent of ap-
pointment.

80 And the priest did the one a sin;
and the one a burnt-offering; and the
priest expiated for her, before Jehovah,
from the flowing of her uncleanness.

31 And ye winnowed the sons of Is-
rael from their uncleanness; and they
shall not die in their uncleanness in de-
filing my dwelling which is in the midst
of you.

82 This the law of him flowing, and
of whom the effusion of seed shall go
forth from him, to be defiled in it:

33 And of her being sick in her un-
cleanness, and of him flowing his flow-
ing; for the male, and for the female,
and for the man who shall he with her
being unclean.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
after the death of the two sons of
Aaron, in their bringing near before
Jehovah, and they shall die.

2 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Speak to Aaron thy brother, and he
shall not come in every time into the
holy place within the vail at the face of
the cover which is upon the ark; and
he shall not die: for I will be seen in
the cloud upon the cover.

3 In this shall Aaron come in to the
holy place, with a bullock, the son of a
cow, for sin, and a ram for a burnt-of-
fering.

4 The holy linen tunic shall be put

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on, and the linen drawers shall be upon
his flesh, and with a linen girdle shall
he be girded, and with a linen turban
shall he be wound round: these the holy
garments; and he washed his flesh in
water and put them on.

5 And from the assembly of the sons
of Israel he shall take two he goats of
the goats for sin, and one ram for a
burnt-offering.

6 And Aaron brought near the bul-
lock of sin, which was to him, and he
expiated for himself and for his house.

And he took the two he goats and
made them stand before Jehovah, at
the door of the tent of appointment.

8 And Aaron gave lots upon the two
he goats; one lot for Jehovah, and one
lot for the goat set apart.

9 And Aaron brought the he goat
which upon it came up the lot for Jeho-
vah, and he did it for the sin.

10 And the he goat which upon it
came up the lot for the goat set apart,
shall stand living before Jehovah, to ex-
plate upon him, to send him for a goat
set apart to the desert.

11 And Aaron brought near the bul-
lock of the sin, which was to him, and
he expiated for himself, and for his
house, and he slaughtered the bullock
of the sin which was to him.

12 And he took a fire pan full of
coals of fire from the altar from before
Jehovah, and he filled his hands with
incense of aromatics beaten small, and
brought within the vail:

13 And he gave the incense upon the
fire before Jehovah, and the cloud of in-
cense covered the vail which was upon
the testimonies; and he shall not die.

14 And he took from the blood of
the bullock, and sprinkled with his fin-
ger upon the face of the cover eastward,
and before the cover he shall sprinkle
seven times from the blood with his
finger.

15 And he slaughtered the he goat of
the sin which was for the people, and
he brought its blood within the vail, and
he did its blood as he did to the blood
of the bullocks; and he sprinkled it
upon the cover and before the cover.

16 And he expiated for the holy place
from the uncleanness of the sons of Is-

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rael, and from their transgression for all
their sins: and so shall he do for the
tent of appointment, dwelling with them
im the midst of their uncleanness.

17 And no man shall be in the tent of
appointment in his coming in to expiate
in the holy place, till his coming out,
he expiated for himself and for his
house, and for all the convocation of
Israel.

18 And he went forth to the altar
which is before Jehovah and expiated
upon it; and he took from the blood of
the bullock, and from the blood of the
he goat, and gave upon the horns of
the altar round about.

19 And he sprinkled upon it from
the blood round about with his finger,
seven times, and cleansed it, and conse-
crated it, from the uncleanness of the
sons of Israel.

20 And he finished expiating the holy
place, and the tent of appointment, and
the altar, and he brought the living he
goat.

21 And Aaron placed his two hands
upon the head of the living he goat and
confessed over him all the iniquities of
the sons of Israel, and all their trans-
eressions, and all their sins, and gave
them upon the head of the he goat, and
sent by the hand of a fit man to the
desert.

22 And the he goat lifted up upon
him all their iniquities to a desert land:
and he sent the he goat into the desert.

23 And Aaron shall come to the tent
of appointment, and he put off the gar-
ments of linen which he put on in his
going in to the holy place, and he left
them there.

24 And he washed his flesh in water
in the holy place, and he put on his
garments and came forth, and did his
burnt-offering, and the burnt-offering of
the people, and expiated for himself,
and for the people.

25 And the fat of the sin he shall
burn upon the altar.

26 And he sending away the goat
set apart, shall wash his garments and
wash his flesh in water, and after this
he shall go in to the camp.

27 And the bullock of sin and the he
goat of sin, from which he brought their

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blood to expiate in the holy place, he
shall bring forth to without the camp,
and they shall burn in fire their skins,
and their flesh, and their dung.

28 And he burning them shall wash
his clothes and wash his flesh in water,
and after this he shall come in to the
camp.

29 And it was to you for a law for-
ever: in the seventh month, in the tenth
of the month ye shall humble your
souls, and all work ye shall not do, the
native and the stranger sojourning in
the midst of you.

30 For in that day he shall expiate
for you, to cleanse you from all your
sins: before Jehovah shall ye be
clean.

31 And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath
to you, and ye humbled your souls, a
law forever.

32 And the priest expiated whom he
shall anoint and whose hand he shall
fill, to be priest instead of his father:
and he put on the garments of linen of
the holy place.

33 And he expiated the holy of holy,
and the tent of appointment, and the
altar shall he expiate: and for the
priests, and for all the people of the
convocation, shall he expiate.

34 And this was to you for a law
forever to expiate for the sons of Israel,
from all their sins once in a year: and
he will do as Jehovah commanded
Moses.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
and to all the sons of Israel, and say to
them, This the word which Jehovah
commanded, saying,

9 A man, a man from the house of
Israel, who shall slaughter an ox or
lamb or goat, in the camp, or who shall
slaughter without the camp,

4 And at the door of the tent of ap-
pointment brought it not in to bring
near an offering to Jehovah before the
dwelling of Jehovah, blood shall be
reckoned to that man: he shed blood;
and that man was cut off from the midst
of his people:

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5 So that the sons of Israel shall
bring their sacrifices which they sacri-
ficed upon the face of the field, and
they brought them to Jehovah at the
door of the tent of appointment, to the
priest, and they sacrificed them, sacri-
fices of peace to Jehovah.

6 And the priest shall sprinkle the
blood upon the altar of Jehovah, at the
door of the tent of appointment; and
he burnt the fat for an odor of sweet-
ness to Jehovah.

7 And they shall no more sacrifice
their sacrifices to satyrs with whom they
committed fornication after them: this
shall be to them a law forever to their
generations.

8 And thou shalt say to them, A man,
a man from the house of Israel, and
from the stranger who shall sojourn in
the midst of you, who shall bring up a
burnt-offering or a sacrifice,

9 And at the door of the tent of ap-
pointment brought it not to do it to Je-
hovah; and that man was cut off from
his people.

10 And aman, a man from the house
of Israel, and from the stranger sojourn-
ing in the midst of you, who shall eat
any blood; and I gave my face against
the soul eating the blood, and I cut it
off from the midst of its people.

11 For the soul of the flesh it is in
the blood; and I gave it to you upon
the altar to expiate for your souls: for
the blood shall expiate for the soul.

12 For this I said to the sons of Is-
rael, Every soul from you shall eat no
blood, and the stranger sojourning in
the midst of you shall not eat blood.

18 And a man, a man from the sons
of Israel, and from the stranger sojourn-
ing in the midst of you, who shall hunt
a hunting, a beast or bird which shall be
eaten, and he poured out its blood and
covered it with dust.

14 For the soul of all flesh it is its
blood in its soul: and say to the sons
of Israel, The blood of all flesh ye shall
not eat, for the soul of all flesh it is its
blood : all eating it shall be cut off.

15 And every soul which shall eat a
careass and torn in pieces among the
native or the stranger, and he washed
his garments and washed in water, and

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was unclean till the evening: and he
was clean.

16 And if he shall not wash his gar-
ments, and bathe not his flesh, and he
shall bear his iniquity.

CHAPTER XVIIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, I am Jehovah your God.

3 According to the doings of the land
of Egypt where ye dwelt in it, ye shall
not do: and according to the doings of
the land of Canaan where I brought you
there, ye shall not do: and in their laws
ye shall not go.

4 My judgments shall ye do, and my
laws shall ye watch to go in them; 1
am Jehovah your God.

5 And ye watched my laws and my
judgments, which a man shall do them,
and he lived in them: I am Jehovah.

6 A man, a man to any remainder of
his flesh ye shall not come near to un-
cover nakedness: I am Jehovah.

7 The nakedness of thy father, and
the nakedness of thy mother thou shalt
not uncover: it is thy mother, thou shalt
not uncover her nakedness.

8 The nakedness of thy father’s wife
thou shalt not uncover: itis thy father’s
nakedness.

9 The nakedness of thy sister, daugh-
ter of thy father or daughter of thy
mother, born within or born without,
thou shalt not uncover their nakedness.

10 The nakedness of thy son’s daugh-
ter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, thou
shalt not uncover their nakedness, for
theirs is thy nakedness.

11 The nakedness of thy father’s
wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father
(she is thy sister), thou shalt not un-
cover her nakedness.

12 The nakedness of thy father’s sis-
ter, thou shalt not uncover: she is thy
father’s remainder.

13 The nakedness of thy mother’s sis-
ter thou shalt not uncover, for she thy
mother’s remainder.

14 The nakedness of thy father’s
brother thou shalt not uncover: to his
wife thou shalt not draw near; she is
thine aunt.

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15 The nakedness of thy daughter-in-
law thou shalt not uncover: she is thy
son’s wife, thou shalt not uncover her
nakedness.

16 The nakedness of thy brother’s
wife thou shalt not uncover: it is thy
brother’s nakedness.

17 The nakedness of a woman and her
daughter thou shalt not uncover; her
son’s daughter, or her daughter's daugh-
ter, thou shalt not take to uncover her
nakedness; they are her remainder; it
is wickedness.

18 And a wife to her sister thou shalt
not take to press to uncover her naked-
ness with her, in her living,

19 And to a woman in the impurity
of her uncleanness, thou shalt not come
near, to uncover her nakedness.

20 To thy neighbor’s wife thou shalt
not give thy effusion of seed to be de-
filed with her.

21 And from thy seed thou shalt not
give to pass over to Molech, and thou
shalt not profane the name of thy God:
I am Jehovah.

22 And with a male thou shalt not lie
on ἃ woman’s bed: it is abomination.

23 And to any quadruped thou shalt
not give thy bed, to be defiled with it :
and a woman shall not stand before a
quadruped, to lie with it: it is profana-
tion.

24 Ye shall not be defiled in any of
these, for in all these the nations were
defiled which I send out from your face.

25 And the land shall be defiled:
and 1 will strike iniquity upon it, and
the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants.

26 And ye watched these my laws,
and my judgments, and ye shall not do
from all of these abominations, the na-
tive and the stranger sojourning in your
midst :

27 For all these abominations did the
men of the land which were before you,
and the land shall be defiled.

28 And the land shall not vomit you
forth in your defiling it, as it vomited
forth the nations which were before you.

29 For every one which shall do from
all of these abominations, and the souls
doing were cut off from the midst of
their people.

30 And they watched my watches so

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as not to do from the laws of abomina-
tion which were done before you, and
ye shall not be defiled in them: I am
Jehovah your God.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the assembly of the sons
of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be
holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.

3 Ye shall fear each his mother and
his father, and my Sabbaths ye shall
watch: I am Jehovah your God.

4 Ye shall not turn to vain things,
and molten gods ye shall not make to
yourselves: 1 am Jehovah your God.

5 And when ye shall sacrifice a sac-
rifice of peace to Jehovah, ye shall sac-
rifice at your will.

6 In the day of your sacrifice it shall
be eaten, and on the morrow: and that
remaining till the third day shall be
burnt in fire.

7 And if eating, it shall be eaten in
the third day, it is abomination; it shall
not be accepted. =

8 And he eating it shall bear his in-
iquity, for he profaned the holy thing
of Jehovah; and that soul was cut off
from its people.

9 And in your reaping the harvest
of your land thou shalt not finish to
reap the extremity of thy field, and
thou shalt not gather the gleaning of
thy harvest.

10 And thou shalt not glean thy
vineyard, and the scattering of thy vine-
yard thou shalt not glean; to the poor
and to the stranger thou shalt leave
them: 1 am Jehovah your God.

11 Ye shall not steal and ye shall not
deceive, and ye shall not lie each to his
neighbor.

12 And ye shall not swear in my
name for falsehood, and profane the
name of thy God: I Jehovah.

13 Thou shalt not oppress thy neigh-
bor, and thou shalt not rob: the wages
of the hireling shall not remain with
thee till morning.

14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, and
before the blind thou shalt not give a
stumbling block, and thou shalt fear
thy God: I Jehovah

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15 Ye shall not do evil in judgment ;
thou shalt not take up the face of the
poor; thou shalt not reverence the face
of the great: in justice shalt thou judge
thy neighbor.

16 Thou shalt not go a slanderer
among thy people; thou shalt not stand
upon the blood of thy neighbor: I Je-
hovah.

17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in
thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke
thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take
sin upon him.

18 Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor
keep anger with the sons of thy people,
and didst love thy neighbor as thyself.
I Jehovah.

19 My laws shall ye watch: thou
shalt not let thy cattle gender with two
diverse kinds: thy field thou shalt not
sow with two diverse kinds; and a gar-
ment of two diverse kinds (of linen and
woolen) shall not come upon thee.

20 And when a man shall lie with a
woman with effusion of seed, and she a
maid-seryant betrothed to a man, and
not redeemed by ransoming, and free-
dom not given to her, there shall be a
punishment: they shall not die because
she was not free.

21 And he brought his trespass to
Jehovah, to the door of the tent of ap-
pointment, a ram of trespass.

22 And the priest expiated for him
with the ram of the trespass, before Je-
hovah, for his sin which he sinned; and
his sin which he sinned was forgiven to
him.

23 And when ye shall come into the
land, and ye planted every tree of food,
and ye made uncircumcised in its uncir-
cumcision its fruits: three years it shall
be to you uncircumcised: it shall not
be eaten.

24 And in the fourth year all its fruit
shall be holy praises for Jehovah.

25 And in the fifth year ye shall eat
its fruits, to add to you its produce. 1
Jehovah your God.

26 Ye shall not eat with the blood:
ye shall not take auguries, and ye shall
not practise magic.

27 Ye shall not cut the extremities of
your head, and thou shalt not destroy
the extremities of thy beard.

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28 And ye shall not give an incision
for the soul in your flesh, and a mark
of stigma ye shall not give upon you:
I Jehovah.

29 Thou shalt not profane thy daugh-
ter to commit fornication: and the land
commit fornication and the land was
filled with wickedness.

30 My Sabbaths shall ye watch, and
Fe ΑΝ be afraid of my holies: I Jeho-
vah.

81 Yeshall not turn to necromancers,
and to wizards ye shall not seek, to be
defiled by them: I Jehovah your God,

32 From the face of gray hair thou
shalt rise up, and thou shalt honor the
face of the old man, and thou shalt be
afraid of thy God: I Jehovah.

83 And when a stranger shall sojourn
with thee in your land, ye shall not op-
press him.

81 As the native among you shall be
to you the stranger sojourning with you;
thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt: 1
Jehovah your God.

35 Ye shall not do evil in judgment,
in tribute, in weight, and in measure.

36 Just balances, just stones, a just
ephah, and a just hin shall be to you:
I Jehovah your God who brought you
out of the land of Egypt.

37 And ye watched all m
all my judgments, and did th
hovyah.

laws and
em: I Je-

CHAPTER XX.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 And to the sons of Israel thou shalt
say, A man, a man from the sons of Is-
rael, and from the stranger sojourning
in Israel which shall give of his seed to
Molech, dying, he shall die: the people
of the land shall stone him with stones.

8 And I will give my face against
that man and cut him off from the midst
of his people; for he gave from his
seed to Molech, in order to defile my
holy place and to profane my holy
name.

4 And if the people of the land, hid-
ing, shall hide their eyes from that man
in his giving his seed to Molech, so as
not to put him to death ;

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5 And I set my face against that man
and against his family, and I cut him off,
and all committing fornication after him
to commit fornication after Molech,
from the midst of their people.

6 And the soul which shall turn to
necromancers and to wizards, to commit
fornication after them, and I gave my
face against that soul and I cut him off
from the midst of his people.

7 And ye were consecrated and ye
were holy: for I Jehovah your God.

8 And ye watched my laws, and ye
did them: I Jehovah consecrating you.

9 When a man, a man who shall
lightly esteem his father and his mother,
dying, he shall die: he lightly esteemed
his father and his mother: his blood 1s
upon him.

10 And a man who shall commit
adultery with a man’s wife, who shall
commit adultery with his friend’s wife,
dying, he shall die, the adulterer and
the adulteress.

11 And a man who shall lie with his
father's wife, uncovered his father’s
nakedness: dying, they shall die: they
two their blood is upon them.

12 And a man who shall lie with his
daughter-in-law, dying, they shall die,
they two: they did profanation; their
blood is upon them.

13 And a man who shall lie witha
male in a woman’s bed, they did abom-
ination: they two, dying, shall die;
their blood is upon them.

14 A man who shall take a woman
and her mother, it wickedness: in fire
they shall be burnt, he and they: and
there shall not be wickedness in the
midst of you.

15 And aman who shall give his bed
with a quadruped, dying, he shall die:
and ye shall kill the quadruped.

16 And a woman who shall come
near to any quadruped to lie down with
it, and didst thou kill the woman and
the quadruped; dying, they shall die;
their blood is upon them.

17 And a man who shall take his
sister, his father’s daughter, or his moth-
er’s daughter, and he saw her nakedness,
and she shall see his nakedness; it is a
reproach; and they were cut off in the
eyes of the sons of their people: he un-

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covered his sister’s nakedness; he shall
bear his iniquity.

18 And aman who shall lie with a
woman being sick, and uncovered her
nakedness; he made naked her foun-
tain, and she uncovered the fountain of
her blood: and they two were cut off
from the midst of their people.

19 And the nakedness of thy moth-
er’s sister, and of thy father’s sister,
thou shalt not uncover; for he made
naked his remainder; they shall bear
their iniquity.

20 And a man who shall lie with his
aunt, uncovered the nakedness of his
uncle: they shall bear their sin: they
shall die childless.

21 And a man who shall take his
brother's wife, it is uncleanness: he un-
covered his brother's nakedness: they
shall die cheildless.

22 And ye watched all my laws, and
all my judgments, and did them: and
the land shall not vomit you forth,
which I brought you there to dwell in it.

23 And ye shall not walk in the laws
of the nations which I sent out from be-
fore you: for they did all these things
and I shall be disgusted with them.

24 And I said to you, Ye shall in-
herit their land, and I will give it to
you to inherit it, a land flowing with
milk and honey: I Jehovah your God,
who separated you from the nations.

25 And ye separated between clean
cattle to unclean, and between unclean
birds and clean: and ye shall not make
you souls abhorred by cattle or bird, and
by any which shall creep upon the earth
which I separated to you for unclean.

26 And ye were holy to me: for I
Jehovah am holy, and I will separate
you from the nations to be to me.

27 When a man or a woman shall be
among them a necromancer, or a wiz-
ard, dying, they shall die: with stone
shall they stone them: their blood is
upon them.

CHAPTER XXT.
Λ ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
Say to the priests the sons of
Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he
shall not be defiled among his peoples.
2 Butif for his remainder coming

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near to him, for his mother and for his
father, and for his son, and for his
daughter, and for his brother,

3 And for his sister, a virgin, coming
near to him, who was not for a husband
for her, he shall be defiled.

‘4 A chief among his people shall not
be defiled, to profane himself.

5 With baldness, they shall not make
baldness upon their head, and they
shall not shave the extremity of their
beard: and in their flesh they shall not
cut incisions.

6 They shall be holy to their God,
and profane not the name of their God:
for the sacrifices of Jehovah, and the
bread of their God they bring: and
they were holy.

7 They shall not take a woman, a
harlot, or profane; and they shall not
take a wife driven away from her hus-
band, for he is holy to his God.

8 And he consecrated him, for he
bringing the bread of thy God: holy
shall he be to thee: for I Jehovah con-
secrating you am holy.

9 And the daughter of a man ה‎
if she shall be profaned to commit for-
nication, it is profaning her father: she
shall be burnt in fire.

10 And the great priest from his
brethren which the anointing oil shall
be poured upon his head, and he filled
his hand to put on the garments, his
head he shall not uncover, and his gar-
ments he shall not rend.

11 And to any dead soul he shall not
come, for his father, and for his mother,
he shall not be defiled.

12 And from the holy place he shall
not go forth, and he shall not profane
the holy place of his God; for the con-
secration of the anointing oil of his God
is upon him; I Jehovah.

18 And he shall take a wife in her
virginity.

14 A widow, and the driven away,
and profane, and an harlot, those he
shall not take: but a virgin of his peo-
ple shall he take a wife.

15 And he shall not profane his seed
among his people; for I Jehovah con-
secrating him.

16 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

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17 Speak to Aaron, saying, A man
from thy seed according to their gen-
erations, to whom shall be in hima
blemish, shall not come near to bring
the bread of his God.

18 For every man to whom in him a
blemish shall not come near: a man
blind, or lame, or flat-nosed, or stretched
out,

19 Or a man to whom there shall be
in him a broken foot or a broken hand,

20 Or curved, or withered, or stained
in his eye, or scurvy, or scabby, or a
bruised testicle :

21 Any man to whom in hima blem-
ish from the seed of Aaron the priest,
shall not come near to bring the sacri-
fices of Jehovah: a blemish is in him,
the bread of his God he shall not come
near to bring.

22 The bread of his God the holy of
holies, and from the holies shall he
eat.

23 But he shall not come in to the
vail, and to the altar he shall not come
near, for a blemish is in him; and he
shall not profane my holy place: for I
Jehoyah consecrating them.

24 And Moses will speak to Aaron
and to his sons and to all the sons of
Israel.

CHAPTER XXIL
ND Jehoyah will speak to Moses,

A. saying,

2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
and they shall separate themselves from
the holies of the sons of Israel, and they
shall not profane my holy name which
they consecrate to me: I Jehovah.

3 Say to them, For your generations
every man who shall come near from
all your seed to the holies which the
sons of Israel shall consecrate to Jeho-
vah, and his uncleanness upon him, and
that soul was cut off from before me:
1 Jehovah.

4 A man,a man from the seed of
Aaron,-and he leprous or flowing; he
sha]l not eat of the holies till he shall
be clean. And he touching upon any
unclean soul, or a man which shall go
forth from Jim the effusion of seed ;

5 Oraman who shall touch upon any
creeping thing which shall be unclean

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to him, or upon a man who shall be un-
clean to him for all his uncleanness ;

6 The soul which shall touch upon
it, and it shall be unclean till the even-
ing, and he shall not eat from the
holies, except he washed his flesh in
water.

7 And the sun went down and he
was clean; and afterwards he shall eat
from the holies for it is his bread.

8 A carcass or torn of wild beast, he
shall not eat to be defiled with. it: I
Jehovah.

9 And they watched my watches, and
they bore not sin upon it, and they died
when they profaned it: I Jehovah con-
secrating them.

10 And any stranger shall not eat
the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest
and a hireling shall not eat the holy
thing.

11 And when the priest shall buy a
soul, the purchase of his silver, he shall
eat of it, and they born in his house;
they shall eat from his bread.

12 And if the priest’s daughter shall
be for a man, a stranger, she shall not
eat from the offering of the holies.

18 And when the daughter of the
priest shall be a widow, or driven out,
and no seed to her, and she turned back
to her father’s house as in her youth,
she shall eat from her father’s bread ;
and any stranger shall not eat of it.

14 And when a man shall eat the
holy thing in error, and he shall add
its fifth upon it, and give the holy thing
to the priest.

15 And they shall not profane the
holies of the sons of Israel which they
shall lift up to Jehovah ;

16 And for them to take up the sin
of trespass in their eating the holies: for
1 Jehovah consecrating them.

17 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

18 Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
and to all the sons of Israel, and say to
them, A man, a man from the house of
Irsael and from the stranger in Israel,
who shall bring near his offering, for all
their vows, and for all their willing
gifts which they will offer to Jehovah
for a burnt-offering :

19 For your acceptance a blameless

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male among the cattle, among the sheep,
and among the goats.

20 And every one which in it is a
blemish ye shall not bring it: for it
shall not be for acceptance for you.

21 And when a man shall bring a
sacrifice of peace to Jehovah, to sepa-
rate a vow עס‎ a willing gift in cattle or
in sheep, it shall be blameless for ac-
ceptance: not any blemish shall be
in it.

22 Blind, or broken, or cut, or flow-
ing, or scurvy, or scabby, they shall not
bring these to Jehovah, and a sacrifice
ye shall not give from them upon the
altar to Jehovah.

23 And an ox, and a sheep stretched
out, and contracted, thou shalt do it a
voluntary gift; and for a vow it shall
not be accepted.

24 And the bruised, and the smitten,
and the torn, and the cut, ye shall not
bring to Jehovah, and ye shall not do in
your land.

25 And from the hand of the son of
the stranger ye shall not bring near the
bread of your God from all these, be-
cause their destruction is in them; a
blemish in them; they shall not be ac-
cepted for you.

26 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

27 When a calf or lamb, or goat, shall
be brought forth, it shall be seven days
under its mother; and from the eighth
day and beyond, it shall be accepted for
an offering, a sacrifice to Jehovah.

28 And an ox ora sheep, it and its
son, thou shalt not slaughter in one
day.

29 And when ye shall sacrifice a sac-
rifice of praise to Jehovah, ye shall sac-
rifice for your acceptance.

30 In that day it shall be eaten; ye
shall not leave from it till morning: I
Jehovah.

81 And ye watched my commands
and did them: I Jehovah.

32 And ye did not profane my holy
name; I was consecrated in the midst
of the sons of Israel: I Jehovah conse-
crating you.

33 Having brought you forth from
the land of Egypt to be to you for God:
I Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXIII.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say
to them, The appointments of Jehovah,
which ye shall call them holy callings,
these my appointments.

3 Six days shall work be done; the
seventh day a Sabbath of rest, a holy
calling: ye shall not do any work: it
is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your
dwellings.

4 These the appointments of Jehovah
681100 holy, which ye shall call them in
their appointment.

5 In the first month, in the fourteenth
of the month, between the two evenings,
the passover to Jehovah.

6 And in the fifteenth day of that
month the festival of unleavened to Je-
hovah: seven days shall ye eat unleay-
ened.

7 In the first day a holy calling shall
be to you: any work of labor ye shall
ποῦ do.

8 And offer ye a sacrifice to Jehovah
seven days: in the seventh day a holy
all any work of labor ye shall not

ο.

9 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

10 Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, When ye shall come into
the land which I give to you, and ye
reaped its harvest, and brought a hand-
ful of the first-fruits of your harvest to
the priest:

11 And he lifted up the handful be-
fore Jehovah for your acceptance: on
the morrow of the Sabbath the priest
shall lift it wp.

12 And in the day of your lifting up
the handful, ye did a blameless lamb,
the son of its year, for a burnt-offering
to Jehovah.

13 And its gift two tenths of fine flour
mingled with oil, a sacrifice to Jehovah,
an odor of sweetness: and its libation
of wine, the fourth of the hin.

14 And ye shall not eat bread, and
parched, and early groats of grain, till
the self-same day till that ye brought an
offering to your God: a law forever to
your generations, in all your dwellings. |

15 And ye counted to you from the

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morrow of the Sabbath from the day ye
brought the handful of lifting up ; seven
Sabbaths shall be complete.

16 Till from the morrow of the sev-
enth Sabbath, shall ye number fifty
days; and ye brought a new gift to Je-
hovah.

17 From your dwellings shall ye bring
two loaves lifted up, of two tenths of fine
flour shall they be; leavened shall they
be, baked, the first-fruits to Jehovah.

18 And ye brought upon the bread
seven blameless lambs, the sons of a
year, and one bullock, the son of a cow,
and two rams: they shall be a burnt-
offering to Jehovah, and their gift and
their libations, a sacrifice, an odor of
sweetness to Jehovah.

19 And ye did one he goat of the
goats for sin, and two lambs the sons of
a year, for a sacrifice of peace.

20 And the priest lifted them up upon
the bread of the first-fruits, a lifting up
before Jehovah upon the two lambs:
they shall be holy to Jehovah for the
priest.

21 And ye called in this self-same
day a holy calling of Jehovah to you:
any work of labor ye shall not do: a
law forever in all your dwellings for
your generations.

22 And in your reaping the harvest
of your land, thou shalt not finish the
extremity of thy field in thy reaping,
and the gleaning of thy harvest thou
shalt not glean: to the poor and to the
stranger thou shalt leave them: I Jeho-
vah your God.

23 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

24 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
In the seventh month, in one of the
month, there shall be to you a Sabbath,
a remembrance, shouts of joy, a holy
calling.

25 Any work of labor ye shall not
do; and ye brought a sacrifice to Je-
hovah.

26 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

27 But in this tenth of the seventh
month, a day of expiation; this shall
be a holy calling to you, and ye hum-
bled your souls, and brought a sacrifice
to J שה‎

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28 And any work ye shall not do in
that self-same day, for it is a day of ex-
piation, to expiate for you before Jeho-
vah your God.

29 For every soul which shall not be
humbled in that same day, and it was
cut off from its people.

80 And any soul which shall do any
work in that same day, I destroyed
that soul from the midst of its people.

31 Any work ye shall not do: a law
forever to your generations in all your
dwellings.

32 A Sabbath of rest it is to you; ye
humbled your souls: in the ninth of
the month, in the evening, from evening
to evening shall ye celebrate your Sab-
bath.

33 And Jehoyah will speak to Moses,
saying,

34 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
In the fifteenth day of this seventh
month the festival of tents seven days
to Jehovah.

35 In the first day a holy calling:
any work of labor ye shall not do.

36 Seven days shall ye bring a sacri-
fice to Jehovah; in the eighth day a
holy calling shall be to you, and bring
ye a sacrifice to Jehovah: it isa re-
straining: any work of labor ye 1
not do.

37 These the appointments to Jeho-
vah, which ye shall call them callings
holy, to bring a sacrifice to Jehovah, a
burnt-offering and a gift, a sacrifice, and
libations, the word of a day in its day.

88 Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah,
and besides your gilts, and besides all
your vows, and besides all your volun-
tary gifts which ye shall give to Jeho-
vah.

39 But in the fifteenth day of the sev-
enth month, in your gathering the prod-
uce of the land, ye shall keep a festival
of Jehovah seven days: in the first day
a Sabbath, and in the eighth day a
Sabbath. |

40 And take ye to yourselves in the
first day the fruit of the tree of orna-
ment, palms of the palm trees, and
branches of the tree interwoven, and
willows of the stream; and ye rejoiced
before Jehovah your God seven days.

41 And keep it a festival to Jehovah

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seven days in the year: a law forever
to your generations; in the seventh
month shall ye keep it.

42 Ye shall dwell in tents seven days ;
all the natives in Israel shall dwell in
tents:

43 So that your generations shall
know that I caused the sons of Israel
to dwell in tents in my bringing them
out of the land of Egypt: 1 Jehovah
your God.

44 And Moses will speak the appoint-
ments of Jehovah to the sons of Israel.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel, and
they shall take to thee pure olive oil
beaten for the light, to cause the lamp
to ascend always.

3 From without the vail of the testi-
mony, in the tent of appointment, shall
Aaron arrange it from evening to morn-
ing, before Jehovah always: a law for-
ever to your generations.

4 Upon the pure chandelier shall he
arrange the lamps before Jehovah al-
ways.

5 And take the fine flour and bake
it, twelve cakes; two tenths shall be
the one cake.

6 And put them two rows, six the
row, upon the pure table before Jeho-
vah.

7 And give upon the row pure frank-
incense, and it was to the bread for a
remembrance ; a sacrifice to Jehovah.

8 In the day of the Sabbath, in the
day of the Sabbath he shall arrange it
before Jehovah always, from the sons
of Israel, a covenant forever.

9 And it was to Aaron and to his sons,
and they shall eat it in the holy place:
for it is holy of holies to him from the
sacrifices of Jehovah a law forever.

10 And the son of a woman, an Isra-
elitess, will go forth (he the son of a
man an Kegyptian) into the midst of the
sens of Israel: and they will strive in
the camp ,the son of the Israelitess, and
the man the Israelite.

11 And the son of the woman the
Israelitess, will curse the name, and will
vilify, and they will bring him to Mo-

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ses: and his mother’s name Shelomith,
the daughter of Dibri, to the tribe of
Dan.

12 And they placed him in watch, to
declare distinctly to them by the mouth
of Jehovah.

13 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

14 Bring him vilifying, without the
camp; and all they hearing, placed
their hands upon his head, and all the
assembly stoned him.

15 And to the sons of Israel thou
shalt speak, saying, When a man, a
man shall curse his God and he bore
his sin.

16 And he vyilifying the name of Je-
hovah, dying. shall die; stoning, all
the assembly shall stone him: as the
stranger so the native, in his vilifying
the name, he shall die.

17 And when a man shall smite any
soul of man, dying, he shall die.

18 And he smiting the soul of cattle,
shall recompense soul for soul.

19 And when a man shall give a
blemish in his neighbor, as he did so it
shall be done to him:

20 Fracture for fracture, eye for eye,
tooth for tooth: as he shall give a blem-
ish in aman so it shall be given in him.

21 And he smiting cattle shall rec-
ie it; and he smiting man, shall

16.

22 One judgment to you; as the
stranger so the native shall it be: for I
Jehovah your God.

23 And Moses will speak to the sons
of Israel, and they will bring forth him
cursing, without the camp, and they
will stone him with stone: and the sons
of Israel did as Jehovah commanded
Moses.

CHAPTER XXV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say
to them, When ye shall come into the
land which I gave to you, the land
shall rest a Sabbath to Jehovah.

8 Six years thou shait sow thy field,
and six years thou shalt prune thy vine-
yard, and gather its produce ;

4 And in the seventh year, a Sabbath

of rest shall be to the land, a Sabbath
to Jehovah: thy field thou shalt not
sow, and thy vineyard thou shalt not
prune.

5 The overflowmg of thy harvest
thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of
thy separation thou shalt not gather:
a year of the Sabbaths shall be to the
land.

6 And the Sabbath of the land shall
be to you for food; to thee and to thy
servant, and to thy maid, and to thy
hireling, and to thine inhabitant so-
journing with thee.

7 And to thy cattle, and to the beast
which is in thy land shall all its prod-
uce be for food.

8 And number to thee seven Sab-
baths of years, seven years, seven
times; and they shall be to thee the
days of seven Sabbaths of years, nine
and forty years.

9 And cause the trumpet of shouts
of joy to pass over: in the seventh
month, in the tenth of the month, in
the day of expiations, shall ye cause
the trumpet to pass over in all your
land.

10 And consecrate the year, the fif-
tieth year, and call a letting go free in
the land, to all inhabiting 16: it shall
be a jubilee to you; and return ye
each to his possession, and each to his
family shall ye turn back.

11 It a jubilee the year, the fiftieth
year shall be to you: ye shall not sow
and ye shall not reap its overflowings,
and ye shall not gather its separations.

12 For it a jubilee; holy shall it be
to you: from the field ye shall eat its
produce.

18 In the year of this jubilee ye shall
turn back each to his possession,

14 And when ye shall sell a selling
to thy neighbor, or buying of thy neigh-
bor’s hand, ye shall not oppress each
his brother.

15 According to the number of years
after the jubilee, thou shalt buy from
thy neighbor ; Ὁ accor ding to the number
of the years’ produce shall he sell to
thee.

16 According to the multitude of
years thou shalt increase his purchase,
and according to the fewness of years

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thou shalt diminish his purchase: for
from the numbering of the produce, he
sold to thee.

17 And ye shall not oppress each his
neighbor; and thou shalt fear thy God:
for I Jehovah your God.

18 And ye did my laws and watched
my judgments and did them, and dwelt
upon the land in confidence.

19 And the land gave her fruits, and
ye ate to satisfying, and ye dwelt in
confidence upon it.

20 And when ye shall say, What
shall we eat in the seventh year? be-
hold, we shall not sow and we shall not
gather our produce.

21 And 1 commanded my blessing to
you in the sixth year, and it made “the
produce for three years.

22 And ye sowed the eighth year, and
ate from the old produce - till the ninth
year; till its produce came in ye shall
eat the old.

23 And the land shall not be sold to
be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye
are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 And in all the land of your posses-
ai ye shall give a redemption to the

land

25 When thy brother shall be poor;
and he sold his possession, and he being
near to him came to redeem it, and he
redeemed the selling of his brother.

26 And when to a man there shall be
none to him to redeem, and his hand
attained and found a sufficiency to re-
deem it;

27 And he reckoned the years of his
selling, and he returned that remaining
over to the man to whom he sold it, and
turned back to his possession.

28 And if his hand found nota suffi-
ciency to return to him, and his selling
was in the hand of him buying it, till
the year of the jubilee: and it went
forth in the jubilee, and he turned back
to his possession.

29 And when a man shall sell the
house of dwelling in a walled city, its
redemption of it shall be till it was
completed : a year of days from its sell.
ing shall be its redemption.

80 And if it was not redeemed till
the filling up of a complete year, and
the house which 15 in the city, which, if

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walled, was set.forever to him buying it
for his generation: it shall not go forth
in the jubilee.

31 And the houses of the villages
which to them not being walled round
about, shall be reckoned for a field of
the land: redemption shall be to it, and
it shall go forth in the jubilee.

82 And the cities of the Levites, the
houses of the cities of their possession,
redemption shall be always to the Le-
vites.

88 And whoever shall redeem from
the Levites, and the selling of the house
and the city of his possession went out
in the jubilee; for the houses of the
cities of the Levites, this their pos-
session in the midst of the sons of
Israel.

81. And the field of the area of their
cities shall not be sold, for it is a pos-
session to them forever.

85 And when thy brother shall be
poor, and his hand wavering with thee,
hold fast to him; a stranger and so-
journer to live with thee.

36 Thou shalt not take from him in-
terest and increase; thou shalt be afraid
of thy God; and thy brother to live
with thee.

87 Thy silver thou shalt not give to
him upon interest, and upon increase
thou shalt not give him thy food.

881 am Jehovah your God who
brought you out of the land of Keypt,
to give to you the land of Canaan, to be
to you for God.

39 And when thy brother shall be
poor with thee, and he was sold to thee,
thou shalt not serve upon him the ser-
vice of a servant.

40 As the hireling, as the sojourner,
he shall be with thee; till the year of
jubilee he shall serve with thee;

41 And he shall go forth from thee,
he and his sons with him, and turn
back to his family, to the possession of
his fathers shall he turn back.

42 For they are my servants whom
I brought them out of the land of
Kgypt ; they shall not be sold from the
sale of a servant.

43 Thou shalt not rule over him with
crushing, and thou shalt be afraid of
thy God.

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44 And thy servant and thy maid
which shall be to thee, from the nations
which are round about you, from them
ye shall buy servant and maid.

45 And from the sons of the so-
journer sojourning with you, from them
shall ye buy, and from their families
which are with you, which were born
in your land: and they were to you
for a possession.

46 And ye shall possess them for
your sons after you to take possession
forever; ye shall serve with them; and
over your brethren the sons of Israel,
ye shall not rule over him, each over
his brother with oppression.

47 And if the hand of a stranger
and sojourner with thee shall attain,
and thy brother with him be poor, and
he sold to the stranger, a sojourner with
thee, or to the root of the stranger's
famil

48 After the selling, redemption shall
be to him; one from his brethren shall
redeem him:

49 Or his uncle, or his uncle’s son
shall redeem him, or from the remain-
der of his flesh from his: family, shall
redeem him; or his hand attained, and
he redeemed himself.

50 And he reckoned with him buy-
ing him, from the year of his being
sold to him till the year of the jubilee:
and the silver of his selling was accord-
ing to the number of years, as the days
of a hireling, shall it be with him.

51 If yet é a multitude of years, accord-
ing to them he shall return his redemp-
tion from the silver of his sale.

52 And if a fewness remained to the
years till the year of jubilee, and he
reckoned to him according to his years,
he shall return his redemption.

58 As the hireling of the year by the
year shall he be with him: he shall
not rule him by crushing to thine
eyes.

54 And if he shall not be redeemed
in these, and he shall go forth in the
year of the jubilee, he and his sons
with him.

55 For to me the sons of Israel are
servants; they are my servants which
I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt: I Jehovah your God.

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CHAPTER תטאא‎
E shall not make to yourselves
vain things, and carving, and a
pillar ye shall not set up to you, and a
stone of imagery ye shall not give in
your land, to worship upon it: for 1
Jehovah your God.

2 Ye shall watch my Sabbaths, and
ye shall fear my holy place: I Jehovah.

3 If ye shall go in my laws and watch
my commands, and do them:

4 And I gave your rains in their
times, and the land gave its produce,
and the tree of the field shall give its
fruit:

5 And the threshing time to you
reached the vintage, and the vintage
shall reach the sowimg: and ye ate your
bread to satisfying, and ye dwelt in
confidence upon your land.

6 And I gave peace in the land and
ye lay down and not being terrified:
and I caused the evil beast to cease
out of the Jand, and the sword shall
not pass through in your land.

7 And ye chased your enemies, and
they fell before you to the sword.

8 And five from you chased a hund-
red, and a hundred from you chased
ten thousand: and your enemies fell
before you to the sword.

9 And I turned to you and I made

ou fruitful, and I multiplied you, and

set up my covenant with you.

10 And ye ate of the old, being dry,
and ye shall bring forth the old from
before the new.

11 And I gave my dwelling in the
midst of you: and my soul shall not
abhor you.

12 And I walked in the midst of you,
and I was to you for God, and ye shall
be to me for a people.

13 I Jehovah your God, which
brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from being servants to them, and I will
break the rod of your yoke, and I will
cause you to go erect.

14 And if ye will not hear to me,
and will not do all these commands ;

15 And if ye shall reject my laws.
and if your soul shall abhor my judg-
ments so as not to do all my commands,
to your breaking my covenant:

16 Surely I will do this to you, and

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I appointed over you terror, consump-
tion, and burning fever, destroying the
eyes and consuming the soul: and ye
sowed in vain your seed, and your en-
emies shall eat it.

17 And I gave my face against you,
and ye were slain before your enemies:
and they hating you ruled over you,
and ye fled and none pursued you.

18 And if yet these ye will not hear
to me, I added to chastise you seven
times for your sins.

19 And I broke the pride of your
strength: and I gave your heaven as
iron, and your earth as brass:

20 And your strength shall be ex-
hausted to no purpose: and your land
shall not give its produce, and the tree
of the land shall not give its fruit.

21 And if ye shall go hostile with
me, and shall not be willing to hear to
me, and I added upon you seven blows
for your sins.

22 And I sent upon you the beast
of the field, and it bereaved you of
children, and cut off your cattle, and,
diminished you, and your ways were
laid waste.

23 And if by these ye will not be
admonished by me, and ye went hostile
with me;

24 And I went also hostile with you,
and 1 struck you, also I, seven for your
sins.

25 And I brought upon you the
sword to avenge vengeance of the cove-
nant: and ye were gathered into your
cities and I sent death in the midst of
you, and ye were given into the hand
of the enemy.

26 In my breaking to you the rod of
bread, and ten women baked your
bread in one oven, and they returned
your bread by weight: and ye ate, and
ye shall not be satisfied.

27 And if by this ye shall not hear
to me, and ye went hostile with me;

28 And I went hostile with you in
anger; and I chastised you, I also,
seven for your sins.

29 And ye ate the flesh of your sons,
and the flesh of your daughters shall
ye eat.

30 And I laid waste your high places,
and I cut off your images, and I gave

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your blocks, and my soul abhorred

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81 And 1 gave your cities a desert,
and 1 laid waste your holy places, and
T will not smell upon the odor of your
sweetness.

32 And I laid the land waste, and
your enemies were astonished at it,
they dwelling upon it.

88 And I will scatter you among the
nations, and I drew out after you a
sword: and your land was a desert, and
your cities shall be a desolation.

34 Then shall the land delight with
its Sabbaths, all the days of its desola-
tion, and ye in the land of your ene-
mies: then shall the land rest and de-
light with its Sabbaths.

35 All the days of its desolation shall
it rest, which it did not rest in your
Sabbaths, in your dwelling upon it.

36 And they remaining of you, and
I brought timidity into their heart in
the land of their enemies; and the
voice of a driven leaf pursued them,
and they fled, fleeing the sword; and
they fell, and none pursued.

37 And they faltered each upon his
brother, as from before the sword, and
none pursued: and there shall be to
you no power of standing before your
enemies.

38 And ye were destroyed in the na-
tions, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up.

39 And they being left of you, shall
pine away in their sin in the land of
your enemies, and also in the iniquities
of their fathers shall they pine away
with them.

40 And they shall. confess their ini-
quity and the iniquity of their fathers,
and the transgression which they dealt
treacherously against me, and also that
they went hostile with me;

41 I also will go hostile with them,
and I brought them into the land of
their enemies; if then their uncireum-
cised heart shall be humbled, and then
they shall be satisfied with their ini-
quity ;

42 And I remembered my covenant
with Jacob, and also my covenant with
Isaak, and also my covenant with

Abraham will I remember; and I will
remember the land.

43 And the land shall be left of
them, and shall delight with its Sab-
baths in its desolation from them: and
they shall be satisfied because of their
iniquity, and because they rejected my
judgments, and my laws their soul ab-
horred.

44 And yet also this in their being
in the land of their enemies, I did not
reject them, and I did not abhor them,
to cut them off, and to break my coy-
enant with them: for I Jehovah their
God.

45 And I remembered for them the
covenant of their beginnings, whom I
brought forth out of the land of Eeypt,
in the eyes of the nations to be to them
for God: I Jehovah.

46 These the laws, and judgments,
and precepts, which Jehovah gave be-
tween him, and between the sons of
Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of
Moses.

CHAPTER XXVIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,

‘\ saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, When a man shall separate a
vow by thy estimation, the souls for
Jehovah.

3 And thy estimation was the male
of the son of twenty years, and even to
the son of sixty years; and thy estima-
tion was fifty shekels of silver by the
shekel of the holy place.

4 And if it is a female, thy estima-
tion was thirty shekels.

5 And if from the son of five years,
and even to the son of twenty years,
and thy estimation was, the male,
twenty shekels, and for the fernale, ten
shekels.

6 And if from the son of a month,
and even to the son of five years, and
thy estimation was, the male, five shek-
els of silver, and for the female, thy
estimation, three shekels of silver.

7 And if from the son of sixty years
and from above, if a male, thy estima-
tion was fifteen shekels, and for a fe-
male, ten shekels.

8 And if he was poor above thy es-

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timation, and he stood before the priest,
and the priest estimated him: and ac-
cording to whose mouth the hand shall
attain, the priest estimated hin yowing.

9 And if eattle which they shall
make an offering from them to Jeho-
vah, all which he shall give from it to
Jehovah shall be holy.

10 He shall not change it, and he
shall not exchange it, good for evil, or
evil for good: and if changing, he shall
change cattle for cattle, and the beast, it
and its exchange shall be holy.

11 And if any unclean cattle which
they shall not bring near from it an
offering to Jehovah, and he made the
quadruped to stand before the priest.

12 And the priest estimated it be-
tween good and between eyil: accord-
ing to thy valuation, O priest, so shall
it be.

13 And if redeeming, he shall redeem
it, and he shall add its fifth upon thy
estimation.

14 And when a man shall consecrate
his house holy to Jehovah, and the
priest estimated it between good and
between eyil: as the priest shall esti-
mate it, so shall it stand.

15 And if he consecrating shall re-
deem his house, and he shall add the
fifth of the silver of thy estimation
upon it, and it was to him.

16 And if from the field of his possess-
lon a man shall consecrate to Jehovah,
and thy estimation was according to its
seed: the seed of an omer of barley, at
fifty shekels of silver.

17 If from the year of jubilee he
shall consecrate his field, according to
thy estimation it shall stand.

18 And if after the jubilee he shall
consecrate his field, and the priest reck-
oned to him the silver upon the month
of the years remaining, till the year of
the jubilee, and it was taken away from
thy estimation.

19 And if he consecrating it, redeem-
ing, shall redeem the field, and he shall
add the fifth of the silver of thy estima-
tion upon it, and it stood to him.

20 And if he shall not redeem the
field, and if he sold the field to another
man, it shall be redeemed no more.

21 And the field in its going forth in

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the jubilee was holy to Jehovah, as a
consecrated field: to the priest shall be
its possession.

22 And if the field of his purchase
which is not from the field of his pos-
session he shall consecrate to Jehovah ;

23 And the priest reckoned to him
the number of thy estimation till the
year of jubilee: and he gave thy esti-
mation in that day, holy to Jehovah.

24 In the year of the jubilee the field
shall return to whom they bought it
from him, to him to whom the posses-
sion of the land.

25 And all thy estimation shall be
according to the holy shekel: twenty
geralis shall be the shekal.

26 But the first-born which shall be
first to Jehovah among the cattle, a
man shall not consecrate it; if an ox, if
a sheep, it is to Jehovah.

27 And if from unclean cattle, and
he redeemed by thy estimation, and he
shall add the fifth wpon it: and if it
shall not be redeemed, and it was sold
by thy estimation.

28 But all consecrated which a man
shall consecrate to Jehovah from all
which is to him, from man and cattle,
and fromthe field of his possession,
shall not be sold and shall not be re-
deemed: every thing consecrated it is
holy of holies to Jehovah.

29 Every thing consecrated which
shall be consecrated from man, shall
not be redeemed: dying, it shall die.

80 And all the tenth of the land
from the seed of the land, from the
fruit of the tree, is to Jehovah: it is
holy to Jehovah.

31 And if redeeming, a man shall
redeem from his tenth, he shall add to
its fifth upon it.

82 And all the tenth of cattle and
sheep, all which shall pass through un-
der the rod, the tenth shall be holy to
Jehovah.

88 He shall not search between good
to evil, and he shall not exchange it;
and if exchanging, he shall exchange
it, and it was, it and its exchange shall
be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

34 These the commands which Jeho-
vah commanded Moses to the sons of
Israel in mount Sinai.

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CHAPTER I.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
in the desert of Sinai, m the tent
of appointment, in one of the second
month, in the second year of their com-
ing out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Take up the sum of all the assem-
bly of the sons of Israel, according to
their families, according to the house of
their fathers, with the number of names,
every male according to their head:

3 From the son of twenty years and
above, all going forth to war in Israel;
ye shall review them according to their
armies, thou and Aaron.

4 And with you they shall be a man,
a man according to the tribe; a man he
the head according to the house of their
fathers. }

5 And these the names of the men
who shall stand with you: for Reuben:
Elizur, son of Shedeur.

6 For Simeon: Shelumiel, son of
Zurishaddai.

7 For Judah: Nahshon, son of Am-
minadab.

8 For Issachar: Nethaneel, son of
Zuar.

9 For Zebulon: Eliab, son of Helon.

10 For the sons of Joseph: for Eph-
yaim; Hlishama, son of Ammihud.
For Manasseh: Gamaliel, son of Ped-
ahzur.

11 For Benjamin: Abidan, son of
Gideoni.

12 For Dan: Ahiezer, son of Ammi-
shaddai.

13 For Asher: Pagiel, son of Ocran.

14 For Gad: Eliasaph, son of Deuel.

15 For Naphtali: Ahira, son of Enan.

16 These the called of the assembly,
chiefs from the tribe of their fathers,
ΤΕΥ the heads of the thousands of Is-
rael.

17 And Moses will take, and Aaron,
these men which were called by names:

18 And they gathered together all the
assembly in one of the second month,
and they will declare their birth accord-
ing to their families, according to the

house of their fathers, according to the
number of names, from the son of twen-
ty years and above, according to their
heads.

19 As Jehovah commanded Moses,
and he reviewed them in the desert of
Sinai. Ὁ

20. And the sons of Reuben, the first-
born of Israel, shall be their generations,
according to their families, according
to the house of their fathers, according
to the number of names, according to
their heads, every male from the son of
twenty years and aboye, all going forth
to war.

21 Those being reviewed for the tribe
of Reuben, six and forty thousand and
five hundred.

22 For the sons of Simeon, their gen-
erations according to their families, ac-
cording to the house of their fathers,
they being reyrewed according to the
number of names, according to their
heads, every male from the son of twen-
ty years and above, all going forth to war.

23 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Simeon, nine and fifty thousand and
three hundred.

24 For the sons of Gad, their genera-
tions, according to their families, accord-
ing to the house of their fathers, accord-
ing to the number of names, from the
son of twenty years and above, all go-
ing forth to war.

25 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Gad, five and forty thousand and six
hundred and fifty.

26 And for the sons of Judah, their
generations according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to wav. ἱ

27 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Judah, four and seventy thousand
and six hundred.

28 For the sons of Issachar, their
generations according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from

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the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to war.

29 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Issachar, four and fifty thousand and
four hundred.

30 For the tribe of Zebulon, their
generations according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and 40076, all
going forth to war.

31 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Zebulon, seven and fifty thousand
and four hundred.

32 For the sons of Joseph, for the
sons of Ephraim, their generations ac-
cording to their families, according to
the house of their fathers, according to
the number of names, from the son of
twenty years and above, all going forth
to war.

88 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Ephraim, forty thousand and five
hundred.

84 For the sons of Manasseh, their
generations, according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to war.

35 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Manasseh, two and thirty thousand
and two hundred.

36 For the sons of Benjamin, their
generations, according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to war.

387 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Benjamin, five and thirty thousand
and four hundred.

88 For the sons of Dan, their genera-
tions, according to their families, ac-
cording to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to war.

39 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Dan, two and sixty thousand and
seven hundred.

40 And for the tribe of Asher, their
generations, according to their families,
according to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from

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the son of twenty years and above, all
going forth to war.

41 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Asher, one and forty thousand and
five hundred.

42 The sons of Naphtali, their gene-
rations, according to their families, ac-
cording to the house of their fathers,
according to the number of names, from
the son of twenty years and aboye, all
going forth to war

43 They being reviewed for the tribe
of Naphtali, three and fifty thousand
and four hundred.

44 These, they being reviewed, which
Moses reviewed, and Aaron, and the
chiefs of Israel, twelve men: one man
was for the house of their father.

45 And all the sons of Israel shall be
reviewed according to the house of
their fathers, from the son of twenty
years and above, all going forth to war
in Israel.

46 And all being reviewed shall be
six hundred thousand and three thou-
sand and five hundred and fifty.

47 And the Levites for the tribe of
their fathers were not reviewed in the
midst of them.

48 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

49 But the tribe of Levi thou shalt
not review, and their head thou shalt not
take in the midst of the sons of Israel.

50 And thou, set the Levites over the
dwelling of testimony, and oyer all its
vessels, and over all which is to it:
they shall lift up the dwelling and all
its vessels, and they shall serve it, and
they shall encamp round about the
dwelling.

51 And in the removing of the dwell-
ing the Levites shall take it down, and
m pitching the dwelling, the Levites
shall set it up: and the stranger com-
ing near shall die.

52 And the sons of Israel encamped
each by his camp, and each by his flag
for their warfare.

53 And the Levites shall encamp
round about the dwelling of testimony ;
and there shall not be anger upon the
assembly of the sons of Israel: and the
Levites shall watch the watch of the
dwelling of testimony.

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54 And the sons of Israel shall do ac-
cording to all which Jehovah com-
manded Moses; so did they.

CHAPTER IL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses

Ἃ and to Aaron, saying,

2 A man by his flag with the ensign
according to the house of their fathers,
shall the sons of Israel encamp: from
over against the tent of appointment
round about shall they encamp.

3 And they encamping eastward from
the sunrising, the flag of the camp Ju-
dah for their warfare; and the chief
for the sons of Judah, Nashon, son of
Amminadab,

4 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, four and seventy thousand and
six hundred.

6 And they encamping by him, the
tribe of Issachar: and the chief for the
sons of Issachar, Nathaneel, son of Zuar.

6 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, four and fifty thousand and
four hundred.

7 The tribe of Zebulon: and the chief
for the sons of Zebulon, Eliab, son of
Helon.

8 And his army, they being reviewed,
seven and fifty thousand and four hund-
red.

9 All they being reviewed for the
eamp of Judah, a hundred thousand and
eighty thousand and six thousand and
four hundred, for their warfare: they
shall first remove.

10 The flag of the camp of Reuben,
south, according to their armies: and
the chief for the sons of Reuben, Elizur,
the son of Shedeur.

11 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, six and forty thousand and five
hundred.

12 And they encamping by him, the
tribe of Simeon: and the chief for the
sons of Simeon, Shelumiel, son of Zu-
rishaddai.

13 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, nine and fifty thousand and
three hundred.

14 And the tribe of Gad: and the
chief for the sons of Gad, Eliasaph, son
of Reuel.

15 And his army, and they being re-

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viewed, five and forty thousand, and
six hundred and fifty.

16 All they being reviewed for the
camp of Reuben, a hundred thousand
and one and fifty thousand, and four
hundred and fifty, according to their
armies: they shall remove second.

17 And the tent of appointment shall
be removed, the camp of the Levites in
the midst of the camp. As they shall
encamp, so shall they remove, every
man upon his hand according to their
flags,

18 The flag of the camp of Ephraim,
according to their armies, for their war-
fare, the sea: and the chief for the sons
of Ephraim, Elishama, son of Ammihud,

19 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, forty thousand five hundred.

20 And by him the tribe of Manas-
seh: and the chief for the sons of Ma-
nasseh, Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur.

21 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, two and thirty thousand and
two hundred.

22 And the tribe of Benjamin: and
the chief for the sons of Benjamin, Abi-
dan, son of Gideoni.

23 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, five and thirty thousand and
four hundred.

24 All they being reviewed of the
camp of Ephraim, a hundred thousand
and eight thousand and a hundred, ac-
cording to their armies: and they shall
remoye third.

26 The flag of the camp of Dan, north-
ward, according to their armies: and
the chief for the sons of Dan, Ahiezer,
son of Ammishaddai.

26 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, two and sixty thousand and
seven hundred.

27 And they encamping by him, the
tribe of Asher: and the chief for the
sons of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran.

28 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, one and forty thousand and
five hundred.

29 And the tribe of Naphtali: the
chief for the sons of Naphtali, Ahira,
son of Enan.

30 And his army, and they being re-
viewed, three and fifty thousand and
four hundred.

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91 All they being reviewed for the
camp of Dan, a hundred thousand and
seven and fifty thousand and six hund-
red: and they shall remove last accord-
ing to their flags.

82 And these the sons of Israel being
reviewed, according to the house of
their fathers: all they being reviewed
of the camp according to their armies,
six hundred thousand, and three thou-
sand and five hundred and fifty.

83 And the Levites were not re-
viewed in the midst of the sons of Isra-
el; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

84 And the sons of Israel will do ac-
cording to all which Jehovah com-
manded Moses: so they encamped ac-
cording to their flags, and so they re-
moved each according to his family,
according to the house of their fathers.

. CHAPTER IIL.
ND these the generations of Aaron
and Moses, in the day Jehovah
spake to Moses in mount Sinai.

2 And these the names of the sons of
Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abi-
hu, and Eleazar and Ithamar.

3 These the names of the sons of
Aaron, the priests being anointed, of
whom he filled their hands to be
priests.

4 And Nadab and Abihu will die
before Jehovah in their bringing strange
fire before Jehovah, in the desert of Si1-
nai: and there were no sons to them:
and Kleazar will be priest, and Ithamar,
before Aaron their father.

5 And Jehoyah will speak to Moses,
saying,

6 Bring near the tribe of Levi, and
make it stand before Aaron the priest ;
and they served him.

7 And they watched his watches, and
the watches of all the assembly before
the tent of appointment to do the work
of the dwelling.

8 And they shall watch all the ves-
sels of the tent of appointment, and the
watches of the sons of Israel, to do the
work of the dwelling.

9 And give the Levites to Aaron and
to his sons; being given they were giv-
en to him from the sons of Israel.

10 And Aaron and his sons thou

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shalt set up, and they shall watch their
priesthood; and the stranger coming
near shall die.

11 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

12 And I, behold, I took the Levites
from the midst of the sons of Israel, in-
stead of all the first-born cleaving the
womb from the sons of Israel: and the
Levites were to me.

18 For to me all the first-born: in
the day I struck all the first-born in the
land of Egypt, I consecrated to me every
first-born in Israel, from man to cattle:
to me they shall be: I am Jehovah.

14 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
in the desert of Sinai, saying,

15 Review the sons of Levi according
to the house of their fathers, according
to their families: every male from the
son of a month and above shalt thou
review them.

16 And Moses will review them ac-
cording to the mouth of Jehovah, as he
commanded.

17 And these shall be the sons of
Levi, by their names: Gershon, and
Kohath, and Merari.

18 And these the names of the sons
of Gershon according to their families:
Libni and Shimei.

19 And the sons of Kohath, accord-
ing to their families: Amram, and Ize-
har, Hebron, and Uzziel.

20 And the sons of Merari according
to their families: Mahli, and Mushi;
these they of the families of the Levites
according to the house of their fathers.

21 To Gershon the families of the Lib-
nites, and the families of the Shimites:
these they of the families of the Ger-
shonites.

22 They being reviewed according to
the number of every male, from the son
of amonth and above, they being review-
ed, seven thousand and five hundred.

23 The families of the Gershonites
shall encamp behind the tent to the
sea.

24 And the chief of the house of the
father to the Gershonites, Eliasaph, the
son of Lael.

25 And the watches of the sons of
Gershon in the tent of appomtment, the
dwelling, and the tent, its covering, and

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the vail of the door of the tent of ap-
pointment,

26 And the curtains of the enclosure,
and the covering of the door of the en-
closure, which is by the dwelling, and
upon the altar round about, and its
cords, and all its works.

27 And for Kohath the families of the
Amramites, and the families of the Ize-
harites, and the families of the Hebron-
ites, and the families of the Uzzielites:
these they of the families of the Ko-
hathites.

28 According to the number of every
male, from the son of a month and
above, eight thousand six hundred.
watching the watches of the holy place.

29 The families of the sons of Kohath
shall encamp by the thigh of the tent
to the south.

30 And the chief of the house of the
father to the families of the Kohathites,
Elizaphan, son of Uzziel.

81 And their watches, the ark, and
the table, and the chandelier, and the
altar, and the vessels of the holy place
which they shall serve in them, and the
covering and all its works.

82 And the chief of the chiefs of the
Levites, Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest,
set over those watching the watches of
the holy place.

33 To Merari the families of the Mah-
lites, and the families of the Mushites:
these they of the families of the Merari.

94 And they being reviewed accord-
ing to the number of every male, from
the son of a month and above, six thou-
sand and two hundred,

35 And the chief of the house of the
father to the families of Merari, Zuriel,
son of Abihail: by the thigh of the
dwelling shall they encamp to the north.

36 And the review of the watches of
the sons of Merari, the boards of the
dwelling, and its bars, and its pillars, and
its bases, and all its vessels, and all its
works,

37 And the pillars of the enclosure
round about, and their bases, and their
pegs, and their cords.

88 And they encamping before the
dwelling eastward before the tent of ap-
pointment, from the sunrising, Moses
and Aaron and his sons, watching the

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watches of the holy place, for the watches
of the sons of Israel; and the stranger
coming near shall die.

89 All they being reviewed of the
Levites, which Moses reviewed and
Aaron, at the mouth of Jehovah, accord-
ing to their families, every male from
the son of a month and above, two and
twenty thousand.

40 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Review every first-born male to the sons
of Israel, from the son of a month and
above, and take up the number of names.

41 And take the Levites for me (I
Jehovah) instead of all the first-born of
the sons of Israel; and the cattle of the
Levites instead of all the first-born
among the cattle of the sons of Israel.

42 And Moses reviewed as Jehovah
commanded him, all the first-born of the
sons of Israel.

43 And every first-born male shall be
according to the number of names, from
the son of a month and above, for those
being reviewed, two and twenty thou-
sand three and seyenty and two hund-
red.

44 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

45 Take the Levites instead of all the
first-born of the sons of Israel, and the
cattle of the Levites instead of their cat-
tle; and the Levites shall be to me: I
Jehovah.

46 And the price of redemption of
the three and seventy and two hund-
red, of those remaining over the Le-
vites, from the first-born of the sons of
Israel :

47 And thou shalt take five shekels
by the heads, according to the holy
shekel thou shalt take: twenty gerahs
the shekel.

48 And give the silver to Aaron and
to his sons, the price of redemption of
those remaining over among them.

49 And Moses will take the silver of .
the price of their redemption, from those
remaining over them redeemed of the
Levites.

50 From the first-born of the sons of
Israel he took the silver; five and sixty
and three hundred and a thousand, ac-
cording to the holy shekel.

51 And Moses will give the silver of

‘those being redeemed, to Aaron and to
his sons, at the mouth of Jehovah, as
Jehovah commanded Moses.

CHAPTER IV.

Λ ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,

and to Aaron, saying,

2 Take the head of the sons of Ko-
hath from the midst of the sons of Levi,
according to their families, according to
the house of their fathers:

8 From the son of thirty years and
above, and to the son of fifty years, all
coming in to war to do the works of the
tent of appointment.

4 These the works of the sons of Ko-
hath in the tent of appointment, the
holy of holies.

5 And Aaron came, and his sons, in
the removing of the camp, and they
took down the yail of the covering, and
they covered with it the ark of the tes-
timony.

6 And they gave upon it a covering
of tahash skins, and they spread over a
garment wholly cerulean purple from
above, and they put up its bars.

7 And upon the table of the face they
shall spread a garment cerulean purple,
and they gave upon it the dishes, and
the censers, and the bowls and the cups
pouring out: and the continual bread
shall be upon it.

8 And they spread upon them a gar-
ment of double scarlet, and they coy-
ered it with a cover of tahash skins,
and they put up the bars.

9 And they took a garment cerulean
purple, and covered the chandelier of
the light, and its lamps and its tongs
and its fire pans, and all the vessels of
its oil, which they shall serve to it with
them :

10 And they gave it and all its ves-
sels into a covering of tahash skins,
and they gave upon the bar.

_ Ἢ And upon the altar of gold they
will spread a garment cerulean purple,
and they covered it with a tahash skin
covering, and they set up its bars.

12 And they shall take all the ves-
sels of the service which they shall
serve in them in the holy place, and
they gave to the garment of cerulean
purple, and they covered them in ἃ]

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tahash skin covering, and they gave
upon the bar.

13 And they shall anoint the altar,
and spread upon it a purple garment:

14 And they shall give upon it all
its vessels which they shall serve upon
it with them, the fire pans, and the flesh
hooks, and the shovels and the vases,
and all the vessels of the altar; and
they covered over it a tahash skin coy-
ering, and they set up its bars.

15 And Aaron and his sons finished

to cover the holy place, and all the ves-
sels of the holy place, in removing the
camp; and after this the sons of Ko-
hath shall come forth to lift up: and
they shali not touch the holy place, and
die. These the lifting up of the sons
of Kohath in the tent of appoint-
ment. :
16 And the care οἱ Eleazar, the son
of Aaron the priest, the oil of the light,
and the incense of aromatics, and the
continual gift, and the oil of anointing,
and the care of all the dwelling and all
which in it, in the holy place, and in
its vessels.

17 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying,

18 Ye shall not cut off the tribe from
the families of the Kohathites from the
midst of the Levites.

19 And this do ye to them, and they
lived, and they shall not die, in their
coming near the holy of holes: Aaron
and his sons shall come in and set them
aman, a man upon his works, and to
his lifting up.

20 And they shall not go in to see |
for a moment's time the holy place, and
die,

21 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

22 Take the head of the sons of Ger-
shon, them also according to the house
of their fathers, according to their fam-
ilies ;

23 From the son of thirty years and
above, even to the son of fifty years,
thou shalt review them; all going to
war the warfare, to serve the service in
the tent of appointment.

24 This the service from the families
of the Gershonites, for service, and for
lifting up:

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25 And they lifted up the curtains of
the dwelling and the tent of appoint-
ment, its covering, and the covering of
tahash which is upon it from above,
and the covering of the door of the tent
of appointment.

26 And the curtains of the enclosure,
and the covering of the door of the gate
of the enclosure which is by the dwell-
ing and by the altar round about, and
their cords, and all the vessels of their
service, and all which shall be made for
them: and they shall serve.

27 At the mouth of Aaron and his
sons shall be all the service of the sons
of the Gershonites for all their lifting up
and for all their service: and ye shall
appoint upon them in their watches all
their lifting up.

28 This the service from the families
of the sons of the Gershonites in the
tent of appointment: and their watches
in the hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron
the priest. '

29 The sons of Merari according to
their families, according to the house of
their fathers, thou shalt review them ;

30 From the son of thirty years and
above, and even to the son of fifty
years, thou shalt review them all going
forth to war, to serve the service of the
tent of appointment.

31 And this the watches from their
lifting up, for all their service in the
tent of appointment; the boards of the
dwelling, and its bars and its pillars,
and its bases,

82 And the pillars of the enclosure
round about, and their bases, and their
pegs, and their cords for all their vessels,
and for all their service: and by name
ye shall review the vessels of the watches
of their lifting up.

33 This the service from the families
of the sons of Merari, for all their ser-
vice in the tent of appointment, by the
hand of Ithamar, son of Aaron the
priest.

84 And Moses shall review, and
Aaron, and the chiefs of the assembly,
the sons of the Kohathites, according to
their families, and according to the
house of their fathers,

35 From the son of thirty years and
above, even to the son of fifty years, all

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going forth to war, to the service in the
tent of appointment.

36 And they being numbered accord-
ing to their families shall be two thou-
sand seven hundred and fifty.

37 These the reviews of the families
of the Kohathites, all serving in the
tent of appointment, whom Moses re-
viewed and Aaron, at the mouth of Jc-
hovah by the hand of Moses.

38 And they being reviewed of the
sons of Gershon, according to their fam-
ilies, according to the house of their
fathers,

39 From the son of thirty years and
above, even to the son of fifty years, all
going forth to war, for the service in
the tent of appointment,

40 And they being reviewed accord-
ing to their families, according to: the
house of their fathers, shall be two thou-
sand six hundred and thirty.

41 These the reviewings of the fami-
lies of the sons of Gershon, all serving
in the tent of appointment, whom Mo-
ses reviewed and Aaron, at the mouth
of Jehovah.

42 And they being reviewed of the
families of the sons of Merari, accord-
ing to their families, according to the
house of their fathers,

43 From the son of thirty years, even
to the son of fifty years, all going forth
to war, for the service in the tent of ap-
pointment ;

44 And they being reviewed accord-
ing to their families, shall be three thou-
sand and two hundred.

45. These the reviewings of the fami-
lies of the sons of Merari, whom Moses
reviewed and Aaron, at the mouth of

Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

46 All the reviewings which Moses
reviewed, and Aaron, and the chiefs of
Israel, the Levites, according to their
families, and according to the house of
their fathers,

47 From the son of thirty years and
above, and even to the son of fifty years,
all going forth to serve the works of the
service, and the works of lifting up in
the tent of appointment ;

48 And they being reviewed shall be
eight thousand and five hundred and
eighty.

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49 At the mouth of Jehovah he re-
viewed them by the hand of Moses, a
man, a man for his works and for his
lifting up: and they were reviewed
which Jehovah commanded Moses.

CHAPTER V.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel, and
they shall send forth from the camp
every one leprous, and every one flow-
ing, and every one unclean for the soul :

3 From male even to female ye shall
send them forth, without the camp
shall ye send them; and they shall not
defile their camp where I dwell in the
midst of them.

4 And the sons of Israel will do so,
and they will send them forth without
the camp: as Jehovah spake to Moses,
so did the sons of Israel.

5 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

6 Speak: to the sons of Israel, A man or
woman when they shall do from any sin
of man to cover a transgression against
Jehovah, and that soul transgressed ;

7 And they confessed their sin which
they did, and he returned his transgres-
sion with its head, and he added its
fifth upon it, and he gave to whom he
transgressed against him.

8 Andif not to the man a kinsman to
give back the transgression to him, the
transgression being given back to Jeho-
vah, to the priest ; besides the ram of ex-
piations, it shall be expiated by it for him.

9 And every offering for all the con-
secrated things of the sons of Israel
which they shall bring to the priest,
shall be to him.

10 And a man his holy things shall
be to him: a man who shall give to the
priest, it shall be to him.

11 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

12 Speak to the sons of Israel and
say to them, A man,a man when his
wife shall turn aside, and she covered a
transgression against him,

13 And a man lay with her with
emission of seed, and it was hid from
the eyes of her ‘husband, and it was
covered, and she was defiled, and no

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witness against her, and she was not
talcen hold of.

14 And the spirit of jealousy passed
upon him, and he was jealous of his
wife, and she was defiled: or the spirit
of jealousy passed upon him, and he was
jealous of his wife, and she was not de-
filed :

15 And the man brought forth his
wife to the priest, and brought her offer-
ing for her, the tenth of an ephah of
flour of barley; he shall not pour oil
upon it, and he shall not give frankin-
cense upon it, for it the gift of jealousy,
the gift of remembrance, bringing ini-
quity to remembrance.

16 And the priest brought her near,
and made her stand before Jehovah.

17 And the priest took holy waters in
a vessel of earthen, and from the dust
which shall be upon the bottom of the
dwelling, the priest shall take and he
gave into the water.

18 And the priest made the woman
stand before Jehovah, and uncovered
the head of the woman, and gave upon
her hands the gift of remembrance, this
is the gift of jealousy: and in the hand
of the priest shall be to him the waters
of contradiction, causing the curse.

19 And the priest bound her by an
oath, and said to the woman, If a man
lay not with thee, and thou didst not
turn aside to be defiled instead of thy
husband, be thou unpunished from the
water of contradiction, causing the curse.

20 And if thou didst turn aside in-
stead of thy husband, and if thou wert
defiled, and a man gave with thee his
bed besides thy husband ;

21 And the priest bound the woman
by an oath in these curses, and the
priest said to the woman, Jehovah will
give thee for a curse, and for an oath in
the midst of thy people, m Jehovah's
giving thy thigh to fall, and thy belly
to go forth.

22 And the waters causing the curse
shall come into thy bowels, and cause
thy belly to come forth, and thy thigh
to fall. And the woman said, Amen,
amen.

23 And the priest wrote these curses
in a book, and he: wiped off into the
water of contradiction,

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“ 94 And he caused the woman to drink
the water of contradiction causing the
curse; and the waters causing the curse
shall come into her for contradiction.

25 And the priest took out of the
hand of the woman the gift of jealousy,
and lifted up the gift before Jehovah
and brought it to the altar.

26 And the priest took with the hand
from the gift its remembrance, and burnt
upon the altar, and afterward he shall
cause the woman to drink the water.

27 And he caused her to drink the
water, and it was if she was defiled and
she shall cover the transgression against
her husband, and the waters causing the
curse came into her for contradiction,
and her belly came forth, and her thigh
fell, and the woman was for a curse in
the midst of her people.

28 And if the woman was not defiled
and she was clean, and she was unpun-
ished, and conceived seed.

29 This the law of jealousies, when a
woman shall turn aside instead of her
husband, and she was defiled ;

30 Or a man, when the spirit of jeal-
ousy shall pass over upon him, and he
was jealous of his wife, and he made
the woman stand before Jehovah, and
the priest did to her all this law.

31 And the man was clean from ini-
quity, and this woman shall bear her
iniquity.

CHAPTER VI.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, When a man or woman shall
separate to vow a vow, being consecrat-
ed, to be separated to Jehovah:

8 From wine and strong drink he
shall be separated ; vinegar of wine and
vinegar of strong drink he shall not
drink, and the steeping of grapes he
shall not drink, and grapes fresh and
dry, he shall not eat.

4 All the days of his consecration,
from all which shall be made from the
vine, of the wine, from the grape ker-
nels, even to the skin, he shall not eat.

5 All the days of the vow of his con-
secration a razor shall not pass over
upon his head: till the filling up of the

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days which he shall consecrate to Jeho-
vah, he shall be holy, increasing the
locks of the hair of his head.

6 All the days of his consecrating
himself to Jehovah, he shall not go in
to a dead soul. :

7 For his father, and for his mother,
for his brother and for his sister, he
shall not be defiled for them in their
dying: for the consecration of his God
upon his head.

8 All the days of his consecration he
holy to Jehovah.

9 And when the dying shall die by
him suddenly, in a moment, and the
head of his consecration was defiled ;
and he shaved his head in the day of
his cleansing, in the seventh day shall.
he shave it.

10 And in the eighth day he shall
bring two turtle-doves, or two sons of
the dove to the priest, to the door of
the tent of appointment :

11 And the priest did the one for sin,
and one for a burnt-offering, and he ex-
plated for him for what he sinned for
the soul, and he consecrated his head
in that day.

12 And he consecrated to Jehovah
the day of his consecration, and he
brought a lamb, the son of a year, for
trespass: and the former days shall fall
because his consecration was defiled.

13 And this the law of him conse-
crated: in the day of fillmg up the
days of his consecration, he shall bring
himself to the door of the tent of ap- .
pointment :

14 And he brought his offering to
Jehovah, one blameless lamb, the son
of his year, for a burnt-offering, and
one blameless ewe lamb, the daughter
of her year, for the sin, and one blame-
less ram for peace ;

15 And a basket of unleavened of -
fine flour cakes mingled with oil, and
thin unleavened cakes anointed with oil,
and their gifts and their libations.

16 And the priest brought before Je-
hovah, and did his sin and his burnt-
offering.

17 And the ram he shall do a sacri-
fice of peace to Jehovah, upon the bas-
ket of unleavened: and the priest did
his gift and his libation.

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18 And he being consecrated, shaved
the head of his consecration at the door
of the tent of appointment, and took
the hair of the head of his consecration,
and gave upon the fire which under the
sacrifice of peace.

19 And the priest took the boiled
shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened
cake from the basket, and one thin un-
leavened cake, and gave upon the hands
of him consecrated, after his shaving
his consecration.

20 And the priest lifted them up a
lifting up before Jehovah: it holy to
the, priest upon the breast of the lifting
up and upon the leg of the offering:
and afterwards, he being consecrated
shall drink wine.

21 This the law of him consecrated
who shall vow his offering to Jehovah
for his consecration, besides what his
hand shall attain: according to his vow
which he vowed, so shall he do accord-
ing to the law of his consecration.

22 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

23 Speak to Aaron and to his sons,
saying, So shall ye praise the sons of
Israel, saying to them,

24 Jehovah shall praise thee, and
watch thee. :

25 Jehovah shall make his face shine
upon thee and shall compassionate
thee.

26 Jehovah shall lift up his face to
thee, and put peace to thee.

_ 27 And they put my name upon the
sons of Israel and I will praise them.

CHAPTER VIL
ND it shall be in the day Moses
finished to set up the dwelling,
and he will anoint it, and he will con-
secrate it, and all its vessels, and the
altar and all its vessels, and he will
anoint them, and consecrate them.

2 And the chiefs of Israel, heads of
the house of their fathers, will bring
the chiefs of the tribes, they standing
gover those reviewed :

3 And they will bring their offering
before Jehovah, six litter wagons and
twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the
ehiefs and an ox for one: and they
shall bring them before the dwelling.

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4 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
saying,

5 Take from them, and they were to
serve the service of the tent of appoint-
ment; and they gave them to the Le-
vites, to a man according to his service.

6 And Moses will take the wagons
and the oxen, and will give them to
the Leyites.

7 'T'wo wagons and four oxen he gave
to the sons of Gershon, aceording to
their service.

8 And four wagons and eight oxen
he gave to the sons of Merari, accord-
ing to their service, by the hand of Itha-
mar, the son of Aaron the priest.

9 And to the sons of Kohath, he
gave not, for the service of the holy:
place upon them, they shall lift up:
upon the shoulder.

10 And the chiefs shall bring the
consecration of the altar in the day of
anointing it, and the chiefs shall bring
an offering before the altar.

11 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
One chief for the day, one chief for
the day they shall bring near, an offer-
ing for the consecration of the altar.

12 And it shall be, he bringing near
his offermg in the first day, Nashon,
son of Amminadab, for the tribe of
Judah.

13 And his offering, one silver dish,
thirty and one hundred its weight;
one silver vase, seventy shekels by the
holy shekel ; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift.

14 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense.

15 One bullock, son of a cow, .one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering.

16 One he goat of the goats for
sin.

17 For a sacrifice of peace, two ox-
en, five rams, five he goats, five lambs,
sons of a year: this the offering of Na-
shon, son of Amminadab.

18 And in the second day, Nethan-
eel, son of Zuar, chief of Issachar,
brought near.

19 He brought his offering one silver
dish, thirty and a hundred its weight;
one silver vase, seventy shekels, ac-
cording to the holy shekel; they two

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full of fine flour mingled with oil for a
ift :

220 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-

cense :

21 One bullock, son of a cow, one
tam, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt offering :

22 One he goat of the goats for sin:

23 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs,
sons 01 ayear: this the offering of Ne-
thaneel, son of Zuar.

24 In the third day, the chief of the
sons of Zebulon, Eliab, son of Helon :

25 His offering one silver dish, thirty
and one hundred its weight ; one silver
vase, seventy shekels, according to the
holy shekel ; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift.

26 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cecnse :

27 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

28 One he goat of the goats for sin:

29 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year: this the offer-
ing of Eliab, son of Helon.

30 In the fourth day the chief of the
sons of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shed-
eur:

31 His offering one silver dish, thirty
and a hundred its weight, one silver
vase, seventy shekels, according to the
holy shekel; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift:

82 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

83 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

34 One he goat of the goats for sin:

85 And for a 38011106 of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year; this the offering
01 Elizur, son of Shedeur.

36 In the fifth day the chief of the
sons of Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zu-
rishaddai :

87 His offering one silver dish, thirty
and a hundred its weight, one silver
vase, seventy shekels, according to the
holy shekel ; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift:

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38 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

89 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering : 3

40 One he goat of the goats for sin;

41 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, fiye rams, five he goats, 6
lambs, sons of a year: this the offering
of Shelumiel, son of Zurishaddai.

42 In the sixth day the chief of the
sons of Gad, Eliasaph, son of Deuel:

45 His offering, one silver dish, thirty
and a hundred its weight; one silver
vase, seventy shekels according to the
holy shekel; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift:

44 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense : /

45 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt offering :

46 One he goat of the goats for sin:

47 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year: this the offering
of Eliasaph, son of Deuel.

48 In the seventh day the chief of
the sons of Ephraim, Elishama, son of
Ammihud :

49 His offering one silver dish, thirty
and a hundred shekels its weight;
one silver vase, seventy shekels accord-
ing to the holy shekel ; they two full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a gift:

50 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense.

51 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt offering :

52 One he goat of the goats, for sin:

53 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year: this the offering
of Elishama son of Ammihud.

54 In the eighth day the chief of the
sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel, son of Pe-
dahzur:

55 His offering one silver dish, thirty
and one hundred its weight; ene silver
vase, seventy shekels, according to the
holy shekel ; they two full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a gift.

56 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense : -

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57 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

58 One he goat of the goats for sin:

59 And for the sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year; this the offer-
ing of Gamaliel, son of Pedahzur.

60 In the ninth day, the chief of the
sons of Benjamin, Abidan, son of Gid-
eon :

61 His offering one silver dish, thir-
ty and one hundred its weight ; one sil-
ver vase, seventy shekels, according to
the holy shekel; they two full of fine
flour mingled with oil for a gift:

62 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

63 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

64 One he goat of the goats for sin:

65 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year: this the offering
of Abidan, son of Gideoni.

66 In the tenth day the chief of the
sons of Dan, Ahiezer, son of Ammis-
haddai :

67 His offering, one silver dish, thir-
ty and one hundred its weight; one
silver vase seventy shekels, accord-
ing to the holy shekel; they two full
of fine flour mingled with oil for a

ift :
0 68 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

69 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

70 One he goat of the goats for sin :

71 And for the sacrifice of peace,
two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year: this the offering
of Ahiezer, son of Ammishaddai :

72 And in the eleventh day the chief
of the sons of Asher, Pagiel, son of
Ocran :

73 His offering one silver dish, thir-
ty and one hundred its weight; one
silver vase, seventy shekels according
to the holy shekel; they two full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a gift:

74 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

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75 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

76 One he goat of the goats for sin :

77 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year; this the offering
of Pagiel, son of Ocran.

78 In the twelfth day, the chief of
the sons of Naphtali, Ahira, son of
Enan:

79 His offering one silver dish, thir-
ty and one hundred its weight; one
silver vase, seventy shekels, according
to the holy shekel; they two full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a gift:

80 One pan, ten of gold, full of in-
cense :

81 One bullock, son of a cow, one
ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a
burnt-offering :

82 One he goat of the goats for sin:

89 And for a sacrifice of peace, two
oxen, five rams, five he goats, five
lambs, sons of a year; this the offering
of Ahira, son of Enan.

84 This the dedication of the altar
(in the day of anointing it) from the
chiefs of Israel: twelve silver dishes,
twelve silver vases, twelve pans of
gold:

85 Thirty and one hundred, one sil-
ver dish, and seventy, one silver vase:
all the silver vessels two thousand and
four hundred, according to the holy
shekel :

86 The pans of gold, twelve, full of
incense, ten, ten the pan, according to
the holy shekel; all the gold of the
pans, twenty and one hundred.

87 All the oxen for the burnt-offer-
ing, twelve bullocks, the rams, twelve,
the lambs, sons of a year, twelve, and
their gifts; and the he goats of the
goats, twelve, for sin.

88 And all the oxen of the sacrifice
of peace, twenty and four bullocks, the
rams, sixty, the he goats, sixty, the
lambs, sons of a year, sixty. This the
consecration of the altar after anoint-
ing it.

89 And in Moses going in to the tent
of appointment to speak to him, and
he will hear the voice speaking to him
from above the cover upon the ark of

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the testimony, from between the two
cherubs: and he will speak to him.

CHAPTER VIIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to Aaron, and say to him,
In thy raising up of the lamps, to the
front of the face of the chandelier shall
the seven lamps enlighten.

8 And Aaron will do so; to the front
of the face of the chandelier he caused
the lamps to ascend, as Jehovah com-
manded Moses.

4 And this the work of the chande-
lier, turned work of gold, even to its
thigh, and even to its flower it isa
turned work: according to the appear-
ance which Jehovah caused Moses to
to see, so he made the chandelier.

5 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

6 Take the Levites from the midst of
the sons of Israel, and cleanse them.

7 And thus thou shalt do to them,
to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them
the water of sin, and they caused a ra-
zor to pass over upon all their flesh,
and they washed their garments, and
they were cleansed.

8 And they took a bullock, son of a
cow, and his gift fine flour mixed with
oil, and a second bullock, son of a cow,
thou shalt take for sin.

9 And bring near the Levites before
the tent of appointment: and gather
all the assembly of the sons of Israel.

10 And bring near the Levites be-
fore Jehovah: and the sons of Israel
placed their hands upon the Levites.

11 And Aaron lifted up the Levites,
a lifting up before Jehovah, from the
sons of Israel ; and they were to serve
the service of Jehovah.

12 And the Levites shall place their
hands upon the head of the bullocks:
and they did the one a sin, and the one
a burnt-offering to Jehovah, to expiate
for the Levites.

13 And cause the Levites to stand

| before Aaron and before his sons, and

lift them up a lifting up to Jehovah.

14 And separate the Levites from
the midst of the sons of Israel: and the
Levites were to me.

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15 And after this the Levites shall
go in to serve the tent of appointment :
and cleanse them, and lift them up a lift-
ing up.

16 For being given, they were given
to me from the midst of the sons of Is-
rael; instead of the first-born cleaving
every womb, every one from the sons
of Israel, have I taken them to me.

17 For to me all the first-born among
the sons of Israel among man and
among cattle: m the day I struck every
first-born in the land of Egypt I conse-
crated them to me.

18 And I will take the Levites in-
stead of all the first-born among the
sons of Israel.

19 And I will give the Levites, being
given to Aaron and to his sons, from
the midst of the sons of Israel, to work
the works of the sons of Israel in the
tent of appointment, and to expiate for
the sons of Israel: and there shall not
be a blow among the sons of Israel, in the
sons of Israel coming to the holy place.

20 And Moses will do, and Aaron,
and all the assembly of the sons of Is-
rael, to the Levites according to all
which Jehovah commanded Moses for
the Levites ; so to them did the sons of
Israel.

21 And the Leyvites will be purified,
and will wash their garments; and
Aaron will lift them up, a lifting up
before Jehovah; and Aaron will ex-
plate for them to cleanse them.

22 And after this the Levites went
to serve their service in the tent of ap-
pointment, before Aaron and before his
sons: as Jehovah commanded Moses
for the Levites, so to them did they.

23 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

24 This is that to the Levites: from
the son of five and twenty years and
above, and he came in to war the war-
fare in serving the tent of appointment.

25 And from the son of fifty years,
he shall turn back from the warfare of
the service, and shall serve no more.

26 And he served with his brethren
in the tent of appointment, to watch
the watches, and he shall work no work.
Thus shalt thou do to the Levites in
their watches.

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CHAPTER IX.
A ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
in the desert of Sinai, in the sec-
ond year of their coming out of the land
of Eeypt, in the first month, saying,

2 And the sons of Israel shall do the
passover in its appointment.

3 In the fourteenth day of this month,
between the evenings ye shall do it in
its appomtment, according to all its
laws, and according to all its judgments
ye shall do it.

4 And Moses will speak to the sons
of Israel to do the passover.

5 And they will do the passover’ in
the first, in the fourteenth day of the
month, between the evenings, in the
desert of Sinai: according to all which
Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the
sons of Israel.

6 And there shall be men who were
unclean by the soul of man, and they
will not be able to do the passover in
that day: and they came near before
Moses and before Aaron, in that day:

7 And these men will say to him,
We are unclean by the soul of man:
wherefore shall we be withheld so as
not to bring near an offering of Jehovah
at his appointment, in the midst of the
sons of Israel ?

8 And Moses will say to them, Stand
ye, and I will hear what Jehovah will
command for you.

9 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

10 Speak to the sons of Israel, say-
ing, A man, a man when he shall be
unclean by the soul, or in a way far off
to you or to your generations, and he
did the passover to Jehovah.

11 In the second month, in the four-
teenth day, between the evenings they
shall do it, upon unleavened and bitter
herbs they shall eat it,

12 They shall not leave from it till
morning, and a bone they shall not
break in it: according to all the laws
of the passover they shall do it.

18 And the man who is clean, and
was not in the way, and failed to do
the passover, that soul was cut off from
its people; for he brought not the offer-
ing of Jehoyah at his appointment, that
man shall bear his sin,

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14 And when a stranger shall sojourn
with you, and he did the passover to
Jehovah; according to the law of the
passover and according to its judgment,
so shall he do: one law shall be to you,
and to the stranger, and to the native
of the land.

15 And in the day of the raising up
the dwelling the cloud covered fhe
dwelling of the tent of testimony: and
in the evening it shall be upon the tent
as the appearance of fire till morning.

16 So shall it be always: the cloud
shall cover it, and the appearance of
fire by night.

17 And when the cloud went up
from the tent, and after this the sons of
Israel shall remove: and in the place
where the cloud shall dwell there, there
shall the sons of Israel encamp.

18 At the mouth of Jehovah the
sons of Israel will remove, and at the
mouth of Jehovah they will encamp:
all the days which the cloud shall dwell
upon the dwelling they shall encamp.

19 And in the prolonging of the cloud
upon the dwelling many days, and the
sons of Israel shall watch the watches of
Jehovah, and they shall not remove.

20 And it is, when the cloud shall be
days of number upon the dwelling, at
the mouth of Jehovah they shall en-
eamp, and at the mouth of Jehovah
they shall remove.

21 And it is when the cloud shall be
from evening to morning, and the cloud
went up in the morning, and they shall
remove: either day or by night, and
the cloud went up and they removed.

22 Or days, or a month, or days, in
the prolonging of the cloud upon the
dwelling to dwell upon it, the sons of
Israel shall encamp, and they shall not
remove; and in its going up they shall
remove.

23 At the mouth of Jehovah they
shall encamp, and at the mouth of Je-
hovah, they shall remove; the watches
of Jehovah they watched, at the mouth
of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER X.
ND Jehoyah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Make to thyself two trumpets of sil-

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ver; turned work shalt thou make them:
and they were to thee for calling the as-
sembly and for the removing the camp.

3 And they sounded with them, and
they assembled to thee all the assembly
at the door of the tent of appointment.

4 And if they shall sound with one,
and to thee assembled the chiefs of the
heads of the thousands of Israel.

5 And ye sounded the signal, and the
camps encamping eastward, removed.

6 And ye sounded the signal the sec-
ond time, and the camps encamping to
the south, removed: they shall sound
the signal for their removings.

7 And in the assembly being gathered
together, ye shall sound, and shall not
sound loud.

8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests,
shall sound with the trumpets; and
they were to you for a law forever to
your generations.

9 And when ye shall go out to war
in your land against the enemy pressing
you, and ye sounded the signal in the
trumpets; and ye were remembered be-
fore Jehovah your God, and ye were
saved from your enemies.

10 And in the day of your gladness,
and in your appointments, and in the
heads of your mouths, and ye shall
sound with the trumpets over your
burnt-offerings and over the sacrifices of
your peace; and they were to you for a
remembrance before your God: I am
Jehovah your God.

11 And it shall be in the second year,
in the second month, in the twentieth
of the month, the cloud was taken up
from the dwelling of testimony.

12 And the sons of Israel will remove
for their departure from the desert of
Sinai; and the cloud will dwell in the
desert of Paran.

18 And they will remove first, at the
mouth of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

14 And the flag of the camp of Judah
will remove first according to their
army: and over his army, Nashon, son
of Amminadab.

15 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Issachar, Nethaneel, son of
Zuar.

16 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Zebulon, Eliab, son of Helon.

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17 And the dwelling was taken down,
and the sons of Gershon and the sons of
Merari removed, lifting up the dwelling.

18 And the flag of the camp of Reuben
removed according to their army, and
over his army, Elizur, son of Shedur.

19 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel, son of
Zurishaddai.

20 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Gad, Eliasaph, son 01 Deuel.

21 And the Kohathites removed, lift-
ing up the holy place, and they raised
up the dwelling till their coming.

22 And the flag of the camp of the
sons of Kphraim removed according to
their army, and over his army, Elisha-
ma, son of Ammihud.

23 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Manasseh, Gamaliel, son of
Pedahzur.

24 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Benjamin, Abidan, son of
Gideoni.

25 And the flag of the camp of the
sons of Dan removed, bringing up the
rear to all the camps according to their
army: and over his army, Ahiezer, son
of Ammishaddai.

26 And over the army of the tribe of
the sons of Asher, Pagiel, the son of
Ocran.

27 And over the army of the tribe of
the sous of Naphtali, Ahira, son of Enan.

28 These the departures of the sons
of Israel according to their army, and
they shall remove.

29 And Moses will say to Hobab, son
of Raguel the Midianite, faher-in-law of
Moses, We are removing to the place
which Jehovah said, I will give it to
you: come thou with us, and we did
good to thee; for Jehovah spake good
concerning Israel. -

30 And he will say to him, 1 will not
₪0 ; but to my land, and to my kindred
I will go.

31 And he will say, Thou shalt not
leave us now, for upon this thou knew-
est we encamped in the desert, and
thou wert to us for eyes.

82 And it being when thou shalt go
with us, it beg that good which Je-
hovah will do good with us and we did
good to thee.

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33 And they will remove from the
mountain of God, a way of three
days: and the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah removed before them, a way
of three days, to search out for them a
Test.

84 And the cloud of Jehovah upon
them the day in their removing out of
the camp.

385 And it shall be in removing the
ark Moses will say, Rise, Jehovah, and
thine enemies shall be scattered; and
they hating thee shall flee from before
thee.

80 And in its encamping, he will
say, Turn back, Jehovah, to the ten
thousand thousands of Israel.

CHAPTER XI.

ND the people shall be as com-

plainers, and it was eyil in the

ears of Jehovah; and Jehovah will

hear, and his anger will kindle, and the

fire of Jehovah will burn among them

and will consume in the extremity of
the camp.

2 And the people will ery to Moses ;
and Moses will pray to Jehovah, and
the fire will subside.

8 And he will call the name of that
place Taberah, for the fire of Jehovah
burnt among them.

4 And the scraped together which in
its midst will long a longing; and the
sons of Israel also will turn back and
weep, and they will say, Who will feed
us with flesh ?

5 We remembered the fish which we
ate in Kegypt gratuitously ; the cucum-
bers and the melons, and the leeks, and
the onions, and the garlies.

6 And now our soul shall be dried
up; not any thing but to the manna our
eyes. .

7 And the manna it as the seed of
coriander, and its eye as the eye of
bdellium.

8 The people went to and fro, and
gathered and ground in the mill, or
crushed in the mortar, and boiled in the
pot, and-made it cakes; and its taste
was as the taste of a sweet cake of oil.

9 And in the descending of the dew
upon the camp by night the manna de-
scended upon it.

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10 And Moses will hear the people
weeping to their families, each at the
door of his tent: and the wrath of Je-
hovah was kindled greatly ; and it was
evil in the eyes of Moses.

11 And Moses will say to Jeho-
vah, For what hast thou done evil to
thy servant? and for what did I not
find grace in thine eyes, to put the debt
of all this people upon me?

12 Did I form all this people? did I
beget them? for thou wilt say to me,
Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse
will lift up the sucking child upon the
land which thou swarest to their fathers.

13 Whence to me flesh to give to all
this people? for they weep upon me,
saying, Thou shalt give to us flesh and
we shall eat.

14 I shall not be able to lift up alone
all this people, for it is heavy for me.

15 And if so thou doest to me, kill-
ing, kill me now, if I found grace in
thine eyes; and I shall not look upon
my evil.

16 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Gather to me seventy men of the old
men of Israel, whom thou knewest that
they were old men of the people, and
their scribes ; and take them to the tent
of appointment, and they shall stand
there with thee.

17 And I came down and I spake
with thee there; and I took from the
spirit which is upon thee, and I put up-
on them, and they lifted up with thee
in the debt of the people, and thou
shalt not lift it up thyself alone.

18 And thou shalt say to the people,
Be ye consecrated for the morrow, and
ye ate flesh : for ye wept in the ears of
Jehovah, saying, Who shall feed us
with flesh? for it was good to us in
Egypt ; and Jehovah gave to you flesh,
and ye ate.

19 Not one day shall ye eat, and not
two days, and not five days, and not
ten days, and not twenty days ;

20 Kven to a month of days, till
when it shall come out from your nos-
trils, and it shall be to you for loath-
someness, because that ye rejected Je-
hovah who is in the midst of you, and ye
shall weep before him, saying, Where-
fore came we out of Egypt?

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21 And Moses will say, Six hundred
thousand of foot the people which I am
in the midst of them: and thou saidst,
I will give flesh to them, and they shall
eat a month of days.

22 Shali the sheep and the oxen be
slaughtered for them and suffice for
them? and if he shall gather all the
fish of the sea to them, and it suffice for
them ?

23And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Shall the hand of Jehovah be cut off?
Now shalt thou see my word shall be
precious to thee or not.

24 And Moses will go forth, and will
speak to the people the words of Jeho-
vah; and he will gather the seventy
men, of the old men of the people, and
he will cause them to stand round
about the tent.

25 And Jehovah will come down in
the cloud, and will speak to him, and
he will take from the spirit which is
upon him, and will give upon the sev-
enty men, the old men: and it shall be
in the resting of the spirit upon them,
and they shall prophesy, and they shal:
not cease.

26 And two men remained in the
camp, the name of the one Eldad, and
the name of the second, Medad: and
the spirit will encamp upon them ; and
they among those being written, and
they will not go forth to the tent, and
they will prophesy in the camp.

27 And a young man will run and
announce to Moses, and he will say, El-
dad and Medad are prophesying in the
camp.

28 And Joshua, son of Nun, serving
Moses from his chosen, will answer and
say, My lord Moses, restrain them.

> 29 And Moses will say to him, Thou
envying for me; and who will give all
the people of Jehovah prophets ? when
Jehovah will give his spirit upon
them.

30 And Moses will take himself into
the camp, he and the old men of Is-
rael.

31 And a spirit removed from Jeho-
vah and it will divide out the quails
from the sea, and will cast upon the
camp, as the way of a day hither, and

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the camp, and as two cubits upon the
face of the earth.

82 And the people will rise up all
that day and all the night, and all the
day of the morrow, and will gather the
quails: the few gathered ten homers;
and they will spread for themselves a
spreading round about the camp.

33 And the flesh yet between their
teeth, before it shall be withdrawn and
the anger of Jehovah was kindled
against the people, and Jehovah will
smite upon them an exceeding great
blow.

84 And he will call the name of that
place, The Graves of Longings, for
there they buried the people longing.

35 From the Graves of Longings the
people removed to the enclosures, and
they shall be in the enclosures.

CHAPTER XII.
ND Miriam and Aaron will speak
against Moses on account of the
Ethiopian woman which he took: for
he took an Ethiopian woman.

2 And they will say, Did Jehovah
only now speak by Moses? Did he
not also speak by us? And Jehovah
will hear.

3 And the man Moses greatly hum-
ble, more than all the men upon the
face of the earth.

4 And Jehovah will say in a moment
to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam,
Come forth ye three unto the tent of
appointment. And they three will
come forth.

5 And Jehovah will come down in
the pillar of the cloud, and will stand
at the door of the tent, and will call
Aaron and Miriam, and they two will
come forth.

6 And he will say, Hear ye now, my
word: If there shall be your prophet
of Jehovah, in a vision I will be known
to him; ina dream I will speak to him.

7 Not so my servant Moses; he was
faithful in all my house.

8 Mouth to mouth I will speak to
him, and in appearance and notin enig-
mas ; and the portion of Jehovah shall
he behold: and wherefore were ye not
afraid to speak against my servant,

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9 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against them; and he will go.

10 And the cloud removed from the
tent; and behold, Miriam being lep-
rous as snow: and Aaron will look up-
on Miriam, and behold, her being lep-
rous.

11 And Aaron will say to Moses,
With leave, my lord, now thou shalt not
put upon us the sin in which we were
foolish, and in which we sinned.

12 Now shall she not be as the dead,
which in his coming forth from the
womb of his mother, and his flesh shall
be half consumed?

13 And Moses will ery to Jehovah,
saying, God heal her now.

14 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
And her father spitting, spit in her
face, shall she not be ashamed seven
days? She shall be shut seven-days
without the camp, and afterward she
shall be taken back.

15 And Miriam shall be shut with-
out the camp seven days, and the peo-
ple removed not till Miriam was
taken back.

16 And afterward the people 16-
moved from the enclosures, and they
will encamp in the desert of Paran.

CHAPTER XIIt.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Send for thyself men, and they
shall search out the land of Canaan,
which I give to the sons of Israel: one
man, one man for the tribe of his
fathers shall ye send, all chiefs among
them.

8 And Moses will send them from],

the desert of Paran, at the mouth of
Jehovah; all of them chiefs, the heads
of the sons of Israel.

4 And these their names: for the
tribe of Reuben: Shammua, son of
Zaccur.

5 For the tribe of Simeon: Shaphat,
son of Hori.

6 For the tribe of Judah: Caleb, son
of Jephunneh.

7 For the tribe of Issachar: Igal, son
of Joseph.

8 For the tribe of Ephraim: Oshea,
son of Nun.

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9 For the tribe of Benjamin: Palti,
son of Raphu.

10 For the tribe of Zebulon: Gad-
diel, son of Sodi.

11 For the tribe of Joseph, for the
tribe of Manasseh: Gaddi, son of Susi.

12 For the tmbe of Dan: Ammiel,
son of Gemalli.

13 For the tribe of Asher: Sethur,
son of Michael.

14 For the tribe of Naphtali: Nahbi,
son of Vophsi.

15 For the tribe of Gad: Geuel, son
of Machi.

16 These the names of the men which
Moses sent to search out the land. And
Moses will call Oshea, son of Nun,
Joshua.

17 And Moses will send them to
search out the land of Canaan, and will
say to them, Go ye up hither to the
south and ascend the mountain,

18 And see the land what it is, and
the people dwelling upon it, whether it
is strong or relaxed, whether it is few
or many ;

19 And what the land that they
dwell in it, whether it is good or evil;
and what the cities that they shall
dwell in them, whether in camps or in
fortifications ;

20 And what the land, whether it is
fat or lean, whether there is in it wood
or not. And be strong, and take from
the fruit of the land. And the days,
the days of the first-fruits of the
grapes.

21 And they will go up and will
search out the land from the desert of
Zin even to Rehob, to go to Hamath.

22 And they will go up by the south
and will come to Hebron; and these
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children
of Anak: and Hebron was built seven
years before Zoan in Egypt.

23 And they will go up to the valley
of Eshcol, and will cut off from there a
branch and one cluster of grapes, and
they will lift wpon a rod upon two;
and from the pomegranates, and from
the figs.

24 And he called that place the val-
ley of Eshcol, on account of the cluster
of grapes which the sons of Israel cut

off from there.

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25 And they will turn back from
searching out the land at the end of
forty days.

26 And they will go, and come to
Moses and to Aaron, and to all the as-
sembly of the sons of Israel to the desert
of Paran to Kadesh, and will give them
back word, and all the assembly, and
they will shew them the fruit of the land.

27 And they will recount to him, and
will say, We came to the land where
thou sentest us, and also it flowed with
milk and honey; and this its fruit.

28 Only that the people are strong
dwelling upon the land, and the cities
fortified, and very great: and also we
saw the children of Anak there.

29 Amalek will dwell in the land of
the south; and the Hittites and the
Jebusites, and the Amorites, will dwell
in the mountain; and the Canaanites
will dwell by the sea, and by the hand
| of Jordan.

30 And Caleb will silence the people
to Moses, and will say, Going up, we
will go up and inherit it; for being able
we shall overcome it.

31 And the men who went with him
said, We shall not be able to go up
against the people, for they are strong
above us.

32 And they will bring forth slander
of the land which they searched it out
to the sons of Israel, saying, The land
which we passed through upon it, to
search it out, is a land consuming those
dwelling upon it: and all the people
which we saw in the midst of it, men
being long.

33 And there we saw the giants, sons
of Anak, from the giants: and we were
in our eyes as the locusts, and so were
we in their eyes.

CHAPTER XIV.
Λ ΝᾺ all the assembly will lift up
and give their voice; and the
people will weep in that night.

2 And all the children of Israel will
murmur against Moses, and against
Aaron; and all the assembly will say
to them, Would we died in the land of
Esypt or in this desert would that we

3 And wherefore does Jehovah bring

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us to this land to fall by the sword?
our wives and our little ones shall be
fora prey. Would it not be good for
us to turn back to Egypt?

4 And they will say, a man to his
brother, We will give a head, and turn
back to Egypt.

5 And Moses will fall, and Aaron,
upon their faces before all the gather-
ing of the assembly of the sons of Israel.

6 And Joshua, son of Nun, and Ca-
leb, son of Jephunneh, from those
searching out the land, tare their gar-
ments.

7 And they will speak to all the as-
sembly of the sons of Israel, saying,
The land which we passed over upon it
to search it out, a good land exceeding-
ly, exceedingly,

8 If Jehovah delight in us, and he
brought us to this land, and he gaye it
to us; a land which it flowing with
milk and honey.

9 But against Jehovah ye shall not
rebel, and ye shall not be afraid of the
people of the land; for they our bread :
for their shadow removed from them,
and Jehovah with us; ye shall not be
afraid of them.

10 And all the assembly will say to
stone them with stones. And the glory
of Jehovah was seen im the tent of ap-
pointment to all the sons of Israel.

11 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
How long will this people reject me?
and how long will they not believe im
me by all the signs which I did in the
midst of them?

12 I will strike them with death, and
I will destroy them, and I will make
thee into a great nation, and strong
above them.

13 And Moses will say to Jehovah,
And the Kgyptians heard, for thou
didst bring up with thy strength this
people from the midst of them ;

14 And they will say to those dwell-
ing upon this land; they heard that
thou Jehovah art in the midst of this
people who wert seen eye to eye; thou
Jehovah and thy cloud stood over them,
and ina pillar of cloud thou goest be-
fore them by day, and in a pillar of fire
by mght

15 And didst thou kill this people as

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one man, and the nations spake who
heard thy fame, saying,

16 Because Jehovah will not be able
to bring in this people to the land which
he sware to them, he will slay them in
the desert.

17 And now shall the strength of the
Lord be great, as thou spakest, saying,

18 Jehovah, slow to anger and of
great kindness, lifting up iniquity and
transgression, and cleansing, will not
cleanse; striking the iniquity of the
fathers upon the sons, upon the third,
and upon the fourth.

19 Forgive now the sin of this peo-
ple according to thy great kindness, and
as thou didst lift up to this people, and
even till now.

20 And Jehovah will say, I pardoned
according to thy word:

21 But yet I live, and the glory of
Jehovah shall fill all the earth.

22 For all the men having seen my
glory and my signs which I did in
Eeypt and in the desert, and they will
try me this ten times, and they heard
not to my voice.

23 If they shall see the land which
I sware to their fathers, and all despis-
ing me shall not see it.

24 And my servant Caleb, because
another spirit was with him, and he
will follow after me, and I brought him
into the land which he went there ; and
his seed shall mherit it.

25 And the Amalekites and the Ca-
naanites will dwell in the valley. 'To-
morrow turn ye; they shall remove for
you into the desert the way of the sea
of sedge.

26 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying,

27 How long for this evil assembly,
that they are murmuring against me?
the murmurings of the sons of Israel
which they are murmuring against me,
1 heard. ‘

28 Say to them, I live, says Jeho-
vah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so
will I do to you:

29 In this desert shall your carcasses
fall; and all of you being reviewed ac-
cording to all your number, from the
son of twenty years and above, who
murmured against me.

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80 If ye shall come in to the land
which I lifted up my hand for you to
dwell in it, except Caleb, son of Jeph-
unneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

31 And your little ones which ye
said shall be for a prey, and I brought
them in, and they shall know the land
which ye rejected it.

32 And you, your carcasses shall fall
in this desert.

33 And your sons shall be fed in the
desert forty years, and bear your forni-
cations till your 687088503 be finished
in the desert.

34 According to the number of days
which ye searched out the land, forty
days, a day for a year, a day for a year,
shall ye bear your iniquities; forty
years, and ye knew my withdrawal.

85 I Jehovah spake, if not, I will do
this to all this evil assembly setting up
against me: in this desert shall they be
finished, and there shall they die.

386 And the men whom Moses sent
tosearch out the land, and they will
turn back and will murmur against him
to all the assembly, to bring forth slan-
der upon the land.

87 And the men bringing forth evil
slander of the land shall die by the
blow before Jehoyah.

88 And Joshua, son of Nun, and
Caleb, son of Jephunneh, lived, from
those men going to search out the land.

39 And Moses will speak these words
to all the sons of Israel, and the people
will mourn greatly.

40 And they will rise early in the
morning, and will go up to the head of
the mountain, saying, Behold us, and
we will go up to the place which Jeho-
vah said: for we sinned.

41 And Moses will say, Wherefore
this you are passing by the mouth of
Jehovah? And it shall not prosper.

42 Ye shall not ₪0 up, for Jehovah
isnot in the midst of you; and shall
ye not be struck before your enemies?

43 For the Amalekites and the Ca-
naanites are there before you, and ye
fell by the sword: for ye turned back
from after Jehovah, and Jehovah will
not be with you.

44 And they will act proudly to go
up to the head of the mountain: and

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ee
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and
Moses departed not out of the midst of
the camp.

45 And Amalek came down, and the
Canaanite, he dwelling in the moun-
tain, and he will smite them, and will
beat them, even to Hormah.

CHAPTER XV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and say
to them, When ye shall come into the
land of your dwellings, which I give
to you,

3 And ye did a sacrifice to Jehovah,
a burnt-offering or a sacrifice to sepa-
rate a vow, or in willingness, or in your
assemblies, to make an odor of sweet-
ness to Jehovah, from the oxen or from
the sheep :

4 And he bringing near, brought
near his offering to Jehovah, a gift of
fine flour, the tenth mingled with the
fourth of the hin of oil.

5 And wine for a libation, the fourth
of the hin, thou shalt do upon the
burnt-offering or to the sacrifice for the
one lamb.

6 Or to the ram thou shalt doa gift of
fine flour, two tenths mingled with oil,
the third of the hin.

7 And wine fora libation the third
of the hin, thou shali bring an odor of
sweetness to Jehovah.

8 And when thou shalt do the son of
a cow, a burnt-offerimg or sacrifice to
separate a vow, or peace to Jehovah:

9 And he brought upon the son of a
cow a gift of fine flour, three tenths
mingled with oil, half the hin.

10 And wine thou shalt bring for a
libation, half the hin, a sacrifice, an
odor of sweetness to Jehovah.

11 Thus shall it be done to the one
bullock or to the one ram, or to the
sheep with the lambs, or with the
goats.

12 According to the number which
ye shall do, so shall ye do to the one
according to their number.

13 Every native shall do thus with
these to bring near a sacrifice, an odor
of sweetness to Jehovah.

14 And when a stranger shall sojourn

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with you, or whoever in the midst of
you for your generations, and he did a
sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to Jeho-
vah ; as ye shall do, so shall he do.

15 One law for you of the assembly,
and for the stranger sojourning ; a law
forever to your generations: as ye, so
the stranger shall be before Jehovah.

16 One law and one judgment shall
be to you, and to the stranger sojourn-
ing with you.

17 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

18 Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, In your going into the
land where I bring you there,

19 And it was in your eating from
the bread of the land, ye shall lift up a
lifting up to Jehovah.

20 The first of your groats, a cake,
shall ye lift up a lifting up; as the lift-
ing up of the threshing floor, so shall
ye lift it up.

21 From the first of your groats,
shall ye give to Jehovah a lifting-up,
for your generations.

22 And when ye shall err, and shall
not do all these commands which Je-
hovah spake to Moses,

23 All which Jehovah commanded
to you by the hand of Moses from the
day which Jehovah commanded, and
onward to your generations ;

24 And it was if from the eyes of
the assembly there was done in error,
all the assembly did a bullock, the son
of a cow, for a burnt-offering, for an
odor of sweetness to Jehovah, and its
₪166 and its libation, according to judg-
ment, and one he goat of the goats for
sin.

25 And the priest expiated for all the
assembly of the sons of Israel, and it was
forgiven to them; for it is an error;
and they brought their offering a sacri-
fice to Jehovah, and their sin before Je-
hovah, for their error.

26 And it was forgiven to all the as-
sembly of the sons of Israel, and to the
stranger sojourning in the midst of
them, to all the people in error.

27 And if one soul shall sin in
error, and he brought a she goat the
daughter of a goat, for sin.

28 And the priest expiated for the

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soul erring, in sinning in error before
Jehovah, to expiate for him; and it
was forgiven to him.

29 The native among the sons of Is-
rael, and to the stranger sojourning in
the midst of them, one law shall be to
you, for doing in error.

30 And the soul which shall do with
a high hand, from the native, and from
the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and
that soul was cut off from the midst of
its people.

31 For it despised the word of Jeho-
vah, and broke his command ; being eut
off, that soul shall be cut off; its in-
iquity upon it.

82 And the sons of Israel shall be in
the desert, and they shall find a man
gathering wood in the day of the Sab-
bath.

33 And they having found hin, will
bring him gathering wood to Moses,
and to Aaron, and to all the assembly.

34 And they will put him in watch,
for it was not specified what shall be
done to him,

85 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Dying, the man shall die: all the as-
sembly stoned him with stones without
the camp.

36 And all the assembly shall bring
him forth without the camp, and they
shall stone him with stones, and he shall
die; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

87 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

38 Speak to the sons of Israel, and
say to them, They made to them fringes
of flowers upon the wings of their gar-
ment for their generations; and they
gave upon the fringes of the wing a
thread of cerulean purple ;

89 And it was to you for fringes, and
ye saw it, and ye remembered all the
commands of Jehovah, and ye did
them; and ye shall not seek after your
heart, and after your eyes, which ye
committed fornication after them.

40 So that ye shall remember, and

e did all my commands, and ye were
hole to your God,

41 I am Jehovah your God who
brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to be to you for God; I am Je-
hovah your God.

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CHAPTER XVI
ND Korah son of Izhar, son of
Kohath, son of Levi, will take,
and Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab ;
and On, son of Peleth, sons of Reuben ;

2 And they will rise up before Mo-
ses, and men from the sons of Israel,
fifty and two hundred chiefs of the as-
sembly, called by appointment, and
men of name:

8 And they will gather together.
against Moses, and against Aaron, and
they will say to them, Much to you for
all the assembly, all of them are holy,
and Jehovah in the midst of them:
and wherefore shall be lifted up over
the gathermg of Jehovah?

4 And Moses will hear, and will fall
upon his face :

5 And he will speak to Korah and
to all his assembly, saying, The morning
Jehovah will make known who is to
him, and the holy; and bring near to
him: and whom he will choose for him
he will bring near to himself.

6 This do ye: take to you censers,
Korah and all his assembly :

7 And ye shall give fire in them and
put upon them incense, before Jeho-
vah to-morrow: and it was the man
whom Jehovah shall choose, he is holy :
much to you, ye sons of Levi.

8 And Moses will say to Korah,
Hear, now, ye sons of Leyi:

9 Is this small for you that the God
of Israel separated you from the assem-
bly of Israel to bring you near to him
to serve the services of the dwelling of
Jehovah, and to stand before the as-
sembly to serve them ?

10 He will bring thee near, and all
thy brethren the sons of Levi with
thee: and did ye seek also the priest-
hood ?

11 For this thou and all thine assem-
bly being collected together against Je-
hovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye
shall murmur against him ? .

12 And Moses will send to call for
Dathan and for Abiram, sons of Ehab:
and they will say, We will not come up.

13 Is this small that thou broughtest
us up from a land flowing with milk and
honey to kill us in the desert, that thou
ruling also wilt rule over us?

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14 But not to a land flowing with
milk and honey didst thou bring us ;
and wilt thou give to us the inheritance
of field and vineyard ? the eyes of these
men wilt thou bore out? we will not
come up.

15 And it will be kindled to Moses
greatly, and he will say to Jehovah,
Thou wilt not turn to their gift: not
one ass did I take from them, and I did
not evil to one of them.

16 And Moses will say to Korah,
Be thou and all thine assembly before
Jehovah, thou and they, and Aaron,
to-morrow :

17 And take each his censer and put
incense upon them, and bring them
near before Jehovah, each his cen-
ser and put incense upon them, and
bring them near before Jehovah, each
his censer, fifty and two hundred
censers ; and thou and Aaron, each his
censer.

18 And they will take each his cen-
ser and will give upon them fire, and
will put incense upon them, and they
will stand at the door of the tent of
appointment, and Moses and Aaron.

19 And Korah will gather against
them all the assembly at the door of
the tent of appointment; and the glory
of Jehovah will be seen to all the as-
sembly.

20 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, and to Aaron, saying,

21 Separate yourselves from the
midst of this assembly, and I will con-
sume them as in a moment,

22 And they shall fall upon their
faces, and they will say, God, the God
of the spirits for all flesh, shall one man
sin, and wilt thou be angry against all
the assembly.

23 And Jehoyah will speak to Moses,
saying,

24 Speak to all the assembly, saying,
Go up from round about. the dwelling
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

25 And Moses will rise up and go to
Dathan and Abiram; and the old men
of Israel will go after him.

26 And he will speak to the assem-
bly, saying, Remove, now, from the
tents of these guilty men, and ye shall
> not touch upon any thing which is to

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them lest ye shall be destroyed in all
their sin.

27 And they will go up from the tent
of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, from
round about; and Dathan and Abiram
will come forth, standing at the door of
their tents, and their wives and their
sons and their little ones.

28 And Moses will say, By this shall
ye know that Jehovah sent me to do
all these works; for not from my
heart.

29 If according to the death of all
men these shall die, if the providence
of all men shall be reviewed upon them,
Jehovah sent me not.

30 And if Jehovah shall 070916 a cre-
ation, and the earth opened her mouth
and swallowed them and all which is
to them, and they went down living to
hades; and ye know that these men re-
jected Jehovah,

81 And it shall be as he finished to
speak all these words, the earth shall
cleave asunder which is under them:

32 And the earth shall open her
mouth and shall swallow them and
their houses, and all the men which to
Korah, and all the possessions.

33 And they went down, and all
which is to them, living, to hades, and
the earth shall cover over them; and
they shall perish from the midst of the
gathering.

84 And all Israel which were round
about them fled at their voice: for they
said, Lest the earth shall swallow us.

85 And a fire will come forth from
Jehovah and will consume the fifty and
two hundred men bringing the incense.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,

Ἃ saying,

2 Say to Eleazar, son of Aaron the
priest, and he shall take up the censers
from the midst of the burning, and
scatter the fire afar off; for they were
consecrated.

3 The censers of these sinners against
their souls, and they made them beaten
plates, a covering for the altar: for they
brought them before Jehovah, and they
will be consecrated: and they will be
for a sign to the sons of Israel.

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4 And Hleazar the priest will take
the brazen censers, which they being
burnt brought near; and they shall
beat them out a covering for the altar,

5 A remembrance to the sons of Is-
rael, so that a man, a stranger, shall not
come near, he who is not from the seed
of Aaron, to burn incense before Jeho-
vah; and he shall not be as Korah and
as his assembly: as Jehovah spake to
him by the hand of Moses.

6 And all the assembly of the sons of
Israel will murmur on the morrow
against Moses, and against Aaron, say-
ing, Ye killed the people of Jehovah.

7 And it shall be in the gathering to-
gether of the assembly against Moses
and against Aaron, and they shall turn
towards the tent of appointment; and
behold, the cloud covered it, and the
glory of Jehovah will be seen.

8 And Moses will go, and Aaron,
before the tent of appointment.

9 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

10 Lift wp yourselves from the midst
of this assembly, and I will consume
them as in a moment. And they will
fall upon their faces.

11 And Moses will say to Aaron,
Take a censer and give upon it fire from
off the altar, and put incense, and go
quickly to the assembly, and expiate
for them: for anger went forth from
before Jehovah; for it began smiting.

12 And Aaron will take as Moses
spake, and he will run into the midst
of the assembly; and behold, it began
smiting among the people: and he will
give incense and will expiate for the
people.

18 And he will stand between the
dead and between the living; and the
smiting will be withheld.

14 And they dying in the smiting
will be fourteen thousand and seven
hundred, besides they dying for the
words of Korah.

15 And Aaron will turn back to
Moses to the door of the tent of appoint-
ment: and the smiting was withheld.

16 And Jehoyah will speak to Moses,
saying,

17, Speak to the sons of Israel, and
take from them a rod, a rod according

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to the house of the father, from all the
chiefs according to the house of their
fathers, twelve rods: thou shalt write
each his name upon his rod.

18 And Aaron’s name shalt thou
write upon the rod of Levi: for one rod
is for the head of the house of their
fathers.

19 And place them in the tent of ap-
pointment before the testimony, where
I will pass over to you there.

20 And it was the man whom I shall
desire him, his rod shall be fruitful:
and I caused to cease from me the mur-
murings of the sons of Israel which they
are murmuring against you.

21 And Moses will speak to the sons
of Israel, and all their chiefs will give
to him a rod for one chief, a rod for
one chief, according to the house of
their fathers, twelve rods: and Aaron’s
rod in the midst of their rods.

22 And Moses will place the rods
before Jehovah in the tent of testimony.

23 And it shall be on the morrow,
and Moses will go into the tent of testi-
mony; and behold, Aaron’s rod was
fruitful for the house of Levi, and the
blossom will come forth and the flower
will flourish and will show almonds.

24 And Moses will bring forth all
the rods from before Jehovah to all the
sons of Israel: and they shall see and
shall tale each his rod.

25 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Turn back Aaron’s rod before the testi-
mony, for preservation, for a sign for
the sons of contradiction; and thou
shalt finish their murmurings from me,
and they shall not die.

26 And Moses will do: as Jehovah
commanded him, so did he.

27 And the sons of Israel will speak
to Moses, saying, Behold, we expired,
we perished, we all perished.

28 All coming near, coming near
the dwelling of Jehovah, and dying,
shall die: shall we die to breathe out
life?

CHAPTER XVIII
ND Jehovah will say to Aaron,
Thou, and thy sons, and thy
father’s house with thee, shall bear the
iniquity of the holy place: and thou

NUMBERS XVIII.

and thy sons with thee, shall bear the
iniquity of your priesthood.

2 And also thy brethren, the tribe of
Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou
near with thee, and they shall be joined
to thee, and they shall serve thee: and
thou and thy sons with thee, before the
tent of testimony.

3 And they watched thy watches,
and the watches of all the tent: but to
the vessels of the holy place, and to the
altar they shall not come near, and they
shall not die, also they, also ye.

4 And they were joined to thee, and
they watched the watches of the tent of
appointment for all the service of the
tent: and the stranger shall not come
near to you.

5 And ye watched the watches of the
holy place, and the watches of the al-
tar; and anger shall no more be upon
the sons of Israel.

6 And I, behold, I took your breth-
ren the Levites from the midst of the
sons of Israel: to you being given a
gilt to Jehovah to serve the services of
the tent of appointment.

7 And thou and thy sons with thee
shall watch your priesthood for all the
word of the altar, and to within the
vail; and ye served: the services a gift
I will give your priesthood; and the
stranger coming near shall die.

8 And Jehovah will speak to Aaron,
And I, behold, I gave to thee the
watches of my offerings for all the holy
things of the sons of Israel; to thee I
gave them,for the anointing, and to thy
sons for a law forever.

9 This shall be to thee from the holy
of holies, from the fire: all their obla-
tions for all their gifts, and for all their
sins, and for all their sacrifices, which
they shall give back to me, it is holy of
holies to thee and to thy sons.

10 In the holy of holies ye shall eat
it; every male shall eat it: holy shall
it be to thee.

11 And this is to thee; the offerings
of their gifts for all the liftings up of the
sons of Israel: to thee I gave them,
and to thy sons, and to thy daughters
with thee, for a law forever: all clean
in thy house shall eat it.

12 All the fat of the oil, and all the

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fat of the new wine, and of the grain,
their first-fruits which they shall give to
Jehovah, to thee I gave them.

13 The first-fruits, all which are in
the land which they shall bring to Je-
hovah, shall be to thee; all clean m thy
house shall eat it.

14 Every thing consecrated in Israel
shall be to thee.

15 Every thing cleaving the womb
for all flesh, which they shall bring to
Jehovah, in man or in cattle, shall be to
thee: but redeeming, thou shalt redeem
the first-born of man, and the first-born
of unclean cattle thou shalt redeem.

16 And those being redeemed from
the son of a month, shalt thou redeem
according to thy estimation, the silver of
five shekels according to the holy shek-
el, it is twenty gerahs.

17 But the first-born of a cow, or the
first-born of a sheep, or the first-born of
a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are
holy: their blood shalt thou pour out
upon the altar, and their fat thou shalt
burn a sacrifice for an odor of sweetness
to Jehovah.

18 And their flesh shall be to thee, as
the breast of the lifting up, and as the
right shoulder shall be to thee.

19 All the offerings of the holy things
which the sons of Israel shall hft up to
Jehovah, I gave to thee, and to thy sons,
and to thy daughters with thee, for a
law forever: it a covenant of salt for-
ever before Jehovah to thee, and to thy
seed with thee.

20 And Jehovah will say to Aaron,
In their land thou shalt not inherit, and
a portion shall not be to thee in the
midst of them. 1 am thy portion and
thine inheritance in the midst of the
sons of Israel.

21 And to the sons of Levi, behold, 1
gave all the tenth in Israel for an_in-
heritance for their services which they
served, the service of the tent of ap-
pointment.

22 And the sons of Israel shall no
more come near the tent of appoint-
ment, to bear sin and to die.

23 And it is the Levite serving the
service of the tent of appointment, and
they shall bear their iniquity: a law
forever to your generations, and in the

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midst of the sons of Israe] they shall not
inherit an inheritance.

24 For the tenth of the sons of Israel
which they shall lift up to Jehovah, an
offering I gave to the Leyites to inherit :
for this I said to them, In the midst of
the sons of Israel they shall not inherit
an inheritance.

25 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses, saying,

26 And to the Levites thou shalt
speak and say to them, When ye shall
take from the sons of Israel the truth
which I gave to you from them for your
inheritance, and ye lifted up an offer-
ing of Jehovah, a tenth from the tenth.

27 And your offerings were reckoned
to you as the grain of the threshing-floor,
and as the filling up from’ the wine-
press.

28 So shall ye also lift up an offer-
ing of Jehovah from all your tenths,
which ye shall take from the sons of Is-
rael; and ye gave from it the offermg
of Jehovah to Aaron the priest.

29 From 811 your gifts ye shall lft up
all the offerings of Jehovah, from all its
fat consecrated from it.

30 And say to them, In your offer-
ing its fat from it, and it was reckoned
to the Levites as the produce of the
threshing-floor, and as the produce of
the wine-press.

31 And ye ate it in every place, ye
and your house; for it is the reward
to you for your service in the tent of
appointment.

92 And ye shall not bear sin for it in
your littimg up its fat from it: and the
holy things of the sons of Israel ye
shall not defile, and ye shall not dic.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
and to Aaron, saying,

2 This is the law of the precept which
Jehovah commanded, saying, Speak to
the sons of Israel and they shall take
to thee a red, blameless heifer, to which
not a blemish in her, and which a yoke
was not lifted up upon her.

ὃ And give her to Hleazar the priest,
and he shall brmg her forth without the
the camp, and slaughter her before
him.

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4 And Eleazar the priest took from
her blood with his finger, and sprinkled
before the face of the tent of appoint-
ment, from her blood seven times.

5 And he burnt the heifer before his
eyes; her skin and her flesh and her
blood, with her dung, shall he burn.

6 And the priest took cedar wood
and hyssop and double scarlet, and east
into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.

7 And the priest washed his gar-
ments, and bathed his flesh in water,
and afterward he shall go into the
camp; and the priest was unclean till
evening.

8 And he burning her shall wash his
garments in water, and bathed his flesh
in water, and: was unclean till the even-
ing,

9 And a clean man gathered up the
ashes of the heifer, and put without the
camp in a clean place, and it shall be
to the assembly of the sons of Israel
for a preservation for a water of un-
cleanness: it is sin.

10 And he gathering the ashes of the
heifer washed his garments, and was
unclean till the evening: and it shall be
to the sons of Israel, and to the stran-
ger sojourning in the midst of them, for
a law forever.

‘11 He touching upon the dead of any
soul of man and he was unclean seven
days.

12 He shall purify himself in the
third day, and in the seventh day he
shall be clean: and if he shall not be
purified in the third day, in the seventh
day he shall not be clean.

13 All touching upon the dead, upon
the soul of man which shall die, and
shall not be purified, defiled the dwell-
ing of Jehovah; and that soul was cut
off from Israel: for the water of un-
cleanness was not sprinkled upon him,
he shall be unclean; his uncleanncss
yet upon him,

14 This the law of a man when he
shall die in the tent; all going into the
tent and all who are in the tent, shall
be unclean seven days.

15 And every vessel being open
which a cord was not bonnd upon it, it
is unclean.

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16 And eyery one who shall touch
upon the face of the field, upon the
wounded of the sword, or upon the
dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon
agrave, shall be unclean seven days.

17 And they took for the unclean
from the dust of the burning of sin,
and living water was given upon it into
a vessel :

18 And a clean man took hyssop
and dipped in water and sprinkled up-
on the tent, and upon all the vessels,
and upon the souls which were there,
and upon him touching upon a bone,
or upon the wounded, or upon the
the dead, or upon a grave:

19 And he being clean sprinkled up-
on the unclean in the third day, and in
the seventh day: and he was cleansed in
the seventh day, and he washed his gar-
ments and bathed in water, and was
clean in the evening.

20 And a man who shall be unclean
and shall not be purified, and that soul
was cut off from the midst of the gath-
ering, for he defiled the holy place of
Jehovah: the water of uncleanness was
not sprinkled upon him; he is un-
clean.

21 And it was to them for a law for-
ever, and he sprinkling the water of un-
cleanness shall wash his garments; and
he touching upon the water of unclean-
ness shall be unclean till the evening.

22 And all which the unclean shall
touch upon it, shall be unclean; and
the soul touching shall be unclean till
the evening.

CHAPTER XX.
ND the sons of Israel will come,
all the assembly, to the desert of
Zin, in the first month; and the people
will dwell in Kadesh ; and Miriam will
die there and be buried there.

2 And there was not water for the
assembly : and they will gather togeth-
er against Moses and against Aaron.

3 And they will contend with Moses,
and will speak, saying, Would that we
died in the dying of our brethren before
Jehovah !

4 And for what brought ye the gath-
ering of Jehovah into this desert to die
there, we and our cattle?

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5 And for what brought ye us up out
of Egypt to bring us to this evil place?
Not a place of seed, and figs, and the
vine and the pomegranate; and not wa-
ter to drink.

6 And Moses will go, and Aaron,
from the face of the gathering to the
door of the tent of appointment, and
they will fall upon their faces: and
the glory of Jehovah shall be seen to
them.

7 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

8 Take the rod and gather the assem-
bly together, thou and Aaron thy broth-
er, and speak to the rock before their
eyes ; and it gave water; and brought
to them water from the rock, and gave
drink to the assembly, and their cattle.

9 And Moses will take the rod from
before Jehovah, as he commanded him.

10 And Moses and Aaron will gather
together the gathering before the rock,
and he will say to them, Hear, now, ye
rebellious: from this rock shall we
bring forth to you water?

11 And Moses will lift up his hand
and will smite the rock with the rod
twice, and many waters will come forth,
and the assembly will drink and their
cattle.

12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
and to Aaron, Because ye believed not
in me, to consecrate me before the eyes
of the sons of Israel, for this, ye shall
not bring in this gathering to the land
which 1 gaye to them.

13 These the Waters of Strife, because
the sons of Israel strove with Jehovah,
and he will be consecrated in them.

14 And Moses will send messengers
from Kadesh to the king of HKdom,
Thus said thy brother Israel, Thou
knewest all the distress which found
us:
15 And our fathers will go down to
Egypt and will dwell in Egypt many
days; and the Egyptians will do evil
to us and to our fathers.

16 And we shall-ery to Jehovah, and
he will hear our voice, and he will send
a messenger and he will bring us forth
out of Eeypt: and behold us in Ka-
desh, a city the end of thy boundary.

17 Now we will pass over in thy

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land: we will not pass through in the
field and in the vineyard, and we will
not drink the water of the well: the
way of the king we will go; we will
not incline to the right or to the left
till we shall pass over thy boundary.

18 And Edom will say to him, Thou
shalt not pass by me, lest with the
sword I shall come out to thy meet-
ing.

"19 And the sons of Israel will say to
him, By the highway will we come up ;
and if we shall drink of thy waters, I
and my: cattle, 1 gave a price: only
not speaking, I will pass through on my
feet.

20 And he will say, Thou shalt not
ass through. And Edom will come
orth to his meeting with a heavy peo-

ple, and with a strong hand.

21 And Edom will refuse to give to
Israel to pass over by his boundary ;
and Israel will turn away from him.

22 And they will remove from Ka-
desh, and the sons of Israel, all the as-
sembly will come to Mount Hor.

23 And Jehovah will say to Moses
and to Aaron, in mount Hor, upon the
boundary of the land of Edom, say-
ing,

4. Aaron shall be gathered to his
people; for he shall not come into the
land which 1 gaye to the sons of Israel,
because that ye resisted my mouth at
the Waters of Strife.

25 Take Aaron and 10109828 his son,
and bring them up to mount Hor.

26 And strip Aaron of his garments,
and put them upon Hleazar his son:
and Aaron shall be gathered and. die
there.

27 And Moses will do as Jehovah
commanded: and he will bring him up
to mount Hor before the eyes of all the
assembly.

28 And Moses will strip Aaron of his
garments, and will put them upon Ele-
azar his son: and Aaron will die there
in the head of the mquntain: and Moses
will come down, and Hleazar, from the
mountain.

29 And all the assembly will see that
Aaron died, and they will weep for
Aaron thirty days, all the house of Is-
rael.

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CHAPTER זאא‎
ND the Canaanite, King Arad,

dwelling to the south, will hear -

that Israel came the way of the places,
and he will fight against Israel, and he
will carry off from him a captivity.

2 And Israel will vow a vow to Jeho-
vah, and will say, If giving, thou wilt
give this people into my hand, and I
exterminated their cities,

3 And Jehovah will hear to the voice
of Israel, and he will give the Canaan-
ite, and he will exterminate them and
their cities: and he will call the name
of the place Hormah.

4 And they will remove from mount
Hor, the way of the sea of sedge, to en-
compass the land of Edom: and the
soul of the people will be shortened in
the way.

5 And the people will speak against
God, and against Moses, For what
brought ye us up from Egypt to die in
the desert? for no bread, and no water ;
and our soul loathed upon this light
bread,

6 And Jehovah will send upon the
people deadly serpents, and they will
bite the people; and much people will
die from Israel.

7 And the people will come to Moses,
and they will say, We sinned, for we
spake against Jehovah and against thee ;
wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will
remove the serpent from us? And Mo-
ses will pray for the people.

8 ren Jehovah will say to Moses,
Make to thee a burning, and put it up
for a signal: and it was every one being
bitten, and he saw it and lived.

9 And Moses will make a brass ser-
pent, and will set it up for a signal, and
it was if the serpent bit a man and he
looked upon the brass serpent, and he
lived.

10 And the sons of Israel will re-
move, and will encamp in Oboth.

11 And they will remove from Oboth
and will encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the
desert which is upon the face of Moab,
from the rising of the sun.

12 From thence they removed, and
they will encamp in the valley of Zared.

18 From thence they removed, and
they will encamp from the other side of

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Arnon, which is in the desert coming
forth from the boundary of the Amor-
ites: for Arnon is the boundary of Mo-
ab, between Moab and between the
_ Amorites.

14 For this it will be said in the book
of the wars of Jehovah, Giving in the
whirlwind, and the torrents of Arnon.

15 And the outpouring of the torrents
which extended to the rest at Ar, and
reclined to the boundary of Moab.

16 And from thence the well; it is
the well of which Jehovah said to Mo-
ses, Gather the people together and I
will give to them water.

17 The Israel will sing this song: As-
cend thou well! answer ye to it.

18 The leaders dug it, the nobles of
the people dug it, by cutting in by their
props. And from the desert to Matta-
nah.

19 And from Mattanah to the Valley
of God; and from the Valley of God to
Bamoth.

20 And from Bamoth, the valley
which is in the field of Moab, the head
of Pisgah, and looking upon the face
of Jeshimon.

21 And Israel will send messengers to
Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

22 1 will pass over in thy land: we

will not turn into the field and into the
vineyard; we will not drink water of
the well; in the way of the king we
will go till we shall pass over thy boun-
dary.
23 And Sihon gave not to Israel to
pass over by his boundary; and Sihon
will gather all his people, and will come
forth to meet Israel to the desert: and
he will come to Jahaz, and he will fight
against Israel.

24 And Israel will smite him with the
mouth of the sword, and he will pos-
sess his land from Arnon to Jabbok,
even to the sons 01 Ammon: for the
boundary of the sons of Ammon was
strong. :

25 And Israel will take all these cit-
jes: and Israel will dwell in all the
cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and
+ in all her daughters.

26 For Heshbon this the city of Sihon,
king of the Amorites; and he fought
against the king of Moab, and he will

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take all his land out of his hand, even
to Arnon.

27 For this they will say, using para-
bles, Come ye to Heshbon; the city of
Sihon shall be built and prepared.

28 For a fire shall come forth from
Heshbon, a flame from the city of Si-
hon: it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords
of the heights of Arnon.

29 Wo to thee, Moab! thou wert de-
stroyed, O people of Chemosh: he gave
his sons escaping, and his daughters,
into captivity to the king of the Amor-
ites, Sihon,

30 And we shall shoot them; Hesh-
bon was destroyed, even to Dibon, and
the women even to Nophah, which is
to Medeba.

81 And Israel will dwell im the land
of the Amorites.

32 And Moses will send to search Ja-
zer, and they will take her daughters,
and will drive out the Amorite who is
there.

33 And they-will turn and go up the
way of Bashan: and Og, king of Ba-
shan, will come forth to their meeting,
he and all his people, to the war at
Edrei.

84 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Thou shalt not be afraid of him; for
into thy hand I gave him, and all his
people and his land; and do to him as
thou didst to Sihon, king of the Amor-
ites, who will dwell in Heshbon.

35 And they will strike him, and his
sons, and all his people, until a survivor
was not left to him: and they will pos-
sess his land.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND the sons of Israel will remove
and will encamp in the deserts
of Moab, from the other side of Jordan
at Jericho.

2 And Balak, son of Zippor, will see
all that Israel did to the Amorite.

3 And Moab will be afraid from be-
fore the people greatly, for they were
many; and Moab will feel disgust from
the face of the sons of Israel.

4 And Moab will say to the old men
of Midian, Now this gathering will lick
up all round about us, as the ox licking
up the green of the 1610. And Balak,

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son of Zippor, the king of Moab in that | me I will do; and come, now, curse to

time.

5 And he will send messengers to Ba-
laam, son of Beor, to Pethor, which is
by the river of the land of the sons of
his people, to call to him, saying, Behold,
a people came forth out of Egypt: be-
hold, τὸ covered the eye of the earth, and
it dwelt from before me.

6 And now, come now, curse to me
this people, for he is strong above me:

erhaps I shall be able to strike upon
him, and drive him out of the land, for
I know whom thou shalt praise is
praised, and whom thou shalt curse,
shall be cursed.

7 And the old men of Moab and the
old men of Midian, will go, and divina-
tions in their hand; and they will come
to Balaam, and they will speak to him
the words of Balak.

8 And he will say to them, Remain
here this night, and I will turn back
word to you according as Jehovah will
spealx to me: and the leaders of Moab
will dwell with Balaam.

9 And-God will come to Balaam, and
will say, What men these with thee?

10 And Balaam will say to God, Ba-
lak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent
to me,

11 Behold, the people came forth out
of Hgypt, and it will cover the eye of
the earth: now come curse him to me;
νος I shall be able to fight against

im and I drove him out.

12 And God will say to Balaam, Thou
shalt not go with them; thou shalt not
curse the people: for he is praised.

13 And Balaam will rise in the morn-
ing and will say to the leaders of Balak,
Go to your land: for Jehovah refused
to give me to go with you.

14 And the leaders will rise and go
to Balak, and say, Balaam refused to
come with us,

15 And Balak will add yet to send
leaders, many and honorable, more than
these.

16 And they will go to Balaam, and
say to him, Thus said Balak, son of
Zippor, Now thou wilt not withhold
from coming to me:

17 For honoring, I will honor thee
greatly, and all which thou shalt say to

me this people.

18 And Balaam will answer, and say
to the servants of Balak, If 13818 will
give to me his house full of silver and
gold, I shall not be able to pass over
the mouth of Jehovah my God to do
little or great.

19 And now, sit ye down, now alsoin
here this night, and I shall know what
Jehovah will add to speak with me.

20 And God will come to Balaam at
night, and say to him, If the men have
come to call to thee, rise up, go with
them, and only the word which I shall
speak to thee, thou shalt do it.

21 And Balaam will rise up in the
morning, and saddle his ass, and go
with the leaders of Moab.

22 And the anger of God will kindle
because he went; and the messenger of
Jehovah will stand in the way, for an
adversary to him: and he rode upon
his ass, and his two young men with
him.

23 And the ass will see the messen-
ger of Jehovah standing in the way,
and his sword drawn in his hand: and
the ass will turn from the way and
go into the field: and Balaam will
strike the ass to turn her in the way.

24 And the messenger of Jehovah
will stand in the hollow of the vine-
yards, an enclosure hence, and an en-
closure thence.

25 And the ass will see the messen-
ger of Jehovah and she will press to
the wall, and she will press Balaam’s
foot to the wall; and he will add to
strike her,

26 And the messenger of Jehovah
will add to pass by and stand in a nar-
row place where is no way to turn to
the right, and to the left.

27 And the ass will see the messen-
eer of Jehovah and she will lie down
under Balaam: and Balaam’s anger
will kindle, and he will strike the ass
with a rod.

28 And Jehovah will open the mouth
of the ass, and she will say to Balaam,
What did I to thee that thou hast smit-
ten me this three beats?

29 And Balaam will say to the ass,
Because thou didst vex me: would that

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a sword was in my hand, for now I had
killed thee.

30 And the ass will. say to Balaam,
Am not I thine ass which thou didst
ride upon me ever since thou wert till
this day? and being accustomed, was I
accustomed to do to thee thus? And he
will say, No.

81 And Jehovah will uncover the
the eyes of Balaam, and he will see the
messenger of Jehovah standing in the
way, and his sword drawn in his hand ;
and he will bow down and worship upon
his face.

32 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to him, For what didst thou
strike thine ass this three beats? behold,
I came forth for an adversary, for the
way is perverse before me.

383 And the ass will see me, and will
turn before me this three beats: unless
she turned from before me for now also
I had slain thee, and preserved her
alive.

84 And Balaam will say to the mes-
senger of Jehovah, I sinned; for I
knew not that thou stoodest to meet me
inthe way; and now if eyil in thine
eyes, I will turn back to me.

35 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to Balaam, Go with the men:
and only the word which I shall speak
to thee thou shalt speak it : and Balaam
will go with the leaders of Balak.

86 And Balak will hear that Balaam
came, and he will go forth to meet him
to a city of Moab, which is by the
boundary of Arnon, which is in the
end of the boundary.

37 And Balak will say to Balaam,
Sending, did I not send to thee to call
to thee? wherefore camest thou not to
me? indeed shall I not be able to honor
thee?

88 And Balaam will say to Balak,
Behold, I come to thee: being able,
shall I be able to speak any thing?
the word which Jehovah shall put in
my mouth 1 will speak it.

89 And Balaam will go with Balak
and they will come to Kirjath Huzoth.

40 And Balak will sacrifice oxen and
sheep, and he will send to Balaam and
to the leaders which were with him.

41 And it will be in the morning,

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and Balak will take Balaam, and will
bring him up to the heights of Baal,
and he will see from thence the end of
the people.

CHAPTER XXIII.
ND Balaam will say to Balak,
Build to me here seven altars,
and prepare to me here seyen bullocks
and seven rams.

2 And Balak will do as Balaam
spake, and Balak will bring up, and
Balaam, a bullock and a ram upon the
altar.

ὃ And Balaam will say to Balak,
Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will
go; perhaps Jehovah will come to m¢
meeting: and the word which he will
shew to me I will announce to thee,
And he will go to the naked hill.

4 And God will meet Balaam, and he
will say to him, 1 arranged seven altars,
and I will bring up a bullock and a
ram upon the altar.

5 And Jehovah will put the word in
Balaam’s mouth, and say, Turn back to
Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

6 And he will turn back to him, and
behold, he stood by his burnt-offering,
he, and all the leaders of Moab.

7 And he will take up his parable,
and say, From Aram, Balak, king of
Moab, will transfer me from the moun-
tains of the east; Come curse to me
Jacob and come and be angry at Israel.

8 How shall I curse, God cursing
not? And how shall I be angry, God
not being angry ?

9 From the head of the rocks I shall
see him, and from the hills I shall lool
after him: behold, the people shall
dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned
among the nations.

10 Who divided out the dust of Ja-
cob and who numbered the fourth of
Israel? My soul shall die the death of
the just, and my latter state shall be
as his.

11 And Balak will say to Balaam,
What didst thou:-to me? To curse
mine enemies I took thee, and behold,
praising, thou didst praise.

12 And he will answer and say, What
Jehovah shall put in my mouth shall I
not watch, to speak ?

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13 And Balak will say to him, Come

now with me to another place, where
thou shalt see him from thence: thou
shalt see only their extremity, and thou
shalt not see them all: and curse him
to me from thence.

14 And he will take him to the field
of Zophim, to the head of Pisgah, and
he will build seven altars, and bring up
a bullock and a ram upon the altar.

15 And he will say to Balak, Stand
here by thy burnt-offering, and I will
meet there.

16 And Jehovah will meet Balaam,
and he will put the word in his mouth,
and say, Turn back to Balak, and thus
shalt thou speak.

17 And he will come to him, and be-
hold him standing by his burnt-offering,
and the leaders of Moab with him.
And Balak will say to him, What spake
Jehovah?

18 And he will take up his parable,
and say, Rise up, Balak, and hear; and
give ear to me, son of Zippor:

19 God is not man, and will he lie?
and the son of man, and will he grieve ?
Did he say, and will he not do? and
speak, and will he not establish ?

20 Behold, I was taken to praise:
and he praised and I shall not turn it
back.

21 He saw not iniquity in Jacob and
he saw not sorrow in Israel: Jehovah
his God with him, and the shouts of a
king in them.

22 God bringing them out of Egypt;
as the swiftness of the buffalo to him.

23 For no enchantment in Jacob, and
no divination in Israel; according to
the time it will be said to Jacob and to
Israel, What did God do!

24 Behold, the people will rise up as
a lioness, and as a lion he will be lifted
up: he will not lie down till he shall
eat the prey and drink the blood of the
wounded.

25 And Balak will say to Balaam,
Also, cursing, thou shalt not curse him,
also thou shalt not praise him,

26 And Balaam will answer and say
to Balak, Spake I not to thee, saying,
All which Jehovah shall speak 1 will
do it?

NUMBERS XXIV.

Come now, I will take thee to another
place; perhaps it will be right im the
eyes of God, and curse him to me from
thence,

28 And Balak will take Balaam to
the head of Peor, projecting upon the
face of the desert.

29 And Balaam will say to Balak,
Build to me here seven altars, and pre-
pare to me here seven bullocks and

seven rams,

80 And Balak will do as Balaam said,
and he will bring up a bullock, and a
ram, upon the altar.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND Balaam will see that it was
good in the eyes of Jehovah to
praise Israel, and he went not now as
before to meet enchantments, and he
will set his face to the desert.

2 And Balaam will lift up his eyes
and see Israel dwelling according to his
tribes; and the spirit of God will be
upon him,

3 And he will take up his parable
and say, Balaam, the son of Beor, and
the man of unclosed eye, said;

4 He said, hearing the sayings of God,
who will see the vision of the Almighty,
falling, and the eyes being uncovered :

5 How good thy tents, Jacob, and
thy dwellings, Israel !

6 As valleys extended, as a garden
by the river, as tents Jehovah pitched,
as cedars by the waters.

7 He will shake out the water from
his bucket, and his seed in many wa-
ters, and his king shall be lifted up
above Agag, and his kingdom shall be
raised up.

8 God brought him forth out of
Egypt; as the swiftness of the buffalo
to him: he shall cut up the nations his
enemies; he shall cut off their strong
defences, and he shall smite through his
arrows.

9 He bowed; he lay down as a lion,
and as a lioness: who shall raise him
up? Praised he praising thee, and
cursed he cursing thee.

10 Arid Balak’s anger will kindle
against Balaam, and he will strike his
hands: and Balak will say to Balaam,

27 And Balak will say to Balaam,|To curse mine enemies 1 called thee,

NUMBERS ΧΧΥ.

and behold, blessing, thou didst bless
this three beats.

11 And now flee for thyself to thy
place: I said, Honoring, I will honor
thee, and behold, Jehovah withheld
thee from honor.

12 And Balaam will say to Balak,
Also to thy messengers which thou
sentest to me, spake I not, saying,

13 If Balak will give to me his house
full of silver and gold, I shall not be
able to pass by the mouth of Jeho-
vah, to do good or eyil from my heart ;
what Jehovah shall speak, I will
spealk it.

14 And now, behold me going to my
people: come, I will advise thee what
this people will do to thy people in the
last of the days.

15 And he will take up his parable,
and say, Balaam the son of Beor, said,
and the man of unclosed eye, said:

16 He said, hearing the sayings of
God, honoring the knowledge of the
Most High, he will see the vision of the
Almighty, falling, and the eyes being
uncovered :

17 I shall see him and not now: 1
shall look after him, and not near: a
star came forth from Jacob, and a rod
rose up from Israel and dashed in pieces
the faces of Moab, and undermined all
the sons of Seth.

18 And Edom was an inheritance,
and the inheritance of Seir was his ene-
mies; and Israel did in strength.

19 And he shall descend from Jacob,
and he destroyed the escaped from the
city.
30 And he will see Amalek, and he
will take up his parable, and say, Am-
alek the beginning of the nations, and
his latter state he perished forever.

21 And he will see the Kenite, and
he will take up his parable, and say,
Strong thy dwelling, and put thy nest
in the rock.

22 For if Cain shall be for consum-
ing, how long shall Assyria take thee
captive?

23 And he will take up his parable,
and say, Wo! who shall live, God do-
ing this?

24 And ships from the hand of the
Cyprians, and they afflicted Assyria,

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and they afflicted Heber, and he also
perished forever.

25 And Balaam will rise up and will
go, and turn back to‘his place; and
also Balak went to his way.

CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Israel will dwell in Shittim,
and the people will begin to com-
mit fornication with the daughters of
Moab.

2 And she called the people to the
sacrifices of their God: and the people
will eat and will worship to their God.

3 And Israel will be bound to Baal-
Peor; and the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against Israel.

4 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Take all the heads of the people and
hang them up to Jehovah before the
sun, and the burning anger of Jehovah
shall turn back from Israel.

5 And Moses will say to the judges
of Israel, Kill ye each his men bemg
bound to Baal-Peor.

6 And behold, a man from the sons
of Israel went, and he will bring to his
brethren a Midianitess before the eyes
of Moses, and before the eyes of all the
assembly of the sons of Israel; and
they were weeping at the door of the
tent of appointment.

7 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar,
son of Aaron the priest, will see, and
he will rise up from the midst of the
assembly and will take a spear in his
hand ;

8 And he will go after the man of
Israel to the tent, and will pierce the
two of them, the man of Israel, and the
woman through her belly: and the
smiting will be withheld from the sons
of Israel.

9 And they dying in the smiting will
be four and twenty thousand.

10 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

11 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of
Aaron the priest, turned back my wrath
from the sons of Israel, in his being
jealous with my jealousy in the midst
of you, and I consumed not the sons of
Israel, in my jealousy.

12 For this, say, Behold me giving
to him my covenant of peace.

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18 And it shall be to him and to his
seed after him, the covenant of the
priesthood forever, because he was jeal-
ous for his God; and he shall expiate
for the sons of Israel.

14 And the name of the man the Is-
raeclite being smitten, who was smitten
with the Midianitess, Zimri, son of Salu,
chief of the house of a father to the
Simeonites.

15 And the woman’s name _ being
smitten, the Midianitess, Cozbi, daugh-
ter of Zur, head of a people, he of the
house of a father in Midian.

16 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

17 Press the Midianites and smite
them :

18 For they are hostile to you with
their deceits in which they acted deceit-
fully to you, upon the word of Peor
and upon the word of Cozbi, daughter
of a chief of Midian, their sister, bemg
smitten in the day of the smiting con-
cerning the word of Peor.

19 And it will be after the smiting,

CHAPTER XXXVI
ND Jehovah will say to Moses,
and to Eleazar, son of Aaron the
priest, saying,

2 Take the head of all the assembly
of the sons of Israel, from the son of
twenty years and above, according to
the house of their fathers, all going
forth to war in Israel.

3 And Moses will speak, and Hlea-
zar the priest, with them in the desert
of Moab of Jericho, saying,

4 From the son of twenty years and
above, as Jehovah commanded Moses
and the sons of Israel going forth out
of the land of Egy pt.

5 Reuben, the’ first-born of Israel ;
the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, the fam.
ilies of the Hanochites: for Pallu, the
families of the Palluites:

6 To Hezron, the families of the
Hezronites; to Carmi, the families of
the Carmites.

7 These the families of the Reuben-
ites; and they reviewed of them shall
be three and forty thousand and seven
hundred and thirty.

8 And the sons of Pallu: הו‎

NUMBERS זטאא‎

9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel,
and Dathan, and Abiram. This the
Dathan and Abiram called of the as-
sembly, who strove against Moses and
against Aaron in the assembly of Ko-
rah, in their striving against Jehovah.

10 And the earth will open her mouth
and will swallow them and Korah, in the
dying of the assembly in the consum-
ing of the fire, the fifty and two hund-
red men: and they shall be fora signal.

11 And the sons of Korah died not.

12 The sons of Simeon according to
their families; for Nemuel, the families
of the Nemuelites; for Jamin, the fam-
ilies of the Jaminites; for Jachin, the
families of the Jachinites :

18 For Zerah, the families of the Zar-
hites; for Saul, the families of the
Saulites.

14 These the families of the Simeon-
ites, two and twenty thousand and two
hundred.

15 The sons of Gad according to their
families: for Zephon, the families of
the Zephonites; to Haggi, the families
of the Haggites; to Shuni, the families
of the Shunites.

16 To Ozni, the families of the Oz-
nites; to Hri, the families of the Erites.

17 To Arod, the families of the Aro-
dites; to Areli, the families of the Are-
lites.

18 These the families of the sons of
Gad according to their reviewing, forty
thousand and five hundred.

19 The sons of Judah, Er and Onan;
and Er will die, and Onan, in the land
of Canaan.

20 And the sons of Judah will be ac-
cording to their families: to Shelah, the
families of the Shelahites; to Pharez,
the families of the Pharezites ; to Ze-
rah, the families of the Zerahites.

21 And the sons of Pharez will be,
for Hezron, the families of the Hezron-
ites; for Hamul, the families of the
Hamutlites.

22 These the families of Judah ac-
cording to their reviewing, six and sey-
enty thousand and five hundred.

23 The sons of Issachar according to
their families: Tola, the families of “the
Tolaites; for Pua, the families of the
Punites ;

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94 For Jashub, the families of the
Jashubites; for Shimron, the families
of the Shimronites.

25 These the families of Issachar, ac-
cording to their reviewing, four and
sixty thousand and three hundred.

26 The sons of Zebulon according to
their families: to Sered, the families of
the Sardites; to Elon, the families of
the Elonites; to Jahleel, the families
of the Jahleelites.

27 These the families of Zebulon, ac-
cording to their reviewing, sixty thou-
sand and five hundred.

28 The sons of Joseph, according to
their families, Manasseh and Ephraim.

29 The sons of Manasseh: to Machir,
the families of the Machirites; and Ma-
ינוג[‎ begat Gilead; to Gilead, the fami-
lies of the Gileadites.

30 These the sons of Gilead: Jeezer,
the families of the Jeezerites ; to Helek,
the families of the Helekites.

81 And Asriel, the families of the
Asrielites; and Shechem, the families
of the Shechemites.

382 And Shemida, the families of the
Shemidaites ; and Hepher, the families
of the Hepherites.

89 And Zelophehad, the son of He-
pher, there were no sons to him, but
daughters ; and the names of the daugh-
ters of Zelophehad, Mahlah, and Noah,
and Hoglah, and Mileah, and Tirzah.

84 These the families of Manasseh,
and their reviewing, two and fifty thou-
sand and seven hundred.

85 These the sons of Ephraim, ac-
cording to their families: to Shuthelah,
the families of the Shuthalites; to Be-
cher, the families of the Becherites; to
Tahan, the families of the Tahanites.

56 These the sons of Shuthelah: to
Hran, the families of the Eranites.

37 These the families of the sons of
Ephraim, according to their reviewing,
two and thirty thousand and five hund-
red. These the sons of Joseph accord-
ing to their families.

38 The sons of Benjamin according
to their families: to Bela, the families
of the Belaites; to Ashbel, the families
of the Ashbelites; to Ahiram, the fam-
ilies of the Ahiramites.

39 To Shupham, the families of the

Shuphamites; to Hupham, the families
of the Huphamites.

40 And the sons of Bela will be Ard
and Naaman; the families of the Ard-
ites; to Naaman, the families of the
א‎

41 These the sons of Benjamin ac-
cording to their families; and their re-
viewing five and forty thousand six
hundred.

42 These the sons of Dan, according
to their families: to Shuham, the fam-
ilies of the Shuhamites. These the fam-
ilies of Dan according to their families.

43 All the families of the Shuhamites
according to their reviewing, four and
sixty thousand and four hundred.

44 The sons of Asher according to
their families: to Jimna, the families of
the Jimnites; to Jesui, the families of
the Jesuites; to Beriah, the families of
the Beriites.

45 To the sons of Beriah: to Heber,
the families of the Heberites; to Mal-
chiel, the families of the Malchielites.

46 And the name of the daughter of
Asher, Sarah.

47 These the families of the sons of
Asher according to their reviewing;
three and fifty thousand and four hund-
red.

48 The sons of Naphtali according to
their families: to Jahzeel, the families
of the Jahzeelites; to Guni, the families
of the Gunites.

49 To Jezer, the families of the Je-
2011108 ; to Shillem, the families of the
Shillemites.

50 These the families of Naphtali ac-
cording to their reviewing; and their
reviewing, five and forty thousand and
four hundred.

51 These the reviewings of the sons
of Israel, six hundred thousand and a
thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

53 To these the land shall be divided
for an inheritance, according to the
number of names.

54 To the many thou shalt mutiply
his inheritance, and to the few thou
shalt diminish his inheritance: to each
according to his reviewing his inherit-
ance shall be given.

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55 But by lot shall the land be di-
vided; according to the names of the
tribes of their fathers, they shall inherit.

56 According to the lot thou shalt
divide his inheritance between the many
to the few.

57 And these the reviewings of the
Levites -according to their families: to
Gershon, the families of the Gershon-
ites; to Kohath, the families of the Ko-
hathites; to Merari, the families of the
Merarites.

58 These the families of Levi: the
families of the Libnites, the families of
the Hebronites, the families of the Mah-
lites, the families of the Mushites, the
families of the Korathites: and Kohath
begat Amram.

59 And the name of Amram’s wife,
Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who bare
her to Levi in Egypt: and she will
bear to Amram, Aaron and Moses, and
Miriam their sister.

60 And will be born to Aaron, Na-
dab and Abihu, and Eleazar and Itha-
mar.

61 And Nadab will die, and Abihu,
in their bringing near strange fire before
Jehoyah.

62 And they being reviewed will be
three and twenty thousand, every male
from the son of a month and above:
for they were not reviewed in the midst
of the sons of Israel, for an inheritance
was not given to them in the midst of
the sons of Israel.

63 These the reviewings of Moses
and Eleazar the priest, who reviewed
the sons of Israel in the desert of Moab,
by Jordan of Jericho.

64 And among these there was not a
man from the reviewings of Moses and
Aaron the priest, who reviewed the
' sons of Israel in the desert of Sinai.

65 For Jehovah said to them, Dying,
they shall die in the desert. And there
was not left from them a man but Ca-
leb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son
of Nun. .

CHAPTER XXVIL
ND there will come near the
daughters of Zelophehad son of
Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son
of Manasseh, for the families of Manas-

NUMBERS XXVIII.

seh, son of Joseph: and these the names
of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and
Hoglah, and Mileah, and Tirzah.

2 And they will stand before Moses,
and before Eleazar the priest, and be-
fore the chiefs, and all the assembly at
the door -of the tent of appointment,
saying,

8 Our father died in the desert, and
he was not in the midst of the assembly
of them being gathered together against
Jehovah, in the assembly of Korah;
for he died in his sin, and there were
no sons to him.

4 Wherefore shall the name of our
father be taken away from the midst
of his family because there is not to
him a son? Thou shalt give to us a
possession in the midst of the brethren
of our father .

5 And Moses will bring near their
judgment before Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying.

7 The daughters of Zelophehad spake
rightly: giving, thou shalt give to
them the possession of an inheritance
in the midst of the brethren of their
father, and cause the inheritance of
their father to pass over to them.

8 And to the sons of Israel thou shalt
speak, saying, A man when he shall
die, and no son to him, and cause ye
his inheritance to pass to his daughter.

9 And if no daughter to him, give his
inheritance to his brethren.

10 And if no brethren to him, give
ye his inheritance to the brethren of his
father.

11 And if no brethren to his father,
give his inheritance to his remainder be-
ing near to him from his family; and
he shall possess it, and it shall be to the
sons of Israel for a law of judgment, as
Jehovah commanded Moses.

12 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Come up to this mountain of the regions
beyond, and see the Jand which I gave
to the sons of Israel.

18 And thou sawest it, and wert gath-
ered to thy people, thou also, as Aaron
thy brother was gathered.

14 As ye rebelled against my mouth
in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the
assembly to consecrate me at the waters

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before their eyes, these the Waters of
Strife, of Kadish of the desert of Zin.
15 And Moses will speak to Jehovah,

saying,

16 Will Jehovah, the God of the spir-
its to all flesh, appoint a man over the
assembly,

17 Who will go out before them, and
who will come in before them, and who
shall bring them out, and who shall
bring them in; and the assembly of Je-
hovah shall not be as sheep to whom
not a shepherd to them.

18 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Take to thee Joshua, son of Nun, a
man in whom the spirit in him, and
place thy hand upon him;

19 And make him to stand before
Hleazar the priest, and before all the as-
sembly : and command him before their
eyes.

20 And give from thy majesty upon
him, so that all the assembly of the sons
of Israel shall hear him.

21 And before Hleazar the priest, he
shall stand, and he asked for him in the
judgment of the Lights before Jeho-
vah: at his mouth they shall go out,
and at his mouth they shall come in, he
and all the sons of Israel with him, and
all the assembly.

22 And Moses will do as Jehovah
commanded him; and he will take
Joshua and will make him stand before
Hleazar the priest, and before all the as-
sembly.

23 And he will place his hands upon
him and command him as Jehovah
spake by the hand of Moses.

CHAPTER XXVIIL
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel and say
to them, My offerings and my bread
for my sacrifices, an odor of my rest ye
shall watch, to bring near to me in their
appointments.

3 And say to them, This the sacrifice
which ye shall bring near to Jehovah:
two blameless lambs, sons of a year, for
a day, for a burnt-offering continually.

4 The one lamb thou shalt do in the
morning, and the second lamb thou shalt
do between the evenings.

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5 And a tenth of the ephah of fine
flour for the gift mingled with oil beat-
en, the fourth of an hin.

6 A burnt-offering of continuance be-
ing done in mount Sinai for an odor of
sweetness, a sacrifice to Jehovah.

7 And its libation, the fourth of an
hin for the one lamb in the holy place:
pouring out a libation, a strong drink
to Jehovah.

8 And the second lamb thou shalt do
between the evenings, according to the
aift of the morning, and according to its
libation thou shalt do a sacrifice, an
odor of sweetness to Jehovah,

9 And in the day of the Sabbath,
two blameless lambs, sons of a year, and
two tenths of fine flour, a gift mingled
with oil, and its libation :

10 A burnt-offering of the Sabbath in
its Sabbath, upon the burnt-offering of
continuance, and its libation.

11 And in the beginnings of your
months, ye shall bring near a burnt-of-
fermg to Jehovah; two bullocks, sons
of a cow, and one ram, seven blameless
lambs, sons of a year ;

12 Three tenths of fine flour, a gift
mingled with oil, for the one bullock,
and two tenths of fine flour, a gift min-
gled with oil, for the one ram ;

13 And a tenth, tenth of fine flour, a
eift mingled with oil, for the one lamb,
a burnt-offering, an odor of sweetness, a
sacrifice to Jehovah.

14 And their libations shall be half
of the hin for the bullock, and the third
of the hin for the ram, and the fourth of
the hin of wine for the lamb: this the
burnt-offering of the month in its month,
for the months of the year.

15 And one he goat of the goats for
sin, to Jehovah, upon the burnt-offering
of continuance, it shall be done, and its
libation.

16 And in the first month, in the
fourteenth day to the month, a passover
to Jehovah.

17 In the fifteenth day to this month,
a festival: seven days shall unleavened
be eaten.

18 In the first day a holy calling; all
work of service ye shall not do.

19 And bring ye near a sacrifice, a
burnt-offering to Jehovah; two bul-

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. locks, sons of a cow, and one ram, and
seven lambs, sons of a year; blameless
shall they be to you.

20 And their gift fine flour mingled
with oil: three tenths fora bullock, and
two tenths for the ram, ye shall do.

21 A tenth tenth, thou shalt do for
the one lamb, for the seven lambs.

22 And one he goat of sin to expiate
for you.

23 Besides the burnt-offering of the
morning, which is for the burnt-offermg
of continuance, ye shall do these.

24 According to these ye shall do for
the day, seven days the bread the sacri-
fice, an odor of sweetness to Jehovah ;
upon the burnt-offering of continuance
it shall be done, and its libation.

25 And in the seventh day a holy
calling shall be to you; all work of ser-
vice ye shall not do.

26 And in the day of the first-fruits,
in your bringing near a new gift to Jeho-
vah, in your sevens, a holy calling shall
be to you; all work of service ye shall
not do.

27 And offer ye the burnt-offering for
an odor of sweetness to Jehovah: two
bullocks, sons of a cow, one ram, seven
lambs, sons of a year ;

28 And their gift fine flour mingled
with oil, three tenths for the one bullock,
two tenths for the one ram;

29 A tenth tenth for the one lamb,
for the seven lambs;

80 One he goat of the goats to expiate
for them.

31 Besides the burnt-offering of con-
tinuance and its gift, ye shall do; blame-
less shall they be to you, and their liba-
tions.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND in the seventh month, in one
to the month, a holy calling to
shall be to you; all work of service ye
shall not do: it shall be a day of sig-
nal to you.

2 And ye did the burnt-offering for
an odor of sweetness to Jehovah; one
bullock, the son of a cow, one ram, sev-
en blameless lambs, sons of a year.

3 And their gift fine flour mingled
with oil, three tenths for the bullock,
two tenths for the ram,

NUMBERS XXIX.

4 And one tenth for the one lamb,
for the seven lambs;

5 And one he goat of the goats for
sin, to expiate for you;

6 Besides the burnt-offering of the
month and its gift, and the burnt-offer-
ing of continuance and its gift, and their
libation, according to their judgment, for
an odor of sweetness, a sacrifice to Je-
hovah.

7 And in the tenth to this seventh
month a holy calling shall be to you:
ye afflicted your souls: all work ye
shall not do.

8 And bring ye near a burnt-offering
to Jehovah, an odor of sweetness: one
bullock, son of a cow, one ram,. seven
lambs, sons of a year; blameless they
shall be to you.

9 And their gift fine flour mingled
with oil, three tenths for the bullock,
two tenths for the one ram,

10 A tenth tenth for the one lamb,
the seven lambs:

11 One he goat of the goats for sin,
besides the sin of expiations, and the
burnt-offerme of continuance, and its
eift and their libations.

12 And in the fifteenth day to the
seventh month, a holy calling shall be
to you; all work of service ye shall not
do, and keep ye a festival to Jehovah
seven days.

13 And ye brought near a burnt-offer-
ing, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to
Jehovah: thirteen bullocks, sons of a
cow, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of
a year; blameless shall they be.

14 And their gift fine flour mingled
with oil, three tenths for the one bullock,
for the thirteen bullocks, two tenths for
the one ram, for the two rams,

15 And a tenth tenth for the one
lamb, for the fourteen lambs ;

16 And one he goat of sin, besides
the burnt-offering of continuance, its
gift and its libation.

17 And in the second day, twelve
bullocks, sons of a cow, two rams, four-
teen blameless lambs, sons of a year.

18 And their gift and their libation
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number,
according to their judgment +

19 And one he goat of the goats for

NUMBERS XXX.

sin; besides the burnt-offering of con-
tinuance, and its gift and their libations.

20 And in the third day, eleven bul-
locks, two rams, fourteen blameless
lambs, sons of a yeat.

21 And their gift and their libations
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number,
according to judgment:

22 And one he goat of the goats for
sin; besides the burnt-offering of con-
tinuance, and its gift and its libation.

23 And in the fourth day, ten bul-
locks, two rams, fourteen blameless
lambs, sons of a year.

24 Their gift and their libations for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
lambs, according to their number, ac-
cording to judgment:

25 And one he goat of the goats for
sin, besides the burnt-offering of contin-
uance, its gift and its libation.

26 And in the fifth day, nine bullocks,
two rams, fourteen blameless lambs,
sons of a year:

27 And their gift and their libations
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number,
according to judgment:

28 And one he goat of sin, besides the
burnt-offering of continuance, its gift
and its libation.

29 And in the sixth day, eight bul-
locks, two rams, fourteen blameless
lambs, sons of a year:

30 And their gift and their libations
for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number,
according to judgment:

31 And one he goat for sin, besides
the burnt-offering of continuance, its
gift and its libations.

32 And in the seventh day, seven bul-
locks, two rams, fourteen blameless
lambs, sons of a year:

88 And their gift and their libations
for the bullocks, for the rams, and
for the lambs, according to their num-
ber, according to their judement :v

84 And one he goat of sin, besides
the burnt-offering of continuance, its gift
and its libation :

85 And in the eighth day, a restraint
shall be to you: all work of service ye
shall not do.

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36 And bring ye near a burnt-offer-
ing, a sacrifice, an odor of sweetness to
Jehovah: one bullock, one ram, seven
blameless lambs, sons of a year:

87 Their gift and their libations for
the bullock, for the ram, and for the
lambs, according to their number, ac-
cording to judgment:

88 And one he goat of sin, besides
the burnt-offering of continuance, and
its gift and its libation.

39 These ye shall do to Jehovah in
your appointments, besides your vows
and your voluntary gifts, for your
burnt-offerings, and for your gifts, and
your libations, and for your peace.

CHAPTER XXX.
ND Moses will say to the sons of
Israel according to all which Je-
hovah commanded Moses.

2 And Moses will speak to the heads
of the tribes to the sons of Israel, say-
ing, This the word which Jehovah com-
manded.

3 A man when he shall vow a vow
to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind a
binding upon his soul, he shall not
profane his word; according to all go-
ing forth from his mouth he shall do.

4 And a woman when she shall vow
a vow to Jehovah, and bind a binding
in the house of her father, in her youth ;

5 And her father heard her vow and
her binding which she bound upon her
soul, and her father was silent to her;
and all her vows stood, and all the bind-
ing which she bound upon her soul
shall stand.

6 And if her father refused her in the
day of his hearing, all her vows and all
her bindings which she bound upon her
soul, it shall not stand; and Jehovah
will forgive her, for her father refused
her.

7 And if being she shall be to a hus-
band, and her vows upon her, or the
babbling of her lips which she bound
upon her soul:

8 And her husband heard in the day
of his hearing, and was silent to her:
and her vows stood, and the binding
which she bound upon her soul shall
stand.

9 And if in the day her husband

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heard he shall refuse her, and he annul-
led her vows which were upon her,
and the babbling of her lips which she
bound upon her soul, and Jehovah will
forgive her.

10 And the vow of a widow, and of
her driven away, all which she bound
upon her soul shall stand upon her.

11 And if in the house of her husband
she vowed or bound a binding upon
her soul with an oath:

12 And her husband heard and was
silent to her, he refused her not: and
all her yows shall stand, and all the
binding which she bound upon her soul
shall stand.

13 And if her husband annulling,
shall annul them in the day of his hear-
ing; all the going forth of her lips for
her yows and for the binding of her
soul, shall not stand: her husband an-
nulled them, and Jehovah will forgive
her.

14 Every vow, and every oath of
binding to afflict the soul, her husband
shall cause it to stand, and her husband
shall annul it.

15 And if her husband being silent,
shall be silent to her from day to day ;
and he caused to stand all her vows, or
all her bindings-which were upon her:
he.caused them to stand, for he was si-
lent to her in the day of his hearing.

16 And if annulling, he annulled them
after his hearmg; and he bore the in-
iquity.

17 These the laws which Jehovah
commanded Moses between a man to his
wife, between a father to his daughter,
in her youth in her father’s house.

CHAPTER XXXI.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Avenge the avenging of the sons of
Tsrael of the Midianites: afterwards thou
shalt be gathered to thy people,

3 And Moses will speak to the people,
saying, Arm from yourselves the men
for war, and they shall be against. Mi-
dian, to give the avenging of Jehovah
upon Midian,

4 A thousand to a tribe, a thousand
to a tribe, for all the tribes of Israel, ye
shall send to war.

NUMBERS XXXL.

5 And there shall be separated from
the thousands of Israel a thousand fora
tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6 And Moses will send them a thou-
sand for a tribe, to war, them and Phin-
ehas, son of 10168281 the priest, to war,
and the holy vessels, and the trumpets
of the signal in his hand.

7 And they will go forth against Mi-
dian as Jehovah commanded Moses;
and they killed every male.

8 And they killed the kings of Midian
upon those being slain: Evi and Rekem,
and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings
of Midian: and they killed Balaam,
son of Beor, with the sword.

9 And the sons of Israel will take
captive the women of Midian and their
little ones, and all their cattle, and all
their possessions, and they plundered
all their strength.

10 And their cities with their dwell-
ings, and all their walls they burnt in
fire.

11 And they will take all the plunder
and all the spoil, in man and in cattle.

12 And they will bring to Moses and
to Eleazar the priest, and to the assem-
bly of the sons of Israel, the captivity
and the spoil and the plunder, to the
camp to the desert of Moab, which is
by Jordan of Jericho. 6

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest,
and all the chiefs of the assembly will
come forth to their meeting without the
camp.

14 And Moses will be angry against
the officers of the army, the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds
coming from the war of the battle.

15 And Moses will say to them, Pre-
served ye alive every female?

16 Behold, they were to the sons of
Israel by the word of Balaam for sepa-
rating treacherously against Jehovah,
concerning the word of Peor; and there
will be a smiting in the assembly of Je-
hovyah. /

17 And now kill every male among
the little ones; and every woman know
ing man by the bed of a male, do ye
Κη].

18 And all the little ones among the
women who knew not the bed of a male,
preserve ye alive for yourselves.

NUMBERS ΧΧΧΙ.

19 And encamp ye without the camp
seven days: every one killing a soul,
and every one touching upon the
wounded, ye shall be purified in the
third day, and in the seventh day, ye
and your captivity.

20 And every garment and every
vessel of skin, and every work of goats’
hair, and every vessel of wood, ye shall
purify.

21 And Eleazar the priest will say to
the men of war coming from the battle,
This the law of instruction which Jeho-
vah commanded Moses:

22 Only the gold and the silver, the
brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23 Every thing which shall come
through fire ye shall make pass through
fire, and it was cleansed: only with the
water of uncleanness shall it be purified :
and all which will not come through
the fire ye shall make pass through the
water.

24 And wash ye your garments in the
seventh day, and be purified, and after-
wards ye shall come into the camp.

25 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying, .

26 Take the head of the spoil of the
captivity, in man and in cattle, thou
and Hleazar the priest, and the heads of
the fathers of the assembly :

27 And divide the spoil between them
taking hold of the battle, going forth to
war, and between all the assembly :

28 And casta tribute to Jehovah
from the men of the battle going forth to
war: one soul from five hundred, from
the men and from the oxen, and from
the asses, and from the sheep :

29 Ye shall take from their half and
give it to Hleazar the priest, an offering
of Jehovah.

30 And from the sons of Israel’s half
thou shalt take one taking from fifty,
from the men, from the oxen, from the
asses, and from the sheep, from all the
cattle, and give them to the Levites
watching the watches of the dwelling of
Jehovah.

31 And Moses will do, and Eleazar
the priest, as the Lord commanded Mo-
Ses.

32 And the remainder of the spoil
plundered which the people of war

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plundered, will be six hundred thousand
and seventy thousand and five thou-
sand sheep,

33 And the oxen two and seventy
thousand,

34 And the asses, one and sixty thou-
sand,

35 And the souls of man, from the
women which knew not the bed of a
male, all the souls, two and thirty thou-
sand.

36 And half of the portion of those
having gone forth in the war, the num-
ber of the sheep will be three hundred
thousand and thirty thousand and sev-
en thousand and five hundred.

387 And the tribute to Jehovah will
be from the sheep, six hundred five and
seventy.

38 And the oxen, six and_ thirty
thousand ; and their tribute to Jehovah,
two and seventy.

39 And the asses thirty thousand and
five hundred ; and their tribute to Jeho-
yah, one and sixty.

40 And the souls of man, sixteen
thousand ;.and their tribute to Jehovah,
two and thirty souls.

41 And Moses will give the tribute,
an offering of Jehovah, to Hleazar the
priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

42 And from the sons of Israel’s half
which Moses divided from the men
haying warred,

43 (And the assembly’s half from the
sheep, will be three hundred thousand
and thirty thousand and seven thousand
five hundred,

44 And the oxen, six and thirty
thousand,

45 And the asses, thirty thousand and
five hundred,

46 And the souls of man, sixteen
thousand ;)

47 Moses will take from the sons of
Israel’s half, one taking from fifty, from
man and from 081016, and he will give
them to the Levites watching the
watches of the tent of Jehovah; as Je-
hovah commanded Moses.

48 And there will come near to Moses
the officers which are over the thousands
of the war, captains of thousands and
captains of hundreds:

49 And they will say to Moses, Thy

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servants took the head of the men of
the battle which are in our hand, and a
man was not missed from us,

50 And we will bring an offering to
Jehovah, what each found, vessels of
gold, armbands, and bracelets, rings,
ear-rings, and globules of gold, to ex-
plate for our souls before Jehovah.

51 And Moses will take, and Eleazar
the priest, all the gold from them, all
the vessels of work.

52 And all the gold of the offering
which they lifted up to Jehovah, will
be sixteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty shekels, from the captains of thou-
sands and from the captains of hund-
reds.

53 The men of war plundered each
for himself.

54 And Moses will take, and Eleazar
the priest, the gold from the captains of
thousands and of hundreds, and they
will bring it to the tent of appointment,
a remembrance for the sons of Israel
before Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXIE
ND much cattle was to the sons of

Ἃ Reuben and to the sons of Gad
exceedingly strong: and they will see
the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead,
and behold, the place a place of cattle.

2 And the sons of Gad and the sons
of Reuben will come and will say to
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to
the chiefs of the assembly, saying,

8 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer,
and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh,
and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

4 The land which Jehovah smote be-
fore the assembly of Israel, it is a Jand
of cattle, and to thy servants are cattle.

5 And they will say, If we found
grace in thine eyes, will this land be
given to thy servants for a possession ;
ye will not cause us to pass over Jordan.

6 And Moses will say to the sons of
Gad and to the sons of Reuben, Shall
your brethren go forth to battle, and
will ye sit here?

7 And wherefore will ye hinder the
heart of the sons of Israel from passing
over to the Jand which Jehovah gave
to them?

8 So did your fathers in my sending

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them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the
land.

9 And they will go up to the valley
of Eshcol, and will see the land, and
hinder the heart of the sons of Israel not
to go to the land which Jehovah gave
to them.

10 And Jehovah's anger will kindle
in that day, and he will swear, saying,

11 If the men coming up out of
Egypt, from the son of twenty years
and above, shall see the land which 1
sware to Abraham, to Isaak and to Ja-
cob; for they filled not up after me:

12 Except Caleb, son of Jephunneh
the Kenezite, and Joshua, son of Nun:
for they filled up after Jehovah.

18 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against Israel, and he will cause
them to wander in the desert forty years,
till the finishing of all the generation
having done evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

14 And behold, ye rise up instead of
your fathers, a growth of men sinners,
to add yet to the burning anger of Je-
hovah to Israel.

15 When ye shall turn back from
after him, and he will add yet to leave
him in the desert; and ye will destroy
all this people.

16 And they will draw near to him,
and say, Sheep-folds will we build for
our cattle here, and cities for our little
ones.

17 And we will arm ourselves, hast-
ing on before the sons of Israel, till we
brought them to their place: and our
little ones shall dwell in fortified cities
because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not turn back to our
houses till the sons of Israel inherit
each his inheritance.

19 For we will not inherit with them
from the other side of Jordan and for-
ward; for our inheritance has come to us
from this side of Jordan from the risings.

20 And Moses will say to them, If ye
will do this word, if ye will arm your-
selves before Jehovah for battle,

21 And all to you being armed, pass
over Jordan before Jehovah, till his
driving out his enemies from his face,

22 And the land subdued before Je-
hovah: and afterwards ye shall turn
back, and be unpunished from Jehovah

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and from Israel; and this land shall be
to you for a possession before Jehovah.

23 And if ye shall not do this, behold,
ye sinned to Jehovah: and know ye,
your sin which shall find you.

24 Build to you cities for your little
ones, and folds for your sheep; and ye
shall do that coming out of your mouth.

25 And the sons of Gad and the sons
of Reuben will speak to Moses, saying,
Thy servants will do as my lord com-
manded.

26 Our little ones, our wives, our pos-
sessions, and all our cattle, shall be
there in the cities of Gilead:

27 And thy servants will pass over,
all being armed, to war before Jehovah
for battle, as my lord spake.

28 And Moses will command Eleazar
the priest, concerning them, and Joshua,
the son of Nun, and the heads of the
fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel :

29 And Moses will say to them, If
the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben
will pass over Jordan with you, all being
armed for battle before Jehovah, and
the land be subdued before you; and
give ye to them the land of Gilead for a
possession.

80 And if they will not pass over
armed with you, and they possessed in
the midst of you in the land of Canaan.

81 And the sons of Gad and the sons
of Reuben will answer, saying, What
Jehovah spake to thy servants, so will

_we do.

32 We will pass over armed before
Jehovah to the land of Canaan, and to
us shall be the possession of our inher-
itance from the other side to Jordan.

88 And Moses will give to them, to
the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reu-
ben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh,
son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon,
king of the Amorites, and the kingdom
of Og, king of Bashan, the land with its
cities in the bounds, the cities of the
land round about.

34 And the sons of Gad will build
Dibon and Ataroth, and Aroer,

35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Ja-
zer, and Jogbehah,

86 And the house of Nimrah, and
the house of Haran, fortified cities: and
sheep-folds.

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37 And the sons of Reuben built
Heskbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

88 And Nebo, and Baal-Meon (the
name being changed), and Shibmah:
and they will call by names the names
of the cities which they built.

39 And the sons of Machir, the son
of Manasseh, will go to Gilead, and
take it and drive out the Amorite which
is In it.

40 And Moses will give Gilead to
Machir, son of Manasseh, and he will
dwell in it.

41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh,
went, and he will take their villages,
and he will call them the villages of
Jair.

42 And Nobah went, and he will
take Kenath and its houses, and he will
6811 15 Nobah in his name.

CHAPTER XXXIIL
HESE the departure of the sons of
Israel who will go from the land
of Egypt according to their army by
the hand of Moses and Aaron.

2 And Moses will write their goings
out according to their departures
by the mouth of Jehovah: and these
their departures according to thei go-
ings out.

3 And they will remove from Rame-
ses in the first month, in the fifteenth
day to the first month: on the morrow
of the passover and the sons of Israel
went forth with a high hand before the
eyes of all the Egyptians.

4 And the Egyptians burying whom
Jehovah smote among them, all the
first-born: and upon their gods Jeho-
vah did judgments.

5 And the sons of Israel will remove
from Rameses, and they will encamp in
Succoth.

6 And they will remove from Suc-
coth, and encamp in Etham, which is in
the extremity of the desert.

7 And they will remove from Etham,
and dwell upon the mouth of Hiroth,
which is before Baal-Zephon: and they
will encamp before Migdol.

8 And they will remove from before
Hiroth, and they will pass through the
midst of the sea of the desert, and they
will go a way of three days in the de-

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sert of Etham, and they will encamp
in Marah.

9 And they will remove from Marah
and will come to Elim: and in Klim
twelve fountains of water, and seventy
palm trees ; and they will encamp there.

10 And they will remove from Elim,
and encamp by the sea of sedge.

11 And they will remove from the
sea of sedge, and encamp in the desert
of Sin.

12 And they will remove from the
desert of Sin, and encamp in Dophkah.

13 And they will remove from Doph-
kah, and encamp in Alush.

14 And they will remove from Alush,
and encamp in Rephidim; and no wa-
ter was there for the people to drink.

15 And they will remove from Rephi-
dim, and encamp in the desert of Sinai.

16 And they will remove from the
desert of Sinai, and encamp in the Sep-
ulchres of Longing.

17 And they will remove from the
Sepulchres of Longing, and encamp in
Hazeroth.

18 And they will remove from Haze-
roth, and encamp in Rithmah.

19 And they will remove from Rith-
mah, and encamp in Rimmon- Parez.

20 And they will remove from Rim-
mon-Parez, and encamp in Libnah.

21 And they will remove from Lib-
nah, and encamp in Rissah.

22 And they will remove from Ris-
sah, and encamp in Kehelathah.

23 And they will remove from Keh-
elathah, and encamp in mount Shapher.

24 And they will remove from mount
Shapher and encamp in Haradah.

25 And they will remove from Tar-
adah, and encamp in Makheloth.

26 And they will remove from Mak-
heloth, and encamp in Tahath.

27 And they will remove from Ta-
hath, and encamp in Tarah.

28 And they will remove from Ta-
rah, and encamp in Mitheah,

29 And they will remove from Mith-
cah, and encamp in Hashmonah.

30 And they will remove from Hash-
monah, and enecamp in Moseroth.

31 And they will remove from Mose-
roth, and encamp among the sons of
Jakan,

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82 And they will remove from the
sons of Jakan, and encamp in the
mount of Gidgad.

33 And they will remove from the
mount of Gidgad, and encamp in Jotba-
thah.

34 And they will remove from Jot-
bathah, and encamp in Ebionah,

385 And they will remove from Ebio-
nah, and encamp in Hzion-Gaber.

36 And they will remove from Ezion-
Gaber, and encamp in the desert of
Zin; it Kadesh.

37 And they will remove from Ka-
desh, and encamp in mount Hor, in
the extremity of the land of Edom.

38 And Aaron the priest will go up
to mount Hor by the mouth of Jeho-
vah, and. will die there in the fortieth
year to the coming out of the sons of Is-
rael from the land of Egypt, in the fifth
month, in one to the month.

39 And Aaron the son of three and
twenty and a hundred years in his dy-
ing in mount Hor.

40 And the Canaanite, king Arad,
will hear, and he will dwell in the south
in the land Canaan, in the coming of
the sons of Israel.

41 And they will remove from mount
Hor, and eneamp in Zalmonah.

42 And they will remove from Zal-
monah, and encamp in Punon.

43 And they will remove from Punon,
and enecamp in Oboth.

44 And they will remove from Oboth,
and encamp in the heaps of Abarim, in
the bound of Moab.

45 And they will remove from the
heaps, and encamp in Dibon-Gad.

46 And they will remove from Dibon-
Gad, and encamp in Almon-Diblathaim.

47 And they will remove from Al-
mon-Diblathaim, and encamp in the
mountains of Abarim before Nebo.

48 And they will remove from the
mountains of Abarim, and encamp in
the desert of Moab by Jordan of Jericho.

49 And they will encamp by Jordan,
from the house of Jesimoth, to the mead-
ow of acacias in the desert of Moab.

50 And Jehovah will speak to Moses
in the desert of Moab, by Jordan of
Jericho, saying,

51 Speak to the sons of Israel and

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say to them, When ye are passing over
Jordan to the land of Canaan,

52 And have driven out all those
dwelling in the land from before you,
and destroy yeall their watch towers,
and all their molten images ye shall
destroy, and all their heights ye shall
lay waste:

53 And dispossess ye the land and
dwell in it, for to you, I gave the land
to possess it.

54 And divide ye the land by lot to
your tribes: to the many ye shall mul-
tiply his inheritance, and to the few ye
shall diminish his inheritance ; to whom
shall come forth to him, there shall the
lot be to him; according to the tribes
of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 And if ye shall not drive out
those dwelling im the land from be-
fore you, and it shall be whom ye shall
leave from them for thorns in your
eyes, and for prickles in your sides ;
and they pressed you upon the land
which ye shall dwell upon it.

56 And it was as 1 purposed to do
to them I will do to you.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel, and
say to them, When ye coming into the
land of Canaan (this the land which
shall fall to you for an inheritance, the
land of Canaan with her bounds),

3 And to you was the south side
from the desert of Zin upon the hands
of Edom, and to you was the south
boundary from the extremity of the
salt sea eastward. :

4 And to you turned the boundary
from the south to the ascending of Ak-
rabbim, and it passed over Zin: and its
going forth was from the south to Ka-
desh-Barnea, and it went forth to the
Enclosure of the Threshing Floor, and
it passed over to Azmon:

5 And the boundary turned from
Azmon to the torrent of Egypt, and
the goings out were the sea.

6 And the boundary of the sea, and
it was to you the great sea; and this
shall be the boundary to you, the boun-
dary of the sea,

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7 And this shall be to you the north
boundary: from the great sea ye shall
mark out to you mount Hor.

8 From mount Hor ye shall mark out
to you to the going in of Hamath: and
the goings out were to Zedad.

9 And the boundary went forth to
Ziphron, and the goimgs out were the
Enclosure of Knan: this shall be to
you the north boundary.

10 And mark out to you to the east
boundary, from the Enclosure 01 Knan
to Shepham.

11 And the boundary went down
from Shepham to Riblah, from the east
to Ain; and the boundary went down
and it struck upon the shoulder of the
son of Chinnereth eastward.

12 And the boundary went down to
Jordan, and its gomgs out were to the
salt sea. This shall be to you the land
according to the boundaries round about.

18 And Moses will command the
sons of Israel, saying, This the land
which ye shall inherit it by lot, which
Jehovah commanded to give to the
nine tribes, and the half tribe.

14 For the tribe of the sons of Reu-
ben took according to the house of
their fathers, and the tribe of the sons
of Gad according to the house of their
fathers, and the half tribe of Manasseh
took their inheritance.

15 The two tribes and the half tribe
took their inheritance from the other
side to Jordan of Jericho eastward from
the rising.

16 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

17 These the names of the men which
shall cause you to inherit the land: Hle-
azar the priest, and Joshua the son of
Nun.

18 And one chief, one chief shall ye
take from a tribe to cause to inherit the
land.

19 And these the names of the men:
for the tribe of Judah: Caleb, son of
Jephunneh.

20 And for the tribe of the sons of
Simeon: Shemuel, son of Ammihud.

21 For the tribe of Benjamin: ἘΠ|-
dad, the son of Chislon.

22 And for the tribe of the sons of
Dan: chief Bukki, son of Jogli.

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23 For the tribe of Joseph, for the
tribe of the sons of Manasseh: the chief
Hanniel, son,of Ephod.

24 And for the tribe of the sons of
Kphraim: chief Kemuel, son of Shiph-
tan.

25 And for the tribe of the sons of
Zebulon: Elizaphan, son of Parnach.

26 And for the tribe of the sons of
Issachar: chief Paltiel, son of Azzan.

27 And for the tribe of the sons of
Asher: chief Ahihud, son of She-
lomi.

28 And for the tribe of the sons of
Naphtali: chief Pedahel, son of Am-
mihud.

29 These whom Jehovah commanded
to cause the sons of Israel to inherit in
the land of Canaan.

CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Jehovah will speak to Moses
in the desert of Moab by Jordan
of Jericho, saying,

2 Command the sons of Israel, and
they gave to the Levites from the in-
heritance of their possession, cities to
dwell in; and areas to the cities round
about them shall ye give to the Levites.

83 And the cities were to them to
dwell in; and their areas shall be for
their cattle, and for their horses, and
for all their beasts.

4 And the areas of the cities which
ye shall give to the Levites from the
wall of the city and without, a thou-
sand cubits round about.

5 And ye measured from without
the city the east side two thousand cu-
bits, and the south side two thousand
by the cubit, and the side of the sea two
thousand by the cubit, and the north
side two thousand by the cubit; and
the city in the midst: this shall be to
them the areas of the cities.

6 And the cities which ye shall give
to the Levites, six cities of refuge, which
ye shall give to flee there to the slayer:
and upon them ye shall give forty and
two cities,

7 All the cities which ye shall give
to the Levites, forty and eight cities:
them and their areas.

8 And the cities which ye shall give
from the possession of the sons of Isra-

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el: from the many ye shall multiply;
and from the few ye shall diminish : each
according to his inheritance which the
shall inherit, he shall give from his
cities to the Levites.

9 And Jehovah will speak to Moses,
saying,

10 Speak to the sons of Israel and
say to them, When ye are passing over
Jordan to the land of Canaan,

11 And build ye to you cities; cities
of refuge shall they be to you; and the
slayer to flee there smiting a soul in
error.

12 And they to you the cities for re-
fuge from the nearest relative; and the
slayer shall not die till his standing be-
fore the assembly for judgment,

13 And the cities-which ye shall
give, six cities of refuge shall be to
you. |

14 Three cities shall ye give from
beyond Jordan, and three cities shall
ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of
refuge shall they be.

15 For the sons of Israel and for
the stranger, and for the sojourner in
the midst of you shall be six cities:
these for refuge to flee there all smitmg
a soul in error.

16 And if with an instrument of iron
he smote him, the slayer shall die; the
slayer he dying, shall die.

17 And if with a stone of the hand
which he shall die by it he smote him,
he the slayer shall die; dying, the slay-
er shall die.

18 Or with an instrument of wood of
the hand, which he shall die by it he
smote him, he the slayer shall die; dy-
ing, the slayer shall die.

19 The nearest relative of blood he
shall kill the slayer: in his meeting
him he shall kill him.

20 And if in hatred he thrust at him,
or cast upon him, or in lying in wait,
he shall die.

21 Or in enmity he smote with his
hand, and he will die; dying, he smit-
ing shall die; he is a slayer: the near-
est relative of blood shall kill the slayer
in his meeting him,

22 And if suddenly, not in enmity,
he thrust him, or cast upon him any in-
strument in not lying in wait,

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98 Or with any stone which he shall
die by it in not seeing, and it will fall
upon him and he shall die, and he not
an enemy to him and not seeking his
hurt:

24 And the assembly judged between
him smiting, and between the nearest
relation of blood according to these
judements :

25 And the assembly delivered the
slayer out of the hand of the nearest
relation of blood, and the assembly
turned him back to the city of his
refuge where he fled there: and he
dwelt in it till the death of the great
priest who anointed him with the holy
oil.

26 And if going out the slayer shall
go out of the boundary of the city of his
refuge where he shall flee there ;

27 And the nearest relation of blood
finding him without the boundary of
the city of his refuge, and the nearest
relation of blood slew the slayer; no
blood to him.

28 For in the city of his refuge he
shall dwell till the death of the great
priest ; and after the death of the great
pace the slayer shall turn back to the
and of his possession.

29 And these were to you for laws
of judgment to your generations in all
your dwellings.

30 Every one striking a soul by the
mouth of witnesses, he shall slay the
slayer: and one witness shall not testify
against a soul to die.

81 Ye shall not take expiation for
the soul of a slayer, he who was guilty
to die, for dying, he shall die.

82 And ye shall not take expiation

-for him fleeing to the city of his refuge,
for turning back to dwell in the land till
the death of the priest.

33 And ye shall not pollute the land
which ye are in it: for blood it will
pollute the land: and for the land it
will not be expiated for the blood which
was poured out upon it but by the
blood of him shedding.

84 And thou shalt not defile the land
which ye shall dwell upon it, which I
dwell in the midst of it: for I Jeho-
vah dwell in the midst of the sons’ of
Israel.

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CHAPTER XXXVL

ND there will come near the heads

of the fathers to the families of

the sons of Gilead, son of Machir, son of

Manasseh, from the families of the sons

of Joseph; and they will speak before

Moses and before the chiefs of the heads
of the fathers to the sons of Israel.

2 And they will say, Jehovah com-
manded my lord to give the land for
inheritance by lot to the sons of Israel :
and my lord was commanded by
Jehovah to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother to his daugh-
ters.

ὃ And they were for wives to one of
the sons of the tribes of the sons of Is-
rael, and their inheritance being taken
away from the inheritance of our fa-
thers, and was added upon the tribe
which they shall be to them: and it shall
be taken away from the lot of our inher-
itance.

4 And when the jubilee shall be to
the sons of Israel, and their inheritance
was added to the inheritance of the
tribe which they shall be to them: and
from the inheritance of the tribe of our
fathers their inheritance shall be taken
away.

5 And Moses will command the sons
of Israel by the mouth of Jehovah, say-
ing, The tribe of the sons of Joseph are
speaking well.

6 This the word which Jehovah com-
manded to the daughters of Zelophe-
had, saying, To the good in their eyes
they shall be for wives; only to the
families of the tribe of their fathers
shall they be for wives.

7 And the inheritance of the sons of
Israel shall not remove from tribe to
tribe; for the sons of Israel shall cleave
each to the inheritance of the trtbe of
his fathers.

8 And every daughter possessing an
inheritance from the tribe of the sons
of Israel, to one of the families of the
tribe of her father shall she be for wife,
so that the sons of Israel shall possess
each the inheritance of his fathers.

9 And the. inheritance shall not re-
move from a tribe to another tribe; for
the tribes of the sons of Israel shall
cleave each to his inheritance.

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10 As Jehovah commanded Moses,
so did the daughters of Zelophehad :

11 For Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoelah,
and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters
of Zelophehad, shall be to the sons of
their uncles for wives.

12 To some of the families of the sons

DEUTERONOMY I.

for wives, and their inheritance shall
be to the tribe of the families of their
fathers.

13 These the commands and the jude-
ments which Jehovah commanded by
the hand of Moses to the sons of Israel
in the desert of Moab by Jordan of

of Manasseh, son of Joseph, they were ' Jericho.

DEUTHERONOMY.

CHAPTER 1.
HESE the words which Moses
spake to all Israel on the other
side Jordan in the desert, in the sterile
region over against the sedge between
Paran and between Tophel and Laban
and Hazeroth and Dizalab.

2 Eleven days from Horeb the way
of mount Seir to Kadesh-Barnea.

3 And it shall be in the fortieth year,
in the eleventh month, in one to the
month, Moses spake to the sons of Israel
according to all which Jehovah com-
manded him to them.

4 After his smiting Sihon, kine of
the Amorites, who will dwell in Hesh-
bon, and Og, king of Bashan, who will
dwell in Ashtaroth in Edrei:

5 In the other side Jordan in the land
of Moab, Moses was first to declare this
law, saying,

6 Jehovah our God spake to us in
Horeb, saying, It was enough to you
to dwell in this mount:

7 Turn ye and remove for yourselves,
and go to the mountain of the Amorite,
and to all his neighbors in the sterile
region, in the mountain, and in the
low country, and in the south and in
the coast of the sea, the land of the
Canaanites and of Lebanon to the great
river, the river Phrath.

8 See, I gave the land before you:
go in and possess the land which Jeho-
vah sware to your fathers, to Abraham
to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to them
and to their seed after them.

9 And I spake to you at that time,

saying, I shall not be able alone to bear
ou:

10 Jehovah your God multiplied you,
and behold, you this day as the stars of
the heavens for 6

11 Jehovah the God of your fathers
will add to you as ye a thousand times,
and he will bless you as he spake to
you.

12 How shall I bear alone your bur-
den and your lifting up and your strife ?

13 Give to yourselves men wise and
known to your tribes, and I will set
them for your heads.

14 And ye will answer me and say,
Good the word which thou spakest
to do.

15 And I will take the heads of your
tribes, men wise and known, and I will
give them heads over you, captains of
thousands, and captains of hundreds,
and captains of fifties, and captains of
tens, and scribes for your tribes.

16 And 1 shall command your judges
in that time, saying, Hear between
your brethren, and judge justice be-
tween a man and between his brother
and between his stranger.

17 Ye shall not look upon faces in
judgment; as the small so the great
shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of
the face of man, for the judgment is
to God; and the word ‘which shall be
hard for you, ye shall bring to me and
I heard it.

18 And I will command you in that
time all the words which ye shall do.

19 And we shall remove from Horeb

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and we shall ₪0 811 that great and fear-|all the way that ye went till your com-
ful desert which ye saw, the way 01 the| ing to this place.

mountain of the Amorite, as Jehovah
our God commanded us; and we shall
come to Kadesh-Barnea.

20 And I said to you, Ye came to the
mountain of the Amorite which Jeho-
vah our God gave to us.

21 See, Jehovah thy God gave the
land before thee: go up, possess, as Je-
hoyah the God of thy fathers spake to
thee; thou shalt not fear and thou shalt
not be pressed down. :

22 And ye shall come near to me all
of you, and ye will say, We will send
men before us, and they shall search
out for us the land, and shall turn us
back word the way which we shall go
up into it, and the cities which we shall
come into them.

23 And the word will be good in
mine eyes: and I will take from you
twelve men, one man to a tribe.

24 And they will turn and go up to
the mountain, and they will come to the
valley of Hshcol, and will search it out.

25 And they will take in their hand
from the fruit of the land, and they will
come down to us and will turn us back
word, and will say, A good land which
Jehovah our God gave to us.

26 And ye weré not willing to go up,
and ye will rebel against the mouth of
Jehovah your God,

27 And ye will murmur in your tents,
and say, In Jehovah's hating us he
brought us out of the land of Heypt to
give us into the hand of the Amorite
to destroy us.

28 Whither are we going up? our
brethren melted our heart, saving, A
people great and high above us; cities
great and fortified to the heavens; and
also, the sons of the Anakims, we saw
there.

29 And I said to you, Ye shall not
be terrified, and ye shall not be afraid of
them.

80 Jehovah your God went before
you; he will fight for you according to
all that he did to you in Egypt before
your eyes.

91 And in the desert where thou
sawest that Jehovah thy God lifted thee
up, as a man will lift up his son, in

62 And in this word ye are not be-
lieving in Jehovah your God.

33 He going in the way before you
to search out for you a place for you
to encamp, in fire by night, to cause
you to see in what way ye shall go in
it, and in a cloud by day.

84 And Jehovah will hear the voice
of your words, and he will be angry,
and he will swear, saying,

30 If aman among these men of this
evil generation shall see the good land
which I sware to give to your fathers,

36 Except Caleb, son of Jephunneh ;
he shall see it, and to him I will give
the land which he trod upon it, and to
his sons, because that he filled up after
Jehovah.

57 Also with me was Jehovah angry
on account of you, saying, Also thou
shalt not come in there.

88 Joshua son of Nun, standing be-
fore thee, he shall come in there:
strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel
to inherit it.

39 And your little ones which ye
said shall be for a spoil, and your sons
which knew not that day good and evil,
they shall go in there, and to them will
I give it, and, they shall possess it.

40 And you, turn for yourselves and
remove to the desert the way of the sea
of sedge.

41 And ye will answer and say to
me, We sinned against Jehovah, we
will go up and fight according to all
that Jehovah our God commanded us.
And ye will gird on each the weapon of
his fighting, and ye will act lightly to
go up to the mountain.

42 And Jehovah will say to me, Say
to them, Ye shall not go up, and ye
shall not fight; for I am not in the
midst of you and ye shall not be smit-
ten before your enemies.

48 And I'shall speak to you, and ye
heard not; and ye will rebel against
the mouth of Jehovah, and ye will act
proudly, and will go up to the mount-
ain.

44 And the Amorite dwelling in that
mountain will come forth to your meet-
ing, and will pursue you as bees will

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do, and they will beat you in Seir to
Hormah.

45 And ye will turn back and will
weep before Jehovah; and Jehovah
heard not to your voice and gave not
ear to you.

46 And ye shall dwell in Kadesh
many days according to the days that
ye dwelt.

CHAPTER IL.
ND turning and removing to the
desert the way of the sea of sedge,
as Jehovah spake to me: and encom-
passing mount Seir many days.

2 And Jehovah will speak to me,
saying,

3 It was enough to you to encompass
this mount; turn for yourselves to the
north,

4 And command the people, saying,
Ye are passing over through the bound
of your brethren the sons of Esau,
dwelling in Seir; and they shall be
afraid of you: and ye shall watch
greatly.

5 Ye shall not contend with them, for
I will not give to you from their land
even to the treading of the sole of the
foot, for I gave mount Seir to Esau for
3 possession.

6 Ye shall buy food from them: for
silver, and ye ate: and also shall ye
buy water from them for silver, and ye
drank.

7 For Jehovah thy God blessed thee
in every work of thy hand: he knew
thy going in this great desert: this for-
ty years Jehovah “thy God with thee ;
thou didst not lack a word.

8 And we shall pass by our brethren
the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir, from
the way of the sterile region from Elath,
and from Ezion-Gaber, we shall turn
and shall pass over the way of the des-
ert of Moab.

9 And Jehoyah will say to me, Thou
shalt not press Moab, and thou shalt
not contend with them in war; for I
shall not give to thee his land a pos-
session, for to the sons of Lot I gave
AY a possession.

10 (The Emims dwelt in it before
them, a people great and many and

high as the Anakims;

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11 And they will be reckoned Re-
phaims also, as the Anakims; and the
Moabites will call them Emims.

12 And the Horims dwelt in Seir be-
fore them, and the sons of Esau will in-
herit them, and they will destroy them
from before them, and they will dwell
instead of them; as Israel did to the
land of his possession which Jehovah
gave to them.)

13 Now rise up and pass over for
yourselves the valley Zered; and we
shall pass through the torrent Zered.

14 And the days which we came from
Kadesh-Barnea till we passed over the
valley Zered, thirty and eight years;
till all the generation of men of war
was finished from the midst of the camp,
as Jehovah sware to them.

15 For also the hand of Jehovah was
against them to finish them from the
midst of the camp, till their finishing.

16 And it will be as when all the
men of war were finished to die from
the midst of the people,

17 And Jehovah will spealk to me,
saying,

18 Pass thou over this day Ar, the
boundary of Moab:

19 And thou camest near over against
the sons of Ammon, thou shalt not
press them, and thou shalt not con-
tend with them: for I will not give
from the land of the sons of Ammon to
thee a possession ; for to the sons of Lot
I gave it a possession.

20 It also shall be reckoned the land
of the Rephaims; the Rephaims dwelt
in it before them, and the Ammonites
ealled them Zamzummims ;

21 A people great and many, and
high as the Anakims; and Jehovah
will destroy them from before their
face; and they will inherit them and
will dwell instead of them:

22 As he did to the sons of Esau
dwelling in Seir when.he destroyed the
Horims from before them; and they
will inherit them and will dwell instead
of them, even to this day:

23 And the Avims ἜΝ in the
enclosures, even to Azzah, the Caph-
torims, coming forth from Caphtor,
destroyed them, and they dwelt instead
of them.

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24 Rise ye up, remove and _ pass
through the torrent Arnon: see, I gave
into thy hand Sihon, king of Heshbon,
the Amorite, and his land: begin and
possess and thou shalt contend with him
an war.

25 This day I will begin to give thy
fear and thy terror upon the face of the

eoples under all the heavens who shall
| thy report ; and they trembled and
were concerned from thy face.

26 And I will send messengers out
of the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon,
king of Heshbon, with words of peace,
saying,

27 1 will pass over in thy land; in
the way, in the way I will go, I will
not turn aside to the nght or to the
left.

28 Thou shalt sell me food for silver,
and I ate; and thou shalt give to me
water for silver, and I drank: only
I will pass through on my feet ;

29 (As the sons of Esau did to me
dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites dwel-
ling in a) till when I shall pass over

- Jordan to the land which Jehovah our
God gave to us.

80 And Sihon king of Heshbon was
not willing for us to pass by him, for
Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit,
and made his heart strong in order to
give him into thy hand as this day.

81 And Jehovah will say to me, See,
I began to give before thee Sihon and
his land: begin and possess to inherit
his land.

32 And Sihon came forth to our
meeting, he and all his people to war at
Jahaz.

33 Jehovah our God will give him
before us; and he smote him and his
sons and all his people.

34 And we shall take all his cities in
that time, and we shall exterminate
every city of men and women and the
little ones; we left none to escape.

85 Only the cattle we plundered for
ourselves, and the spoil of the cities
which we took.

36 From Aroer which is upon the lip
of the torrent Arnon, and the city which
is by the torrent, and even to Gilead,
not a city which was high above us:
Jehovah our God gave all before us,

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87 Only to the land of the sons of
Ammon thou camest not near, all the
land of the torrent Jabbok and the
cities of the mountain: all which Jeho-
vah our God commanded us.

CHAPTER IIT.
A ND we shall turn and go up the
way of Bashan: and Og, king of
Bashan, will come forth to our meeting,
he and all his people to war at Edrei.

2 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou
shalt not fear him, for into thy hand I
gave him and all his people, and his
land; and do to him as thou didst to
Sihon, king of the Amorites, who will
dwell in Hebron.

8 And Jehovah our God will give
into our hand also Og, king of Bashan,
and all his people: and we shall smite
him till none remained to him escap-
ing.

4 And we shall take all his cities in
that time, and there was not a city
which we took not from them: sixty
cities, all the region of Argob, from the
kingdom of Og in Bashan

5 All these cities fortified with high
walls, doors and bars; besides of cities
of the open country exceedingly many.

6 And we shall exterminate them as
we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, exter-
minating men, women, and little ones.

7 And all the cattle and the spoil of
the cities we plundered for ourselves.

8 And we shall take in that time the
land out of the hand of the two kings
of the Amorites. which is on the other
side Jordan from the torrent Arnon,
even to mount Hermon.

9 (The Sidonians will call to Her-
mon, Sirion; and the Amorites will call
to it, Shenir.)

10 All the cities of the plain, and all
Gilead, and all Bashan, even to Salchah
and EKdrei, cities from the kingdom of
Og in Bashan.

11 For only Og, king of Bashan, re-
mained from the remnant of the Re-

haims ; behold, his bed, a bed of iron;
isit not in Rabbath of the'sons of Am-
mon? nine cubits its length and four
eubits its breadth, according to the cu-
bit of a man.

12 And this land we possessed in

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that time from Aroer which is by the
torrent Arnon, and half the mount of
Gilead and its cities 1 gave to the Reu-
benites and to the Gadites.

13 And the remnant of Gilead and
all Bashan from the kingdom of Og, I
gave to the half tribe of Manasseh; all
the region of Argob and all Bashan, it
will be 681160 the land of Rephaims.

14 Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the
region of Argob, even to the boundary
of Geshuri and Maachathi; and he will
call them according to his name, Ba-
shan-Hayath-Jair, even to this day.

15 And to Machir I gave Gilead.

16 And to the Reubenites and to the
Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the
torrent Arnon, the midst of the torrent
and the boundary and even to the emp-
tying of the torrent, the boundary of
the sons of Ammon.

17 And the sterile region, and Jor-
dan, and the boundary from. Chinne-
reth, and even to the sea of the desert,
the salt sea under the ravines of Pis-
gah from the sunrising.

18 And I shall command you in that
time, saying, Jehovah your God gave
to you this land to possess it; ye shall
pass over armed before your brethren,
the sons of Israel, all sons of strength.

19 Only your wives and your little
ones and your cattle (1 knew that
much cattle to you) they shall dwell in
your cities which I gave to you,

20 Till when Jehovah shall cause
your brethren to rest as you, and they
also shall possess the land which Jeho-
vah, your God, gave to them on the
other side of Jordan: and ye turned
back each to his. possession which 1
gave to you.

21 And I commanded Joshua in that
time, saying, Thine eyes saw all that
Jehovah, your God, did to these two
kings: so will. Jehovah do to all the
kingdoms which ye pass through there.

22 Ye shall not be afraid of them,
for Jehovah, your God, he shall fight
for you.

23 And I shall entreat Jehovah in
that time, saying,

24 O Lord Jehovah, thou didst begin
to cause thy servant to see thy greatness
and thy strong hand: for what God in

DEUTERONOMY IV.

the heavens and in the earth will do
according to thy works and according
to thy strength ?

25 Shall 1 now pass over and see the
good land which is beyond Jordan, this
good mountain, and Lebanon?

26 And Jehovah will pass by me on
account of you, and he heard not to
me: and Jehovah said tome, It was
enough to thee; thou shalt not add to
speak more to me concerning this word.

27 Go up to the head of Pisgah and
lift up thine eyes to the sea, and to
the north, and to the south, and to
the sunrising, and see with thine
eyes: for thou shalt not pass over this
Jordan,

28 And command Joshua and
strengthen him, and make him firm,
for he shall pass through before this
people, and he shall cause them to in-
herit the land which thou shalt see.

29 And we shall dwell in the valley
over against the House of Opening.

CHAPTER IV.
Λ ND now Israel, hear to the laws
and to the judgments which Iam
teaching you to do, so that ye shall live
and go in and possess the land which
Jehovah the God of your fathers gave
to you.

2 Ye shall not add to the word which
I am commanding you, and ye shall
not take away from it, to watch the
commands of Jehovah your God which
Iam commanding you.

3 Your eyes saw what Jehovah did
upon Baal-Peor: for every man who
went after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God
destroyed him from the midst of you.

4 And ye cleaving to Jehovah your
God, are living all of you this day.

5 See, I taught you laws and judg-
ments as Jehovah my God command-
ed me, to do thus in the midst of the
land where ye are going there to pos:
sess 10:

6 And watch and do: for it is your
wisdom and your understanding before
the eyes of the peoples who shall hear
all these laws, and say, Only this great
nation a wise and understanding peo-

le.

7 For what great nation to whom

DEUTERONOMY IV.

God being near to it as Jehovah our
God in all our calling to him?

8 And what great nation to whom
laws and judgments just, as all the in-
structions which I give before you this
day?

9 Only watch to thyself and watch
thy soul greatly, lest thou shalt forget
the words which thine eyes saw, and
lest they shall remove from thy heart
all the days of thy life: and make them
known to thy sons and to the sons of
thy sons.

10 The day thou stoodest before Je-
hovah thy God in Horeb, in Jehovah
saying to me, Gather to me the peo-
ple and I will cause them to hear my
word, that they shall be taught to fear
me all the days which they live upon
the land; and they shall teach their
sons.

11 And ye shall come near and shall
stand under the mountain; and the
mountain burnt with fire even to the
heart of the heavens, darkness, cloud,
and gloom.

12 And Jehovah: will speak to you
from the midst of the fire, ye hearing a
voice of words, and ye seeing not an
appearance, except a voice.

13 And he will announce to you his
covenant which he commanded you to
do, the ten words; and he will write
them upon two tables of stones.

14 And Jehovah commanded me in
that time to teach you laws and judg-
ments for you to do them in the land
which ye are passing over there to pos-
sess it.

15 And watch ye greatly to your
souls, for ye saw not any appearance in
the day Jehovoh spoke to you in Ho-
reb out of the midst of the fire:

16 Lest ye shall be corrupted and
make to you a carved thing, the appear-
ance of any likeness, the model of male
or female,

17 The model of any cattle that is
pie the earth, the model of any wing-
ed bird that shall fly in the heavens,

18 The model of any thing creeping
upon the earth, the model of any fish
that is in the waters from under the
earth :

19 And lest thou shalt lift up thine

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eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun
and the moon and the stars, all the ar-
my of the heavens, and thou wert driv-
en and didst worship to them, and didst
serve them, which Jehovah thy God di-
vided them out to all the peoples under
all the heavens.

20 And Jehovah took you and
brought you forth out of the furnace of
iron, out of Egypt, to be to him fora
people of inheritance as this day.

21 And Jehovah will be angry with
me on account of your words, and he
will swear for me not to pass through
Jordan, and not to go in to the good
land which Jehovah thy God gaye to
thee an inheritance :

22 For I die in this land, not to pass
over Jordan: and ye are passing over
and shall possess this good land.

23 Watch for yourselves lest ye shall
forget the covenant of Jehovah your
God which he cut out with you, and
ye make to you any carved thing, the
appearance of any thing which Jehovah
thy God commanded thee.

24 For Jehovah thy God he is a con-
suming fire, a jealous God.

25 When thou shalt beget sons, and
sons’ sons, and ye rested in the land
and were corrupted, and made a carved
thing, the appearance of any thing, and
ye did evil in the eyes of Jehovah thy
God to irritate him.

26 I took the heavens and the earth
to witness against you this day, that
perishing, ye shall perish to-morrow
from the land which ye are passing over
Jordan there to possess it: ye shall not
prolong the days upon it, but being
destroyed, ye shall be destroyed.

27 And Jehovah scattered you among
the peoples, and ye remained men of
number among the nations where Je-
hovah will lead you there.

28 And ye served there gods, the
work of men’s hands, wood and stone,
which shall not see, and shall not hear,
and shall not eat, and shall not breathe.

29 And thou sought from thence Je-
hovah thy God, and thou didst find,
for ye shall seek him with all thy heart
and with all thy soul.

30 In straitness to thee, and all these
words found thee in the last of the days,

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and thon didst turn to Jehovah thy
God and heardest to his voice ;

31 For Jehovah thy God a merciful
God; he will not desert thee, and he
will not destroy thee, and he will not
forget the covenant of thy fathers which
he sware to them.

32 For ask now to the former days
which were before thee from the day
that God created man upon the earth,
and from the end of the heavens to the
end of the heavens, Has there been as
this great word, or was heard like it?

88 Did people hear the voice of God
speaking from the midst of the fire as
thou didst hear, and shall live?

84 Or did God try to go and take to
him a nation from the midst of a na-
tion by trials, by signs, and by wonders,
and by war, and by a strong hand and
by an extended arm, and by great fears,
according to all that Jehovah your God
did to you in Egypt before your eyes?

85 Thou sawest to know that Jeho-
vah he is God: no more beside him.

36 Out of the heavens he caused thee
to héar his voice to instruct thee: and
upon earth he caused thee to see his
great fire, and thou heardest his words
from the midst of the fire.

87 And because that he loved thy
fathers he will choose in his seed after
him, and he will bring thee out be-
fore him with his great strength from
Egypt;

88 To drive out nations great and
strong above thee, from thy face, to
bring thee in to give to thee their land
an inheritance as this day.

89 And know thou this day, and
turn back to thy heart, that Jehovah
he is God in the heavens from above
and upon the earth underneath: and
none yet.

40 And watch thou his laws and his
commands which I am commanding
thee this day, that it shall be good to
thee and to thy sons after thee, and
that thou shalt prolong the days upon
the land that Jehovah thy God gave to
thee, all the days.

41 Then Moses will separate three
cities in the other side of Jordan from
the rising of the sun;

42 For the slayer to flee there when

- DEUTERONOMY V.

he shall slay his friend without knowl-
edge; and he hated him not yesterday
the third day; and he fled to one of
these cities and he lived :

43 Bezer in the desert, in the land of
the plain to the Reubenites, and Ramoth
in Gilead to the Gadites, and Golan in
Bashan, to the Manassites.

44 And this the instruction which
Moses set before the sons of Israel.

45 These the testimonies and the laws
and the judgments which Moses spake
to the sons of Israel in their going forth
out of Egypt,

46 In the other side of Jordan, in
the valley over against the House of
Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the
Amorites, who will dwell in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote, and the sons of Is-
rael, in their going out of Egypt.

47 And they shall possess their land
and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the
two kings of the Amorites, which in
the other side of Jordan from the rising
of the sun ;

48 From Aroer, which is upon the
lip of the torrent Arnon, and eyen to
mount Sion (it is Hermon.)

49 And all the desert the other side
of Jordan, from the sun-rising and even
to the sea, the desert under the springs
of Pisgah.

CHAPTER V.
ND Moses will call to all Israel,
and say, Hear, thou Israel, the
laws and the judgments which I speak
in your ears this day, and learn them,
and watch to do them.

2 Jehovah our God cut out with us
a covenant in Horeb.

3 Jehovah cut not out this covenant
with our fathers, but with us, we, these
here this day, all we living.

4 Face to face Jehovah spake with
you inthe mount out of the midst of
the fire.

5 )1 stood between Jehovah and be-
tween you in that time to announce to
you the word of Jehovah: for ye were
afraid on account of the fire and ye
went not up into the mount,) saying,

6 1 Jehovah thy God who brought
thee out of the land of Egypt from the
house of servants.

DEUTERONOMY Υ.

7 There shall not be to thee other
gods before me.

8 Thou shalt not make to thee a
carved thing, any appearance that is
in the heavens from above, and which
is in the earth underneath, and that is
in the waters under the earth:

9 Thou shalt not worship to them,
and thou shalt not serve them; for I
Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, strik-
ing the iniquity of the fathers upon the
sons to the third and the fourth for
hating me,

10 And doing mercy to thousands
for loving me and for watching my com-
mands.

11 Thou shalt not lift up the name
of Jehovah thy God for evil, for Jeho-
vah will not acquit whoever shall lift
up his name for evil.

12 Watch the day of the Sabbath to
consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God com-
manded thee.

13 Six days thou shalt work and do
all thy work,

14 And the seventh day, the Sab-
bath to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt
not do any work, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy servant, and
thy maid, and thine ox, and thine ass,
and all thy cattle, and thy stranger
who is in thy gates; sothat thy ser-
vant and thy maid shall rest like thy-
self.

15 And remember that thou wert a
servant in the land of Egypt, and Jeho-
vah thy God brought thee out from
there by a strong hand and by an ex-
tended arm: for this, Jehovah thy God
commanded thee to do the day of the
Sabbath.

16 Honor thy father and thy mother,
as Jehovah thy God commanded thee,
so that thy days shall be prolonged and
so that it shall be good to thee upon
the land that Jehovah thy God gave to
thee.

17 Thou shalt not kill, and thou
shalt not commit adultery, and thou
shalt not steal. >

18 And thou shalt not speak false
testimony against thy friend: and thou
shalt not desire thy friend’s wife; and
thou shalt not long for thy friend's
house, ἐς field, and his servant, and

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his maid, his ox and his ass, and all
that is to thy friend.

19 These words Jehovah spake to all
your gathering in the mount, from the
midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of
the gloom, a great voice; and he added
not: and he will write them upon two:
tables of stone and will give them to me.

20 And it will be as ye are hearing
the voice from the midst of the dark-
ness (and the mount burnt with fire),
and ye will come near to me all the
heads of your tribes, and your old men ;

21 And ye will say, Jehovah our
God caused us to see his glory and his
greatness, and his voice we heard from
the midst of .the fire: this day we saw
that God will speak to man and he
lived.

22 And now wherefore shall we die?
for this great fire will consume us: if
we added to hear the voice of Jehovah
our God further, and we died.

23 For who of all flesh that heard
the voice of the living God speaking
from the midst of the fire like us, and
shall live?

24 Come thou near and hear all that
Jehovah our God shall say; and thou
shalt speak to us all that Jehovah our
God will. speak to thee: and we heard
and we did.

25 And Jehovah will hear the voice
of your words in your speaking to me;
and Jehovah will say to me, I heard the
voice of the words of this people that
they spake to thee: they did well all
that they spake.

26 Who will give, and were this
heart in them, for them to fear me and
to watch all my commands all the days,
so that it shall be well to them and to
their sons forever.

27 Go say to them, Turn back for
yourselves to your tents.

28 And thou, stand thou here with
me and 1 will speak to thee all the com-
mands and the laws and the judgments
which thou shalt teach them: and they
did it in the land I gave to them to
possess it.

29 And watch ye to do as Jehovah

our God commanded you: ye shall
not turn aside to the right and to the
left.

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80 In all the way that Jehovah your
God commanded you, ye shall go, so
that ye shall live and it be well to you,
and ye prolonged the days upon the
land which ye shall possess.

CHAPTER VL.
ND these the commands and the
laws and the judgments that Je-
hovyah your God commanded to teach
you to do in the land which ye are
passing over there to possess it:

2 So that thou shalt fear Jehovah
thy God, to watch all his laws and his
commands which I am commanding
thee, thou and thy son and thy son’s
son all the days of thy life; and so
that thy days shall be prolonged.

8 And hear, O Israel, and watch to
do, that it shal! be well to thee, and
that ye shall multiply greatly as Jeho-
vah the God of your fathers spake to
thee, a land flowing with milk and
honey.

4 Hear, Israel; Jehovah our God is
one Jehovah.

5 And love thou Jehovah thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul
and with all thy might,

6 And these words which I command
thee to do shall be upon thy heart ;

7 And sharpen them to thy sons, and
speak in them in thy resting in thy
house, and in thy going in the way, and
in thy lying down and in thy rising up.

8 And bind them: for a sign upon
thy hand, and they shall be for bands
between thine eyes.

9 And write them upon the door-
posts of thine house,‘and upon thy gates.

10 And it was when Jehovah thy
God shall bring thee in to the land
which he sware to thy fathers, to Abra-
ham, to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to
thee cities great and good which thou
didst not build,

11 And houses full of all good which
thou filledst not, and wells hewed out
which thou hewedst not, and vineyards
and olives which thou didst not plant;
and thou atest.and wert satisfied :

12 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt
forget Jehovah who brought thee forth
out of the land 01 Egypt, out of the
house of servants,

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13 Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear,
and him shalt thou serve, and in his
name shalt thou swear.

14 Ye shall not go after other gods
from the gods of the peoples which are
round about you;

15 (For Jehovah thy God a jealous
God in the midst of thee) lest the anger
of Jehovah thy God shall kindle
against thee and destroy thee from the
face of the earth.

16 Ye shall not try Jehovah your
God, as ye tempted in Massah.

17 Watching, ye shall watch the com-
mands of Jehovah your. God, and his
testimonies, and his laws that he com-
manded thee.

18 And do thou the right and the
good in the eyes of Jehovah so that it
shall be well to thee, and thou go in
and possess the good land which Jeho-
vah sware to thy fathers,

19 To drive out all thine enemies
from before thee as Jehovah spake.

20 When thy son shall ask thee to-
morrow, saying, What the testimonies
and the laws and the judgments which
Jehovah our God commanded you?

21 And say thou to thy son, We
were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt,
and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt
by a strong hand :

22 And Jehovah will give signs and
wonders, great and evil, upon Egypt,
upon Pharaoh and upon all his house
before our eyes:

23 And he brought us out from there
in order to bring us in to give to us the
land which he sware to our fathers.

24 And Jehovah will command us to
do all these laws, to fear Jehovah our
God, for good to us all the days, to pre-
serve us alive as this day.

25 And it shall be justice to us when
we shall watch to do all these com-
mands before Jehovah our God as he
commanded us.

CHAPTER VIL
ἌΧ. Jehovah thy God shall
bring thee to the land where

thou goest there to possess it, and he
cast out many nations from before thee,
the Hittite and the Girgashite and the
Amorite and the Canaanite, and the

DEUTERONOMY VIL.

Perizzite, and the Hivite and the Jeb-
usite, seven nations many and strong
above thee;

2 And Jehovah thy God gave them
before thee, and thou didst smite them:
exterminating, thou shalt exterminate
them; thou shalt not make to them a
covenant and thou shalt not show them
mercy.

3 Thou shall not marry with them ;
thy daughters thou shalt not give to
his son, and his daughter thou shalt not
take to thy son.

4 For he will turn away thy son from
after me and they served other gods:
and the anger of Jehovah kindled
against you and he destroyed thee sud-
denly.

5 But thus shall ye do to them; their
altars ye shall destroy, and their pillars
ye shall break in pieces, and their stat-
ues ye shall cut down, and their carved
things ye shall burn in fire.

6 For thou a holy people to Jehovah
thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God
chose to be to him a people of property
from all the peoples which are upon the
face of the earth.

7 Not for your multitude did Jeho-
vah delight in you above all the peo-
ples, and will he choose you, for ye
were few more than all the peoples.

8 For Jehovah loves you and watches
the oath which he sware to your fa-
thers: Jehovah brought you out by a
strong hand, and he will redeem thee
from the house of servants, from the
house of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 And know thou that Jehovah thy
God, he is God, the faithful God, watch-
ing the covenant and the kindness to
those loving him, and to those watching
his commands to the thousandth gene-
ration :

10 And recompensing to _ those
hating him to their face to destroy
him: he will not delay to him hating
him to his face ; he will recompense to
him.

11 And watch thou the commands
and the laws and the judgments which
I command thee this day, to do them.

12 And it was because ye shall hear
these judgments, and watch them and
do them, and Jehovah thy God watched

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to thee the covenant and the mercy
which he sware to thy fathers:

13 And he loved thee and blessed
thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest
the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of
thy land, thy grain and thy new wine
and thy new oil, and the young of thy
cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the
land which he sware to thy fathers to
give to thee.

14 Thou shalt be blessed above all
peoples: there shall not be in thee bar-
ren male and female, and in thy cat-
tle.

15 And Jehovah turned away from
thee all sickness, and all the evil dis-
eases of Egypt which thou knewest, he
will not put upon thee: and he will
give them upon all hating thee.

16 And thou didst consume all the
peoples which Jehovah thy God gave
to thee; thine eye shall not have pity
upon them, and thou shalt not serve
their gods, for it is a snare to thee.

17 When thou shalt say in thy heart,
The nations many more than I, how
shall I be able to dispossess them ?

18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them:
remembering, thou shalt remember
what Jehovah thy God did to Pharaoh
and to all Eeypt.

19 The great trials which thine eyes
saw, and the signs and the wonders,
and the strong hand and the extended
arm by which Jehovah thy God brought
thee out: 80. shall Jehovah thy God do
to all people of whose face thou art
afraid.

20 And also the hornet, Jehovah
thy God will send among you till the
destroying of those being left and of
those hiding from thy face.

21 Thou shalt not be terrified from
their faces, for Jehovah thy God is in
the midst of thee, a great and fearful
God.

22 And Jehovah thy God cast out
these nations from thy face, little, little ;
thou shalt not be able to finish them
quickly lest the beast of the field shall
multiply upon thee.

23 And Jehovah thy God gave them
before thee and destroyed and discom-
fited them in great consternation till he
destroyed them.

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24 And he gave their kings into thy
hand, and destroy thou their name from
under the heavens; and a man shall
not stand before thee till thy destroy-
ing them.

25 The carved thing of their gods ye
shall burn in fire: thou shalt not de-
sire the silver and gold upon them and
take to thee lest thou shalt be snared
by it, for it is an abomination to Jeho-
vah thy God.

26 And thou shalt not bring an
abomination to thy house, and thou be
devoted to destruction like it: abhor-
ring, thou shalt abhor it, and abomina-
ting, thou shalt abominate it, for it is
devoted to destruction.

CHAPTER. VIII.
LL the commands which I com-
mand thee this day ye shall
watch to do, so that ye shall live and
multiply and go in and possess the land
which Jehovah sware to your fathers.

2 And remember thou all the way
which Jehovah thy God caused thee to
go this forty years in the desert in or-
der to humble thee, to try thee, to know
what is in thy heart, whether thou shalt
watch his commands or not.

8 And he will humble thee, and
cause thee to hunger, and will give thee
to eat manna which thou knewest not,
and thy fathers knew not; so that he
caused thee to know that upon bread
only man shall not live, but upon all
going out of the mouth of Jehovah shall
man live.

4 Thy garments decayed not from
thee, and thy feet swelled not this forty

ears.

5 And know thou with thy heart
that as a man will chastise his son, Je-
hovah thy God chastises thee.

6 And watch thou the commands of
Jehovah thy God, to go in his ways and
to fear him.

7 For Jehovah thy God brings thee
to a good land, a land of torrents of
water, fountains, and depths going forth
in the valley and in the mountain ;

8 A land of wheat and barley and
the vine and the fig tree and the pome-
granate, a land of the olive tree, of oil
and honey ;

DEUTERONOMY VIIL, IX.

9 A land where thou shalt eat bread
in it not with poverty; thou shalt not
want any thing in it; a land whose
stones, iron, and out of its mountains
thou shalt hew out brass.

10 And thou atest and wert satisfied,
and didst bless Jehovah thy God for
the good land which he gave to thee.

11 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt
forget Jehovah thy God, not watching
his commands and _ his judgments and
his laws which I command thee this day :

12 Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert
satisfied, and thou wilt build good
houses and thou dwelt ;

13 And thy cattle and thy sheep
shall multiply, and thy silver and thy
gold shall multiply to thee, and all
which is in thee shall multiply ;

14 And thy heart was lifted up and
thou didst forget Jehovah thy God
bringing thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of servants;

15 He causing thee to go in the great
and fearful desert, the fiery serpent and
the scorpion, and a thirsty land, where
is no water: he bringing forth to thee
water from the rock of flint ;

16 He giving thee to eat manna in
the desert which thy fathers knew not,
in order to humble thee, and in order
to try thee to do thee good in thy lost
state :

17 And thou saidst in thy heart, My
strength and the bone of my hand made
for me this wealth.

18 And remember Jehovah thy God ;
for he gave to thee strength to make
wealth in order to set up his covenant,
which he sware to our fathers, as this day.

19 And it was, if forgetting, thou
shalt forget Jehoyah thy God, and thou
wentest after other gods, and served
them and worshipped to them, I testified
against you this day, that perishing, ye
shall perish.

20 As the nations which Jehovah
destroys before you, so shall ye be des-
troyed, because ye will not hear to the
voice of Jehovah your God,

CHAPTER IX.
EAR, Israel: Thou passest this
day over Jordan to go to possess
nations great and strong above thee;

DEUTERONOMY IX.

cities great and fortified to the heay-
ens:

2 A people great and high, sons of
-Anakims, whom thou knewest, and
thou heardest, Who shall stand before
the sons of Anak?

3 And know thou this day that Je-
hoyah thy God he is passing over be-
fore thee; he is a’ consuming fire, he
will destroy them, and he will humble
them before thy face, and drive them
out and destroy them quickly, as Jeho-
vah spake to thee.

4 Thou shalt not say in thy heart in
Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out
from before thee, saying, For my jus-
tice Jehovah brought me forth to pos-
sess this land; and for the injustice
of these nations Jehovah dispossessed
them from before thee.

5 Not for thy justice and for the
straightness of thy heart thou goest in
to possess this land, but for the injus-
tice of these nations Jehovah thy God
dispossesses them from before thee,
and in order to lift up the word which
he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham
and to Isaak and to Jacob.

6 And know thou that not for thy
justice did Jehovah thy God give to
thee this good land to possess it; for
thou a people of a hard neck.

7 Remembering, thou shalt not forget
that thou didst provoke Jehovah thy
God to anger in the desert: from the
day thou didst go out from the land of
Egypt till your coming to this place,
ye were rebelling against Jehovah.

8 And in Horeb ye provoked Jeho-
vah to anger, and Jehovah will be an-
gry with you to destroy you.

9 In my going up to the mount to
take the tables of stone, the tables of
the covenant which Jehovah made with
you, and I shall dwell in the mount-
ain forty days and forty nights; I ate
not bread and I drank not water:

10 And Jehovah will give to me two
tables of stone written with the finger
of God; and upon them according to
all the words which Jehovah spake
with you in the mountain out of the
midst of the fire, in the day of the
gathering.

11 And it shall be from the end of

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forty days and forty nights, Jehovah -
gave to me the two tables of stone, the
tables of the covenant.

12 And Jehovah will say to me,
Arise, go from this mountain; for thy
people were corrupted which thou
broughtest forth from Egypt; they
turned aside quickly from the way
which thou didst command them; they
made to themselves a molten thing.

13 And Jehovah will say to me,
saying, I saw this people, and behold,
it a people of hard neck:

14 Desist from me and I will destroy
them, and I will wipe off their name
from under the heavens: and I will
make thee into a nation strong and
many above them.

15 And I shall turn and come down
from the mount, and the mount burnt
with fire: and the two tables of the
covenant upon my two hands.

16 And I shall see, and behold, ye
sinned against Jehovah your God; ye
made to you a molten calf; ye turned
aside quickly from the way which Je-
hovah commanded you.

17 And I shall lay hold upon the
two tables and I shall cast them from
out of my two hands, and shall break
them before your eyes.

18 And I shall fall down before Je-
hovah as at the first; forty days and
forty nights I ate not bread and 1 drank
not water on account of all your sins
that ye sinned to do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah to provoke him.

19 For I was afraid from the face of
the anger and emotion with which Je-
hovah was angry against you to destroy
you. And Jehovah will hear to me
also in this time.

20 And with Aaron Jehovah was
greatly angry to destroy him: and I
shall pray also for Aaron in that time.

21 And the sin that ye made, the
ealf, I took and I shall burn it with
fire, and beat it, and grinding small till
it was beat small to dust: and I shall
cast its dust into the torrent going
down from the mount.

22 And in Taberah and in Massah,
and in Kibroth Hatavah, ye were pro-
voking Jehovah to anger.

23 And in Jehovah’s sending you

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from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go ye up
and possess the land which I gave to
you: and ye will rebel against the
mouth of Jehovah your God, and ye
trusted not to him, and ye heard not to
his voice.

24 And ye were rebelling against Je-
hovah from the day I knew you.

25 And I shall fall down before Je-
hovah forty days and forty nights, as I
fell down; for Jehovah said to destroy

ou.

26 And I shall pray to Jehovah, and
say, Lord Jehovah, thou wilt not de-
stroy thy people and thine inheritance
which thou didst redeem in thy great-
ness, whom thou broughtest out of
Keypt with a strong hand.

27 Remember thy servants, for Abra-
ham, for Isaak, and for Jacob, thou
wilt not look to the stubbornness of
this people, and to its wickedness, and
to its sin:

28 Lest they of the land where thou
broughtest us from there shall say, For
Jehovah was not able to bring them in
to the land which he spake to them;
and for his hating them he brought
them out to destroy them in the desert.

29 And they are thy people and
thine inheritance whom thou broughtest
out by thy great strength and by thine
extended arm.

CHAPTER X.
N that time Jehovah said to me,
Hew to thee two tables of stone as
the first, and come up to me to the
mount, and make to thee an ark of
wood.

2 And I will write upon the tables
the words which were upon the first
tables which thou brakest, and put them
in the ark.

8 And I will make the ark of acacia
wood, and I will hew two tables of
stone as the first, and I will go up to
the mount and the two tables in my
hands,

4 And he will write upon the tables
according to the first writing, the ten
words which Jehovah your God spake
out of the midst of the fire, in the day
of the gathering: and Jehovah will
give them to me.

DEUTERONOMY X.

5 And I shall turn and come down
from the mount, and shall put the ta-
bles in the ark which I made; and
they shall be there as Jehovah com-
manded me.

6 And the sons of Israel removed
from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan, to
Moseroth: there Aaron died, and he
will be buried there; and Eleazar his
son will be priest in his stead.

7 From there they removed to Gud-
godah ; and from Gudgodah to Jotbah,
a land of torrents of water.

8 In that time Jehovah separated
the tribe of Levi, to lift up the ark of
the covenant of Jehovah, to stand be-
fore Jehovah to serve him, and to
praise in his name, even to this day.

9 For this, there was not to Levia
portion and an inheritance with his
brethren; Jehovah, he is his inherit-
ance, as Jehovah thy God spake to
him.

10 And I stood in the mount accord-
ing to the first days, forty days and
forty nights; and Jehovah will hear to
me also in this time; Jehovah was not
willing to destroy thee.

11 And Jehovah will say to me,
Arise, go for removing before the peo-
ple, and they shall come in and possess
the land which I sware to their fathers
to give to them.

12 And now, Israel, what does Jeho-
vah thy God ask from thee but to fear
Jehovah thy God, to go in all his ways,
and to love him, and to serve Jehovah
thy God with all thy heart and with
all thy soul,

13 To watch the commands of Jeho-
vah and his laws which I command
thee this day, to be good for thee ?

14 Behold, to Jehovah thy God the
heavens, and the heavens of the heay-
ens, the earth and all which is in it.

15 Only Jehovah delighted in thy
fathers to love them, and he will choose
in their seed after them in you above
all peoples, as this day.

16 And circumcise the uncircumcis-
ion of your heart, and ye shall no more
harden your neck.

17 For Jehovah your God, he is God
of gods, and Lord of lords; the great,
the strong, and the fearful God, who

DEUTERONOMY ΧΙ.

will not lift up faces, and will not take
a gift.

18 He did the judgment of the or-
phan and the widow, and he loved the
stranger to give to him bread and a
garment.

19 And love ye the stranger, for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Jehovah thy God shalt thou fear ;
him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt
thou cleave, and in his name shalt thou
swear.

21 He thy praise, and he thy God
who did with thee these great and ter-
rible things which thine eyes saw.

22 With seventy souls thy fathers
went down to Egypt; and now Jeho-
vah set thee as the stars of the heavens
for multitude.

CHAPTER XL
Λ ND love thou Jehovah thy God,
and watch his watches and his
laws and his judgments and his com-
mands, all the days) |"

2 And know ye this day, that not
with your sons who knew not, and who
saw not the corrections of Jehovah
your God, his greatness, his strong hand
and his extended arm,

3 And his signs and his doings which
he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and to all his land;

4 And what he did to the army of
Egypt, to his horses and to his chariots,
that he caused the water of the sea of
sedge to overflow upon their face in
their pursuing after you, and Jehovah
will destroy them even to this day ;

5 And what he did to you in the
desert till your coming to this place; =

6 And what he did to Dathan and to
Abiram, sons of Eliab, son of Reuben;
that the earth opened her mouth and
she will swallow them down, and their
houses, and their tents, and every liv-
ing thing which is at their feet in the
midst of all Israel :

_ 7 For your eyes saw every great do-
ing of Jehovah which he did.

8 And watch ye every command
which I command thee this day, so
that ye shall be strengthened and go in
and possess the land where ye are pass-
ing over there to possess it;

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9 And so that ye shall prolong the
days upon the-land which Jehovah
sware to your fathers to give to them,
and to their seed; a land flowing mill
and honey.

10 For the land where thou goest in
there to possess it, it is not as the land
of Egypt, where ye came from there,
when thou shalt sow thy seed, and thou
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden
of green things:

11 And the land where ye are pass-
ing over there to possess it, a land of
mountains and valleys; according to
the rain of the heavens it will drink
water.

19 A land which Jehovah thy God
sought for it: continually are the eyes
of Jehovah thy God upon it from the
beginning of the year, and even to the
last of the year.

18 And it was if hearing, ye shall
hear to the commands which I com-
mand you this day, to love Jehovah
your God, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul,

14 And I gave the rain of your land
in its time, the early and the latter
rain; and gather thy grain and thy new
wine and thy new oil.

15 And I gave the green herb in thy
field for thy cattle, and eat thou and be
satisfied.

16 Watch ye to yourselves, lest your
heart shall be enticed, and ye turn aside
and serve other gods, and worship to
them :

17 And the anger of Jehovah kin-
dled against you, and he shut up the
heavens and there shall not be rain, and
the land shall not give her produce, and
ye perished quickly from off the good
land that Jehovah gave to you.

18 And put these words upon your
heart and upon your soul, and bind
them for a sign upon your hand, and
they were for bands between your
eyes.

19 And teach them to your sons to
speak in them in thy resting in thy
house, and in thy walking in the way,
and in thy lying down, and in thy 118-
ing up.

20 And write them upon the door-
posts of thy house and upon thy gates:

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21 So that your days shall be multi-
plied, and the days of. your sons, upon
the land which Jehoyah sware to your
fathers to give to them, according to
the days of the heavens upon the
earth.

22 For if watching, ye shall watch
all this command which I command
you to doit, to 1076 Jehovah thy God,
to go in all his ways, and to cleave to
him;

23 And Jehovah dispossessed all these
nations from before you, and ye pos-
sessed nations great and strong above
you.

24 Every place which the sole of your
foot shall tread upon it, to you shall it
be, from the desert and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Kuphrates, and
even to the last sea shall be your bound-
ary.

25 A man shall not stand up against
your face: your terror and your fear,
Jehovah your God shall give upon the
face of all the earth which ye shall
tread upon it, as he spake to you.

26 See, 1 give before you this day, a
blessing and a cursing :

27 A blessing when ye shall hear to
the commands of Jehovah your God
which I command you this day ;

28 And a cursing if ye shall not hear
to the commands of Jehovah your God,
and ye turned aside from the way
which I command you this day, to go
after other gods which thou knewest
not.

29 And it was when Jehovah thy
God shall bring thee in to the land
where thou goest in there to possess it,
and give thou the blessing upon mount
Gerizim, and the cursing upon mount
Kbal.

30 Are they not in the other side of
Jordan behind the way of the going
down of the sun, in the land of the
Canaanite dwelling in the desert over
against Gilgal, by the oaks of Moreh?

81 For ye are passing over Jordan
to go in to possess the land which Je-
hovah your God gave to you; and ye
possessed it and dwelt in it.

32 And watch ye to do all the laws
and the judgments which I give before
you this day.

DEUTERONOMY XIL

CHAPTER XII.
5 the laws and the judgments
which ye shall watch to do in
the land which Jehovah the God of thy
fathers gave to thee to possess it all the
days which ye live upon the earth.

2 Destroying, ye shall destroy all the
places where the nations which ye pos-
sess them served there their Gods upon
the high mountains, and upon the
hills, and under every green tree.

3 And break ye down their altars
and break in pieces their pillars, and
their columns ye shall burn with fire;
and the carved things of their gods ye
shall hew down, and destroy their
names from that place.

4 Ye shall not do so to Jehovah
your God.

5 But the place which Jehovah your
God shall choose out of all your tribes
to put his name there, to his dwelling
shall ye seek, and there do thou eome:

6 And bring there your burnt-offer-
ings and your sacrifices, and your tenths,
and the offerings of your hand, and
your vows, and your voluntary gifts
and the first-born of your cattle and
your sheep :

7 And eat there before Jehovah your
God, and rejoice in all-the stretching
forth of your hand, ye and your houses
in which Jehovah thy God blessed.
thee.

8 Ye shall not do according to all we
do here this day, every man the right
in his eyes.

9 For ye came not yet now to the
rest and to the inheritance which Jeho-
vah thy God gave to thee.

10 And pass ye over Jordan and
dwell in the land which Jehovah your
God causes you to inherit, and he caused
rest to you from all your enemies from
round about, and ye dwelt confidently :

11 And there was the place which
Jehovah your God shall choose in it to
cause his name to dwell there; there
shall ye bring all which I command
you: your burnt-offerings and your
sacrifices, your tenths, and the offermgs
of your hands, and all the choice of
your vows which ye shall vow to Je-
hovah.

12 And rejoice ye before Jehovah

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‘DEUTERONOMY XIIL

your God, ye, and your sons and your
daughters, and your servants, and your
maids, and the Levite who is in your
gates; for not to him a portion and in-
heritance with you.

13 Watch to thyself lest thou lift up
thy burnt-offering in every place which
thou shalt see.

14 But in the place which Jehovah
shall choose in one of thy tribes, there
thou shalt bring up thy burnt-offering,
and there thou shalt do all I command
thee.

15 Only in all the desire of thy soul
thou shalt sacrifice and eat flesh accord-
ing to the blessing of Jehovah thy
God which he gave to thee in all thy
gates: the unclean and the clean shall
eat it, as the roe and as the stag.

16 Only the blood thou shalt not eat ;
upon the earth ye shall pour it as water.

17 Thou shalt not be able to eat in
thy gates the tenth of thy grain, and
thy new wine and thy new oil, and the
firstlngs of thy herd and thy flocks,
and all the vows which thou shalt vow,
and thy voluntaries, and the offerings
of thy hand:

18 But before Jehovah thy God thou
shalt eat it, in the place which Jehovah
thy God shall choose in it, thou, and
thy son, and thy daughter, and thy ser-
vant, and thy maid, and the Leyite
which is in thy gates: and rejoice thou
before Jehovah thy God in all the
stretching forth of thy hand.

19 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt
forsake the Levite all thy days upon
the earth.

20 When Jehovah thy God shall en-
large thy boundary, as he spake to
thee, and thou saidst, I will eat flesh
because thy soul shall desire to eat
flesh, in all thy soul desired thou shalt
eat flesh.

21 When the place which Jehovah
thy God shall choose to put his name
there shall be far off from thee, and thou
shalt sacrifice from thy cattle and from
thy sheep which Jehovah gave to thee,
as I commanded thee, and eat thou in
thy gates in all thy soul desired.

22 If as he shall eat the roe and the
stag, so shalt thou eat it; the unclean
and the clean together shall eat it.

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23 Only be striving not to eat the
blood, for the blood it is the soul; and
thou shalt not eat the soul with the
flesh.

24 Thou shalt not eat it: upon the
earth thou shalt pour it as water.

25 Thou shalt not eat it; so that it
shall be well to thee and to thy sons
after thee, when thou shalt do right in
the eyes of Jehovah.

26 Only thy holy things which shall
be to thee, and thy vows, thou shalt
lift up and go to the place which Jeho-
vah shall choose :

27 And do thou thy burnt-offerings,
the flesh and the blood, upon the altar
of Jehovah thy God: and the blood of
thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon
the altar of Jehovah thy God, and the
flesh thou shalt eat.

28 Watch and hear all these words
which I command thee, so that it shall
be well to thee and to thy sons after
thee, even till forever; for thou shalt
do the good and the right in the eyes
of Jehovah thy God.

29 For Jehovah thy God shall cut
off the nations where thou goest in
there to possess them, from before thee,
and thou shalt inherit them, and thou
shalt dwell in their land.

30 Watch to thyself lest thou shalt
be snared after them after their being
destroyed from before thee; and lest
thou shalt seek to their gods, saying,
How shall these nations serye their
gods? and so will I do also.

31 Thou shalt not do so to Jehovah
thy God; for every abomination of Je-
hovah which he hated they did to their
gods; for also their sons and their
daughters they will burn in fire to
their gods.

CHAPTER XIII.
VERY word which I command
you, ye shall watch to doit: thou
shalt not add upon it, and thou shalt
not take away from it.

2 When there shall arise in the midst
of you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and he gave to thee a sign or a
wonder,

3 And the sign or the wonder come
which he spake to thee, saying, We

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will go after other gods which we know
not, and we will serve them,

4 Thou shalt not hear to the words
of that prophet or to that dreamer of
dreams: for Jehovah thy God tries you
to know whether ye are loving Jeho-
vah your God with all your heart and
with all your soul.

5 Ye shall go after Jehovah your
God, and ye shall fear him, and his
commands’ shall ye watch, and to his
voice shall ye hear, and ye shall serve
him, and to him shall ye cleave.

6 And that prophet, or that dreamer
of dreams, shall die, for he spake a
turning away from J chovah your God,
having brought you out of the land of
Egypt and redeemed thee from the
house of servants, to thrust thee away
from the way w hich Jehovah thy God
commanded to go in it: and put thou
away the evil from the midst of thee.

7 When thy brother, the son of thy
mother, shall entice thee, or thy son,
or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bo-
som, or thy friend who is as thy soul,
in secret, saying, We will go and serve
other gods which thou knewest not,
thou, and thy fathers ;

8 From the gods of the people
which are round about you, coming
near to thee, or being far off from thee,
from the end of the earth even to the
end of the earth;

9 Thou shalt not be willing to him,
and thou shalt not hear to him, and
thine eye shall not have compassion
upon him, and thou shalt not pity, and
thou shalt not cover over him:

10 But killing, thou shalt Jal] him ;
thy hand shall be upon him for the
first to put him to death, and the hand
of all the people at last.

11 And stone him with stones and
he died, for he sought to thrust thee
away from Jehovah thy God, having
brought thee out of the land of Keypt,
out of the house of servants.

12 And all Israel shall hear, and
shall fear, and they shall not add to do
this evil in the midst of thee.

13 When thou shalt hear in one of
thy cities which Jehovah thy God gave
to thee to dwell there, saying,

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from the midst of thee, and they will
thrust away the inhabitants of their
city, saying, We will go and serve
other gods which ye knew not ;

15 And seek, and examine, and ask,
doing well ; and behold, the truth and
the word certain this abomination being
done in the midst of you;

16 Smiting, thou shalt smite the in-
habitants of that city with the mouth
of the sword, exterminating it, and all
that is in it, and its cattle, with the
mouth of the sword.

17 And thou shalt gather all its spoil
to the midst of its street, and burn in
fire the city and all its spoil, wholly, to
Jehovah thy God: and it was a heap
forever; it shall no more be built.

18 And there shall not cleave upon
their hand any thing from that devoted
to destruction: so that Jehovah shall
turn back from the burning of his anger
and give to thee mercy, and compassion-
ate thee, as he sware to thy fathers ;

19 When thou shalt hear to the voice
of Jehovah thy God to watch all his
commands which I command thee this
day, to do the right in the eyes of Jeho-
vah thy God.

CHAPTER XIV.
E the sons of Jehovah your God:
ye shall not cut yourselves, and
ye shall not put baldness between your
eyes for the dead.

2 For thou a holy people to Jehovah
thy God, and Jehovah chose in thee to
be to him for a people of acquisition
above all people which are upon the
face of the earth.

3 Thou shalt not eat any abomina-
tion.

4 These the cattle which thou shalt
eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs,
and the sheep of the goats,

5 The stag, and the roe, and the fal-
low-deer, and the roe- -buck, and the an-
telope, and the mountain goat, and the
gazelle)

6 And all cattle cleaving the hoof
and dividing the cleft into two hoofs, |
bringing up rumination among the cat-
tle, ye shall eat it.

7 But this ye shall not eat, from
those bringing up rumination, or from

DEUTERONOMY XV.

those cleaving the hoof of the cleft:
the camel and the hare, and the coney ;
for they bringing up rumination and
cleaving not the hoofs ; they are unclean
to you.

8 And the swine, because it cleaves
the hoof, and not ruminating, it is un-
clean to you: from their flesh ye shall
not eat, and upon their careass ye shall
not touch.

9 This shall ye eat from all which is
in the waters: all which to it are fins
and scales, ye shall eat :

10 And every thing which to it are
not fins and scales, ye shall not eat; it
is unclean to you.

11 All clean birds ye shall eat.

12 And this which ye shall not eat
from them: the eagle, and the ossifrage,
arid the sea eagle,

13 And the vulture, and the kite,
and the falcon according to its kind,

14 And every raven according to his
kind,

15 And the daughter of the ostrich,
and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull,
and the hawk after his kind,

16 The cormorant, and the ibis and
the heron, ν

17 And the pelican, and the carrion
vulture, and the gannet,

18 And the stork, and the sand-piper,
according to her kind; the hoopoe and
the bat.

19 And every creeping thing flying
it is unclean to you; they shall not be
eaten.

20 Every clean flying thing ye shall
eat.

21 Ye shall not eat any carcass: to
the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall
give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to
a foreigner: for thou-a holy people to
Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil
a kid in his mother’s milk.

22 Taking the tenth, thou shalt take
the tenth of all thy produce of thy
seed of the field bringing forth year by

ear.

23 And eat before Jehovah thy God
in the place which he shall choose to
cause his name to dwell there, the tenth
of thy grain, thy new wine, and thy
new oil, and the first-born of thy cattle
and thy sheep, so that thou shalt

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learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the
days.

24 And when the way shall be en-
larged too much for thee that thou
shalt not be able to lift it up; when
the place shall be far off from thee
which Jehovah thy God shall choose to
put his name there, when Jehovah thy
God shall bless thee :

25 And give it in silver, and bind
up the silver in thy hand, and go to the
place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose in it.

26 And give the silver for all which
thy soul shall desire, in cattle and in
sheep, and in wine, and in strong drink,
and in all thy soul shall ask thee: and
eat there before Jehovah thy God, and
rejoice, thou, and thine house.

27 And the Levite that is in thy gates
thou shalt not forsake him; for to him
no portion and inheritance with thee.

28 From the end of three years thou
shalt bring all the tenth of thy produce in
that year, and place thou it in thy gates:

29 And the Levite came (because no
portion and inheritance to him with
thee) and the stranger, and the orphan,
and the widow which is in thy gates,
and ate and were satisfied; so that Je-
hovah thy God shall bless thee in all
the worl of thy hand which thou shalt
do.

CHAPTER XV.
ΤΩΝ the end of seven years thou
shalt make a remission :

2 And this the word of the remis-
sion: Every lord to release the lending
of his hand which he shall put upon his
friend; he shall not exact his friend
and his brother, for a remission was
called to Jehovah.

3 Foreigners thou shalt exact of, and
what shall be to thee with thy brother
thine hand shall remit:

4 Only when no needy shall be with
thee; for Jehovah blessing, will bless
thee in the land which Jehovah thy
God gave to thee an inheritance to pos-
sess 10:

5 Only if hearing, thou shalt hear to
the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch
to do all these commands which I com-
mand thee this day.

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6 For Jehovah thy God blessed thee
as he spake to thee: and thou didst
lend to many nations, and thou shalt
not borrow; and thou didst rule over
many nations, and they shall not rule
over thee.

7 When the needy shall be among
thee, from one of thy brethren, in one
of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah
thy God gave to thee, thou shalt not
harden thy heart, and thou shalt not
shut thy hand from thy needy brother.

8 For opening, thou shalt open thy
hand to him, and lending, thou shalt
lend him a sufficiency for his want
which he shall want.

9 Watch to thyself lest a word shall
be with thy heart, of Belial, saying.
The seventh year, the year of remis-
sion is drawing near; and thine eye be
eyil against thy needy brother and thou
wilt not give to him; and he call against
thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

10 Giving, thou shalt give to him,
and thy heart shall not be evil in thy
giving to him; for because of this word
Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all
thy works, and in all the sending forth
of thy hand.

11 For the needy shall not cease from
the midst of thy land: for this 1 com-
mand thee, saying, Opening, thou shalt
open thy hand to thy brother, to thy
afflicted and to thy needy in thy land.

12 When thy brother a Hebrew, .or
Hebrewess, shall be sold to thee, and
serving thee six years; in the seventh
year thou shalt send him away free
from thee.

13 And when thou shalt send him
away free from thee, thou shalt not send
him away empty.

14 Furnishing, thou shalt furnish to
him from thy sheep and from thy
threshing floor, and from thy wine vat:
with which Jehovah thy God blessed
thee thou shalt give to him.

15 And remember that thou wert a
servant in the land of Egypt, and Je-
hovah thy God will redeem thee: for I
command thee this word this day.

16 And it was when he shall say to
thee, I will not go forth from thee; for
he loved thee and thy house, for it was
well to him with thee;

DEUTERONOMY XVI.

17 And take an awl and give it upon
his ear, and against the door, and he
was to thee fora servant forever. And
also to thy maid shalt thou do thus.

18 It shall not be hard in thine eye
in thy sending him away free from thee,
because for the year of the wages of
the hireling he served thee six years:
and Jehovah thy God blessed thee in
all which thou shalt do.

19 All the first-born that shall be
brought forth among thy cattle and
among thy sheep, the male thou shalt
consecrate to Jehovah thy God: thou
shalt not work with the first-born of
thy bullock, and thou shalt not shear
first-born of thy sheep.

20 Before Jehovah thy God thou
shalt eat it year by year, in the place
which Jehovah shall choose, thou, and
thy house.

21 And when a blemish shall be in
it, lame or blind, any evil blemish, thou
shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy
God.

22 In thy gates thou shalt eat it: the
unclean and the clean together, as the
roe and the stag.

28 Only its blood thou shalt not eat:
upon the earth shalt thou pour it as
water.

CHAPTER XVI.
ATCH the month of Abib, and
do the passover to Jehovah thy
God: for in the month of Abib Jeho-
vah thy God brought thee out of Keypt
by night.

2 And sacrifice the passover to Jeho-
vah thy God, of the sheep, and the
oxen in the place which Jehovah shall
choose to cause his name to dwell there.

3 Thou shalt not eat upon it leavened ;
seven days thou shalt eat upon it un- ~
leavened, the bread of affliction ; (for in
hasty flight thou camest forth out of the
land of Egypt) so that thou shalt remem-
ber the day of thy coming forth from
the land of Egypt all the days of thy life,

4 And leaven shall not be seen to
thee in all thy boundary seven days;
and there shall not remain over night
from the flesh which thou shalt sacri-
fice in the evening, in the first day to
the morning.

DEUTERONOMY XVII.

5 Thou shalt not be able to sacrifice
the passover in one of thy gates which
Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

6 But at the place which Jehovah
thy God shall choose to cause his name
to dwell there, thou shalt sacrifice
the passover in the evening, as the sun
went down, the appointment of thy com-
ing out of Egypt.

7 And boil thou and eat in the place
which Jehovah thy God shall choose in
it: and turn in the morning and go to
thy tents.

8 Six days shalt thou eat unleay-
ened, and in the seventh day an enclos-
ing to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt no
do work. :

9 Seven weeks shalt thon number to
thee: from the beginning of the sickle
upon the standing grain, thou shalt be-
gin to number seven weeks.

10 And do thou the festival of weeks
to Jehovah thy God according to the
willingness of thy hand which thou
shalt give as Jehovah thy God shall
bless thee.

11 And rejoice before Jehovah thy
God, thou, and thy son, and thy daugh-
ter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and
the Levite that is in thy gates, and the
stranger, and the orphan and the wid-
ow, which are in the midst of thee in
the place which Jehovah thy God shall
choose to cause his name to dwell
there.

12 And remember that thou wert a
servant in Egypt: and watch thou and
do these laws.

13 The festival of booths thou shalt
do to thee seven days, in thy gathering
of thy threshing floor and of thy wine
press.

14 And rejoice in thy festival, thou
and thy son and thy daughter, and thy
servant, and thy maid, and the Levite,
and the stranger, and the orphan, and
the widow, which are in thy gates:

15 Seven days shalt thou keep a fes-
tival to Jehovah thy God in the place
which Jehovah shall choose; for Jeho-
vah thy God shall bless thee in all thy
produce and inall the work of thy
hands. and thou shalt surely be joyful.

16 Three times in a year shall every
one of thy males be seen before Jeho-

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vah thy God in the place which he
shall choose in the festival of unleay-
ened, and in the festival of weeks, and
in the festival of booths: and he shall
not be seen before Jehovah empty :

17 Each according to the gift of his
hand, according to the blessing of Je-
hovah thy God which he gave to thee.

18 Judges and scribes shall thou give
to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah
thy God gave to thee according to thy
tribes: and they judged the people just
judgment.

19 Thou shalt not turn away judg-
ment; thou shalt not look upon faces,
and thou shalt not take a ₪11 for the
gift will blind the eyes of the wise and
will pervert the words of the just.

20 Justice, justice shalt thou follow,
so that thou live and inherit the land
which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant to thee a
grove of any wood near the altar of Je-
hovah thy God which thou shalt male
to thee.

22 And thou shalt not set up to thee
a pillar, which Jehovah thy God hates.

CHAPTER XVIL
HOU shalt not sacrifice to Jeho-
vah thy God an ox and a sheep
which shall be in it a blemish, any evil
word, for it 18 an abomination to Jeho-
vah thy God.

2 When there shall be found in the
midst of thee in one of thy gates which
Jehovah thy God gave to thee, a man
or a woman who shall do evil in the
eyes of Jehovah thy God to pass by his
covenant,

8 And he will go and serve other
gods and will worship to them, and to
the sun or to the moon, or to any of the
army of the heavens, which I command-
ed not;

4 And it was announced to thee, and
thou heardest and sought out, doing
well; and behold, the truth and the
word certain this abomination bemg
done in Israel.

5 And bring thou forth that man or
that woman who did this evil word, to
thy gates, the man and the woman, and
stone them with stones, and they died.

6 At the mouth of two witnesses or

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three witnesses they shall be put to
death ; they shall not die by the mouth
of one witness.

7 The hand of the witnesses shall be
at first upon him to put him to death,
and the hand of all the people after-
ward. And put thou away the evil
from the midst of thee.

8 When a word shall be hard for
thee for judging between blood to
blood, between controversy to controver-
sy, and between blow to blow, words of
contention in thy gates; and thou didst
arise and go up to the place which Je-
hoyah thy God shall choose in it ;

9 And thou didst go to the priests,
the Levites, and to the judge which
shall be in those days, and seek out;
and they shall announce to thee the
word of judgment.

10 And thou shalt do according to
the mouth of the word which they
shall announce to thee from that place
which Jehovah shall choose; and thou
shalt watch to do according to all which
they shall shew thee:

11 According to the mouth of the
precept which they shall shew thee,
and according to the judgment which
they shall say to thee, thou shalt do:
thou shalt not turn aside from the word
which they shall announce to thee, to
the right, and to the left.

12 And the man which shall do in
pride not to hear to the priest, he stand-
ing to serve there Jehovah thy God,
or to the judge, and that man shall die:
and put thou away evil from Israel.

13 And all the people shall hear,
and shall fear, and shall no more act
proudly.

14 When thou shalt come to the
land which Jehovah thy God gave to
thee, and ‘shall possess it and shall
dwell in it, and thou saidst, I will set
over me a king according to all the na-
tions which are round about me;

15 Setting, thou shalt set over thee a

king whom Jehovah thy God shall
choose in him: from the midst of thy
brethren thou shalt set over thee a
king: thou shalt not be able to set
over thee a foreigner who is not of thy
brethren.

16 Only he shall not multiply to him-

DEUTERONOMY XVIII.

self horses, and he shall not turn back
the people to Egypt in order to multiply
the horse: and Jehovah said to you,
Ye shall no more add to turn back that
way.

17 And he shall not multiply to him
wives, and his heart shall not tum
away: and silver and gold he shall not
greatly multiply to himself.

18 And it was when he sits upon the
throne of his kingdom and he wrote
for him this second law upon a book,
from before the priests, the Levites.

19 And it shall be with him, and he
read in it all the days of his life; so
that he shall learn to fear Jehovah his
God, to watch all the words of this in-
struction and these laws to do them:

20 Not to lift up his head above his
brethren, and not to turn away from
the commands, to the right or to the
left; so that he shall prolong the days
upon his kingdom, he, and his sons in
the midst of Israel.

CHAPTER XVIIL
HERE shall not be to the priests
the Levites, all the tribe of Levi,
part and inheritance with Israel: the
sacrifices of Jehovah and his inherit-
ance they shall eat.

2 And an inheritance shall not be to
him in the midst of his brethren: Je-
hovah, he is his inheritance, as he spake
to him,

8 And this shall be the judgment of
the priests from the people, from those
sacrificing a sacrifice, whether an ox or
asheep; and give to the priest the
shoulder, the cheeks and the maw.

4 The first fruits of thy grain, of thy
new wine, and thy new oil, and the
first of the fleece of thy sheep thou
shalt give to him.

5 For in him Jehovah thy God chose
from all thy tribes to stand to serve in
the name of Jehovah, he and his sons
all the days.

6 And when the Levite shall come
from one of thy gates from all Israel
where he sojourned there, and he came
with all the desire of his soul to the
place which Jehovah shall choose :

7 And serving in the name of Jeho-
vah his God as all his brethren the

DEUTERONOMY XIX.

Levites standing there before Jeho-
vah.

8 Portion according to portion shall
they eat, besides his sellings according
to the fathers.

9 When thou comest to the land
which Jehovah thy God gave to thee,
thou shalt not learn to do according to
the abominations of those nations.

10 There shall not be found in thee
him causing his son or his daughter to
pass through in fire,divining divinations,
practicing magic, and taking omens
and a sorcerer,

11 And charming a spell, and asking
of a necromancer, and a wizard, and
seeking to the dead.

12 For every one doing these things
is an abomination to Jehovah and on
account of these abominations, Jeho-
vah thy God destroys them from thy
face.

13 Thou shalt be perfect with Jeho-
vah thy God.

14 For these nations which thou
shalt possess them, they will hear to
those practicing magic, and to those
divining: and thou, not thus, gave
Jehovah thy God to thee.

15 A prophet from the midst of thee,
from thy brethren, like me Jehovah
thy God shall raise up to thee; to him
shall ye hear.

16 According to all thou didst ask
from Jehovah thy God in Horeb, in
the day of the gathering, saying, I will
not add to hear the voice of Jehovah
my God, and this great fire I will no
more see, and I shall not die.

17 And Jehovah will say to me,
They did well in what they spake.

18 A prophet will I raise up to them
from the midst of their brethren, like
thee, and I gave my word in his mouth,
and he spake to them all that I shall
command him.

19 And it was the man who shall not
hear to my word which he shall speak
in my name, 1 will require from him,

20 But the prophet which shall act
proudly to speak the word in my name
which I commanded him not to speak,
and who shall speak in the name of
other gods, and that prophet died.

_ 21 And when thou shalt say in thy

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heart, How shall we know the word
which Jehoyah spake not?

22 The prophet who shall speak in
the name of Jehovah, and the word
shall not be and shall not come, it is
the word that Jehovah spake not; in
pride the prophet spake it: thou shalt
not be afraid of him.

CHAPTER XIX.
ו‎ Jehovah thy God shall
cut off the nations which Jeho-
vah thy God gave to thee their land, and
thou didst possess and dwell in their
cities, and in their houses;

2 Three cities shalt thou separate to
thee in the midst of thy land which Je-
hovah thy God gave to thee to possess it.

3 Thou shalt prepare to thee the way,
and divide into three parts the bound-
ary of thy land which Jehovah thy
God causes thee to inherit; and it was
for every slayer to flee there.

4 And this the word of the slayer
which shall flee there, and he lived:
whoever shall strike his friend, not
knowing, and he hated him not from
yesterday the third day ; /

5 And who shall go with his friend
into the forest to cut wood, and his
hand thrust out with the axe to cut
down the tree, and the iron slipped
from the wood and found his friend,
and he died; he shall flee to one of
these cities, and he lived:

6 Lest the nearest relative of blood
shall pursue after the slayer when his
heart shall be warm, and overtaking
him, for the way shall be great, and he
smote him in soul; and to him not the
judgment of death for he hated him
not from yesterday the third day.

7 For this I command thee, saying,
Three cities thou shalt separate to thee.

8 And if Jehovah thy God shall en-
large thy bound as he sware to thy
fathers, and give to thee all the land
which he spake to give to thy fathers;

9 If thou shalt watch all this com-
mand to do it, which I command thee
this day, to love Jehovah thy God and
to go in his ways all the days; and
thou shalt add to thee yet three cities
upon these three.

10 And innocent blood shall not be

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poured out in the midst of thy land
which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an
inheritance, and bloods were upon thee.

11 And if there shall be a man hating
his friend and lying in wait for him,
and he rose up against him and smote
him in soul, and he died, and he fled to
one of these cities:

12 And the old men of his city sent
and took him from there and gaye him
into the hand of the nearest relative of
blood, and he died.

13 Thine eye shall not pity him and
put away innocent blood from Israel,
and it was well to thee.

14 Thou shalt not remove the bound-
ary of thy neighbor which they at first
set bounds in thine inheritance which
thou shalt inherit in the land which
Jehovah thy God gave to thee to inher-
it it.

15 One witness shall not rise up
against a man for any iniquity, and for
any sin, in any sin which he shall sin;
by the mouth of two witnesses or by
the mouth of three witnesses the word
shall be established.

16 If a witness of wrong shall rise up
against a man to testify apostasy against
him;

17 And the two men to whom is the
contention stood before Jehovah, before
the priests and the judges who shall be
in those days;

18 And the judges sought out dili-
gently ; and behold, a witness of false-
hood, the witness of falsehood testified
against his brother ;

19 And ye did to him as he purposed
to do to his brother: and put away
evil from the midst of thee.

20 And they remaining shall hear,
and fear, and shall no more add to do
according to this evil word in the midst
of thee.

21 And thine eye shall not pity;
soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

CHAPTER XX.
HEN thou shalt go forth to war
against thine enemy, and thou
sawest horse and chariot, a multitude of
eople more than thou, thou shalt not
afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God

DEUTERONOMY .אא‎

is with thee, he bringing thee up out of
the land of Kgypt.

2 And it was in your coming near to
the war, and the priest approached and
spake to the people,

3 And he said to them, Hear, O Is-
Israel; ye come near this day to war
against your enemies: your heart shall
not be cast down, ye shall not fear, and
ye shall not take flight, and ye shall
not be terrified from their face.

4 For Jehovah your God goes with
you to war with you against your en-
emies, to 886 you.

5 And the scribes spake to the peo-
ple, saying, What man who built a new
house and consecrated it not? he shall
go and turn back to his house, lest he
shall die in the war, and another man
shall consecrate it.

6 And what man who planted a
vineyard, and made it not common?
He shall go and turn back to his house
lest he shall die in the war, and another
man shall make it common.

7 And what man betrothed a wife
and took her not? he shall go and turn
back to his house lest he shall die in
the war, and another man shall take her.

8 And the scribes shall add to speak
to the people, and they said, What man
was afraid and cast down of heart? he
shall go and turn back to his house,
and he shall not melt his brother's
heart as his heart.

9 And it was as the scribes finished
to speak to the people, and they ap-
pointed captains of the armies in the
head of the people.

10 When thou shalt come near to a
city to war against it, and call peace to it.

11 And it was, if it shall answer thee
peace, and it opened to thee, and it was
all the people being found in it shall be
to thee for tribute and serve thee.

12 And if it will not be at peace with
thee, and it made war with thee, and
thou besieged against it.

18 And Jehovah thy God gave it
into thy hand, and thou didst cut off
every one of its males by the mouth of
the sword.

14 Only the women and the little
ones, and the cattle, and all that shall
be in the city, all its spoil thou shalt

DEUTERONOMY ΧΧΙ.

plunder to thyself: and eat thou the
spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah
thy God gave to thee.

15 Thus shalt thou do to all the cities
greatly far off from thee which are not
of the cities of these nations.
= 16 Only of the cities of these peoples
which Jehovah thy God gave to thee
an inheritance, thou shalt not preserve
alive and breathing:

17 For destroying, thou shalt destroy
them, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hiv-
ite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy
God commanded thee:

18 So that they shall not teach you
to do according to all their abomina-
tions to theit gods; and ye simned to
Jehovah your God.

19 When thou shalt besiege against a
city many days to war against it, to
capture it, thou shalt not destroy its
wood to thrust an axe upon it; for
from it thou shalt eat: and thou shalt
not cut it down; for the man the tree
of the field, to go from before thee into
the fortress.

20 Only the tree which thou shalt
know that it is not a tree of food, thou
shalt destroy it, and cut down, and
build a fortress against the city which
made way with thee, till it came down.

CHAPTER ΧΧΙ.
HEN there shall be found a
wounded in the land which Je-
hovah thy God gave to thee, to possess
it, fallen in the field, not knowing who
smote him:

2 And thy old men and thy judges
shall come forth and measure to the
cities which are round about him
wounded : :

3 And it was the the city being near
to the wounded, and the old men of the
city took a heifer of the kine which was
ae worked with, and drew not in the

oke:

4 And the old men of that city
brought down the heifer to a perennial
valley which shall not be worked in it,
and shall not be sown, and they break
oe the neck of the heifer in the val-
ey;

5 ₪. the: priests, the sons of Levi,

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came near, for in them Jehovah thy
God chose to serve him and to bless in
the name of Jehovah, and by their
mouth shall be every controversy and
every blow.

6 And all the old men of that city
being near to him wounded, shall wash
thew hands over the heifer having her
neck broken in the valley:

7 And they answered and said, Our
hands poured not out this blood, and
our eyes saw not.

8 Expiate for thy people Israel whom
thou didst redeem, O Jehovah, and
thou shalt not give innocent blood in
the midst of thy people Israel. And
the blood was expiated to them.

9 And thou shalt put away innocent
blood from the midst of thee when thou
shall do the right in the eyes of Jcho-
vah.

10 When thou shalt go forth to war
against thine enemy, and Jehovah thy
God gave him into thine hand, and thou
didst take him captive,

11 And thou sawest in the captivity
a woman of beautiful form, and thou
didst delight in her, and thou didst
take her to thee for a wife;

12 And thou broughtest her to thy
house, and she shaved her head and
did her nails:

13 And she put away the garment of
her captivity from off her, and she
dwelt in thy house, and she wept for
her father and her mother a month of

|days: and after that thou shalt go in to

her, and thou wert her lord, and she
was for wife to thee.

14 And it was, if thou didst not de-
hight im her, and thou sentest her away
according to her soul; and selling, thou
shalt not sell her for silver; and thou
shalt ποῦ lay hands upon her because
thou didst humble her.

15 When there shall be to a man
two wives, the one loved and the one
hated, and they bare sons to him, the
loved and the hated, and the first-born
son was to her being hated:

16 And it was in the day of his caus-
ing his sons to inherit what shall be to
him, he shall not be able to make the
son'of the loved first-born before the
son of the hated, the first-born:

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17 But he shall acknowledge the son
of the hated, the first-born, to give to
him the portion of two in all that shall
be found to him; for he is the begin-
ning of his strength; to him is the
judgment of the first-born.

18 If there shall be to a man a son
stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing
to the voice of his father and to the
voice of his mother, and they chastised
him, and he will not hear to them:

19 And his father and his mother
laid hold on him and brought him to
the old men of his city, and to the gate
of his place;

20 And they said to the old men of
of his city, This our son is stubborn
and rebellious, he heard not to our
voice ; he is vile, and drinking to excess.

21 And all the men of his city stoned
him with stones, and he died: and put
thou away evil from the midst of thee,
and all Israel shall hear and shall fear.

22 And when there shall be sin im a
man of the judgment of death, and he
being put to death, and thou shalt hang
him upon a tree:

23 His carcass shall not pass the night
upon the tree; for burying, ye shall
bury him in that day, for he bemg hung
is the curse of God; and thou shalt not
defile thy land which Jehovah thy God
gaye to thee an inheritance.

CHAPTER XXII.
HOU shalt not see the ox of thy
brother or his sheep wandering,
and thou shalt not hide from them:
turning back, thou shalt turn them back
to thy brother.

2 And if thy brother is not. near to
thee and thou knew him not, and thou
receivedst it in the midst of thy house,
and it was with thee till thy brother
sought it, and thou gavest it back to him.

8 And 80 shalt thou do to his ass,
and 80 shalt thou do to his garments,
and shalt thou do to all lost things of
thy brother which shall be lost from
him, and -thou didst find it; thou shalt
not be able to hide.

4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's
ass or his אס‎ fallen in the way, and
hide from-them: lifting up, thou shalt
lift up with/him,

DEUTERONOMY XXII.

5 The equipment of a man shall not
be upon a woman, and a man shall not
put on a woman’s garment, for all do-
ing these things are an abomination to
Jehovah thy God.

6 When a bird’s nest shall be found
before thee in the way in any tree or
upon the earth, the young broods or
the eggs, and the mother reclining upon
the young birds, or upon the eggs, thou
shalt not take the mother upon the
sons.

7 Sending, thou shalt send away the
mother, and the sons thou shalt take to
thee, so that it shall be well to thee
and thou prolongedst the days.

8 When thou shalt build a new
house thou shalt make a ledge to thy
roof, and thou shalt not put bloods
upon thy house, if he shall fall from it.

9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard
with a diversity, lest the fulness of thy
seed which thou shalt sow shall be con-
secrated, and the produce of the vine-

ard.

10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox
and ass together.

11 Thou shalt not put on any thing
adulterated, wool’and linen together.

12 Thou shalt make to thee twisted
threads upon the four wings of thy cov-
ering with which thou shalt be covered.

13 If any man shall take a wife, and
went in to her and hated her,

14 And he set pretexts of words
against her, and brought up an evil
name upon her, and said, I took this
woman, and I shall come near to her,
and I found in her not a virgin:

15 And the father of the young girl
took, and her mother, and brought the
signs of virginity of the young girl to
the elders of the city to the gate:

16 And the father of the maiden said
to the old men, I gave my daughter to
this man for a wife and he will hate
her, 2
17 And behold, he set up pretexts of
words, saying, I found not in thy
daughter the signs of virginity; and
these the signs of my daughter's virgin-
ity. And they spread the garment be-
fore the old men of the city.

18 And the old men of that city took
the man and chastised him;

DEUTERONOMY XXIII.

19 And they amerced him a hundred
of silver, and gave to the father of the
maiden, for he brought out an evil
name upon a virgin of Israel: and she
shall be to him for a wife; he shall not
be able to send her away all his days.

20 And if this word was the truth,
and the signs of virginity not found for
the maiden:

21 And they brought the maiden to
the door of the house of her father, and
the men of her city stoned her with
stones and she died; for she did folly
in Israel to commit fornication in her
father’s house: and thou didst put
away evil from the midst of thee.

22 When a man shall be found lying
with the woman mistress of a husband,
and they died, also they two, the man
lying with the woman, and the woman:
and thou didst put away evil from
Israel. :

23 When there shall be a maiden, a
virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man
found her in the city and lay with her;

24 And ye brought out them two to
the gate of that city, and stoned them
with stones, and they died; and the
maiden for the word which she 8
not in the city, and the man for the
word which he humbled his neighbor’s
wife: and thou didst put away evil
from the midst of thee.

25 And if in the field the man shall
find the betrothed maiden, and the man
held fast upon her, and lay with her,
and the man that lay with her died
alone.

26 And to the maiden thou shalt not
do a word; not to the maiden the sin
of death: for as a man shall rise up
against his friend, and he killed him the
soul, so this word. τὴ:

27 For in the field he found her, the
ה‎ maiden cried and none saying

er.

-28 When a man shall find a maiden,
a virgin, which is not betrothed, and
lay hold upon her and lay with her,
and they were were found;

29 And,the man lying with her gave
to the maiden’s father fifty of silver,
and to him she shall be for a wife; be-
cause that he humbled her, he shall not
be able to send her away all his days.

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CHAPTER XXIII.
MAN shall not take his father’s
wife and shall not uncover his
father’s wing.

2 He wounded by crushing, and hav-
ing the privy member cut off, shall
not come in to the gathering of Jeho-
vah.

3 The corrupted shall not come in to
the gathering of Jehovah; also the
tenth generation to him shall not come
into the gathering of Jehovah.

4 An Ammonite and a Moabite shall
not come into the gathering of Jeho-
vah ; also the tenth generation to them
shall not come in to the gathering of
Jehovah, even forever :

5 For the word that they met you
not with bread and with water in the
way in your coming out 01 Keypt, and
who hired against thee Balaam, son of
Beor of Pethor, of Aram of the two
rivers, to curse thee.

6 And Jehovah thy God willed not
to hear to Balaam: and Jehovah thy
God will turn to thee the curse to a
blessing, for Jehovah thy God loved
thee.

7 Thou shalt not seek their peace
and their good all thy days to forever.

8 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite,
for he is thy brother: thou shalt not
abhor an Kgyptian, for thou wert a
stranger in his land.

9 The sons which shall be begotten
to them, the third generation to them
shall come in to the gathering of Jeho-
vah.

10 When the camp shall go forth
against thine enemies, and watch thy-
self from every evil word.

11 If there shall be in thee ἃ man
that shall not be clean from chance of
the night, and he shall go forth without
the camp; he shall not come in to the
midst of the camp:

12 And it was turning to evening, he
shall wash in water: and as the sun
went down he shall come into the
midst οὗ the camp.

18 And a hand shall be to thee from
without the camp, and thou shalt go
forth there. without:

14 And a peg shall be to thee upon
thy utensil: and it was in thy sitting

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down without, and digging with it, and
turn thou back and cover thy excre-
ment:

15 For Jehovah thy God goes in the
midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and
to give thine enemies before thy face ;
and thy camp was holy; and he will
not see in thee the nakedness of a word
and turn back from after thee.

16 Thou shalt not deliver the ser-
vant to his lord who shall be delivered
to thee from his lord.

17 With thee he shall dwell in the
midst of thee in the place which he
shall choose in one of thy gates, in the
good to him: thou shalt not oppress
him.

18 Thou shalt not be a harlot from
the daughters of Israel, and a male
prostitute from the sons of Israel.

19 Thou shalt not bring the hire of
a lrarlot, and the price of a dog to the
house of Jehovah thy God, for any
vow: for these two are also an abom1-
nation to Jehovah thy God.

20 Thou shalt not lend upon interest
to thy brother; interest of silver, inter-
est of food, interest of any word which
shall be lent on interest.

21 To a foreigner thou shalt lend on
mterest ; and to thy brother thou shalt
not lend on interest: so ‘that Jehovah
thy God shall bless thee in all the
stretching forth of thy hand upon the
land which thou goest there to possess it.

22 When thou shalt vow a vow to
Jehovah thy God thou shalt not delay
to complete it, for Jehovah thy God re-
quiring, will require it from thee; and
it was sin in thee.

23 And if thou shalt cease to vow, it
shall not be sin in thee.

24 That going out of thy lips, thou
shalt watch and do according as thou
didst vow to Jehovah thy God; a vol-
untary gift which thou spakest with
thy mouth.

25 When thou shalt come into the
vineyard of thy friend, and eat there
grapes according to thy soul, to thy sat-
isfying; and thou shalt not give into
thy vessel.

26 When thou shalt come into thy
friend’s standing grain, pluck off the
ears with thine hand, and thou shalt

DEUTERONOMY XXIV.

not lift up a sickle upon thy friend's
standing grain.

CHAPTER XXIV.

HEN a man shall take a wife
and he married her, and it was
if she shall find not favor in his eyes be-
cause he found in her a nakedness of
the word: and he wrote for her a wri-
ting of cutting off, and gave in her hand,

and sent her away from his house.

2 And she shall go out of his house,
and go and was to another man.

3 And the last man hated her and
wrote for her a writing of eutting off,
and gave in her hand, and sent her away
from his house; or if the Jast-man shall
die which took her to him for a wife,

4 Her first husband who sent her
away shall not be able to turn back to
take her to be to him for a wife after
that she was defiled; for it is an abom-
ination before Jehovah: and thou shalt
not cause the Jand to sin which Jehovah
thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

5 When aman shall take a new wife,
he shall not go out in the war, and
nothing shall pass upon him for any
word: he shall be free.to his house
one year, and gladden his wife whom
he took.

6 He shall not take the two mill-stones
as a pledge, and the rider, for it is taking
the soul as a pledge.

7 If a man shall be found stealing a
soul from his brethren from the sons of
Israel, and shall Jay hands upon him
and sell him; and that thief died; and
put thou away evil from the midst of
thee.

8 Watch in the stroke of leprosy to
watch greatly, and to do according to
all that the priests the Levites shall
teach you: as I commanded them ye
shall watch to do.

9 Remember what Jehovah thy God
did to Miriam in the way, in your com-
ing out of Keypt.

10 When thou shalt lend to thy
friend the loan of any thing, thou shalt
not go to his house to exchange his
pledge:

11 Thou shalt stand without, and the
man to whom was lent to him, shall
bring out to thee the pledge without.

DEUTERONOMY ΧΧΥ.

12 And if the man be poor, he shall
not sleep with his pledge.

18 'Turning back, thou shalt turn
back to him the pledge as the sun went
down; he lay down in his garment and
blessed thee; and to thee shall be jus-
tice before Jehovah thy God.

14 Thou shalt not oppress the poor
and needy hireling from thy brethren,
or from thy stranger which is in thy
land in thy gates.

15 In his day thou shalt give his
hire, and the sun shall not go down
upon it, for he is poor, and he lifted up
his soul to it; and he will cry against
thee to Jehovah, and it was sin in thee.

16 The fathers shall not die for the
sons, and the sons shall not die for the
fathers: a man shall die in his sin.

17 Thou shalt not turn away the
judgment of the stranger, the father-
less; and thou shalt not take as a
pledge the garment of the widow.

18 And remember that thou wert a
servant in Egypt, and Jehovah thy
God will redeem thee from thence ; for
this 1 commend thee to do this word.

19 When thou shalt reap thy harvest
in thy field and didst forget a sheaf in
the field, thou shalt not turn back to
take it: to the stranger and to the or-
phan and to the widow shall it be ;.so
that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee
in all the doing of thy hands.

20 When thou shalt beat thine olive
thou shalt not go over the boughs after
thee: to the stranger, to the orphan,
and to the widow it shall be. .

21 And when thou shalt gather thy
vineyard thou shalt not glean after
thee; to the stranger, and to the or-
phan, and to the widow it shall be.

22 And remember that thou wert a
servant in the land of Eeypt: for this
I command thee to do this word.

CHAPTER XXV.
ἪΝ there shall be a controversy be-
tween men and they drew near to
judgment, and they judged them; and
they justified the just and condemned
the unjust.
2 And it was if the unjust be the son
of smiting, and the judge caused him
to fall down and beat him before his

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face in proportion to his fault, by a
number.

3 Forty he shall beat him; He shall
not add, lest he shall add to strike him
above them with much beating, and thy
brother was despised before thine eyes.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox tread-
ing.

5 If brethren shall dwell together and
one of them died, and a son not to him,
the wife of the dead shall not be with-
out to a man a stranger: her husband's
brother shall go in to her, and he took
her to him for a wife, and he acted the
husband's brother to her.

6 And it is the first-born which she
shall bear shall rise up upon the name
of his brother the dead, and his name
shall not be wiped from Israel.

7 And if the man shall not desire to
take his brother’s wife, and his broth-
er’s wife went up to the gate to the old
men, and said, My husband's brother
refused to raise up to his brother a name
in Israel, and he would not act my hus-
band’s brother.

8 And the old men of his city called
to him and spake to him; and he stood
and said, I desired not to take her.

9 And his brother's wife drew near
to him before the eyes of the old men,
and drew off his shoe from his foot, and
spit in his face, and answered and said,
Thus shall it be done to the man who
will not build up the house of his
brother.

10 And his name was called in Is-
rael, The house of him having his shoe
drawn off.

11 When men shall strive together,
a man and his brother, and the wife of
the one come near to deliver her hus-
band from him smiting him, and she
stretched forth her hand and held fast
by his secrets:

12 And cut off her hand, thine eye
shall not pity.

18 There shall not be to thee in thy
receptacle a stone and a stone, great
and small.

14 There shall not be to thee in thy
house an ephah and an ephah, great
and small,

15 A stone complete and just shall
be to thee; an ephah complete and just

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shall be to thee, so that thy days shall
be prolonged upon the land which Je-
hovah thy God gave to thee.

16 For an abomination are all doing
these things, all doing evil.

17 Remember what Amalek did to
thee in the way, in your coming forth
out of Egypt:

18 That he met thee in the way, and
he will smite the rear in thee all the
enfeebled behind thee, and thou faint
and weary: and he feared not God.

19 And it was in Jehovah thy God
giving rest to thee from all thine ene-
mies from round about in the land
which Jehovah thy God gave to thee
an inheritance to possess it, thou shalt
wipe out the remembrance of Amalek
from under the heavens ; thou shalt not
forget.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND it was when thou shalt come
into the land which Jehovah thy
God gave to thee an inheritance to pos-
sess it, and thou didst dwell in it:

2 And thou tookest from the first of
all the fruit of the land which thou
shalt bring from thy land which Jeho-
vah thy God gave to thee, and put in
a basket, and go to the place which
Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause
his name to dwell there.

3 And go to the priest which shall
be in those days, and say to him, I an-
nounced this day to Jehovah thy God,
that I came to the land which Jehovah
sware to our fathers to give to us.

4 And the priest took from thy hand
the basket and set it down before the
altar of Jehovah thy God.

5 And thou didst answer and say be-
fore Jehovah thy God, An unfortunate
Syrian my father; and he went down
into Egypt, and he will sojourn there
with a few men, and will be there into
a great nation, mighty and many.

6 And the Egyptians did us evil, and
humbled us, and they will distribute to
us hard service.

7 And we shall ery to Jehovah the
God of our fathers, and Jehovah will
hear our voice, and will see our afflic-
tion and our labor and our oppression.

DEUTERONOMY XXVL

out of Egypt with a strong hand and
with an extended arm, and with great
appearance and with signs and with
wonders ;

9 And he will bring us to this place,
and will give us this land, a land flow-
ing milk and honey.

10 And now, behold, I brought the
first-fruits of the earth that thou Jeho-
vah gaye to me: and set thou it before
Jehovah thy God, and worship before

_ }Jehovah thy God.

11 And rejoice in all the good that
Jehovah thy God gaye to thee and to
thy house, thou and the Levite and
the stranger which is in the midst of
them.

12 When thou shalt finish to tithe
all the tenth part of thy produce, in the
third year, the year of the tenth part,
and thou gayest it to the Levite and to
the stranger and to the orphan and to
the widow, and they ate in thy -gates
and were satisfied.

13 And thou saidst before Jehovah
thy God, I took away the holy thing
from the house, and also I gave it to
the Levite, and to the stranger, to the
orphan and to the widow, according to
all thy commands which thou didst
command me: I passed not by from
thy command, and I did not forget.

14 I ate not from it in my mourning,
and I took not away from it in un-
cleanness, and I gave not from it to the
dead: I heard to the voice of Jehovah
my God, I did according to all thou
didst command me.

15 Look forth from thy holy habita-
tion, from the heavens, and bless thy
people Israel, and the land which thou
gavest to us, as thou didst swear to
our fathers, a land flowing milk and
honey.

16 This day Jehovah thy God com-
mands thee to do these laws and judg-
ments: and watch thou to do them with
all thy heart and with all thy soul.

17 Thou saidst this day Jehovah to
be to thee for God, and to go in his
ways, and to watch his laws and his
commands, and his judgments, and to
hear to his voice.

18 And Jehoyah said thee this day

8 And Jehovah will bring us forth|to be to him for a people of property,

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as he spake to thee, and to watch all
his commands,

19 And to give thee high above all
the nations which he made for a begin-
ning and for a name, and for an orna-
: ment, and for thy being a holy people
to Jehovah thy God, as he spake.

CHAPTER XXVIL
ND Moses and the old men of
Israel will command the people,
saying, Watch every command which
1 command you this day.

2 And it was in the day which ye
shall pass over Jordan to the land that
Jehovah thy God gave to thee, and set
up to thee great stones, and plaster
them with lime.

3 And write upon them all the words
of this,law in thy passing over, so that
thou shalt go in to the land that Jeho-
vah thy God gave to thee; a land flow-
ing milk and honey, as Jehovah the
God of thy fathers spake to thee.

4 And being in your passing over
Jordan ye shall set up these stones
which I command you this day, in
teat 10081, and plaster them with
ime.

5 And build there an altar to Jeho-].

vah thy God, an altar of stones: thou
shalt not lift wp iron upon them.

6 Whole stones thou shalt build the
altar of Jehovah thy God: and bring
up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah
thy God:

7 And sacrifice peace, and eat there
and rejoice before Jehovah thy God.

8 And write upon the stones all the
words of this law very diligently.

9 And Moses will speak, and the
priests, the Levites, to all Israel, saying,
Be silent and hear, Israel; this day
nee wert for a people to Jehovah thy

10 And hear to the voice of Jehovah
thy God and do his commands and his
laws which I command thee this day.

11 And Moses will command the

people in that day, saying,
* 12 These shall stand to bless the peo-
ple upon mount Gerizim, in your pass-
ing over Jordan; Simeon and Levi and
Judah and Issachar, and Joseph and
Benjamin:

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13 And these shall stand for a curs-
ing upon Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad
and Asher and Zebulon, Dan and
Naphtali.

14 And the Levites answered and
said to every man of Israel in a high
voice,

15 Cursed the man, who shall make
a graven and molten thing, an abomi-
nation of Jehovah, the work of the hand
of the artificer, and put it in hiding:
and all the people answered and said,
Amen.

16 Cursed he making light of his
father and his mother: and all the peo-
ple said, Amen.

17 Cursed he removing the bounda-
ry of his neighbor: and all the people
said, Amen.

18 Cursed he causing the blind to
wander in the way: and all the people
said, Amen.

19 Cursing he turning away the
judgment of the stranger, the orphan
and the widow: and all the people
said, Amen.

20 Cursed he lying with his father’s
wife, for he uncovered his father’s
wing: and all the people said, Amen.
21 Cursed he lying with any cattle:
and all the people said, Amen.

22 Cursed he שמוץ1‎ with his sister,
his father’s daughter, or his mother's
daughter: and all the people said,
Amen.

23 Cursed he lying with his daughter-
in-law: and all the people said Amen.

24 Cursed he striking his neighbor
in hiding: and all the people said,
Amen,

25 Cursed he taking a gift to strike
the soul of innocent blood: and all the
people said, Amen.

26 Cursed he who shall not raise up
the words of this law to do them: and
all the people said, Amen.

CHAPTER XXVIII

ND it being if hearing thou shalt
ς hear to the voice of Jehovah thy
God, to watch and to do all his com-
mands that I command thee this day,
and Jehovah thy God gave thee high

above all the nations of the earth.
2 And all these blessings came upon

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thee and overtook thee, when thou
shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy
God.

3 Blessed thou in the city, blessed
thou in the field.

4 Blessed the fruit of thy belly, and
the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of
thy cattle, the offspring of thine oxen
and the flocks of thy sheep.

5 Blessed thy basket and thy re-
mainders.

6 Blessed thou in thy coming in, and
blessed thou in thy going out.

7 Jehovah will give thine enemies
rising up against thee smitten before
thy face; in one way shall they come
forth against thee, and in seven ways
shall they flee before thy face.

8 Jehovah will command with thee
the blessing in thy store-houses, and in
all the sending forth of thy hand; and
he blessed thee in the land which Jeho-
yah thy God gave to thee.

9 Jehovah will raise thee up to him
for a holy people, as he sware to thee,
when thou shalt watch the commands
of Jehovah thy God and go in his ways.

10 And all the peoples of the earth
saw that the name of Jehovah was
ealled upon thee; and they were afraid
of thee.

11 And Jehovah made thee to
abound for good in the fruit of thy
belly, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and
in the fruit of thy land, upon the land
which Jehovah sware to thy fathers to
give to thee.

12 Jehovah will open to thee his
good store, the heavens to give the rain
‘of thy land in its time, and to bless all
the doing of thy hand: and thou didst
lend to many nations, and thou shalt
not borrow. =

13 And Jehovah gave thee for head,
and not for tail: and thou wert only
for ascending, and thou shalt not be for
beneath; when thou shalt hear to the
commands of Jehovah thy God that I
command thee this day, to watch and
to do,

14 And thou shalt not turn aside
from all the words which I command
you this day, to the right and to the
left, to go after other gods to serve
them.

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15 And it being, if thou shalt not
hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God,
to watch to do all his commands and
his laws which I command thee this
day; and all these curses came upon
thee, and overtook thee:

16 Cursed thou in the city, and ecurs-
ed thou in the field.

17 Cursed thy basket and thy re-
mainders.

18 Cursed the fruit of thy belly, and
the fruit of thy land, the offspring of
thine oxen, and the flocks of thy sheep.

19 Cursed thou in thy coming in,
and cursed thou in thy going out.

20 Jehovah will send upon thee the
curse and the consternation, and the re-
buke, upon all the sending forth of thy
hand which thou shalt do, till he de-
stroyed thee, and till he caused thee to
perish quickly: on account of the evil
of thy works by which thou forsookest
me.

21 Jehovah shall cleave upon thee
death, till his consuming thee from the
land which thou wentest there to pos-
sess it.

22 Jehovah shall strike thee with
consumption, and with burning fever,
and with inflammation, and with sword
and with burning, and with blasting,
and with yellowness: and they shall
pursue thee till he have destroyed thee.

23 And the heavens which over thy
head were brass, and the earth which
is under thee, iron.

24 Jehovah will give the rain of thy
land dust and clay: from the heavens
shall it come down upon thee, till he
destroyed thee.

25 And Jehovah will give thee smit-
ten before thine enemies: In one way
thou shalt go forth against him, and in
seven ways shalt thou flee before his
face; and thou wert fora shaking to
all the kingdoms of the earth.

26 And thy carcass was for food to
all the birds of the heavens and to the
cattle of the earth, and none terrify-

ing.

Jehovah shall strike thee with the‏ דל"
burning sore of Egypt, and with tu-‏
mors, and with scratching, and with‏
the itch of which thou shalt not be able‏
to be healed.‏

DEUTERONOMY XXVIIL

28 Jehovah will strike thee with mad-
ness and with blindness and with as-
tonishment of heart ;

29 And thou wert groping at noon as
the blind shall grope in darkness, and
thou shalt not succeed with thy ways:
and thou wert only oppressed and strip-
ped all the days, and none saving.

80 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and
another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build a house and shall not dwell
in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and
thou shalt not lay it open.

31 Thine ox slaughtered before thine
eyes and thou shalt not eat from it:
thine ass stripped from before thee and
shall not turn back to thee; thy sheep,
given to thine enemies, and none to thee
saving,

32 Thy sons and thy daughters given
to another people, and thine eyes see-
ing and failing for them all the day:
and nothing for the strength of thy
hand.

33 The fruit of thy land and all thy
labors, a people which thou knewest
not shall eat: and thou wert only op-
pressed and broken all the days.

34 And thou wert mad from the
sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

85 Jehovah shall strike thee with an
evil burning sore upon thy knees and
upon thy legs, which thou shalt not be
able to heal from the sole of thy foot to
thy crown.

36 Jehovah shall lead thee, and thy
king which thou shalt set up over thee,
to a nation which thou, knewest not,
thou and thy fathers; and thou sery-
edst there other gods, wood and stone.

37 And thou wert for an astonish-
ment, for a parable, for a sharp saying
in all the peoples where Jehovah shall
lead thee there.

38 Thou shalt bring out much seed
to thy field, and shalt: gather little, for
the locust shall deyour it.

39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and
thou shalt work, and thou shalt not
drink the wine, and thou shalt not gath-
er, for the worm shall eat it.

40 Olive trees shall be to thee in all
thy boundaries, and thou shalt not be
anointed with oil, for thine olive shall
slip away.

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41 And thou shalt beget sons and
daughters, and they shall not be to thee,
for they shall go into captivity.

42 All thy wood and the fruit of thy
land shall the grasshopper seize.

43 The stranger which is in the midst
of thee shall go up above thee, going
up, going up; and thou shalt go down
beneath, beneath.

44 He shall lend to thee and thou
shalt not lend to him: he shall be for
head, and thou shalt be for tail.

45 And all these curses came upon
thee and pursued thee and overtook
thee, till he destroyed thee; for thou
heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy
God, to watch his commands and his
laws which he commanded thee.

46 And they were upon thee for a
sign and for a wonder, and upon thy
seed even to forever.

47 Beeause that thou servedst not
Jehovah thy God in joy and in a good
heart for the multitude of all things.

48 And thou servedst thine ene-
mies which Jehovah shall send forth
against thee in hunger and in thirst, and
in nakedness, and in want of all things:
and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy
neck till his destroying thee.

49 Jehovah shall raise up against
thee a nation from far off, from the ex-
tremity of the earth, as the eagle shall
fly, whose tongue thou shalt not
hear ;

50 A nation strong of face who shall
not lift up the face to the old man,
and shall not compassionate the young.

51 And it shall eat the fruit of thy
cattle, and the fruit of thy land till he
destroyed thee: which shall not leave
to thee grain, new wine or new oil, the
offspring of thine oxen and the flocks
of thy sheep, till his destroying thee.

52 And he passed upon thee in all
thy gates until the coming down of thy
high and inaccessible fortresses which
thou trustest in them in all thy land:
and he passed upon thee in all thy
gates in all thy land which Jehovah
thy God:gaye to thee.

58 And thou atest the fruit of thy
belly, the flesh of thy sons and thy
daughters, which Jehovah thy God
gave to thee, in the distress and in the

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straitness which thine enemy shall press
upon thee:

54 The man tender in thee, and very
delicate, his eye shall be evil upon his
brother, and upon the wife of his bo-
som, and upon the remainder of his
sons which he shall leave:

55 The gift to one of them of the
flesh of his sons which he shall eat
from: nothing remaining to him of all
things in the distress and in the strait-
ness which his enemy shall press upon
thee in all thy gates.

56 She tender and delicate in thee,
who tried not to set the sole of her foot
upon the earth from delicateness and
tenderness, her eye shall be evil upon
the husband of her bosom, and upon
her son, and upon her daughter,

57 And upon her afterbirth coming
forth from between her feet, and upon
her sons which she shall bear: for she
will eat them in want of all things, in
secret, in the distress and in the strait-
ness which thine enemy shall press
upon thee in thy gates.

58 If thou shalt not watch to do all
the words of this law being written in
this book, to fear this honored and fear-
ful name JEHOVAH THY GOD;

59 And Jehovah made thy smiting
wonderful, and the smitings of thy seed,
great and lasting blows, and evil and
lasting diseases.

60 And he turned back upon thee
all the sicknesses of Egypt, of which
thou wert afraid from their face, and
they did cleave to thee.

61 Also every disease and every blow
which is not written in the book of this
law, Jehovah will bring them up upon
thee, till he destroyed thee.

62 And ye were left few in extension,
instead of which ye were as the stars of
the heavens for multitude, because thou
heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy
God.

63 And it being as Jehovah rejoiced
over you to do you good and to multi-
ply you, so Jehovah shall rejoice over
you to destroy you and to cut’ you off;
and ye were torn away from the land
which thou wentest in there to possess it.

64 And Jehovah scattered thee among
all peoples from the end of the earth

DEUTERONOMY XXIX.

even to the end of the earth; and thou
servedst there other gods which thou
knewest not, thou and thy fathers, wood
and stone.

65 And among these nations thou
shalt not rest, and there shall not be
rest to the sole of thy foot: and Jeho-
vah gave to thee there a trembling
heart and a wasting away of the eyes,
and a faintness of soul.

66 And thy lives were hung before
thee; and thou wert afraid night and
day, and thou shalt not trust to thy life.

67 In the morning thou shalt say,
Who shall give evening? and in the
evening thou shalt say, Who shall give
morning? from the fear of thy heart
which thou shalt fear, and from the
sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

68 And Jehovah turned thee back to
Egypt in ships, in the way which I said
to thee, Thou shalt not add more to see
it: and ye were sold there to thine ene-
mies for servants and for maids, and
none buying.

69 These the words of the covenant
which Jehovah commanded Moses to
make with the sons of Israel in the land
of Moab, besides the covenant which he
made with them in Horeb.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND Moses will call to all Israel
and will say to them, Ye saw all
that Jehovah did before your eyes in
the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to
all his servants, and to all his land;

2 The great temptations which thine
eyes saw, the signs, and those great
wonders :

3 And Jehovah gave not to you an
heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears
to hear, even to this day.

4 And I shall lead you forty years in
the desert: your garments did not fall
away from you, and thy shoe was not
worn away from thy foot.

5 Bread ye ate not, and wine and
strong drink ye drank not; so that ye
shall know that I am Jehovah your
God.

6 And ye shall come to this place;
and Sihon, king of Heshbon, will come,
and Og, king of Bashan, to our meet-
ing, to war; and we shall smite them.

DEUTERONOMY .אאא‎

7 And we shall take their land and
give it for an inheritance to the Reuben-
ites and to the Gadites, and to the half
tribe of the Manassites. ו‎

8 And watch ye the words of this
covenant, and do them, so that ye shall

be circumspect in all things which 6 |

shall do.

9 Ye stand this day all of you before
Jehovah your God; your heads of your
tribes, your old men, and your scribes,
every man of Israel ;

10 Your little ones, your wives and
thy stranger which is in the midst of
thy camp, from him cutting thy woods
to him drawing thy waters:

11 For thy passing into the covenant
of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath,
which Jehovah thy God made with thee
this day:

12 In order to set thee this day to
him for a people, and he shall be to thee
for God as he spake to thee, and as he
sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to
Tsaak, and to Jacob.

13 And not with you alone do I
make this covenant and this oath ;

14 But with those being here with
us, standing before Jehovah our God,
and with those not here with us this
day: ~ .

15 (For ye know how we dwelt in the
land of Egypt; and how we passed
through in the midst of the nations
which ye passed through ;

16 And ye shall see their abomina-
tions and their rollings, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which are with
them :)

17 Lest there be among you man or
woman, or family or tribe, whom his
heart turn this day from Jehovah our
God, to go to serve the gods of these
nations; lest there be among youa root
bearing poverty and wormwood ;

18 And it was in his hearing the
words of this oath, and he blessed him-
self in his heart, saying, Peace shall be
to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I
shall go to add satiating to thirst:

19 Jehovah shall not be willing to
forgive him, for then the anger of Jeho-
vah shall smoke, and his jealousy
against that man, and every curse
written in this book lay upon him, and

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Jehovah wiped out his name from under
the heavens.

20 And Jehovah separated him for
evil out of all the tribes of Israel, ac-
cording to all the curses of the cove-
nant written in the book of this law:

21 And said, Another generation of
your sons who shall rise up from after
you, and the foreigner who shall come
from a land afar off, and they saw the
blows of that land, and the sicknesses
which Jehovah made sick in it;

22 Pitch and burning salt, all its
land; it shall not be sown, and it shall
not sprout, and no green herb shall
come up upon it, as the overthrow of
Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Ze-
boim; which Jehovah overthrew in his
anger and in his wrath:

23 And all the nations said, For what
did Jehovah thus to this land? what
the heat of this great anger?

24 And they said, Because they left
the covenant of Jehovah the God of
their fathers, which he made with them,
in his bringing them forth from the
land of Egypt.

25 And they will go and serve other
gods, and will worship to them gods
which they knew them not, and a por-
tion not to them. >

26 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against this land, to bring upon
it all the curses written in this book.

27 And Jehovah will tear them up
from their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great anger, and will send them
to another land as this day.

28 Hidden things to Jehovah our
God: and uncovered things to us and
to our sons to forever, to do all the
words of this law.

CHAPTER .אאא‎
ND it being when all these words
shall come upon thee, the bless-
ing, and the curse which I gave before
thee, and thou shalt turn back to thy
heart in all these nations where Jeho-
vah thy God thrust thee away there,

2 And thou turnedst back to Jeho-
vah thy God, and heardst to his voice
according to all which I command thee
this day, thou and thy sons, with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul:

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3 And Jehovah thy God turned back
thy captivity, and pitied thee, and he
turned back and gathered thee from all
the peoples, where Jehovah thy God
scattered thee there.

4 If thy expelling shall be to the end
of the heavens, from there thy God will
gather thee, and from there he will take
thee:

5 And Jehovah thy God brought
thee to the land which thy fathers in-
herited, and thou inheritedst it: and
he did good to thee and multiplied thee
above thy fathers.

6 And Jehovah thy God cireumcised
thy heart and the heart of thy seed, to
love Jehovah thy God with all thy
heart and with all thy soul, for the sake
of thy life.

7 And Jehovah thy God gave all
these curses upon thine enemies and
upon those hating thee, who chased thee.

8 And thou shalt turn back and hear
to the voice of Jehovah, and do all his
commands which I command thee. this
day.

9 And Jehovah thy God caused thee
to abound in every work of thy hand,
in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit
of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
land for good: for Jehovah will turn
back to be glad over thee for good as
he was glad over thy fathers:

10 If thou shalt hear to the-voice of
Jehovah thy God to watch his com-
mands and his laws written in the book
of this law, if thou shalt turn back to
Jehovah thy God with all thy heart
and with all thy soul.

11 For this command which I com-
mand thee this day, it was not great for
thee, and it was not far off.

12 It is not in the heavens to say,
Who shall go up for us to the heavens

to take it to us and cause us to hear 10"

and do it?

18 Andit is not beyond the sea, to
say, Who shall pass over for us to the
other side of the sea, and take it to us
and cause us to hear it and do it?

14 For the word is very near to thee
in thy mouth and in thy heart to do it.

15 See, I gave before thy face this
day the life and the good, and the death
and the eyil ;

DEUTERONOMY ΧΧΧΊ.

16 That I command thee this day to
love Jehovah thy God, to go in his
ways, to watch his commands and his
laws and his judgments, and live thou
and multiply: and Jehovah thy God
blessed thee in the land which thou
wentest there to possess it.

17 And if thy heart shall turn aside
and thou shalt not hear, and be thrust
away and worship to other gods, and
serve them ;

18 I announced to you this day that
perishing, ye shall perish; ye shall not
prolong the days upon the land which
thou passest over Jordan to go in there
to possess it. ;

19 I called to witness against you
this day the heavens and the earth, the
life and the death I gave before thee,
the blessing and the curse: and choose
upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou
and thy seed:

20 To love Jehovah thy God; to
hear to his voice and to cleave to him
(for this thy life and the length of thy
days) to dwell wpon the land which Je-
hovah sware to thy fathers, to Abra-
ham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, to give to
them.

CHAPTER ΧΧΧΙ. -

Λ ND Moses will go and speak these

words to all Israel.

2 And he will say to them, The son of
a hundred and twenty years I this day;
I shall no more be able to go out and
to come in: and Jehovah said to me,
Thou shalt not pass through this Jor-
dan.

3 Jehovah thy God he goes over be-
fore thee, and he will destroy these na-
tions from before thee, and possess thou
them: Joshua he passes over before
thee as Jehovah spake.

4 And Jehovah did to them as he
did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the
Amorites, and to their land which he
destroyed them.

5 And Jehovah gave them before
you, and ye did to them according to
all the commands which I commanded

ou.
Ἂ 6 Be strong and be active; ye shall
not fear, and ye shall not be terrified
from their face, for Jehovah thy God,

DEUTERONOMY ΧΧΧΙ.

he goes with thee; he will not relax
thee and he will not forsake thee.

7 And Moses will call to Joshua and
say to him before the eyes of all Israel,
Be strong and be active, for thou shalt
go in with this people to the land which
Jehovah sware to thy fathers to give to
them; and thou shalt cause them to in-
herit it.

8 And Jehovah he goes before thee ;
he shall be with thee; he will not relax
thee, and he will not forsake thee ; thou
shalt not fear, and thou shalt not be
dismayed.

9 And Moses will write this law and
will give it to the priests, the sons of
Levi, lifting up the ark of the covenant
of Jehovah, and to all the old men of
Israel.

10 And Moses commanded them,
saying, From the end of seven years, in
the appointment of the year of remis-
sion in the festival of tents,

11 In the coming of all Israel to see
the face of Jehovah thy God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt
read this law before all Israel in their
ears, :

12 Gather the people, the men and
the women and the little ones and thy
stranger which is in thy gates, so that
they shall hear, and so that they shall
learn and fear Jehovah your God,
and watch to do all the words of this
law :

13 And their sons which knew not
shall hear and shall learn to fear Jeho-
vah your God all the days which they
lived upon the land which ye pass over
Jordan there to possess it.

14 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
Behold thy days draw near to die: call
Joshua, and stand ye in the tent of ap-
pointment, and I will command him.
And Moses will go, and Joshua, and
they will stand in the tent of appoint-
ment.

15 And Jehovah will be seen in the
tent ina pillar of cloud: and the pil-
lar of the cloud will stand at the door
of the tent.

16 And Jehovah will say to Moses,
* Behold thee lying down with thy
fathers, and this people rising up and
committing fornication after the gods of

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the foreigner of the land where he go-
ing there in the midst of him, and he
forsook me and brake my covenant
which 1 made with him.

17 And my anger was kindled
against him in that day, and I forsook
them, and I hid my face from them,
and he was for consuming, and many
evils finding him, and afflictions, and he
said in that day, Is it not because God
is not in the midst of me these evils
find us?

18 Hiding, I will hide my face in
that day for all the evils which he did,
for he turned to other gods.

19 And now write ye for you this
song, and teach it to the sons of Israel:
put it in their mouth so that this song
shall be to me for a testimony among
the sons of Israel.

20 For I shall bring him to the land
which I sware to his fathers, flowing
milk and honey; and he ate and was
satisfied and was fat, and turned to
other gods, and they served them and
despised me and brake my covenant.

21 And it was when many evils and
afflictions shall find him, and this song
testified before him for a witness: for
it shall not’ be forgotten out of the
mouth of his seed; for I knew his for-
mation which he did this day, before 1
shall bring him to the land which 1
sware, -

22 And Moses will write this song in
that day, and. will teach it to the sons
of Israel.

23 And he will command Joshua the
son of Nun, and will say, Be strong
and active: for thou shalt bring in the
sons of Israel to the land which I sware
to them, and 1 will be with thee.

24 And it shall be when Moses fin-
ished to write the words of this law
upon a book until he finished them ;

25 And Moses will command the
Levites lifting up the ark of the cove-
nant of Jehovah, saying,

26 Take the book of this law and
put it at the side of the ark of the cov-
enant of Jehovah your God, and it was
there for a witness against thee.

27 For I knew thy rebellion and thy
hard neck: behold, in my yet living
with you this day, ye were rebelling

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against Jehovah ; and much more after
my death.

28 Gather to me all the old men of
your tribes and your scribes, and I will
speak in their ears these words, and 1
will take the heavens and the earth to
witness against them.

29 For I knew after my death that
acting wickedly, ye will be corrupted,
and turn aside from the way that I
commanded you; and evil met you in
the last of the days, for ye will do evil
in the eyes of Jehovah to make him
angry: in the work of your hands.

80 And Moses will speak in the ears
of all the gathering of Israel the words
of this song till he finished them.

CHAPTER XXXII
(Gee ear, ye heavens, and 1 will
speak ;
Thou earth shalt hear the words of my
mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain ;
My word shall pour out as the dew,
As the showers upon the herbage,

And as the rains upon the green herb:

8 For I will call the name of Jeho-

vah:
Give ye greatness to our God.

4 The Rock, his work complete :
For all his ways judgment:

A God of faithfulness and not of ini-
quity ;
Just and right is he.
5 He acted wickedly to him; not his
sons their blot:
A generation perverted and crooked.
6 ce Jehovah will ye recompense
this,
A people foolish and not wise ?
He thy father: did he not buy thee?
He made thee, and he will protect thee.
7 Remember the days of eternity ;
Discern the years of generation and
generation :

Ask thy father, and he will announce
to thee ;

Thy old men, and they shall say to thee.

8 The Most High distributing the

nations,
Tn his dispersing the sons of Adam,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the sons
of Israel.

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9 For Jehovah the portion of his peo-

Jacob the cord of his inheritance.
10 He will find him in the land of
the desert,
Τὴ a waste howling desolation :
He will encompass him about; he will
teach him,
He will keep him as the pupil of the eye.
11 As the eagle he will arouse his
young brood,
He will brood over his young birds ;
He will spread out his wings, and will
take them ;
He will lift them up upon his wings:
12 Jehovah alone will lead him,
And no strange god with him. *
13 He will cause him to ride upon
the heights of the land;
He shall eat.the produce of the field ;
And he shall suck honey from the rock,
And oil from the flint of the rock.
14 Curdled milk of the cow, and
milk of the sheep,
With the fat of lambs,
And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats,
With the fat of kidneys of wheat ;
Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of
the grape.
15 And Jeshurun will be fat and will
tread down:
Thou wert fat, thou wert thick,
wert covered ;
And he will reject God having made
him,
And he will despise the Rock of his de-
liverance.
16 He will cause him to be jealous
with strangers,
With abominations they will irritate
him.
17 They will sacrifice to demons, not

thou

od ;
Gods they have not known them ;
New ones came out from the midst;
Your fathers not having feared them.
18 Thou wilt forsake the Rock beget-
ting thee,
And thou wilt forget God setting thee
free.
19 And God will see and will reject,
From the irritating of his sons and his
daughters. ‘
20 And he will say, I will hide my
face from them ;

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I will see what shall be after them:
For they a generation of perverseness,
Sons no faith in them.
21 They made me jealous with not
God ;
irritated me with their vanities :
I will make them jealous with
not a people;
With a foolish nation will I irritate
them.
22 For a fire was kindled in mine
anger,
And it shall burn to the lowest hades,
And it shall consume the land and its
produce,
And it shall burn the foundations of
the mountains.
23 I will gather evils upon them;
I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 Exhausted with hunger, consumed
with burning,
And bitter destruction :
And 1 will send upon them the tooth
of beasts,
With the wrath of those crawlers of
the dust.
25 The sword shall bereave without,
And terror frgm the chambers,
Also the youth, also the virgin,
The suckling, with the man of gray hair.
261 have said I will blow them

The
An

away,

I will turn away their remembrance
from man ;

27 Unless I shall fear the enemy’s

anger,
Lest their adversaries shall dissemble,
Lest they shall say, Our high hand
And not Jehovah did all this.
28 For they a nation destroying coun-
sels,
And no understanding in them.
29 Would they were wise! will they
look at this?
Will they discern to their latter part?
80 How shall one chase a thousand,
And two shall cause ten thousand to

ee,
If that their Rock had not sold them,
And Jehovah delivered them up?

31 For their rock not as our Rock,
And our enemies judging,

32 For their vine from the vine of

Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah:

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Their grapes the grapes of poverty,
The clusters of bitterness to them.
88 Their wine the wrath of dragons,
And the fierce head of asps.
34 Is not this laid up with me,
Sealed up in my treasuries?
35 To me vengeance and requital ;
At the time their foot shall waver:
For the day of their destruction is near,
And he hastened things prepared for
them
36 For Jehovah will judge his people,
And upon his servants will he have
compassion ;
When he shall see that the hand has
failed,
And nothing detained and left.
37 And he said, Where their gods,
The rock they trusted in it?
38 Whose fat of their sacrifices they
shall eat ;
They shall drink the wine of their liba-
tions:
They shall rise up, and they shall suc-
cor you,
It shall be for you protection.
89 See ye now, that I, I am he,
And no God with me:
Τ will kill, and I will preserve alive ;
I struck through and through, and I
will heal ;
And none takes away out of my hand.
40 For I will hft up my hand to the
heavens,
And I said, I live forever.
41 If I sharpened the lightning of my

sword,
And my hand shall lay hold upon judg-
ment,
I will turn back vengeance to mine ad-
versaries,
And to those hating me I will requite.
42 1 will make mine arrows drunk
with blood,
And my sword shall eat flesh,
From the blood of the wounded and
the captivity,
From the head of the enemy’s leaders.
43 Rejoice ye nations with him,
For he will raise up the blood of his
servants,
And he will turn back vengeance to his
adversaries,
And he will expiate for his land, his
people.

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44 And Moses will come and speak
all the words of this song in the ears of
the people, he and Joshua, son of Nun.

45 And Moses will finish speaking
all these words to all Israel :

46 And he will say to them, Set your
hearts to all the words which I eall
upon you to witness this day, which ye
shall command your sons to watch and
to do, all the words of this law.

47 For it isnot an empty word for
you, but it is your life; and in this
word ye shall prolong the days upon
the land which ye pass through Jordan
there to inherit it.

48 And Jehovah will speak to Mo-
ses in this self-same day, saying,

49 Come up to this mountain Aba-
rim, the mountain Nebo, which 15 in the
Jand of Moab against the face of Jeri-
cho; and see the land of Canaan which
I gave to the sons of Israel for a pos-
session.

50 And die in the mountain which
thou camest there, and be gathered to
thy people, as Aaron thy brother died
in mount Hor and was gathered to his
people:

51 Because ye acted treacherously
against me in the midst of the sons of
Israel at the waters of contradiction, of
Kadesh in the desert Zin; because ye
consecrated me not in the midst of the
sons of Israel.

52 But thou shalt see the land from
before, and thou shalt not come in
there to the land which I gave to the
sons of Israel.

CHAPTER XXXIIT.
ND this the blessing which Moses
the man of God praised the sons
of Israel before his death.

2 And he will say, Jehovah came
from mount Sinai, and he rose up from
Seir to them; he. shone forth from
mount Paran, he came from ten thou-
sand of Kadesh; from his right hand
a fire of law for them.

3 Surely, he loved the peoples; all
his holy ones in thy hand: they lay
down at thy foot; and he will take of
thy words. :

4 Moses commanded a law for us,
the inheritance of the gathering of Jacob.

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5 And he will be king in Jeshurtin,
in the gathering the heads of the peo-
ple, he united together the tribes of Is-
rael,

6 Reuben shall live and shall not
die; and his men shall be of number.

7 And this to Judah: and he will
say, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah,
and thou wilt bring him to his people;
his hands a multitude for him, and
thou wilt be a help from his adversa-
ries.

8 And to Levi he said, Thy Truth
and thy Light to the godly man whom
they tried in the trial; thow wilt con-
tend with him at the water of eonten-
tion.

9 He saying to his father and to
his mother, I saw him not, and his
brethren he knew not, and he knew
not his sons; for they watched thy say-
ings and they will keep thy covenant:

10 And they shall teach thy judg-
ments to Jacob, and thy law to Israel ;
they will put incense at thy nose, and
whole burnt-offerings upon thine altar.

11 Bless, Jehovah, his strength, and
thou wilt accept the work of his hands:
smite through and through the loins of
those rising up against him, and those
hating him, lest they shall rise up.

12 To Benjamin he said, The beloved
of Jehovah shall dwell confidently by
him; he covered over him all the day,
and he dwelt between his shoulders.

18 And to Joseph he said, 1118 land
from the blessing of Jehovah, from the
most excellent of the heavens, from the
dew and from the deep rechning be-
neath,

14 And from the most excellent of
the produce of the sun, and from the
most excellent thrust forth of the
moons,

15 And from the head of the moun-
tains of the beginning, and from the
most excellent of the perpetual hills, —

16 And from the most excellent of .
the earth and its fulness, and the 86-
ceptance of him dwelling in the bram-
ble: it shall come to’ the head of Jo-
seph, and to the crown of the consecra-
ted of his brethren.

17 The honor to him the first-born
of the: bullock, his horns the horns: of

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the unicorn: with them he will thrust
the peoples together to the extremity
of the earth: these the ten thousands
of Ephraim, and these the thousands of
Manasseh.

18 And to Zebulon he said, Rejoice,
Zebulon, in thy going forth, and Issa-
char, in thy tents.

19 They shall call the peoples to the
mountain; there they shall sacrifice
sacrifices of justice, for they shall suck
the abundance of the sea, and the hid-
den things hid in the sand.

20 And to Gad he said, Blessed le
enlarging Gad: he dwelt as a lion, and
he tore up the arm, also the crown.

21 And he will see the first-fruits to
himself, for there the portion of the
ruler he covered: and he will mark out
the heads of the people; he did the jus-
tice of Jehovah, and his judgments
with Israel.

22, And to Dan he said, Dan a lion’s
whelp: he shall spring forth from Ba-
shan.

23 And to Naphtali he said, Naph-
[811] satisfied with acceptance, and
filled with the blessing of Jehovah, he
shall possess the sea and the south.

24 And to Asher he said, Asher
blessed from sons; he shall be accepted
of his brethren, and he dipped his foot
in oil.

25 Thy bolt, iron and brass; and as
thy days, thy rest.

26 None as the God of Jeshurun,
riding the heavens in thy help and in
his lifting, up the choirs.

27 The God of the beginning testify-
ing, and underneath, the perpetual
arms: and he will thrust out the ene-
my from before thee, and will say, De-
stroy.

28 And Israel shall dwell confidently

alone; the eye of Jacob upon a land_of |

grain and new wine, also his heavens
shall drop dew.

29 Happy, thou, Israel: who like
thee, a people saved by Jehovah, the
shield of thy help, and who the sword
of thy lifting up! and thine enemies
will lie to thee, and thou. wilt tread
upon their heights.

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CHAPTER XXXIV.
ND Moses will go up from the
desert of Moab to mount Nebo,
the head of Pisgah, which is upon the
face of Jericho: and Jehovah will
cause him to see all the land of Gilead,
even to Dan.

2 And all Naphtali, and the land of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the
land of Judah, even to the last sea.

3 And the south and the cireuit in
the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-
trees, even to Zoar.

4 And Jehovah will say to hin,
This the land which I sware to Abra-
ham to Isaak and to Jacob, saying, ΤῸ
thy seed will I give it: I caused thee
to see with thine eyes, and thou shalt
not pass over there.

5 And Moses the servant of Jehovah
will die there in the land of Moab, at
the mouth of Jehovah.

6 And he will bury him in a valley
im the land of Moab, over against the
116086 of the Cleft: and no man knew
his grave till this day.

7 And Moses the son of a hundred
and twenty years in his dying: his eye
was not weak, and the freshness fled
not,

8 And the sons of Israel will weep
for Moses in the desert of Moab thirty
days: and the days of the weeping of
the mourning for Moses will be fin-
ished.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was
filled with the spirit of wisdom; for
Moses placed his hands upon him; and
the sons of Israel will hear to him, and
they will do as Jehovah commanded
Moses.

10 And there arose not any more a
prophet in Israel as Moses, whom Je-
hovah knew him face to face.

11 According to all the signs and the
wonders which Jehovah sent him to do

‘in the land of 1906 to Pharaoh and

to all his servants, and to all his
land ;

12 According to the strong hand,
and according to the great fear which
Moses did before the eyes of all Is-
rael.

JOSHUA.

CHAPTER 1.
ND it will be after the death of
Moses, the servant of Jehovah,
Jehovah will say to Joshua, son of Nun,
serving Moses, saying,

2 Moses my servant died; and now
arise, pass through this Jordan, thou
and all this people, to the land which I
gave to them to the sons of Israel.

3 Every place which the sole of your
foot shall tread upon it, to you I gave
it as I spake to Moses.

4 From the desert and this Lebanon,
and even to the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,
and even to the great sea, from the go-
ing down of the sun, shall be your
bound.

5 No man shall stand before thee all
the days of thy life: as I was with Mo-
ses, I will be with thee: I will not for-
sake thee and I will not leave thee.

6 Be strong and be active; for thou
shalt. cause Israel to inherit the land
which 1 sware to their fathers to give
to them,

7 Only be strong and be greatly ac-
tive, to watch to do according to all the
law which Moses my servant command-
ed thee: thou shalt not turn aside from
it to the right and to the left, so that
thou shalt be wise in all things where
thou shalt go.

8 And the book of this law shall not
depart from thy mouth; and meditate
thou in it day and night, so that thou
shalt watch to do according to all writ-
ten in it: for then thou shalt prosper
thy ways, and then thou shalt be wise.

9 Did I not command thee? Be
strong and be active; thou shalt not
fear and thou shalt not bend: for Je-
hovah thy God is with thee in all where
thou shalt go.

10 And Joshua will command the
scribes of the people, saying,

11 Pass through in the midst of the
camp and command the people, saying,
Prepare to yourselves food, for yet
three days ye pass through this Jordan

to go to possess the land which Jehovah
your God gave to you to inherit it.

12 And to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manas-
seh, Joshua said, saying,

13 Remember the word which Moses
the servant of Jehovah commanded
you, saying, Jehovah your God causes
you to rest, and he gaye to you this land.

14 Your wives, your little ones, and
your cattle shall dwell in the land which
Moses gaye to you on the other side
Jordan ; and ye shall pass over, being
brave, before your brethren, all being
strong, of the host, and help them ;

15 Till Jehovah shall cause rest to
your brethren as you and they also shall
inherit the Jand which Jehovah your
God gave to them: and ye turned
back to the land of your possession,
and ye shall inherit it, which Moses the
servant of Jehovah gave to you on the
other side of Jordan from the rising of
the sun.

16 And they will answer Joshua,
saying, All which thou didst command
us, we will do, and where thou shalt
send us, we will go.

17 According to all that we heard to
Moses, so will we hear to thee: only
Jehovah thy God shall be with thee as
he was with Moses.

18 Every man who shall tesist thy
mouth, and shall not hear thy words
according to all which thou shalt com-
mand him, he shall die: only be strong
and be active.

CHAPTER II.

ND Joshua son of Nun will send

out of Shittim two men spying
silently, saying, Go see the land, and
Jericho. And they will go, and will
come to the house of a woman, a har-
lot, and her name Rahab; and they
will lie there.

2 And it will be said to the king of
Jericho, Behold, men came here this
night from the sons of Israel to search
out the land.

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JOSHUA IIL

8 And the king of Jericho will send
to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men
having come to thee, which came to
thy house: for to search out the land
they came.

4 And the woman will take the two
men and hide them, and will say thus,
Two men came to me, and I knew not
from whence they were.

5 And it will be for the shutting the
gate in darkness, and the men went
forth, and I knew not whither the men
went: pursue quickly after them, for
ye shall overtake them.

6 And she brought them up to the
roof, and she will hide them in woody
flax arranged by her upon the roof.

7 And the men pursued after them
the way of Jordan at the passages: and
they shut the gate afterwards as they
pursuing after them went forth.

8 And before they will lie down, and
she went up to them upon the roof;

9 And she will say to the men, I
knew that Jehovah gave to you the
land, and that your terror fell upon us,
and that all the inhabitants of the land
melted from your face.

10 For we heard that Jehovah dried
up the water of the sea of sedge from
before you, in your coming out of
Egpyt; and what ye did to the two
kings of the Amorites that were upon
the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and
to Og, whom ye destroyed them.

11 And hearing, our heart will melt
and there rose up no more spirit ina
man on account of your face: For Je-
hovah your God, he the God in the
heavens from above and upon the
earth beneath. i

12 And now, swear now tome by
Jehovah, as I did with you mercy, and
do ye also mercy with the house of my
father, and give to me a true sign.

13 And preserve alive my father and
my mother, and my brethren, and my
sisters, and all which is to them, and
take away our souls from death.

14 And the men will say to her, Our
soul instead of yours to die 11 ye shall not
announce this our word. And it being
in Jehovah’s giving to us the land, and
we did with thee mercy and truth.

15 And she will let them down by a

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cord through the window; for her house
was upon the wall side and she will
dwell upon the wall.

16 And she will say to them, Go to
the mountain, lest they pursuing shall
meet with you; and hide yourselves
there three days till they pursuing turn
back: and afterward ye shall go to
your way.

17 And the men will say to her, We
are free from this thine oath which thou
caused us to swear.

18 Behold, we come into the land,
thou shalt bind the line of this scarlet
thread in the window which thou didst
let us down by it: and thy father and
thy mother and thy brethren, and all
thy father’s house thou shalt gather to
thee to the house.

19 And it was all which went forth
out of the doors of thy house without,
his blood upon his head and we are
free, and all which shall be with thee
in the house, his blood upon our head
if a hand shall be upon him.

20 And if thou shalt announce this
our word, and we were free from thine
oath which thou didst cause us to
swear.

21 And she will say, According to
your words so be it. And she will
send them away and they will go: and
she will bind the searlet cord in the
window.

22 And they will go, and will come
to the mountain, and will dwell there
three days till they pursuing turned
back: and they pursuing will seek in
all the way, and they found not.

23 And the two men will turn back

and come down from the תוס הד‎

and will pass over, and will come to
Joshua the son of Nun, and will re-
count to him all things having found
them.

24 And they will say to Joshua that
Jehovah gave into our hand all the
land; and also all the inhabitants of
the land melted from before us.

CHAPTER IIL
ND Joshua will rise early in the
morning; and they will remove
from Shittim and they will come even
to Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel,

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and they will pass the night there be-
fore they will pass over.

2 And it will be from the end of
three days and the scribes will pass
through in the midst of the camp.

8 And they will command the peo-
ple, saying, When ye see the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah your God, and
the priests the Levites lifting 10 up, and
ye shall remove from your place and
go after it.

4 But it shall be far off between you
and between it, about two thousand
cubits by measure: ye shall not draw
near to it so that ye shall know the
way which ye shall go in it; for ye
passed not through the way from yes-
terday the third day.

5 And Joshua will say to the people,
Consecrate yourselves, for to-morrow
Jehovah will do wonderful things in
the midst of you.

6 And Joshua will say to the priests,
saying, Lift up the ark of the covenant
and pass through before the people.
And they will lift up the ark of the
covenant and will go before the people.

7 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
This day I will begin to make thee
great in the eyes of all Israel, that they
shall know that as 1 was with Moses
I will be with thee.

8 And thou shalt command 6
priests lifting up the ark of the cove-
nant, saying, When ye come to the ex-
tremity of the water of Jordan ye shall
stand in Jordan.

9 And Joshua will say to the sons of
Israel, Come near here and hear the
words of Jehovah your God.

* 10 And Joshua will say, By this ye
shall know that the living God is in the
midst of you; and destroying, he will
destroy from your face the Canaanite
and the Hittite and the Hivite and the
Perizzite and the Girgashite and the
Amorite and the Jebusite,

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth passing
through before you into Jordan,

12 And now take to you twelve men
from the tribes of Israel, one man, one
man to a tribe,

18 And it was as the soles of the feet
of the priests lifting up the ark of Jeho-

JOSHUA IV.

vah, the Lord of all the earth, rested
in the water of Jordan, the water of
Jordan shall be cut off from the waters
coming down from above; and they
shall stand one heap.

14 And it shall be in the people’s re-
moving from their tents to pass through
Jordan, and the priests lifting up the
ark of the covenant before the people;

15 And as they lifting up the ark
come to Jordan, and the feet of the
priests lifting up the ark were dipped
in the extremity of the waters (and
Jordan was filled up to all its banks
all the days of harvest,)

16 And the waters coming down
from above will stand, they rose up one
heap very far off in Adam, the city
which is by the side of Zaretan; and
coming down upon the sea of the desert,
the salt sea, they ceased, they were cut
off: and the people passed through
over against Jericho.

17 And the priests lifting up the ark
of the covenant of Jehovah will stand
firm upon the dry land that in the
midst of Jordan, and all Israel passing
over upon the dry till all the peoples
finished to pass over Jordan.

CHAPTER IV.
ND it shall be as all the people
finished passing over Jordan, and
Jehovah will say to Joshua,

2.Take to you from the people twelve
men, one man, one man from a tribe;

3 And command ye them, saying,
Take up to you from hence out of the
midst of Jordan from the firm standing
of the feet of the priests, twelve stones,
and pass them over with you, and de-
posit them in the lodging place where
ye shall remain in it the night.

4 And Joshua will call to the twelve
men whom he prepared from the sons
of Israel, one man, one man from a
tribe :

5 And Joshua will say to them,
Pass ye over before the ark of Jehovah
your God into the midst of Jordan,
and lift wp to you each one stone upon
hig shoulder according to the number
of the tribes of the sons of Israel:

6 So that this shall be a sion in the
midst of you, when your sons shall asl

JOSHUA ץצ‎

to-morrow, saying, What these stones to
ou?

7 And say ye to them that the waters
of Jordan were cut off from before the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its
passing through Jordan the waters of
Jordan were cut off: and these stones
were for a remembrance to the sons of
Israel even to forever.

8 And thesons of Israel will do so as
Joshua commanded, and they will lift
up the twelve stones out of the midst
of Jordan, as Jehovah spake to Joshua
according to the number of the tribes
of the sons of Israel, and they will pass
them over with them to the lodging
place, and they will deposit them there.

9 And Joshua raised up twelve
stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place of the standing of the feet of the
priest lifting up the ark of the cove-

nant: and they shall be there till this
day.

10 And the priests lifting up the ark
standing in the midst of Jordan, till all
was finished which Jehovah command-
ed Joshua to speak to the people, ac-
cording to all which Moses commanded
Joshua: and the people will haste and
will pass through.

11 And it will be as all the people
finished passing over, and the ark of
Jehovah will pass through, and the
priests before the people.

_ 12 And the sons of Reuben will pass
through, and the sons of Gad and half
the tribe of Manasseh, brave in battle,
before the sons of Israel, as Moses spake
to them.

13 About forty thousand drawn out
for war, passed over before Jehovah to
war, to the desert of Jericho.

14 In that day Jehovah made Joshua
great in the eyes of all Israel, and they
will fear him as they feared Moses all
the days of his life.

15 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
saying,

16 Command the priests lifting up
the ark of the testimony, and they shall
come up out of Jordan.

17 And Joshua will command the
pees saying, Come up out of Jor-

an.

18 And it will be in the priests lift-

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ing up the ark of the covenant of Jeho-

vah coming up from the midst of Jor-
dan, the soles of the feet of the priests
were plucked up to the dry land, and
the waters of Jordan will turn back to
their place and will go as yesterday the
third day, over all its banks.

19 And the people came up out of
Jordan in the tenth to the first month,
and they will encamp in Gilgal, in the
extremity of the sunrising of * Jericho.

20 And these twelve stones which they

took out of Jordan, Joshua set in Gilgal.

21 And he will say to the sons of Is-
rael, saying, When your sons shall ask
their fathers. to- -morrow, saying, What
these stones ?

22 And make ye known to your
sons, saying, Upon dry land Israel
passed through this Jordan.

23 That Jehovah your God dried up
the water of Jordan from before you
till your passing through as Jehovah
your God did to the sea “of sedge which
he dried up from before us till our
passing through :

24 So that all the people of the earth
knew the hand of Jehovah that it is
strong: so that ye shall fear Jehovah
your God all the days.

CHAPTER יצ‎

ND it will be as all the kings of

the Amorites heard which were

beyond Jordan to the sea, and all the

kings of the Canaanites which were up-

on the sea, that Jehovah dried up the

water of J. ordan from before the sons of

Israel till we passed over, and their

heart will melt; and there was no more

spirit in them from the face of the sons
of Israel.

2 In that time Jehovah said to Josh-
ua, Make to thee swords of stone, and
turning back, circumcise the sons of Is-
rael the second time.

8 And Joshua will make to him
swords of stone and will circumcise the
sons of Israel at the hill of uncireum-
cisions :

4 And this the reason that Joshua
circumcised: all the people came forth
out of Egypt, the males, all the men of
war, died in the desert in the way, in
their coming out of Egypt.

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5 For all the people coming out were
circumcised ; and all the people born in
the desert im the way, in their coming
out of Egypt, were not circumcised.

6 For forty years the sons of Israel
went in the desert till all the people of
the men of war coming out of Hgypt were
finished, who heard not to the voice of
Jehovah: which Jehovah sware to
them, not for them to see the land
which Jehovah sware to their fathers
to give to us, a land flowing milk and
honey.

7 And their sons he raised up in

their stead, them Joshua circumcised, | -

for they were uncircumcised, for they
circumcised them not in the way.

8 And it shall be as all the people
finished to be circumcised, and they
- dwelt im their place in the camp till
they revived.

9 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
This day I rolled away the reproach of
Egypt from off you. And he will call
the name of that place Gilgal till this
day.

10 And the sons of Israel will en-
camp in Gilgal, and they will do the
passover in the fourteenth day of the
month, in the evening, in the plain of
Jericho.

11 And they will eat from the grain
of the land from the morrow of the
passover, unleavened and roasted in
the self-same day.

12 And the manna will cease from
the morrow in their eating from the
grain of the land; and manna was no
more to the sons of Israel; and they
will eat from the produce of the land of
Canaan in that year.

13 And it will be in Joshua’s being
by Jericho, and he will lift up his eyes
and will see, and behold, a man stand-
ing before him and his sword drawn in
his hand; and Joshua will go to him
and say to him, Art thou for us or for
our adversaries ?

14 And he will say, No; but I chief
of the army of Jehovah come now.
And Joshua will fall on his face to the
earth and will worship him, and will
say to him, What speaks my lord to
his servant ?

15 And the captain of Jehovah’s host

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will say to Joshua, Put off thy shoe
from thy foot, for the place which thou
standest upon it, itis holy: and Josh-
ua will do so.

CHAPTER VI.

Λ ND Jericho was shut up; and be-

-\ | ing shut up from before the sons
of Israel, none will come out and none
came in.

2 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
See, I gave into thy hand Jericho and
her king, and the mighty ones of
strength.

3 And encompass the city all ye men
of war, and surround the city one time:
so shalt thou do six days.

4 And seven priests shall lift up
seven trumpets of alarms before the ark :
and in the seventh day ye shall encom-
pass the city seven times, and the
priests shall clang the trumpets.

5 And it was in prolonging upon the
horn of the jubilee in your hearing, the
voice of the trumpet, and all the people
shall shout a great shout: and the walls
of the city shall fall under it, and the
people went up each before him.

6 And Joshua son of Nun will call
to the priests and say to them, Lift up
the ark of the covenant, and seven
priests shall lift up seven trumpets of
signals hefore the ark of Jehovah.

7 And they will say to the people,
Pass through and surround the city,
and he being armed shall pass by be-
fore the ark of Jehovah.

8 And it will be as Joshua said to
the people, and the seven priests lifting
up the seven trumpets of alarms before
Jehovah, passed by and clanged upon
the trumpets: and the ark of the cove-
nant of Jehovah went after them.

9 And he being armed, went before
the priests that clanged with the trum-
pets, and the gathering went after the
ark, going and clanging with the trum-

ets.

| 10 And Joshua commanded the peo-
ple, saying, Ye shall not shout, and ye
shall not cause your voice to be heard,
and a word shall not go forth out of
your mouth till the day I said to you,
Shout, and shout ye.

11 And the ark of Jehovah will en-

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compass the city, surrounding one time:| 22 And to the two men spying the

and they will come into the camp and
will pass the night in the camp.

12 And Joshua will rise early in the
morning, and the priests will lift up the
ark of Jehovah.

13 And seven priests lifting up seven
trumpets of alarms before the ark of
Jehovah went on going, and they clang-
ed with the trumpets, and he being
armed went before them; and the gath-
ering went after the ark of Jehovah, go-
ing and clanging with the trumpets.

14 And they will surround the city
in the secoud day one time, and they
will turn back to the camp. So they
did six days.

15 And it will be in the seventh day,
and they will rise early in the ascend-
ing of the dawn, and they will encom-
pass the city according to this judgment

seven times; only in that day they en-,

compassed the city seven times.

16 And it will be in the seventh time
the priests, clanged with the trumpets
and Joshua will say to the people,
Shout; for Jehovah gave to you the
י‎ City.

17 And the city was devoted, it, and
all which is in it, to Jehovah: only
Rahab the harlot shall live; she and
all which with her in the house, because
she hid the messengers which we sent.

18 And ye, watch ye from the devo-
ted thing lest ye shall be devoted, and
ye take from the devoted thing and ye
set the camp of Israel to be devoted,
and ye troubled it.

19 And all the silver and gold and
vessels of brass and iron, it holy to Je-
hovah: it shall be brought to the
treasury of Jehovah.

20 And the people will shout and
clang with the trumpets: and it will be
as the people heard the voice of the
trumpet, and the people will shout a
great shout, and the wall will fall under
it, and the people will go up to the
city, each before him, and they will
take the city.

21 And they will devote all which in
י‎ the city, from man and even to woman,
and from the youth even to the old
man, and ox and sheep and ass, to the
mouth of the sword.

land Joshua said, Go in to the house of
the woman, the harlot, and bring forth
from thence the woman and all which
is to her, as ye sware to her.

23 And the young men spying will
go in and bring forth Rahab, and her
father and her mother and her breth-
ren, and all which is to ler; and all
her famihes they will bring forth, and
they will leave them without the camp
of Israel.

24 And they burnt the city in fire
and all which is init: only the silver
and the gold and the vessels of brass
and iron they gave to the treasury of
the house of Jehovah.

25 And Rahab the harlot, and the
house of her father and all which is to
her, Joshua preserved alive; and she
will dwell in the midst of Israel till this
day, because she hid the messengers
which Joshua sent out to spy Jericho.

26 And Joshua will swear in that
time, saying, Cursed the man before
Jehovah who shall rise up and build
this city Jericho: im his first-born he
shall lay its foundation and in his
younger he shall set up its doors.

27 And Jehovah will be with
Joshua; and his fame will be in all the
land.

CHAPTER VIL

ND the sons of Israel will trans-

gress a transgression in the de-
voted thing: and Achan, son of Carmi,
son of Zabdi, son of Zerah to the tribe
of Judah, will: take from the devoted
thing: and the anger of Jehovah will
kindle: against the sons of Israel.

2 And Joshua will send men from
Jericho to Ai, which is by the house of
Ain, from the east, to the house of God,
and he will say to them, saying, Go up
and spy the land. And the men will
go up and will spy Ai.

3 And they will turn back to Joshua,
and will say to him, All the people
shall not go up; about two thousand
men or about three thousand men shall
go up and smite Ai: thou shalt not
weary there all the people for they
few.

4 And they will go up there from

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the people about three thousand men:
and they will flee from the face of the
men of Ai.

5 And the men of Ai will smite of
them about thirty and six men; and
they will pursue them before the gate,

even to Shebarim; and they will smite
them in going down, and the heart of
the people will melt and will be as
water.

6 And Joshua will rend his garments
and will fall upon his face to the earth
before the ark of Jehovah even till
evening, he and the old men of Israel ;
and they will lift up dust upon their
heads.

7 And Joshua will say, Ah! Lord
Thor ah, wherefore, passing over, didst
thou cause this people to pass over Jor-
dan, to give us into the hand of the
Amorite, to destroy us? and would we
were contented and dwelt on the other
side of Jordan!

8 With leave, O Lord, what to say,
after that [seal turned back the neck
before his enemies.

9 And the Canaanite and all inhabit-
ing the land shall hear, and they en-
compassed about us, and they cut off
our name from ‘lies earth: and what
wilt thou do to thy great name?

10 And Farge a will say to Joshua,
Rise up; for thyself wherefore this
didst thow fall upon thy face ?

11 Israel sinned and also passed by
my covenant which I commanded them :
and also they took from the devoted
thing, and also stole, and also lied, and
also put in their vessels.

12 And the sons of Israel shall not
be able to rise up before their enemies ;
they will turn the neck before their en-
emies for they were for a devoted thing :
I will not add to be with you if ye will
not destroy the devoted thing from the
-- of you.

3 Arise, consecrate the people, and
say, fae ye consecrated for the morrow :
for ‘hus ‘said Jehovah the God of Israel,
A devoted thing in the midst of thee,
O Israel: thou shalt not be able to rise
up before thine enemy till your remov-
ing the devoted thing from ‘the midst of
you.
14 And come near in the morning

JOSHUA VII.

according to your tribes: and it was
the tribe which Jehovah shall take of
us shall come near according to the fam-
ihes; and the family which Jehovah
shall take shall come near according to
houses; and the house which Jehovah
shall take shall come near according to
the men.

15 And it was he being taken with
the devoted thing shall be burnt in fire,
he and all which is to him: for he
passed by the covenant of Jehovah, and
because he did folly in Israel.

16 And Joshua will rise early in the
morning, and he will bring Israel near
according to his tribes; and he will
take the tribe of Judah.

17 And he will bring near the family
of Judah; and he will take the family
of the Zarhites: and he will bring near
the family of the Zarhites according to
the men; and Zabdi will be taken.

18 And he will bring near his house
according to the men, and Achan the
son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Ze-
rah, to the tribe of Judah, will be taken.

19 And Joshua will say to Achan,
My son, set now, honor to Jehoy ah:
the God of Israel, ‘and give to him con-
fession; and annoence now to me what
thou didst ; thou shalt not hide from me.

20 And Achan will answer Joshua
and will say, Truly. I sinned against
Jehovah the God of Israel, and accord-
ing to this, and according to this I did.

21 And I shall see in the plunder a
wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and
two hundred shekels of silver and one
tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its
weight, and I shall desire them, and
shall take them, and behold them hid
in the earth in the midst of my tent,
and the silver under it.

22 And Joshua will send messengers,
and they will run to the tent, and be-
hold, the hiding in his tent, and the sil-
ver under it.

23 And they will take them from the
midst of the tent and will bring them
to Joshua, and to all the sons of Israel,
and they will pour them out before Je-
hovah.

24 And Joshua will take Achan, the
son of Zerah, and the silver and the
wide cloak, and the tongue of gold, and

JOSHUA VIII.

his sons and his daughters, and his oxen,
and his asses, and his sheep and his tent,
and all which is to him, and all Israel
with him, and they will bring them up
to the valley of Achor.

25 And Joshua will say, Why didst
thou trouble us? Jehovah will trouble
thee in this day, and all Israel will
stone him with stone, and they will
burn them in fire, and they will stone
them with stones.

26 And they will raise up upon him
a great heap of stones even till this day.
And Jehovah will turn back from the
wrath of his anger: for this, the name
of that place was called, The valley of
Achor, even to this day.

CHAPTER, VIIL

ND Jehovah will say to Joshua,

Thou shalt not fear, and thou

shalt not be terrified: take with thee

all the people of war, and arise, go up

to Ai: see, I gave into thy hand the

king of Ai, and his people and his city
and his land :

2 And do to Ai and to her king as
thou didst to Jericho and to her kine:
only its plunder and her cattle ye shall
plunder to yourselves: set to thee an
ambush to the city from behind it.

8 And Joshua will rise, and all the
people of war, to go up to Ai: and
Joshua will choose thirty thousand men
mighty of strength, and he will send
them by night.

4 And he will command them, say-
ing, See, ye lie in wait against the city,
behind the city: ye shall not be far off
from the city greatly, and be ye all of
you prepared :

5 And 1 and all the people that are
with me will draw near to the city:
and it was when they shall come forth
to our meeting as at the first, and we
fled before them.

6 And they will come out after us,
and we drew them away from the city,
for they will say, They flee before us
as at the first: and we fled before their
face.

7 And ye shall rise up from the am-
bush and seize the city: and Jehovah
your God gave it into your hand.

8 And it was when ye seize the city,

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ye shall set. the city on fire: according
to the word of Jehovah ye shall do:
See, 1 commanded you.

9 And Joshua will send them away ;
and they will go to the ambush, and
they will dwell between the house of
God and between Ai, from the sea to
Ai: and Joshua will remain in that
night in the midst of the people.

10 And Joshua will rise early in the
morning and will review the people,
and he will go up, and the old men of
Israel, before the people of Ai.

11 And all the people of war that
were with him went up, and they will
draw near, and come before the city,
and will encamp on the north to ΑἹ:
and the valley between them and Ai.

12 And he will take about five thou-
sand men and set them in ambush be-
tween the house of God and between
Ai, from the sea, to the city.

18 And the people will set all the
camp which is from the north to the
city, and its lying in wait, from the sea
to the city; and Joshua will go in that
night into the midst of the valley.

14 And it will be when the king of
Ai saw, and they will hasten and will
rise early, and the men of the city will
come forth to the meeting of Israel, to
war, he, and all his people, at the ap-
pointment before the desert: and he
knew not that an ambush to him from
behind the city.

15 And Joshua and all Israel will be
smitten before them, and will flee the
way of the desert.

16 And all the people which are in
the city will be called together to pur-
sue after them, and they will pursue af-
ter Joshua, and be drawn away from
the city.

17 And a man was not left in Ai and
the house of God, who will not go forth
after Israel: and they will leave the city
opened and will pursue after Israel.

18 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
Stretch with the javelin which is in
thine hand, to Ai; for into thine hand
will I give it. AndJoshua will stretch
forth with the javelin which’ in his
hand, to the city.

19 And the ambush rose quickly
from its place, and they will run when

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he stretched out his hand: and they will
come into the city and take it, and they
will hasten and set the city on fire.

20 And the men of Ai will turn back
behind them and will see, and behold,
the smoke of the city went up to the
heavens, and there was not with them
hands to flee hither and thither: and
the people having fled, turned back to
the pursuers.

21 And Joshua and all Israel saw
that the ambush took the city, and
that the smoke of the city went up, and
they will turn back and smite the men
of Ai.

22 And these will go forth from the
city to their meeting; and they will
be to Israel in the midst of these from
hence, and these from thence: and they
will smite them till none were left to
them fleeing and escaping.

23 And the king of Ai they seized,
living, and they will bring him to
Joshua. ,

24 And it will be when Israel fin-
ished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in
the field in the desert, where they pur-
sued them in it, and all of them will fall
before the mouth of the sword till they
were finished, and all Israel will turn
back to Ai and will smite it by the
mouth of the sword.

25 And it will be, all falling in that
day from men, even to women, twelve
thousand; all the men of Ai,

26 And Joshua turned not back his
hand which he stretched out with the
spear till he exterminated all the inhab-
itants of Ai.

27 Only the cattle and spoil of that
city Israel plundered to themseves, ac-
cording to the word of Jehovah which
he commanded Joshua.

28 And Joshua will burn Ai and set
it a heap forever, a waste 606 to this
day.

29 And the king of Ai he hung upon
the tree till the time of evening: and
when the sun went down Joshua com-
manded and they will take down his
carcass from the tree and cast it at the
opening of the gate of the city, and they
will set upon it a great heap of stones
till this day.

80 Then Joshua will build an altar

JOSHUA IX.

to Jehovah the God of Israel in mount
Kbal.

31 As Moses the servant of Jehovah
commanded the sons of Israel, as it was
written in the book of the law of Moses,
an altar of stones complete, which iron
was not lifted up upon them: and they
will bring up upon it burnt-offerings to
Jehovah, and will sacrifice peace.

32 And he will write there upon the
stones the second of the law of Moses
which he wrote before the sons of Is-
rael.

83 All Israel and his old men and
scribes, and his judges stood hence, and
thence, to the ark before the priests the
Leyites, lifting up the ark of the cove-
nant of Jehovah, so the stranger as the
native; half of them in front of mount
Gerizim, and half of them in front of
mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of
Jehovah commanded to bless the peo-
ple of Israel in the beginning.

84 And after this he read all the
words of the law, the blessing and the
curse, according to all the writing m
the book of the law.

85 There was not a word from all
that Moses commanded which Joshua
read not before all the gathering of Is-
racl, and the women and the little ones
and the stranger going in the midst of
them.

CHAPTER IX.
ND it will be when all the kings

\. hear which are on the other side
Jordan, in the mountain and in the
plain, and in all the coast of the great
sea, and in front of Lebanon, the Hit-
tite and the Amorite, the Canaanite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebu-
site ;

2 And they will gather together to
fight with Joshua and with Israel with
one mouth.

8 And the inhabitants of Gibeon
heard what Joshua did to Jericho and
to Ai.

4 And they will do in guile, and will
go and will lay snares, and will take
sacking worn out, for their asses, and
leather sacks of wine worn out, and be-
ing rent and bound up ;

5 And shoes worn out and mended,

JOSHUA X.

upon their feet, and garments worn out
upon them; and all the bread of their
food dry ; it was crumbs.

6 And they will come to Joshua to
the camp at Gilgal, and will say to him
and to the men of Israel, From a land
far off we came: and now cut out to
us a covenant.

7 And the men of Israel will say to
the Hivite, Perhaps thou shalt dwell in
the midst of me, and I shall not make
a covenant to thee.

8 And they will say to Joshua, We
thy servants. And Joshua will say to
them, Who are ye? and from whence
will ye come?

9 And they will say to him, From a
land very far off thy servants came, for
the name of Jehovah thy God ; for we
heard his fame and all that he did in
Egypt,

10 And all that he did to the two
kings of the Amorites on the other side
of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon,
and to Og, king of Bashan, in Ashta-
roth.

11 And our old men and all the in-
habitants of our land will say to us,
saying, Take in your hand food for the
way, and go to meet them, and say to
them, We your servants: and now cut
out to us a covenant:

12 This the hot bread we took it for
food from our houses in the day we
came forth to come to you; and now,
behold, it dry, and it was crumbs :

13 And these leather sacks of wine
which we filled, new, and behold, they
were rent; and these our garments and
our shoes worn out from the exceeding
greatness of the way.

14 And the men will take of their
food, and they asked not the mouth of
Jehovah.

15 And Joshua will make peace to
them, and will cut out to them a cove-
nant to preserve them alive: and the
chiefs of the assembly sware to them.

16 And it will be from the end of
three days after they cut out a cove-
nant to them, and they will hear that
they are near to him, and they dwell
in the midst of him.

17 And the sons of Israel will re-
move and will come to their cities in

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the third day. And their cities, Gibe-
on and Chephirah and Barith, and Kir-
jath-Jearim.

18 And the sons of Israel smote them
not, for the chiefs of the assembly sware
to them by Jehovah the God of Israel.
And all the assembly will murmur
against the chiefs.

19 And all the chiefs will say to all
the assembly, We sware to them by Je-
hovah the God of Israel: and now we
shall not be able to touch upon them.

20 This we will do to them, and pre-
serve them alive; and anger shall not
be upon us for the oath that we sware
to them.

21 And the chiefs will say to them,

They shall live; and shall be cutting

wood and drawing water to all the as-
sembly as the chiefs spake to them.

22 And Joshua will call to them and
will speak to them, saying, For what
did ye deceive us, saying, We are very
far from you? and ye dwell in the
midst of us.

23 And now ye are cursed, and there
shall not be cut off from you to serve,
and hewing wood and drawing water
for the house of my God.

24 And they will answer Joshua, and
will say, Because being announced, it
was announced to thy servants that Je-
hovah thy God commanded Moses his
servant to give to you all the land, and
to destroy all inhabiting the land from
before you, and we shall be greatly
afraid for our souls from your face;
and we shall do this word.

25 And now, behold us in thy hand:
as is good and as is right in your eyes
to do to us, do.

26 And he will do so to them, and
he will deliver them from the hand of
the sons of Israel, and they slew them
not.

27 And Joshua will give them in
that day hewing wood and drawing
water for the assembly and for the al-
tar of Jehovah till this day, to the
place which he shall choose.

CHAPTER X.
ND it will be lord Zedek, king
of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua
took Ai and exterminated it; as he did

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to Jericho and to her king, so he did to
Ai and her king; and that the inhab-
itants of Gibeon made peace with Is-
rael, and they will be in the midst of
them.

2 And they will fear greatly, for a
great city was Gibeon, as one of the
cities of the kingdom, and that it was
great above ΑἹ, and all her men mighty.

3 And lord Zedek, king of Jerusalem,
will send to Hoham, king of Hebron,
and to Piram, king of Jarmuth, and to
Japhia, king of Lachish, and to Debir,
king of Helon, saying,

4 Come up to me and help me, and
we will smite Gibeon, because she made
pene with Joshua and with the sons of

srael.

5 And the five kings of the Amorites

will be gathered together and will come
up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of
Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king
of Lachish, the king of Kglon, they and
all their camps, and they will encamp
against Gibeon, and they will war
against her.

6 And the men of Gibeon will send to
Joshua to the camp of Gilgal, saying,
Slack not thy hands from thy servants ;
come up tous quickly, and save us and
help us; for all the kings of the Amor-
ites inhabiting the mountain gathered
themselves together against us.

7 And Joshua will come up from
Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
with him, and all the mighty of strength.

8 And Jehoyah will say to. Joshua,
Thou shalt not be afraid of them, for
into thy hands I gave them; a man of
them shall not stand before thee.

9 And Joshua will come to them
suddenly, all night he went up from
Gileal.

10 And Jehovah will discomfit them
before Israel, and will strike them a
great blow in Gibeon, and will pursue
them the way of the ascent of the house
of Horon, and he will strike them even
to Azekah and even to Makkedah.

11 And it will be in their fleeing from
before Israel, they in the descent of the
house of Horon, and Jehovah cast down
upon them great stones from the hea-
vens, even to Azekah; and more will
die who died by the stones of hail than

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whom the sons of Israel slew with the
sword.

12 Then will Joshua speak to Jeho-
vah in the day Jehovah will give the
Amorite before the sons of Israel, and
he will say before the eyes of Israel,
Sun in Gibeon, be thou silent, and thou
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the sun will be silent, and
the moon stood, till the people will be
avenged upon its enemies. Is it not
written upon the book of the upright?
and the sun will stand in the half of
the heavens, and it hasted not to go
down for a whole day.

14 And there was not as that day, be-
fore it and after it, that Jehovah heard
to the voice of a man: for Jehovah
fought for Israel.

15 And Joshua turned back, and all
Israel with him, to the camp of Gileal.

16 And these five kings will flee and
will hide in a cave in Makkedah.

17 And it will be announced to
Joshua, saying, The five kings were
found hid in a cave in Makkedah.

18 And Joshua will say, Roll creat
stones to the mouth of the cave, and
set men over it to watch them.

19 And ye shall not stand; pursue
after your enemies; cut off the rear of
them; ye shall not give them to come
in to their cities, for Jehovah your God
gave them into your hand.

20 And it will be when Joshua fin-
ished, and the sons of Israel, smiting
them an exceeding great blow till he
finished them, and they escaping, es-
caped from them and they will go to
the fortified cities.

21 And all the people will turn back
to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah
in peace: and none sharpened his
tongue against a man to the sons of
Israel.

22 And Joshua will say, Open the
mouth of the cave and bring forth to
me these five kings out of the cave.

23 And they will do so, and will
bring forth to him these five kings out
of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the
king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, the king of Kelon.

24 And it will be when they brought
these kings forth to Joshua, and Joshua

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will 6811 to every man of Israel, and will
say to the leaders of the men of war
having’ gone with him, Come near, put
your feet upon the necks of these kings.
And they will come near and put their
feet upon their necks.

25 And Joshua will say to them, Ye
shall not fear and ye shall not be dis-
mayed ; be strong and be active, for thus
will Jehovah do to all your enemies
whom ye war against them.

26 And Joshua will smite them after
this, and will kill them, and hang them
upon five trees: and they will be hang-
ing upon the trees till evening.

27 And it will be at the time of the
going down of the sun Joshua com-
manded, and they will take them down
from the trees and cast them into the
cave where they were hid there; and
they will put great stones upon the
mouth of the cave till this self-same day.

28 And Joshua took Makkedah in
that day, and he will smite her with the
mouth of the sword; and her king he
exterminated, them, and every soul
which was in her; none was left escap-
ing: and he will do to the king of Mak-
kedah as he did to the king of Jericho.

29 And Joshua will pass by and all
Israel with him from Makkedah to Lib-
nah, and will fight with Libnah.

80 And Jehovah will also give it into
the hand of Israel, and her king: and
he will smite it with the mouth of the
sword and every soul which is in it;
none was left in it escaping; and he
will do to her king as he did to the
king of Jericho.

31 And Joshua will pass over, and all
Israel with him, from Libnah to La-
chish, and he will encamp against it,
and he will fight against it.

82 And Jehovah will give Lachish
into the hand of Israel, and he will
take it in the second day, and smite it
with the mouth of the sword, and every
soul which is in it, according to all
which he did to Libnah.

₪5 Then Horam, king 01 Gezer, came
up to help Lachish; and Joshua will
smite him and his people till none was
left to him escaping.

84 And Joshua will pass over, and
all Israel with him, from Lachish to

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Eglon: and they will encamp against
it and they will war against it:

30 And they will take it in that day,
and they will smite it with the mouth
of the sword, and every soul which is
in it in that day he exterminated ac-
cording to all which he did to Lachish.

86 And Joshua will go up, and all
Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron ;
and they will war against it :

37 And they will take it and smite
it with the mouth of the sword, and its
king and all its cities and every soul
which is in it; none was left escaping,
according to all which he did to Kelon;
and he will exterminate it, and every
soul which is in it.

88 And Joshua will turn back, and
all Israel with him, to Debir; and he
will war against it.

89 And he will take it and its king,
and all its cities, and they will smite
them with the mouth of the sword, and
exterminate every soul which is in it;
none was left escaping: as he did to
Hebron so he did to Debir and to her
king, and as he did to Libnah and her
king.

40 And Joshua will smite all the
land of the mountain, and the south,
and the valley and the ravines, and all
their kings: and none was left escap-
ing, and all breathing was extermina-
ted, as Jehovah the God of Israel com-
manded.

41 And Joshua will smite from Ka-
desh-Barnea and even to Gaza, and all
the land of Goshen and even to Gibeon.

42 And all these kings תה‎ their
land Joshua took, one time; for Jeho-
vah the God of Israel fought for Israel.

43 And Joshua will turn back and
all Israel with him to the camp of Gil-
gal.

CHAPTER XI.

ND it will be when Jabin, king of

Ἃ Hazor, heard, and he willsend to

Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of

Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

2 And to the kings that were from

the north upon the mountain, and in

the desert south of Cinneroth, and in

the valley, and in the height of Dor
from the sea,

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3 The Canaanite from the sun-rising
and from the sea, and the Amorite and
the Hittite and the Perizzite, and the
Jebusite in the mountain, and the Hi-
vite under Hermon in the land of Miz-
peh.

4 And they will come forth, they,
and their camps with them, many peo-
ple, as the sand upon the lip of the sea
for multitude, and horse and chariot
exceeding many.

5 And all these kings will meet by
appointment, and they will come and
will encamp together at the water of
Merom, to war with Israel.

6 And Jehovah will say to Joshua,
Thou shalt not be afraid of their face:
for to-morrow about this time I gave
them all wounded before Israel: thou
shalt hamstring their horses and their
chariots thou shalt burn in fire.

7 And Joshua will come, and all the
people of war with him, upon them by
the water of Merom suddenly, and they
will fall upon them.

8 And Jehovah will give them into
the hand of Israel, and they will smite
them, and they will pursue them, even
to great Zidon, and even to Misrephoth-
Maim, and even to the valley of Miz-
peh from the sunrising; and he will
smite them till none was left to them
escaping.

9 And Joshua will do to them as Je-
hovah said to him: he hamstrung their
horses, and burnt their chariots in fire.

10 And Joshua will turn back in
that time and he will take Hazor, and
her king he smote with the sword: and
Hazor before them it is the head of all
these kingdoms.

11 And they will smite every soul
which 18 in it with the mouth of the
sword, exterminating: and no breath
was left: and he burnt Hazor in fire.

12 And all the cities of these kings
and all their kingdoms Joshua took,
and he will smite them with the mouth
of the sword, exterminating them, as
Moses the servant of Jehovah com-
manded.

13 Only all the cities standing upon
their heap, Israel burnt them not, ex-
cept Hazor only Joshua burnt.

14 And all the spoil of these cities

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and the cattle, the sons of Israel plun-
dered for themselves; only every man
they smote with the mouth of the
sword, till they destroyed them; not
any breath was left.

15 As Jehovah commanded Moses
his servant, so Moses commanded
Joshua, and so Joshua did: he turned
not aside a word from all which Jeho-
vah commanded Moses.

16 And Joshua will take all this
land, the mountain and all the south,
and all the land of Goshen, and the
plain, and the desert region and the
mountain of Israel, and its plain;

17 From the smooth mountain going
up to Seir, and even to the lord of Gad
in the plains of Lebanon under mount
Hermon: and all their kings he took,
and he will smite them and kill them.

18 Many days Joshua made war
with all these kings.

19 There was not a city that made
peace to the sons of Israel, only the
Hivites dwelling in Gibeon; they took
all in war.

20 For from Jehovah it was to
strengthen their heart to meet Israel in
war in order to destroy them; no favor
to be to them, but to destroy them as Je-
hovah commanded Moses.

21 And Joshua will go in that time
and will cut off the Anakims from the
mountain, from Hebron, from Debir,
from Anab, and from every mountain
of Judah, and from all the mountains
of Israel, with their cities Joshua exter-
minated them.

22 An Anakim was not left in the
land of the sons of Israel: only in
Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, they
were left.

23 And Joshua will take all the land
which Jehovah spake to Moses, and
Joshua will give it for an inheritance to
Israel according to their portion to
their tribes. And the land rested from
war.

CHAPTER XII.
ND these the kings of the land
which the sons of Israel smote;
and they will inherit their land, on the
other side Jordan from the rising of the
sun, from the torrent Arnon, even 0

JOSHUA XIIL

the mountain Hermon, and all the des-
ert from the sunrising:

2 Sihon, king of the Amorites, dwel-
ling in Heshbon, he ruled from Aroer,
which is upon the lip of the torrent
Arnon, and between the torrent and half
Gilead, and even to the torrent Jabbok,
the boundary of the sons of Ammon ;

8 And the desert even to the sea of
Cinneroth from the sunrising, and even
to the sea of the desert, the salt sea,
from the sunrising, the way of the
house of Jeshimoth ; and from the south
under the ravines of Pisgah:

4 And the bound of Og, king of
Bashan, being left of the Rephaims
dwelling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,

5 And he ruled in mount Hermon
and in Saleah, and in all Bashan, even
to the bound of Geshurite and the
Maachathite and half Gilead, the bound
of Sihon, king of Heshbon.

6 Moses the servant of Jehovah, and
the sons of Israel, smote them: and
Moses the servant of Jehovah will give
it a possession to the Reubenites, and
to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of
Manasseh.

7 And these the kings of the land
which Joshua smote, and the sons of
Israel, on the other side Jordan to the
sea, from lord Gad in the plain of Leb-
anon, and even to the smooth mountain
going up to Seir; and Joshua will give
it to the tribes of Israel an inheritance,
according to their divisions ;

8 In the mountain and in the plain
and in the desert, and in the ravines
and in the desert, and in the south, the
Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaan-
ite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the
Jebusite :

9 The king of Jericho, one; the king
of Ai which is beside the house of God,
one ;

10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the
king of Hebron, one;

11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the
king of Lachish, one;

12 The king of Eglon, one; the king
of Gezer, one;

18 The king of Debir, one; the king
of Geder, one;

14 the king of Hormah, one; the
king of Arad, one;

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15 The king of Libnah, one: the
king of Adullam, one;

16 The king of Makkedah, one; the
king of the house of God, one;

17 The king of Tappuah, one; the
king of Hepher, one;

18 The king of Aphek, one; the
king of Lasharon, one;

19 The king of Madon, one ; the king
of Hazor, one;

20 The king of Shimron-Meron, one;
the king of Achshaph, one ;

21 The king of Taanach, one; the
king of Megiddo, one ;

22 The king of Kadesh, one; the
ling of Jokneam to Carmel, one ;

23 The king of Dor of the heights of
Dor, one; the king of the nations to
Gilgal, one ;

24 The king of Tirzah, one; all the
kings, thirty and one.

CHAPTER XIIL.
ND Joshua an old man going in
days; and Jehovah will say to
him, Thou wert old, going in days, and
the land being left very great to pos-
sess it.

2 This the land being left: all the
cireuit of Philisteim, and all Geshuri,

3 From Sihor, which is upon the face
of Keypt, even to the bound of Ekron
to the north, it will be reckoned to the
Canaanite; five lords of Philisteim ;
the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites,
the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the
Ekronites, and the Avites:

4 From the south all the land of the
Canaanites, and Mearah which is to the
Sidonians, even to Aphek, even to the
bound of the Amorite :

5 And the land of the Giblites and
all Lebanon from the sunrising from
lord Gad under mount Hermon, even to
the entrance of Hamath.

6 All inhabiting the mountains from
Lebanon to Misrephoth-Maim, all the
Sidonians, I will drive them out from
before the sons of Israel : only separate
15 to Israel in inheritance as 1 com-
manded thee.

7 And now divide this land in inher-
itance to the nine tribes and the half
tribe of Manasseh,

8 With him the Reubenites and the

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Gadites took their inheritance which
Moses gave to them on the other side
of Jordan from the sunrising, as
Moses the servant of Jehovah gave to
them :

9 From Aroer that is upon the lip of
the torrent Arnon, and the city which
is in the midst of the torrent, and all
the plain of Medeba, even to Dibon ;

10 And all the cities of Sihon, king
of the Amorites, who reigned in Hesh-
bon, even to the bound of the sons of
Ammon;

11 And Gilead and the bound of the
Geshurites and the Maachathites, and
all mount Hermon, and all Bashan even
to Saleah ;

12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
he was left of the remnant of the Re-
phaims. And Moses smote them and
drove them out.

13 And the sons of Israel drove not
out the Geshurites and the Maacha-
thites: and the Geshurite and the Ma-
achathite dwelt in the midst of Israel
even to this day.

14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave
not inheritance, the sacrifices of Jeho-
vah the God of Israel it is his inherit-
ance, as he spake to him.

15 And Moses will give to the tribe
of the sons of Reuben according to their
families.

16 And the boundary to them will
be from Aroer which is upon the lip of
the torrent Arnon, and the city which
is in the midst of the torrent, and all
the plain upon Medeba :

17 Heshbon and all her cities which
are in the plain; Dibon and Bamoth-
Baal, and the house of the lord of the
fortress,

18 And Jahaza and Kedemoth and
Mephaath,

19 And Kirjathaim and Libnah, and
Zarath-Shahar in the mountain of the
valley,

20 And the house of Peor, and the
ravines of Pisgah, and the house of
Jeshimoth,

21 And all the cities of the plain,
and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of
the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon,
whom Moses smote him with the chiefs

JOSHUA XIIL

of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur and Reba, princes of Sihon,
dwelling in the land.

22 And Balaam son of Beor, divin-
ing, the sons of Israel slew with the
sword to those being wounded by them.

23 And the bound of the sons of
Reuben shall be Jordan and the boun-
dary. This the inheritance of the sons
of Reuben according to their families,
their cities and their enclosures.

24 And Moses will give to the tribe
of Gad, to the sons of Gad according to
their families.

25 And their bound shall be to them,
Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and
half the land of the sons of Ammon,
even to Aroer, which is upon the face
of Rabbah ;

26 And from Heshbon even to Ra-
math-Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from
the two camps even to the bound to
Debir;

27 And in the valley The House of
Height and the House of Sweet. Water,
and Suecoth and Zephon, the remnant
of the kingdom of Sihon king of Hesh-
bon, Jordan and the boundary, even to
the end of the sea of Cinneroth beyond
Jordan from the sunrising. ;

28 This the inheritance of the sons of
Gad according to their families their
cities and their enclosures.

29 And Moses will give to the half
of the tribe of Manasseh; and it shall
be to half of the tribe of the sons of
Manasseh, according to their families.

30 And their bound shall be from the
two camps, all Bashan, all the king-
dom of Og, king of Bashan, and all the
towns of Jair which are in Bashan, six-
ty cities.

31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og,
in Bashan, to the sons of Machir, son of
Manasseh, to half the sons of Machir
according to their families.

82 These which Moses caused to in-
herit in the sterile regions of Moab
from beyond Jordan of Jericho from
the sunrising.

88 And to: the tribe of Levi Moses
gave not an inheritance: Jehovah the
God of Israel, he their inheritance as he
spake to them.

JOSHUA XIV., XV.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND these what the sons of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan
which Eleazar the priest caused them
to inherit, and Joshua son of Nun, and
the heads of the fathers of the tribes to
the sons of Israel.

2 By lot their inheritance as Jehovah
commanded by the hand of Moses, for
the nine tribes and the half tribe.

3 For Moses gave the inheritance of
the two tribes and the half tribe from
beyond Jordan: and to the Levites he
gave not an inheritance in the midst of
them,

4 For the sons of Joseph shall be two
tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and
they gave not a portion to the Levites
in the land except cities to dwell in and
their pastures for their cattle, and for
their possession.

5 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so
did the sons of Israel, and they divided
the land.

6 And the sons of Judah will come
near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb,
son of Jephunneh will say to him,
Thou knewest the word which Jehovah
spake to Moses the man of God on ac-
count of me and on account of thee in
Kadesh-Barnea.

7 The son of forty years was I in
Moses the servant of Jehovah sending
me from Kadesh-Barnea to spy the
land; and I will turn back word to
him as with my heart.

8 And my brethren who went up
with me caused the heart of the people
to melt: and I filled up after Jehovah
my God.

9 And Moses will sware in that day,
saying, Shall not the land which thy
foot trod upon it be to. thee for inherit-
ance, and to thy sons eyen to forever?
for thou didst fill up after Jehovah my
God.

10 And now, behold, Jehovah pre-
served me alive as he spake this forty
and five years, from the time Jehovah
spake this word to Moses, when Israel
went in the desert: and now, behold
me this day the son of five and eighty.
years,

11 Yet I this day strong as in the
day 27 sent me; as my strength

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then and so my strength now, for war,
to go out and to come in.

12 And now thou shalt. give to me
this mountain which Jehovah spake in
that day ; for thou heardest in that day
that the Anakims were there, and the
cities great being fortified: if Jehovah
be with me, and I drove them out, as
Jehovah spake.

13 And Joshua will bless him and
will give Hebron to Caleb, son of Jep-
hunneh, for inheritance.

14 For this Hebron was to Caleb son
of Jephunneh the Kenizite, for inherit-
ance even to this day, because that he
filled up after Jehovah the God of
Israel.

15 And the name of Hebron before,
the city of Arba; he the great man
among the Anakims. And the land
rested from war.

CHAPTER XV.
ND the lot shall be to the tribe of
the sons of Judah according to
their families, to the bound of Edom,
the desert of Zin south from the south
extremity.

2 And the south bound shall be to
them from the extremity of the salt
sea from the tongue turning south.

3 And it went out to the south to the
ascent of Akrabbim, and it passed over
Zin and went up from the south to
Kadesh-Barnea, and passed by Hezron
and went up to Adarand encompassed
Karkaa :

4 And it passed through Azmon,
and it went out to the torrent of Egypt;
and the going forth of the bound was
to the sea: this shall be to you the
south bound.

5 And the east bound, the salt sea,
unto the end of Jordan: and the bound
to the north side, from the tongue of
the sea from the extremity of Jordan:

6 And the bound went up to the
house of Hoglah, and passed over from
the north of the house of Arabah; and
the bound went up to the stone of Bo-
han, son of Reuben:

7 And the bound went up to Debir
from the valley of Achor, and north
turned to Gilgal which is before the go-
ing up of Adummim, which is from the

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south of the torrent: and the bound
passed over to the water of the foun-
tain of the Sun, and its going forth to
the fountain of Rogel.

8 And the bound went up to the
valley of the son of Hinnom to the
shoulder of the Jebusite from the south ;
this is Jerusalem: and the bound went
up to the head of the mountain which
is upon the face of the valley of Hin-
nom to the sea, which is in the end of
the valley of Rephaim to the north:

9 And the bound extended from the
head of the mountain to the fountain of
water of Nephtoah, and it went out to
the city of mount Ephron; and the
bound extended to Baalah; this is Kir-
jath-Jearim :

10 And the bound encompassed from
Baalah to the sea to mount Seir, and
passed over to the shoulder of Jearim
from the north (this is Chesalon) and
it went down to the House of the Sun,
and passed over to Timnah:

11 And the bound went forth to the
shoulder of Ekron north: and the
bound extended to Shicron, and passed
over to mount Baalah and went forth
to Jabneel; and the goings out of the
bound were to the sea.

12 And the bound of the sea, the
great sea: and this bound the bound of
the sons of Judah round about accord-
ing to their families.

13 And to Caleb son of Jephunneh he
gave a portion in the midst of the sons
of Judah, according to the mouth of
Jehovah to Joshua, the city of Arba
the father of Anak, this is Hebron.

14 And Caleb drove from thence
the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and
Ahiman and Talmai, children of Anak.

15 And he will go up from thence
to the inhabitants of Debir: and the
name of Debir before, the City of the
Book.

16 And Caleb will say, Who will
smite the City of the Book and take it,
and I gave tohim Achsah my daughter
for a wife.

17 And Othniel, son of Kenaz, will
take it, the brother of Caleb, and he
will give to him Achsah his daughter
for a wife.

18 And it-will be in her going forth

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she will stimulate him to ask from her
father a field: and she will descend
from the ass, and Caleb will say to her,
What to thee? ‘

19 And she will say, Thou wilt give =
to mea blessing; for a south land thou
gavest me, and give to me springs of
water: and he will give to her the
springs above and the springs beneath.

20 This the inheritance of the tribe
of the sons of Judah according to their
families.

21 And the cities from the extremity
to the tribe of the sons of Judah, to the
bound of Edom in the south, will 06
Kabzeel and Eder, and Jagur,

22 And Kinah and Dimonah and
Adadah,

23 And Kedesh and Hazor and Ith-
nan,

24 Ziph and Telem and Bealoth,

25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and the
city of Hezron (this is Hazor),

26 Amam and Shema and Moladah,

27 And Hazor-Gaddah, and Hesh-
mon and the House of Escape,

28 And Hazor-Shual and the Well
of the Oath, and Bizjothjah,

29 And Baalah and lim and Azem,.

30 And Eltolad and Chesil and Hor-
mah,

31 And Ziklag and Madmannah,
and Sansannah,

82 And Lebaoth and Shilhim and
Ain and Rimmon: all the cities twenty
and nine and their enclosures:

33 In the plain Eshtaol and Zoreah,
and Ashnah,

84 And Zanoah and En-Gannim,
Tappuah and Knam.

85 Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh,
and Azekah,

36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and
Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen
cities and their enclosures :

87 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Mig-
dal-Gad,

88 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and
Joktheel,

39 Lachish and Bozkath and Kglon,

40 And Cabbon and Lahmam and
Kithlish,

41 And Gederoth, the House of Da-
gon, and Naamath and Makedah; six-
teen cities and their enclosures:

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49 Libnah and Ether and Ashan,

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43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and ND the lot to the sons of Joseph

Nezib,

44 And Keilah, and Achzib and
Mareshah; nine cities and their enclo-
sures:

45 Ekron and her daughters and her
enclosures:

46 From Ekron and the sea, all
which was upon the hand of Ashdod,
and their enclosures:

47 Ashdod, her daughters and her
enclosures: Gaza, her daughters and
her enclosures, even to the torrent
of Egypt, and the great sea and the
bound:

48 And in the mountain Shamir, and
Jattir, and Socoh,

49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-San-
nah (this is Debix), 4

50 And Anab and Eshtemoh and
Anim,

51 And Goshen and Holon and Gi-
loh; eleven cities and their enclos-
ures :

52 Arab, and Dumah and Eshean,

53 And Janum, and the House of
Tappuah, and Aphekah,

54 And Humtah, and the Fourth
City (this is Hebron), and Zior; nine
cities and their enclosures:

55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph and Jut-

tah,

56 And Jezreel and Jokdeam, and
Zanoah,

57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten
cities and their enclosures:

58 Halhul, the House of Zur, and
Gedor,

59 And Maarath and the House of
Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and
their enclosures :

60 The city of Baal, (this the City of
Forests) and Rabbah; two cities and
their enclosures :

61 In the desert, the House of Ara-
bah, Middin, and Secacah,

62 And Nibshan, and the City of
Salt, and the Fountain of Engedi; six
cities and their enclosures.

63 And the Jebusites dwelling in
Jerusalem, the sons of Judah will not
be able to drive them out: and the
Jebusites dwelt with the sons of Judah
in Jerusalem even to this day.

went forth from Jordan of Jeri-
cho to the water of Jericho, from the
sunrising to the desert it went up from
Jericho into the mount of the House of
God ;

2 And it went forth from the House
of God to Luz and passed over to the
bound of Archi to Ataroth ;

8 And it went down to the sea to
the bound of Japhleti even to the
bound of the House of Horon the
lower, and even to Gezer: and its go-
ings out were the sea.

4 And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh
and Ephraim, will inherit.

5 And the bound of the sons of
Ephraim will be according to their
families; and the bound of their inher-
itance will be from the sunrisings, Ata-
roth-Addar, even to the House of Ho-
ron above.

6 And the bound went forth to the
sea to Michmethah from the north;
and the bound encompassed from
the sunrisings to Taanath-Shiloh, and
passed over it from the sunrisings to
Janohah ;

7 And it went down from Janohah
to Ataroth and to Naarath, and struck
upon Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

8 The bound went from Tuppuah to
to the sea to the torrent Kanah; and
the goings out were the sea. ‘This the
inheritance of the tribe of the sons of
Ephraim according to their families.

9 And the cities were separated to the
sons of Ephraim in the midst of the in-
heritance of the sons of Manasseh, all
the cities and their enclosures.

10 And they drove not out the Ca-
naanite dwelling in Gezer: and the Ca-
naanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim
even to this day, and he will be serving
for tribute.

CHAPTER XVII.
ND there will be a bound to the
tribe 01 Manasseh; for he was the
first-born of Joseph : to Machir the first-
born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead ;
for he was a man of war, and there will
be to him Gilead and Bashan. 3
2 And there will be to the sons of

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Manassch those remaining according to
their families: to the sons of Abiezer,
and to the sons of Helek, and to the
sons of Asriel, and to the sons of She-
chem, and to the sons of Hepher, and to
the sons of Shemida: these the sons of
Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the males
according to their families.

8. And to Zelophehad, son of Hepher,
son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of
Manasseh, sons were not to him, but
daughters: and these the names of his
daughters, Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Mil-
cah, and Tirzah.

4 And they will come near before
Kleazar the priest, and before Joshua
son of Nun, and before the chiefs, say-
ing, Jehovah commanded Moses to give
to us an inheritance in the midst of our
brethren. And he will give to them ac-
cording to the mouth of Jehovah an in-
heritance in the midst of the brethren of
their father.

5 And there will fall ten portions of
Manassch, besides from the land of Gil-
ead and Bashan, which is from beyond
Jordan ;

6 For the daughters of Manasseh in-
herited an inheritance in the midst of his
sons; and the land of Gilead was to the
sons of Manasseh, to those remaining.

7 And the bound of Manasseh will be
from Asher to Michmethah, which is
upon the face of Shechem; and the
bound went to the right hand to the in-
habitants of the Fountain of Tappuah.

8 To Manasseh was the land of Tap-
puah: and Tappuah to the bound of
Manassch, to the sons of Ephraim:

9 And the bound went down to the
torrent Kanah, south to the torrent.
These cities to Ephraim in the midst of
the cities of Manasseh: and the bound
of Manasseh from the north to the tor-
rent, and its outgoings shall be the sea.

10 South, to Ephraim, and north, to
Manasseh, and the sea will be his bound ;
and in Asher they will strike together
from the north, and in Issachar from
the sunrisings.

11 And there will be to Manasseh in
Issachar and in Asher, the House of
Rest, and her daughters, and Ibleam
and her daughters, and the inhabitants
ef Dor and her daughters, and the in-

JOSHUA XVIIL

habitants of En-Dor and her daughters,
and the inhabitants of Taanach and her
daughters, and the inhabitants of Me-
giddo and her daughters, three heights.

12 And the sons of Manasseh will
not be able to dispossess these cities;
and the Canaanite will dwell in that
land.

13 And it will be when the sons of
Israel were strong and they will give
the Canaanite for tribute; and driving
out, they drove him not out.

14 And the sons of Joseph will speak
to Joshua, saying, Why gavest thou to
me to inherit one lot and one portion,
and I much people, and till this Jeho-
vah blessed me?

15 And Joshua will say to them, If
thou much people go up for thyself to
the forest, and cut down for thyself
there in the land of the Perizzite and of
the Rephaims, if mount Ephraim was
narrow to thee,

16 And the sons of Joseph will say,
The mountain will not suffice to us: and
the chariot of iron among all the Ca-
naanites dwelling in the land of the yal-
ley, to whom in the House of Rest and
her daughters, and to whom in the val-
ley of Jezreel.

17 And Joshua will say to the house
of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manas-
seh, saying, Much people art thou, and
great power to thee: and one lot shall
not be to thee:

18 But the mountain shall be to thee,
for it is a forest, and thou shalt cut it
down; and its out-goings were to thee ;
for thou shalt drive out the Canaanite,
if the chariot of iron is to him; if he
is strong.

CHAPTER XVIIL
ND all the assembly of the sons

Ἃ of Israel will be called together
to Shiloh, and they will pitch there the
tent of appointment, and the land was
subdued before them.

2 And there will remain among the
sons of Israel to whom they distributed
not their inheritance, seven tribes.

3 And Joshua will say to the sons of
Israel, How long are ye slack to go to
possess the land which. Jehovah the
God of your fathers gave to you?.

JOSHUA XVIII.

4 Give to you three men for a tribe,
and I will send them, and they shall
rise and shall go through the land, and
they shall write it according to their in-
heritance, and they shall come to me.

5 And they divided it into seven por-
tions: Judah shall stand upon his bound
from the south, and the house of Jo-
seph shall stand upon their bound from
the north. .

6 And ye shall write the land seven
portions and bring to me hither, and I
will cast the lot for you here before Je-
hovah our God.

7 But not a portion to the Levites in
the midst of you ; for the priesthood of
Jehovah their inheritance: and Gad
and Reuben and half the tribe of Ma-
nasseh took their inheritance from be-
yond Jordan from the sunrising, which
Moses gave to them, the servant of Je-
hovah.

8 And the men will rise and ‘will go:
and Joshua commanded those going to
write the land, saying, Go, and go ye
through the land and write it, and turn
back to me, and here I will cast for
you the lot before Jehovah in Shiloh.

9 And the men will go and will pass
over in the Jand, and will write it by
cities into seven parts, upon a book;
and they will come to Joshua to the
camp of Shiloh.

10 And Joshua will cast the lot to
them in Shiloh before Jehovah: and
Joshua will there divide the land to the
sons of Israel according to their di-
visions.

11 And the lot of the tribe of Benja-
min will come up according to their
families: and the bound of their lot
will come forth between the sons of Ju-
dah and between the sons of Joseph.

12 And the bound will be to them
to the north side from Jordan ; and the
bound went up to the side of Jericho
from the north, and went up into the
mountain to the sea; and its goings-out
were from the desert of the House of
Vanity.

18 And the bound passed through
from thence to Luz to the shoulder of
Luz, south: (this is the House of God)
and the bound went down to Ataroth-
Adar, upon the mountain which is from

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the south to the House of the Hollow,
below.

14 And the bound was marked out,
and encompassed to the side of the sea,
south, from the mountain which is upon
the face of the House of the Hollow,
south; and its goings-out were at the
city of Baal (this is the City of the For-
ests) the city of the sons of Judah.
This is the side of the sea.

15 And the south side from the ex-
tremity of the City of Forests, and the
bound went out to the sea, and went
out to the fountaim of water of Neph-
toah :

16 And the bound went down to the
extremity of the mountain which is
upon the face of the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is in the valley of Re-
phaim, north, and went down to the
valley of Hinnom to the shoulder of Je-
busi south, to En-Rogel.

17 And it was marked out from the
north, and went down to the Fountain
of the Sun, and went out to Geliloth,
which is over against the ascent of Ad-
ummim, and went down to the stone of
Bohan, son of Reuben.

18 And it passed over to the shoul-
der of the front of the desert north, and
came down to Araboth.

19 And the bound passed over to the
shoulder of the Partridge House north,
and its outgoings of the bound were at
the tongue of the salt sea north, to the
extremity of Jordan south: this the
south bound.

20 And Jordan will bound it to the
east side: this the inheritance of the
sons of Benjamin for its bounds round
about according to their families.

21 And the cities to the tribe of the
sons of Benjamin according to their
families, were Jericho, and the Part-
ridge House, and the valley of Keziz,

22 And the House of the Desert, and
Zemaraim, and the House of God,

98 And Avim and Parah, and Oph-
rah,

24 Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni,
and Gaba; twelve cities and their en-
closures :

95 Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,

26 And Mizpeh and Chephirah, and
Mozah,

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27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Ta-
ralah,

28 And Zelah, Hleph, and Jebusi,
(this is Jerusalem) Gibeah city; four-
teen cities and their enclosures. This
the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin
according to their families.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND the second lot came forth to
Simeon, to the tribe of the sons
of Simeon, according to their families:
and their inheritance will be in the
midst of the inheritance of the sons of
Judah.

2 And there will be to them in their
inheritance the Well of the Oath, and
the oath, and Moladah,

3 And Hazor-Shual, and Balah, and
Azem,

4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hor-
mah,

5 And Ziklag, and the House of
Chariots, and Hazor-Susah,

6 And Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen ;
thirteen cities and their enclosures :

7 The Fountain, the Pomegranate,
and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and
their enclosures :

8 And all the enclosures which sur-
rounded these cities, even to Baalath-
Beor, Ramath of the south. This the
inheritance of the tribe of the sons of
Simeon according to their families.

9 Out of the portion of the sons of
Judah was the inheritance of the sons
of Simeon: for the portion of the sons
of Judah was great above theirs: and
the sons of Simeon will inherit in the
midst of their inheritance.

10 And the third lot will come up to
the sons of Zebulon, according to their
families: and the bound of their inher-
itance will be even to Sarid:

11 And their bound went up to the
sea and Maralah, and struck upon Dab-
basheth, and struck into the torrent
which is upon the face of Jokneam,

12 And turned back from Sarid, east
from the rising of the sun, upon the
bound of Chisloth-Tabor, and went
forth to Daberath, and went up to Ja-
phia,

18 And from thence it passed over
east from the sunrising to Gittah-He-

JOSHUA XIX.

pher, Ittah-Kazin, the Pomegranate,
marked out of the Harthquake ;

14 And the bound encompassed it
from the north of Hanathon: and its
oulepings were the yalley of Jiphtha-
nel :

15 And Kattah and Nahallal, and
Shimron, and Idalah, and the House of
Bread; twelve cities and their enclos-
ures. Ε

16 This the inheritance of the sons of
Zebulon according to their families,
these cities and their enclosures,

17 To Issachar came forth the fourth
lot, to the sons of Issachar according to
their families.

18 And their bound will be Jezreel
and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

19 And Hapharaim, and Shihon and
Anaharoth,

20 And Rabbith and Kishion and
Abez,

21 And Remeth and the Fountain of
Gardens, and the Sharp Fountain, and
the House of Dispersion ;

22 And the bound struck upon Ta-
bor, and Shahazimah, and the House
of the Sun; and the outgoings of their
bounds were Jordan: sixteen cities and
their enclosures.

23 This the inheritance of the tribe
of the sons of Issachar according to
their families, the cities and their en-
closures.

24 And the fifth lot came out to the
tribe of the sons of Asher according to
their families.

25 And their bound will be Helkath
and Hali, and Beten and Achsaph,

26 And Alammelech and Amad and
Mishael ; and it struck upon Carmel of
the sea, and upon Shihor-Libnah ;

27 And turned back upon the rising
of the sun to the House of Grain, and
struck upon Zebulon and upon the val-
ley of Jiphthahel north of the House of
the Plain, and Neiel, and went forth to
Cabul from the left.

28 And Ebron and Rehob and Ham-
mon and Kanah, even to great Zidon ;

29 And the bound turned back to
Ramah and even to the city of the for-
tress of Tyre; and the bound turned
back to Hosah: and its outgoings were
the sea from the region of Achzib:

JOSHUA XX.

80 And Ummah and Aphek, and
Rehob: twenty and two cities and their
enclosures.

31 This the inheritance of the tribe of
the sons of Asher according to their
families, these cities and thei enclos-
ures.

32 To the sons of Naphtali came
forth the sixth lot, to the sons of
Naphtali according to their families.

33 And their bound will be from
Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and
Adami, Nekeb and Jabneel and La-
kum; and its outgoings Jordan.

84 And the bound turned back to
the sea of Aznoth-Tabor, and came
forth from thence to Hukkok, and
struck upon Zebulon from the south,
and struck upon Asher from the sea,
and upon Judah at Jordan from the
rising of the sun.

85 And the cities of fortification, Zid-
dim, Zur and Hammath, Rakkath and
Cinneroth,

36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and
Hazor,

87 And Kadesh and Edrei and the
Fountain of Hazor,

38 And Iron, and Migdol-El, Ho-
rem, and the House of Affliction, and
the House of the Sun; nineteen cities
and their enclosures.

89 This the inheritance of the tribe of

-the sons of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities and their enclos-
ures.

40 To the tribe of the sons of Dan
according to their families came forth
the seventh lot.

41 And the bound of their inheitance
will be Zorah and Eshtaol, and the city
of the Sun,

42 And Shaalabbin and Ajalon and
Jethlah,

43 And Ailon and Timnath and Ek-
ron,

Eltekah and Gibbethon and Baa-‏ ל ן
ath,‏

45 And Jehud and the Sons of Light-
ning, and the Press of the Pomegran-

ate,
- 46 The Water of Paleness, and Rak-
kon, with the bound in front of Joppa.
47 And the bound of the sons of Dan
went out from them: and the sons of

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Dan will go up and fight with Leshem,
and they will take it and smite it with
the mouth of the sword, and will pos-
sess it and dwell init; and they will
call Leshem, Dan, according to the
name of Dan their father.

48 This the inheritance of the tribe
of the sons of Dan according to their
families, these cities and their enclos-
ures.

49 And they will finish to inherit the
land according to their bounds: and
the sons of Israel will give an inherit-
ance to Joshua son of Nun, in the midst
of them:

50 At the mouth of Jehovah they
gave to him the city which he asked,
Timnath-Serah in mount Ephraim; and
he will build the city and dwell in it.

51 These the inheritances which Ele-
azar the priest, and Joshua the son of
Nun, and the heads of the fathers to the
tribes of the sons of Israel, caused to in-
herit by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at
the door of the tent of appointment.
And they will finish dividing the
land.

CHAPTER XX.
ND Jehovah will speak to Joshua,
saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying,
Ye shall give to yourselves cities of re-
fuge which I spake to you by the hand
of Moses :

3 For the slayer smiting a soul in
mistake and without knowledge, to flee
there: and they shall be to you for
refuge from the nearest kinsman of
blood.

4 And he fled to one of these cities
and 80000 8% the door of the gate of the
city, and spake in the ears of the old
men of that city, his words, and they
received him into the city to them, and
they gave to him a place, and he dwelt
with them.

5 And if the nearest relation of blood
shall pursue after him, and they shall
not deliver over the slayer into his
hand; for without knowing he smote
his friend, and he hated him not from
yesterday the third day.

6 And he shall dwell in that city till
his standing before the assembly for

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judgement, till the death of the great
priest which shall be in those days:
then the slayer shall turn back and
come to his city and to his house, to
the city which he fled from there.

7 And they will consecrate Kadesh
in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and She-
chem in mount Ephraim, and the city
of Arba (this in Hebron) in mount Ju-
dah.

8 And from beyond Jordan of Jeri-
cho from the sunrising, they gave Be-
zer in the desert in the. plain from the
tribe of Reuben and Ramoth, in Gilead,
from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in
Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

9 These were cities of appointment
for all the sons of Israel, and for the
stranger sojourning in the midst of
them, to flee there, every one smiting a
soul in mistake: and he shall not die
by the hand of the nearest relation of
blood till his standing before the as-
sembly.

CHAPTER XXT.
ND the heads of the fathers of the
Leyites will come near to the El-
eazar the priest, and to Joshua son of
Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of
the tribes to the sons of Israel:

2 And they will speak to them in
Sliloh in the land of Canaan, saying,
Jehovah commanded by the hand of
Moses to give to us cities to dwell in,
and their pastures for our cattle.

3 And the sons of Israel will give to
the Levites out of their inheritance at
the mouth of Jehovah these cities and
their areas.

4 And the lot came forth to the fam-
ilies of the Kohathites: and it will be
to the sons of Aaron the priest from
the Levites out of the tribe of Judah,
and out of the tribe of Simeon, and from
the tribe of Benjamin, by lot, thirteen
cities.

5 And to the sons of Kohath, those
remaining from the families of the tribe
of Ephraim, and from the tribe of Gad,
and from half the tribe of Manasseh, by
lot, ten cities.

6 And to the sons of Gershon from
the families of the tribe of Issachar, and
from the tribe of Asher, and from the

JOSHUA XXT.

tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe
of Manasseh in Bashan, by lot, thirteen
cities.

7 To the sons of Merari according to
their families, from the tribe of Reuben,
and from the tribe of Gad, and from
the tribe of Zebulon, twelve cities.

8 And the sons of Israel will give to
the Levites these cities and their areas,
as Jehovah commanded by the hand of
Moses, by lot.

9 And they will give from the tribe
of the sons of Judah and from the tribe
of the sons of Simeon, these cities which
he will call them by name,

10 And it will be to the sons of Aaron
from the families of the Kohathites,
from the sons of Levi: for to them was
the first lot.

11 And they will give to them the
fourth city, the father of Anak (it is
Hebron) in mount Judah, and the area
round about it.

12 And the field of the city and its
enclosure they gave to Caleb, son of
Jephunneh, for lis possession,

13 And to the sons of Aaron the
priest they gave the city of refuge of
the slayer, Hebron and its areas, and
Libnah and her areas,

14 And Jattir and her area, and Esh-
temoa and her area,

15 And Holon and her area, and De-
bir and her area, 1

16 And Ain and her area, and Juttah
and her area, and the House of the Sun
and her area: nine cities from these
two tribes.

17 And from the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon and her area, and Geba and her
area,

18 Anathoth and her area, and ΑἹ-
mon and her area: four cities.

19 All the cities of the sons of Aaron
the priests, thirteen cities and their areas.

20 And to the families of the sons of
Kohath, the Levites remaining from
the sons of Kohath, and there will be
the cities of their lot from the tribe of
Ephraim.

21 And they will give to them the
city of refuge of the slayer, Shechem
and her area in mount Ephraim, and
Gezer and her area,

22 And Kibzaim and her area, and

JOSHUA XXII.

the House of the Hollow and her area:
four cities.

23 And from the tribe of Dan, Elte-
keh and her area, and Gibbethon and
her area,

24 Ailon and her area, and the Press
of the Pomegranate and her area: four
cities,

25 And from half the tribe of Manas-
seh, Tlanach and her area, and the Press
of the Pomegranate and her area: two
cities.

26 All the cities, ten, and their areas,
to the families of the sons of Kohath,
those remaining.

27 And to the sons of Gershon from
the families of the Levites, from half
the tribe of Manasseh, the city of refuge
of the slayer, Golan in Bashan and her
area, and Beeshterah and her area:
two cities.

28 And from the tribe of Issachar,
Kishon and her area, Daberah and her
area,

29 And Jarmuth and her area, and
the Fountain of Gardens and her area:
four cities.

80 And from the tribe of Asher, Mish-
aland her area, and Abdon and her area,

31 Helkath and her area, and Rehob
and her area: four cities.

82 And from the tribe of Naphtali,
7 the city of refuge of the slayer, Kadesh
in Galilee and her area; Hamath-Dor
and her area, and Kartan and her area:
three cities.

33 All the cities of the Gershonites
according to their families, thirteen
cities and their areas.

34 And to the families of the sons of
Merari, the Levites remaining, from the
tribe of Zebulon, Jokneam and her
area, and Kartah and her area,

55 Dimnah and her area, Nahalal and
her area: four cities.

86 And from the tribe of Gad, the
city of refuge of the slayer, Ramath in
Gilead and her area; and Mahanaim
and her area,

37 And Heshbon and her area, and
Jazer and her area: all, four cities.

88 All the cities to the sons of Mera-
ri according to their families, those re-
maining from the families of the Levites,
it shall be their lot twelve cities.

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39 All the cities of the Levites in the
midst of the possession of the sons of
Tsrael, forty and eight cities and their
areas.

40 These cities will be city, city, and
her areas round about it. Thus to all
these cities.

41 And Jehovah will give to Israel
all the land which he sware to give to
their fathers: and they will inherit it
and dwell in it.

42 And Jehovah will ¢ause rest to
them from round about, according to
all which he sware to their fathers:
and there stood not a man before them
from all their enemies; all their enemies
Jehovah gave into their hand.

43 And there fell not a word from
any good word which Jehovah spake
to the house of Israel; all came.

CHAPTER XXIL
HEN Joshua will call to the Reu-
benites and to the Gadites and to
half the tribe of Manasseh,

2 And he will say to them, Ye
watched all that Moses the servant of
Jehovah commanded you, and ye will
hear to my voice for all which I com-
manded you:

3 Ye left not your brethren this
many days till this day, and ye watched
the watches of the command of Jeho-
vah your God.

4 And now Jehovah your God
caused your brethren to rest as he
spake to them: and now turn ye and
go for yourselves to your tents to the
land of your possession which Moses
the servant of Jehovah gave to you be-
yond Jordan.

5 Only watch greatly to do the com-
mand and the law which Moses the
servant of Jehovah commanded you, to
love Jehovah your God and to go inall
his ways, and to watch his commands,
and to cleave to him, and to serve him
with all your heart and with all your
soul.

6 And Joshua will bless them and
will send them away; and they will go
to their tents.

7 And to half the tribe of Manasseh,
Moses gave in Bashan: and to its half
Joshua gave with their brethren from

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beyond Jordan to the sea. And also
when Joshua sent them away to their
tents he will bless them,

8 And he will say to them, saying,
With much riches turn back to your
tents, and with exceeding many cattle,
with silver and with gold and with
brass and with iron and with exceeding
many garments: divide the spoil of
your enemies with your brethren.

9 And the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad-and half the tribe of Ma-
nasseh will turn back and will go from
the sons of Israel from Shiloh, (which
is in the land of Canaan) to go to the
Jand of Gilead, to the land of their pos-
session which they held in it at the
mouth of Jehovah by the hand of
Moses.

10 And they will come to the cir-
cuits of Jordan, which are in the land
of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben and
the sons of Gad and the half tribe of
Manasseh will build there an altar upon
Jordan, a great altar for seeing.

11 And the sons of Israel will hear
saying, Behold, the sons of Reuben and
the sons of Gad and half the tribe of
Manasseh built an altar over against
the land of Canaan, at the circuits of
Jordan, at the passing over of the sons
of Israel.

12 And the sons of Israel will hear,
and all the assembly of the sons of
Israel will be gathered together at
Shiloh to go up to war against them.

18 And the sons of Israel will send
to the sons of Reuben and to the sons
of Gad and to half the tribe of Manas-
seh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas,
son of Hleazar the priest,

14 And ten chiefs with him, one
chief, one chief, to the house of a father
for all the tribes of Israel; and each
the head of the house of their fathers,
these for the thousands of Israel.

15 And they will come to the sons
of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and
to half the tribe of Manasseh to the
land of Gilead, and they will speak
with them, saying,

16 Thus said all the assembly of Je-
hovah, What transgression this which
ye transgressed against the God of
Israel to turn back this day from after

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Jehovah, in your building to you an
altar for your rebellion this day against
Jehovah ?

17 Was the iniquity of Peor little
for us, which we were not cleansed
from it till this day, and there will be
a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah?

18 And will ye turn back this day
from after Jehovah? and it will be ye
will rebel this day against Jehovah,
and to-morrow he will be angry towards
all the assembly of Israel.

19 And surely, if the land of your
possession is unclean, pass over for
yourselves to the land of the possession
of Jehovah, where the dwelling of Je-
hovah dwelt there, and take possession
in the midst of us: and ye shall not re-
bel against Jehovah, and ye shall not
rebel against us in your building to
yourselves an altar beside the altar of
Jehovah our God.

20 Did not Achan transeress a trans-
gression in the devoted thing, and upon
all the assembly of Israel was wrath?
and that man died not alone in his in-
iquity.

21 And the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad and half the tribe of Ma-
nasseh will answer and will speak to
the heads of the thousands of Israel,

22 The God of gods, Jehovah, the
God of gods, Jehovah he will know, >
and Israel he will know ; if in rebellion
and if in transgression against Jehovah,
thou shalt not save us this day ;

23 To build to us an altar to turn
back from after Jehovah, and if to bring
up upon it a burnt-offering and a gift,
and if to do upon it sacrifices of peace
Jehovah he will search ;

24 And if we did not do this from
fear of the word, saying, To-morrow
your sons will say to our sons, saying,
What to you and to Jehovah the God
of Israel? :

25 Jehovah gave the bound of our
sons and your sons, ye sons of Reuben
and sons of Gad; Jordan not to youa
part in Jehovah. And your sons
caused our sons to cease from fearing
Jehovah. ἡ

26 And we shall say, We will do
now for ourselves to build an altar, not
for burnt-offerings and not for sacrifice :

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27 But this a witness between us and
between you, and between our genera-
tions after us, to serve the service of
Jehovah before him with our burnt-of-
ferings and with our sacrifices and with
our peace-offerings; and your sons
shall not say, To-morrow, to our sons,
not to you, a part in Jehovah.

28 And we shall say, and it was that
they shall say to us and to our genera-
tions to-morrow, and we said, See the
model of the altar of Jehovah which
our fathers made, not for burnt-offering
and not for sacrifice ; but this a witness
between us and between you.

29 Wo to us from him to rebel
against Jehovah, and to turn back this
day from after Jehovah to build an al-
tar for burnt-offering, for a gift and for
sacrifice beside the altar of Jehovah our
God which. 18 before his tent.

80 And Phinehas the priest will hear,
and the chiefs of the assembly, and the
heads of the thousands of Israel which
were with him, the words which the
sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and
the sons of Manasseh spake, and it will
be good in their eyes.

81 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest will say to the sons of Reu-
ben and to the sons of Gad and to the
sons of Manasseh, This day we knew
that Jehovah is in the midst of us, be-
cause ye transgressed not this transgres-
sion against Jehovah: then ye deliy-
ered the sons of Israel from the hand of
Jehovah.

82 And Phinehas son of Eleazar the
priest, will turn back, and the chiefs,
from the sons of Reuben and from the
sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to
the land of Canaan, to the sons of Is-
rael, and will turn back to them the
word.

33 And the word will be good in the

“eyes of the sons of Israel; and the sons
of Israel will bless God, and they said
not to go up against them to war to
destroy the land which the sons of
Reuben and the sons of Gad dwelt
in it.

84 And the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad will call to the altar: for it
is a witness between us that Jehovah is

their God.

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CHARTER Χ זא‎
ND it will be from many days
after that Jehovah caused Israel

to rest from all their enemies round
about, Joshua was old, gone in days.

2 And Joshua will call to all Israel,
to his old men and to his heads and to
his judges and to his scribes, and he will
say to them, I have become old; I
came into days:

3 And ye saw all which Jehovah
your God did to all these nations from
your face; for Jehovah your God
fought for you.

4 See, I cast to you in lot these na-
tions having been left in inheritance to
your tribes from Jordan, and all the
nations which I cut off, and the great,
sea, from the going down of the sun.

5 And Jehovah your God he shall
thrust them away from your face and
drive them out from before you; and
ye possessed their land, as Jehovah
your God spake to you.

6 And be strong greatly to watch
and to do all written in the book of
the law of Moses, so as not to turn
away from it to the right or to the left;

7 So as not to come among these na-
tions, these being left with you; and
ye shall not make mention of the name
of their gods, and ye shall not swear,
and ye shall not serve them, and ye
shall not worship to them:

8 But yeshall cleave to Jehovah your
God, as ye did even to this day.

9 And Jehovah will drive out from
your face great nations and strong: and
you, ἃ man stood not before you even
to this day.

10 One man from you shall pursue a
thousand: for Jehovah your God he
fought for you as he spake to you.

11 And watch greatly for your souls, »
to love Jehovah four God.

12 For if turning back, ye shall turn
back and cleave to the remainder of
these nations, these being left with you,
and marry with them, and go in to
them, and they in to you,

13 Knowing, ye shall know that Je-
hoyah your God will not add to drive
out these nations from before you: and
they were to you for a snare and fora
noose, and for a scourge in your sides,

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and for thorns in your eyes, till your
destruction from this good ‘land which
Jehovah your God gave to you.

14 And behold, I go this day in the
way of all the earth; and ye knew in
all your heart and in all your soul that
not one word fell from all the good
words wh'eh Jehovah your God spake
concerning you; all came to you; not
one word fell from it.

15 And it was as every good word
came upon you which Jehovah your
God spake to you, so Jehovah will
bring upon you every evil word till
his destroying you from off this good
land which Jehovah your God gave to
you.

16 In your passing by the covenant
of Jehovah your God, which he com-
manded you, and ye went and served
other gods and worshipped to them;
and the anger of Jehovah kindled
against you, and ye perished quickly
from off the good land which he gave
to you.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND Joshua will gather together
all the tribes of Israel to She-
chem, and he will eall for the old men
of Israel, and for the heads, and for the
judges, and for the scribes; and they
will stand before God.

2 And Joshua will say to all the peo-
pe, So said Jehovah the God of Israel,

our fathers dwelt beyond the river
from everlasting time, T'erah, the father
of Abraham, and the father of Nahor:
and they will serve other gods.

3 And I will take your father Abra-
ham from beyond the river, and I will
lead him into all the land of Canaan,
and I will multiply his seed and I will
give to him Isaak. ,

4 And I will give to Isaak, Jacob
and Esau: and I will give to Esau
mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob
and his sons will go down 10 Keypt.

5 And I will send Moses and Aaron,
and I will strike Heypt as 1 did in its
midst: and afterwards I will bring you
out.

6 And I will bring out your fathers
from Keypt; and ye shall come to the
sea: and the Egyptians will pursue

JOSHUA XXTV.

after your fathers with chariot and
pope to the sea of sedge.

And they will ery to Jehovah, and
he will. put darkness between you and
between Egypt, and he will bring the
sea upon him, and will cover him; and
your eyes will see what I did in Egypt;
and ye shall dwell in the desert many
days.

8 And I will bring you to the land of
the Amorite dwelling beyond Jordan,
and they will fight with you and I will
give them into your Hane and ye shall
inherit their land; and I will destroy
them from before your face.

9 And Balak, son of Zippor, king of
Moab, will rise up and will fight against
Israel, and he will send and call for Ba-
laam son of Beor, to curse you:

10 And I was not disposed to hear to
Balaam; and blessing, he will bless
you; and 1 will deliver you from his
hand.

11 And ye shall pass through Jordan,
and ye shall come to Jericho; and the
lords of Jericho will fight against you,
the Amorite and the Perizzite, and the
Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Gir-
gashite, and the Hivite, and the Jebu-
site; and I will give them into your
hand.

12 And I will send before you the
hornet, and it shall drive them out from
your face, the two kings of the Amor-
ites: not with thy sword and not with
thy bow.

13 And I will give to you the land
which ye labored not in it, and cities
which ye built not, and ye shall dwell
in them; the vineyards and the olives
which ye planted not, ye ate.

14 And now fear ye Jehovah and
serve him in uprightness and in truth ;
and remove the gods which your fathers
served beyond the river and in Kgypt;,
and serve ye Jehovah.

15 And if evil in your eyes to serve
Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day
whom ye will serve, whether the gods
which your fathers served which are
beyond the river, and whether the gods
of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their
land: and I and my house, we will
serve Jehovah.

16 And the people will answer and

JOSHUA XXIV.

say, Woe to us forsaking Jehovah to
serve other gods;

17 For Jehovah our God, he bring-
ing us up and our fathers out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of ser:
vants, and who did before our eyes
these great signs; and he will watch
us in all the way which we went in it,
and among all the peoples which we
passed through in the midst of them :

18 And Jehovah will drive out all
the peoples, and the Amorite dwelling
in the land, from our face: also we will
serve Jehovah, for he is our God.

19 And Joshua will say to the peo-
ple, Ye will not be able to serve Jeho-
vah, for a holy God is he: a jealous
God is he; he will not take away your
transgressions and your sins.

20 If ye shall forsake Jehovah and
serve strange gods, and he turned _baclx
and did evil to you, and finished you
after that he did good to you.

21 And the people willsay to Joshua,
Nay; but J ὉΠ} we will serve.

22 And Joshua will say to the people,
Ye are witnesses against yourselves, for

e chose to yourselves Jehovah to serve
ו‎ And they will say, Witnesses.

23 And now remove the strange gods
which are in the midst of you, and in-
cline your heart to Jehovah the God of
Israel.

24 And the people will say to Joshua,
Jehovah our God we will serve, and to
his voice will we hear.

25 And Joshua will cut out a coye-
nant to the people in that day and will
set to him a law and a judgment in
Shechem.

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26 And Joshua will write these words
in the book of the law of God, and he
will take a great stone and will set it
up there under the oak which is in the
holy place of Jehovah.

27 And Joshua wi'l say to all the
people, Behold, this stone shall be to us
for a testimony, for it heard all the
sayings of Jehovah which he spake
with us: and it was to you for a
testimony lest ye shall lie to your
God.

28 And Joshua will send away the
people each to his inheritance.

29 And it will be after these words,
and Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
of Jehovah, will die, the son of a hun-
dred and ten years.

30 And they will bury him in the
bound of his inheritance in Timnath-
Serah, which is in mount Hphraim
from the north, to the mount of Gaash.

81 And Israel will serve Jehovah all
the days of Joshua, and all the days of
the old men who prolonged the days
after Joshua, and who knew all the
works of Jehovah which he did to
Israel. :

32 And the bones of Joseph which
the sons of Israel brought up out of
Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a
portion of the field which Jacob bought
from the sons of Hamor the father of
Shechem, for a hundred weight; and
they will be to the sons of Joseph for
an inheritance.

89 And Eleazar the son of Aaron
died; and they will bury him in Gibeah
of Phinehas his son, which he gave to
him in mount Ephraim.

J UDGHS.

CHAPTER 1.
ND it will be after the death of
Joshua, and the sons of Israel
will ask of Jehovah, saying, Who will
go up for us against the Canaanites in
the beginning to war against them?

2 And Jehovah will say, Judah
shall go up: behold, I gave the land
into his hand.

3 And Judah will say to Simeon his
brother, Go up with me into my lot, and
we will fight against the Canaanite;
and I also went up with thee into thy
lot, and Simeon will go with him.

4 And Judah will go up, and Jeho-
vah will give the Canaanite and the
Perizzite into their hand; and they will
smite them in Bezek, ten thousand men.

5 And they will find lord Bezek in
Bezek: and they will war against him,
and will smite the Canaanite and the
Perizzite. .

6 And lord Bezek will flee, and they
will pursue after him and take him;
and they will cut off the thumbs of his
hands and of his feet.

7 And lord Bezel will say, Seventy
kings with the thumbs of their hands
and their feet beg cut off, were gath-
ering under my table; as I did so God
requited me. And they will bring him
to Jerusalem, and he will die there.

8 And the sons of Judah will war
against Jerusalem and will take it, and
will smite it with the mouth of the
sword, and they cast the city into fire.

9 And afterward the sons of Judah
went down to war against the Canaan-
ite dwelling in the mountain, and in
the south, and in the plain.

10 And Judah will go against the
Canaanite dwelling in Hebron: (and
the name of Hebron before, the city of
Arba :( and they will smite Sheshai and
Ahiman and Talmai.

11 And he will go from thence to
the inhabitants of Debir: and the name
of Debir before, the city of the Book.

12 And Caleb will say, Whoever
shall smite the city of the Book and

take it, and I will give to him Achsah
my daughter for a wife.

18 And Othniel, son of Kenaz, Ca-
leb’s brother, the small, will take it
from him, and he will give to him Ach-
sah his daughter for a wife.

14 And it will be in her coming she
will stimulate him to ask from her
father a field: and she will descend
from off the ass; and Caleb will say to
her, What to thee?

15 And she will say to him, Give
to me a blessing: for thou gavest to me
a south land, and give to me fountains
of water. And Caleb will give to her
the fountains above and the fountains
below.

16 And the sons of the Kenite,
father-in-law of Moses, went up from
the city of palm-trees with the sons of
Judah to the desert of Judah, which is
in the south of Arad; and he went up
and dwelt with the people.

17 And Judah will go up with Sim-
eon his brother, and they will smite the
Canaanite dwelling in Zephath, and
they will exterminate it, and he will
call the name of the city, Hormah.

18 And Judah will take Gaza and
its bounds, and Askelon and her
bounds, and Ekron and her bounds.

19 And Jehovah will be with Ju-
dah ; and he will inherit the mountain,
because there was no driving out the
inhabitants of the valley, for to them
the chariot of iron.

20 And they will give to Caleb, He-
bron, as Moses spake: and he will
drive out from thence the three sons of
Anak, /

21 And the 160118166 dwelling in Je-
rusalem, the sons of Benjamin did not
drive out; and the Jebusite dwelt with
the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem even
to this day.

22 And the house of Joseph the
also will go up to the house of God,
and Jehovah with them.

23 And the house of Joseph will ex-
amine in the house of God. And the

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name of the city before, was Almond

ree.

24 And they watching will see a
man coming out of the city, and they
will say to him, Show to us the en-
trance of the city, and we will do mer-
cy with thee.

25 And he will show them the en-
trance of the city, and they will smite
the city with the mouth of the sword:
and that man and all his family they
sent away.

26 And the man will go up to the
land of the Hittites, and he will build a
city and call its name Luz; this its
name till this day.

27 And Manasseh did not drive out
the House of Rest and her daughters,
and Tanach and her daughters, and the
inhabitants of Dor and her daughters,
and the inhabitants of Ibleam and her
daughters, and the inhabitants of Me-
giddo and her daughters; and the Ca-
naanite wills to dwell im that land.

28 And it will be when Israel was
strong, and he will put the Canaanite
to tribute; and driving out, they did
not drive out.

29 And Ephraim did not drive out
the Canaanite dwelling in Gezer; and
the Canaanite dwelt in his midst in
Gezer.

30 Zebulon did not drive out the in-
habitants of Kitron, and the inhabi-
tants of Nahalol; and the Canaanite
will dwell in his midst, and they will
be for tribute.

31 Asher did not drive out the in-
habitants of Accho, and the inhabitants
of Zidon and Ahlab and Achzib and
Helbah, and Aphik, and Rehob:

82 And the Asherite dwelt in the
midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants
of the land ; for they drove not out.

33 Naphtali drove not out the inhab-
י‎ itants of the House of the Sun, and the
inhabitants of the House of Affliction ;
and he dwelt in the midst of the Ca-
naanites, the inhabitants of the land ;
and the inhabitants of the House of the
Sun, and of the House of Response,
they were to them for tribute.

34 And the Amorites will press the
sons of Dan to the mountain: for they
gave not to come down to the valley:

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385 And the Amorite willed to dwell
in mount Heres and in Ajalon, and in
Shaalbim: and the hand of the house
of Joseph will be heavy, and they will
be for tribute.

86 And the bound of the Amorite
from the ascent of Akrabbim from the
rock, and above.

CHAPTER IT.
ND a messenger of Jehovah will
go up from Gilgal to Bochim,
and he will say, I will bring you up
out of Egypt, and I will bring you in
to the land which I sware to your fath-
ers ; and he said I will not break my
covenant with you forever.

2 And ye shall not cut out a coye-
nant to the inhabitants of this land;
their altars ye shall break down: and
ye heard not to my voice: why did ye
this ὃ

9 And I also said, I will not drive
them out from your face; and they
were to you for adversaries, and their
gods shall be to you for a snare.

4 And it will be when the messenger
of Jehovah spake these words to all the
sons of Israel, and the people will lift
up their voice and weep.

And they will call the name of‏ פ.
that place Bochim: and they will sac-‏
rifice there to Jehovah.‏

6 And Joshua will send away the
people, and the sons of Israel will go a
man to his inheritance to inherit the
land.

7 And the people will serve Jehovah
all the days of Joshua, and all the days
of the old men who prolonged the days
after Joshua, who saw all the great
works of Jehovah which he did to Israel.

.8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of Jehovah, will die, the son of
a hundred and ten years.

9 And they will bury him in the
bound of his inheritance in Timnath-
Serah, in mount Ephraim, from the
north to the mount of Gaash.

10 And also all that generation were
gathered to its fathers; and another
generation will arise after them not
knowing Jehovah, and also the works
which he did to Israel.

11 And the sons of Israel will do evil

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in the eyes of Jehovah, and will serve
the Baalims.

12 And they will forsake Jehovah
the God of their fathers bringing them
out of the land of Egypt, and go after
other gods from the gods of the peoples
which are round about them, and they
will worship to them and provoke Je-
hovah.

13 And they will forsake Jehovah,
and will serve Baal and Ashtaroth.

14 And the wrath of Jehovah will
kindle against Israel, and he will give
them into the hand of plunderers, and
they will plunder them; and he will
sell them into the hand of their ene-
mies from round about, and they will
no more be able to stand before the face
of their enemies.

15 In all where they will go forth,
the hand of Jehovah was against them
for evil, as Jehovah spake and as Jeho-
vah sware to them: and he will press
them greatly.

16 And Jchoyah will raise up judges,
and they will save them from the hand
of their plunderers.

17 And also they will not hear to
their judges, for they committed for-
nications after other gods, and they
will worship to them: they turned
aside quickly from the way which their
fathers went to hear the commands of
Jehovah ; they did not so.

18 And when Jehovah raised up to
them judges, and Jehovah was with the
judge, and saved them from the hand
of their enemies all of the days of the
judge: for Jehovah will grieve from
their groaning from the face of those
pressing them and thrusting them.

.19 And it was in the dying of the
judge, they will turn back and be cor-
rupted above their fathers to go after
other gods to serve them and to wor-
ship to them: they let nothing fall from
their deeds and from their hard way.

20 And the wrath of Jehovah will
kindle against Israel; and he will say,
Because that this nation passed by my
covenant which I commanded their
fathers, and heard not to my voice,

21 1 also will not add to drive out a
man from their face from the nations
which Joshua left, and he died,

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22 So as to try Israel by them, wheth-
er they are watching the way of Jeho-
vah to go in them, as their fathers
watched, or not.

23 And Jehoyah will leave these na.
tions, not to drive them out quickly,
and he gave them not into the hand of
Joshua,

CHAPTER IIT.
HESE the nations which Jehovah
left to try Israel by them, (all
which knew not the wars of Canaan ;

2 Only for the generationgjof the sons
of Israel to know to teach them war,
only who before knew not ;)

3 Five princes of Philistines, and all
the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and
the Hivite dwelling in mount Lebanon,
from mount Baal-Hermon.

4 And they will be to try Israel by
them to know whether they will hear
the commands of Jehovah which he
commanded their fathers by the hand
of Moses.

5 And the sons of Israel dwelt in
the midst of the Canaanites, the Hit-
tites, and the Amorites, and the Periz-
zites, and the Hivites, and the Jebu-
sites :

6 And they will take their daughters
to them for wives, and their daughters
they will give to their sons, and they
will serve their gods. 5

7 And the sons of Israel will do evi
in the eyes of Jehoyah, and they will
forget Jehovah their God, and they
will serve the Baalims and the wooden
pillars,

8 And the wrath of Jehovah will
kindle against Israel, and he will sell
them into the hand of Cushan-Risha-
thaim, king of Aram-Naharim: and
the sons of Israel will serve Cushan-
Rishathaim eight years.

9 And the sons of Israel will ery to
Jehoyah, and Jehovah will raise up a
saviour to the sons of Israel, and he
will save them, Othniel, son of Kenaz,
Caleb’s brother younger than he.’

10 And the spirit of Jehovah will ke
upon him, and he will judge Israel, and
he will go forth to war: and Jehovah
will give into his hand Cushan-Risha-
thaim, king of Aram; and his hand

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will be strong upon Cushan-Risha-
thaim.

11 And the land will rest forty years:
and Othniel, son of Kenaz, will die.

12 And the sons of Israel will add
to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah: and
Jehovah will strengthen Eglon, king of
Moab, against. Israel, because they did
evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

13 And he will gather to him the
sons of Ammon and Amalek, and he
will go and smite Israel, and will in-
herit the city of palm-trees.

14 And the sons of Israel will serve
Kglon, king of Moab, eighteen years.

15 And the sons of Israel will ery to
Jehovah, and Jehovah will raise up to
them a saviour, Ehud, son of Gera, son
of a Benjamite, a man shut up of his
right hand: and the sons of Israel will
send a gift by his hand to Eglon, king
of Moab.

16 And Ehud will make to him a
sword, and to it two mouths; a cubit
its length: and he will gird it from un-
der his garments upon his right thigh.

17 And he will bring the gift to Eg-
lon, king of Moab: and Kglon a very
fat man.

18 And it will be as he finished to
bring the gift, and he will send away
the people lifting up the gift.

19 And he turned back from the
carved images which were at Gilgal,
and he will say, A hidden word to me
for thee, O king: and he will say, Si-
lence! And all standing by him will go
forth from him.

20 And Ehud came to him; and he
sat in an upper chamber of cooling,
which was to him alone: and Ehud will
say, A word of God to me for thee.
And he will rise from off the throne.

21 And Ehud will stretch forth his
left hand, and will take the sword from
off his right thigh, and he will drive it
into his belly: .

22 And the handle will also go in
after the flame, and the fat will shut
upon the flame, for he drew not the
sword out of his belly; and the dirt
came out.

23 And Ehud will come forth to the
portico, and he will shut the doors of
the ae chamber upon him, and fasten.

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24 And he went forth, and his ser-
vants came in, and saw, and behold,
the doors of the upper chamber were
fastened; and they will say, Surely he
is covering his feet in the chamber of
cooling.

25 And they will delay till being
ashamed: and behold, he opened not
the doors of the upper chamber; and
they will take a key and will open:
and behold, their lord fallen upon the
earth, dead.

26 And Ehud was saved during their
consternation; and he passed by the
carved images and will be saved at the
gates.

27 And it will be in his coming out,
and he will clang upon the trumpet in
mount Ephraim, and the sons of Israel
will go down with him from the mount-
ain; and he before them.

28 And he will say to them, Follow
after me, for Jehovah gave your ene-
mies, Moab, into your hand. And they
will go down after him and will take
the passages of Jordan toward : Moab,
and they gave not a man to pass over.

29 And they will smite Moab in that
time, about ten thousand men, every
one fat and every man strong: and not
a man was saved.

30 And Moab will be subdued in
that day under the hand of Israel : and
the land will rest eighty years.

81 And after him-was Shamgar, son
of Anath; and he will smite the Philis-
tines, six hundred men with an ox-
goad; and he also will deliver Israel.

CHAPTER IV.
ND the sons of Israel will add to

Ἃ do evil in the eyes of Jehovah,
and Khud died.

2 And Jehovah will sell them into
the hand of Jabin, king of Canaan, who
reigned in Hazor; and the captain of
his army, Sisera; and he will dwell in
Harosheth of the nations:

3 And the sons of Israel will ery to
Jehovah; for nine hundred chariots. of
iron to him; and he pressed the sons of
Israel by force twenty years.

4 And Deborah, a woman, a proph-
etess, wife to Lapidoth, she judged. Is-
rael in that time.

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5 And she will dwell under the palm
tree of Deborah, between Ramah and
between Bethel, in mount Ephraim :
and the sons of Israel will go up to her
for judgment.

6 And she will send and call for Ba-
Ταῖς, son of Abimoam, from Kadesh-
Naphtali; and she will say to him, Did
not Jehovah the God of Israel com-
mand, Go, and draw into mount Tabor,
and take with thee ten thousand men
from the sons of Naphtali and from the
sons of Zebulon?

7 And I drew to thee to the torrent
Kishon, Sisera, captain of Jabin’s army,
and his chariots and his multitude ; and
1 gave him into thy hand.

8 And Barak will say to her, If thou
wilt go with me, and I will go: and if
thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.

9 And she will say, Going, I will
go with thee: but yet it shall not be
thine honor upon the way which thou
goest ; for Jehovah will sell Sisera into
the hand of a woman. And Deborah
will rise and will go with Barak to Ka-
desh.

10 And Barak will ery out to Zebu-
lon and Naphtali to Kadesh; and he
will go up ten thousand men at his feet:
and Deborah will go up with him.

11 And Heber the Kenite separated
himself from Kain, from the sons of
Hobab, father-in law of Moses, and he
will stretch out his tent even to the oak
in Zaanaim which is at Kadesh.

12 And they will announce to Sisera
that Barak son of Abinoam, went up to
mount Tabor.

18 And Sisera will call together all
his chariots, nine hundred chariots of
iron, and all the people which are with
him from Harosheth of the nations, to
the torrent of Kishon.

14 And Deborah will say to Barak,
Arise; for this is the day which Jeho-
vah gave Sisera into thine hand; went
not Jehovah out before thee? and Ba-
tak went down from mount Tabor, and
ten thousand men after him.

15 And Jehovah will discomfit Sise-
ra and all the.chariots and all the camp,
“with the mouth.of the sword before Ba-
rak; and.Sisera will descend from the
chariot, and will flee on his feet.

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16 And Barak pursued after the
chariots and after the camp, even to
Harosheth of the nations: and all the
camp of Sisera will fall by the mouth of
the sword; there was not left even one.

17 And Sisera fled upon his feet to
the tent of Jael, wife of Heber, the Ke-
nite: for peace between Jabin king of
Hazor and the house of Heber the Ke-
nite.

18 And Jael will go forth to meet
Sisera, and will say to him, Turn aside,
my lord, turn aside to me; thou shalt
not be afraid. And he will turn aside
to her to the tent, and she will cover
him with a carpet.

19 And he will say to her, Give me
to drink now a little water, for I thirst-
ed. And she will open a sack of milk,
and will give him drink, and will cover
him.

20 And he will say to her, stand at
the door of the tent, and it was when a
man shall come, and ask thee and say,
Is a man here? and say thou, .סא‎ .

21 And Jael, Heber’s wife, will take
a peg of the tent, and will put a ham-
mer inher hand, and will go to him
softly, and will drive the peg into his
temples, and it will go down into the
earth; and he was in a deep sleep and
was wearied. And he will die.

22 And behold, Barak pursued Sise-
ra, and Jael will come up to meet him,
and she will say to him, Come, and 1
will shew thee the man whom thou
seekest. And he will go in to her, and
behold, Sisera fallen dead, and the peg
in his temples.

23 And God will subdue in that day,
Jabin, king of Canaan, before the sons
of Israel.

24 And the hand of the sons of Is-
rael, going, will go, and be hard upon
Jabin, king of Canaan, till they cut off
Jabin, king of Canaan.

CHAPTER V.
ND Deborah will sing, and Ba-
rak, son of Abinoam, in that
day, saying,
2 In the leading on of the Jeaders in
Israel,
In the willineness of the

eople,
praise ye Jehovah, 6

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8 Hear, ye kings; give ear ye princes;
I, to Jehovah, will I sing;
I will play to Jehovah, God of Israel.
4 Jehovah, in thy going forth from
Seir,
In thy aseending from the field of
Edom,
The earth trembled, the heavens also
dropped,
Also the clouds dropped water.
5 The mountains flowed from before
Jehovah,
This Sinai from before Jehovah, the
God of Israel.
6 In the days of Shamgar, son of
Anath,
In the days of Jael, they left the ways;
They went the by-ways; they will go
the winding-ways.
7 The rulers ceased in Israel: they
ceased
Till I, Deborah, arose:
I arose a mother in Israel.
8 He will choose new gods;
Then war in the gates:
If a shield was seen, and a lance,
Among forty thousand in Israel.
9 My heart to the leaders of Israel,
Those giving voluntarily among the
people:
Praise ye Jehovah.
10 Ye riding upon white asses,
Sitting upon jurisdiction,
And going upon the way, speak ye.
11 From the voice of arrows between
the watering-troughs,
There will they give the justices of Je-
hovah,
The justices of his rule in Israel:
Then will the people of Jehovah go
down to the gates.
12 Awake, awake! Deborah ;
Awake, awake! speak a song:
Arise, Barak, and lead captive, thy cap-
tivity, son of Abinoam.
13 Then the one left shall go down
> to the chiefs of the people:
Jehovah will come down to me among
the mighty.
14 The fate of Ephraim uprooted
them in Amalek;
After thee, Benjamin, among thy tribes;
From Machir the lawgivers came down,
And from Zebulon they drawing with
the rod of the scribe.

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15 And the chiefs in Issachar with
Deborah ;
And Issachar, so Barak:
In the valley sent he, upon his feet.
In the divisions of Reuben,
Great decrees of heart.
16 Wherefore didst thou dwell in the
midst of the folds,
To hear the pipings of the flocks?
For the divisions of Reuben, great
searchings of heart.
17 In Gilead beyond Jordan he dwelt;
And Dan, wherefore will he sojourn in

ships ?

Asher will dwell by the shore of the
seas,

And upon his harbors will he dwell.

18 Zebulon a people reproached his

soul to death,

And Naphtali upon the heights of the
field

19 Kings came: they fought:
Then fought the kings of Canaan,
In Tanach, upon the water of Me-
giddo:
Plunder of silver took they not.
20 From the heavens they fought;
The stars from their raised ways fought
with Sisera.
21 The torrent Kishon snatched them
away
The torrent of ancient days, the torrent
of Kishon.
Thou wilt tread down strength, O my
soul.
22 Then were the horse heels smitten
From the courses, the courses of his
strong ones. :
23 Curse ye Meroz, said the messen-
ger of Jehovah:
Cursing, curse ye her inhabitants ;
For they came not to the help of Je-
hovah—
To the help of Jehovah against the
mighty ones.
24 Blessed shall be Jael above wo-
men,—
The wife of Heber the Kenite,—
Above women in the tent shall she be
blessed.
25 He asked water, she gave milk; |
In a prince’s dish brought she curdled
milk.
26 Her hand to the peg will she stretch
forth,

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And her right hand to the hammer of
labor,

And she struck Sisera;
through his head,
And she crushed and pierced through

his temples.
27 Between her feet he bowed, he
fell, he lay down:
Between her feet he bowed, he fell:
Where he bowed, there he fell, de-
stroyed.
28 Through the window she looked
forth and cried out,
—The mother of Sisera, through the
lattice—
Why did his chariot delay to come?
Why lingered the paces 01 his chariots?
29 Her wise chiefs will answer,
Surely, will she turn back words to her-
self,
80 Will they not find? They will
divide the spoil ;
He compassionated compassions to head
of man ;
The spoil of dyed garments to Sisera,
A spoil of dyed garments of variega-
tion,
Dyed of double variegation for the
necks of the spoil.
81 So shall all thine enemies perish,
O Jehovah:
And those loving him, as the going
forth of the sun in his strength.
And the land will rest forty years.

CHAPTER VI.
ND the sons of Israel will do evil
in the eyes of Jehovah, and Je-
hovah will give them into the hand of
Midian seven years.

2 And the hand of Midian will be
strong upon Israel: from the face of
Midian the sons of Israel made to them
clefts which are in the mountains, and
caves and fastnesses.

3 And it was if Israel sowed, and
Midian came up, and Amalek, and
the sons of the east, and they came up
against him:

“4 And they will encamp against them,
and they will destroy the “produce of
the land even to thy coming to Gaza;
‘and they will not leaye means of life in
Israel, and sheep and ox and ass.

ὃ For they and their cattle will come

she smote

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up, and their tents will come, as an
abundance of locusts for multitude ; and
to them and to their camels no number:
and they will come into the land to de-
stroy it.

6 And Israel will be enfeebled from
the face of Midian; and the sons of Is-
rael will ery to Jehovah.

7 And it will be when the sons of Is-
rael cried to Jehovah on account of
Midian,

8 And Jehovah will send forth a
man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel,
and he will say to them, Thus said Je-
hovah the God of Israel, 1 brought
you up from Keypt, and I will bring
you out of the house of servants ;

9 And I will deliver you from the
hand of Kgypt, and from the hand of
all pressing you, and I will drive them
out from your face, and I will give to
you their land;

10 And say ing to you, I am Jehovah
your God; ye shall not fear the gods
of the Amorites which ye will dwell in
their land: and ye heard not to my
voice.

11 And a messenger of Jehovah will
come and sit under an oak which is in
Ophrah, which is to Joash, father of
Kizri: and Gideon his son threshed
wheat in the wine press to place in
safety from the face of Midian.

12 And the messenger of Jehovah
will be seen to him, and he will say to
him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty
of strength.

18 And Gideon will say to him,
With leave, my Lord, and Jehovah be
with us, and wherefore did all this
find us? and where all his wonderful
things which our fathers recounted to
us, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us
up out of Egypt? and now Jehovah
cast us off, aud he will give us into the
hand of Midian.

14 And Jehovah will turn to him
and say, Go in this thy strength and
save Israel from the hand of Midian:
did I not send thee?

15 And he will say to him, With
leave, my Lord, by what shall 7 save
Israel ? behold, my thousand destitute
in Manasseh, and I the least in my fa-
ther’s house,

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16 And Jehovah will say to him, For
I will be with thee, and strike thou
Midian as one man.

17 And he will say to him, If now I
found grace in thine eyes, and do to
me a sign that thou speakest with me.

18 Now thou shalt not depart from
here till my coming to thee, and I
brought forth my gift and set it before
thee. And he will say, I will remain
till thy turning back.

19 And Gideon went in, and he will
do a kid of the goats, and an ephah of
flour of unleavened: the flesh he put
in a basket, and he put the broth na
pot, and he wil bring forth to him un-
der the oak and will bring near.

20 And the messenger of God will
say to him, Take the flesh and the un-
leavened and lay upon this rock, and
pour out the broth. And he will do so.

21 And the messenger of Jehovah
will stretch forth the extremity of the
staff which in his hand, and will touch
upon the flesh and on the unleavened ;
and fire will rise up from the rock and
will consume the flesh and the unleay-
ened. And the messenger of Jehovah
went from his eyes.

_22 And Gideon will see that he a
messenger of Jehovah ; and Gideon will
say, Ah, Lord Jehovah! for on account
that I saw a messenger of Jehovah face
to face.

23 And Jehovah will say to him,
Peace to thee; thou shalt ποὺ fear;
thou shalt not die.

24 And Gideon will build there an
altar to Jehovah, and he will call to
him Jehoyah-peace: till this day and it
yet in Ophrah of the father of Edrei.

28 And it will be in that night Jeho-
vah will say to him, Take a bullock of
the oxen which is to thy father, and
the second bullock of seven years, and
break in pieces the altar of Baal, which
is to thy father, and the wooden pillar
which is upon it thou shalt cut down ;

26 And build an altar to Jehovah
thy God upon the head of this strong
place in order, and take the second

ullock and bring up a burnt-offering
upon the wood of the wooden pillar
which thou shalt cut down.

27 And Gideon will take ten men of

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his servants, and he will do as Jeho-
vah spake to him: and it will be as he
will fear the house of his father and the
men of the city doing in the day, and
he will do in the night.

28 And the men of the city will rise
early in the morning, and behold, the
altar of Baal thrown down, and the
wooden pillar which is upon it cut
down, and the second bullock brought
up upon the altar haying been built.

29 And they will say aman to his
neighbor, Who did this word? And
they will enquire and search, and they
will say, Gideon, son of Joash did this
word.

30 And the men of the city will say
to Joash, Bring forth thy son and he
shall die: for he threw down the altar
of Baal, and because he cut down the
wooden pillar which is upon it.

81 And Joash will say to all who
stood against him, Will ye contend for
Baal? or will ye save him? whoever
will contend for him shall die during
the morning: if he is a god he will be
mighty for himself, for he threw down
his altar.

82 And he will call to him in that
day, Baal will be powerful, saying,
Baal will be mighty against him be-
cause he threw down his altar.

33 And all Midian and Amalek, and
the sons of the east were gathered to-
gether, and they will pass over and they
will encamp in the valley of Jezreel.

34 And the spirit of Jehovah clothed
Gideon, and he will strike upon the
trumpet; and Abiezer will be called
after him.

35 And he sent messengers in all
Manasseh; and he also will be called
after him: and he sent messengers in
Asher, and in Zebulon, and in Naph-
tali; and they will come up to meet
them.

36 And Gideon will say to God, If
thou art saving Israel by my hand, as
thou spalest,

37 Behold me putting a fleece of
wool in the threshing-floor, and if the
dew shall be upon the fleece only, and
upon all the earth dryness, and I knew
that thou wilt save Israel by my hand
as thou spakest.

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88 And it will be so: and he will
rise early upon the morrow, and he
will press the fleece together, and the
dew will press out from the fleece, a
bowl full of water.

89 And Gideon will say to God,
‘Thine anger will not kindle against me,
and I will speak but this once: I will
try now only this once upon the fleece ;
there shall be dryness to the fleece
alone, and upon all the earth shall be
dew.

40 And God will do so in that night :
and there will be dryness to the fleece
only, and upon all the earth was dew.

CHAPTER VIL.
ND Jerub-Baal (he is Gideon) will
rise early and all the people that
is with him, and they will encamp by
the fountain of Harod: and the camp
of Midian was to him from the north
from the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

2 And Jehovah will say to Gideon,
The people many which are with thee
for me to give Midian ito their hand,
lest Israel shall glory before me, say-
ing, My hand saved me.

8 And now, call now in the ears of
the people, saying, Who being afraid
and trembling shall turn back and turn
about from mount Gilead. And there
will turn back from the people twenty
and two thousand; and ten thousand
were left.

4 And Jehovah will say to Gideon,
Yet the people many; bring them
down to the waters, and I will purify
them for thee there; and it shall be
of whom saying to thee, This shall go
with thee, he shall go with thee; and
all which saying to thee, This shall not
go with thee, he shall not go.

5 And he will bring down the people
to the waters: and Jehovah will say to
Gideon, Every one which shall lap
with his tongue from the waters as the
dog will lap, thou shalt put him alone ;
and all which shall bend upon his knees
to drink.

6 And the number of those lapping
with their hand to their mouth, will be
three hundred men: and all the remain-
der of the people bowed upon their
knees to drink water.

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7 And Jehovah will say to Gideon,
By the three hundred men lapping, I
will save you, and give Midian into
thy hand: and all the people shall go,
a man to his place.

8 And the people will take food in
their hand and their trumpets: and he
sent all the men of Israel a man to his
tent, and by the three hundred men he
was strengthened: and the camp of Mi-
dian was to him beneath in the valley.

9 And it will be in that night, and
Jehovah will say to him, Arise, go
down to the camp, for I gave him into
thy hand.

10 And if thou shalt fear to go down,
go down thou and Phurah thy youth
to the camp:

11 And thou heardest what they shall
speak: and afterward thy hands shall
be strengthened, and go down to the
eamp. And. he will go down, he and
Phurah his boy to the extremity of the
brave which in the camp.

12 And Midain and Amalek, and all
the sons of the east, encamping in the
valley, as the locust for multiude; and
to their camels no number, as the sand
which is upon the lip of the sea for mul-
titude.

13 And Gideon will come, and behold,
aman recounting a dream to his neigh-
bor; and he will say, Behold, I dreamed
a dream, and behold, a round cake of
barley bread rolling into the camp of
Midian; and it will come eyen to the
tent, and it will strike it, and it will fall
and will turn it over, so that the tent
fell.

14 And his neighbor will answer and
say, This is nothing else but the sword
of Gideon, son of Joash, a man of Israel :
God gave into his hand Midian, and all
the camp.

15 And it will be when Gideon heard
the recounting of the dream and its
breaking, and he will worship, and turn
back to the camp of Israel, and he will
say, Atise, ye, for Jehovah gave into
your hand the camp of Midian.

16 And he will divide the three hund-
red men into three beginnings, and he
will give trumpets into the hand of
them all, and empty buckets, and torches
in the midst of the buckets,

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17 And he will say to them, Ye shall
look upon me, and so shall ye do: and
behold me coming to the extremity of
the camp, and it was as 1 shall do, so
ye shall do.

18 And I struck upon the trumpet, I
and all that are with me, and ye struck
upon the trumpets, also ye round about
all the camp, and say, For Jehovah
and for Gideon.

19 And Gideon will go and the
hundred men that are with him, to the
extremity of the camp, the beginning of
the middle watch; only now rising up
they raised up those watching: and they
will strike upon the trumpets, and they
brake the buckets that are in their
hand.

20 And the three heads will strike
upon the trumpets, and will break the
buckets, and they will hold fast in their
left hand upon the torches, and in their
right hand the trumpets to strike: and
they will call the sword for Jehovah
and for Gideon.

21 And they will stand a man for
himself round about the camp; and all
the camp will run and ery out and
flee.

22 And the three hundred will clang
the trumpets, and Jehovah will set the
sword of a man against his neighbor
and in all the camp: and the camp fled
even to the House of Acacia of Zererath,
even to the lip of Abel-Meholah, to
Tabbath.

23 Andaman of Israel will be called
from Naphtali, and from Asher, and
from Manasseh, and they will pursue
after Midian.

24 And Gideon sent messengers into
all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down
to meet Midian, and take before them
the waters even to the House of Passage,
and Jordan. And every man of Eph-
raim will be called together, and they
will take the waters even to the House
of Passage and Jordan.

25 And they will take the two chiefs
of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they
will kill Oreb upon the rock of Oreb,
and Zeeb they killed at the wine press
of Zeeb, and they pursued against Mid-
ian, and the heads of Oreb and Zeeb
they brought to Gideon beyond Jordan.

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CHAPTER VIIL
\ ND the men of Ephraim will say
to him, Why didst thou this
word to us, that thou calledst not to us
when thou wentest to war against Mid-
ian? and they will contend with him
with strength.

2 And he will say to them, What now
did I according to you? are not the
gleanings of Hphraim good above the
vintage of Abi-Ezer?

3 Into your hand God gave the
chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and
what was I able to do according to
you? Then was their spirit relaxed
from over him in his speaking this word.

4 And Gideon will come to Jordan
to pass through, he and the three hun-
dred men that are with him, faint and
pursuing.

5 And he will say to the men of
Succoth, Ye shall give now rounds of
bread to the people who are at my feet:
for they are faint, and I am pursuing
after Zebah and Zalmunna, kines of
Midian.

6 And the chiefs of Succoth will say,
Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna
now in thy hand that bread was given
to thine army ?

7 And Gideon will say, For this in
Jehovah’s giving Zebah and Zalmnnna
into my hand, and I threshed your
flesh with thorns of the desert and
threshing-sledges.

8 And he will go up from thence to
Penuel, and he will say to them like
this: and the men of Penuel will an-
swer him as the men of Succoth an-
swered.

9 And he will say also to the men of
Penuel, saying, In my turning back in
peace I will break down this tower.

10 And Zebah and Zalmunna are in
Karkor, and ‘their camps with them,
about fifteen thousand, all those re-
maining from all the camp of the sons
of the east: and there fell a hundred
and twenty thousand men drawing the
sword.

11 And Gideon will go up the way
of those dwelling in tents from the east
to Nobah and Jogbehah, and he will
smite the camp; and the camp was se-
cure.

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19 And Zebah and Zalmunna will
flee, and he will pursue after them and
he will take the two kings of Midian,
Zebah and Zalmunna, and he terrified
all the camp.

18 And Gideon son of Joash, will
turn back from the war from the cliff of
the sun.

14 And he will take a youth from
the men of Succoth, and he will ask
him: and he will write for him the
chiefs of Succoth and its old men, sey-
enty and seven men.

15 And he will come to the men of
Succoth, and he will say, Behold Ze-
bah and Zalmunna with whom ye re-
proached me, saying, Is the hand of
Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine
hand to give bread to thy men being
weary ?

16 And he will take the old men of
the city, and thorns of the desert, and
threshing sledges, and with them he
caused the men of Succoth to know.

17 And he brake down the tower of
Penuel, and he will kill the men of the
city.

18 And he will say to Zebah and
Zalmunna, Whose the men which ye
killed in Tabor? and they will say,
As thou, so they; one according to the
form of the sons of the king.

19 And he will say, My brethren, the
sons of my mother: Jehovah lives,
would that ye preserved them alive,
and 1 had not slain you.

20 And he will say to Jether his
first-born, Arise, kill them. But the
youth drew not his sword, for he was
afraid, because he was yet a youth.

21 And Zebah will say, and Zalmun-
na, Arise, and fall upon us: for as a
man, his strength. And Gideon will
rise and kill Zebah and Zalmunna, and
he will take the little moons upon their
camels’ necks.

22 And the men of Israel will say to
Gideon, Rule over us, also thou, also
thy son, also thy son’s son: for thou
savedst us from the hand of Midian.

23 And Gideon will say to them, I
will not rule over you, and my son
shall not rule over you: Jehovah shall
rule over you.

24 And Gideon will say to them, I

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will ask of you an asking, and ye shall
give to me a man the rings of his spoil:
for gold rings to them, because they
were Ishmaelites.

25 And they will say, Giving, we
will give. And they will spread a gar-
ment, and they will cast there each the
rings of his spoil.

26 And the weight of the gold rings
which he asked will be a thousand and
seven hundred of gold; besides of little
moons and earrings and purple robes
which were upon the kings of Midian,
and besides from the collars which up-
on their camels’ necks.

27 And Gideon will make it into an
ephod, and he will putin his city, Oph-
rah: and all Israel will commit forni-
cation after it there: and it will be to
Gideon and to his house for a snare.

28 And Midian will be subdued be-
fore the sons of Israel, and they will
not add to lift up their head: and the
land will rest forty years in the days of
Gideon.

29 And Jerubbaal, son of Joash, will
go and dwell in his house.

80 And to Gideon were seventy sons
going out of his thigh: for many women
were to him.

81 And his concubine which is in
Shechem, she will bear to him a son,
and she will set his name Abimelech.

82 And Gideon will die ina good
old age, and he will be buried in the
grave of Joash his father, in Ophrah, of
the father of Ezri.

83 And it will be when Gideon died
the sons of Israel will turn back, and
will commit fornication after the Baal-
ims, and they will set to them Baal of
the covenant for their god.

34 And the sons of Israel did not re-
member Jehovah their God, delivering
them out of the hand of all their ene-
mies from round about.

85 And they did not kindness with
the house 01 Jerubbaal, Gideon, accord-
ing to all the good which he did with
Israel.

CHAPTER IX.
ND Abimelech son of Jerubbaal,
will come to Shechem to his
mother’s brethren, and say to them, to

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all the family of the house of his moth-
er’s father, saying,

2 Speak, now, in the ears of all the
lords of Shechem, What gcod to you
for seventy men of all the sons of Jer-
ubbaal to rule over you, or one man
to rule over you? and remember that
Iam your bone and your flesh.

8 And his mother’s brethren will
speak concerning him in the ears of all
the lords of Shechem all these words:
and their heart will incline after
Abimelech; for they said, He is our
brother.

4 And they will give him seventy of
silver from the house of Baal of the
covenant, and Abimelech will hire with
them men empty and vain-glorious, and
they will go after him.

5 And he will come to his father’s
house at Ophrah, and will kill his breth-
ren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy
men upon one stone: and Jotham the
young son of Jerubbaal will be left,
for he was hid.

6 And all the lords of Shechem will
gather together, and all the House of
the Rampart, and they will make Abim-
elech king, by the Oak of the Pillar
which is in Shechem.

7 And they will announce to Jotham
and he will go and stand upon the head
of mount Gerizim, and he will lift up
his voice and call, and say to them,
Hear to me, ye lords of Shechem, and
God will hear to you.

8 The trees going forth went to
anoint over them a king; and they will
say to the olive, Reign thou over us.

9 And the olive will say to them,
Left I my fatness which by me they
will honor God and men, and went I
to wander about over the trees ?

10 And the trees will say to the fig
tree, Come thou, reign over us.

11 And the fig tree will say to them,
Left I my sweetness, and my good pro-
duce, and went I to wander about over
the trees ?

12 And the trees will say to the
vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

18 And the vine will say to them,
Left I my new wine-making, rejoicing
God and men, and went 1 to wander
about over the trees?

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14 And all the trees will say to the
buckthorn, Come thou, reign over us.

15 And the buckthorn will say to
the trees, If in truth ye anoint me for
king over you, come, take refuge in my
shadow: and if not, fire shall come
forth from the buckthorn and shall con-
sume the cedars of Lebanon.

16 And now if in truth and in up-
rightness ye did and ye shall make
Abimelech king, and if ye did good
with Jerubbaal and with his house, and
if according to the desert of his hands
ye did to him:

17 (For my father fought for you,
and he will cast his soul away, and he
will deliver you from the hand of Mid-
ian.

18 And ye rose up against the house
of my father this day, and ye will 1
his sons, seventy men, upon one stone ;
and ye will make Abimelech, son of
his maid, king over the lords of She-
chem, because he is your brother :)

19 And if in sincerity and upright-
ness ye did with Jerubbaal and with
his house this day, rejoice: ye in Abim-
elech, and he shall rejoice also in you.

20 And if not, fire shall come forth
from Abimelech and shall consume the
lords of Shechem and the House of the
Rampart; and fire shall come forth from
the lords of Shechem and from the
House of the Rampart, and shall con-
sume Abimelech.

21 And Jotham will flee, and break
away, and he will go to the well and
will dwell there from the face of Abim-
elech his brother.

22 And Abimelech will have domin-
ion over Israel three years,

23 And God will send an evil spirit
between Abimelech and between the
lords of Shechem; and the lords of
Shechem will act deceitfully with
Abimelech,

24 To bring the wrong of the seven-
ty sons of Jerubbaal and to put their
blood upon Abimelech their brother
who killed them, and upon the lords of
Shechem who strengthened his hands
to kill his brethren.

25 And the lords of Shechem will set
for him liers in wait upon the heads of
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who shall pass over by them in the
way: and it was announced to Abim-
elech.

26 And Gaal son of Ebed will come,
and his brethren, and they will pass
over to Shechem: and the lords of She-
chem will trust in him.

27 And they will go forth to the
field, and they will gather their vine-
yards, and they will tread down, and
they will make rejoicings, and go in to
the house of their God, and they will
eat and drink, and curse Abimelech.

28 And Gaal son of 10060 will say,
Who Abimelech, and who Shechem,
that we shall serve him? is he not the
son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his over-
seer? Serve the men of Hamor the fa-
ther of Shechem: and why shall we
serve him?

29 And who will give this people
into my hand? And I will remove
Abimelech. And he will say to Abim-
elech, Increase thine army and come
forth.

80 And Zebul the ruler of the city
will hear the words of Gaal, son of
13000, and his wrath will kindle.

81 And he will send messengers to
Abimelech in deceit, saying, Behold,
Gaal son of Ebed, and his brethren,
came to Shechem; and behold, they
pressed the city against thee.

82 And now, rise up by night, thou
and the people which are with thee,
and lie in wait in the field:

33 And it was in the morning when
the sun rose, thou shalt rise early and
invade upon the city: and behold, he
and the people which with him coming
forth against thee; and do thou to him
as thy hand shall find.

84 And Abimelech will rise, and all
the people which are with him, by
night, and they will lie in wait against
Shechem in four heads.

85 And Gaal son of Ebed will go
forth, and he will stand at the door of
the gate of the city: and Abimelech
will rise, and the people that are with
him, from the ambush.

36 And Gaal will see the people, and
he will say to Zebul, Behold, people
coming down from the heads of the
mountains And Zebul will say to

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him, Thou seest the shadow of the
mountains as men.

87 And Gaal will add to speak, and
will say, Behold, people coming down
from the height of the land, and one
head coming from the way of the oak
of Meonenim.

88 And Zebul will say to him, Where
now thy mouth with which thou wilt
say, Who Abimelech, that we shall
serve him? is not this the people which
thou despised it? now go forth now,
and fight with it.

39 And Gaal will go forth before the
lords of Shechem, and he will fight
against Abimelech.

40 And Abimelech will pursue him
and he will flee from his face, and
many will fall wounded at the door of
the gate.

41 And Abimelech will dwell in
Arumah : and Zebul will drive out Gaal
and his brethren from dwelling in She-
chem.

42 And it will be from the morrow,
and the people will go forth to the
field; and they will announce to Abim-
elech.

43 And he will take the people and
will divide them into three heads, and
he will lie in wait in the field, and he
will see, and behold, the people will
come forth from the city, and he will
rise up against them and smite them.

44 And Abimelech and the heads
which are with him will invade, and
they will stand at the door of the gate
of the city: and two heads will invade
upon all which are in the field, and
they will smite them.

45 And Abimelech fought against
the city all that day; and he will take
the city, and the people which im it he
killed, and he will tear down the city,
and will sow it with salt.

46 And all the lords of the tower of
Shechem will hear, and they will go in
to the tower of the god of the covenant.

47 And it was announced to Abim-
elech that all the lords of the tower of
Shechem were gathered together.

48 And Abimelech will go up to
mount Zalmon, he and all the people ©
that with him; and Abimelech will
take axes in his hand, and he will cut

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boughs of the trees, and will hft up
and will put upon: his shoulder, and
he will say to the people which are with
him, What ye saw I did, hasten, do
like me.

49 And also all the people will cut
each a bough, and will go after Abim-
elech, and they will put upon the tower,
and will set the tower on fire upon
them, and all the men of the tower of
Shechem will die; about a thousand
men and women.

50 And Abimelech will go to Thebez,
and he will encamp against Thebez and
take it.

51 And a strong tower was in the
midst of the city, and thither will flee
all the men and women and all the lords
of the city, and will shut up from after
them, and they will go up upon the roof
of the tower.

52 And Abimelech will come even to
the tower, and will fight against it, and
will urge on, even to the door of the
tower to burn it with fire.

53 And one woman will cast a piece
of the upper mill-stone upon the head
of Abimelech, and she will break his
skull.

54 And he will call quickly to the
youth lifting up his weapons, and he
will say to him, Draw thy sword and
put me to death, lest they shall say of
me, A woman killed him. And his
youth will thrust him through and he
will die.

55 And the men of Israel will see
that Abimelech died, and they will go
each to his place.

56 And God will turn back the evil
of Abimelech which he did to his father
for killing his seventy brethren.

57 And all the evil of the men of
Shechem God turned back upon their
head: and against them will come the
ove of Jotham the son of Jerub-

aal.

CHAPTER X.
ND after Abimelech will rise to
save Israel, Tola, the son 01 Puah,
the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar ;
and he dwelt in Shamir, in mount Eph-
raim.

2 And he will judge Israel twenty

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and three years; and he will die and
be buried in Shamir.

3 And after him will rise Jair the
Gileadite, and he will judge Israel
twenty and two years.

4 And to him will be thirty sons rid-
ing upon thirty young asses, and thirty
cities to them; and they will call them
the villages of Jair even to this day,
which are in the land of Gilead.

5 And Jair will die and be buried in
Camon.

6 And the sons of Israel will add to
do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they
will serve the Baalims, and Ashtaroth,
and the gods of Aram, and the gods
of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and
the gods of the sons of Ammon,
and the gods of Philisteim; and they
will forsake Jehovah and not serve
him.

7 And the wrath of Jehovah will kin-
dle against Israel, and he will sell them
into the hand of Philisteim, and into
the hand of the sons of Ammon.

8 And they will oppress and break
down the sons of Israel in that year,
eighteen years, all the sons of Israel
that are beyond Jordan in the land of
the Amorite which is in Gilead.

9 And the sons of Ammon will pass
over Jordan to war also against Judah,
and against Benjamin, and against the
house of Ephraim: and it will press
upon Israel greatly.

10 And the sons οἱ Israel will ery to
Jehovah, saying, We sinned against
thee because we forsook our God, and
we shall serve the Baalims.

11 And Jehovah will say to the sons
of Israel, Was it not out of Egypt, and
from the Amorite, and from the sons
of Ammon and from Philisteim ?

12 And the Zidonians and Amalek,
and Maon pressed you; and ye will ery
to me, and I will save you from their
hand.

13 And ye forsook me, and ye will
serve other gods: wherefore I will not
add to save you.

14 Go and ery to the gods, which ye
chose among them; they shall save for
you in time of your straits.

15 And the sons of Israel will say to
Jehovah, We sinned: do thou to us

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according to all the good in thine eyes;
but deliver us now, this day.

16 And they will remove the strange
gods from the midst of them, and they
will serve Jehovah: and his soul will be
shortened for the labor of Israel.

17 And the sons of Ammon will be
called together, and they will encamp

in Gilead. And the sons of Israel will]

assemble together and encamp in Miz-
peh.

18 And the people, the chiefs of Gil-
ead, will say, a man to his neighbor,
Who the man that will begin to war
against the sons of Ammon? he shall
be for head to all those dwelling in Gil-
ead.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
ND Jephthah the Gileadite was a
man of strength, and he the son
of a woman, a harlot. And Gilead will
beget Jephthah.

2 And Gilead’s wife will bring forth
sons to him, and his wife’s sons will
grow, and they will drive out Jeph-
thah, and they will say to him, Thou
shalt not inherit im our father’s house,
for thou the son of another woman.

8 And Jephthah will flee from the
face of his brethren and will dwell in
the land of Tob: and empty men will
gather together to Jephthah and will
go forth with him.

4 And it will be from days and the
sons of Ammon will war with Israel.

5 And it will be when the sons of
Ammon warred with Israel, and the
old men of Israel will go to take Jeph-
thah out of the land of Tob.

6 And they will say to Jephthah,
Come and be to us for leader, and we
will war against the sons of Ammon.

7 And Jephthah will say to the old
men of Gilead, Did ye not hate me, and
ye will drive me out from my father’s
house? and why came ye to me now
when there is distress to you?

8 And the old men of Gilead will
say to Jephthah, Therefore now we
turned back to thee, and come thou
with us and we will war against the
sons of Ammon, and be to us for head
to all dwelling in Gilead.

9 And Jephthah will say to the old

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men of Gilead, If ye turn me back to
war against the sons of Ammon, and
Jehovah gave them before me, shall I
be to you for head?

10 And the old men of Gilead will
say to Jephthah, Jehovah shall be hear-
ing between us, if we did not thus to
thee according to thy word.

11 And Jephthah will go with the
old men of Gilead, and the people will
set him over them for head and for
chief: and Jephthah will speak all his
words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.

12 And Jephthah will send messen-
gers to the king of the sons of Ammon,
saying, What to me and to thee that
thou camest to me to war in my land?

13 And the king of the sons of Am-
mon will say to the messengers of Jeph-
thah, Because Israel took my land in
his coming up out of Egypt, from Ar-
non even to Jabbok, and even to Jor-
dan: and now turn them back in
peace.

14 And Jephthah will add yet and
will send messengers to the king of the
sons of Ammon:

15 And he will say to him, Thus
said Jephthah, Israel took not the land
of Moab and the land of the sons of
Ammon:

16 When in their coming up out of
Egypt, and Israel went in the desert,
even to the sea of sedge, and he will
come to Kadesh ;

17 And Israel will send messengers
to the king of Edom, saying, I will
pass through now in thy land: and the
king of Edom heard not. And also to
the king of Moab he sent; and he was
not willing. And Israel dwelt in Ka-
desh.

18 And he will go into the wilder-
ness, and he will encompass the land of
Edom, and the land of Moab, and he
will come from the rising of the sun to
the land of Moab, and they will en-
camp: beyond Arnon; and they went
not in to the bound of Moab, for Ar-
non is the bound of Moab.

19 And Israel will send messengers
to Sihon, king of the Amorites, king of
Heshbon; and Israel will say to him,
We will pass now through in thy land,
even to my place.

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20 And Sihon trusted not Israel to
pass through in his bound; and Sihon
will gather together all his people and
will encamp in Jahaz, and he will war
with Israel.

21 And Jehovah the God of Israel
will give Sihon and all his people into
the hand of Israel, and they will smite
them: and Israel will inherit all the
land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of
that land.

22 And they will inherit all the
bound of the Amorites from Arnon
and even to Jabbok, and from the des-
ert and even to Jordan.

23 And now Jehovah the God of
Israel drove out the Amorites from the
face of his people Israel, and shalt thou
inherit it?

24 Shalt thou not inherit what Che-
mosh thy god will give thee to inher-
it? and all which Jehovah our God
drove out from our face, we will in-
herit it.

25 And now being good, art thou
good above Balak, son of Zippor, king
of Moab? striving, did he contend with
Israel, or warring, did he war against
them.

26 In Israel’s dwelling in Heshbon
and her daughters and in Aroer and
her daughters, and in all the cities
which are upon the hands of Arnon,
three hundred years? and why took ye
not them away in that time?

27 And I sinned not against thee,
and thou didst me evil to war against
me: Jehovah the Judge will judge this
day between the sons of Israel and be-
tween the sons of Ammon.

28 And the king of the sons of Am-
mon heard not to the words of Jeph-
thah which he sent to him.

29 And the spirit of Jehovah will
be upon Jephthah, and he will pass
through Gilead and Manasseh, and he
will pass through Mizpeh of Gilead,
and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed
over to the sons of Ammon. ᾿

30 And Jephthah will vow a vow to
Jehovah, and he will say, If giving,
thou wilt give the sons of Ammon into
my hand,

81 And it was, that coming forth
which shall come forth from the doors

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of my house to my meeting in my turn-
ing back in peace from the sons of Am-
mon, ahd it was to Jehovah; and I
brought it up a burnt-offering.

32 And Jephthah will pass over to
the sons of Ammon to war against
them: and Jehovah will give them into
his hand.

33 And he will strike them from
Aroer even to thy going to Minnith,
twenty cities, and even to the meadow
of the vineyards, with a very great
smiting. And the sons of Ammon will
be subdued from the face of the sons of
Israel.

84 And Jephthah will come to Miz-
peh to. his house, and behold,his daugh-
ter will come forth to his meeting with
drums and with lutes: and she the only
begotten; not to him beside her, son
nor daughter.

85 And it will be when he saw her,
and he will tear his garments, and will
say, Alas, my daughter! bowing down,
thou didst bow me down, and thou art
in my trouble: and I opened my mouth
to Jehovah, and I shall not be able to
turn back.

36 And she will say to him, My fa-
ther, opening thy mouth to Jehovah,
do to me acording to what came forth
from thy mouth, after that Jehovah
did for thee vengeance of thine enemies,
of the sons of Ammon.

87 And she will say to her father,
This word shall be done to me: desist
from me two months, and I will go, and
go down upon the mountains, and I will
lament over my virginity, 1 and my
friends.

38 And he will say, Go. And he
will send her away two months: and
she will go and her friends, and she will
lament over her virginity upon the
mountains.

39 And it will be from the end of two
months, and she will turn back to
her father and he will do to her his
vow which he vowed: and she knew
not man. And it will be a law in
Israel,

40 From days of days the daughters
of Israel will go to celebrate to the
daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite,
four days in the year,

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ND a man of Ephraim will cry
out and will pass over north,
and they will say to Jephthah, Why
didst thou pass over to war against the
sons of Ammon and didst not call to us
to go with thee? we will burn thy house

upon thee with fire.

2 And Jephthah will say to them, I
was a man of strife, 1 and my people
and the sons of Ammon greatly; and I
shall cry out to you, and ye saved me
not from their hands.

3 And I shall see that thou savest
not, and 1 shall put my soul in my hand,
and I shall pass over to the sons of
Ammon, and Jehovah will give them
into my hand: and wherefore came ye
up to me this day to war against ל‎

4 And Jephthah will gather together
all the men of Gilead, and he will war
with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead
will strike Ephraim because they said,
The escaped of Ephraim, ye of Gilead,
in the midst of Ephraim and in the
midst of Manasseh.

5 And Gilead will take the passages
of Jordan before Ephraim: and it was
that the escaped of Ephraim will say,
I will pass over; and the men of Gilead
will say to him, Thou an Ephrathite?
and he will say, No.

6 And they will say to him, Say now
Shibboleth: and he will say, Sibboleth :
and he will not form to speak thus.
And they will seize him and they will
slaughter him at the passages of Jordan.
And there will fall in that time of Eph-
בנגה‎ forty and two thousand.

7 And Jephthah will judge Israel six
years: and Jephthah the Gileadite wall
die, and will be buried in the city of
Gilead.

8 And after him Ibzan of the House
of Bread, will judge Israel.

9 And there will be to him thirty
sons and thirty daughters he sent with-
out, and thirty daughters he brought in
to his sons from without: and he will
judge Israel seven years.

10 And Ibzan will die, and will be
buried in the House of Bread.

11 And after him Elon the Zebulon-
ite, will judge Israel; and he will
judge Israel ten years.

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12 And Elon the Zebulonite will die
and will be buried in Elon in the land
of Zebulon.

13 And after him Abdon, son of Hil-
lel the Pirathonite, will judge Israel.

14 And there will be to him forty
sons and thirty sons’ sons riding upon
seventy young asses: and he will judge
Israel eight years.

15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the
Pirathonite, will die, and will be buried
in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in
the mount of the Amalelcite.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND the sons of Israel will add to
do evil in the eyes of Jehovah;
and Jehovah will give them into the
hand of Philisteim forty years.

2 And there will be one man from
Zorah from the families of the Danites,
and his name Manoah; and his wife
sterile, and she bare not.

3 And a messenger of Jehovah will
be seen to the woman, and will say to
her, Behold, now, thou art barren, and
bearest not; and thou conceivedst and
bearest a son.

4 And now, watch now, and drink
not wine and strong drink, and thou
shalt not eat any thing unclean :

5 For behold thee pregnant, and thou
bearest a son; and a razor shall not
come up upon his head, for the boy
shall be consecrated to God from the
womb: and he shall begin to save Israel
from the hand of Philisteim.

6 And the woman will go and will
say to her husband, saying, A man of
God came to me, and his sight as the
sight of the messenger of God, very ter-
rible: and Lasked him not from whence
he is, and his name he announced not
to me.

7 And he will say to me, Behold,
thee conceiving, and thou bearest a
son; and now drink not wine and
strong drink, and thou shalt not eat
any thing unclean, for the boy shall be
consecrated to God from the womb,
even to the day of his death.

8 And Manoah will pray to Jehovah
and will say, With leave, my Lord, a
man of God which thou sentest will he
come now yet to us, and he will teach

JUDGES XIV.

us what we shall do to the boy being
brought forth.

9 And God will hear to the voice of
Manoah, and the messenger of God will
come yet to the woman, and she will
sit in the field; and Manoah her man
not with her.

10 And the woman will hasten and
run, and announce to her man, and will
say to him, Behold, the man was seen
to me who came in the day to me.

11 And Manoah will rise and will go
after his wife, and will come to the
man, and will say to him, Thou the
man who spake to the woman? and he
will say, 1.

12 And Manoah will say, Now shall
come thy words. What shall be the
judgment of the boy, and his work?

13 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to Manoah, From all I said to
the woman she shall watch.

14 From all going forth from the
vine of the wine she shall not eat, and
wine and strong drink she shall not
drink, and any thing unclean she shall
not eat: all which 1 commanded she
shall watch.

15 And Manoah will say to the mes-
senger of Jehovah, We will detain thee
now, and we will do before thee a kid
of the goats.

16 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to Manoah, If thou shalt de-
tain me, I will not eat of thy bread:
and if thou shalt do a burnt-offering
thou shalt do it to Jehovah. For Ma-
noah knew not that he was a messen-
ger of Jehovah.

17 And Manoah will say to the mes-
senger of Jehovah, What thy name,
when shall come thy words and we
honored thee?

18 And the messenger of Jehovah
will say to him, Wherefore this wilt
thou ask for my name, and it is won-
derful ?

19 And Manoah will take a kid of
the goats, and the gift, and will bring
up, upon the rock to Jehovah; and he
separating to do, and Manoah and his
wife seeing,

20 And it will be in the going up of
the flame from the altar to the heavens,
and the messenger of Jehovah will go

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up in the flame of the altar and Ma-
noah and his wife seeing; and they will
fall upon their face to the earth.

21 And the messenger of Jehovah
will no more add to be seen to Manoah
and to his wife. Then Manoah knew
that he is the messenger of Jehovah.

22 And Manoah will say to his wife,
Dying, we shall die, because we saw
God.

23 And his wife will say to hin, If
Jehovah were inclined to put us to
death, he took not from our hand a
burnt-offering and gift, and he shewed
us.not all these, and as now caused us
not to hear such as this.

24 And the woman will bear a son,
and she will call his name Samson.
And the boy will grow, and Jehovah
will bless him.

25 And the spirit of Jehovah will be-
gin to move him in the camp of Dan,
between Zorah and between Hshtaol.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND Samson went down to Tim-
nath, and saw a woman in Tim-
nath from the daughters of Philisteim.

2 And he will go up and announce
to his father and his mother, and will
say, 1 saw a woman in Timnath from
the daughters of Philisteim: and now
take her to me for a wife.

3 And his father will say to him,
and his mother, Is there not among the
daughters of thy brethren, and among
all my people, a woman, that thou go-
est to take a woman from uncircum-
cised Philisteim? And Samson will say
to his father, Take her to me, for she is
straight in mine eyes.

4 And his father and his mother
knew not that it was from Jehovah that
he seeking an occasion from Philis-
teim; for in this time Philisteim was
ruling over Israel.

5 And Samson will go down, and his
father and his mother, to Timnath, and
they will come even to the vineyards of
Timnath: and behold, a young lion
roared at his meeting.

6 And the spirit of Jehovah will fall
suddenly upon him, and he will rend
him as rending a kid, and nothing
whatever in his hand: and he an-

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nounced not to his father and to his
mother what he did.

7 And he will go down and speak to
the woman, and she will be right in the
eyes of Samson. ἱ

8 And he will turn back after days
to take her, and he will turn aside to
see the carcass of the lion, and behold,
an assembly of bees in the body of the
lion, and honey.

9 And he will break it off in his
hands, and going, will go and eat, and
he will go to his father and to his
mother, and will give to them, and
they will eat: and he announced not
to them that from the body of the hon
he broke off the honey.

10 And his father will go down to
the woman; and Samson will make
there a drinking, for so did the young
men.

11 And it will be when they saw
him, and they will take thirty compan-
ions, and they will be with him.

12 And Samson will say to them, I
will propose to you an enigma: if an-
nouncing, ye shall announce it to me in
seven days of the drinking, and ye find
out, and I will give to you thirty wide
garments and thirty exchanges of gar-
ments:

13 And if ye shall not be able to an-
nounce to me, and ye give me thirty
wide garments and thirty exchanges of
garments: and they will say to him,
Propose thine enigma and we will
hear it.

14 And he will say to them, Out of
him eating came forth food, and out of
the strong came forth sweetness. And
they were not able to announce the
enigma in three days.

15 And it will be in the seventh day,
and they will say to Samson’s wife,
Persuade thy man and he shall an-
nounce to us the enigma, lest we shall
burn thee and thy father’s house with
fire: did ye not call to us to possess
us?

16 And Samson’s , wife will weep
upon him, and will say, Thou only
hatedst me and lovedst me not: thou
didst propose an enigma to the sons of
my people, and to me thou didst not
announce it. And he will say to her,

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Behold, to my father and to my mother
I announced it not, and shall I an-
nounce to thee?

17 And she will weep upon him seven
days which were to them of the drink-
ing: and it will be in the seventh day,
and he will announce to her, for she
urged him: and she will announce the
enigma to the sons of her people.

18 And the men of the city will say
to him in the seventh day before the
sun will go down, What is sweet above
honey? and what is strong above the
lion? and he will say to them, Unless
ye ploughed with my heifer ye found
not out my enigma.

19 And the spirit of Jehovah will
fall suddenly upon him, and he will go
down to Ashkelon and will strike from
them thirty men, and he will take their
spoils, and will give exchanges to those
announcing the enigma. And_ his
anger will kindle, and he will go up to
his father’s house.

20 And Samson's wife will be to his
companion who was friend to him.

CHAPTER XV.
Λ ND it will be after days in days
of the wheat harvest, and Sam-
son will look after his wife with a kid
of the goats; and he will say, I will go
to my wife to the chamber. And her
father gave him not to go in.

2 And her father will say, Saying, I
said that hating, thou didst hate her,
and I will give her to thy companion:
is not her small sister good above her?
Now she shall be to thee in her stead.

3 And Samson will say to them, This
time I was more blameless than Philis-
teim if I shall do eyil with them.

4 And Samson will go and will take
three hundred foxes, and will take
torches, and will turn tail to tail, and
will put one torch between two tails מז‎
the midst.

5 And he will kindle fire upon the
torches and will send into the standing
erain of Philisteim, and will burn up
from the heap of sheaves and even to
the standing grain, and even to the vine-
yard and the olive.

6 And Philisteim will say, Who did
this? and they will say, Samson, son-

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in-law of the Timnite, for he took his
wife and he will give her to his com-
panion. And Philisteim will go up
and will burn her and her father with
fire.

7 And Samson will say to them, If
ye will do according to this, if I was
avenged by you, and afterward I will
desist.

8 And he will strike them leg upon
thigh, a great smiting. And he will go
down and dwell in the cleft of the rock
Etam.

9 And Philisteim will ₪0 up.and en-
camp against Judah and will be dis-
persed in Lehi.

10 And the men of Judah will say
to them, Why came ye up against us?
and they will say, To bind Samson we
came up, to do to him as he did to us.

11 And three thousand men of Ju-

dah will go down to the cleft of the
rock Ktam, and they will say to Sam-
son, Knewest thou not that Philis-
teim is ruling over us? and what this
thou didst to us? and he will say to
them, As they did to me, so did 1 to
them.
12 And they will say to him, To
bind thee we came down, to give thee
into the hand of Philisteim. And
Samson will say to them, Swear to me
lest ye shall fall upon me yourselves.

18 And they will say to him, saying,
No; but binding, we will bind thee
and give thee into their hand: and kill-
ing, we will not kill thee. And they
will bind him with two new cords and
will bring him up from the rock.

14 He came even to Lehi, and Phil-
isteim shouted at his meeting: and the
spirit of Jehovah will come suddenly
upon him, and the cords which were
upon his arms will be as flax which
was burnt in fire, and his bands will
melt from off his hands.

15 And he will find the jaw-bone of
an ass, fresh, and he will stretch forth
his hand and take it and will strike with
it a thousand men.

16 And Samson will say, With the
jaw-bone of the ass, a heap, two heaps,
with the jaw-bone of the ass I struck a
thousand men. :

17 fad it will be when he finished

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to speak, and he will cast away the jaw-
bone from his hand, and he will call
that place, the lifting up the jaw-bone.

18 And he will thirst greatly, and he
will call to Jehovah and will say, Thou
gavest into the hand of thy servant this
great salvation, and now shall I die
with thirst and fall into the hand of
Philisteim ?

19 And God will rend the socket
which is in the jaw-bone, and waters will
come forth from it; and he will drink,
and his spirit will turn back, and he
will live. For this he ealled its name,
the Fountain of him Calling, which is
in Lehi even to this day.

20 And he will judge Israel in the
days of Philisteim twenty years.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND Samson will go to Gaza, and
he will see there a woman, a har-
lot, and he will go in to her.

2To the Gazites, saying, Samson
came here. And they will encompass,
and will 116 in wait for him all the night
in the gate of the city, and they will be
silent all the night, saying, During the
light of the morning and we kuled
him.

3 And Samson will lie till half the
night, and he will rise in half the night,
and he will seize the doors of the gate
of the city and with the two door-posts,
and will remove them with the bar, and
will set upon his shoulders, and he will
bring them up to the head of the
mountain which is upon the face of
Hebron.

4 And it will be after this, and he
will love a woman in the valley of
Shorek, and her name Delilah.

5 And the princes of Philisteim will
come up and will say to her, Persuade
him, and see in what is his great
strength, and in what we shall prevail
against him, and bind him to humble
him: and we give to thee each a thou-
sand and a hundred of silver.

6 And Delilah will say to Samson,
Announce now to me in what is thy
great strength, and in what thou shalt
be bound to humble thee.

7 And Samson will say to her, If
they shall bind me with seven moist

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cords that were not dried, and I was
weak and shall be as another man.

8 And the princess of Philisteim will
bring up to her seven moist cords which
were not dried, and she will bind him
with them.

9 And lying in wait dwelling by her
in the chamber. And she will say to
him, Philisteim upon thee, Samson.
And he will tear away the cords as a
thread of tow will be torn away in its
smelling the fire. And his strength was
not known.

10 And Delilah will say to Samson,
Behold, thou deceivest me; and thou
wilt speak to me lies: this time an-
nounce to me now in what thou shalt
be bound.

11 And he will say to her, If bind-
ing, they shall bind me with new cords
which work was not done with them,
and I was weak and was as another man.

12 And Delilah will take new cords
and will bind him with them, and she
will say to him, Philisteim upon thee,
Samson, (and the lier in wait dwell-
ing in the chamber.) And he will tear
them away from off his arms as a
thread.

13 And Delilah will say to Samson,
Till now thou deceivedst me, and thou
wilt spealc tome lies: announce to me
in what thou shalt be bound. And he
will say to her, If thou shalt weave the
seven braids of my head with the
warp.

14 And she will fasten with a peg,
and she will say to him, Philistem upon
thee, Samson. And he will awake from
his sleep, and he will tear away the peg
of the braid and the warp.

15 And she will say to him, Wilt
thou say, I loved thee, and thy heart
not with me? This three times thou
didst deceive me, and didst not announce
to me in what is thy great strength.

16 And it will be m her pressing
upon him with her words all the days,
and she will urge him, and his soul
will be shortened to death ;

17 And he will announce to her all
his heart, and he will say to her, A ra-
zor came not up upon my head, for I
am devoted to God from my mother’s
womb; if I were shaved, and my

JUDGES XVI.

strength removed from me, and I was
weak, and was as all men.

18 And Delilah will see that he an-
nounced to her all his heart, and she
will send and call to the princes of Phil-
isteim, saying, Come up to me this time;
for he announced to her all his heart.
And the princes of Philisteim will come
up to her, and will bring up the silver
in their hand.

19 And she will cause him to sleep
upon her knees; and she will 6811 toa
man, and she will shave the seven
braids of his head; and she will begin
to humble him, and his strength will
remove from him.

20 And she will say, Philisteim upon
thee, Samson. And he will awake from
his sleep, and say, I will go forth as
once upon once, and shake myself.
And he knew not that Jehovah removed
from him.

21 And Philisteim will seize him,
and they will bore out his eyes, and
will bring him down to Gaza and bind
him with fetters of brass, and he will
be grinding in the house of bonds.

22 And the hair of his head will be-
gin to grow as when he was shaven.

23 And the princes of Philisteim
gathered together to sacrifice a great
sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to re-
joice: and they will say, Our god gave
into our hand Samson our enemy.

24 And the people will see him and
praise their god, for they said, God gave
into our hand our enemy, and him de-
stroying our land, and who multiplied
our wounded.

25 And it will be when their heart
will be joyful, and they will say, Call
to Samson, and he shall play to us.
And they will call to Samson from the
house of bonds and he will play before
them, and they will set him between
the pillars.

26 And Samson will say to the boy
holding him by his hand, Permit me
and I shall feel the pillars which the
house stood upon them, and I will lean
upon them.

27 And the house was filled with
men and women, and there were all
the princes of Philisteim, and upon the
roof about three thousand men and wo-

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men looking upon the sport of Sam-
son.

28 And Samson will 0811 to Jehovah,
and will say, Lord Jehovah, remember
me now, and strengthen me now but
this once, O God, and I will avenge my-
self one vengeance for my two eyes of
Philisteim.

29 And Samson will clasp the two
pillars the midst of which the house
stood upon them, and he stayed him-
self upon them, one with his right hand
and one with his left.

30 And Samson will say, My soul
shall die with Philisteim. And he will
bow with strength, and the house will
fall upon the princes and upon all the
people which are init. And the-dead
will be more which he killed in his
death than which he killed in his life.

81 And his brethren and all the house
of his father will go down and will lift
him up, and will bring him up, and bury
him between Zorah and between Hsh-
taol in the grave of Manoah his father.
And he judged Israel twenty years.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND there will be a man of mount
Ephraim and his name Micah.

2 And he will say to his mother, The
thousand and one hundred of silver
which was taken for thee, and thou
cursedst me, and saidst also in mine
ears, behold, the silver with me; I took
it. And his mother will say, Blessed
my son to Jehovah.

3 And he will turn back the thou-
sand and hundred of silver to his moth-
er, and his mother will say, Consecrat-
ing, I consecrated the silver to Jehovah
from my hand to my son, to make a
carved thing and a molten: and now I
will turn it back to thee.

4 And he will turn back the silver to
his mother; and his mother will take
two hundred of silver and will give it
to the goldsmith, and he will make
it a carved thing and molten: and it
will be in the house of Micah.

5 And the man Micah to him a house
of gods; and he will make an ephod
and a teraphim, and he will fill the
hand of one of his sons, and he will be

to him for priest.

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6 In those days not a king in Israel,
as man will do the right in his eyes.

7 And there will be a youth from the
House of Bread, of Judah, from the
families of Judah, and he a Levite, and
he sojourned there.

8 And the man will go from the city
from the House of Bread, of Judah, to
sojourn wherever he shall find: and he
will come to mount Hphraim, even to
the house of Micah, to make his way.

9 And Micah will say to him, Whence
shalt thou come? and the Levite will
say to him, I am from the House of
Bread, of Judah, and I go to sojourn
where 1 shall find.

10 And Micah will say to him, Dwell
with me, and be to me for a father and
for a priest, and I will give to thee ten
of silver for days, and an equipment of
garments, and means of life. And the
Levite will go in.

11 And the Leyite will be willing to
dwell with the man; and the youth
will be to him as one of his sons.

12 And Micah will fill the hand of
the Levite; and the youth will be to
him for a priest, and he will be in the
house of Micah.

13 And Micah will say, Now I knew
that Jehovah will be good to me, for
there being to me the Levite for priest.

CHAPTER XVIII.
N those days no king in Israel: and
in those days the tribe of the Danites
seeking for himself an inheritance to
dwell in; for he fell not into an inher-
itance for himself in the midst of the
tribes of Israel till that day.

2 And the sons of Dan will send
from their families five men from their
extremities, men sons of power, from
Zorah and Eshtaol, to search the land
and to examine it; and they will say
to them, Go and examine the land: and
they will come to mount Ephraim, even
to the house of Micah, and they will
lodge there. 5

8 And they with the house of Mi-
cah, and they knew the voice of the
youth, the Levite: and they will turn
aside there and say to him, Who
brought thee hither? and what didst
thou in here? and what to thee here?

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4 And he will say to them, according
to this, and according to this, Micah did
to me, and he will hire me, and I to
him for priest.

5 And they will say to him, Ask now
of God, and we shall know whether our
way shall prosper which we go upon it.

6 And the priest will say to them,
Go for peace: before Jehovah, your
way which ye shall go in it.

7 And the five men will goand come
to Laish, and they will see the people
which in the midst of her, dwelling in
confidence according to the judement
of the Sidonians, quiet and confiding ;
and none shaming the word in the land,
a possessor heaping up, and they far off
from the Sidonians, and the word was
not to them with man.

8 And they will come to their breth-
ren of Zorah and Hshtaol; and’ their
brethren will say to them, What ye?

9 And they will say, Arise, and we
will go up upon them: for we saw the
land, and behold, exceedingly good:
and ye being still, ye shall not neglect
to go, to come to inherit the land.

10 In your going, ye shall come to a
people confiding, and toa land of ety
hands: for God gave it into. your hand,
a place where no want there of any
word which is in the earth.

11 And they will remove from thence
from the families of the Danites, and
from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hund-
red men girded with weapons of war.

12 And they will go up and encamp
in the City of Forests, in Judah: for
this they called that place the camp of
Dan, even to this day: behold, it be-
hind the City of Forests.

13 And they will pass from thence to
mount Kphraim, and they will come
even to the house of Micah.

14 And the five men going to search
the land of Laish will answer and say
to their brethren, Knew ye that there is
in these houses an ephod, and a tera-
phim, and acarved thing, anda molten?
and now know ye what ye will do.

15 And they will turn aside there and
come to the house of the youth the Le-
vite, of the house of Micah, and they
will ask him for peace.

16 And the six hundred men girded

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with their weapons of war, stood at the
door, which were of the sons of Dan.

17 And the five men having gone to
search the land will go up; they will
come in there; they took the carved
thing and the ephod, and the teraphim
and the molten thing: and the priest
stood at the door of the gate, and the
six hundred men girded with weapons
of war.

18 And these came in to Micah’s
house, and they will take the carved
thing, the ephod, and the teraphim, and
the molten thing; and the priest will
say to them, What are ye doing?

19 And they will say to him, Be si-
lent; put thy hand upon thy mouth
and go with us, and be to us for father
and for priest: 15 it good for thee to be
priest to the house of one man, or for
thee to be priest to a tribe and to a
family in Israel ?

20 And the priest's heart will be joy-
ous, and he will take the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the carved thing, and
will go in the midst of the people.

21 And they will turn and go and
put the little ones and the cattle and the
wealth before them.

22 They were far off from the house
of Micah, and the men that were in the
houses which were with the house of
Micah, were called together, and they
will overtake the sons of Dan.

23 And they will call to the sons of
Dan, and they will turn their faces and
say to Micah, What to thee that thou
criedst out?

24 And he will say, My gods which
I made, ye took away, and the priest,
and ye will go: and what to me yet?
and what this ye will say to me, What
to thee?

25 And the sons of Dan will say to
him, Thy voice shall not be héard with
us lest men bitter of soul shall strike
upon you, and thy soul was taken away,
and the soul of thy house.

26 And the sons of Dan will go to
their way: and Micah will see that they
were strong above him, and he will
turn and turn back to his house.

27 And they took what Micah made,
and the priest which was to him, and
they will go to Laish, upon a people

JUDGES XIX.

quiet and confiding : and they will strike
them with the mouth of the sword,
and they will burn the city with fire.

28 And there was none delivering,
for it was far off from Sidon, and the
word was not to them with man; and
it is in the valley which is to the house
of the street. And they will build the
city and dwell in it.

29 And they will call the name of the
city, Dan, in the mame of Dan their fa-
ther, who will be born to Israel. And
yet Laish the name of the city at first.

80 And the sons of Dan will raise up
to them the carved thing: and Jonathan,
son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he
and his sons were priests to the tribe of
Danites even to the day of the captivity
of the land.

31 And they will set up to them Mi-
eah’s carved thing, which he made, all
the days the house of God was in Shi-
loh.

CHAPTER XIX.
A ND it will be in those days, and
no king in Israel; and it will be
a man, a Levite, sojourning in the sides
of mount Ephraim, and he will take to
him a wife, a concubine, from the House
of Bread, of Judah.

2 And his concubine will commit for-
nication against him, and she wil! ₪
from him to the house of her father, to
the House of Bread, of Judah, and she
will be there the days of four months.

3 And her husband will rise and go
after her to speak to her heart, to turn it
back ; and his young man with him and
a pair of asses: and she will bring him
into her father’s house; and the father
of the girl will see him and will rejoice
at his meeting.

4 And his father-in-law, the girl’s fa-
ther, will hold fast upon him, and he
will dwell with him three days: and
they will eat and drink and lodge there.

5 And it will be in the fourth day,
and they will rise early in the morning,
and he will rise up to go: and the
girl’s father will say to his son-in-law,
Strengthen thine heart with a bit of
bread, and afterward ye shall go.

6 And they will sit down and eat,
they two together, and drink: and the

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eirl’s father will say to the man, Be
willing, now, and lodge, and do good to
thy heart.

7 And the man will rise up to go,
and his father-in-law will press upon
him, and he will sit down and lodge
there.

8 And he will rise early in the morn-
ing in the fifth day, to go, and the girl’s
father will say, Strengthen now thy
heart. And they lingered till the day
declined, and they two will eat.

9 And the man will rise to go, he and
his concubine and his boy; and _ his
father-in-law, the girl’s father, will say
to him, Behold, now, the day weaken-
ed toward evening; lodge now: be-
hold, the declining of the day; lodge
here, and thy heart shall be joyous;
and rise early to-morrow to your way
and go to thy tent.

10 And the man was not willing to
lodge, and he will rise and go, and
come even to the front of Jebus; this is
Jerusalem: and with him a pair of
asses saddled, and his concubine with
him.

11 They with Jebus, and the day
gone down greatly ; and the youth will
say to his lord, Go, now, and we will
turn to this city of the Jebusites, and
we will lodge in it.

12 And his lord will say to him, We
will not turn into a strange city which
is not of the sons of Israel here; and
we passed over even to Gibeah.

13 And he will say to his boy, Go,
and we will come near to one of the
places and lodge in Gibeah or in Ra-
mah,

14 And they will pass over and
will go; and the sun will go down to
them near Gibeah which is to Benja-
min.

15 And they will turn aside there to
go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he will
go in and sit down in the street of the
city, and no man receiving them to the
house to lodge.

16 And behold, an old man came in
from his work out of the field in the
evening, and the man from mount
Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gib-
eah ; and the men of the place, sons of
the Jaminite.

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17 And he will litt up his eyes and
will see the man of the way in the
street of the city: and the old man will
say, Whither wilt thou go? and from
whence wilt thou come?

18 And he will say to him, We are
passing from the House of Bread of Ju-
dah, even to the sides of mount
Ephraim, from whence Tam. And 1
will go to the House of Bread of Ju-
dah, and to the house of Jehovah; I
went, and no man receiving me to his
house.

19 And there is also straw, also fod-
der for our asses; and also there is
bread and wine to me and to thy maid
and to the boy with thy servants: no
want of any word.

20 And the old man will say, Peace
to thee: only all thy want upon me;
only in the street thou shalt not lodge.

21 And he will bring him to his
house, and will bring for the asses: and
they will wash their feet, and eat and
drink. ;

22 They doing good to their heart,
and behold, the men of the city, men
of the sons of Belial, encompassed the
house, knocking upon the door; and
they will say to the man, the lord of
the house, the old man, saying, Bring
forth the man which came into thy
house, and we will know him.

23 And the man, the lord of the
house, will go forth to them, and will
say to them, Nay, my brethren, ye will
not do evil; after that this man came
into my house ye will not do this
folly.

24 Behold, my daughter a virgin,
and his coneubine; I will bring them
forth now, and humble ye them, and
do to them the good in your eyes: and
to this man ye will not do the word of
this folly.

25 And the men were not willing to
hear to him: and the man will lay hold
upon his concubine and will bring out
to them without, and they will know
her, and will gratify their desires upon
her all the night, even till morning:
and they will send her away in the as-
cending of the dawn.

JUDGES XX.

at the door of the house where her lord
there, even till the light.

27 And her lord will rise in the
morning and will open the doors of the
house and will come forth to go to his
way, and behold, the woman his con-
cubine, fallen at the door of the house,
and her hands upon the threshold.

28 And he will say to her, Arise, and
go. And none answered. And he
will take her upon ‘the ass, and the
man will rise and go to his place.

29 And he will come to his house
and will take a knife, and will lay hold
upon his concubine, and he will give
her, even to her bones, into twelve
pieces, and he will send her into all the
bound of Israel.

30 And it was, all seeing and saying,
It was not, and it was not seen accord-
ing to this from the day of the comimg
up of the sons of Israel out of the land
of Kegypt till this day: consider for
yourselves upon it; take counsel and
speal.

CHAPTER XX.
ND all the sons of Israel will go
forth, and the assembly will be
gathered together as one man, from Dan
even to the Well of the Oath, and the
land of Gilead to Jehovah to Mizpeh.

2 And the chiefs of all the people of
all the tribes of Israel will be drawn out
in the gathering of the people of God,
four hundred thousand men, footmen,
drawing swords.

3 And the sons of Benjamin will
hear that the sons of Israel went up to
Mizpeh. And the sons of Israel will
say, Speak ye; how was this evil?

4 And the man the Levite will an-
swer, the husband of the woman slain,
and he will say, To Gibeah which is to
the sons of Benjamin I came, I and my
concubine to lodge.

5 And the lords of Gibeah will rise
upon me and will encompass the house
against me by night; they purposed to
kill me: and my concubine they hum-
bled, and she died.

6 And I laid hold of my concubine
and I cut her in pieces, and sent her
into all the field of the inheritance of

26 And the woman will come at 6ג[1‎ | Israel: for they did wickedness and
turning of the morning and she will fall | folly in Israel. |

JUDGES XX.

7 Behold, all ye sons of Israel; give
for yourselves the word and counsel
here.

8 And all the people will rise as one
man, saying, We will not go a man to
his tent, and we will not turn aside a
man to his house:

9 And now this the word which we
will do to Gibeah against her by lot.

10 And we will take ten men to the
hundred to all the tribes of Israel, and
a hundred to a thousand, and a thou-
sand to ten thousand, to take provision
for the people, to do for those going to
Gibeah of Benjamin; according to all
the folly which was done in Israel.

11 And they will be gathered together
every man of Israel against the city,
associated as one man.

12 And the tribes of Israel will send
men into all the tribes of Benjamin,
saying, What this evil which was
among you?

13 And now give the men, sons of
Belial, which are in Gibeah, and we will
> put them to death, and take away evil
from Israel. And Benjamin would not
hear to the voice of their brethren
the sons of Israel.

14 And the sons of Benjamin will be
gathered together from the cities to Gib-
eah to go out to war with the sons of Is-
rael.

15 And the sons of Benjamin will be
reviewed in that day from the cities,
twenty and six thousand men drawing
the sword, besides from the inhabitants
of Gibeah they were reviewed, seven
hundred chosen men.

16 From all this people, seven hund-
red chosen men shut up of the right
hand, slinging at a hair, and they will
not miss.

17 And the men of Israel were re-
viewed, beside Benjamin, four hundred
thousand men drawing sword: all these
men of war.

18 And the sons of Israel will rise
and will go up to the house of God and
will ask in God, and will say, Who
> shall go up for us in the beginning to
* war with the sons of Benjamin? and
Jehovah will say, Judah in the begin-
ning.

19 And the sons.of Israel will rise in

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the morning and will encamp against
Gibeah. ,

20 And the men of Israel will go
forth to war with Benjamin; and the
men of Israel will prepare to war with
them at Gibeah.

21 And the sons of Benjamin will
come forth from Gibeah, and they will
destroy in that day in Israel twenty
and two thousand men to the earth.

22 And the people, the men of Israel,
will strengthen themselves, and they
will add to prepare war in the place
which they set in array in the first day.

23 And the sons of Israel will go up
and will weep before Jehovah till the
evening, and they will ask in Jehovah,
saying, Shall I add to draw near to war
with the sons of Benjamin my brother?
And Jehoyah will say, Go up against
him.

24 And the sons of Israel will come
near to the sons of Benjamin in the
second day.

25 And Benjamin will go forth to
their meeting from Gibeah in the second
day, and they will destroy of the sons
of Israel yet eighteen thousand men to
the earth; all these drawing the sword.

26 And all the sons of Israel and all
the people will go up, and they will
come to the house of God, and they
will weep, and they will sit there before
Jehovah, and they will fast in that day
till the evening, and they will bring up
burnt-offerings and peace before Jeho-
vah.

27 And the sons of Israel will ask
in Jehovah, (and there the ark of the
covenant of God in those days,

28 And Phinehas, son of Hleazar,
son of Aaron, stood before it in those
days,) saying, Shall I add yet to go
forth to war with the sons of Benjamin
my brother, or shall I desist? And
Jehovah will say, Go up; for to-mor-
row I will give him into thy hand.

29 And Israel will put liers-in-wait
against Gibeah round about.

30 And the sons of Israel will go up
to the sons of Benjamin in the third
day, and they will set in array against
Gibeah as once upon once.

31 And the sons of Benjamin will
come forth to the meeting of the peo-

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ple, they were separated from the city ;
and they will begin to strike of the peo-
ie wounded as once upon once, in the

ighways, which one went up to the
house of God, and one to Gibeah in the
field, about thirty men in Israel.

82 And the sons of Benjamin will
say, They are smitten before us as at
first. And the sons of Israel said, We
will flee, and draw him away from the
city to the highways.

83 And all the men of Israel rose up
from his place and set in array against
Baal-Tamar: and the ambush of Israel
rushing forth from its place from the
naked place of Gibeah.

84 And there will come forth from
before against Gibeah ten thousand
chosen men from all Israel, and the bat-
tle was heavy: and they knew not that
evil touched upon them.

35 And Jehovah will smite Benjamin
before Israel: and the sons of Israel
will destroy of Benjamin in that da
twenty and five thousand and a πο
red men: all these drawing sword.

86 And the sons of Benjamin will see
that they were smitten: and the men
of Israel will give place to Benjamin,
for they trusted to the ambush which
they put by Gibeah.

37 And the ambush hasted, and they
will spread out against Gibeah; and
the ambush will draw out and will
strike all the city with the mouth of
the sword.

88 And there was an appointment to
the men of Israel with the ambush for
them to raise up a great ascending of
smoke from the city.

89 And the men of Israel will turn
about in the battle, and Benjamin be-
gan to strike the wounded among the
men of Israel, about thirty men: for
they said, Surely, smiting, he was smit-
ten as the first battle.

40 And the ascending began to go
up from the city of the pillar of smoke,
and Benjamin will turn behind, and be-
hold, the whole city ascended up to the
heavens.

41 And the men of Israel turned, and
the men of Benjamin will hasten, for
they saw that evil touched upon them.

42 And they turned before the men

JUDGES XXI.

of Israel to the way of the desert; and
the battle overtook them; and those
from the cities they destroyed in the
midst of them.

43 They surrounded Benjamin, pur-
suing him from Nohah, treading him
down even to the front of Gibeah, from
the rising of the sun.

44 And there will fall of Benjamin
eighteen thousand men; all these men
of streneth.

45 And they will turn and flee to the
desert, to the rock Rimmon: and they
will glean in the highways five thousand
men; and they will pursue after him
even to Gidom, and will strike of him
two thousand men.

46 And all those falling of Benjamin
will be twenty and five thousand men
drawing sword in that day; all these
men of strength.

47 And there will turn and flee to
the desert to the rock Rimmon, six
hundred men, and they will dwell in
the rock Rimmon four months.

48 And the men of Israel turned
back against the sons of Benjamin, and
they will strike them with the mouth of
the sword, from the city, the men eyen
to cattle, all being found: also all the
cities being found they-set on fire.

CHAPTER ΧΧΙ.
ND the men of Israel sware in

Ἃ Mizpeh, saying, A man from us
shall not give his daughter to Benjamin
for wife.

2 And the people will go to the house
of God and will sit there even till even-
ing, before God; and they will lft up
their voice and weep a great weeping.

3 And they will say, Wherefore, Je-
hovah, God of Israel, was this in Israel
to miss one tribe this day from Israel ?

4 And it will be on the morrow, and
the people will rise early and they will
build there an altar, and will bring up
burnt-offerings and peace.

5 And the sons of Israel will say,
Who from all the tribes of Israel that
went not up in the gathering to Jeho-
vah? For there was a great oath
against him who went not up to Jeho-
vah to Mizpeh, saying, Dying, he shall
die. '

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JUDGES ΧΧΙ.

6 And the sons of Israel will lament
for Benjamin their brother, and they
will say, There was cut off this day one
tribe from Israel.

7 What shall we do for them to those
being left for wives, and we sware by
Jehovah not to give to them from our
daughters for wives?

8 And they will say, What one from
the tribes of Israel who came not up to
Jehovah to Mizpeh? And behold, not
aman came from the camp of Jabesh-
Gilead to the gathering.

9 And the people will be reviewed,
and behold, not a man there from the
inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead.

10 And they will send there twelve
thousand men from the sons of power,
and they will command them, saying,
Go and smite them, the inhabitants of
Jabesh-Gilead, with the mouth of the
sword, and the women and the little
ones.

11 And this the word which ye shall
do: every male and every woman
knowing the bed of a male ye shall ex-
terminate.

12 And they will find of the imhabit-
ants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred
girls, virgins, who knew not man by
the bed of a male: and they will bring
them to the camp of Shiloh which is in
the land of Canaan.

13 And all the assembly will send
and speak to the’sons of Benjamin who
were in the rock Rimmon, and they
will call peace to them.

14 And Benjamin will turn back in
that time; and they will give them the
women which they saved alive from
the women of Jabesh-Gilead: and they
found for them not thus.

15 And the people lamented for Ben-
jamin, because Jehovah made a breach
in the tribes of Israel.

16 And the old men of the assembly
will say, What shall we do for those re-

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maining for wives, for the women were
destroyed from Benjamin ?

17 And they will say, An inherit-
ance for the escaped to Benjamin, and
a tribe shall not be destroyed from Is-
rael.

18 And we shall not be able to give
to them wives from our daughters, for
the sons of Israel sware, saying, Cursed
he giving a wife to Benjamin.

19 And they will say, Behold, a fes-
tival of Jehovah in Shiloh from days
to days, which is from the north to the
house of God, from the rising of the sun
to the highway going from the house
of God to Shechem, and from the south
to Lebonah.

20 And they commanded the sons of
Benjamin, saying, Go, and 116 in wait
in the vineyards ;

21 And see, and behold, if the daugh-
ters of Shiloh shall come forth to dance
in dances, and come ye out from the
vineyards and catch for yourselves each
his wife from the daughters of Shiloh,
and go to the land of Benjamin.

22 And it was when their fathers or
brothers shall come to contend against
us, and we said to them, Be merciful to
us with them, because we took not a
man his wife in the battle; for ye gave
not to them according to "the time, ye
shall transgress.

23 And the sons of Benjamin will do
so, and they will take wives for their
number from those dancing, which they
took by 10006: and they will go and
turn back to their inheritance, and’ they
will build cities, and they will dwell im
them.

24 And the sons of Israel will go
from there in that time, a man to his
tribe and to his family, and they will
₪0 forth from there, a man to his inher-
itance.

25 In those days no king in Israel:
a man will do the right in his eyes.

T. SAMUEL.

CHAPTER 1.
ND there will be one man from
Ramathaim-Zophim, from mount
Ephraim, and his name Elkanah, son of
Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu,
son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

2 And to him two wives; the name
of the one Hannah, and the name of
the second Peninnah: and there will be
to Peninnah children, and to Hannah no
children.

3 And this man went up from his city
from days to days, to worship and to
sacrifice to Jehovah of armies in Shiloh.
And there the two sons of Eli, Hophni,
and Phinehas, priests to Jehovah.

4 And the day will be and Elkanah
will sacrifice, and he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her
daughters, portions.

5 And to Hannah he will give one
portion more, for he loved Hannah;
and Jehovah shut up her womb.

6 Being grieved, her distress grieved
her so that she was moved because Je-
hovah shut up about her womb.

7 And so she will do year by year
when she went up to the house of Je-
hovah, so she will be grieved, and she
will weep and will not eat.

8 And Elkanah her man will say to
her, Hannah, why wilt thou weep? and
why wilt thou not eat? and why will
thy heart break? am I not good to thee
above ten sons?

9 And Hannah will rise after eating
in Shiloh, and after drinking: (and ἘΠῚ
the priest sat upon the throne by the
door-post of the edifice of Jehovah :)

10 And she bitter of soul, and she
will pray to Jehovah, and weeping, she
will weep.

11 And she will vow a vow, and say,
Jehovah of armies, if seeing, thou wilt
see the affliction of thy servant and re-
member me, and thou wilt not forget
thy servant, and give to thy servant
seed of men, and I gave him to Jehovah
all the days of his life, and a razor shall
not come up upon his head.

12 And it was when she multiplied
to pray before Jehovah, and Eli watch-
ed her mouth.

18 And Hannah she speaking upon
her heart; only her lips moved, and
her voice will not be heard: and Eli
will think her to be intoxicated.

14 And Eli will say to her, How long
wilt thou be intoxicated? remove thy
wine from thee.

15 And Hannah will answer and say,
No, my lord, 1 a woman hard 01 spint,
and wine and strong drink I drank not,
and I will pour out my soul before Je-
hovah,

16 Thou wilt not give thy servant
before a daughter of Belial, for from the
abundance of my complaint and my
grief I spoke even till now.

17 And Eli will answer and say, Go
with peace: and the God of Israel shall
give thine asking which thou didst ask
of him.

18 And she will say, Thy servant
shall find grace in thine eyes. And
the woman will go to her way, and ate,
and her face is to her no more.

19 And they will rise early in the
morning and worship before Jehovah,
and will turn back and will go to their
house to Ramah: and Elkanah will
know Hannah his wife, and Jehovah
will remember her.

20 And it will be at the return of
days Hannah will conceive and bear a
son, and she will call his name Samuel,
for of Jehovah I asked him.

21 And the man Elkanah and all his
house will go up to sacrifice to Jehovah
the sacrifice of days, and his vow.

22 And Hannah went not up; for
she said to her husband, Till the boy
shall be weaned, and I brought him,
and he saw the face of Jehovah, and
he shall sit there even to forever.

23 And Elkanah her husband will say
to her, Do the good in thine eyes; sit till
thy weaning him; but Jehovah will raise
up his word. And the woman will sit
and suckle her son till her weaning him.

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24 And she will bring him up with
her when she weaned him, with three
bullocks and one ephah of flour, and a
flask of wine; and she will bring him to
the house of Jehovah in Shiloh, and the
boy a youth.

25 And they will slaughter the bul-
lock, and they will bring the boy to ΕἸ].

26 And she will say, With leave, my
lord, thy soul living, my lord, I the
woman standing with thee in here to
pray to Jehovah.

27 For this boy I prayed, and Jeho-
vah will give to me my asking which I
asked of him.

28 And 1 also lent him to Jehovah;
all the days which he lives he is lent to
Jehovah. And they will worship to
Jehovah there.

CHAPTER II.
ND Hannah will pray and say,
My heart rejoiced in Jehovah,
my horn was lifted up in Jehovah ; my
mouth was enlarged over mine ene-
mies; for I was glad in thy salvation.

2 None holy as Jehovah, for none
beside thee: and no rock as our God.

5 Ye shall not enlarge ; will ye speak
proud, proud ? shall the impatient thing
come forth from your mouth? for Je-
hovah a God of knowledge, and doings
were not made equal.

4 The bows of the mighty being
broken, and the weak were girded with
strength.

5 And those filled with bread hired
themselves out; and they hungering,
ceased till the barren shall bring forth
seven; and she multiplying sons lan-
guished.

6 Jehovah killing and giving life;
bringing down to hades and bringing

Ἧ Jehovah dispossessing, and enrich-
ing: making low, but lifting up.

8 Raising up the weak from the dust,
he will raise up the needy from the
dung-hill to sit with the noble, and he
will cause them to inherit a throne of
glory, for to Jehovah the castings of
the earth, and he will put the habitable
globe upon them.

9 He will watch the feet of the mer-
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darkness ; for not by strength shall man
prevail.

10 Jehovah, they contending against
him, shall be broken; in the heayens
he will break them in pieces: Jehovah
will judge the ends of the earth, and
he will give strength to his king, and
he will lift up the horn of his Messiah.

11 And Elkanah will go to Ramah,
to his house. And the boy was serving
Jehovah in the face of Eli the priest.

12 And the sons of Eli, sons of Beli-
al; they knew not Jehovah.

13 And the priests judging the peo-
ple, every man sacrificing a sacrifice;
and the boy of the priest came as the
flesh boiled, and the fork of three teeth
in his hand;

14 And he struck into the fire-pan or
into the boiler, or into the kettle, or in-
to the pot; all which the fork will bring
up the priest will take for himself. So
they will do to all Israel coming there
into Shiloh.

15 Also before they will burn the fat
and the boy of the priest came and said
to the man sacrificing, Thou shalt give
flesh to roast for the priest; and he will
not take from thee flesh boiled but liy-
ing.

16 And the man will say to him,
Burning, they shall burn the fat as the
day, and take to thee as thy soul shall
desire; and he said to him, But now
thou shalt give, and if not, I will take
by force.

17 And the sin of the boys will be
exceedingly great before Jehovah, for
the men despised the gifts of Jehovah.

18 And Samuel serving before Jeho-
vah, a boy girded with an ephod of
linen.

19 And his mother will make to him
a little upper garment, and bring up to
him from days to days, in her coming
up with her husband to sacrifice the sac-
rifice of days.

20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his
wife, and said, Jehovah will set up to
thee seed of this woman for the loan
which was lent to Jehovah. And they
went to his place.

21 For Jehovah reviewed Hannah,
and she will conceive and bear three
sons and two daughters. And the boy

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Samuel will be magnified with Jeho-
vah.

22 And Eli a very old man, and he
heard all that his sons did to all Israel ;
and they will lie with the women going
forth at the door of the tent of appoint-
ment.

23 And he will say to them, Where-
fore will ye do according to these
words? which I heard very evil words
of all this people.

24 Nay, sons, for not a good report
which I heard: causing the people of
Jehovah to pass by.

25 Ifa man shall sin against a man,
and God judged him; and if a man
shall sin against Jehovah, who shall
judge for him? and they will not hear
to the voice of their father for Jehovah
was willing to destroy them.

26 And the boy Samuel going, will
become great and good, also with Jeho-
vah and with men.

27 And aman of God will come to
Eli and say to him, Thus said Jehovah,
Revealing myself, I was revealed to the
house of thy father in their being in
Egypt to the house of Pharaoh.

28 And choosing him from all the
tribes of Israel to me for priest, to bring
up upon mine altar to burn ineense, to
lift up the ephod before me; and I gave
to the house of thy father all the fires
of the sons of Israel.

29 Wherefore will ye trample upon
my sacrifice and upon my gifts which
I commanded to my habitation? and
thou wilt honor thy sons above me to
fatten yourselves from the chief of all
the gifts of Israel my people.

80 For this Jehovah the God of Is-
rael said, Saying, I said, Thy house and
the house of thy father shall go before
me even forever: and now Jehovah
said, Far be it for me; for them honor-
ing me 1 will honor, and they despising
me shall be contemned.

31 Behold, the days coming and I
cut off thy seed and the seed of thy fa-
ther’s house from being old in thy house.

82 And thou lookedst upon the
straits of the habitation in all which
shall seem good with Israel; and an
old man shall not be in thy house all
the days.

I. SAMUEL IIL

383 And a man 1 will not cut off to
thee from mine altar to finish thine eyes
and to cause thy soul to pine away:
and all the increase of thy house, the
men, shall die.

34 And this the sign to thee which
shall come to thy two sons to Hophni
and Phinehas: in one day they two
shall die.

385 And I raised up to me a faithful
priest, as im my heart and in my soul
he shall do: and I built to him a faith-
ful house; and he went before my Mes-
siah all the days.

36 And it was all being left in thy
house shall go to worship to him for a
piece of silver and a round of bread;
and he said, Add me to one of the
priesthoods to eat a morsel of bread.

CHAPTER III.
ND the boy Samuel serving Jeho-
vah before Eli, and the word of
Jehovah was precious in those days; no
vision spread abroad.

2 And it will be in that day, and Eli
lay down in his place, and his eyes be-
gan to be weal; he will not be able to
see,

3 And before the lamp of God shall
go out, and Samuel lay down in the
edifice of Jehovah where there the ark
of God.

4 And Jehovah will call to Samuel,
and he will say, Behold me.

5 And he will run to 15]1, and say,
Behold me, for thou didst 6811 to me.
And he will say, I called not; turn
back, 116 down. And he will go and
he down.

6 And Jehovah will add yet to call
Samuel. And Samuel will rise and go
to Eli, and say, Behold me, for thou
calledst to me. And he will say, I
called not my son ; turn back, lie down.

7 And before Samuel will know Je-
hovah, and before the word of Jehovah
will be revealed to him,

8 And Jehovah will add to call Sam-
uel in the third time. And he will
rise and go to Eli, and say, Behold me,
for thou didst call to me. And Eli will
discern that Jehovah called the boy.

9 And Kh will say to Samuel, Go, lie
down; and it being if he shall call to

I. SAMUEL IV.

thee, and say thou, Speak, Jehovah,
for thy servant heard. And Samuel
will go and lie down in his place.

10 And Jehovah will come and stand
and call as once to once, Samuel, Sam-
uel. And Samuel will say, Speak, for
thy servant heard.

11 And Jehovah will say to Samuel,
Behold, I do a word in Israel which
every one hearing it his two ears shall
tingle.

12 In that day I will set up all against
Eli which I spake against his house,
beginning and finishing,

13 And I announced to him that I
judge his house even forever, for the
iniquity which he knew: for his sons
cursing for themselves and he admon-
ished them not.

14 And for this I sware to the house
of ו[19‎ 11 the imiquity of the house of
Eli shall be covered with sacrifice and
with gifts even forever.

15 And Samuel will lie down till the
morning, and he will open the doors of
the house of Jehovah: and Samuel will
be afraid of announcing the vision to Eli.

16 And Ehi will call Samuel, and say,
Samuel, my son. And he will say,
Behold me.

17 And he will say, What the word
he spake to thee? not now shalt thou
hide from me: so will God do to thee,
and so will he add, if thou shalt hide
from me ἃ word of all the word which
he spake to thee.

18 And Samuel will announce to him
all the words, and he hid not from him.
And he will say, It is Jehovah: the
good in his eyes he will do, -

19 And Samuel will be magnified,
and Jehovah was with him, and there
fell not from all his words to the earth.

20 And all Israel knew from Dan to
the Well of the Oath, that Samuel was
faithful for a prophet to Jehovah.

21 And Jehovah will add to be seen
in Shiloh: for Jehovah was revealed
to Samuel by the word of Jehovah in
Shiloh.

CHAPTER IV.
ND the word of Samuel will be to
all Israel. And Israel will go
forth to the meeting of Philisteim for

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war, and they will encamp upon the
Stone of Help: and Philisteim encamp-
ed in Aphek.

2 And Philisteim will set in array to
meet Israel: and the battle will smite,
and Israel will be smitten before Phil-
isteim: and they will strike the array
in the field, about four thousand men.

3 And the people will come to the
camp, and the old men of Israel will
say, Wherefore did Jehovah smite us
this day before Philisteim? We will
take to us from Shiloh the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah, and it shall come
into the midst of us and save us from
the hand of our enemies.

4 And the people will send to Shi-
loh, and they will lift up from thence
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of
armies, sitting upon the Cherubims:
and there the two sons of Eli with the
ark of the covenant of God, Hophni
and Phinehas.

5 And it will be when the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah came to the camp,
and all Israel will shout with great
shouts, and the earth will be put in mo-
tion.

6 And Philisteim will hear the voice
of the shout, and they will say, What
the voice of this great shout in the camp
of the Hebrews? and they knew that -
the ark of Jehovah came into the
camp.

7 And the Philisteim will be afraid,
for they said, God came into the camp.
And they will say, Wo to us! for it
was not as this yesterday, the third
day. :
8 Woious! who shall deliver us
from the hand of these mighty gods?
these those gods smiting Egypt with
every blow in the desert.

9 Be strong, and be for men, Philis-
teim, lest ye shall serve to the Hebrews
as they served to you: and be for men
and fight.

10 And Philistetm will fight and
smite Israel, and they will flee, a man
to his tent: and the blow will be very
great, and there will fall from Israel
thirty thousand footmen.

11 And the ark of God was taken,
and the two sons of Eli were slain,
Hophni and Phinehas,

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19 And a man of Benjamin will run
from the array, and he will come to
Shiloh in that day; and his garments
rent and earth upon his head.

13 And he will come, and behold,
Eli sitting upon a seat of the side of the
way, looking about: for his heart was
trembling for the ark of God. And the
man came to announce in the city, and
all the city will ery out.

14 And Eli will hear the voice of the
ery, and will say, What the voice of
this noise? And the man_ hastened,
and he will go in and announce to
ἘΠ].

15 And Eli the son of ninety and
eight years; and his eyes standing, and
he will not be able to see.

16 And the man will say to Eli, I
came from the array, and | fled from
the array this day. And he will say,
What was the word, my son?

17 And he bearing tidings will an-
swer and say, Israel fled before Philis-
teim, and also a great slaughter was
among the people, and also thy two
sons died, Hophni and Phinehas; and
the ark of God was taken. \

18 And it will be when he made men-
tion of the ark of God, and he will fall
from off the seat backwards by the side
of the gate, and his neck will break, and
he will die: for he was an old man and
heavy. And he judged Israel forty
years,

19 And his daughter-in-law, the wife
of Phinehas, conceived to bring forth:
and she will hear the message of the
taking of the ark of God, and the death
of her father-in-law and her husband,
and she will bow and bring forth, for
her pains turned upon her.

20 And about the time of her death,
and they standing by will speak to her,
Thou shalt not be afraid, for thou
broughtest forth a son. And she an-
swered not, and set not her heart.

21 And she will call the boy,
Where the Glory? saying, The glory
uncovered from Israel: (for the taking
of the ark of God, and for her father-in-
law, and her husband.)

22 And she will say, The glory un-
covered from Israel, for the ark of God
was taken.

1 SAMUEL יצ‎

CHAPTER ץצ‎
ND Philisteim took the ark of
God, and they will bring it from
the Stone of Help to Ashdod.

2 And Philisteim will take the ark of
God and bring it to the house of Dagon,
and they will set it up by Dagon.

3 And the Ashdodites will rise early
on the morrow, and behold, Dagon fall-
en upon his face to the earth before the
ark of Jehovah. And they will take
Dagon and will turn him back to his
place.

4 And they will rise early in the
morning, and behold, Dagon fallen up-
on his face to the earth before the ark
of Jehovah: and the head of Dagon,
and the two palms of his hands eut off
upon the threshold; only Dagon was
left upon him.

5 Therefore the priests of Dagon, and
all coming into Dagon’s house, will not
tread upon the threshold of Dagon in
Ashdod even to this day.

6 And the hand of Jehovah will be
heavy upon the Ashdodites, and he will
lay them waste and smite them with
tumors, Ashdod and her bounds.

7 And the men of Ashdod will see
that it is thus, and they will say, The
ark of the God of Israel shall not dwell
with us, for his hand was hard upon us
and upon Dagon our god.

8 Aud they will send and gather all
the princes of Philisteim to them, and
they will say, What shall we do to the
ark of the God of Israel? And they
will say, To Gath shall the ark of the
God of Israel be turned about: and they
will turn the ark of the God of Israel
about.

9 And it will be after they turned it
about, and the hand of Jehovah will be
against the city with a very great con-
sternation: and he will smite the men
of the city from small and even to
creat, and tumors will break forth to
them.

10 And they will send the ark of
God to Ekron. And it will be when
the ark of God came to Ekron, and the
Ekronites will ery out, saying, They
turned about to me the ark of the God
of Israel to kill me and my eal ais

11 And they will send and gather all

1. SAMUEL VI.

the princes of Philisteim, and they will
say, Send away the ark of the God of
Israel, and it shall turn back to its
place, and it shall not slay me and my
people: for the consternation of death
was in all the city; the hand of God
was greatly heavy there.

12 And the men who died not were
struck with tumors: and the ery of the
city will go up to the heavens.

CHAPTER VI.
ND the ark of Jehovah will be in
the field of Philistelm seven
months.

2 And Philisteim will call for the
priests and for the diviners, saying,
What shall we do to the ark of Jeho-
vah? make known to us in what we
shall send it to its place?

3 And they will say, If sending away
the ark of the God of Israel, ye shall
not send it away empty; for turning
back, ye shall turn back a trespass:
then ye shall be healed and we shall
make known to you why his hand shall
not be removed from you.

4 And they will say, What the tres-
pass that we shall turn back to him?
And they will say, The number of the
princes of Philisteim, five gold tumors,
and five gold mice: for one smiting
upon them all and upon your princes.

5 And make likenesses of your tu-
mors, and likenesses of your mice de-
stroying the land; and give glory to
the God of Israel: perhaps he will
lighten his hand from off you, and
from off your gods, and from off your
land.

6 And why shall ye make your
hearts heavy, as Egypt and Pharaoh
made their heart heavy? Did he not
then do wonders among them, and
they will send them away, and they
will go?

7 And now take and make one new
wagon, and two heifers giving milk,
which a yoke came not up upon them,
and make fast the heifers upon the
wagon, and turn back their young from
after them to the house.

8 And take the ark of Jehovah and
set it upon the wagon; and the vessels
of gold which ye turned back to him

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ye shall put a trespass in a box from its
side; and send it, and it went.

9 And see if it shall go up the way
of its bound to the House of the Sun,
it did to us this great evil: and if not
we shall know that not his hand struck
upon us; it was a chance to us.

10 And the men did so, and they will
take two heifers giving milk, and they
will make them fast to the wagon, and
they shut up their young in the house.

11 And they set the ark of Jehovah
into the wagon, and the box, and the
mice of gold, and the likenesses of the
tumors.

12 And the heifers will look about
in the way, upon the way of the House
of the Sun, in one highway they went
going, and they lowed, and they turned
not to the right and to the left; and
the princes of Philisteim went after
them, even to the bound of the House
of the Sun.

13 And the House of the Sun reap-
ing the harvest of wheat in the valley:
and they will lift up their eyes and see
the ark, and they will rejoice to see.

14 And the wagon came into the
field of Joshua of the House of the
Sun, and it will stand there; and there
a great stone: and they will cleave
asunder the wood of the wagon, and
the heifers they brought up a burnt-
offering to Jehovah.

15 And the Levites brought down
the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer that
was with it, which in it the vessels of
gold, and put upon the great stone: and
the men of the House of the Sun
brought up burnt-offerings and sacri-
ficed sacrifices in that day to Jehovah.

16 And the five princes of Philis-
teim saw, and they will turn back to
Ekron in that day.

17 And these the tumors of gold
which Philisteim turned back a trespass
to Jehovah; for Ashdod one, for Gaza
one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one,
for Ekron one.

18 And the mice of gold, the number
of all the cities of Philisteim, to the five
princes from the fortified city, even to
the village of the countryman, and even
to the great meadow which they put
upon it the ark of Jehovah, even to this

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day in the field of Joshua of the House|sons. of Israel will hear, and be afraid

of the Sun.

19 And he will strike upon the men
of the House of the Sun, for they saw
in the ark of Jehovah, and he will strike
upon the people seventy men, and fifty
thousand men: and the people will
mourn because Jehovah smote among
the people a great smiting.

20 And the men of the House of the
Sun will say, Who shall be able to
stand before Jehovah this holy God?
and to whom shall it go up from us?

21 And they will send messengers to
the inhabitants of the City of Forests,
saying, Philisteim turned back the ark
of Jehovah; come down, bring it up to
you.

CHAPTER VII.
ND the men of the City of Forests
will come up and will bring up
the ark of Jehovah, and they will bring
it to the house of Abinadab in the hill,
and Kleazar his son he consecrated to
watch the ark of Jehovah.

2 And it will be from the day the
ark dwelt in the City of Forests, and
the days will be multiplied; and they
will be twenty years: and all the house
of Israel will lament after Jehovah.

3 And Samuel will say to all the
house of Israel, saying, If with all your
heart ye turn back to Jehovah, remove
the strange gods out of the midst of you,
and Ashtaroth, and prepare your hearts
to Jehovah, and serve him alone, and
he will deliver you from the hand of
Philisteim.

4 And the sons of Israel will put
away the Baalims and Ashtaroth, and
will serve Jehovah alone.

5 And Samuel will say, Gather all
Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for
you to Jehovah.

6 And they will gather together to
Mizpeh, and draw water and pour out
before Jehovah; and they will fast in
that day and say there, We sinned
against Jehovah. And Samuel will
judge the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.

7 And Philisteim will hear that the
sons of Israel were gathered together to
Mizpeh, and the princes of Philisteim
will go up against Israel. And the

of the face of Philisteim,

8 And the sons of Israel will say to
Samuel, Thou wilt not keep silence
from us, erying to Jehovah our God,
and he will save us from the hand of
Philisteim.

9 And Samuel will take one fat lamb
and bring up a burnt-offering wholly to
Jehovah: and Samuel will ery to Je-
hovah for Israel, and Jehovah will an-
swer him.

10 And Samuel will be bringing up
the burnt-offering, and Philisteim drew
near to war against Israel: and Jeho-
vah will thunder with a great voice in
that day upon Philisteim and he will
discomfit them ; and they will be smit-
ten before Israel.

11 And the men of Israel will go
forth out of Mizpeh and they will pur-
sue Philisteim, and they will strike
them even from beneath to the House
of Pasture.

12 And Samuel will take one stone
and set between Mizpeh and between
Shen, and he will call its name the
Stone of Help; and he will say, Till
now Jehovah helped us.

18 And Philisteim will be subdued,
and they will no more add to come
into the bound of Israel: and the hand
of Jehovah will be against Philisteim
all the days of Samuel.

14 see the cities that Philisteim
took from Israel will be turned back to
Israel, from Ekron, even to Gath; and
their bound Israel will deliver from the
hand of Philisteim : and peace will be be-
tween Israel and between the Amorite.

15 And Samuel will judge Israel all
the days of his life.

16 And he went as often as from
year to year, and he turned about the
House of God, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh,
and he judged Israel in all these places.

17 And his turning back to Ramah ;
for there his house; and there he
judged Israel; and he will build an .
altar there to Jehovah.

CHAPTER. VIII.
\ ND it will be when Samuel was
old, he set his sons judges to Is-
186].

IL SAMUEL IX.

2 And the name of his son the first-
born will be Joel; and the name of his
second, Abiah: judges at the Well of
the Oath.

3 And his sons went not in his way,
and they will incline after plunder, and
they will take a gift, and they will
turn away from judgment.

4 And all the old men of Israel will
gather together and will come to Sam-
uel to Ramah ;

5 And they will say to him, Behold,
thou wert old, and thy sons went not
in thy ways: now set up for usa king
to judge us as all the nations.

6 And the word will be evil in the
eyes of Samuel when they said, Give
to usa king to judge us: and Samuel
will pray to Jehovah.

7 And Jehovah will say to Samuel,
Hear to the voice of the people to all
which they will say to thee: for not
thee did they reject, but me they re-
jected from reigning over them.

8 According to all the works which
they did from the day I brought them
up out of Egypt, and even to this day,
and they will forsake me and serve
other gods, so they do also to thee.

9 And now hear to their voice: but
protesting, thou shalt protest to them,
and announce to them the judgment of
the king who shall reign over them.

10 And Samuel will say all the words
of Jehovah to the people asking from
him a king.

11 And he will say, This shall be
the judgment of the king who shall
reign over you: your sons he will take
and set for himself, for his chariots and
for his horsemen; and running before
his chariots.

12 And to set to himself captains of
thousands and captains of fifties; and
to plough his ploughing and to reap
his harvest, and to do all his fighting
and all his chariots.

13 And your daughters he will take
for perfumers, and for cooks, and for
bakers.

14 And your fields and your vine-
yards, and your olive trees, the good he
will take and give to his servants.

15 And of your seeds and of your
אל‎ he will take the tenth and

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give to his eunuchs and to his ser-
vants.

16 And your servants and your maids,
and your good young men, and your
asses, he will take and make for his ser-
vices.

17 And of your sheep he will take
the tenth: and ye shall be to him for
servants.

18 And ye cried out in that day from
before your king which ye chose to
yourselves; and Jehovah will not an-
swer you in that day.

19 And the people will refuse to hear
to the voice of Samuel; and they will
say, Nay; but a king shall be over us.

20 And we were as all the nations;
and our king judged us and went out
before us, and fought our battles.

21 And Samuel will hear ail the
words of the people, and he will speak
them in the ears of Jehovah.

22 And Jehovah will say to Samuel,
Hear to their voice, and make a king
for them. And Samuel will say to
them, Go ye a man to his city.

CHAPTER IX.
ND there will be a man of Benja-
min, and his name Kish, son of
Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Bechorah,
son of Aphiah, son of a man, a Jaminite,
a man of strength.

2 And to him was ἃ son and his name
Saul, a young man and good: and not
a man of the sons of Israel good above
him : from his shoulder and from above,
high above all the people.

3 And the she asses of Kish, Saul’s
father, will be lost: and Kish will say to
Saul, his son, Take now with thee one
of the boys, and arise, Go seek the asses.

4 And he will pass over in mount
Ephraim, and he will pass over into the
land of Shalisha, and they found not:
and they will pass over into the land of
Shalim, and not there: and he will pass
over into the land of the Jaminite, and
they found not.

5 They went into the land of Zuph,
and Saul said to his boy that was with
him, Come, and we will turn back, lest
my father shall leave from the asses, and
be afraid for us.

6 And he will say to him, Behold

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now, a man of God in this city, and the
man honored; all which [16 811811 speak,
coming, will come: now we will go
there, perhaps he will announce to us
our way which we went upon it.

7 And Saul will say to his boy, And
behold, we will go, and what shall we
bring to the man? for the bread depart-
ed from our vessels, and not a gilt to
bring to the man of God: what with us?

8 And the boy will add to answer
Saul, and he will say, Behold, we shall
find in my hand the fourth of a shekel
of silver: and I gave it to the man of
God and he announced to us our way.

9 Before in Israel thus said the man
in his going to inquire of God, Come,
and we will go even to him seeing, for
a prophet this day he will be called;
before him seeing.

10 And Saul will say to his boy, Thy
word was good; going, we will go: and
they will go to the city where was the
man of God there.

11 They going up in the ascent of
the city and they found girls going forth
to draw water, and they will say to
them, Is he seeing, here?

12 And they will answer them and
will say, He is; behold, before thee:
hasten now, for this day he came to the
city for a sacrifice this day to the peo-
ple Bamah.

13 As you come to the city thus ye
shall find him, before he will go up to
Bamah to eat: for the people will not
eat till his coming, for he will bless the
sacrifice; after this they being called
will eat. And now go up, for this day
ye shall find him.

14 And they will go up to the city:
they coming into the midst of the city,
and behold, Samuel coming forth to
meet them, to go up to Bamah.

15 And Jehovah revealed in the ear
of Samuel one day, before Saul came,
saying,

16 About the time to-morrow I will
send to-thee aman from the land of
Benjamin, and anoint him for leader
over my people Israel; he shall save
my people from the hand of Philisteim ;
for 1 saw my people, for their cry came
to me.

17 And Samuel saw Saul, and Jeho-

I. SAMUEL IX.

vah answered him, Behold the man that
I said to thee, He shall rule over my
people.

18 And Saul will draw near to Sam-
uel in the midst of the gate, and he
will say, Announce to me, now, where
the house of him seeing.

19 And Samuel will answer Saul, and
say, I the seeing: go up before me to ἡ
Bamah, and eat with me this day, and
Τ will send thee away in the morrow,
and all that is in thy heart I will an-
nounce to thee.

20 And for the asses lost to thee this
day three days, thou shall not set thy
heart upon them, for they have been
found. And to whom all the desire of
Israel? is it not to thee and to all thy
father’s house ?

21 And Saul will answer and say,
Am not Iason of the Jaminite, from
the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and
my family small more than all the fam-
ilies of the tribes of Benjamin? and
wherefore spakest thou to me according
to this word ?

22 And Samuel will take Saul and
his boy, and will bring them to the
chamber, and will give to them place
among the first of those being called,
and they about thirty men.

23 And Samuel will say to the cook,
Thou shalt give the portion which I
gave to thee, which I said to thee, Put
it with thee.

24 And the cook will lift up the leg
and that upon it, and will set before
Saul. And he will say, Behold that
being left set before thee: eat, for to
the appointment being watched for thee,
saying, I 681160 the people. And Saul
will eat with Samuel in that day.

25 And they will go down from Ba-
mah to the city, and he will speak to
Saul upon the roof.

26 And they will rise early: and it
will be about the hind of the dawn, and
Samuel will call to Saul to the roof,
saying, Arise, and I will send thee away.
And Saul will arise, and they two will
go forth, he and Samuel without.

27 They coming down to the extrem-
ity of the city, and Samuel said to Saul,
Say to the boy, Pass over before us:
and he will pass over: and thou stand

1. SAMUEL .א‎

according to the day, and I will cause
thee to hear the word of God.

CHAPTER Χ.
ND Samuel will take a flask of
oil and pour upon his head, and
he will kiss him and say, Is it not that
Jehovah anointed thee for leader over
his inheritance ?

2 In thy going this day from me and
thou shalt find two men by the sepul-
chre of Rachel in the bound of Benja-
min in Zelzah; and they said to thee,
The asses were found which thou went-
est to seek: and behold, thy father cast
off the matters of the asses, and was
afraid for you, saying, What shall I do
for my son?

3 And pass on from thence and be-
yond, and thou camest to the oak of
Tabor, there three men shall find thee
going up to God, to the house of God,
one lifting up three kids and one lifting
up three rounds of bread, and one lift-
ing up a skin of wine.

4 And they asked thee for peace, and
they gave thee two of bread, and thou
receivedst from their hands.

5 After this thou shalt come to the
hill of God, where there Philisteim
standing: and it will be when thou com-
est there to the city, and thou didst
light upon a band of prophets coming
down out 01 Bamah, and before them a
lyre, and a drum, and a pipe, and a
harp; and they prophesying.

6 And the shout of Jehovah fell sud-
denly upon thee and thou shalt proph-
esy with them, and be turned to an-
other man.

7 And it was when these signs shall
come upon thee, do for thyself what
thy hand shall find, for God is with
thee,

8 And go down before me to Gilgal ;
and behold, I come down to thee to
bring up burnt offerings, to sacrifice
sacrifices of peace: seven days shalt
thou wait till my coming to thee, and I
made known to thee what thou shalt do.

9 And it was as he turned away his
shoulder to go from Samuel, and God
will turn to him another heart: and all
these signs will come in that day.

10 And they will come there to Gib-

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eab, and behold, a band of prophets to
meet him; and the spirit of God will
fall suddenly upon him and he will
prophesy in the midst of them.

11 And it will be all will know him
from yesterday the third day, and will
see him and behold, he prophesied with
the prophets, and the people will say,
aman to his neighbor, What was this
to the son of Kish? Is Saul also
among the prophets ?

12 And a man will answer from
thence and will say, And who their
father? For this it was for a parable,
Is Saul also among the prophets ?

13 And he will finish prophesying
and will come to Bamah.

14 And Saul’s friend will say to him
and to his boy, Whither went ye? And
he will say, To seek the asses; and we
shall see that nothing, and we shall go
to Samuel. .

15 And Saul’s friend will say, An-
nounce now, to me, what Samuel said
to you.

16 And Saul will say to his friend,
Announcing, he announced to us that
they found the asses; and the word of
the kingdom he announced not to him,
which Samuel said to him.

17 And Samuel will conyoke the
people together to Jehovah at Mizpeh ;

18 And he will say to the sons of Is-
rael, Thus spake Jehovah the God of
Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt,
and I will deliver you out of the hand
of Egypt, and out of the hand of all
kingdoms pressing you.

19 And ye this day rejected your
God who himself saves you from all
your evils and your straits; and ye will
say to him, That thou shalt put a king
over us. And now stand ye before Je-
hovah by your tribes and by your thou-
sands.

20 And Samuel will cause all the
tribes of Israel to come near, and the
tribe of Benjamin will be taken.

21 And he will cause the tribe of
Benjamin to come near by his families,
and the family of Matri will be taken,
and Saul son of Kish will be taken:
and they will seek and he was not
found.

22 And they will ask yet of Jehovah,

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Will the man yet come hither? And
Jehovah will say, Behold, he hid him-
self among the vessels.

23 And they will run and and take
him from thence, and he will stand in
the midst of the people; and he will be
high above all the people, from his
shoulders and above.

24 And Samuel will’ say to all the
perk See whom Jehovah chose to
iim, for none like him among all the
people. And all the people will shout
and say, The king shall live.

25 And Samuel will speak to the
people the judgment of the kingdom ;
and he will write in a book and put be-
fore Jehovah. And Samuel will send
away all the people, aman to his house.

26 And also Saul went to his house
at Gibeah; and there will go with him
the army whom God touched their
heart. :

27 And the sons of Belial said, What
shall this save us? And they will de-
spise him and will not bring hima gift ;
and he will be as keeping silence.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
ND Nahash the Ammonite will
come up and encamp against Ja-
besh-Gilead : and all the men of Jabesh
will say to Nahash, Cut out to us a coy-
enant, and we will serve thee.

2 And Nahash the Ammonite will
say to them, Upon this I will cut out
to you in boring out for you every
right eye, and I put it a reproach upon
all Israel.

3 And the old men 01 Jabesh will
say to him, Let go to us seven days,
and we will send messengers in every
bound of Israel: and if none save us
we will come forth 10 the. =

4 And the messengers will come to
the hill of Saul and will speak the words
in the ears of the people: and all the
people will lift up their voice and weep.

5 And behold, Saul came after the
cattle from the field; and Saul will
say, What to the people that they will
weep? and they will recount to him the
words of the men of Jabesh.

6 And the spirit of God will fall sud-
denly upon Saul in his hearing these
words, and his anger will kindle greatly.

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7 And he will take a pair of oxen
and will cut them in pieces, and will
send in all the bound of Israel by the
hand of the messengers, saying, Who-
ever will not come forth after Saul and
after Samuel, thus shall be done to his
oxen. And the fear of Jehovah will
fall upon the people, and they will come
forth as one man.

8 And he will review them in Bezek,
and the sons of Israel will be three
hundred thousand, and the men of Ju-
dah thirty thousand.

9 And they will say to the messen-
gers coming, Thus shall ye say to the
men of Jabesh-Gilead, To-morrow sal-
vation shall be to you in the heat of
the sun. And the messengers will
come and announce to the men of Ja-
besh, and they will rejoice.

10 And the men of Jabesh will say,
To morrow we will come forth to you,
and do to us all the good in your eyes.

11 And it will be on the morrow, and
Saul will put the people three heads;
and they will come into the midst of
the camp in the watch of the morning,
and they will strike Ammon till the
heat of the day: and there will be those
being left and they will be scattered, and
two among them were not left together.

12 And the people will say to Sam-
uel, Who said, Shall Saul reign over
us? Ye shall give up the men and we
will put them to death.

13 And Saul will say, A man shall
not die in this day, for this day Jeho-
vah made salvation in Israel.

14 And Samuel will say to the peo-
ple, Go, and we will ₪0 to Gilgal, and
we will renew there the kingdom.

15 And all the people will go to Gil-
gal; and will sacrifice there sacrifices
of peace before Jehovah: and Saul will
rejoice there and all the men of Israel,
even greatly.

CHAPTER XII.

yom Samuel will say to all Israel,
Behold, I heard to your voice,
to all that ye said to me, and I will

make a king over you.
2 And now, behold, the king going
before you: and I grew old and I was
gray-headed ; and my sons, behold them

I. SAMUEL ΧΙ].

with you: and I went before you from
my youth even to this day.

3 Behold me: answer against me be-
fore Jehovah and before his Messiah,
whose ox did I take? or whose ass did
I take? and whom did I oppress ? whom
did I vex? and from whose hand did
I take a ransom and hidden mine
eyes with it? and I will turn back to

ou.

4 And they will say, Thou didst not
oppress us, and thou didst not vex us,
and thou didst not take any thing from
man’s hand.

5 And he will say to them, Jehovah
the witness against you, and his Mes-
siah the witness this day that ye found
nothing in my hand. And he will say,
A witness.

6 And Samuel will say to the people,
Jehovah who made Moses and Aaron,
and who brought up your fathers from
the land of Egypt.

7 And now, stand ye, and I will judge
you before Jehovah, all the justices of
Jehovah which he did with you and
with your fathers.

8 When Jacob came into Egypt, and
your fathers will cry to Jehovah, and
Jehovah will send Moses and Aaron,
and they will bring forth your fathers
from Egypt, and they will turn them
back into this place.

9 And they will forget Jehovah their
God, and he will sell them into the
hand of Sisera, chief of the army of
Hazor, and into the hand of Philisteim,
and into the hand of the king of Moab,
and they will war against them.

10 And they will ery to Jehovah,
and say, We sinned, for we forsook Je-
hovah, and we shall serve the Baalims
and Ashtaroth: and now deliver us
out of the hand of our enemies and we
will serve thee.

11 And Jehovah will send Jerub-
baal and Bedan and Jephthah and
Samuel, and he will deliver you from
the hand of your enemies from round
about, and ye shall dwell confidently.

12 And ye will see that Nahash, king
of the sons of Ammon, came against
you, and ye will say to me, Nay; but
a king shall reign over us: and Jeho-
vah your God your king.

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13 And now, behold the king which
ye chose, which ye asked! and behold,
Jehovah gave a king over you.

14 If ye will fear Jehovah and serve
him, and hear to his voice, and ye shall
not rebel against the mouth of Jehovah,
and ye shall be, also ye, and the king
which reigned over you, after Jehovah
your God. ;

15 And if ye will not hear to the
voice of Jehovah, and rebel against the
mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of
the Lord was against you and your
fathers.

16 Also now stand ye and see this
ereat word which Jehovah does before
your eyes.

17 Is it not the harvest of wheat this
day? I will call to Jehovah and he
will give voices and rain; and know
ye and see that your wickedness is
great which ye did in the eyes of Jeho-
vah to ask for you a king. :

18 And Samuel will call to Jehovah,
and Jehovah will give voices and rain
in that day: and all the people will be
greatly afraid of Jehovah and Samuel.

19 And all. the people will say to
Samuel, Pray for thy servants to Jeho-
vah thy God, and we shall not die; for
we added upon all our sins the wicked-
ness to ask for usa king.

20 And Samuel will say to the peo-
ple, Ye shall not be afraid: ye did all
this wickedness: but ye shall not turn
aside from after Jehovah, and serve ye
Jehoyah with all your heart.

21 And ye shall not turn aside: for
after vanities which will not profit, and
they will not deliver, for they are vani-
ties.

22 For Jehovah will not cast off his
people on account of his great name,
for Jehovah willed to make you to him
for a people. :

23 Also I, far be it to me sinning
against Jehovah ceasing to pray for
you: and I taught you in the good and
straight way.

24 But fear ye Jehovah, and serve
him in truth with all your heart: for
see what he magnified with you.

25 And if doing evil, ye shall do
evil, also ye, also your king; ye shall
perish.

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CHAPTER XIIL

AUL the son of a year in his reign-
ing; and two years he reigned
over Israel,

2 And Saul will choose to him three
thousand from Israel; and two thou-
sand will be with Saul in Michmash,
and in the mount of the house of God,
and a thousand were with Jonathan in
the hill of Benjamin: and the remain-
der of the people he sent a man to his
tent.

5 And Jonathan will strike a garri-
son of Philistetm which is in the hill,
and Philisteim will hear, and Saul will
clang upon the trumpet in all the land,
saying, The Hebrews shall hear.

4 And all Israel heard, saying, Saul
struck a garrison of rovers, and Israel
became loathsome with the rovers; and
the people will be convoked together
after Saul to Gilgal.

5 And the rovers were gathered to-
gether to war with Israel, thirty thou-
sand chariots and six thousand horse-
men, and people as the sand which is
upon the hp of the sea for multitude:
and they will come up and encamp in
Michmash, east of the House of Noth-
ing.

6 And the men of Israel saw that a
strait to him, for the people were
pressed ; and the people will hide in
caves, and in thorn-bushes, and in
rocks, and in towers, and in pits.

7 And the Hebrews passed over Jor-
dan to the land of Gad and Gilead.
And Saul he yet in Gilgal, and all the
people trembled after him.

8 And he will wait some days ac-
cording to the appointment which was
of Samuel: and Samuel came not to
Gilgal ; and the people were scattered
from him.

9 And Saul will say, Bring near to
me the burnt-offering and the peace,
and he will bring up the burnt-offer-
ing.

10 And it will be when he finished
to bring up the burnt-offering, and _be-
hold, Samuel came; and Saul went
forth to his meeting, and to bless him.

11 And Samuel will say, What didst
thou? and Saul will say, Because I saw
that the people were scattered from

1. SAMUEL XII.

me, and thou camest not at the appoint-
ment of days, and the rovers were gath-
ered together to Michmash ;

12 And saying, Now the rovers will
come down to me to GiJgal, and I en-
treated not the face of Jehovah: and I
will contain myself, and will bring up
a burnt-offering.

13 And Samuel will say to Saul,
Thou didst foolishly: thou didst not
watch the commands of Jehovah thy
God which he commanded thee; for
now Jehovah prepared thy kingdom
for Israel, even for ever.

14 And now thy kingdom shall not
be set up: Jehovah sought to him a
man according to his heart, and Jeho-
vah will command him for leader over
his people, because thou didst not watch
what Jehovah commanded thee.

15 And Samuel will rise and will go
up from Gilgal to the hill of Benjamin.
And Saul will review the people being
found with him about six hundred
men.

16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son,
and the people found with them, dwelt
in the hill of Benjamin: and the rovers
encamped in Michmash.

17 And he destroying will come forth
from the camp of the rovers, three heads :
one head will turn to the way of Oph-
rah, to the land of Shual:

18 And one head will turn the way
of the House of the Hollow; and one
head will turn the way of the bound
projecting over the valley of the hye-
nas of the desert.

19 And an artificer will not be found
in all the land of Israel: (for the rovers
said, Lest the Hebrews shall make a
sword or spear :)

20 And all Israel went down to the ro-
vers, to hammer each his plough-shares,
and his coulter, and his axe, and his
plough-shares.

21 And there was a notching of
mouths for the plough-shares, and for
the coulters, and for the three-pronged,
and for the axes, and for setting the
goads.

22 And it was in the day of battle,
and a sword and spear were not found
in the hand of all the people that were
with Saul and Jonathan: and they will

I SAMUEL XIV.

be found to Saul and to Jonathan his
son.

23 Anda station of the rovers will
come forth to the passage of Mich-
mash.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND it will be the day, and Jona-
than son of Saul, will say to the
boy lifting up his arms, Come, and we
will pass over to the station of the ro-
vers, which is from beyond this. And
to his father he announced not.

2 And Saul dwelt in the extremity
of the hill under the pomegranate which
is in the precipice. And the people
that were with him, about six hundred
men.

8 And Ahiah, son of Ahitub, broth-
er of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of
Eli the priest of Jehovah in Shiloh, lift-
ing up an Hphod And the people
knew not that Jonathan went.

4 And between the passages where
Jonathan sought to pass through upon
the garrison of the rovers, and the
tooth of a rock from beyond this, and
the tooth of a rock from beyond this;
and the name of the one Bozez, and the
name of the one Seneh.

5 And the tooth of the one pressing
from the north in front of Michmash,
and the other from the south in front
of the hill.

6 And Jonathan will say to the boy
lifting up his arms, Come, and we will
pass over to the garrison of these un-
circumcised: perhaps Jehovah will do
for us: for no restraining to Jehovah to
save by a multitude or by few.

7 And he lifting up his arms will say
to him, Do all that is in thy heart:
turn for thyself; behold me with thee
according to thy heart.

8 And Jonathan will say, Behold, we
pass over to the men, and we will dis-
close ourselves to them.

9 If thus they shall say to us, Be still
till our reaching to you; and we stood
our lowest place, and we will not go up
to them.

10 And if thus they shall say, Come
up upon us; and we went up: for Je-
hovah gave them into our hand; and
this to us the sign.

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11 And they two will disclose to the
garrison of the rovers; and the rovers
will say, Behold, the Hebrews coming
forth from the holes where they hid
there.

12 And the men of the garrison will
answer Jonathan and him lifting up his
arms, and they will say, Come up to us,
and we will make a word known to
you. And Jonathan will say to him
lifting up his arms, Come up after me:
for Jehovah gave them into the hand
of Israel.

13 And Jonathan will go up upon
his hands and upon his feet, and he lift-
ing up his arms after him: and they will
fall before Jonathan; and he lifting up
his arms, slaying after him.

14 And the first blow which Jona-
than struck, and he lifting up his arms,
will be about twenty men in about half
the furrow of a yoke of a field.

15 And terror will be in the camp, in
the field, and in all the people of the
garrison: and the destroyers trembled,
they also, and the earth will be moved;
and it will be for the terror of God.

16 And the watchman to Saul will see
in the hill of Benjamin, and behold,
the multitude melting away, and going,
and fighting.

17 And Saul will say to the people
that were with him, Review now, and
see who went from us. And they will
review, and behold, not Jonathan and
he lifting up his arms.

18 And Saul will say to Ahiah, Bring
near the ark of God. For the ark of
God was in that day and the sons of
Israel.

19 And it will be while Saul spake
to the priest, and the multitude which
was in the camp of the rovers, and it
went going and increasing: and Saul
will say to the priest, Take back thy
hand.

20 And Saul will be convoked and
all the people which were with him,
and they will go even to the battle: and
behold, the sword of a man will be
against his neighbor, a very great con-
fusion.

21 And the Hebrews being to the ro-
vers about yesterday the third day, who
went up with them into the camp round

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about, and also they to be with Israel
which were with Saul and Jonathan.

22 And every man of Israel being
hid in mount Ephraim, heard that the
rovers fled, and they will cleave togeth-
er, also they after them in the battle.

23 And Jehovah will save Israel in
that day: and the battle passed over to
the house of nothing.

24 And the man Israel was pressed
in that day: and Saul will curse the
people, saying, Cursed the men who
shall eat bread till the evening, and I
was avenged of mine enemy. And all
the people tasted not bread.

25 And all the land came into a
thicket; and honey will be upon the
face of the field.

26 And the people will come to the
thicket, and behold, the honey went;
and none putting his hand to his mouth,
for the people will be afraid of the oath.

27 And Jonathan heard not in his
father’s causing the people to swear:
and he will stretch forth the extremity
of the rod which is in his hand, and he
will dip it in the droppings of the honey,
and he will turn back his hand to his
mouth, and his eyes will see.

28 And aman from the people will
answer and say, Thy father adjuring,
adjured the people, saying, Cursed the
man who shall eat bread this day.
And the people were wearied.

29 And Jonathan will say, My father
troubled the land: see, now, that mine
eyes saw, because I tasted a little of this
honey.

30 But if eating, the people ate this
day from the spoil of his enemiesewhich
he found; for now was not the blow
greater against the rovers?

81 And they will strike the rovers in
that day, from Michmash to the oak:
and the people were greatly wearied.

82 And the people will make to the
spoil, and they will take sheep and ox-
en, and the young of oxen, and they
will slaughter on the earth: and the
people will eat upon the blood.

88 And they will announce to Saul,
saying, Behold, the people sinning
against Jehovah to eat upon the blood.
And he will say, Ye acted treacherous-
ly: roll to me this day a great stone.

1. SAMUEL XIV.

34 And Saul will say, Be ye dis-
persed among the people, and say to
them, Bring near to me a man his ox,
and a man his sheep, and slaughter here
and eat; and ye shall not sin against
Jehovah to eat with the blood. And
all the people will bring near, each his
ox in his hand this night, and they will
slaughter there.

85 And Saul will build an altar to
Jehovah: this altar he began to build
to Jehovah.

36 And Saul will say, We will go
down after the rovers by night, and we
will plunder among them till the light
of the morning, and we will not leave
aman among them. And they will
say, Do all the good in thine eyes. And
the priest will say, We will draw near
here to God.

87 And Saul will ask in God, Shall
I go down after the rovers? wilt thou
give them into the hand of Israel?
And he will not answer him in that
day.

88 And Saul will say, Draw near
here all the corners of the people: and
know and see in what was this sin this
day.

39 For Jehovah lives, having saved
Israel, for if it is in Jonathan my son,
for dying he shall die. And none from
all the people answered him.

40 And he will say to all Israel, Ye
shall be on one side, and I and Jona-
than my son will be on one side. And
the people will say to Saul, Do the
good in thine eyes.

41 And Saul will say to Jehovah the
God of Israel, Give the truth. And
Jonathan will be taken, and Saul: and
the people will come forth.

42 And Saul will say, Cast between
me and between Jonathan my son.
And Jonathan will be taken.

43 And Saul will say to Jonathan,
Announce to me what thou didst. And
Jonathan will announce to him and
say, Tasting, I tasted with the extrem-
ity of the rod which was in my hand,
a little honey, and behold, I shall
die.

44 And Saul. will say, So will Jeho-
vah do, and so will he add; for dying,
thou shalt die, Jonathan.

1. SAMUEL טא‎

45 And the people will say to Saul,
Shall Jonathan die, who did this great
salvation in Israel? Far be it: Jehovah
lives if there shall fall from the hair of
his head to the earth; for he did with
Jehovah this day. And the people
will let Jonathan go free, and he died
not.

46 And Saul will come up from after
the rovers: and the rovers went to
their place.

47 And Saul took the kingdom over
Israel, and he will fight round about
against all his enemies, against Moab
and against the sons of Ammon, and
against Edom, and against the kings of
Zobah, and against the rovers: and in
all which he will turn he will disturb.

48 And he will do in strength, and
he will strike Amalek, and deliver
Israel from the hand of him plundering
him.

49 And the sons of Saul will be Jon-
athan, and Ishui, and Melchisua; and
the names of his two daughters, the
name of the first-born, Merab, and the
name of the small, Michal.

50 And the name of Saul’s wife Ahi-
noam, daughter of Ahimaaz: and the
name of the chief of his army, Abner,
son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

51 And Kish the father of Saul: and
Ner the father of Abner, son of Abiel.

52 And strong war will be against
the rovers all the days of Saul: and
Saul seeing every strong man and every
son of strength, and he will gather him
to him.

CHAPTER XV.
ND Samuel will say to Israel, Je-
hovah sent me to anoint thee for
king over his people, over Israel: and
now hear to the voice of the words of
Jehovah.

2 Thus said Jehovah of armies, I re-
viewed what Amalek did to Israel,
how he set for him in the way in his
going up out of Keypt.

3 Now go and strike Amalek, and
exterminate all which is to him, and
thou shalt not spare to him; and kill
from man even to woman, from child
even to suckling, from ox and even to
sheep, from camel and eyen to ass.

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4 And Saul will cause the people to
hear, and he will review them in Te-
laim, two hundred thousand footmen
and ten thousand men of Judah.

5 And Saul will come even to a city
of Amalek, and he will le in wait by
the torrent.

6 And Saul will say to the Kenite,
Go, remove, go down from the midst of
the Amalekites, lest I shall add thee
with him; for ye did merey with all
the sons of Israel in their coming up
out of Egypt. And the Kenite will
remove from the midst of Amalek.

7 And Saul will strike Amalelk from
Havilah thy coming to Shur, which is
upon the face of Egypt. =

8 And he will seize Agag, king of
Amalek, living, and he exterminated
all the people with the mouth of the
sword.

9 And Saul and the people will have
pity upon Agag, and upon the good of
the sheep, and the oxen and the double,
and upon the lambs and upon all the
good, and they were not willing to ex-
terminate them: and every work de-
spised and wasting away, they exter-
minated it.

10 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Samuel, saying,

111 lamented that I made Saul for
king, for he turned back from after me,
and my words he set not up. And it
will kindle to Samuel, and he will cry
to Jehovah all the mght.

12 And Samuel will rise early to
meet: Saul in the morning, and it will
be announced to Samuel, saying, Saul
came to Carmel, and behold, he sets up
to him a hand, and he will turn round
and pass over and go down to Gilgal.

18 And Samuel will come to Saul:
and Saul will say to him, Blessed thou
of Jehovah: I set up the word of Jeho-
vah.

14 And Samuel will say, And what
the voice of sheep in mine ear, and the
voice of the oxen which I hear?

15 And Saul will say, From the
Amalekites they brought them; which
the people had pity upon the good of
the sheep and of the oxen in order to
sacrifice to Jehovah thy God; and the
rest we exterminated.

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16 And Samuel will say to Saul, De-
sist, and I will announce to thee what
Jehovah spake to me by night. And
they will say to him, Speak.

17 And Samuel will say, Wert thou
not little in thine eyes, thou the head
of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah will
anoint thee for king over Israel?

18 And Jehovah will send thee in
the way, and he will say, Go, and ut-
terly destroy the sinners Amalek, and
Πρ} against him even till ye consumed
them.

19 And wherefore didst thou: not
hear to the voice of Jehovah, and wilt
clothe thyself with the spoil, and thou
wilt do the evil in the eyes of Jeho-
vah.

20 And Saul will say to Samuel,
That I heard to the voice of Jehovah,
and I will go in the way which Jeho-
vah sent me, and I will bring Agag
king of Amalek, and I utterly destroy-
ed Amalek.

21 And the people will take from the
spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief devoted
to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gil-
gal.

22 And Samuel will say, Was it
pleasing to Jehovah in burnt-offerings
and sacrifices as to hear to the voice of
Jehovah? Behold, to hear, above a
good sacrifice, and to hearken, above
the fat of rams.

23 For the sin of divination, rebel-
lion; and deceit, and the family gods of
stubbornness. Because thou didst re-
ject the word of Jehovah, and he will
reject thee from being king.

24 And Saul willsay to Samuel, I
sinned: for I passed by the mouth of
Jehovah, and thy words: for I feared
the people and I will hear to their voice.

25 And now, take away now, my
sin, and turn back with me, and I will
worship to Jehovah.

26 And Samuel will say to Saul, I
will not turn back with thee, for thou
didst reject the word of Jehovah, and
Jehovah will reject thee from being
king over Israel.

27 And Samuel will turn about to
go, and he will seize upon the wing of
his upper garment, and it will rend.

28 And Samuel will say to him, Je-

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hovah rent the kingdom of Israel from
thee this day, and gave it to thy neigh-
bor being good above thee.

29 And also the glory of Israel will
not lie, and he will not lament: for he
not a man to lament.

80 And he will say, I sinned this
time; honor me now before the old
men of my people, and before Israel,
and turn back with me, and I worship-
ped to Jehovah thy God.

81 And Samuel will turn back after
Saul; and Saul will worship to Jeho-
vah.

32 And Samuel will say, Bring near
to me Agag king of Amalek. And
Agag will come to him, wavering: and
Agag will say, Surely the bitterness of
death was removed.

33 And Samuel will say, As thy
sword bereaved women of children, so
of women shall thy mother be bereaved
of children. And Samuel cut Agag
in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

34 And Samuel went to Ramah; and
Saul went up to his house of the hill of
Saul.

85 And Samuel will not add to see
Saul, even to the day of his death: for
Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jeho- |
vah lamented that he made Saul king
over Israel.

CHAPTER XVI.

ND Jehovah will say to Samuel,
How long mournest thou for
Saul, and I rejected him from being
king over Israel? Fill thy horn with
oil, and go; I will send thee to Jesse
of the House of Bread, for I saw among

his sons a king to me.

2 And Samuel will say, How shall I
go? and Saul hearing, and killing me.
And Jehovah will say, Thou shalt take
a heifer of the cows in thy hand and
say, To sacrifice to Jehovah I came.

8 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and
I will make known to thee what thou
shalt do: and anoint to me whom I say
to thee.

4 And Samuel will do what Jehovah
spake, and he will go to the House of
Bread. And the old men of the city
will tremble to meet him, and say, Thy
coming peace ?

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5 And he will say, Peace: to sacri-
fice to Jehovah 1 came: be ye conse-
crated and come with me to the sacri-
fice. And he will consecrate Jesse and
his sons, and call for them to the sac-
rifice.

6 And it will be in their coming, and
he will see Eliab, and he said, Surely,
before Jehovah his Messiah.

7 And Jehovah will say to Samuel,
Thou shalt not look upon his aspect or
upon the height of his stature; for I
rejected him: for not what man will
see, for man will see with the eyes, and
Jehovah will see at the heart.

8 And Jesse will call for Abinadab,
and he will cause him to pass by be-
fore Samuel. And he will say, Also
this Jehovah chose not.

9 And Jesse will cause Shammah to
pass by. And he will say, Also in this
Jehovah chose not.

10 And Jesse will cause seven of his
sons to pass by before Samuel: and
Samuel will say to Jesse, Jehovah chose
not in these.

11 And Samuel will say to Jesse,
Ave these the whole of the boys? And
he will say, The small was yet left, and
behold, he fed among the sheep. And
Samuel will say to Jesse, Send and take
him, for we will not turn about till his
coming here.

12 And he will send and bring him.
And he red, with beauty of eyes, and
good of sight. And Jehovah will say,
Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

13 And Samuel will take the horn of
oil and he will anoint him in the midst
of his brethren: and the spirit of Jeho-
vah will cleave to David from that day
and over. And Samuel will rise and
go to Ramah.

14 And the spirit of Jehovah depart-
ed from Saul, and an evil spirit from
Jehovah terrified him.

15 And Saul’s servants will say to
him, Behold now, an evil spirit of God
terrifying thee.

16 Will our lord now say to thy ser-
vants before thee, Seek out a man
knowing to play upon the harp: and
it was in the evil spirit of God being
upon thee, and he playing with the
hand and doing good to thee.

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17 And Saul will say to his servants,
See, now, a man to me being good to
play, and bring to me.

18 And one of his boys will answer
and say, I saw a son to Jesse of the
House of Bread, knowing to play,
mighty of strength, and a man of war,
and discerning the word, and a man of
figure, and Jehovah with him.

19 And Saul will send messengers to
Jesse, and he will say, Send to me Da-
vid thy son who is with the sheep.

20 And Jesse will take a heap of
bread and a sack of wine, and one kid
of the goats, and he will send by the
hand of David his son to Saul.

21 And David will come to Saul,
and stand before him: and he will love
him greatly ; and he will be to him lift-
ing up the arms.

22 And Saul will send to Jesse, say-
ing, David shall stand now before me,
for he found grace in mine eyes.

23 And it was in the spirit of God
being upon Saul, and David took the
harp and played with his hand, and it
was refreshed to Saul, and it was good
to him, and the evil spirit departed from
him.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND the rovers will gather together
their camps for war, and they
will gather together at Shocoth, which
is to Judah, and they will encamp be-
tween Shocoth and between Azekah,
in the end of Damim.

2 And Saul and the man Israel were
gathered together, and they will encamp
in the valley of Elah, and they arranged
the battle to meet the rovers.

3 And the rovers standing on the
mountain from hence, and Israel stand-
ing on the mountain from thence, and
the valley between them.

4 And there went forth a man of the
sons of the camp of the rovers, Goliah
his name, from Gath; his height six
cubits and a span.

5 And a helmet of brass upon his
head, and a coat of mail of scales he put
on; and the weight of the coat of mail
five thousand shekels of brass.

6 And brass fronts upon his feet, and
a javelin of brass between his shoulders.

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7 And the arrow of his spear as the
beam of weavers, and the flame of his
spear, six hundred shekels 01 iron, And
he lifting up a shield went before him.

8 And he will stand and call to the
ranks of Israel, and say to them, Where-
fore will ye come forth to arrange the
battie? am not I of the rovers, and ye
servants to Saul? select to yourselves
aman, and he shall come down to me.

9 If he shall be able to war with me
and strike me, and we were to you for
servants: and if I shall be able against
him and strike him, and ye were “to us
for servants, and ye ser ved us.

10 And he of the rovers will say, I
upbraided the ranks of Israel this day ;
ye shall give to me a man and we will
fight together,

“11 And Saul will hear and all Israel,
these words of him of the rovers, and
they will be terrified and greatly
afraid.

12 And David, son of a man, that
Ephrathite, of the House of Bread of
Judah, and Ins name Jesse; and to
him eight sons; and the man in the
days of Saul went an old man among
men.

13 And three sons of Jesse, the great
ones, going, went after Saul’ to war:
and ‘the names of his three sons which
went in the war, Eliab the first-born,
and his second, Abinadab, and the third,
Shammah..:

14 And David, he the small; and the
three great ones went after Saul.

15 And David went and turned back
from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at
the House of Bread.

16 And he of the rovers will draw
near, the morning and the evening, and
he will take a stand forty days.

17 And Jesse will say to David his
son, Take now to thy brethren an
ephah of this parched grain, and this
ten of bread, and run to the camp to
thy brethren.

18 And these ten cuttings of milk
thou shalt bring to the chief of a thou-
sand; and thou shalt review thy breth-
ren for peace, and take their pledge.

19 And Saul, and they, and every
man of Israel, in the valley of Hlah,
warring with the rovers

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20 And David will rise early in the
morning, and will cast the sheep upon
a watcher, and he will lift up and go as
Jesse commanded him; and he will
come to the track, and the army going
forth to the array and they shouted in
the war.

21 And Israel will arrange, and the
rovers, array to meet array.

22 And David will cast the utensils
from off him upon the hand of the
watcher of the utensils, and he will
run to the array, and will come and ask
to his brethren for peace.

23 And he speaking with them, and
behoid, a man of the sons came up, Go-
iah of the rovers, his name, from Gath,
from the ranks of the rovers: and he

will speak according to these words, and
David will hear.

24 And every man of Israel in their
te the man, will 1106 from his face,
and they will fear greatly.

25 And the man Israel will say, Saw
ye this man coming up? for to upbraid
Tsrael he came up: and it was the man
who shall strike him, the king will en-
rich him with great riches, and will give
to him his daughter, and his father’s
house he will make free in Israel.

26 And David will say to the men
standing with him, saying, What shall
be done to the man who shall strike
this one of the rovers, and take away
the reproach from Israel? for who this
uncircumcised of the rovers? for he
upbraided the ranks of the hving God.

27 And the people will say to him
according to this word, saying, Thus it
shall be done to the man who shall
smite him.

28 And Eliab his brother the great, -
will hear in his speaking to the men,
and Eliab’s anger will kindle against
David, and he will say, Why this
camest thou down? and upon whom
didst thou east those few sheep in the
desert? I knew thy pride and the evil
of thy heart, for in order to see the bat-
tle thou camest down.

29 And David will say, What did I
now? is this not the word?

30 And he will turn round from his
side to the front of another, and will
say according to this word: and the

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people will turn back word as the for-|and drew near to David; and the man

mer word.

31 And the words will be heard
which David spake, and they will be
announced before Saul, and he will take
him.

82 And David will say to Saul, man’s
heart shall not fall on account of him;
thy servant will go and fight with this
one of the rovers.

33 And Saul will say to David, Thou
wilt not be able to go against this of
the rovers to war with him, for thou
a boy, and he aman of war from his
youth.

34 And David will say to Saul, Thy
servant was feeding for his father among
the sheep, and there came the lion and
with the bear, and lifted up a sheep
from the flock.

35 And I went forth after him, and
I smote him, and I delivered from his
mouth: and he arose upon me and I
seized upon his beard, and I struck him
and killed him.

86 Also the lion and the bear thy
servant struck: and this uncircumcised
of the rovers was as one of them, for
he upbraided the ranks of the living
God.

37 And David will say, Jehovah who
delivered me from the hand of the lion
and from the hand of the bear, he will
deliver me from the hand of this rover.
And Saul will say to David, Go, and
Jehovah shall be with thee.

38 And Saul will put his garments
upon David, and give a helmet of brass
upon his head, and put on him a coat
of mail.

39 And David will gird his sword
over his garments and begin to go, for
he tried them ποῦ, And David will
say to Saul, I shall not be able to go
with these, for I tried them not. And
David will take them away from off
him.

40 And he will take his rod in his
hand, and he will choose to him five
smooth stones from the torrent, and he
will put them in a vessel of the shep-
herds, which is to him, and ‘in a sack;
and his sling in his hand: and he will
draw near to him of the rovers.

41 And he of the royers going, went

lifting up theeshield before him.

42 And he of the rovers will look
and will see David, and he will despise
him, for he was a boy, and red, with a
fair aspect.

43 And he of the rovers will say to
David, Am 1 a dog that thou camest to
me with rods? and he of the rovers
will curse David by his gods.

44 And he of the rovers will say to
David, Come to me and I will give thy
flesh to the birds of the heavens and to
the cattle of the field.

45 And David will say to him of the
rovers, Thou comest to me with a sword
and with a spear and with a shield, and
I come to thee in the name of Jehovah
of armies, the God of the ranks of Is-
rael, which thou didst upbraid.

46 This day Jehovah will deliver
thee into my hand; and I smote thee
and tool: away thy head from off thee,
and I gave the carcass of the camp of
the rovers this day to the birds of the
heavens, and to the beasts of the earth:
and all the earth shall know that there
is a God to Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know
that not with sword and with spear Je-
hovah will save, for to Jehovah the
battle, and he gave you into our hand.

48 And it was when he of the rovers
arose, and he will come and draw near
to meet David, and David will hasten
and run to the array to meet him of the
rovers.

49 And David will stretch forth his
hand to the vessel and take from thence
a stone and sling and strike him of the
rovers into his forehead, and the stone
will sink into his forehead ; and he will
fall upon his face to the earth.

50 And Dayid will be strong upon
him of the rovers with a sling and with
a stone, and he will strike him of the
rovers and kill him, and no sword in
David’s hand.

51 And David will rum and stand
upon the rover, and take his sword and
draw it from its sheath, and kill him
and cut off his head with it. And the
rovers will see that their mighty one
died, and they will flee.

52 And the men of Israel and Judah

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will rise and shout, and pursue the
rovers till thy coming te the valley,
and even to the gates of Ekron. And
the wounded of the rovers will fall in
the way of the gates, and even to Gath,
and even to Ekron.

53 And the sons of Israel will turn
back from pressing after the rovers, and
they will plunder their camps.

54 And Dayid will take the head of
the rover, and bring it to Jerusalem ;
and he put his utensils in his tent.

55 And when Saul saw David going
forth to meet the rover, he said to Ab-
ner, chief of the army, Whose son this
boy, Abner? and Abner will say, Thy
soul lives, O king, if I knew.

56 And the king will say, Ask thou
whose son this youth.

57 And as David turned back from
striking the rover, and Abner will take
him and bring him before Saul, and
the head of the rover in his hand.

58 And Saul will say to him, Whose
son thou, Ὁ youth? And David will
say, Thy servant the son of Jesse of the
House of Bread.

CHAPTER XVIIL
ND it will be as he finished to
speak to Saul, and the soul of
Jonathan was bound with the soul of
David, and Jonathan will love him as
his soul.

2 And Saul will take -him in that
day and he gave him not to turn back
to the house of his father.

8 And Jonathan and David will cut
out a covenant in his loving him as his
soul.

4 And Jonathan will strip off the
upper garment which is upon him and
will give it to David, and his garments,
and even to his sword, and even to his
bow, and even to his girdle.

5 And David will go forth in all
which Saul will send him, and he will
be prudent: and Saul will set him over
the men of war, and he will be good in
the eyes of all the people, and also in
the eyes of the servants of Saul.

6 And it will be in their coming, in
David's turning back from the striking
of the rover, and the women will come
forth from all the cities of Israel, sing-

1. SAMUEL XVIIL

ing and dancing to meet Saul the king,
with drums and with gladness and with
triangles :

7 And the women will answer, play-
ing, and they will say, Saul smote with
his thousand and David with his ten
thousands.

8 And it will kindle to Saul greatly,
and this word will be evil in his eyes;
and he will say, They gave to David ten
thousands and to me they gave thou-
sands, and yet to him but the kingdom.

9 And Saul will be wrong with Da-
vid from that day and forward.

10 And it will be on the morrow,
and the eyil spirit of God will fall upon
Saul, and he will prophesy in the midst
of the house: and Dayid playing with
his hand as the day to day: and a
spear in Saul’s hand.

11 And Saul will lift up the spear,
and say, I will strike against David
into the wall. And David will flee
from before him twice.

12 And Saul will be afraid from the
face of David, for Jehovah was with
him, and he departed from Saul.

13 And Saul will remove him from
him, and will set to him chief of a
thousand ; and he will go out and come
in before the people.

14 And David will be prudent in all
his ways; and Jehovah with him.

15 And Saul will see that he is pru-
dent greatly, and he will be afraid of
his face.

16 And all Israel and Judah loved
David, for he will go out and come in
before them.

17 And Saul will say to David, Be-
hold, my daughter the great, Merab ;
her will I give to thee for wife; but be
thou to me fora son of strength and
fight the battles of Jehovah. And
Saul said, My hand shall not be upon
him, and the hand of the rovers shall
be upon him.

18 And David will say to Saul, Who
am I? and who was my father’s family
in Israel that I shall be son-in-law to
the king?

19 And it will be in the time of giv-
ing Merab, Saul’s daughter, to David,
and he gave her to Adriel, the Meho-
lathite, for wife.

1. SAMUEL XIX.

20 And Michal, Saul’s daughter, will
love David: and they will announce to
Saul, and the word was straight in his
eyes.

21 And Saul will say, I will give her
to him, and she shall be to him for a
snare, and the hand of the rovers shall
be against him. And Saul will say
to David, In the second time thou shalt
be son-in-law to me this day. ,

22 And Saul commanded his serv-
ants, Speak to David in secret, saying,
Behold, the king delighted in thee, and
all his servants loved thee: and now be
son-in-law of the king.

23 And Saul’s servants will speak in
the ears of David these words. And
David will say, Was it light in your
eyes to be son-in-law to the king, and 1
a poor man and lightly esteemed ?

24 And Saul’s servants will announce
to him, saying, According to these words
spake David.

25 And Saul will say, Thus shall ye
say to Dayid, No delight to the king in
a dowry, but in a hundred uncireum-
cisions of the rovers to be avenged of
the king’s enemies. And Saul pur-
posed to cause David to fall into the
hand of the rovers.

26 And his servants will announce
to David these words, and the word
will be straight in David's eyes, to be
son-in-law to the king: and the days
were not filled up.

27 And David will rise and will go,
he and his men, and he will smite
among the rovers two hundred men;
and David will bring their uncireumcis-
ions and they will complete them to the
king, to be son-in-law to the king. And
Saul will give to him Michal his daugh-
ter for wife.

28 And Saul will see and know that
Jehovah is with David, and Michal,
Saul’s daughter, loved him.

29 And Saul will add yet to 6

afraid from the face of David; and Saul
will be an enemy with David all the
days. *
30 And the chiefs of the rovers will
go forth: and it will be whenever they
went forth, David was prudent above
all the servants of Saul: and his name
will be very: precious.

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CHAPTER XIX.
\ ND Saul will speak to Jonathan
his son, and to all his servants, to
kill David. And Jonathan, Saul’s son,
delighted in David greatly :

2 And Jonathan will announce to
David, saying, Saul my father is seek-
ing to kill thee: and at this time, watch
now, in the morning, and dwell in se-
cret and hide.

3 And I will go forth and stand by
the hand of my father in the field where
thou art there, and I will speak of thee
to my father; and what I shall see I
will announce to thee.

4 And Jonathan will speak good of
David to Saul his father, and he will
say to him, The king will not sin
against his servant against David, for
he sinned not against thee, and because
of his doing good to thee greatly:

5 And he put his soul in his hand
and smote the rover, and Jehovah will
make great salvation to all Israel:
thou sawest and thou wilt rejoice; and
wherefore wilt thou sin against inno-
cent blood, to kill David gratuit-
ously ?

6 And Saul will hear to the voice of
Jonathan; and Saul will swear, Jeho-
vah lives if he shall die.

7 And Jonathan will 611 for David,
and Jonathan will announce to him all
these words. And Jonathan will bring
in David to Saul, and he will be before
him as yesterday the third day.

8 And there will add to be war: and
David will go forth and fight against
the rovers, and will strike among them
a great blow, and they will flee from
his face.

9 And the evil spirit of Jehovah will
be upon Saul, and he will sit in his
house, and his spear in his hand: and
David playing with his hand.

10 And Saul will seek to strike the
spear into David and even into the wall :
and he will slip away from the face of
Saul, and he will strike the spear into
the wall: and David fled, and he will
escape in that night.

11 And Saul will send messengers to
the house of David to watch him, and
to kill him in the morning: and Michal
his wife will announce to David, say-

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ing, If thou save not thy soul this
night, to-morrow thou diest.

12 And Michal will let David down
through the window: and he will go
and flee, and escape.

13 And Michal will take a teraphim
and put into the bed, and put a braid-
ing of goat’s hair at its head, and will
cover with a garment.

14 And Saul will send messengers to
take David, and she will say, He sick.

15 And Saul will send the messen-
gers to see David, saying, Bring him
up in his bed to me to kill him.

16 And the messengers will come in,
and behold, the teraphim in the bed, and
the braiding of goats’ hair at its head.

17 And Saul will say to Michal,
Wherefore didst thou deceive me thus?
and wilt thou send away mine enemy
and he will escape? And Michal will
say to Saul, He said to me, Send me
away; why shall I kill thee?

18 And David fled, and he will es-
cape and will come to Samuel at Ra-
mah, and he will announce to him all
that Saul did to him. And he went,
and Samuel, and they dwelt in Naioth.

19 And it will be announced to Saul,
saying, Behold, Dayid in Naioth in Ra-
mah.

20 And Saul will send messengers to
take David: and seeing the assembly of
the prophets prophesying, and Samuel
standing, being set up over them, and
the spirit of God will be upon Saul’s
messengers, and they will prophesy,
also they.

21 And they will announce to Saul,
and he will send other messengers, and
they will prophesy, also they. And
Saul will add and will send messengers
the third time, and they will prophesy,
also they.

22 And he also will go to Ramah,
and he will come even to the great pit
which is in Sechu: and he will ask and
and say, Where Samuel and David?
And it will be said, Behold, in Naioth
in Ramah,

23 And he will go there to Naioth in
Ramah: and the spirit of God will be
upon him, him also, and going, he will
go and prophesy even till his coming
into Naioth in Ramah,

I. SAMUEL XX.

24 And he will also strip off his gar-
ments and prophesy, he also, before
Samuel; and he will fall naked all that
day and all the night. For this they will
say, Is Saul also among the prophets.

CHAPTER XX.
ND David will flee from Naioth
in Ramah, and he will come and
say before Jonathan, What did I? and
what mine iniquity ? and what my sin
before thy father that he seeks my
soul ?

2 And he will say to him, Far be it;
thou shalt not die: behold, my father
will not do a word great or a word
small, and not disclose mine ear: and
wherefore will my father hide from me
this word? this is not.

3 And David will yet swear and say,
Knowing, thy father knew that I found
grace in thine eyes; and he will say,
Jonathan shall not know this, lest he
shall be grieved: but yet Jehovah lives
and thy soul lives, for but a step be-
tween me and between death.

4 And Jonathan will say to David,
What thy soul will say, and I will do
for thee.

5 And Dayid will say to Jonathan,
Behold, the new moon to-morrow, and
I sitting, shall sit down with the king
to eat: and thou sentest me away and
I was hid in the field till the evening of
the third.

6 If reviewing, thy father shall re-
view me, and thou saidst, Asking, Da-
vid asked of me to run to the House of
Bread, his city ; for a sacrifice of days
there to all the family.

7 11 thus he shall say, Good; peace
to thy servant; and if kindling, it shall
kindle to him, know that evil was fin-
ished with him.

8 And do thou mercy with thy sery-
ant; for into a covenant of Jehovah
thou didst bring thy servant with thee:
and if there is iniquity in me, do thou
kill me ; and wherefore wilt thou bring
me even to thy father? ‘

9 And Jonathan will say, Far be it
to thee: that if knowing, I shall know
that evil was finished with my father
to come upon thee, shall [not announce
it to thee?

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10 And Dayid will say to Jonathan,
Who shall announce to me? or what if
thy father shall answer thee harshly?

11 And Jonathan will say to David,
Come, and we will go forth to the field.
And they two went forth to the field.

12 And Jonathan will say to David,
Jehovah, God of Israel when I shall
search out my father about this time
to-morrow, the third day, and behold,
good to David, and I shall not then
send to thee, and uncover thine ear.

18 Thus shall Jehovah do to Jonathan,
and thus shall he add; for it shall be
good to my father with evil to thee, and
1 uncovered thine ear and sent thee
away, and thou wentest in peace: and
Jehovah will be with thee as he was
with my father.

14 And not only while yet I live and
wilt thow not do the mercy 01 Jehoyah

-with me, and I shall not die.

15 And thou shalt not cut off thy
mercy from my house, even forever:
and not in Jehovah's cutting off the en-
emies of David a man from the face of
the earth.

16 And Jonathan will cut out with
the house of David, and Jehovah sought
out from the hand of David’s enemies.

17 And Jonathan will add to cause
David to swear in his loving him; as
loving his soul he loved him.

18 And Jonathan will say to him,
To-morrow the new moon: and thou
wert reviewed, for thy seat will be re-
viewed:

19 And the third day thou shalt go
down quickly, and come to the place
where thou didst hide there in the day
of the work, and thou shalt sit by the
stone of rolling:

20 And I will shoot three arrows of
the side, to send to me for a mark.

21 And behold, I will send the boy:
Go find the arrows. If saying, I say to
the boy, Behold, the arrows from thee,
and behold, take it: and come, for
peace to thee, and not a word; Jeho-
vah lives.

22 And if saying thus to the young
man, Behold, the arrows from thee, and
forward; go: for Jehovah sent thee
away.

23 wd the word which we spake, I

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and thou, behold, Jehovah between me
and between thce forever.

24 And David will hide in the field:
and it will be the new moon, and the
king will sit down to the bread to
eat.

25 And the king will sit upon his
seat as from time to time, to a seat of
the wall: and Jonathan will rise, and
Abner will sit by Saul’s side, and Da-
vid’s seat will be reviewed.

26 And Saul spake not anything in
that day, for he said, It is an acciclent;
he is not clean; for he is not clean.

27 And on the morrow, of the
month the second, and David's place
will be reviewed: and Saul will say to
Jonathan his son, Wherefore came not
the son of Jesse also yesterday, also
this day to the bread?

28 And Jonathan will answer to Saul,
Asking, David asked of me even for
the House of Bread :

29 And he will say, Send me away
now, for a sacrifice of the family to us
in the city; and my brother he com-
manded me: and now if I found grace
in thine eyes, I will slip away now and
see my brethren. For this he came
not to the table of the king,

80 And Saul’s anger will kindle
against Jonathan, and he will say to him,
Son of crooked rebelliousness, did 1
not know that thou choosest to the son
of Jesse to thy shame and to the shame
of thy mother’s nakedness ?

81 For all the days which the son of
Jesse lives upon the earth, thou shalt
not stand, and thy kingdom. And now
send and take him to me, for he is the
son of death.

382 And Jonathan will answer Saul
his: father and say to him, Wherefore
shall he die? What did he?

33 And Saul will lift up his spear
against him to strike him, and Jonathan
will know that it was finished from his
father to kill David.

34 And Jonathan will rise from the
table in the heat of wrath, and he will
not eat bread in the day of the month
the second, for he was grieved for David
because his father reproached him.

35 And it will be in the morning,
and Jonathan will go forth to the field

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to the appointment, David and a small
boy with him.

36 And he will say to the boy, Run,
find now the arrows which 1 shoot.
The boy ran, and he shot the arrows
beyond him.

87 And the boy will go even to the
place of the arrows which Jonathan
shot, and Jonathan will call after the
boy and say, Is not the arrow from thee
and forward?

88 And Jonathan will call after the
boy, Be quick, hasten, thou shalt not
stand. And Jonathan’s boy will take
up the arrows and come to his lord.

89 And the boy knew not anything:
but Jonathan and David knew the
word.

40 And Jonathan will give his uten-
sils to the boy that is to him, and he will
say to him, Go, bring into the es

41 The boy went, and David rose
from the south side, and fell upon his
face to the earth, and they will worship
three times, and they will kiss each his
friend, and they will weep, each with
his friend, till David magnified.

42 And Jonathan will say to David,
Go‘for peace, for we sware, we two, in
the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah
will be between me and between thee,
and ‘between my seed and between thy
seed, even forever.

CHAPTER XXL
ND he will rise and go: and Jon-
athan came to the city.

9 And David will come to Nob to
Abimelech the priest: and Abimelech
will tremble to meet David, and he will
say to him, Wherefore thou thyself
alone and no man with thee?

3 And David will say to Abimelech
the priest, The king commanded me a
word, and he will say to me, A man
shall not know any thing of the word
for which I sent thee, and what I com-
manded thee: and the boys I showed
to such a place a certain one.

4 And now what is under thy hand?
five of bread thou shalt give into my
‘hand, or that being found.

5 And the priest will answer David

and savy, Nocommon bread under my

‘hand, but there is consecrated bread ; |

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if the boys watched themselves only
from women.

6 And David will answer the priest
and say to him, That truly woman was
withheld to us for yesterday the third
day, in my coming forth, and the ves-
sels of the boys holy, and this way eom-
mon, and truly if this day it shall be
consecrated in the vessel.

7 And the priest will give to him the
holy, for there was not there bread ex-
cept the bread of the face, being taken
away from before Jehovah to put hot
bread in the day of taking it.

8 And a man there from the servants
of Saul in that day, withheld before Je-
hovah; and his name Doeg, the Edom-
ite, 2 powerful one of the shepherds
which were to Saul.

9 And David will say to Ahimelech,
And is there not here under thy hand,
spear or sword? for also sword and also
utensil I took not into my hand, for the
king’s word was pressing.

10 And the priest will say, The sword
of Goliah the rover, whom thou didst
strike in the valley of the oak, behold,
it wrapped up in a garment behind the
ephod: if thou wilt take it to thee,
take, for no other beside it here. And
David will say, None like it; thou shalt
give it to me.

11 And Dayid will rise and flee in
that day from the face of Saul, and he
will come to Achish, king of Gath.

12 And the servants of Achish will
say to him, Is not this David king of
the land? will they not answer to this
in dances, saying, Saul struck against
his thousands and David against his
ten thousands ?

18 And Dayid will set these words
in his heart, and he will be afraid
ereatly of the face of Achish, king of
Gath.

14 And he will change his under-
standing in their eyes, and he will be
foolish in their hand, and he will mark
upon the doors of the gate, and his
spittle will come down upon his beard.

15 And Achish will say to his ser-
vants, Behold, ye will see the man
raving: wherefore will ye bring him
to me? .

16 Do I want mad men that ye

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brought this to rave to me? shall this
come into my house?

CHAPTER XXII
ND Dayid will go from thence
and he will escape to the cave
Adullam: and his brethren and all the
house of his father will hear, and they
will go down to him there.

2 And there will gather to him every
man being pressed, and every man
which to him a creditor, and every man
bitter of soul; and he will be for chief
over them: and there will be with him
about four hundred men.

3 And Dayid will go from thence to
Mizpeh of Moab: and he will say to
the king of Moab, My father will come
forth now, and my mother with you,
till I shall know what God will do to
me.

4 And he conducted them before the
king of Moab: and they will dwell
with him all the days David was in
the fortress.

5 And the prophet Gad will say to
David, Thou shalt not dwell in the
fortress; go, and come in for thyself to
the land of Judah. And David will
go and come to the thicket of Hareth.

6 And Saul will hear, for David was
known, and the men which were with
him. And Saul will dwell in the hill
under the tamarisk tree, in Ramah, and
his spear in his hand, and all his ser-
vants standing over him.

7 And Saul will say to his servants
standing by him, Hear now, ye sons of
my right hand; also to you all will the
son of Jesse give fields and vineyards,
to you all will he set chiefs of thousands
and chiefs of hundreds;

8 That ye were all bound together
against me and none uncovering mine
ear in my sons cutting out with the son
of Jesse, and none of you was concern-
ed for me and uncovered mine ear that
my son raised up my servant against
me to lie in wait as this day.

9 And Doeg the Edomite will an-
swer, and he being set over the servants
of Saul, and he will say, I saw the son
of Jesse coming to Nob to Ahimelech,
son of Ahitub.

10 And he will ask for him in Jeho-

vah, and he gave to him provision, and
the sword of Goliah the rover he gave
to him.

11 And the king will send to call
Ahimelech, son of Ahitub the priest,
and all his father’s house, the priests
which are in Nob: and all of them will
come to the king.

12 And Saul will say, Hear now, son
of Ahitub. And he will say, Behold
me, my lord.

13 And Saul will say to him, Why
were ye bound together against me,
thou and the son of Jesse, in thy giv-
ing to him bread and a sword, and ask-
ing for him in God to rise up against
me, to lie in wait as this day ?

14 And Ahimelech will answer the
king and say, And who among all thy
servants faithful as David, and son-
in-law of the king, and he departed
at hearing thee, and honored in thy
house ?

15 This day did I begin to ask for
him in God? far be it tome. The king
shall not put upon his servant upon all
the house of my father: for thy servant
knew not a word upon all this, small or
great.

16 And the king will say, Dying,
thou shalt die, Ahimelech, thou, and all
thy father’s house.

17 And the king will say to the run-
ners standing by him, Turn about and
kill the priests of Jehovah, for their
hand also is with David, and because
they knew when he fled, and did not
uncover his ear. And the king's serv-
ants would not stretch forth their hand
to fall upon the priests of Jehovah.

18 And the king will say to Doeg,
Turn thou about, and fall upon the
priests. And Doeg the Edomite will
turn about, and he will fall upon the
priests and kill in that day eighty and
five men lifting up a linen ephod.

19 And Nob the city of the priests,
he struck with the mouth of the sword,
from man and even to woman, from
child and even to suckling, and ox, and
ass, and sheep, with the mouth of the
sword.

20 And one son to Ahimelech, son
of Ahitub, and his name Abiathar, will
escape and flee after David.

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21 And Abiathar will announce to
᾿ David that Saul slew the priests of Je-
hovah.

22 And David will say to Abiathar,
I knew in that day that Doeg the Edom-
ite was there, that announcing, he will
announce to Saul, I was the cause to
every soul of thy father’s house.

23 Dwell with me, thou shalt not
fear: for who shall seek my soul will
seek thy soul: for thou being watched
with me.

CHAPTER XXIIL
ND they will announce to David,
saying, Behold, the rovers fight-
ing against Keilah, and they are plun-
dering the threshing-floors.

2 And David will ask in Jehovah,
saying, Shall I go and strike against
these rovers? And Jehovah will say
to David, Go and strike against the ro-
vers, and save Keilah.

8. And David's men will say to him,
Behold us here in Judah being afraid,
and even more if we shall go to Keilah
against the ranks of the rovers.

4 And David will add yet to ask in
Jehovah, and Jehovah will answer him
and say, Arise, go down to Keilah;
for I gave the rovers into thy hand.

5 And David will go, and his men,
to Keilah, and he will war against the
rovers, and drive away their cattle, and
strike against them a great blow. And
David will save the inhabitants of Kei-
lah.

6 And it will be in the fleeing of
Abiatharson of Ahimelech, to David to
Keilah, he brought down an ephod in
his hand.

7 And it will be announced to Saul
that David came to Keilah. And Saul
will say, God sold him into my hand;
for he was shut up, to come to a city
of doors and bars.

8 And Saul will summon all the peo-
ple to war to go down to Keilah to press
against David and against his men.

9 And David knew that Saul was
working evil against him; and he will
say to Abiathar the priest, Bring near
the ephod.

10 And David will say, Jehovah
God of Israel, hearing, thy servant

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heard that Saul is seeking to come to
Keilah to destroy the city on account
of me.

11 Will the lords of Keilah shut me
up in his hand? will Saul come down
as thy servant heard? Jehovah God of
Israel, announce now to thy servant.
Jehovah will say, He will come down.

12 And David will say, Will the
lords of Keilah shut me upand my men
into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah
will say, They will shut up.

18 And David will rise, and his men,
about six hundred men, and they will
go forth from Keilah, and they will go
wherever they will go. And it wasan-
nounced to Saul that David escaped from
Keilah; and he will cease to go forth,

14 And David will dwell in the des-
ert in fastnesses, and he will dwell in
the mountain in the desert of Ziph.
And Saul will seek him all the days,
and God gave him not into his hand.

15 And David will see that Saul went
forth to seek his soul: and Dayid in
the desert of Ziph in a thicket.

16 And Jonathan, son of Saul, will
rise and go to David to the thicket, and
he will strengthen his hand in God.

17 And he will say to him, Thou
shalt not fear, for Saul’s, my father's
hand, shall not find thee; and thou
shalt be king over Israel, and I shall
be to thee for the second; and also
Saul my father knew this.

18 And they two will cut out a coy-
enant before Jehovah: and David
dwelt in the thicket, and Jonathan
went to his house.

19 And the Ziphites will go up to
Saul to the hill, saying, Is not David
hiding with us in the fastnesses in the
thicket, in the hill of Hachilah, which
is from the right of the desert ?

20 And now, according to all the de-
sire of thy soul, O king, to come down,
come down; and for us to shut him up
into the hand of the king.

21 And Saul will say, Blessed ye, by
Jehovah; for ye had pity upon me.

22 Go now, prepare yet, and know,
and see his place where his foot shall
be, who saw him there: for it was said
to me being crafty, he will be erafty.

23 And see ye, and know of all the

1. SAMUEL XXIV.

hiding places where he will hide there,
and turn back to me prepared, and I
went with you: and it being if he is on
earth, and I sought him in all the thou-
sands of Judah.

24 And they will rise and go to Ziph
before Saul: and David and his men
in the desert of Maon, in the sterile re-
gion to the right of Jeshimon.

25 And Saul will go, and his men,
to seek: and they will announce to
David, and he will go down to the
rock and dwell in the desert of the
refuge. And Saul will hear and he
will pursue after David in the desert of
Maon.

26 And Saul will go from the side of
the mountain from hence, and David
from the side of the mountain from
thence: and David will be taking
flight to go from the face of Saul;
and Saul and his men surrounding
upon Dayid and upon his men to seize
them.

27 And a messenger came to Saul,
saying, Hasten and come, for the rovers
plundered upon the land.

28 And Saul will turn back from
pursuing after David, and he will go to
meet the rovers: for this they called
that place the Rock of Escapes.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND Dayid will go up from thence
and dwell in the fastnesses of the
Fountain of Goats.

2 And it will be when Saul turned
back from after the rovers, and they
will announce to him, saying, Behold,
David in the desert of Engedi.

3 And Saul will take three thousand
men chosen from all Israel, and he will
go to seek David and his men upon the
face of the rocks of the wild goats.

4 And he will come to the sheep-
folds upon the way, and there a cave;
and Saul will come in to cover his feet:
and David and his men dwelling in the
sides of the cave.

5 And David’s men will say to him,
Behold the day of which Jehovah
spake to thee, Behold, I give thine ene-
my into thy hand, and do to him as it
will be good in thine eyes. And
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the upper garment which is to Saul, se-
cretly.

6 And it will be after this, the heart
of David will strike him because that
he cut off the wing which is to Saul.

7 And he will say to his men, Far be
it to me from Jehovah if I shall do this
word to my lord, to the Messiah of Je-
hovah, to stretch forth my hand against
him, for he is the Messiah of Jehovah.

8 And David will divide his men
with words, and he gave them not to
rise against Saul, and Saul rose up from
the cave and went in the way.

9 And David will rise up after him
and will come forth from the cave, and
he will call after Saul, saying, My lord
the king. And Saul will look behind
him, and David will bow down his face
to the earth, and worship him.

10 And David will say to Saul, Why
wilt thou hear the words of man, say-
ing, Behold, David is seeking thy hurt?

11 Behold, this day thine eyes saw
that Jehovah gave thee this day into
my hand in the cave: and it was said
to kill thee; and it had pity upon thee,
and saying, I will not stretch forth my
hand against my lord, for he is Jeho-
vah’s Messiah.

12 And my father, see, also see, the
wing of thy upper garment in my hand:
for in my eutting off the wing of thine
upper garment and 1 killed thee not,
know and see that there is not in my
hand evil and rebellion: and 1 sinned
not against thee; and thou didst hunt
my soul to take it.

13 And Jehovah will judge between
me and between thee, and Jehovah
avenge me of thee: and my hand shall
not be upon thee.

14 As the ancient parable will say,
Injustice will go forth from the unjust ;
and my hand shall not be upon thee.

15 After whom did the king of Israel
come forth? after whom pursuest thou ?
after a dead dog? after one flea?

16 And Jehovah being for defender,
and judge between me and between
thee; and he will see and plead my
cause, and he will judge me out of thine
hand.

17 And it will be as David finished
speaking these words to Saul, and Saul

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will say, Is this thy voice, my son Da-
vid? And Saul will lift up his voice
and weep.

18 And he will say to David, Thou
art just above me, for thou didst reward
me good and I rewarded thee evil.

19 And thou didst announce to me
this day that thou didst good with me;
when Jehovah shut me up in thine hand
and thou killedst me not.

20 And if a man shall find his ene-
my and send him in the way well? and
Jehovah will recompense thee well for
this day what thou didst to me.

21 And now, behold, I knew that
thou wilt reign king, and the kingdom
of Israel being set up in thy hand.

22 And now swear to me by Jehovah
if thou wilt cut off my seed after me,
and if thou wilt destroy my name from
my father’s house.

23 And David will swear to Saul.
And Saul will go to his house, and Da-
vid and his men went up upon the
fortress.

CHAPTER .אא‎
Λ ND Samuel will die; and all Israel
will assemble together and lament
for him, and bury him in his house in
Ramah. And Dayid will rise and go
down to the desert of Paran.

2 And aman in Maon and his work
in Carmel; and the man very great,
and to him three thousand sheep and
a thousand goats: and he will be in
shearing his sheep in Carmel.

8 And the name of the man Nabal ;
and his wife’s name Abigail: and the
woman good of understanding, and
beautiful of form: and the man hard
and evil of works; and he as his dog.

4 And David will hear in the desert
that Nabal sheared his sheep.

5 And David will send ten boys,
and David will say to the boys, Go
up to Carmel and come to Nabal, and
ask to him in my name for peace.

6 And say thus to him living, And
peace with thee, and to thy house
peace, and all which is to thee, peace.

7 And now I heard that shearers
were to thee: now the shepherds which
are %0 thee were with us, we harmed
them not, and not anything was miss-

I. SAMUEL XXV.

ing to them all the days of their being
in Carmel.

8 Ask thy boys and they will an-
nounce to thee. And the boys will
find favor in thine eyes, for upon a
good day we come: wilt thou give now
what thy hand shall find to thy serv-
ants, and to thy son Dayid?

9 And David’s boys will come and
will speak to Nabal according to all
these words in David’s name, and they
will rest.

10 And Nabal will answer David's
servants, and say, Who is David? and
who the son of Jesse? this day there
were many servants breaking away a
man from the face of his lord.

11 And took I my bread and my wa-
ter, and my slaughter which I slaugh-
tered for my shearers, and gaye to men
whom I knew not from whence they
SRC] aes

12 And Dayid’s boys will turn about
into their way, and turn back and
come and announce to him according to
all these words.

18 And David will say to his men,
Gird ye on, each his sword; and they
will gird on each his sword, and also
David will gird on his sword: and there
will go up after David about four
hundred men; and two hundred will sit
down by the vessels.

14 And one boy of the boys an-
nounced to Abigail, Nabal’s wife, say-
ing, Behold, David sent messengers
from the desert to bless my lord; and
he will fly upon them.

15 And the men were good to us ex-
ceedingly, and they harmed us not, and
we missed not any thing all the days
we went with them in our being in the
field.

16 They were a wall to us, also the
night, also the day, all the days we
were with them feeding the sheep.

17 And now know and see what
thou wilt do; for evil was finished
against our lord and upon all his house:
and he a son of Belial, from speaking
to him.

18 And Abigail will hasten and take
two hundred of bread, and two flasks
of wine, and five sheep done, and five
measures of parched grain, and a hund-

I SAMUEL ΧΧΥ.

red clusters of dried grapes, and two
hundred cakes of figs, and put upon
asses.

19 And she will say to her boys,
Pass over before me; behold me com-
ing after you. And she announced not
to her husband Nabal.

20 And it was she rode upon the
ass, and came down in the hiding of the
mountain, and behold, David and his
men coming down to meet her; and she
will meet them.

21 (And David said, Surely in vain
did I watch all which was to this one
in the desert, and not any thing was
missed from all which was to him; and
he will turn back to me eyil for good.

22 Thus will God do the enemies of
David and thus will he add if I shall
leave from all which is to him till the
light of the morning, him pissing against
the wall.)

23 And Abigail will see David, and
will hasten, and will come down from
the ass, and fall before David upon her
face, and will worship him to the earth.

24 And she will fall at his feet and
say, In me, my lord, me the iniquity;
and thy servant now will speak in
thine ears, and hear the words of thy
servant.”

25 Now my lord shall not set his
heart to this man of Belial upon Nabal :
for as his name, so-is he: Nabal his
name, and folly with him: and I thy
servant saw not the boys of my lord
which thou sentest.

26 And now my lord, Jehovah lives
and thy soul lives, for Jehovah with-
held thee from coming by blood, and
saying thy hand to thyself, and now
thine enemies shall be as Nabal, they
seeking out evil to my lord.

27 And now this blessing which thy
servant brought to my lord, give it to
the boys going at the feet of my lord.

28 Lift up now, to the trespass of
thy servant: for making, Jehovah will
make to my lord a faithful house; for
Jehovah fought the battles of my lord,
' and evil shall not be found in thee thy
. days.

29 And a man will rise to pursue
thee, and to seek thy soul: and the
soul of my lord was bound up in the

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bundle of lives with Jehovah thy God;
and the soul of thine enemies he will
sling out in the midst of the hand of
the sling.

30 And it was that Jehovah will do
to my lord according to all the good
which he spake concerning thee, and he
commanded thee for leader over Israel ;

31 And this shall not be to thee for
an obstacle and for a stumbling-bloclk
of heart to my lord, and to pour out
blood gratuitously, and for my lord
saving for himself: and the doing good
of Jehoyah to my lord, and remember
thy servant.

82 And David will say to Abigail,
Blessed Jehovah the God of Israel who
sent thee this day to meet me.

33 And blessed thy discernment, and
blessed thou who finished me this day
from coming for bloods, and my hand
saving for me.

84 But yet Jehovah the God of Israel
lives who withheld me from doing thee
evil, for unless thou hastenedst and
came to meet me, for if there was left
to Nabal by the light of the morning
him pissing against the wall.

85 And David will take from her
hand what she brought to him, and he
said to her, Go up for peace to thy
house; see, I heard to thy voice, and 1
will lift up thy face.

86 And Abigail will go to Nabal;
and behold, to him a drinking in his
house as the drinking of a king; and
Nabal’s heart good with him, and he
was intoxicated even greatly; and she
announced not to him a word small and
great till the light of the morning.

37 And it will be in the morning in
the wine coming forth from Nabal, and
his wife will announce to him these
words, and his heart will die in the
midst of him, and he was for a stone.

88 And it will be about ten days,
and Jehovah will strike Nabal, and he
will die.

89 And David will hear that Nabal
died, and he will say, Blessed Jehovah
who plead the cause of my reproach
from the hand of Nabal, and held back
his servant from evil: and the evil of
Nabal Jehovah turned back upon his
head. And David will send and will

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speak with Abigail to take her to him
for wife.

40 And David's servants will come
to Abigail to Carmel and will speak to
her, saying, David sent us to thee to
take thee to him for a wife.

41 And she will rise and worship
with the face to the earth, and say, Be-
hold, thy servant for a servant to wash
the feet of my lord’s servants.

42 And Abigail will hasten and rise,
and ride upon the ass with five of her
cirls going at her feet; and she will go
after David’s messengers and she will
be to him for a wife.

43 And David took Ahinoam of Jez-
reel; and they were also, they two, to
| him for wives.

44 And Saul gave Michal his daugh-
ter, David’s wife, to Phalti, son of La-
ish, who was of Gallim.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND the Ziphites will come to
Saul to the hill, saying, Is not
David hiding in the hill of Hachilah,
upon the face of the desert?

2 And Saul will rise and go down to
the desert of Ziph, and with him three
thousand men the chosen of Israel, to
seek out David in the desert 01 Ziph.

3 And Saul will encamp in the hill
of Hachilah that is upon the face of the
desert, upon the way ; and David dwelt
in the desert, and he will see that Saul
came after him to the desert.

4 And David will send spies, and he
knew that Saul came for a certainty.

5 And David will rise and come to
the place where Saul encamped there :
and David will see the place where
Saul lay down there, and Abner son of
Ner, chief of his army. And Saul lay
down in the track, and the people en-
camping round about him.

6 And David will answer and say to
Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai,
son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying,
Who will go down with me to Saul to
the camp? And Abishai will say, I
will go down with thee.

7 And David will come, and Abishai,
to the people by night; and behold,
Saul lay sleeping in the track, and his
spear pressed into the earth at his

1. SAMUEL XXXVI

head: and Abner and the people sleep-
ing round about him.

8 And Abishai will say to David,
God shut up this day thine enemy in
thy hand: and now, I will strike him
now with the spear, and into the earth
once, and I will not repeat to him.

9 And David will say to Abishai,
Thou shalt not destroy him: for who
stretching forth his hand against Jeho-
vah’s Messiah, and being innocent?

10 And David will say, Jehovah
lives, for shall not Jehovah strike him?
or his day shall come and he died; or
he shall go down in the war and perish.

11 Far be it to me from Jehovah
stretching forth my hand against Jeho-
vah’s Messiah: and now, take now the
spear which is at his head, and the
cruse of water, and we will go for our-
selves.

12 And David will take the spear,
and the cruse of water at Saul’s head,
and they wili go for themselves, and
none saw and none will know, and
none waking: for all of them were
sleeping; fora deep sleep of Jehovah
fell upon them.

18 And David will pass over to the
other side, and he will stand upon the
head of the mountain from afar, and
much place between them.

14 And David will call to the peo-
ple and to Abner son of Ner, saying,
Wilt thou not answer Abner? and Ab-
ner will answer and say, Who thou
calling to the king?

15 And David will say to Abner,
Art not thou a man? and who as thee
in Israel? and why watched thou not
to thy lord the king? for one of the
people came to destroy the king thy
lord.

16 This word was not good which
thou didst. Jehovah lives for ye the
sons of death, for ye watched not over
your lord, over Jehovah’s Messiah.
And now see where is the king’s spear
and the cruse of water which was at his
head.

17 And Saul will know David's
voice, and he will say, Is this thy voice,
my son David? and David will say,
My voice, my lord the king.

18 And he will say, Wherefore this

I. SAMUEL XXVIL, XXVIIL

my lord pursued after his servant? for
what did I? and what evil in my
hand?

19 And now will my lord the king
hear now the words of his servant? If
Jehovah moved thee against me, he will
smell a gift; and if the sons of man,
cursed are they before Jehovah ; for they
drove me out this day from adjoining
myself to the inheritance of Jehovah,
saying, Go, serve other gods.

20 And now my blood shall not fall
to the earth from before the face of Je-
hovah; for the king of Israel came forth
to seek one flea, as when the partridge
will pursue in the mountains.

21 And Saul will say, I sinned ; turn
back my son David: for I will no more
do to thee evil because that my soul
was precious in thine eyes this day:
behold, I was foolish, and I shall go
very much astray.

22 And David will answer and say,
Behold the king’s spear: and will one
of the boys pass over and take it?

23 And Jehovah will turn back to a
man his justice and his truth; for Je-
hovah gave thee this day in hand, and
I would not stretch forth my hand
against Jehovah’s Messiah.

24 And behold, as thy soul was mag-
nified this day in mine eyes, so shall
my soul be magnified in the eyes of Je-
hovah, and he will deliver me from all
straits.

25 And Saul will say, to David,
Blessed thou, my son David: also do-
ing, thou shalt do, and also being able,
thou shalt be able. And David will go
to his way, and Saul turned back to his
place.

CHAPTER XXVIL

ND David will say in his heart,‏ ב

Now shall I be added one day

into the hand of Saul: nothing good to

me but escaping, I will escape into the

land of the rovers; and Saul despair-

ing to seek me farther in all the bound

of Israel: and I was saved out of his
hand.

2 And David will rise and pass over,
he and six hundred men that are with
pe Achish, son of Maoch, king of

ath.

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3 And David dwelt with Achish in
Gath, he and his men, each in his house,
David and his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of
Nabal, the Carmelitess.

4 And it was announced to Saul that
David fled to Gath; and he will no
more add to seek him.

5 And David will say to Achish,
If now I found grace in thine eyes, will
they give me a place in one city of the
field, and I will dwell there: and why
shall thy servant dwell in the city of
the kingdom with thee?

6 And Achish will give to him in
that day Ziklag; for this Ziklag was to
the kings of Judah, even to this day.

7 And the number of days which
David dwelt in the field of the rovers
will be days and four months.

8 And David will go up, and his
men, and will plunder against the
Geshurites and the Gezrites, and the
Amalekites: and behold, the inhabit- -
ants of the land which were of old thy
going to Shur, and even to the land of
Egypt. .

9 And David struck the land, and
will not save alive a man and woman;
and he took the sheep and oxen, and
asses and camels, and garments, and he
will turn back and come to Achish.

10 And Achish will say, Did ye not
plunder this day? and David will say,
Upon the south of Judah, and upon
the south of the Jerahmeelite, and to
the south of the Kenite.

11 And Dayid will not preserve alive
a man and woman to bring to Gath,
saying, Lest they shall announce against
us, saying, Thus did David, and thus
his judgment all the days which he
dwelt in the field of the rovers.

12 And Achish will believe in David,
saying, Becoming loathsome, he became
loathsome with his people, with Israel ;
and he shall be to me for servant for-
ever.

CHAPTER XXVIII
ND it will be in those days, and
the rovers will gather their camps
together for war to fight against Israel.
And Achish will say to David, Know-
ing, thou shalt know that with me thou

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shalt go forth with the camp, thou and
thy men.

2 And David will say to Achish, For
this thou shalt know what thy servant
will do. And Achish will say to Da-
vid, For this I will set thee a watcher
for my head all the days.

8 And Samuel died, and all Israel
will lament forhim}; and they will bury
him in Ramah, and in his city. And
Saul took away the necromancers and
the wizards from the land.

4 And the rovers will gather togeth-
er, and will come and encamp in Shu-
nem: and Saul will gather together all
Israel, and they will encamp in Gilboa.

5 And Saul will see the camp of the
rovers, and he will fear, and his heart
will tremble greatly.

6 And Saul will ask through Jeho-
vah, and Jehovah answered him not,
also in dreams, also in Lights, also in
the prophets.

7 And Saul will say to his servants,
Seek out for me a woman, mistress of
necromancy, and I will go to her and
inquire of her. And his servants will
say to him, Behold, a woman mistress
of necromancy in the Fountain of Dor.

8 And Saul will disguise himself, and
will put on other garments, and will go,
and two men with him, and he will
come to the woman by night: and he
will say, Divine to me now, by necro-
manecy, and bring up tome whom 1
say to thee.

9 And the woman will say to him,
Behold, thou knewest what Saul did
who cut off the necromancers, and the
wizards, from the land; wherefore art
thou laying snares for my soul to kill
me?

10 And Saul will swear to her by
Jehovah, saying, Jehovah lives, if in-
iquity shall pierce thee upon this word.

11 And the woman will say, Whom
shall I bring up to thee? And he will
say, Bring up to me Samuel.

12 And the woman will see Samuel,
and she will cry out, with a great voice :
and the woman will say to Saul, say-
ing, Why didst thou deceive me? and
thou Saul.

13 And the king will say to her,
Thou shalt not fear; What sawest thou ?

1. SAMUEL XXVIIL

And the woman will say to Saul, I saw
gods coming up out of the earth.

14 And he will say to her, What his
form? And she will say, An old man
coming up, and he covered with an up-
per garment. And Saul knew that he
Samuel, and he will bow his face to the
earth and worship him.

15 And Samuel will say to Saul,
Why didst thou disturb me to bring
me up? And Saul will say, Distress
to me greatly; and the rovers warring
against me, and God departed from me,
and he answered me no more, also by
the hand of the prophets, also by
dreams: and I will call to thee to make
known to me what I shall do.

16 And Samuel will say, Why wilt
thou ask of me, and Jehovah departed
from thee and he will be thine enemy ?

17 And Jehovah will do for him as
he spake by my hand, and Jehovah
will rend the kingdom from thy hand
and give it to thy neighbor, to David.

18 As thou heardst not to the voice
of Jehovah, and didst not the anger of
his wrath against Amalek, for this, Je-
hovah did this word to thee this day.

19 And Jehovah will give also Israel
with thee into the hand of the rovers;
and to-morrow thou and thy sons with
me, also the gamp of Israel Jehovah
will give into the hand of the rovers.

20 And Saul will hasten and fall
with the fulness of his stature to the
earth, and he will fear greatly from the
words of Samuel: a!so strength was not
in him, for he ate not bread all the day
and all the night.

21 And the woman will come to
Saul, and she will see that he trembled
ereatly, and she will say to him, Be-
hold; thy servant heard to thy voice,
and I will put my soul in my hand,
and heard thy words which thou spake
to me.

22 And now, hear now, also thou to
the voice of thy servant, and I will set
before thee a bit of bread; and eat and
strength will be in thee that thou shalt
go in the way.

23 And he will refuse, and say, I
will not eat. And his servants will
press upon him, and also the woman,
and he will hear to their voice. And

> 5 SAMUEL XXIX., XXX.

he will rise up from the earth and sit
upon the bed.

24 And tothe woman a calf of the
stall in the house; and she will haste
and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead
and bake it unleavened.

25 And she will bring near before
Saul, and before his servants; and they
will eat, and rise and go away in that
night.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND the rovers will gather to-
gether all their camp to Aphek:
and Israel encamping by a fountain
which is in Jezreel.

2 And the princes of the rovers pass-
ing over by hundreds and by thou-
sands: and Dayid and his men passing
over at last with Achish.

3 And the chiefs of the rovers will
say, What these Hebrews? and Ac-
hish will say to the chiefs of the rovers,
15 not this David, servant of Saul king
of Israel, who was with me these days
or these years, and I found nothing in
him from the day of his falling till this
day ?

4 And the chiefs of the rovers will
be angry with him; and the chiefs of
the rovers will say to him, Cause this
man to turn back, and he shall turn
back to his place which thou didst set
him there, and he shall not go down
with us in the war, and he shall not be
to us for an adversary in the war: and
with what shall this satisfy to his lord?
15 it not with the heads of these men?

5 Is not this David which they will
answer to him in dances, saying, Saul
struck his thousands and Dayid his ten
thousands?

6 And Achish will call for David and
say to him, Jehovah lives, for thou wert
straight and good in mine eyes, thy
going out and thy coming in with me
in the camp, for I found not evil in thee
from the day of thy coming to me even
to this day: and in the eyes of the
princes thou art not good.

7 And now turn back and go in
peace, and thou wilt not do evil in the
eyes of the princes of the rovers.

8 And David will say to Achish,
But what did 1? and what didst thou

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find in thy servant from the day I was
before thee, even to this day, that I
shall not go and fight against the ene-
mies of my lord the king?

9 And Achish will answer and say
to David, I knew that thou art good in
mine eyes as a messenger of God: but
the chiefs of the rovers said, He shall
not go up with us in the war.

10 And now rise early in the morn-
ing and the servants of thy lord which
came with thee: and ye rising early in
the morning, and the light to you,
and go.

11 And David will rise early, he and
his men, to go in the morning to turn
back to the land of the rovers. And
the rovers went up to Jezreel.

CHAPTER XXX.
ND it will be in the going up of
David to Zildag, and his men, in
the third day, and the Amalekites plun-
dered to the south, and to Ziklag, and
they will strike Ziklag and burn it with
fire.

2 And they will take the women cap-
tive who are in it: from small and even
to great they slew not a man, and they
will lead away and go to their way.

8 And David will come, and his men,
to the city, and behold, it burnt with
fire, and their wives and their sons and
their daughters were taken captive.

4 And Dayid will lift up, and the
people with him, their voice, and they
will weep till power was not in them
to weep.

5 And the two wives of David were
taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Car-
melite.

6 And it will press upon David
greatly, for the people spake of stoning
him, because the soul of all the people
was bitter, each for his sons and for his
daughters: and David will be strength-
ened in Jehovah his God.

7 And Dayid will say to Abiathar
the priest, son of Ahimelech, Bring now
near to me the ephod. And Abiathar
will bring near the ephod to David.

8 And David will ask in Jehovah,
saying, Shall I pursue after this troop?
shall I hedge it in? and he will say,

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Pursue: and hedging, thou shalt hedge
in, and taking away, thou shalt take
away.

9 And David will go, and six hund
red men which were with him, and they
will come to the torrent of Bezor, and
those remaining, stood.

10 And David will pursue, he and
four hundred men: and two hundred
men will stand, which were faint from
passing over the torrent of Bezor.

11 And they will find a man, an
Egyptian, in the field, and they will
take him to David, and they will give
to him bread, and he will eat; and they
will give him water to drink ;

12 And they will give to him a piece
of a cake of dried figs and two bunches
of dried grapes: and he will eat and
his spirit will turn back to him, for he
ate not bread and drank not water three
days and three nights.

13 And David will say to. him, To
whom thou? and from whence thou ?
and the boy, the Egyptian, will say, I
servant to a man, an Amalekite; and
my lord left me because I was sick the
the third day.

14 We plundered the south of the
Cherethite, and upon that to Judah,
and upon the south of Caleb; and Zik-
lag we burnt with fire.

15 And David will say to him, Wilt
thou bring me down to this troop? And
he will say, Swear to me by God if thou
wilt kill me, and if thou wilt deliver
me into the hand of my master, and I
will bring thee down to this troop.

16 And he will bring him down, and
behold them spread out upon the face
of all the earth, eating and drinking
and keeping a festival, for all the great
spoil which they took from the land of
the rovers, and from the land of Judah.

17 And David will smite them from
the dawn and even to the evening to
their morrow: and aman escaped not
from them, except four hundred men
of youth who rode upon camels, and
they will flee.

18 And David will deliver all that
Amalek took: and David took away
his two wives.

19 And nothing was wanting to them
from small even to great, and even to

1. SAMUEL XXX,

sons and daughters, and spoil, and even
to all which they took to them: David
turned back all.

20 And David will take all the sheep
and the oxen they drove before those
aoe and they will say, This David’s
spoil.

21 And David will come to the two
hundred men which were faint from go-
ing after David, and they will cause
them to dwell by the torrent of Bezor:
and they will come forth to meet David
and to meet the people which are with
him: and David will draw near to the
people and will ask to them of peace.

22, And every evil man will answer,
and Belial, of the men who went with
David, and they will say, Because they
went not with me, we will not give to
them of the spoil which we took away,
except each his wife and his sons, and
they shall lead and go.

23 And David will say, Ye shall not
do so, my brethren, with what Jehovah
gave to us, and he will watch us and
give the troop coming against us 0
our hand.

24 And who will hear to you for this
word? for as the part of him going
down in the war, ὙΠ so the part of him
sitting by the vessels: together shall
they divide.

25 And it will be from that day and
over, and he will set it fora law and
for a judgment to Israel even to this
day.
36 And David will come to Ziklag,
and he will send from the spoil to the
old men of Judah, to his neighbors,
saying, Behold, to you a blessing from
the spoil of the enemies ot Jehovah.

27 To those in Bethel, and to those
in south Ramah, and to those in Jattir,

28 And to those in Aroer, and to
those in Siphmoth, and to those im Esh-
temoa,

29 And to those in Rachal, and to
those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites,
and to those in the cities of the Kenites,

80 And to those in Hormah, and to
those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in
Athach,

31 And to those in Hebron, and to
all the places where David went about
there, he and his men.

I. SAMUEL 1.

CHAPTER [אאא‎
ND the rovers warred against Is-
rael: and the men of Israel will
flee from the face of the rovers, and
they will fall wounded in mount Gilboa.

2 And the rovers will stick fast to
Saul and his sons; and the rovers will
strike Jonathan and Abinadab and Mel-
chisua, Saul’s sons.

8 And the war will be heavy to Saul,
and the archers, men with the bow, will
find him; and he will be greatly
wounded from the archers.

4 And Saul will say to him lifting
up his arms, Draw thy sword, and
thrust me through with it, lest these un-
circumcised shall come and thrust me
through and mock upon me. And he
lifting up his arms would not, for he
will fear greatly; and Saul will take
the sword and will fall upon it.

5 And he lifting up his arms will
fear, for he saw Saul died; and he will
fall, also he, upon his sword, and he
will die with him.

6 And Saul will die, and his three
sons, and he lifting up his arms, also all
his men in that day together.

7 And the men of Israel will see, who
are on the the other side of the valley,

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and who are on the other side of Jor-
dan, that the men of Israel fled, and
that Saul died and his sons, and they
will leave their cities, and flee; and the
rovers will come and dwell in them.

8 And it will be on the morrow, and
the rovers will come to strip the wound-
ed, and they will find Saul and his
three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

9 And they will cut off his head,
and they will strip off his arms, and
send into the land of the rovers round
about, to announce good news to the
house of their images and to the people.

10 And they will put up his arms in
the house of Ashtaroth: and his body
they will hang up upon the wall of the
House of Quiet.

11 And the inhabitants of Jabesh
Gilead will hear concerning him what
the rovers did to Saul,

12 And they will nse, every man of
strength, and go all night and take the
body of Saul and the bodies of his sons
from the walls of the House of Quiet,
and come to Jabesh, and burn them
there.

13 And they will take their bones
and bury under the tamarisk tree at
Jabesh, and they will fast seven days.

IT. SAMUEL.

CHAPTER I.
ND it will be after the death of
Saul, and David turned back
from striking Amalek, and David sat
down two days in Ziklag.

2 And it will bein the third day,
and behold, a man came from the camp
from Saul, and his garments rent and
dust upon his head: and it will be in
his coming to David and he will fall to
the earth and worship him.

3 And David will say to him, From
whence wilt thou come? and he will
say to him, From the camp of Israel I
escaped.

4 And David will say to him, What
was the word? announce now to me.

And he will say that the people fled
from the battle, and also many fell from
the people, and they will die and also
Saul and Jonathan his son died.

5 And David will say to the youth
announcing to him, How knewest
thou that Saul died, and Jonathan his
son ?

6 And the youth announcing to him,
will say, ‘And happening, I happened
to be upon mount Gilboa, and behold,
Saul leaning upon his spear; and be-
hold, the chariots and lords, the horse-
men, pursued him.

7 And he will look behind him and
see me, and he will call tome; and 1
say, Behold me.

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8 And he will say to me, Who thou?
and I shall say to him, I an Amalek-
ite.

9 And he will say to me, Stand now,
upon me, and kill me, for perplexity
seized me because my soul is yet all in

me.

10 And I shall stand wpon him and
kill him, for I knew that he will not
live after his falling: and I shall take
the diadem which upon his head, and
the armband which upon his arm, and
I shall bring them hither to my lord.

11 And David will take hold upon
his garments and will rend them; and
also all the men which are with him.

12 And they will. mourn and weep,
and fast, even till the evening, for Saul
and for Jonathan his son, and for the
people of Jehovah and for the house of
Israel, because they fell by the sword.

13 And David will say to the youth
announcing to him, From whence thou ?
and he will say, I the son of a man, a
stranger, an Amalekite.

14 And David will say to him, How,
wert thou not afraid to stretch forth
thine hand to destroy Jehovah’s Mes-
siah ?

15 And David will call to one of his
goths and say, Come near, fall upon

im. And he will strike him, and he
will die.

16 And David will say to him, Thy
bloods upon thy head, for thy mouth
answered against thee, saying, I killed
Jehovah's Messiah.

17 And David will set up this lam-
entation over Saul and over Jonathan
his son:

18 (And he will say to teach the sons
of Judah the bow: it was written upon
the book of Jasher.)

19 The beauty of Israel was wound-
ed upon thy heights: how have the
powerful fallen !

20 Ye shall not announce in Gath,
ye shall not announce the good news
in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the
daughters of the rovers shall rejoice—
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
shall exult.

21 Mountains of Gilboa, no dew and
no rain upon you, and fields of offer-
ings: for there the shield of the power-

ful was cast away—the shield of Saul
as not anointed with oil.

22 From the blood of the wounded
and from the fat of the powerful, the
bow of Jonathan drew not back in the
rear, and the sword of Saul will not
turn back empty.

23 Saul and Jonathan beloved and
pleasant in their lives, and in their
death they were not separated: they
were swift above eagles, they were
strong above lions.

24 Daughters of Israel weep for Saul,
having clothed you with scarlet, with
delights; bringing up ornaments of
gold upon your garments.

25 How have the powerful fallen in
the midst of the battle! Jonathan
wounded upon the heights!

26 Distress to me for thee, my broth-
er Jonathan: thou wert sweet to me
exceedingly: thy love to me was won-
derful above the love of women.

27 How have the powerful fallen
and the vessels of war perished.

CHAPTER IL

ND it will be after this, and Da-

vid will ask in Jehovah, saying,

Shall I go up into one of the cities of

Judah ?*and Jehovah will say to him,

Go up. And David will say, Whither

shall I go up? and he will say, To He-
bron.

2 And David will go up there, and
also his two wives, Ahinoam the Jez-
reelitess, and Abigail, wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.

3 And his men which were with him
David brought up with him each, and
his house: and they dwelt in the cities
of Hebron.

4 And the men of Judah will come
and will anoint there David for king
over the house of Judah. And they
will announce to David, saying, The
men of Jabesh-Gilead that buried Saul.

5 And David will send messengers to
the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and he will
say to them, Blessed ye to Jehovah,
who did this merey with your lord, with
Saul, and ye will bury him.

6 And now Jehovah will do with you
merey and truth: and I also will do
you this good, because ye did this word.

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7 And now your hands shall be
strengthened, and be ye for sons of
strength: for Saul your lord died, and
also the house of Judah anointed me
for king over them.

8 And Abner, son of Ner, the chief
of the army which was to Saul, took a
man of shame, son of Saul, and he will
cause him to pass over to Mahanaim ;

9 And he will make him king to Gil-
ead, and to the Ashurite and to Jezreel,
and over Ephraim and over Benjamin
and over all Israel.

10 The son of forty years, the man
of shame, son of Saul, in his reigning
over Israel; and two years he reigned :
but the house of Judah was after Da-
vid.

11 And the number of days which
David was king in Hebron over the
house of Judah, will be seven years
and six months.

12 And Abner son of Ner, will go
forth, and the servants of the man of
shame, son of Saul, from the two camps
to the hill.

13 And Joab son of Zeruiah, and the
servants of David, will go forth and
meet them at the pool 01 Gibeon to-
gether: and these will sit by the pool
from hence, and those by the pool from
thence.

14 And Abner will say to Joab, Now
shall the boys arise and play before us.
And Joab will say, They shall arise.

15 And they will rise and pass over
by number, twelve to Benjamin, and to
the man of shame, son of Saul, and
twelve from the servants of David.

16 And they will seize each upon
the head of his neighbor, and his sword
in the side of his neighbor, and they
will fall together: and he will call that
place Helkath-Hazurim, which is in
Gibeon.

17 And the war will be hard even
exceedingly, in that day; and Abner
will be smitten, and the men of Israel,
before the servants of David.

18 And there will be there three sons
of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and As-
ahel: and Asahel was swift in his
feet as one of the roes which are in the
field.

19 And Asahel will pursue after

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Abner; and he turned not to the right
or to the left from after Abner.

20 And Abner will look behind him
and say, This thou Asahel? And he
will say, I.

21 And Abner will say to him, Turn
to thyself to the night or to the left,
and take hold for thyself from the
boys and take to thee his spoils. And
Asahel would not turn aside from after
him.

22 And Abner will add yet to say
to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from
after me: wherefore shall I strike thee
to the earth? and how shall I lft up
my face to Joab thy brother?

23 And he will refuse to turn aside:
and Abner will strike him with the ex-
tremity of the spear in. the belly, and
the spear will come forth from behind
him, and he will fall there and die in
his place : and it will be, all coming to
the place where Asahel fell there and
he will die, and they will stand.

24 And Joab and Abishai will pur-
sue after Abner: and the sun went
down and they came even to the hill of
terror, which was by the face of Giah,
the way of the desert of Gibeon.

25 And the sons of Benjamin will
gather together after Abner, and they
will be for one band, and they will stand
upon the head of one hill.

26 And Abner will call to Joab and
say, Shall the sword consume forever?
knewest thou not that it will be bitter
at the last? and how long wilt thou not
say to the people to turn back from
after their brethren ?

27 And Joab will say, God lives if
thou spakest not, for then from the
morning the people went up, each from
after his brother.

28 And Joab will strike upon the
trumpet, and all the people will stand,
and no more pursue after Israel, and
they will no more add to fight.

29 And Abner and his men went in
the sterile region all that night, and
they will pass over Jordan and will go
to all Bithron, and will come to the two
camps.

80 And Joab turned back from after
Abner: and he will gather all the peo-
ple together and they will review from

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the servants of David nineteen men and
Asahel.

81 And the servants 01 David struck
from Benjamin and upon the men of
Abner, three hundred and sixty men
died.

82 And they will lift up Asahel and
bury him in the grave of his father,
which was in the House of Bread. And
Joab and his men will go all night and
it will shine to them in Hebron.

CHAPTER IIL
ND long war will be between the
house of Saul and between the
house of David: and David went and
was strengthened, and the house of Saul
went and was weakened.

2 And sons will be born to David in
Hebron: and his first-born will be Am-
non to Ahinoam the Jezreelitess.

8 And his second, Chileab, to Abi-
gail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite ;
and the third, Absalom, son of Maacah,
daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur.

4 And the fourth, Adonijah, son of
Haggith ; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the
son of Abital.

5 And the sixth, Ithream, to Eelah,
David's wife. These were born to Da-
vid in Hebron.

6 And it will be in there being war
between the house of Saul and between
the house of David, and Abner was
strong for the house of Saul.

7 And to Saul a concubine, and her
name Rizpah, daughter of Aiah: and
he will say to Abner, Wherefore went-
est thou in to my father’s concubine?

8 And it will kindle to Abner greatly
for the words of the man of shame, and
he will say, Am I the head of a dog
which against Judah this day will do
mercy with the house of Saul thy father
to his brethren and to his friends, and
not delivering thee into the hand of
David, and thou wilt review over me
concerning the woman this day?

9 Thus will God do to Abner, and
thus will he add to him, for as Jehovah
sware to David that thus I will do to
him:

10 To cause the kingdom to pass
over from the house of Saul, and to set
up the throne of David over Israel and

IL SAMUEL IIL

over Judah, from Dan and even to the
Well of the Oath.

11 And he was not able to turn back
Abner a word from his fearing him.

12 And Abner will send messengers
to David for his sake, saying, To whom
the land? saying, Cut out thy covenant
with me, and behold, my hand with
thee to turn about to thee all Israel.

13 And he willsay, Good; I will cut
out with thee a covenant: but one word
Τ ask from thee, saying, Thou shalt not
see my face if before thy bringing Mi-
chal, Saul’s daughter, in thy coming to
see my face. :

14 And David will send messengers
to the man of shame, son of Saul, say-
ing, Thou shalt give my wife Michal,
whom I betrothed to me for a hundred
uncircumcisions of the rovers.

15 And the man of shame will send
and take her from the man Phaltiel,
son of Laish.

16 And her husband went with her,
going and weeping after her even to
Bahurim. And Abner will say to him,
Go, turn back. And he will turn back.

17 And a word of Abner was with
the old men of Israel, saying, Also yes-
terday also the third day ye were seelk-
ing David for king over you.

18 And now do; for Jehovah said
to Dayid, saying, By the hand of David
my servant I saved my people from the
hand of the rovers, and from the hand
of all their enemies.

19 And Abner will speak also in the
ears of Benjamin: and Abner will also
go to speak in the ears of David in He-
bron aJl which was good in the eyes of
Israel and in the eyes of all the house
of Benjamin.

20 And Abner will come to David
to Hebron, and with him twenty men:
and David will make to Abner and to
the men with him a drinking.

21 And Abner will say to Dayid, I
will arise and go and gather to my lord
the king, all Israel, and they shall cut
out with thee a covenant, and thou didst
reign over all that thy soul shall desire.
And David will send away Abner, and
he will go in peace.

22 And behold, theservants of David
and Joab came from the troop, and they

IL SAMUEL IV.

brought with them much spoil: and
Abner not with David in Hebron, for
he sent him away, and he went in peace.

23 And Joab and all the army which
was with him came, and they will an-
nounce to Joab, saying, Abner the son
of Ner came to the king, and he will
send him away, and he will go in peace.

24 And Joab will come to the king
and he will say, What didst thou? be-
hold, Abner came to thee; wherefore
this thou sentest him away, and going,
he went?

25 Thou knewest Abner son of Ner,
for to deceive thee he came, and to
know thy going out and thy coming
in, and to know all which thou doest.

26 And Joab will go forth from David
and send messengers after Abner, and
they will turn him back from the Well
of Sirah: and David knew not.

27 And Abner will turn back to He-
bron, and Joab will turn him away to
the midst of the gate to speak with him
in quiet, and he will strike him there in
the belly, and he will die for the blood
of Asahel his brother.

28 And David will hear from after
this, and he will say, I am innocent, and
my kingdom, with Jehovah even forever,
from the bloods of Abner son of Ner.

29 It will stay upon the head of Joab
and to all the house of his father; and
there shall not be cut off from the house
of Joab, him flowing, and the leprous,
and him holding fast upon a staff, and
him falling upon a sword, and him di-
minished in bread.

30 And Joaband Abishai his brother
killed Abner because be slew Asahel
their brother in Gibeon in war.

31 And David will say to Joab and to
all the people which were with him,
Rend your garments and gird you with
sack-cloth, and mourn before Abner.
And king David went after the litter.

32 And they will bury Abner in He-
bron: and the king will lift up his voice
and weep at the grave of Abner; and
all the people will weep.

33 And the king will lament for Ab-
ner, and he will say, As the fool died
will Abner die?

34 Thy hands not bound, and thy
feet were not joined to fetters: as fall-

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ing before the sons of iniquity thou
fellest. And all the people will add to
weep over him.

385 And all the people will come to
cause David to eat bread, while yet day.
And David will swear, saying, Thus
will God do to me, and thus will he
add, if before the going down of the
sun I shall taste bread or anything,

36 And all the people knew, and it
will be good in their eyes, as all the
king did was good in the eyes of all the
people.

37 And all the people knew, and all
Israel, in that day, that it was not from
the king to kill Abner son of Ner.

88 And the king will say to his
servants, Will ye not know that a chief
and a great one fell this day in Israel ?

39 And I this day tender, and being
anointed king; and these men sons of
Zeruiah, hard for me. Jehovah will
recompense to him doing evil according
to his evil.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Saul’s son will hear that Ab-
ner died in Hebron, and _ his
hands will be relaxed, and all Israel
trembled.

2 And two men, chiefs of troops,
were to the son of Saul: the name of
the one, Baanah, and the name of the
second, Rechab, sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for
also Beeroth was reckoned to Benja-
min.

8 And the Beerothites will flee to
Gittaim, and they will be sojourners
there till this day.

4 And to Jonathan, Saul’s son, a son
smitten in the feet: he was the son of
five years in the news coming of Saul
and Jonathan from Jezreel, and his
nurse will lift him up and flee: and it
will be in her springing up to flee, and
he will fall, anid he will be lame: and
his name Mephibosheth.

5 And the sons of Rimmon the Be-
erothite, Rechab and Baanah, will go,
and they will come about the heat of
the day to the house of the man of
shame; and he lay down upon the bed
at noon.

6 And behold, they came even to the

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midst of the house, taking wheat; and
they will strike him in the belly; and
Rechab and Baanah his brother es-
caped.

7 And they will come to the house,
and he will lie upon his couch in his
bed-chamber, and they will strike him
and kill him, and take away his head,
and they will take his head and go the
way of the sterile region all night.

8 And they will bring the head of
the man of shame to David to Hebron,
and they will say to the king, Behold
the head of the man of shame, son of
Saul thine enemy, who sought thy
soul; and Jehovah will give to my lord
the king vengeance this day of Saul
and of his seed.

9 And David will answer Rechab and
Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon
the Beerothite, and he will say to them,
Jehovah lives who redeemed my soul
from all straits,

10 When he announcing to me, say-
ing, Behold, Saul died; and he was in
his eyes as announcing good news; and
Τ shall seize upon him and kill him in
Ziklae, which I gave to him for the
good news:

11 Much more when wicked men
killed a just man in his house upon his
bed; and now shall I not seek out his
blood from your hand and take you
away from the earth?

12 And David will command the
boys and they will kill them and cut
off their hands and their feet, and hang
them over the pool in Hebron. And the
head of Ishbosheth they took and they
will bury it in the grave of Abner in
Hebron.

CHAPTER V.
ND all the tribes of Israel will
come to David to Hebron, and
they will say, saying, Behold us. thy
bone and thy flesh.

2 Also yesterday, also the third day,
in Saul being king over us, thou wert
bringing out and bringing in 1
And Jehovah will say to thee, Thou
shalt feed my people Israel, and thou
shalt be for leader over Israel.

8 And all the old men of Israel will
come to the king to Hebron; and king

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David will cut out for them a covenant
in Hebron before Jehovah, and they
will anoint David for king over Israel.

4 The son of thirty years was David
in his reigning, and he reigned forty
years.

5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah
seven years and six months: and in Je-
rusalem he reigned thirty and three
years over all Israel and Judah.

6 And the king went, and his men,
to Jerusalem to the Jebusite dwelling
in the land: and he will say to David,
saying, Thou shalt not come here for
except thy taking away the blind and
the lame, saying, David shall not come
in hither.

7 And David will take the fastness
of Zion: this the eity of David.

8 And David will say in that day,
Every one striking the Jebusite, and
shall reach upon the cataract, and the
lame and the blind hating David’s soul ;
for this they will say, The blind and the
lame shall not come in to the house.

9 And Dayid will dwell in the fast-
ness, and he will 6811 it the city of Da-
vid. And David will build round
about from Millo and its house.

10 And Dayid went, going, and was
great, and Jehovah God of armies with
him.

11 And Hiram, king of Tyre, will
send messengers to David, and wood of
cedars and artificers of wood, and artifi-
cers of stone of the wall: and they will
build a house for Dayid.

12 And David knew that Jehovah
prepared him for king over Israel, and
that he lifted up his kingdom for sake
of his people Israel.

18 And Dayid will take yet concu-
bines and wives from Jerusalem after
his coming from Hebron, and there will
be yet born to David sons and daugh-
ters.

14 And these the names 01 0
born to him in Jerusalem: Shammuah,
and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

15 And Ibhar and Elishua, and Ne-
pheg, and Japhia,

16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and
Eliphalet.

17 And the rovers will hear that.
they anointed David for king over Is-

IL SAMUEL VL

rael, and all the rovers will come up to
seek David; and David will hear and
he will go down to the fastness.

18 And the rovers came and they
will be dispersed in the valley of Re-
phaim.

19 And David will ask in Jehovah,
saying, Shall I go up against the rov-

‘ers? wilt thou give them into my hand?
and Jehovah will say to David, Go up:
for giving, I will give the rovers into
thy hand.

20 And David will come against the
Lord of Breaches, and David will strike
them there, and he will say, Jehovah
broke down mine enemies before me as
the breach of waters: for this he called
the name of that place, the Lord of the
Breaches.

21 And they will leave there their
images, and David and his men will
take them away.

22 And the rovers will add yet to
come up, and they will be dispersed in
the valley of Rephaim.

23 And David will ask in God, and
he will say, Thou shalt not go up:
turn about behind them and thou shalt
cover against them from before the
weepings. :

24 And it shall be in thy hearing the
voice of the going in the heads of the
weepings, then thou shalt be active,
for then Jehovah will go forth before
thee to strike upon the camp of the
rovers.

25 And David will do thus as Jeho-
vah commanded him, and he will strike
the rovers from Geba even to thy com-
ing to Gazer.

CHAPTER VL
ND David will yet gather together
all the chosen in Israel, thirty
thousand.

2 And Dayid will rise and go and all
the people which were with him from
the lords of Judah, to bring up from
thence the ark of God which the name
was called the name of Jehovah of ar-
mies sitting the cherubims over it.

3 And they caused the ark of God to
ride upon a new wagon, and they will
lift it up from the house of Abinadab,
which was in the hill: and Uzzah and

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his brother, sons of Abinadab, led the
new wagon.

4 And they will lift it up from the
house of Abinadab, which is im the hill,
with the ark of God: and Ahio went
before the ark.

5 And David and all the house of Is-
rael playing before Jehovah upon all
cypress woods, and upon harps, and
upon lyres and upon drums, and upon
timbrels and upon cymbals.

6 And they will come to the thresh-
ing-floor of Nachon, and Uzzah will
stretch forth to the ark of God and lay
hold upon it, for the oxen kicked.

7 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against Uzzah, and God will
strike him there for the error, and he
will die there with the ark of God.

8 And it will kindle to David be:
cause Jehovah broke a breach upon
Uzzah: and he will call that place the
Breach of Uzzah, even to this day.

9 And David was afraid of Jehovah
in that day, and he will say, How shall
the ark of Jehovah come to me?

10 And David would not remove to
him the ark of Jehovah to the city of
David: and David will turn it to the
house of the servant of Obed-Edom
the Gititte.

11 And the ark of Jehovah will
dwell in the house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite three months: and Jehovah will
bless Obed-Edom and all his house.

12 And it will be announced to king
David, saying, Jehovah blessed the
house of Obed-Edom and all which is
to him, on account of the ark of God.
And David will go and bring up the
ark of God from the house of Obed-
Edom to the city of David with joy.

13 And it will be when they lifting
up the ark of Jehovah went six steps,
and he will sacrifice oxen and _ fat
things.

14 And David leaping with all
strength before Jehovah: and David
was girded with a linen ephod.

15 And David and all the house of
Israel were bringing up the ark of Je-
hovah with shouts and with the voice
of the trumpet.

16 And the ark of Jehovah was com-
ing to the city of David, and Michal,

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Saul’s daughter, looked forth without
the window, and she will see king Da-
vid being strengthened and leaping be-
fore Jehovah, and she will despise him
in her heart.

17 And they will bring in the ark of
Jehovah, and set it in its place in the
midst of the tent which David stretched
out. for it: and David will bring up a
burnt-offering before Jehovah and
peace.

18 And David will finish bringing
up the burnt-offering and the peace,
and he will bless the people in the name
of Jehovah of armies.

19 And he will distribute to all the
people to every sort of Israel, from
man and even to woman, to each one
cake of bread, and one measure, and
one cake: and all the people will go
each to his house.

20 And David turned back to bless
his house. And Michal, Saul’s daugh-
ter, will go forth to the meeting of Da-
vid, and she will say, How honored
the king of Israel this day who was un-
covered this day to the eyes of the
maids of his servants as one of the
worthless uncovering was uncovered !

21 And David will say to Michal,
Before Jehovah who chose in me above
thy father and above all his house, to
appoint me leader over the people of
Jehovah, over Israel: and I played be-
fore Jehovah,

22 And I was vile yet above this and
I was humbled in mine eyes, and with
the maids of which thou spakest with
them I shall be honored.

23 And to Michal, Saul’s daughter,
there was no child to her even to the
day of her death.

CHAPTER VII.
ND it will be when the king sat in

\. his house, and Jehovah gave rest
to him from round about from all his
enemies.

2 And the king will say to Nathan
the prophet, See now, me dwelling in a
house of cedars, and the ark of God
dwelling in midst of the curtains.

3 And Nathan will say to the king,
All which is in thy heart, do; for Jeho-
vah is with thee.

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4 And it will be in that nicht, and
the word of Jehovah will be to Nathan,

sayings

5 Go and say to my servant, to Da-
vid, Thus said Jehovah, Shalt thou
build me-an house for my resting?

6 For I dwelt not in a house from
the day I brought up the sons of Israel
from Egypt even to this day, and I
shall be going in a tent and in a dwell-
ing.

7 And in all where I went among all
the sons of Israel spake I a word with
one of the judges of Israel whom 1
commanded to feed my people Israel,
saying, Why built ye not to me a house
of cedars ?

8 And now thus shalt thousay to my
servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah
of armies, I took thee from quiet, from
after the sheep, to be ruler over my
people, over Israel :

9 And I will be with thee in all
where thou wilt go, and I will cut off
all thine enemies from thy face, and
I made to thee a great name as the
name of the great which are upon the
earth.

10 And I set a place for my people,
for Israel, and I planted him and he
dwelt in his place, and he shall be no
more moved ; and the sons of iniquity
shall not add to humble him as in the
beginning.

11 And from the day 1 commanded
judges over my people Israel, and I
gave rest to thee from all thine enemies.
And Jehovah announced to thee that
Jehovah will make to thee a house.

12 When thy days shall be filled up
and thou shalt lie down with thy fath-
ers, and 1 raised up thy seed after thee
which shall come forth from thy bow-
els, and I prepared his kingdom.

13 He shall build a house for my
name, and 1 set the throne of his king-
dom even to forever.

14 I will be to him for father, and
he shall be to me for son ; who in his
sinning I struck him with the rod of
men, and with the blows of the sons of
men.

15 And my mercy I will not remove
from him as 1 removed from Saul whom
I removed from thy face.

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16 And thy house was firm and thy
kingdom even to forever before thee ;
thy throne shall be prepared even to
forever.

17 According to all these words and
according to all this vision so spake Na-
than to David.

18 And king David will come and
sit before Jehovah, and say, Who am I
Lord Jehovah? and who my house
that thou broughtest me even to these?

19 And this yet will be small in
thine eyes, Lord Jehovah; and thou
wilt speak also to the house of thy serv-
ant for remoteness. And this the law
of man, Lord Jehovah ?

20 And what shall David yet add to
speak to thee? for thou knewest thy
servant, Lord Jehovah.

21 For sake of thy word and accord-
ing to thy heart thou didst all this great-
ness to make thy servant know.

22 For this thou wert great, Jehovah
God: for none as thee, for no God _ be-
side thee according to all we heard in
our ears.

23 And who as thy people, as Israel,
one nation in the earth whom God went
to redeem to him for a people, and to
set up for him a name, and to do for
you greatness and wonderful things for
thy land from the face of thy people
whom thou didst redeem to thee from
Egypt, nations and his tents.

24 And thou wilt prepare to thyself
thy people Israel to thee for a people,
even to forever. And thou Jehovah
wert to them for God.

25 And now, Jehovah God the word
that thou spakest concerning thy ser-
vant, and concerning his house, set
up even to forever, and do as thou
spakest.

26 And thy name shall be great even
to forever, saying, Jehovah of armies
the God over Israel: and the house of
thy servant David shall be prepared
before thee.

27 For thou, Jehovah of armies, the
God of Israel, thou didst open the ear
of thy servant, saying, I will build to
thee an house: for this thy servant
found his heart to pray to thee this

prayer.
28 And now, Lord Jehovah, thou

that God, and thy words shall be true,
and thou wilt speak to thy servant this
goodness.

29 And now be willing and _ bless
the house of thy servant to be forever
before thee: for thou, Lord Jehovah,
spakest: and from thy blessing the
house of thy servant shall be blessed
forever.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND it will be after this, and Da-
vid will strike the rovers and
subdue them: and David will take the
bridle of the metropolis out of the hand
of the rovers.

2 And he will smite Moab, and
measure them with a cord, laying them
down upon the earth; and he will
measure with two cords to put to death,
and a full cord to save alive. And
Moab will be to David for servants, lift-
ing up gifts.

8 And David will strike Hadadezer,
son of Rehob, king of Zobah, in his
going to turn back his hand upon the
river.

4 And David will take from hima
thousand, and seven hundred horsemen,
and twenty thousand footmen; and
Dayid will destroy all the chariots, and
he will leave from them a hundred
chariots.

5 And Aram of Damascus will come
to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, and
David will strike of Aram twenty and
two thousand men.

6 And David will put garrisons in
Aram of Damascus: and Aram will be
to David for servants, lifting up gifts.
And Jehovah saved David in all which
he went.

7 And David will take the shields of
gold which were upon the servants of
Hadadezer, and he will bring them to
Jerusalem.

8 And from Betah and from Bero-
thai, cities of Hadadezer, king Dayid
took exceeding much brass.

9 And Toi, king of Hamath will
hear that David smote all the strength
of Hadadezer ;

10 And Toi will send Joram his son
to king David to ask him for peace
and to bless him, because he fought

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with Hadadezer and struck him; (for
Hadadezer was a man of war with Toi.)
And in his hand were vessels of silver
and vessels of gold and vessels of brass :

11 Also king David consecrated them
to Jehovah with the silver and the
gold, which he consecrated from all
the nations which he subdued:

12 From Aram, and from Moab, and
from the sons of Ammon, and from the
rovers, and from Amalek, and from
the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob,
king of Zobah.

13 And David will make a name in
his turning back from his smiting Aram
in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand.

14 And he will put garrisons in
Edom; in all Edom he put garrisons,
and all Edom will be servants to Da-
vid. And Jehovah will save David in
all which he went.

15 And David will reign over all
Tsrael; and David will be doing judg-
ment and justice to all his people.

16 And Joab, son of Zeruiah, over
the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of
Ahilud, remembering.

17 And Zadok, son of Ahitub, and
Ahimelech, son of Abiathar, the priests ;
and Seraiah, scribe.

18 And Benaiah, son of Jehoiada, and
the Cherethites and the Pelethites: and
the sons of Dayid were priests.

CHAPTER IX.
ND David will say, Is there yet
any which was left to the house
of Saul? and I will do with him mercy
for sake of Jonathan. ,

2 And to the house of Saul ἃ servant
and his name Ziba. And they will
call for him to David, and the king will
say to him, Thou Ziba? and he will
say, Thy servant.

3 And the king will say, Is there not
yet a man to the house of Saul? and I
will do with him the mercy of God.
And Ziba will say to the king, Yet a
son to Jonathan, smitten of the feet.

4 And the king will say to him,
Where ishe? And Ziba will say to
the king, Behold him in the house of
Machir, son of Ammiel, from Lo-De-
bar.

5 And king David will send and

IL SAMUEL Ix, xX.

take him from the house of Machi, 80 |
of Ammiel, from Lo-Debar.

6 And Mephibosheth, son of Jona-
than, son of Saul, will come to David
and fall upon his face and worship him,
And David will say, Mephibosheth.
And he will say, Behold thy servant.

7 And David will say to him, Thou
shalt not fear, for doing, I will do with
thee mercy for sake of Jonathan thy
father; and I turned back to thee all
the field of Saul thy father; and thou
shalt eat bread upon my table always.

8 And he will worship him and say,
What is thy servant that thou didst
look to a dead dog which is like me?

9 And the king will call for Ziba the
boy of Saul, and say to him, All which
was to Saul and to all his house I gaye
to the son of thy lord.

10 And work for him the land,
thou and thy sons, and thy servants,
and bring in and it being bread for the
son of thy lord, and they shall eat: and
Mephibosheth, son of thy lord, shall eat
always bread upon my table. And to
Ziba, fifteen sons and twenty servants.

11 And Ziba will say to the king,
According to all which my lord the
king will command, so will thy ser-
vant 60. And Mephibosheth ate at my
table as one of the sons of the king.

12 And to Mephibosheth a little son,
and his name Micha. And all dwell-
ing in the house of Ziba, servants to
Mephibosheth.

13 And Mephibosheth dwelt in Je-
rusalem ; for at the king’s table he al-
ways ate; and he was lame in his two
feet.

CHAPTER X.
ND it will be after this, and the
king of the sons of Ammon will
die, and Hanun his son will reign in
his stead.

2 And David will say, I will do mer-
ey with Hanun son of Nahash, as his
father did merey with me. And Da-
vid will send to comfort him by the
hand of his servants for his father.
And David's servants will come to the
land of the sons of Ammon.

3 And the chiefs of the sons of Am-
mon will say to Hanun their lord, Is

Il. SAMUEL ΧΙ.

David honoring thy father in thine
eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is
it not for the sake of searching out the
city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow
it, David sent his servants to thee?

4 And Hanun will take David’s ser-
vants, and shave half their beard, and
cut off their garments in the half, even
to their buttocks, and he will send
them away.

5 And they will announce to David,
and he will send to meet them, for the
men were greatly shamed. And the
king will say, Sit down in Jericho till
your beards spring up, and turn back.

6 And the sons of Ammon will see
that they became loathsome before Da-
vid, and the sons of Ammon will send
and hire Aram of the house of Rehob,
and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand
footmen, and king Maacal a thousand
men, and Ish-Tob two thousand men.

7 And David will hear, and he will
send Joab and all the army of the
strong.

8 And the sons of Ammon will go
forth and they will arrange the battle,
at the opening of the gate: and Aram
of Zobah and Rehob and Ish-Tob, and
Maacah by themselves in the field.

9 And Joab wi'l see that the face of
the battle was against him from before
and from behind, and he will choose
from all the chosen in Israel and will
arrange for the meeting of Aram :

10 And the remainder of the people
he gave into the hand of Abishai his
brother, and he will arrange to meet
the sons of Ammon.

11 And he will say, If Aram shall
be strong above me, and be thou to me
for deliverance: and if the sons of Am-
mon shall be strong above thee, and I
came for deliverance to thee.

12 Be strong, and we will be strong
for our people, and for the cities of our
God: and Jebovah shall do the good
in his eyes.

13 And Joab will draw near, and the
people which were with him, to battle
against Aram: and they will flee from
his face.

14 And the sons of Ammon saw that
Aram fled and they will flee from the
face of Abishai, and come into the city.

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And Joab will turn back from the sons
of Ammon and come to Jerusalem.

16 And Aram will see that he was
smitten before Israel, and they will be
gathered together. :

16 And Hadadezer will send and will
bring forth Aram that was beyond the
river: and they will come to Helam:
and Shobach, chief of the army of Ha-
dadezer, before them.

17 And it will be announced to Da-
vid, and he will gather together al] Is-
rael, and he will pass over Jordan and
will come to Helam. And Aram will
arrange to meet David, and they will
war with him.

18 And Aram will flee from the face
of Israel; and David will Ill from
Ayam seven hundred chariots and forty
thousand horsemen, and Shobach chief
of his army he struck, and he will die
there.

19 And all the kings, servants of
Hadadezer, will see that they were smit-
ten before Israel, and they will be at
peace with Israel, and serve them. And
Aram will be afraid yet to save the
sons of Ammon.

CHAPTER XL

ND it will be at the return of the

year, at the time of the going
forth of kings, and David will send
Joab, and his servants with him, and
all Israel; and they will destroy the
sons of Ammon, and they will watch
closely against Rabbah. And David
will dwell in Jerusalem.

2 And it will be at the time of the
evening, and David will nse from off
his bed, and will go upon the roof of
the king's house: and he will 566 from
the roof a woman washing herself; and
the woman good of aspect exceed-
ingly.

3 And David will send and seek for
the woman, and say, Is not this Bath-
Sheba, daughter of Eliam, the wife of
Uriah the Hittite? |

4 And David will send messengers
and take her: and she will come in to
him, and he will lie with her; (and
she being consecrated from her unclean-
ness:) and she will turn back to her
house.

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5 And the woman will conceive, and
send and announce to David, and say,
1 am pregnant.

6 And David will send to Joab, Send
to me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab
will send Uriah to David.

7 And Uriah will come to him, and
Dayid will ask for peace of Joab, and
for the peace of the people, and for the
peace of the host.

8 And David will say to Uriah, Go
down to thy house and wash thy feet.
And Uriah will go forth from the house
of the king and a loan of the king will
go forth after him.

9 And Unah will lie at the door of
the house of the king with all the serv-
ants of his lord, and will not go down
to his house.

10 And they will announce to David,
saying, Uriah went not down to his
house; and David will say to Uriah,
Camest thou not from the way? where-
fore wentest thou not down to thy
house ?

11 And Uriah will say to David, The
ark, and Israel, and Judah, dwell in
tents; and my lord Joab and the serv-
ants of my lord are encamping upon
the face of the field; and shall I come
into my house to eat and to drink and
to lie with my wife? Thee living
and thy soul living, if I shall do this
word.

12 And David will say to Uriah,
Dwell here also this day, and to-morrow
I will send thee away. And Uriah
dwelt in Jerusalem in that day and from
the morrow.

18 And David will call for him, and
he will eat before him and drink; and
he will make him drunk: and he will
go forth in the evening to lie upon his
bed with the servants of his lord; and
he will not go down to his house.

14 And it will be in the morning, and
David will write a letter to Joab, and
send by the hand of Uriah.

15 And he will write in the letter
‘saying, Brine in Uriah to the front of
the face of the strong battle, and turn

e back from after him, and he shall
he smitten and die.

16 And it will be in Joab’s watching
the city, and he will give Uriah to the

place where he knew that strong men
were there.

17 And the men of the city will go
forth and fight with Joab: and there
will fall of the people from the servants
of David; and Uriah the Hittite also
will die.

18 And Joab will send and announce
to David all the words of the war;

19 And he will command the mes-
senger, saying, When thou finishest all
the words of the war to speak to the
kine,

20 And it being if the wrath of the
king shall go up, and he say to thee,
Wherefore drew ye near to the city to
fight? did ye not know that they cast
from above the wall?

21 Who struck Abimelech, son of
Jerubbesheth ? Did not a woman cast
upon him apiece of the upper muill-
stone from above the wall, and he
will die in Thebez? Wherefore drew
ye near to the wall? And say thou,
Also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite
died.

22 And the messenger will go, and
come and announce to David all that
for which Joab sent him.

98 And the messenger will say to
Day d, That the men were strenethened
upon us, and they came out to us to
the field, and they were upon them,
even to the door of the gate.

24 And they beholding, aimed at thy
servants from above the wall: and
from the servants of the king will die,
and also thy servant, Uriah the Hittite
died.

25 And David will say to the mes-
senger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab,
This same word shall not be evil in
thine eyes, as this, and as this, the
sword shall consume: strengthen thy
battle against the eity and pull it down:
and strengthen yourselves.

26 And Uriah’s wife will hear that
Uriah her husband died, and she will
mourn for her lord.

27 And the mourning will pass over,
and David will send and take her to
his house, and she will be to him for
wife, and bear to himason. And the
word which David did will be evil in
the eyes of Jehovah,

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CHAPTER XII.
ND Jehovah will send Nathan to
Dayid. And he will come in to
him and say to him, Two men were in
one city; one rich and one poor.

2 To the rich was sheep and oxen
exceeding many:

ὃ And to the poor, not anything ex-
cept one little ewe lamb which he found,
and he will save it alive: and it will
grow with him and with his sons to-
gether; it will eat from his morsel and
will drink from his cup, and will lie in
his bosom, and be to him as a daughter.

4 And a traveler will come to the
rich man, and he will spare to take
from his sheep and from his oxen to do
for the wayfarer coming to him; and
he will take the poor man’s ewe lamb
and do for the man coming to him.

5 And David’s anger will kindle
against the man greatly, and he will
say to Nathan, Jehovah lives, for the
man doing this is the son of death.

6 And the ewe lamb he shall requite
four-fold, because he did this word,
and because he spared not.

7 And Nathan will say to David,
Thou the man. Thus said Jehovah
the God of Israel, I anointed thee for
king over Israel, and I delivered thee
from the hand of Saul;

8 And-I will give thee the house of
thy lord and thy lord’s wives into thy
bosom, and I will give to thee the house
of Israel and Judah; and if little, I will
add to thee according to these and ac-
cording to these.

9 Wherefore didst thou despise the
word of Jehovah to do evil in his eyes ?
Uniah the Hittite thou didst strike with
the sword, and his wife thou tookest to
thee for a wife, and thou didst kill him
with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

10 And now the sword shall not de-
par from thy house even to forever ;

ecause that thou didst despise me, and
thou wilt take the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be to thee for wife.

11 Thus said Jehovah, Behold me
raising up evil against thee from thy
house, and I took thy wives before
thine eyes and gave to thy neighbor,
and he lay with thy wives before the
eyes of this sun.

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19 For thou 01056 in secret: and I
will do this word before all Israel, and
before the sun.

13 And David will say to Nathan, I
sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan
will say to David, Jehovah also passed
over thy sin; thou shalt not die.

14 Only that despising, thou didst
cause the enemies of Jehovah to des-
pise by this thing, also the son born to
thee, dying, shall die.

15 And Nathan will go to his house.
And Jehovah will strike the child
which Uriah’s wife bare to David and
he will be sick.

16 And David will seek God for the
boy, and fast a fast; and he came and
passed the night and lay upon the earth.

17 And the old men of his house
will rise to him to lift him up from the
earth; and he would not, and he ate
not bread with them.

18 And it will be in the seventh day,
and the child will die. And David’s
servants feared to announce to him that
the child died: for they said, Behold,
in the child being living we spake to
him and he heard not to our voice, and
how shall we say to him the child died,
and do evil?

19 And David will see that his serv-
ants are whispering, and David will
perceive that the child died: and David
will say to his servants, Did the child
die? and they will say, He died.

20 And David will rise from the
earth and wash, and be anointed, and
he will change his garments, and will
co into the house of Jehovah and wor-
ship, and go to his house; and he will
ask and they will set bread to him, and
he will eat.

21 And his servants will say to him,
What this word which thou didst? for
sake of the child living thou didst fast
and weep, and when the child died
thou didst rise and thou wilt eat bread.

22 And he will say, The child yet liv-
ing, and I fasted and wept; for I said,
Who will know Jehovah will compas-
sionate me, and the child live?

23 And now he died, wherefore thus
do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn
him back? I go to him, and he will not
turn back to me.

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24 And David will comfort Bath-
Sheba his wife, and will go in to her
and lie with her, and she will bear a
son, and he will call his name Solomon:
and Jehovah loved him.

25 And he will send by the hand of
Nathan the prophet; and he will call
his name Jedidiah, for sake of Jeho-
vah.

26 And Joab will fight against Rab-
bah of the sons of Ammon, and he will
take the city of the kingdom.

27 And Joab will send messengers to
David, and say, I fought against Rab-
bah, also I took the city of waters.

28 And now gather together the rest
of the people and encamp against the
city, and take it, lest I shall take the
city, and my name was called upon it.

29 And David will gather all the
people together and go to Rabbah, and
war against it and take it.

80 And he will take the crown of
their king from his head ; and its weight
a talent of gold and a precious stone;
and it will be upon David's head. And
he brought forth the spoil of the city
exceeding much.

81 And the people which were in it
he brought forth, and he will put at the
saw and at the threshing-sledge of iron,
and at axes of iron, and caused them to
pass over through the brick-kiln: and
thus he will do to all the cities of the
sons of Ammon. And David will turn
back, and all the people, to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XIIL
ND it will be after this, and to Ab-
-salom son of David a fair sister,
and her name Tamar; and Amnon, son
of David, loved her.

2 And Amnon will be pressed to be
sick for sake of Tamar his sister, for
she was a virgin; and it will be hard
in the eyes of Amnon to do anything
to her.

8 And to Amnon a friend, and his
name Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David’s
brother: and Jonadab a man exceeding
wise.

4 And he will say to him, Wherefore
thou so weak, son of the king, in morn-
ing by morning? wilt thou not an-
nounce to me? and Amnon will say to

him, I love Tamar, my brother Absa-
lom’s sister.

5 And Jonadab will say to him, Lie
upon thy bed and be sick, and thy
father coming to see thee, and say to
him, Now my sister Tamar shall come
and give me to eat bread and make the
food before mine eyes, so that I shall
see and eat from her hand.

6 And Amnon will 116 down and be
sick: and the king will come to see
him, and Amnon will say to the king,
Will Tamar my sister come now, and
she shall make before mine eyes two
cakes, and I will eat from her hand.

7 And David will send to amar,
saying, Go now to the house of Am-
non thy brother, and make food for
him.

8 And Tamar will go to the house of
Amnon her brother, and he lay down.
And she will take dough and knead,
and make cakes before his eyes, and
bake the cakes.

9 And she will take a frying-pan and
pour out before him; and he will re-
fuse to eat. And Amnon will say,
Bring out every man from me. And
they brought forth every man from
him.

10 And Amnon will say to Tamar,
Bring the cakes into the chamber, and
I will eat from thine hand. © And Ta-
mar will take the cakes which she
made and bring to Amnon her brother
into the chamber.

11 And she will bring near to him
to eat, and he will Jay hold upon her
and say, Come lie with me, my sister.

12 And she will say to him, No, my
brother, thou shalt not humble me; for
so it shall not be done in Israel: thou
shalt not do this folly.

13 And I, whither shall I cause my
reproach to go? and thou wilt be as
one of the foolish in Israel. And now,
speak now, to the king, and he will not
withhold me from thee.

14 And he would not hear to her
voice; and he will be strong above her,
and he will humble her and lie with
her.

15 And Amnon will hate her with
great hatred, greatly ; for great the ha-
tred which he hated her above the love

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II. SAMUEL XIIL

which he loved her. And Amnon
will say to her, Arise, go.

16 And she will say to him, No rea-
sons: this evil great above the other
which thou didst with me, to send me
away. And he would not hear to her.

17 And he will call his boy serving
him, and say, Send away now this from
me without, and fasten the door after
her.

18 And upon her a tunic reaching
to the soles of the feet; for thus will
the king’s daughters, the virgins, be
clothed with upper garments. And
his attendant will bring her forth
without, and he fastened the door after
her.

19 And Tamar will take ashes upon
her head, and she rent the tunic reach-
ing to the feet which was upon her, and
she will put her hand upon her head
and will go, going and crying.

20 And Absalom her brother will
say to her, Was Amnon thy brother
with thee? and now my sister be si-
lent, he is thy brother; thou shalt not
set thy heart to this word. And Ta-
mar will remain, and she was desolate
in the house of Absalom her brother.

21 And king David heard all the
words and it will kindle to him greatly.

22 And Absalom spake not with
Amnon, from evil and even to good:
for Absalom hated Amnon for the word
that he humbled Tamar his sister.

23 And it will be for two years of
days, and shearers will be to Absalom
in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim :
and Absalom will call for all the king’s
sons.

24 And Absalom will come to the
king and say, Behold now, shearers to
thy servant: now will the king go, and
his servants, with thy servant?

25 And the king will say to Absa-
lom, No, my son, not now will we all
go, and we will not be heavy upon
thee. And he will press upon him,
"Ἐς he would not go, and he will bless

im.

26 And Absalom will say, And shall
not Amnon my brother now go with
us? And the king will say to him,
Wherefore shall he go with thee?

27 And Absalom will press upon

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him, and he will send with him Am-
non and all the king’s sons.

28 And Absalom will command his
boys, saying, See now, when the heart
of Amnon is good with wine, and I
said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill
him; ye shall not be afraid, for 1 com-
manded you: be strong and be for sons
of strength.

29 And Absalom’s boys will do
to Amnon as Absalom commanded.
And all the king’s sons will rise up and
ride each upon his mule and flee.

30 And it will be they in the way,
and the report came to David saying,
Absalom struck all the king’s sons and
not one remaining of them.

31 And the king will rise and rend
his garments, and will lie down upon
the earth; and all his servants standing
by with their garments rent.

82 And Jonadab, son of Shimeah,
David's brother, will answer and say,
My lord shall not say, All the boys, the
king’s sons, were slain; for Amnon
alone died; for by the mouth of Absa-
lom it was set from the day he hum-
bled Tamar his sister.

33 And now my lord the king shall
not set to his heart the word, saying,
All the king’s sons died; for only Am-
non alone died.

84 And Absalom will flee. And the
boy watching will lift up his eyes and
see, and behold, much people coming
from the way behind him from the side
of the mountain.

35 And Jonadab will say to the king,
Behold, the king’s sons came; as thy
servant spake, so it was.

36 And it will be as he finished to
speak, and behold, the king’s sons came,
and they will lift up their voice and
weep: and the king and all his serv-
ants wept a very great weeping.

37 And Absalom fled and went to
Talmai, son of Ammihud, king of Ge-
טג[‎ And he will mourn for his son
all the days.

88 And Absalom fled and went to
Geshur, and he will be there three
years.

89 And David the king was fixed to
go forth to Absalom: for he was com-
forted for Amnon, for he died.

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CHAPTER XIV.

ND Joab son of Zeruiah, knew
that the king's heart was for Ab-
salom.

2 And Joab will send to Tekoah and
take from thence a wise woman, and he
will say to her, Thou shalt mourn, and
put on now garments of mourning, and
thou shalt not be anointed with oil, and
be thou as a woman this many days
mourning for the dead:

8 And come to the king and speak
to him according to this word. And
Joab will put words in her mouth.

4 And the woman, the Tekoite, will
speak to the king and fall upon her
face to the earth, and worship him, and
say, Save, O king!

5 And the king will say to her, What
to thee? And she will say, Truly I
a widow woman, and my husband will
die.

6 And to thy servant two sons, and
they two will strive in the field, and
none delivering between them; and the
one will smite the one and kill him.

7 And behold, all the family rose up
against thy servant, and they will say,
Give him striking his brother and we
will kill him for the soul of his brother
whom he slew; and they destroyed
also the heir, and quenched my coal
which was left, so-that name was not
set to my husband and remainder upon
the face of the earth.

8 And the king will say to the wo-
man, Go to thy house and I will com-
mand concerning thee.

9 And the woman, the Tekoite, will
say to the king, Upon me, my lord the
king, the iniquity, and upon my fath-
er’s house: and the king and his throne
innocent.

10 And the king will say, Who speak-
ing to thee and bring him to me and he
shall not add to touch upon thee.

11 And she will say, The king will
remember now, Jehovah thy God, the
nearest relation of blood being multi-
plied to destroy, and they shall not de-
stroy my son. And he will say, Jeho-
vah living, if there shall fall from the
hair of thy son to the earth.

12 And the woman will say, Shall
thy servant speak now a word to my

Il. SAMUEL XIV.

lord the king? And the king will say,
Speals.

18 And the woman will say, And
wherefore didst thou reckon according
to this concerning the people of God?
for the king speaks this word as trans-
gressing for the king not to turn back
his fugitive.

14 For dying, we shall die, and as
waters poured out on the earth, which
will not be gathered; and God will not
lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reck-
ons that the fugitive shall not be driven
out from him.

15 And now that I came to speak to
the king my lord, this word, for the
people will see me, and thy servant will
say, I will speak now to the king, per-
haps the king will do the word of his
servant.

16 For the king will hear to deliver
his servant from the hand of the man
destroying me and my son together out
of the inheritance of God.

17 And thy servant will say, Now
will the word of my lord the king be
for a sacrifice, for as a messenger of
God, so my lord the king to hear the
good and the evil: and Jehovah thy
God will be with thee.

18 And the king will answer and say
to the woman, Now thou shalt not hide
from me the word which I ask thee.
And the woman will say, Now will
my lord the king speak ?

19 And the king will say, The hand
of Joab with thee in all this? And
the woman will answer and say, Thy
soul living, my lord the king, if there
is to the right or to the left from all
which my lord the king spake: for thy
servant Joab he commanded me, and
he put in the mouth of thy servant all
these words.

20 For the sake of turning about the
face of the word, thy servant Joab did
this word: and my lord was wise ac-
cording to the wisdom of a messenger
of God, to know all which is upon the
earth.

21 And the king will say to Joab,
Behold now, I did this word: and go
and turn back the boy Absalom.

22 And Joab will fall upon his face
to the earth, and worship him, and

Il. SAMUEL XY.

bless the king: and Joab will say, This
day thy servant knew that I found
grace in thine eyes, my lord, O king,
for that the king did the word of his
servant.

23 And Joab will rise and go to
Geshur and bring Absalom to Jerusa-
lem

24 And the king will say, He shall
turn about to his house and not see
my face. And Absalom will turn to his
house and not see the face of the king.

25 And as Absalom there was not a
fair man in all Israel to praise greatly :
from the sole of his foot and even to
his crown, there was not a blemish in
him.

26 And in his shaving his head (and
it was from the end of days to days
that he will shave, for it was heavy
upon him ;( and he shaved and weighed
the hair of his head, two hundred shek-
els by the stone of the king.

27 And there will be born to Absa-
lom three sons and one daughter, and
her name Tamar: she was a woman of
fair aspect.

28 And Absalom dwelt in Jerusalem
two years of days, and saw not the
king’s face.

29 And Absalom will send to Joab
to send him to the king, and he would
not come to him: and he will send yet
the second time, and he would not
come.

30 And he will say to his servants,
See, Joab’s portion to my hand, and
barley to him there; go and set it on
fire. And Absalom’s servants set the
portion on fire.

31 And Joab will rise and come to
Absalom to the house, and say to him,
Wherefore did thy servants set on fire
the portion which is to me?

32 And Absalom will say to Joab,
Behold, 1 sent to thee, saying, Come
hither, and I will send thee to the king,
saying, Wherefore came I from Geshur?
Good to me even I was there: and now
I will see the king’s face; and if there
is Iniquity in me, and kill me.

88 And Joab will come to the king
and announce to him: and he will call
for Absalom, and he will come to the
king and worship to him upon his face

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to the earth before the king: and the
king will kiss Absalom.

CHAPTER XV.
ND it will be from after this, and
Absalom will make to him char-
1018 and horses, and fifty men running
before him.

2 And Absalom rose early and stood
by the hand of the way of the gate:
and it will be every man which shall
be to him strife coming to the king for
judgment, and Absalom will call to
him and say, Where, from what city
thou? And he will say, of one of the
tribes of Israel is thy servant.

3 And Absalom will say to him, See,
thy words good and straight, and none
to hear to thee from the king.

4 And Absalom will say, Who will
set me judge in the land? and to me
shall every man come which shall be
to him strife and judgment, and I did
him justice.

5 And it was in a man’s coming
near to worship to him, and he stretch-
ed forth his hand and laid hold of
him, and kissed him.

6 And Absalom will do according
to this word to all Israel who will
come: for judgment to the king: and
Absalom will steal the heart of the men
of Israel. 4

7 And it will be from the end of
forty years, and Absalom will say to
the king, I will go now and complete
my vow which I yowed to Jehovah in
Hebron.

8 For thy servant vowed a vow in
my dwelling in Geshur in Aram, say-
ing, If turning back, Jehovah shall
turn me back to Jerusalem, and I
served Jehovah.

9 And the king will say to him, Go
in peace. And he will rise and go to
Hebron.

10 And Absalom will send spies in
all the tribes of Israel, saying, When
ye heard the voice of the trumpet, and
ye said, Absalom the king in Hebron.

11 And with Absalom went two
hundred men from Jerusalem, being
called; going uprightly, and they knew
not any word.

12 And Absalom will send for Ahith-

334 IL SAMUEL XV.

ophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor,
from his city, from Giloh, in his sacri-
ficing sacrifices). And the conspiracy
will be strong; and the people went
and a multitude with Absalom.

13 And he announcing, will come to
David, saying, The heart of the man
Israel was after Absalom.

14 And David will say to all his ser-
vants which are with him in Jerusalem,
Arise, and we will flee, for escape will
not be to us from the face of Absalom :
hasten to go lest he shall hasten to
hedge us in, and thrust evil upon us,
and smite the city with the mouth of
the sword.

15 And the king’s servants will say
to the king, According to all which my
lord the king shall choose, behold thy
servants.

16 And the king will go forth, and
all his house at his feet. And the king
will leave ten women, concubines, to
watch the house.

17 And the king will go forth, ‘and
all the people at his feet, and they will
stand in a house far off.

18 And all his servants passing by
upon his hand; and all the Cherethites
and all the Pelethites, and all the Git-
tites, six hundred men which came at
his foot from Gath, passing by at the
face of the king.

19 And the king ‘will say to Ittai the
Gittite, Wherefore wilt thou go, also
thou, with us? tum back and dwell
with the king, for thou a stranger and
thou an exile to thy place.

20 Yesterday thy coming, and this
day shall I cause thee to wander about
to go with us? andI go where 1 go,
turn back, and turn back thy brethren :
with thee mercy and truth.

21 And Ittai will answer the king,
and say, Jehovah lives, and my lord
the king lives, for surely πὶ the place
where my lord the king shall be, there
whether for death, whether for life, for
there will thy servant be.

22 And David will say to Ittai, Go
and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite
will pass over, and all his men, and all
the little ones that are with him.

23 And all the land weeping with a
great voice, and all the people passing

over: and the king passed over upon
the torrent Kidron, and all the people
passing over upon the face of the way
to the desert.

24 And behold, also Zadok, and all
the Levites with him, lifting up the ark
of. the covenant of God; and they
placed the ark of God: and Abiathar
will go up till all the people finished
passing over from the city.

25 And the king will say to Zadok,
Turn back the ark of God to the city:
if I shall find grace in the eyes of Je-
hovah, and he turned me back, and
caused me to see it and its rest.

26 And if he say thus, I delighted
not in thee; behold me, he will do to
me as is good in his eyes.

27 And the king will say to Zadok
the priest, Thou seest: turn back to
the city in peace, and Ahimaaz thy
son, and Jonathan son of Abiathar,
your two sons with you.

28 See me lingering in Araboth of

the desert till word come from you to ,

announce to me.

29 And Zadok and Abiathar will
turn back the ark of God to Jerusalem :
and they will sit there.

30 And David went up in the ascent
of the olive trees, going up and weep-
ing, and the head to him covered, and
he went barefoot: and all the people
which were with him 60761700 each his
head, and they went up, going up and
weeping. ;

81 And it was announced to David,
saying, Ahithophel among those con-
spring with Absalom. And David
will say, Now make foolish the counsel
of Ahithophel,O Jehovah.

82 And it will be David came even
to the head where he will worship there
to God, and behold, to his meeting,
Hushai the Archite, his tunic rent and
earth upon his head.

33 And Dayid will say to him, If
thou didst pass over with me thou wert
for a burden to me.

34 And if to the city, thou shalt turn
back and say to Absalom, I will be thy
servant, O king; thy father’s servant
from then, and now thy servant: and
thou didst frustrate for me the counsel
of Ahithophel.

I. SAMUEL XVL

85 And is not with thee there Za-
dok and Abiathar the priests? and it
being all the word which thou shalt
hear from the king’s house, thou shalt
announce to Zadok and to Abiathar
the priests.

36 Behold there with them their two
sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jona-
than to Abiathar; and send by their
hand to me every word which ye shall
ל‎ ,

87 And Hushai, David’s friend, will
come to the city, and Absalom will
come to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XVI
ND Davyid passed over a little
from the head, and behold, Ziba,
Mephibosheth’s boy, to his meeting, and
a pair of asses saddled, and upon them
two hundred of bread and a hundred
bunches of dried grapes, and a hundred

of fruits, and a flask of wine.

2 And the king will say to Ziba,
What are these to thee? and Ziba will
say, The asses for the house of the king
to ride; and the bread and the fruits
for the food of the boys, and the wine
for the drinking of the faint in the desert.

3 And the king will say, And where
the son of thy lord? And Ziba will
say to the king: Behold, he will dwell
in Jerusalem: for he said, This day the
house of Israel will turn back to me
the kingdom of my father.

4 And the king will say to Ziba, Be-
hold, to thee all which was to Mephi-
bosheth. And Ziba will say, 1 wor-
shiped; shall I find grace in the eyes
of my lord the king?

5 And king David went to Bahurim,
and behold, from thence a man will
come forth from the family of the house
of Saul, and his name Shimei, son of
Gera: he came forth, coming forth and
cursing.

6 And he will stone David with
stones, and all the servants of king Da-
vid: and all the people and all the
mighty, from his right hand and from
his left.

7 And thus said Shimei in his curs-
ing, Come forth, come forth, thou man
of bloods and man of Belial.

8 Jehovah turned back upon thee

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all the bloods of the house of Saul of
whom thou didst reign in his stead;
and Jehovah will give the kingdom
ito the hand of Absalom thy son; and
behold thee in thine evil, for a man of
bloods art thou.

9 And Abishai son of Zeruiah will
say to the king, Wherefore shall this
dead dog curse my lord the king? I
will pass over now and take away his
head.

10 And the king will say, What to
me and you ye sons of Zeruiah? for he
shall curse, and because Jehovah said
to him, Curse David: and who shall
say, Wherefore didst thou thus?

11 And David will say to Abishai and
to all his servants, Behold my son who
came forth from my bowels seeks my
soul: and how much more now the son
of the Jaminite? Leave to him and he
shall curse, for Jehovah said to him.

12 Perhaps Jehovah will look upon
my wrong, and Jehovah turn back to
me good for his cursing this day.

13 And David went, and his men, in
the way; and Shimei went by the side
of the mountain near to him going, and
he will curse and stone with stones near
to him, and dusting with dust.

14 And the king will come, and all
the people which are with him, weary,
and he will be refreshed there.

15 And Absalom and all the people,
the man Israel, came to Jerusalem, and
Ahithophel with him.

16 And it will be, as Hushai the Ar-
chite, David’s friend, came to Absalom,
and Hushai will say to Absalom, The
king shall live, the king shall live.

17 And Absalom will say to Hushai,
This thy mercy with thy friend? where-
fore wentest thou not with thy friend?

18 And Hushai will say to Absalom,
Nay; for whom Jehovah chose and
this people, and every man of Israel,
shall I not be and dwell with him?

19 And the second time, to whom
shall I serve if not before the son? as
I served before thy father so will I be
before thee. \

20 And Absalom will say to Ahith-
ophel, Bring counsel to yourselves what
we shall do.

21 And Ahithophel will say to Ab-

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salom, Come in to thy father’s concu-
bines which he left to watch the house ;
and all Israel hearing that thou madest
thy father loathsome, and the hands of
all that are with thee were strengthened.

22 And they will stretch out a tent
for Absalom upon the roof, and Absa-
lom will ₪0 in to his father’s concubines
before the eyes of all Israel.

23 And the counsel of Ahithophel
which he counseled in those days, ac-
cording as it will be asked in the word
of God: thus all the counsel of Ahith-
ophel also to David also to Absalom.

CHAPTER XVII.
Λ ND Ahithophel will say to Ab-
salom, I will now choose twelve
thousand men, and I will rise and pur-
sue after David this night:

2 And I shall come upon him and
he being weary and relaxed in hands,
and I made him afraid: and all the
people which are with him, fleeing;
and I struck the king alone,

8 And I will turn back all the peo-
ple to thee: as the turning back of all,
the man whom thou seekest; and to
all the people shall be peace.

4 And the word will be straight in
the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of
all the old men of Israel.

5 And Absalom will say, Call now
also for Hushai the Archite, and we will
hear also, what is in his mouth.

6 And Hushai will come to Absalom,
and Absalom will say to him, saying,
According to this word spake Ahith-
ophel: shall we do his word? if not,
speak thou.

7 And Hushai will say to Absalom,
The counsel which Ahithophel coun-
seled is not good in this time.

8 And Hushai will say, Thou knew-
est thy father and his men that they
are mighty, and they bitter of soul as a
bear bereaved of offspring in the field:
and thy father a man of war, and he
will not lodge with the people.

9 Behold now, he hid in one of the
pits, or in one of the places: and it
being when there fell among them in
the beginning, and he hearing heard
and said, There was a slaughter among
the people which are after Absalom,

1. SAMUEL XVIL

10 And he also the son of strength
whose heart according to the heart of
the lion, melting, will melt away: for
all Israel knew that thy father is
mighty, and the sons of strength which
are with him.

11 For I counseled being gathered,
all Israel shall be gathered to thee from
Dan and even to the Well of the Oath,
as the sand which is upon the sea for
multitude; and thy face going in the
midst of them.

12 And we came upon him in one of
the places which we shall find there,
and we upon him as the dew will fall
upon the earth: and we will not leave
of him and of all the men which are
with him, even one.

13 And if he shall be gathered into
the city, and all Israel shall lift up
ropes to that city, and we dragged it
even to the torrent, till we shall not
find there even a stone.

14 And Absalom will say, and every
man of Israel, The counsel of Hushai
the Archite is good above the counsel
of Ahithophel. And Jehovah com-
manded to frustrate the good counsel
of Ahithophel so that Jehovah brought
evil upon Absalom.

15 And Hushai will say to Zadok
and to Abiathar the priests, According
to this, and according to this, Ahitho-
phel counseled Absalom and the old
men of Israel; and according to this
and according to this, I counseled.

16 And now send quickly and an-
nounce to David, saying, Thou wilt
not lodge this night im Araboth of the
desert, and also passing over, thou
shalt pass over, lest he shall swallow
up to the king and to all the people
which are with him.

17 And Jonathan and Ahimaaz
standing by the fountain of Rogel; and
a maid-servant went and announced to
them, and they will go, and announce
to king David, for they will not be able
to be seen to come to the city.

18 And a boy will see them and he
will announce to Absalom: and they
two will go quickly and will come to
the house of a man in Bahurim, and
to him a well in his enclosure; and

| they will go down there,

I. SAMUEL XVIII.

19 And the woman will take and
spread the covering upon the mouth of
the well, and she will spread the medi-
cine upon it; aud the word will not
be known.

20 And Absalom’s servants will come
to the woman to her house, and they
will say, Where are Ahimaaz and Jon-
athan ? and the woman will say to them,
They passed over the brook of waters.
And they will seek and not find; and
they will turn back to Jerusalem.

21 And it will be after their going,
and they will come up out of the well
and will go and announce to king Da-
vid, and they will say to David, Arise
ye, and pass quickly over the waters,
for thus counseled Ahithophel against

ou.

22 And David will rise, and all the
people which are with him, and they
will pass over Jordan: till the light
of the morning till not one was lacking
which passed not over Jordan.

23 And Ahithophel saw that his
counsel was not done, and he will sad-
dle the ass and rise and go to his house
to his city, and command his house, and
he will strangle himself and die. And
he will be buried in the grave of his
father.

24 And David came to the camp.
And Absalom passed over Jordan, he
and all the men of Israel with him.

25 And Absalom set Amasa instead
of Joab over the army: and Amasa a
man’s son, and his name Ithra, the Is-
raelite, who went in to Abigail, daugh-
ter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, mother
of Joab.

26 And Israel and Absalom will en-
camp in the land of Gilead,

97 And it will be as David went to
Mahanaim, and Shobi, son of Nahash
of Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, and
Machir son of Ammiel of Lo-Debar,
and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

28 Beds and basins and vessels of
earth, and wheat, and barley, and flour,
and parched grain, and the bean and
lentiles, and parched grain,

29 And honey and curdled milk,
and sheep, and cheeses of kine, they
brought near for David and for the peo-
ple which are with him, to eat; for

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they said the people are hungry and
faint and thirsty in the desert.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND David will review the people
which are with him, and he will
put over them captains of thousands,
and captains of hundreds.

2 And David will send the people a
third into the hand of Joab, and a third
into the hand of Abishai, son of Zeru-
iah, brother of Joab, and a third into
the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the
king will say to the people, Going forth,
I will go forth, also I, with you.

8 And the people will say, Thou
shalt not go forth, for if fleeing, we
shall flee, they will not set the heart to
us; and if half of us shall die they will
not set the heart to us: but now like
us ten thousand: and now it is good
that thou shalt be to us from the city
for help.

4 And the king will say to them,
What will be good in your eyes I will
do. And the king will stand at the
hand of the gate, and all the people
will go forth, by hundreds and by thou-
sands.

5 And the king will command Joab
and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Gently
for me to the boy, to Absalom. And
all the people heard in the king’s com-
manding all the chiefs for the word of
Absalom.

6 And the people will go forth to the
field to the meeting of Israel: and the
war will be in the forest of Ephraim ;

7 And there the people of Israel will
be struck before David's servants, and
a great slaughter will be in that day of
twenty thousand.

8 And there the battle will be scat-
tered upon the face of all the earth:
and the forest will multiply to consume
of the people above what the sword
will consume in that day.

9 And Absalom will meet before the
servants of David, and Absalom rode
upon the mule, and the mule will go
under the thicket of the great oak, and
his head will lay hold upon the oak,
and he will be given between the heav-
ens and between the earth; and the
mule which was under him passed by,

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10 And one man will see and an-
nounce to Joab, and say, Behold, I
saw Absalom suspended in an oak.

11 And Joab will say to the man
announcing to him, And behold, thou
sawest, and wherefore didst thou not
strike him there to the earth? and for
me to give to thee ten of silver and one
girdle.

12 And the man will say to Joab,
And not I weighing upon my hand a
thousand of silver, I will not stretch
forth my hand against the king’s son,
for in our ears, the king commanded
thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying,
Watch for me over the boy, over Ab-
salom.

18 Or I did falsehood upon his soul ;
and any word will not be hid from the
king, and thou wilt stand opposite.

14 And Joab will say, I will not de-

‘lay before thee. And he will take
three spears in his hand, and thrust
them into the heart of Absalom, he yet
living in the heart of the oak.

18 And ten boys lifting up Joab’s
arms will surround and strike Absalom,
and kill him.

16 And Joab will strike upon the
trumpet, and the people will turn bacl<
from pursuing after Israel: for Joab
restrained the people.

17 And they will take Absalom and
cast him in the forest into a great pit,
and they will set upon him a very great
heap of stones: and all Israel fled each
to his tent.

18 And Absalom took and set up
for him in his living, a pillar in the val-
ley of the king; for he said, Not to me
a son to call my name to mind: and he
will call the pillar by his name, and he
will call it The Hand of Absalom, even
to this day.

19 And Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, said,
Τ will run now and bring good news to
the king that Jehovah judged him out
of the hand of his enemies.

20 And Joab will say to him, Not
thoua man of glad tidings this day,
and another day thou shalt announce
good news: and this day thou shalt not
announce good news, because the king’s
son died.

21 And Joab will say to Cushi, Go,

TI. SAMUEL XVIIL

announce to the king what thou sawest,
And Cushi will worship to Joab, and
run.

22 And Ahimaaz, son of Zadok will
yet add, and say to Joab, What will be,
I will run now, also I, after Cushi.
And Joab will say, Wherefore this run-
nest thou my son, and goest, not find-
ing good tidings?

23 And what will be, I will run.
And he will say to him, Run. And
Ahimaaz will run the way of the ceir-
cuit, and pass by Cushi.

24 And David will sit between the
two gates: and he watching will go to
the roof of the gate to the wall, and he
hft wp hiseyes and see, and behold, a
man running by himself.

25 And the watcher will call and an-
nounce to the king. And the king
will say, If alone, good news in his
mouth. And he will go, going, and
draw near.

26 And he watching will see another
man running, and the watcher will eall
at the gateand say, Behold, a man run-
ning alone. And the king will say,
This also announces good tidings.

27 And the watcher will say, I saw
the running of the first as the running
of Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son. And the
king will say, A good man this, and he
will come for good news.

28 And Ahimaaz will call and say
to the king, Peace. And he will wor-
ship to the king upon the face to the
earth, and he will say, Blessed Jeho-
vah thy God who shut up the men
who lifted up their hand against my
lord the king.

29 And the king will say, Peace to
the boy, to Absalon? And Ahimaaz
will say, I saw the great multitude at
Joab’s sending the king’s servant, and
thy servant; and I knew not what.

30 And the king will say, Turn, stand
here. And he will turn and stand.

81 And behold, Cushi came; and
Cushi will say, Good news will be an-
nounced, my lord the king, for Jehovah
judged thee this day from the hand of
all rising up against thee.

82 And the king will say to Cushi,
Is peace to the boy, to Absalom? And
Cushi will say, As the boy, shall all,

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the enemies of my lord the king be,
and all who rose up against thee for
evil.

CHAPTER XIX.

ND the king will be moved, and
he will go up into the upper
chamber of the gate and weep: and
thus he said in his going, My son Ab-
salom! my son, my son Absalom! who
will give my death, me for thee, Absa-

lom my son, my son!

2 And it will be announced to Joab,
Behold, the king weeping, and he will
mourn for Absalom.

3 And the salvation in that day will
be tumed to mourning to all the peo-
ple: for the people heard in that day,
saying the king was grieved for his son.

4 And the people will steal away in
that day to go to the city, as people will
steal away being ashamed in fleemg in
battle.

5 And the king covered his face, and
the king will cry out with a great voice,
My son Absalom! Absalom, my son,
my son!

6 And Joab will come to the king,
to the house, and say, Thou shamedst
this day the faces of all thy servants
saving thy soul this day, and the soul
of thy sons and thy daughters, and the
soul of thy wives, and the soul οὗ thy
concubines ;

7 To love those hating thee, and hat-
ing those loving thee, for thou announ-
cedst this day that not to the chiefs and
servants: for I knew this day that if
Absalom lived and all we this day died,
that then it was straight in thine eyes.

8 And now arise, go forth, and speaix
to the heart of thy servants: for in Je-
hovah I swore if thou wilt not go forth,
ifa man shall lodge with thee this
night: and this evil to thee above all
the evil which came upon thee from thy
youth till now.

9 And the king will rise and sit in
the gate. And to all the people they
announced, saying, Behold, the king sit-
ting m the gate. And all the people
will come before the king: and Israel
fled a man to his tent.

10 And all the people will be judg-
ing in all the tribes of Israel, saying,

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The king delivered us out of the hand
of our enemies, and he saved us from
the hand of the rovers: and now he
fled from the land from Absalom.

11 And Absalom whom we anointed
over us died in war. And now, where-
fore are ye silent to turn back the
king?

12 And king David sent to Zadok
and to Abiathar the priests, saying,
Speak ye to the old men of Judah, say-
ing, Wherefore will ye be the last to
turn back the king to his house? And
the word of all Israel came to the king
to his house.

13 Ye my brethren; my bone and
flesh are ye: and wherefore will ye be
last to turn back the king?

14 And to Amasa ye shall say, Art
thou not my bone and my flesh? thus
will God do to me and thus will he add,
if thou shalt not be chief of the army
before me all the days, instead of Joab.

15 And he will incline the heart of
all the men of Judah as one man; and
they will send to the king, Turn back
thou, and all thy servants.

16 And the king will turn back and
come to Jordan. And Judah came to
Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to cause
the king to pass over Jordan.

17 And Shimei son of Gera, a Ben-
jamite, who was from Bahurim, will
hasten and come down with the man
Judah to meet king David.

18 And a thoasand men with him
from Benjamin, and Ziba the boy of
the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons
and his twenty servants with him; and
they went over Jordan before the king.

19 The passing over passed over to
cause the house of the king to pass
over, and to do the good in his eyes.
And Shimei son of Gera, fell before the
king in his passing over Jordan.

20 And he will say to the king, My
lord will not reckon iniquity to me,
and he will not remember what thy ser-
vant did perversely in the day which
my lord the king came forth from Jeru-
salem, for the king to set to his heart.

21 For thy servant knew that I sin-
ned: and behold, I came this day the
first for all the house of Joseph to
come down to meet my lord the king.

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22 And Abishai son of Zeruiah, will
say, For this shall not Shimei be put
to death? for he cursed Jehovah’s Mes-
518}.

23 And David. will say, What to me,
and to you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
shall be to me for an adversary ? Shall
there this day bea man put to death
in Israel? Did I not know that this
day I am king over Israel ?

24 And the king will say to Shimei,
Thou shalt not die: and the king will
swear to him.

25 And Mephibosheth son of Saul,
came down to the meeting of the king.
and he did not his feet, and he did not
his beard, and his garments he washed
not from the day the king went till the
day in which he came in peace.

26 And it will be when he came to
Jerusalem to the meeting of the king,
and the king will say to him, Wherefore
wentest thou not with me, Mephibo-
sheth?

27 And he will say, My lord the
king, my servant deceived me: for thy
servant. said, I will saddle for me the
ass, and I will ride upon it, and I will
go to the king; for thy servant is
lame.

28 And he will slander against thy
servant tomy lord the king; and my
lord the king as a messenger of God:
and do thou the good in thine eyes.

29 For was not all my father’s house
but men of death before my lord the
king? and thou wilt set thy servant
among those eating at thy table. And
what is there to me yet of right and to
ery yet to the king?

80 And the king will say to him,
Wherefore wilt thou speak yet thy
words? I said, Thou and Ziba shall di-
vide the field.

31 And Mephibosheth will say to
the king, Also he shall take all, after
that my lord the king came in peace to
his house.

82 And Barzillai the Gileadite will
come down from. Rogelim, and he will
ΒΕ with the king over Jordan to send

im upon Jordan.

33 And Barzillaia very old man, the
son of eighty years: and he nourished
the king in his dwelling in the two

Il. SAMUEL XIX.

camps, for he was an exceeding great
man.

34 And the king will say to Barzil-
lai, Pass thou over with me, and I will
nourish thee with me in Jerusalem.

80 And Barzillai will say to the king,
According to what the days of the years
of my life, that I shall go up with the
king to Jerusalem ?

86 The son of eighty years am I this
day; shall I know between good to
evil? if thy servant shall taste what I
shall eat, and what I shall drink? if I
shall yet hear to the voice of men sing-
ing or of women singing? and where-
fore shall thy servant be yet for a bur-
den to my lord the king?

37 As thy servant will pass a little
over Jordan with the king; and where-
fore shall the king recompense me this
recompense ?

38 ‘Turn back now thy servant and I
will die in my city, by the grave of my
father and my mother: and behold,
thy servant Chimham shall pass over
with my lord the king; and do to him
what is good in thine eyes.

39 And the king will say, With me
shall Chimham pass over, and I will do
to him the good in thine eyes; and all
which thou shalt choose of me I will
do to. thee.

40 And all the people will pass over
Jordan. And the king passed over,
and the king will kiss to Barzillai, and
bless him: and he will turn back to his
place.

41 And the king will pass over to
Gilgal, and Chimham passed over with
him: and all the people of Judah will
pass over with the king, and also half
the people of Israel.

42 And behold, every man of Israel
coming to the king, and they will say
to the king, Wherefore did our breth-
ren the men of Judah steal thee away,
and they will cause the king to pass,
and his house, over Jordan, and all Da-
vid's men with him?

43 And every man of Judah will an-
swer to the man Israel, Because the
king being near to me: and wherefore
does this kindle to thee on account of
this word? did we eat food from the
king? or lifting up, did he lift up to us?

Il SAMUEL XX.

44 And the man Israel will answer
the man Judah, and say, Ten hands to
me in the king, and also in Dayid 1
above thee: and wherefore didst thou
make light of me? and was not my
word first to me to turn back my king?
And the word of the man Judah will
will be hard above the word of the man
Israel.

CHAPTER XX.

ND a man of Belial was met with

there, and his name Sheba, son
of Bichri, a man, a Jaminite: and he
will strike upon the tr umpet and say,
No portion to us in David, and no in-
heritance to us in the son of Jesse: a
man to his tent to Israel.

2 And every man of Israel will go
up from after David, after Sheba, son of
Bichri: and the men of Judah were
joined to the king, from Jordan and
even to Jerusalem.

3 And David will come to his house
to Jerusalem; and the king wil take
the ten women, the coneubines which
he left to watch the house, and he will
give them to the house of watch, and
he will nourish them, and he went not
in to them. And they will be bound
together till the day of their death to
live widows.

4 And the king will say to Amasa,
Call together to me the men of Judah
in three days, and stand thou here.

5 And Amasa will go to call Judah
together: and he will delay from
the appointment which he appointed

> him,

6 And David will say to Abishai,
Now Sheba son of Bichri will do evil
to us above Absalom: take thou thy
lora’s servants and go down after him,
lest finding to himself fortified cities
and he shadow our eyes.

7 And Joab’s men went forth after
him, and the Cherethites and the Pele-
thites ; and all the mighty went forth
from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba
son of Bichri.

8 They by the great stone which is
in the ה‎ and Amasa went before
them. And Joab girded his garment
being put upon him, and upon it he
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loins in its sheath; and he going forth
and it will fall.

9 And Joab will say to Amasa, Thou
my brother in peace? and Joab’s right
hand will take hold of Amasa by the
beard to kiss him.

10 And Amasa watched not upon
the sword which was in Joab’s hand:
and he will strike him with it into the
belty, and his bowels will be poured
forth to the earth ; and he repeated not
to him; and he will die. And Joab
and Abishai his brother pursued after
Sheba son of Bichri.

11 And a man from Joab’s boys
stood by him, and he will say, Who
delighted in Joab, and who that is for
David, after Joab.

12 And Amasa rolling in blood in
the midst of the highway. And the
man will see that all the people stood,
and he will turn Amasa from the high-
way to the field, and he will cast upon
him a garment when he saw all coming
by him and standing.

13 When he was taken away from
the highway every man passed by after
Joab to pursue after Sheba son of
Bichri.

14 And he will pass through in all
the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to the
house of oppression, and all the 1301-1108 :
and they will be called together, and
they will go also after him.

15 And they will come and besiege
against him in Atel of the house of op-
pression, and they will pour out a
mound against the city, and it will
stand in the fortification: and all the
people which were with Joab laying
waste to throw down the wall.

16 And a wise woman will eall out
of the city, Hear ye, hear ye; say now
to Joab, Come near hither and 1 will
spealk to you.

17 And he will draw near to her, and
the woman will say, Art thou Joab?
and he will say, 1. And she will say
to him, Hear the words of thy servant.
And he will say, I hear,

18 And she will say, saying, They
will speak the word in the beginning,
saying, They will ask an asking im
Abel: and thus they finished.

19 I peaceful of the faithful of Israel:

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thou seeking to kill a city and a mother
in Israel: wherefore wilt thou swallow
up the inheritance of Jehovah?

20 And Joab will say, Far be it, far
be it to me, if I shall swallow up and
if I shall destroy.

21 Not thus the word; for a man
from mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of
Bichri, his name, lifted up his hand
against the king, against David: ye
shall give him only, and I will go from
the city. And the woman will say to
Joab, Behold, his head being cast to
thee behind the wall.

22 And the woman will go to all the
people in her wisdom: and they will
cut off the head of Sheba the son of
Bichri and cast to Joab. And he will
strike upon the trumpet, and they will
disperse from the city, a man to his
tent. And Joab turned back to Jeru-
salem to the king.

23 And Joab over all the army of
Israel: and Benaiah, son of Jehoida,
over the Cherethites, and over the Pe-
lethites.

24 And Adoniram over the tribute:
and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, calling
to mind:

25 And Sheva the scribe: and Zadok
and Abiathar the priests.

26 And also Ira the Jairite was priest
to Dayid.

CHAPTER XXL
ND there will be a famine in the
days of David three years, year
after year; and David will seek the
face of Jehovah. And Jehovah will
say, For Saul and for the house of
bloods, 20081186 he killed the Gibeonites.

2 And the king will call for the Gib-
eonites, and say to them; (and the Gib-
eonites not of the sons of Israel, but
they from the remainder of the Amor-
ites; and the sons of Israel sware to
them: and Saul will seek to strike them
in his jealousy for the sons of Israel and
Judah.)

3 And Dayid will say to the Gibeon-
ites, What shall I do for you? and with
what shall I expiate and bless ye the
inheritance of Jehovah?

4 And the Gibeonites will say to him,
Not to me silver and gold with Saul

Il SAMUEL XXL

and with his house; and not for us to
put a man to death in Israel. And he
will say, What ye say, I will do for you.

5 And they will say to the king, The
man who finished us, and who made an
end of us, destroying us from standing
in all the bound of Israel,

6 Seven men of his sons shall be
given to us and we will hang them up
before Jehoyah in the hill of Saul, the
chosen of Jehovah. And the king will
say, I will give.

7 And the king will spare upon Me-
phibosheth, son of Jonathan, son of
Saul, on account of the oath of Jehovah
which was between them, betwen Da-
vid and between Jonathan, son of Saul.

8 And the king will take the two
sons of Rizpah, daughter of Aiah. which
she bare to Saul, Armoni and Mephib-
osheth, and the five sons of Michal,
Saul’s daughter, which she bare to
Adriel, son of Barzillai the Mehola-
thite :

9 And he will give them into the
hand of the Gibeonites, and they will
hang them in the mountain before Je-
hovah: and the seven will fall together,
and they were put to death m the days
of harvest in the first of the beginning
of the harvest of barley. ‘

10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aial
will take sackcloth and spread it for
her upon the rock, from the beginning
of harvest till water was given upon
them from the heavens, and she gave

not the birds of the heavens to rest up-

on them in the day and the beast of the
field at night.

11 And it will be announced to Da-
vid what Rizpah the daugher of Aiah,
concubine of Saul did.

12 And David will go and take the
bones of Saul and the bones of Jona-
than, his son, from the lords of Jabesh-
Gilead, who stole them from the street
of the House of Shan, where the rovers
hung them there in the day the rovers
struck Saul in Gilboa:

18 And he will bring up from thence
the bones of Saul, and the bones of
Jonathan his son: and they will gather
the bones of those being hung.

14 And they will bury the bones of
Saul, and Jonathan his son, in the land

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of Benjamin in Zelzah in the grave of
Kish his father: and they will do all
which the king commanded. And
God will hear for the land after this.

15 And yet there will be war to the
rovers with Israel; and David will go
down, and his servants with him, and
they will fight with the rovers: and
David will be faint.

16 And Ishbi-Benob who was from
the children of Rephaim, and the weight
of his spear three hundred weight of
brass, and he being girded with a new
one, and he will say to strike David.

17 And Abishai son of Zeruiah will
help for him. and he will strike the
rover and kill him. Then David’s
men sware to him, saying, Thou shalt
no more go forth with us to war, and
thou shalt not quench the light of
Israel.

18 And it will be after this, and
there will be war yet in Gob with the
rovers: then Sibbechai the Hushathite
struck Saph who was of the children of
Rephaim.

19 And there will be yet war in Gob
with the rovers, and Elhanan, son of
Jaare-Oregim of the House of Bread,
will strike Goliah the Gathite, and the
wood of his spear as the beam of those
weaving.

20 And there will be yet war in|,

Gath, and there will be a man of Midi-
an, and the fingers of his hands and
the toes of his feet, six and six; twen-
ty and four of number: and also he
child to Rephah.

21 And he will reproach Israel, and
Jonathan, son of Shimeah, David’s
brother, will strike him.

22 Those four were born to Rephah
in Gath, and they will fall by the hand
of David, and by the hand οἵ his ser-
vants.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND David will speak to Jehovah
the words of this song in the day
Jehovah delivered him from the hand
of all his enemies, and from the hand of
Saul:
2 And he will say,
Jehovah my rock and my fastness and
my deliverer ;

3 The God of my rock; I will trust
in him:
My shield and the horn of my salva-
tion, my height and my refuge ;
My saviour; thou wilt save me from
violence.
4 Praising, I will call Jehovah and
shall be saved from mine enemies.
5 For the breakers of death sur-
rounded me—
The torrents of Beilal will terrify me;
6 The pangs of hades surrounded me;
The snares of death anticipated me ;
7 Instraits to me I will call Jehovah,
And to God will I eall,
And he will hear my voice from his
temple,
And my cry in his ears.
8 And the earth will shake and trem-
ble,
The foundation of the heavens will be
disturbed,
And they will shake, for it kindled to
him.
9 Smoke went up in his anger,
And fire from his mouth shall con-
sume:
Coals were kindled from it.
10 He will incline the heavens and
come down;
And darkness under his feet.
11 And he will ride upon a cherub
and fly: .
And he will be seen upon the wings of
the wind.
12 And he will set darkness round
about him for booths,
The gatherings of waters the darkness
of clouds.
13 From the shining before him were
coals of fire kindled :
14 Jehovah will thunder from the
heavens,
And the Most High will give his voice.
15 He will send arrows and scatter
them—lightning, and put them in
commotion.
16 The torrents of the sea will be
seen,
The foundations of the habitable globe
will be uncovered,
In the rebuke of Jehovah, from the
breath of the spirit of his anger.
17 He will send from height, he will
take me;

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He will draw me out οἵ many wa-
ters:
18 He will deliver me from my
strong enemy,
From them hating me, for they were
strong above me.
19 They will anticipate me in the day
of misfortune,
And Jehovah will be a support to me:
20 And he will bring me forth to a
wide place ;
He will deliver me for he delighted in
me.
21 Jehovah will recompense me ac-
cording to my justice:
According to the cleanness of my hands
- he turned back to me.
22 For I have watched the ways of
Jehovah,
And I acted not wickedly away from
my God.
23 For all his judgments before me,
And his laws I will not depart from
them.
24 And I will be blameless to him,
and I shall be washed from mine
iniquity.

25 Jehovah will turn back to me ac-|

cording to my justice:
According to my cleanness before his
eyes.

26 With the merciful thou wilt be
merciful,
With the perfect man thou wilt be per-
fect.
27 With the chosen thou wilt be
chosen,
And with the perverse thou wilt be
unseasoned.
28 And the people of affliction thou
wilt save:

And thine eyes upon the lifted-up,
thou wilt humble.
29 For thou my light, O Jehovah:
And Jehovah will enlighten my dark-
ness.
80 For in thee will I run, being
pressed :
In my God will I leap over a wall.
81 The Strong One, blameless his
way ;
'The saying of Jehovah purified,
A shield to all trusting in him.
32 For who God besides Jehovah?
And who a rock besides our God?

I. SAMUEL XXII.

33 The Strong One strengthening me
with strength :

And he will leave his way blameless.

34 Setting my feet as the hinds:

And upon the heights will he cause me
to stand.

85 Teaching my hands to the war,

And bringing down the brazen bow by
mine arm.

80 And thou wilt give to me the
shield of thy salvation, and thine
answer will multiply me.

87 Thou wilt enlarge my steps un-
der me,

And my joints were not unsteady.

88 I will pursue mine enemies and
destroy them,

I will not turn back even to finishing
them.

39 And I will consume them and
crush them, and they shall not be
raised up.

40 Thou wilt fasten me together with
strength for the war,

Thou wilt subdue under me him rising
up against me.

41 And the neck of mine enemies
wilt thou give to me—

Those hating me, and I will cut them off.

42 They will look, and no saviour—

To Jehovah, and he answered them
not.

43 And I will rub them as the dust
of the earth:

As the mire of the streets I will stamp
them, I will beat them:

44 And thou wilt save me from the
strifes of my people,

Thou wilt watch me for the head of
nations :

The people I have not known shall
serve me.

45 The sons of the stranger will lie
to me:

For the hearing of the ear they will
hear to me.

46 The sons of the stranger shall
fail, and be girded from their en-
closings.

47 Jehovah living; and praised my
rock :

And God shall be lifted up, the rock
of my salvation.

48 The Strong One giving vengeance
to me,

Il SAMUEL XXIIL

And bringing down peoples under me.
49 And bringing me out from mine
enemies—lifting me up from them
rising up against me:
From the man of violence thou wilt
deliver me.

50 For this will I praise thee, O Je-
hovah, in the nations, to thy name
will I play on the harp.

51 Magnifying the salvyations of his
king:

And he has done merey to his Mes-
siah

To David and to his seed even to for-
ever.

CHAPTER XXIII
ND these the last words of David.
The declaration of David, son of
Jesse, and the declaration of the man
raised up for the Messiah of the God of
Jacob, and the sweet songs of Israel.

2 The spirit of Jehovah spake in
me, and his word upon my tongue.

8 The God of Israel said to me, the
Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the
just man: a parable to fear God.

4 And as the light of the morning
the sun will rise: the morning not
dense; from the shining of the rain
bringing forth herbage from the earth.

5 For not thus my house with the
Strong One, for he set to me an eternal
covenant, prepared in all, and watched:
for all my salvation and delight will he
not bring forth.

6 And Belial as the thorn thrusting
out are all they, for. they will not be
taken by the hand.

7 And the man laboring in them
shall be filled with iron and the wood
of a spear; and in fire burning they
shall burn in the dwelling.

8 These the names of the mighty,
which were to David: the Tachmonite
dwelling in the dwelling, head of the
third; he Adino the Hznite: against
eight hundred wounded at one time.

9 And after him Eleazar son of Do-
do, son of Ahohi, among the three
mighty with David in their upbraiding
the rovers; they were gathered together
there to war, and the men of Israel will
go up.

10 116 arose, and he will strike against

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the rovers till that his hand will be
weary, and his hand will cleave to the
sword: and Jehovah will do a great
salvation in that day ; and they sat down
behind him only to strip off.

11 And after him, Shammah, son of
Aga the Hararite. And the rovers will
be gathered together to live; and there
will be there a portion of the field full
of lentiles: and the people fled from the
face of the rovers.

12 And he will stand in the midst of
the portion, and he will take it away,
and he will strike the rovers: and Je-
hovah will do a great salvation.

13 And three of the thirty heads will
go down and come to the harvest, to
David, to the cave of Adullam: and
the wild beasts, the rovers, encamped
in the valley of Rephaim.

14 And David then in the fortress,
and the station of the rovers then in the
House of Bread.

15 And David will desire and say,
Who will give me to drink waters from
the well of the House of Bread, which
is in the gate?

16 And the three mighty will break
forth through the camp of the rovers,
and draw waters from the well of the
House of Bread, which is in the gate,
and they will lift up and bring to Da-
vid: and he would not drink them, and
he will pour them out to Jehovah.

17 And he will say, Far be it to me,
O Jehovah, my doing this: the blood
of the men going with their souls: and
he would not drink them. These did
the three mighty.

18 And Abishai Joab’s brother, son
of Zeruiah, he the head of the three.
And he raised up his spear against three
hundred wounded, and to him a name
among the three.

19 Above the three was he not hon-
ored? and he will be to them for chief:
and he came not even to the three.

20 And Benaiah son of Jehoida, son
of a living man great of works, from
Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of
Moab: and he went down and struck
a lion in the midst of a well in the day
of snow.

21 And he struck a man, an Egyp-

tian, who was seeing; and in the hand

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of the Egyptian a spear; and he went

down to him with a rod, and he_ will
luck the spear out of the-Hgyptian’s
and and kill him with his spear.

22 These did Benaiah son of Jehoida,
and to him a name among the three
mighty.

28 116 was honored above the thirty,
and to the three he came not. And
David will set him to his audience.

24 Asahel, brother of Joab, among
the thirty; Elhanan, son of Dodo of
the House of Bread.

25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the
Harodite,

26 Helez the Paltite, Ira, son of Ik-
kesh the Tekoite,

27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebun-
nai the Hushathite,

28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the
Netophathite,

29 Heleb, son of Banah the Netopha-
thite, Ittai, son of Ribai, from the hill
of the sons of Benjamin,

80 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai
of the torrents of Gaash,

81 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azma-
veth the Barhumite,

82 Eliahba the Shaalbonite; of the
sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

83 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam
son of Sharar the Hararite,

34 Eliphalet, son of Ahasbai, son of
the Maacathite, Eham son of Ahitho-
phel the Gilonite,

85 Hezri the Carmelite, Paarai the
Arbite,

80 Ieal son of Nathan of Zobah, sons
of the Gadite,

87 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the
Beerothite, lifting up the arms of Joab,
son of Zeruiah,

98 Iva the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

39 Uriah the Hittite: all, thirty and
seven.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND the anger of Jehovah will add
to kindle against Israel, and he
stimulated David against them, saying,
Go, number Israel and Judah.

2 And the king will say to Joab,
chief of the army which was with him,
Go now, up and down through all the
tribes of Israel, from Dan and even to

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the Well of the Oath, and review ye
the people, and I shall know the num-
ber of the people.

3 And Joab will say to the king, Je-
hovah thy God will add to the people
as they and as they a hundred times,
and the eyes of my lord the king seeing :
and my lord the king, wherefore de-
lights he in this word ?

4 And the king’s word will be strong
to Joab and to the chiefs of his army.
And Joab went forth and the chiefs of
his army before the king to review the
people Israel.

5 And they will pass over Jordan,
and they will encamp in Aroer, the
right hand of the city which is in the
midst of the torrent of Gad, and to-
wards Jazer:

6 And they will come to Gilead and
to the land of Tahtim-Hodshi ; and they
will come to Dan-Jaan, and round about
to Zidon.

7 And they will come to the fortress
of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivites
and of the Canaanites; and they will
go forth to the south of Judah to the
Well of the Oath.

8 And they will turn aside through
all the land, and they will come from
the end of nine months and twenty
days to Jerusalem.

9 And Joab will give the number of
the reviewing of the people to the king:
and there will be of Israel eight hund-
red thousand men of strength drawing
sword; and the men of Judah, five
hundred thousand men.

10 And the heart of David will strike
him after he thus reviewed the people.
And David will say to Jehovah, I sin-
ned greatly in what I did: and now, O
Jehovah, now pass by the iniquity of
thy servant, for I was very foolish.

11 And David will rise in the morn-
ing, and the word of Jehovah was to
Gad the prophet, seer of David, saying,

12 Go and speak to David, Thus said
Jehovah, Three I lay upon thee: choose
to thee one from them, and 1 will do to
thee.

13 And Gad will come to David and
announce to him, and say to him, Shall
seven years of famine come to thee in
thy land? and if three months to flee

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before thine adversaries, they pursuing
thee? and if death to be three days in
thy land? now know, and see what
word 1 shall turn back to him sending

me.

14 And David will say to Gad, Straits
to me exceedingly: now we will fall
into the hand of Jehovah, for many his
compassions ; and into the hand of man
1 will not fall.

15 And Jehovah will give death in
Israel from the morning and even to
the time of the appointment ; and from
the people will die from Dan and even
to the Well of the Oath, seventy thou-
sand men.

16 And the messenger will stretch
forth his hand to destroy Jerusalem,
and Jehovah will lament for the evil,
and he will say to the messenger de-
stroying among the people, Much now:
let go thy hand. And the messenger
of Jehovah was near the threshing-
floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

17 And David will say to Jehovah,
in his seeing the messenger smiting the
people, and he will say, Behold, I sin-
ned and acted, perversely; and these
sheep, what did they? Now shall thy
hand be upon me and upon my father’s
house.

18 And Gad will come to David in
that day and say to him, Go up, raise
up an altar to Jehovah in the thresh-
ing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

19 And David will go up, according

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to the word of Gad, as Jehovah com-
manded.

20 And Araunah will look forth and
see the king and his servants passing
over to him: and Araunah will go forth
and worship to the king, his face to
the earth.

21 And Araunah will say, Where-
fore came my lord the king to his serv-
ant? and David will say, To buy from
thee the threshing-floor to build an al-
tar to Jehovah, and the slaughter shall
be withheld from above the people.

22 And Araunah will say to David,
My lord the king shall take and bring
up the good in his eyes: 806, the oxen
for the burnt-offering, and the thresh-
ing-rollers, and the instruments of the
oxen for wood.

23 And Araunah gave all to the king
for the king. And Araunah will say
to the king, Jehovah thy God will take
pleasure in thee.

24 And the king will say to Arau-
nah, Nay, but buying, I will buy of thee
at a price; and I will not bring up to
Jehovah my God a burnt-offering gra-
tuitously. And David will buy the
threshine-floor and the oxen for the sil-
ver of filty shekels.

25 And Dayid will build there an
altar to Jehovah, and he will bring up
burnt-offerings and peace. And Jeho-
vah will be entreated for the land, and
the slaughter will be withheld from Is-
rael.

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CHAPTER I.
ND king David was old, going in
days; and they will cover him
with garments, and he will not be warm.

2 And his servants will say to him,
They shall seek for my lord the king a
girl, a virgin, and she standing before
the king, and she shall be to him an as-
sociate, and lying in thy bosom, and it
shall be warm to my lord the king.

3 And they will seek a fair girl in all
the bound of Israel, and they will find
Abishag the Shunamite, and they will
bring her to the king.

4 And the girl fair, even exceedingly,
and she will be to the king an associate,
and she will serve him: and the king
knew her not.

5 And Adonijah, son of Haggith.
being lifted up, saying, I will reign;
and he will make to himself chariots
and horsemen, and fifty men to run be-
fore him.

6 And his father grieved him not
from his days, saying, Wherefore didst
thou thus? and he good of form, ex-
ceedingly; and she bare him after Ab-
salom.

7 And his words will be with Joab,
son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the
press and they will help after Adoni-
Jah.

8 And Zadok the priest, and Bena-
jah, son of Jehoida, and Nathan 6
prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the
mighty which were to David, were not
with Adonijah.

9 And Adonijah will sacrifice sheep
and oxen and the fatling, by the stone
of Zoheleth, which is next the fountain
of the fuller, and he will call all his
brethren the kine’s sons, and for all the
men of Judah the king’s servants:

10 And Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah, and the mighty, and Solomon
his brother, he called not.

11 And Nathan will say to Bath.
sheba, saying, Didst thou not hear that
Adonijah son of Haggith reigned, and
Dayid our lord knew not?

12 Come now, advising, I will now
advise thee, and save thou thy soul and
the soul of thy son Solomon.

13 Come, go in to king David, and
say to him, My lord the king, didst
thou not swear to thy servant, saying,
That Solomon thy son shall reign af-
ter me, and he shall sit upon my
throne ? and wherefore did Adonijah
relon?

14 Behold thee yet speaking with
the king, and I will come in after thee
and complete thy words.

15 And Bath-sheba will go in to the
king to the chamber: and the king was
very old; and Abishag the Shunamite
serving the king.

16 And Bath-sheba will bow and
worship to the king, and 116 king will
say, What to thee?

17 And she will say to him, My lord,
thou didst swear by Jehovah thy God
to thy servant that Solomon thy son
shall reign after me, and he shall sit
upon my throne.

18 And now, behold, Adonijah reign-
ing; and now my lord the king knew
not :

19 And he will sacrifice oxen and
the fatling, and sheep for multitude,
and he will call to all the sons of the
king, and for Abiathar the priest, and
for Joab, chief of the army: and Solo-
mon thy servant he called not.

20 And thou, my lord the king, the
eyes of all Israel are upon thee to an-
nounce to them who shall sit wpon the
throne of my lord the king after him.

21 And being when my lord the king
lies down with his fathers, I and my
son Solomon being the sinful.

22 And behold her yet speaking with
the king, and Nathan the prophet came
n

98 And they will announce to the
king, saying, Behold, Nathan the pro-
phet. And he will come in before the
king, and he will worship to the king
upon his face to the earth.

24 And Nathan will say, My lord

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the king, 881035 thou Adonijah shall
reign after me and he shall sit upon my
throne?

25 For he went down this day, and
he will sacrifice oxen and the fatling,
and sheep for multitude, and he will
call to all the king’s sons, and for the
chief of the army, and for Abiathar the
priest, and behold them eating and
drinking before him, and they will say,
King Adonijah shall live.

26 And for me, me thy servant, and
for Zadok the priest, and for Benaiah
son of Jehoida, and for Solomon thy
servant, he called not.

27 If from my lord the king was this
word, and thou madest not known to
thy servant who shall sit upon the
throne of my lord the king after him?

28 And king David will answer and
say, Call to me for Bath-sheba. And
she will come in before the king and
stand before the king.

29 And the king will swear, and say,
Jehovah lives who redeemed my soul
from all straits.

30 For us I swear to thee by Jeho-
vah the God of Israel, saying that Sol-
omon thy son shall reign after me and
he shall sit upon my throne instead of
me; for so I will do this day.

81 And Bath-sheba will bow the face
to the earth and worship to the king,
and say, My lord king David shall live
forever,

82 And king David will say, Call to
me for Zadok the priest, and for Na-
than the prophet, and for Benaiah the
son of Jehoida. And they will come
in before the king.

33 And the king will say to them,
Take with you the servants of your
lord and cause Solomon my son to ride
upon the mule which is to me, and
bring him down to Gihon:

34 And Zadok the priest anointed
him there, and Nathan the prophet, for
king over Israel: and strike ye upon
the trumpet and say, King Solomon
shall live.

385 And come up after him, and he
coming, and he shall sit upon my throne,
and he shall reign instead of me: and
I commanded him to be ruler over Is-
rael and over Judah.

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56 And Benaiah, son of Jchoida,
will answer the king and say, Verily:
so will Jehovah say, the God of my
lord the king.

37 As Jehovah was with my lord the
king, so will he be with Solomon, and
he will magnify his throne above the
throne of my lord, king David.

88 And Zadok the priest will go
down, and Nathan the prophet, and Be-
naiah son of Jehoida, and the Chere-
thites and the Pelethites, and they will
cause Solomon to ride upon king Da-
vid’s mule, and they will cause him to
go to Gihon.

89 And Zadok the priest will take a
horn of oil from the tent and will
anoint Solomon; and they will strike
upon the trumpet, and all the people
will say, King Solomon shall live.

40 And all the people will go up
after him, and the people piping with
pipes and rejoicing with great joy, and
the earth will break forth with their
voice.

41 And Adonijah will hear, and all
being called with him, and they finish-
ed eating. And Joab will hear the
voice of the trumpet, and say, Where-
fore the voice of the city put in mo-
tion?

42 He yet speaking, and behold, Jon-
athan son of Abiathar the priest came
in; and Adonijah will say, Come in,
for thou a man of strength, and thou
wilt announce good news.

43 And Jonathan will answer and
say to Adonijah, Truly our lord king
David made Solomon king.

44 And the king will send with him
Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoida,
and the Cherethites and the Pelethites,
and they will cause him to ride upon
the king’s mule:

45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan
the prophet will anoint him for king
in Gihon: and they will go up from
thence rejoicing, and the city will be
put in motion: this the voice which
ye heard. /

46 And also Solomon will sit upon
the throne of the kingdom.

47 And also the king’s servants
came to bless our lord king David, say-

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ing, Thy God will do good to the name
of Solomon above thy name, and he
will magnify his throne above thy
throne. And the king will worship
upon the bed.

48 And also thus will the king say,
Blessed Jehovah the God of Israel who
gave this day him sitting upon my
throne, and mine eyes seeing.

49 And all the called that were to
Adonijah will tremble, and will rise
and go, a man to his way.

90 And Adonijah will be afraid of
the face of Solomon, and he will rise
and go, and lay hold upon the horns
of the altar.

51 And it will be announced to Sol-
omon, saying, Behold, Adonijah was
afraid of king Solomon, and behold, he
seized upon the horns of the altar, say-
ing, Will king Solomon swear to me
according to the day if he will kill his
servant with the sword ?

52 And Solomon will say, If he will
be for a son of strength there shall not
fall of his hairs to the earth: and if evil
shall be found in him and he shall die.

53 And king Solomon will send and
they will bring him down from the al-
tar. And he will come and worship to
king Solomon: and Solomon will say
to him, Go to thy house.

CHAPTER It.
ND the days of David will draw
near to die; and he will command
Solomon his son, saying,

21 go in the way of all the earth:
and be thou strong, and be for a man;

3 And watch the watches of Jehovah
thy God, to go in his ways, to watch
his laws, his commands and his judg-
ments, and his testimonies, as written in
the law of Moses, so that thou shalt
consider all that thou shalt do and all
where thou shalt turn there:

4 So that Jehovah shall raise up his
word which he spake concerning me,
saying, If thy sons shall watch their
way to go before me in truth, with all
their heart, and with all their soul, say-
ing, There shall not be cut off to thee
a man from the throne of Israel.

5 And also thou knewest what Joab
son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did

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to the two chiefs of the armies of Israel,
to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son
of Jether; and he will kill them and
put the bloods of war in peace, and give
the bloods of war upon his girdle which
was upon his loins, and in his shoe
upon his feet.

6 And do according to thy wisdom,
and thou wilt not bring down his gray
hairs in peace to hades.

7 And tothe sons of Barzillai the Gil-
eadite thou shalt do mercy, and they
shall be of those eating at thy table: for
so they came near to me in my fleeing
from the face of Absalom thy brother.

8 And behold, with thee Shimei, son
of Gera, a Benjamite, of Bahurim; and
he cursed me a strong curse in the
day I went to the two camps: and he
came down to my meeting at Jordan,
and I will swear to him by Jehovah,
saying, If I shall kill thee with the
sword.

9 And now thou shalt not let him go
unpunished ; for thou a wise man, and
thou knowest what thou wilt do to
him; and bring down his gray hairs
with blood to hades.

10 And Dayid will lie down with his
fathers, and be buried in the city of
David.

11 And the days that David reigned
over Israel, forty years: in Hebron he
reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem
he reigned thirty and three years,

12 And Solomon will sit upon the
throne of David his father; and his
kingdom will be protected greatly.

18 And Adonijah son of Haggith,
will come to Bath-sheba, Solomon’s
mother: and she will say, Thy coming
peace? And he will say, Peace.

14 And he will say, A word to me
for thee. And she will say, Speak.

15 And he will say, Thou knewest
that to me was the kingdom, and upon
me all Israel set their faces for king:
and the kingdom will turn about and
be for my brother, for from Jehovah it
was to him.

16 And now I ask one asking from
thee, thou wilt not turn away my face.
And she will say to him, Speak.

17 And he will say, Speak now to
Solomon the king, for he will not turn

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away thy face, and he will give to me
Abishag the Shunamite for wife.

18 And Bath-sheba will say, Well I
will speak for thee to the king.

19 And Bath-sheba will go to king
Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah.
And the king will rise up to her meet-
ing, and worship to her, and he sat
upon his throne, and a throne will be
set for the king’s mother; and she will
sit at his right hand.

20 And she will say, One small ask-
ing 1 ask from thee; thou wilt not turn
away my face. And the king will say
to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not
turn away thy face

21 And she will say, Give Abishag
the Shunamite to Adonijah thy brother
for wife.

22 And king Solomon will answer,
and say to his mother, And wherefore
didst thou ask Abishag the Shunamite
for Adonijah? And ask for him the
kingdom, for he my brother, the great
above me; and for him Abiathar the
priest, and Joab son of Zeruiah.

23 And king Solomon will swear by
Jehovah, saying, Thus will God do to
me, and thus will he add, for Adonijah
spake this word against his soul.

24 And now Jehovah lives who pre-
pared me, and he will set me upon the
throne of Dayid my father, and who
made for mea house as he spake, for
this day Adonijah shall die.

25 And king Solomon will. send by
the hand of Benaiah, son of Jehoida,
and he will strike upon him and he
will die.

26 And to Abiathar the ‘priest the
king said, Go to Anathoth upon thy
field; for thou a man of death: and in
this day I will not kill thee, for thou
didst lift up the ark of the Lord Jeho-
vah before David my father, and_be-
cause thou wert afflicted in all which
my father was afflicted.

27 And Solomon will drive out Abi-
athar from being priest to Jehovah, to
complete the word of Jehovah which
he spake concerning the house of Eli
in Shiloh.

28 And the report came even to
Joab: (for Joab turned after Adonijah,
and after Absalom he turned not;) and

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Joab will flee to the tent of Jehovah
and will lay hold upon the horns of the
altar.

29 And it will be announced to king
Solomon that Joab fled to the tent of
Jehovah; and behold, by the altar.
And Solomon will send Benaiah son of
Jehoida, saying, Go strike upon him.

30 And Benaiah will go to the tent
of Jehovah, and say to him, Thus said
the king, Come forth. And he will
say, Nay; for here will I die) And
Benaiah will turn back the king word,
saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he
answered me.

81 And the king will say to him, Do
as he said, and strike upon him, and
bury him; and take away the bloods
which Joab shed gratuitously, from me
and from my father’s house.

82 And Jehovah turned back his
blood upon his head, who struck upon
two just inen and good above him, and
he will Jall them with the sword, and
my father David knew not, Abner son
of Ner, chief of the army of Israel, and
Amasa, son of Jether, chief of the army
of Judah.

83 And their bloods shall turn back
upon the head of Joab and upon the
head of his seed forever: and to David
and to his seed and to his house and to
his throne shall be peace even forever,
from Jehovah.

84 And Benaiah son of Jehoida will
go up, and will strike upon him and
will kill him: and he will be buried in
his house in the desert.

85 And the king will give Benaiah
son of Jehoida instead of him over the
army: and Zadok the priest, the king
gave instead of Abiathar.

86 And the king will send and eall
for Shimei, and say to him, Build for
thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell
there, and thou shalt not go forth from
thence, whither and whither.

387 For being in the day of thy going
forth, and thou didst pass the torrent
Kidron, knowing, thor shalt know that
dying, thou shalt die: thy blood shall
be upon thy head.

88 And Shimei will say, Good the
word: according to what my lord the
king spake, thus will thy servant do.

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And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many
days.

39 And it will be from the end of
three years, and two servants to Shimei,
will flee to Achish, son of Maachah, king
of Gath: and they will announce to
Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants in
Gath.

40 And Shimei will rise and saddle
his ass, and go to Gath to Achish to
seek his servants: and Shimei will go
and bring his servants from Gath.

41 And it will be announced to Sol-
omon that Shimei went from Jerusalem
to Gath, and he will turn back.

42 And the king will send and 1
for Shimei, and say to him, Did not I
cause thee to swear by Jehovah, and
attest to thee, saying, In the day of thy
going forth, and thou wentest whither
and whither, knowing, thou shalt know
that dying, thou shalt die? and thou
wilt say to me, Good the word I heard.

48 And wherefore didst thou not
watch the oath of Jehovah, and the
command which I commanded upon
thee?

44 And the king will say to Shimei,
Thou knewest all the evil which thy
heart knew, which thou didst to David
my father: and Jehovah turned back
thy evil upon thy head.

45 And blessed be king Solomon,
and the throne of David shall be pre-
pared before Jehovah, even forever.

46 And the king will command Be-
naiah son of Jehoida, and he will go
forth and will strike upon him, and he
will 616. And the kingdom was pre-
pared in the hand of Solomon.

CHAPTER זז‎

ND Solomon will contract mar-

riage with Pharaoh king οἵ
Egypt, and he will take Pharaoh's
daughter and bring her to the city of
David till he finished building his house,
and the house of Jehovah and the wall
of Jerusalem round about.

2 Only the “people sacrificing in]

heights, for there was not a house built
to the name of Jehovah even to these
days.

3 And Solomon will love Jehovah,
going in the laws of David his father:

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only he was sacrificing and burning m-
cense upon the heights.

4 And the king will go to the hill to
sacrifice there; for it was the great
height: a thousand burnt-offerings will
Solomon bring up upon that altar.

5 In the hill Jehovah was seen to
Solomon in a dream at night: and God
will say, Ask what I shall give to
thee.

6 And Solomon will say, Thou didst
with thy servant David, my father, great
mercy, according as he went before thee
in the truth and in justice and in up-
rightness of heart with thee; and thou
wilt watch for. him this great mercy,
and thou wilt give to him a son sitting
upon his throne as this day.

7 And now, Jehovah my God, thou
madest thy servant king instead of Da-
vid my father: and 1 a little boy, shall
not know to go out and come in.

8 And thy servant in the midst of
thy people which thou didst choose,
many people which shall not be num-
bered and counted for multitude.

9 And give to thy servant a heart to
hear to judge thy people to discern be-
tween good to evil: for who shall be
able to judge this thy weighty people?

10 And the word will be good in the
eyes of God that Solomon asked this
word.

11 And God will say to him, Because
thou didst ask this word, and didst not
ask for thyself many days; and didst
not ask for thyself riches, and didst not
ask the soul of thine enemies: and didst
ask for thyself to have understanding
to hear judgment ;

12 Behold, I did according to thy
word, I gave to thee a wise and under-
standing heart; that there was not as
thou before thee, and after thee there
shall not arise like thee.

13 And also that thou askedst not I
gave to thee, also riches, also honor,
that there was not a man like thee among
kings all thy days.

14 And 11 thou wilt goin my way
to watch my law and my commands, as
David thy father went, I prolonged thy

i days.

15 And Solomon will awake; and

‘behold, a dream. And he will go to

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Jerusalem and stand before the ark of
the covenant of Jehovah, and bring up
burnt-offerings, and he will do peace,
and make a drinking to all his sery-
ants.

16 Then will come two women, har-
lots, to the king, and they will stand
before him.

17 And the one woman will say,
With leave, my lord, I and this woman
are dwelling in one house; and I shall
bring forth with her in the house.

18 And it will be in the third day
after I brought forth, and also this wo-
man will bring forth: and we together,
and no stranger with us in the house
besides we two in the house.

19 And the son of this woman will
die in the night when she lay upon
him.

20 And she will rise in the middle of
the night and take my son from beside
me, and thy servant sleeping; and she
will lay him in her bosom and her
dead son she laid in my bosom.

21 And 1 shall rise in the morning
to suckle my son, and behold, he was
dead: and I shall attend to him in the
morning, and behold, it was not my
son that I brought forth.

22 And the other woman will say,
Nay; for my son the living, and thy
son the dead. And this said, No; for
thy son the dead, and my son the liy-
ing. And they spake before the king.

23 And the king will say, This says,
My son the living, and thy son the
dead; and this says, Nay; for thy son
_ the dead, and my son the living.

24 And the king will say, Take to
me asword. And they will bring the
sword before the king.

25 And the king will say, Divide the
living child in two, and ye shall give
the half to the one, and the half to the
other.

26 And the woman to whom the liv-
ing son, will say to the king, for her
bowels were warm upon her son, and
she will say, With leave, my lord, ye
shall give to her the living child, and
slaying, ye shall not slay him. And
this said, It shall not be even to me,
even to thee; divide it.

27 And the king will answer and

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say, Ye shall give to her the living
child, and slaying, ye shall not slay it:
she is his mother.

28 And all Israel will hear the judg-
ment which the king judged, and they
will be afraid of the face of the king,
for they saw that the wisdom of Jeho-
vah was in the midst of him to do
judgment.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Solomon will be reigning,

-\ king over all Israel.

2 And these the chiefs which were to
him: Azariah, son of Zadok the priest ;

3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, sons of Shi-
sha, scribes; Jehoshaphat son of Ahi-
lud, remembering.

4 And Benaiah, son of Jehoida, over
the army: and Zadok and Abiathar,
priests :

5 And Azariah son of Nathan, over
the stations: and Zabud, son of Nathan
the priest, the king’s friend:

6 And Ahishar over the house: and
Adoniram son of Abda over the
tribute.

7 And to Solomon, twelve, set over
all Israel, and they furnished the king
and his house: a month in the year
will be for one to furnish.

8 And these their names: the son of
Hur in mount Ephraim :

9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and
in Shaalbim, and the House of the
Sun, and the oak of the House of
Mercy:

10 The son 01 Hesed in Araboth; to
him Sochoh, and all the land of He-
pher:

11 The son of Abinadab, all the
height of Dor: Taphath the daughter,
of Solomon was to him for wife.

12 Baana son of Ahilud; Taanach
and Megiddo, and all the House of
Rest, which is by Zartanah from 26-
neath Jezreel, from the House of Rest
even to the Meadow of Dancing, even
to the other side of Jokneam.

18 The son of Geber in Ramoth-Gil-
ead; to him Havoth-Jair son of Manas-
seh, which was in Gilead; to him a
portion of Ergab which isin Bashan,
sixty great cities, with a wall and bars
of brass.

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14 Ahinadab, son of Iddo, the two

camps.

15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; also he
took Basmath daughter of Solomon for
wife.

16 Baana, son of Hushai in Asher
and in Aloth:

17 Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Is-
sachar :

18 Shimei, son of Elah, in Benja-
min.

19 Geber, son of Uri, in the land of
Gilead, the land of Sihon, king of the
Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan;
and one king set which was in the
land.

20 Judah and Israel many as 6
sand which is by the sea for multitude,
eating and drinking and rejoicing.

CHAPTER V.
ND Solomon was ruling over
all kingdoms from the river to
the land of the rovers, and even to the
bound of Eeypt: they were bringing a
gift and serving Solomon all the days
of his life.

2 And the bread of Solomon for one
day will be thirty cors of fine flour, and
sixty cors of meal,

8 Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen
of the shepherd, and a hundred sheep,
besides from the stag and the roe and
the fallow deer, and fowls fattened.

' 4 For he ruled over all beyond the
river, from Tiphsah and even to Azzah,
over all the kings beyond the river:
and there was peace to hjm from all his
servants from round about.

5 And Judah dwelt, and Israel, with
confidence, a man under his vine and
under his fig tree, from Dan and even
to the Well of the Oath, all the days of
Solomon.

* 6 And there will be to Solomon forty
thousand stalls of horses for his char-
jots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

7 And these being set, furnished
king Solomon, and all coming near
king Solomon’s table, each his month:
a word will not be wanting.

5 8 And the barley and the straw for
horses, and for coursers, they will bring
to the place where a man will be there
according to his judgment,

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9 And God will give wisdom to Sol-
omon, and understanding exceeding
much, and breadth of heart as the sand
which is upon the lip of the sea.

10 And the wisdom of Solomon will
be multiplied above the wisdom of all
the sons of the east, and above all the
wisdom of Egypt.

11 And he will be wise above all
men; above Hthan the Ezrahite, and
Heman and Chalcol and Darda, sons of
Mahol: and his name will be in all the
nations round about.

12 And he will speak three thousand
parables: and his songs will be five
and a thousand.

13 And he will speak concerning the
woods, from the cedar which is in Leb-
anon, even to the hyssop which went
forth on the wall: and he will speak
upon the eattle, and upon the birds,
and upon the creeping things, and upon
the fishes.

14 And there will come from all peo-
ples to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
from all the kings of the earth who
heard his wisdom.

15 And Hiram king of Tyre will
send his servants to Solomon; for he
heard that they anointed him for king
instead of his father: for Hiram was
loving to David all the days.

16 And Solomon will send to Hiram,
saying,

17 Thou knewest David my father,
that he was not able to build a house
for the name of Jehovah his God from
the face of wars which surrounded him,
until Jehovah will give them under the
soles of his feet.

18 And now Jehovah my God
caused rest tome from round about;
not an adversary and not an evil
event.

19 And behold me saying to build a
house for the name of Jehovah my God,
as Jehovah spake to David my father,
saying, Thy son which I will give upon
thy throne instead of thee, he shall
build the house to my name.

20 And now command and they shall
cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and
my servants shall be with thy servants:
and the hire of thy servants will I
give to thee according to all which thou

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shalt say: for thou knewest that not
among us a man knowing to cut wood
as the Sidonians.

21 And it will be when Hiram heard
the words of Solomon, and he will re-
joice greatly, and say, Blessed Jehovah
this day who gaye to Dayid a wise son
over this great people.

29 And Hiram will send to Solomon,
saying, I heard what thou sentest to
me: I will do all thy pleasure in woods
of cedars and in woods of cypress.

' 23 My servants shall bring from Leb-
anon to the sea, and I will put them on
rafts upon the sea, even to the place
where thou wilt send to me; and I dis-
persed them there, and thou shalt lift
up and thou shalt do my pleasure to
give bread to my house.

24 And Hiram will be giving to Sol-
omon woods of cedar and woods of ey-
press, all his desire.

25 And Solomon gave to Hiram
twenty thousand cors of wheat food for
his house, and twenty cors of beaten
oil: thus Solomon will give to Hiram
year by year.

26 And Jehovah gave wisdom to
Solomon, as he spake to him: and
peace will be between Hiram and _ be-
tween Solomon; and they two will cut
out a covenant.

27 And king Solomon will bring up
a tribute from all Israel; and the trib-
ute will be thirty thousand men.

28 And he will send them to Leba-
non, ten thousand by the month ; being
changed, a month they shall be in Leb-
anon and two months in his house.
And Adoniram over the tribute.

29 And there will be to Solomon
seventy thousand lifting up a burden,
and eighty thousand hewing in the
mountain.

30 Besides from the chiefs set to Sol-
omon which were oyer the work, three
thousand and three hundred ruling over
the people doing in the work.

81 The king will command and they
will remove great stones, precious
stones; to set the house, cut stones.

82 And Solomon’s builders and Hi-
ram’s builders, and those setting, will
cut: and they will prepare the woods
and stones to build the house.

CHAPTER זט‎
Λ ND it will be in the eightieth year
and four hundredth year after the

going out of the sons of Israel from the

land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the

month of brightness, it the second’
month to king Solomon over Israel,

and he will build the house to Jeho-

vah.

2 And the house which king Solomon
built to Jehovah, sixty cubits its length,
and twenty its breadth, and thirty cu-
bits its height.

3 And the porch upon the face of the
temple of the house, twenty cubits its
length, upon the face of the breadth of
the house; ten by the cubit its breadth
upon the face of the house.

4 And he will make for the house
windows of closed bars.

5 And he will build upon the wall
of the house a floor round about the
walls of the house round about for the
temple, for the oracle: and he will
make ribs round about.

6 The floor. the lower part, five by
the cubit its breadth, and the middle,
six by the cubit its breadth, and the.
third, seven by the cubit its breadth:’
for he gave offsets to the house round
about without, so that it laid not hold
upon the walls of the house.

7 And the house in its building was
built of stone completed from the quar-
ry: and hammers and the axe, every
instrument of iron was not heard in the'
house in its building. ὃς

8 The door of the middle rib to
the right shoulder of the house: and
they will go up with windings upon the
middle, and from the middle to the:
third. ἶ

9 And he will build the house, and
he will finish it; and cover the house
with arches and rows with cedars.

10 He will build the floor upon all
the house, five cubits its height: and 16
will hold to the house with woods of
cedars,

11 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Solomon, saying,

12 This house which thou didst build,
if thou shalt go in my laws, and my
judgment thou wilt do, and watch all
my commands to go in them; and I

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lifted up my word with thee which I
spake to David thy father.

13 And I dwelt in the midst of the
sons of Israel, and I will not forsake
my people Israel.

14 And Solomon will build the
house and finish it.

15 And he will build the walls of the
house from within it with ribs of cedars ;
from the bottom of the house even to
the walls of the covering he overlaid
with wood from within, and he will
overlay the bottom of the house with
ribs of cypresses.

16 And he will build twenty cubits
from the thighs of the house with ribs
of cedars, from the bottom even to the
walls: and he will build for it from
within for the oracle to the holy of
holies.

17 And forty by the eubit was the
house ; it the temple before.

18 And cedar to the house within
carved work with ornaments and open-
ing flower-buds; all cedar: no stone
was secn.

19 And the oracle in the midst of
the house from within he prepared to
give there the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah.

20 And to the face of the oracle
twenty cubits the length, and twenty
cubits the breadth, and twenty cubits
its height: and he will overlay it with
gold shut up, and he will overlay the
altar with cedar.

21 And Solomon will overlay the
house from the inside with gold shut
up: and he will close up with chains of
gold to the face of the oracle; and he
will overlay it with gold.

22 And all the house he overlaid
with gold even till he completed all
the house: and all the altar which
was to the oracle he overlaid with
gold.
23 And he will make in the oracle
two cherubims of woods of oil, ten cu-
bits its height.

24 And five cubits the one wing of
the cherub, and five cubits the second
wing of the cherub: ten cubits from the
extremities of its wings and even to the
extremities of its wings.

25 And ten by the cubit of the sec-

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ond cherub : one measure and one form
to the two cherubs.

26 The height of the one cherub ten
by the cubit, and this to the second
cherub,

27 And he will give the cherubims
in the midst of the house within: and
the cherubims will expand the wings,
and the wing of the one will touch upon
the wall, and the wing of the second
cherub touched upon the second wall;
and their wings touched wing to wing
to the middle of the house.

28 And he will overlay the cheru-
bims with gold.

29 And all the walls of the house
round about he carved with engravings
of cherubims and palm trees and open-
ing flower-buds from within and to with-
out.

80 And the bottom of the house he
overlaid with gold from within and to
without.

31 And the openings of the oracle
he made doors of the woods of oil: the
projection of door-posts the fifth.

82 And two doors of woods of oil;
and he carved upon them carvings of
cherubims, and palm-trees, and open-
ing flower-buds, and he overlaid with
gold, and he brought down gold upon
the cherubims and upon the palm-
trees.

83 And thus he made for the door of
the tempie, door-posts of woods of oil
from the fourth.

84 And two doors of the woods of
cypresses : two ribs of the one door roll-
ing, and two ribs of the second door
rolling.

35 And he carved cherubims and
palm-trees, and opening flower-buds;
and he overlaid with gold made even
upon the carving.

36 And he will build the enclosure
of the insides three rows of cuttings,
and a row of cuttings of cedars.

37 In the fourth year was the house
of Jehovah founded, in the month of
brightness.

38 And in the eleventh year in the
month of rain (this the eighth month)
was the house finished to all its words
and according to all its judgment.
And he will build it seven years,

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CHAPTER VIL
ND Solomon built his house thir-
teen years, and he will finish his
house. :

2 And he will build the house of the
forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits its
leneth, and fifty cubits its breadth, and
and thirty cubits its height, upon four
rows of pillars of cedars, and cuttings
of cedars upon the pillars.

3 And it was covered with cedar from
above upon the ribs which were upon
the forty and five pillars, fifteen to the
row.

4 And bars, three rows, and window
against window, three steps.

5 And all the doors and door-posts,
quadrated with the bar: and the front
of the window against the window,
three steps.

6 And he made a porch of pillars,
fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits
its breadth: and the porch upon the
face of them: and the pillars and the
threshold upon the face of them.

7 And a porch of the throne upon
which he will judge there, a porch of
judgment he made: and it was covered
with cedar from the bottom even to the
bottom.

8 And his house where he dwelt
there, another enclosure, from the house
to the porch was according to this
work. And he will make a house for
Pharaoh’s daughter which Solomon
took, according to this porch.

9 All these precious stones according
to the measures of cuttings, sawings
with a saw, from within and from with-
out, and from the foundation even to
the expansions, and from without even
to the great enclosure.

10 And the foundation precious
stones, great stones; stones of ten cu-
bits and stones of eight cubits.

11 And from aboye precious stones
according to the measure of the cut-
tings and the cedars,

12 And the great enclosure round
about, three rows of cuttings, and a
row of cuttings of cedars, and for the
enclosure of the house of Jehovah with-
in, and for the porch of the house.

13 And king Solomon will send and
take Hiram out of Tyre.

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14 Son of a widow woman from the
tribe of Naphtali, and his father a -צץ']'‎
jan man, an artificer of brass; and he
will be filled with wisdom and under-
standing, and knowledge to do all the
work in brass) And he will come to
king Solomon and do all his works.

15 And he formed two pillars of
brass, eighteen cubits the height of the
one pillar: and a thread of twelve cu-
bits will surround the two pillars.

16 And he made two crowns upon
the heads of the pillars, of molten brass:
five cubits the height of the one crown,
and five cubits the height of the second
crown.

17 Lattices of net-work, festoons of
chain-work for the crown which was
upon the head of the pillars; seven for
the one crown and seven for the sec-
ond crown.

18 And he will make the pillars, -
and two rows round about upon the
one net for covering the crowns which
were upon the head, with pomegran:
ates: and thus he made for the second
crown.

19 And the crowns which were upon
the head of the pillars of lily-work in
the porch, four cubits.

20 And the crowns upon the two pil-
lars also from above from over against
the belly which was beyond the net:
the pomegranates two hundred in rows
round about upon the second crown.

21 And he will raise up the pillars
for the porch of the temple: and he
will raise up the right pillar and call its
name Jachin: and he will raise up the
left pillar and call its name Boaz.

22 And upon the head of the pillars
the work of the lily: and the work of
the pillars will be completed.

23 And he will make the sea molten,
ten by the cubit, from its lip even to its
lip, round, round about; and five by
the cubit its height; and a rope thirty
by the cubit will surround it round
about.

24 And ornaments from beneath to its
lip round about surrounding it, ten by
the eubit, folding round the sea round
about: two rows of ornaments being
cast In its casting.

25 It stood upon twelve oxer, three

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looking to the north, and three looking
to the sea, and three looking to the south,
and three looking to the sunrising: and
the sca upon them from aboye, and all
their behinds inside.

26 And its thickness a hand breadth,
and its hp as the work of the lip of a
‘cup the flower of the lily: it will hold
two thousand baths.

27 And he will make ten bases of
brass, four by the cubit the length of
the one base, and four by the cubit its
breadth, and three by the cubit its
height.

28 And this the work of the base:
borders to them, and borders between
the joinings:

29 And upon the borders which were
between the joinings, lions, oxen, and
cherubs: and upon the jomings thus
from above: and from beneath to the
lions and to the oxen, wreaths, a work
of descent.

80 And four wheels of brass to the
‘one base, and axles of brass: and its
four steps, shoulders to them: from un-
der to the wash basin the shoulders
molten from beyond each of the
wreaths.

81 And its mouth from within to the
crown and from above, by the cubit:
and the mouth, round; the work thus
a cubit and half a cubit: and also
upon the mouth engravings and their
borders, quadrated, not round.

82 And four wheels beneath to the
borders; and hands of the wheels in
the base: and the height of ‘the one
wheel a eubit and half of the eubit.

89 And the work of the wheels as
the work of a wheel of the chariot:
their hands and their backs and their
joinings and their gatherings all cast.

84 And four shoulders to four cor-
ners of the one base: from the base its
shoulder.

85 And in the head of the base its
height, half a 6216 rounded round
about: and upon the head of the base
its hands and its borders from out of it.

86 And he will open, upon 6
cheeks of its hands and upon its bor-
ders, cherubs, lions, and palm-trees, ac-
cording to the nakedness of each, and
wreaths round about.

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87 According to this he made the
ten bases, one casting, one measure, one
form to all of them.

88 And he will make ten wash-ba-
sins of brass: the one wash-basin will
hold forty baths, four by the cubit the
one wash-basin, the one wash-basin
upon the one base to the ten bases.

39 And he will give five bases upon
the shoulder of the house from the
right, and five upon the shoulder of the
house from its left: and he gave the
sea from the shoulder of the house to the
right to the east over against the south.

40 And Hiram will make the wash-
basins and the shovels and the vases:
and Hiram will finish doing all the
work which he made for king Solomon
in the house of Jehovah.

41 The two pillars. and the globes of
the crowns which were upon the head
of the two pillars; and the two nets to
cover the two globes of the crowns
which were upon the head of the pil-
lars ;

42 And four hundred pomegranates
to the two nets, two rows of pomegran-
ates to the one neét, to cover the two
globes of the crowns which were upon
the face of the pillars;

43 And the ten bases and the ten
wash-basins upon the bases ;

44 And the one sea and the twelve
oxen under the sea;

45 And the pots and the shovels and
the vases: and all these vessels which
Hiram made for king Solomon of the
house of Jehovah, of polished brass.

46 In the circuit of Jordan the king
cast them, in the density of the earth
between Suecoth and between Zarthan.

47 And Solomon will leave all the
vessels, an exceeding great multitude:
and the weight of the brass was not
searched out.

48 And Solomon will make all the
vessels which are for the house of Je-
hovah: the altar of gold, and the table
which was upon it the bread of the
face, of gold.

49 And the chandeliers, five from the
right, and five from the left, before
the oracle, of gold shut up; and the
flower, and the lamps, and the tongs of
gold.

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50 And the thresholds, and the snuf-
fers, and the vases, and the pans, and
the fire-pans, of gold shut up; and the
openings to the doors of the house with-
in to the holy of holies, to the doors of
the house to the temple, of gold.

51 And all the work will 06 complet-
ed which king Solomon made for the
house of Jehovah. And Solomon will
bring in the holy things of David his
father: the silver and the gold and the
vessels he gave into the treasures of the
house of Jehovah.

CHAPTER VIII.

HEN Solomon will convoke to-
gether the old men of Israel and
all the heads of the tribes, chiefs of the
fathers to the sons of Israel, to king
Solomon at Jerusalem, to bring up the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah from

the city of David: this is Zion.

2 And every man of Israel will be
convoked to king Solomon in 6
month Ethanim in the festival: this
the seventh month.

3 And all the old men of Israel will
come, and the priests will lift up the
ark.

4 And they will bring up the ark of
Jehovah, and the tent of appointment,
and all the holy vessels which were in
the tent, and the priests and the Levites
will bring them up.

5 And king Solomon and all the as-
sembly of Israel assembled together to
him, with him before the ark sacrifi-
cing sheep and oxen which shall not be
‘counted and shall not be numbered for
‘multitude.

6 And the priests will bring up the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its
place to the oracle of the house to the
holy of holies, to beneath the wings of
the cherubims.

7 For the cherubims spreading out
their wings to the place of the ark, and
the cherubims will cover over the ark
and over the parts from above.

8 And they will prolong the bars and
the heads of the bars will be seen from
the holies upon the face of the oracle,
and they will not be seen without; and
they will be there till this day.

9 Nothing in the ark only the two

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tables of stones that Moses set down
there in Horeb which Jehovah cut out
with the sons of Israel in their coming
out of the land of Egypt.

10 And it will be in the priests’ com-
ing out of the holy place, and the cloud
filled the house of Jehovah.

11 And the priests will not be able
to stand to serve from the face of the
cloud for the glory of Jehovah filled
the house of Jehovah.

12 Then said Solomon,
spake to dwell in thick clouds.

13 Building, I built a house for thee
to dwell,a place for thy resting for-
ever.

14 And thy king will turn his face
round and bless all the convocation of Is-
rael; and all the convocation of Israel
stood ;

15 And he will say, Blessed Jeho-
vah the God of Israel, who spake by
his mouth to David my father, and by
his hand filled up, saying,

16 From the day which I brought
forth my people Israel out of Egypt I
chose not a city from all the tribes of
Israel to build a house for my name to
be there ; and I will choose upon Da-
vid to be over my people Israel.

17 And it will be with the heart of
David my father to build a house for
name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

18 And Jehovah will say to David
my father, Because it was with thy
heart to build a house for my name, it
was good it was with thy heart.

19 But thou shalt not build a house,
but thy son coming forth from thy loins,
he shall build the house for my name.

20 And Jehovah will raise up his
word which he spake; and I shall rise
instead of David my father, and sit
upon the throne of Israel, as Jehovah
spake; and I will build the house for
the name of Jehovah the God of Israel.

21 And 1 will set there a place for the
ark, where is there the covenant of Je-
hovah which he cut out with our fa-
thers in his bringing them out of the
land of Keypt.

22 And Solomon will stand at the
face of the altar of Jehovah before all
the convocation of Israel, and he will
spread forth his hands to the heavens:

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23 And he will say, Jehovah the
God of Israel, none like thee, the God
in the heavens from above and upon
the earth from beneath, watching the
covenant and the mercy to thy servants
going before thee with all their heart:

24 Which thou didst watch to thy
servant David my father what thou
spakest to him: and thou wilt speak
with thy mouth, and with thy hand
thou didst complete as this day.

25 And now Jehovah God of Israel
watch tothy servant David my father
what thou spakest to him, saying, There
shall not be cut off to thee a man from
my face sitting upon the throne of Is-
rael; only if thy sons shall watch their
way to go before me as thou didst go
before me.

26 And now, O God of Israel, thy
word now shall be firm which thou
spakest to thy servant David my fa-
ther.

27 For truly shall God dwell upon
the earth? Behold the heavens and the
heavens of the heavens shall not con-
tain thee; much less this house which
1 built.

28 And look to the supplication of
thy servant, and to his prayer, O Jeho-
vah my God, to hear to the cry and to
the supplication which thy servant
prays before thee this day:

29 For thine eye to be opened to this
house night and day, to the place of
which thou saidst, My name shall be
there ; to hear to the supplication which
thy servant shall pray to this place.

80 And wilt thou hear to the prayer
of thy servant and of thy people Israel
which they shall pray to this place ?
and wilt thou hear to the place of thy
dwelling to the heavens? and hear and
forgive?

31 Whateyer man shall sin against
his neighbor, and an oath lifted up upon
him to cause him to swear, and the oath
come before thine altar in this house,

89 And thou wilt hear in the heay-
ens, ancl do, and judge thy servants to
condemn the unjust, to give his way
upon his head, and to acquit the just,
to give to him according to his justice.

33 In thy people Israel being struck
before the enemy because they will sin

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against thee, and they turned back to
thee, and they confessed thy name and
prayed, and made supplication to thee
in this house.

34 And wilt thou hear in the heay-
ens and forgive to the sin of thy people
Israel, and turn them back to the land
which thou gavest to their fathers?

85 In the heavens being shut up and
there will be no rain when they shall
sin against thee; and they pray to this
place and profess thy name, and they
turn back from their sin when thou
shalt humble them:

86 And wilt thou hear in the heay-
ens and forgive to the sin of thy serv-
ants and of thy people Israel? for
thou wilt teach them the good way
which they shall go in it, and give rain
upon thy land which thou gavest to thy
people for an inheritance.

87 If famine shall be in the land, if
there shall be death, blasting, yellow-
ness, the locust devouring; if his ene-
my shall press upon him in the land of
his gates, every blow, every sickness;

38 Every prayer, every supplication
which shall be to every man to all thy
people Israel which shall know a man
the blow to his heart and spread forth
his hands to this house:

39 Wilt thou hear in the heavens thy
prepared dwelling, and forgive and do,
and give to a man according to all his
ways? for thou wilt know his heart;
for thou wilt know alone the heart of
all the sons of men:

40 So that they will fear thee all the
days which they live upon the face of
the earth which thou gayest to our
fathers.

41 And also for the strangers which
are not of thy people Israel, he shall
come from a land afar off for sake of
thy name ;

42 (For they will hear of thy great
name and thy strong hand, and thy
stretched out arm;) and coming and
praying to this house;

43 Wilt thou hear in the heavens
thy prepared dwelling, and do accord-
ing to all the stranger shall call upon
thee? so that all the people of the earth
shall know thy name to fear thee as thy
people Israel; and to know that thy

I. KINGS VIII

name was called upon this house which
1 built.

44 If thy people shall go forth to war
against his enemy in the way which
thou shalt send them, and pray to Je-
hoyah the way of the city which thou
didst choose in it, and the house which
I built for thy name:

45 And hear thou in the heavens
their supplication and their prayer, and
do their judgment.

46 For they will sin against thee (for
no man which will not sin) and thou
wert angry with them and gave them
before the enemy, and they carried
them away their captives to the land of
the enemy, far off or near;

47 And they turned back to their
heart in the land which they were car-
ried captive there, and they turned back
and supplicated to thee in the land of
their captivity, saying, We sinned and
acted perversely, and did evil ;

48 And they turned back to thee
with all their heart and with all their
soul in the land of their enemies who
carried them captive, and prayed to
thee the way of their land which thou
gavest to their fathers, the city which
thou didst choose, and the house which
I built to thy name:

49 And hear in the heavens thy pre-
pared dwelling, their supplication and
their prayer, and do their judgment,

50 And forgive to thy people who sin-
ned against thee, and all their transgres-
sions which they transgressed against
thee, and give them for compassion be-
fore those carrying them captive, and
they compassionated them :

61 For they thy people and thine in-
heritance which thou broughtest forth
out of Egypt from the midst of the fur-
nace of iron:

52 For thine eyes to be opened to the
prayer of thy servant and to the prayer
of thy people Israel, to hear to them in
all their calling to thee.

53 For thou didst separate them to
thyself for an inheritance from all the
people of the earth as thou spakest by
the hand of Moses thy servant, in thy
bringing our fathers out of the land of
Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.

54 And it will be as Solomon finished

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praying to Jehovah all this supplica-
tion and prayer, he rose from the face
of the altar of Jehovah, from bending
upon his knees and his hands spread
forth to the heavens.

55 And he will stand and bless all
the convocation of Israel with a great
voice, saying,

56 Blessed Jehovah who gave rest to
his people Israel, according to all which
he spake: there fell not one word from
all his good word which he spake by
the hand of Moses his servant.

57 Jehovah our God will be with us
as he was with our fathers: he will not
forsake us, and he will not cast us off.

58 To incline our heart to him, to go
in all his ways, and to watch his com-
mands and his laws and his judgments
which he commanded our fathers.

59 And these words which I suppli-
cated before Jehovah shall be drawing
near to Jehovah our God day and night,
to do the judgment of his servant and
the judgment of his people Israel, the
word of a day in its day.

60 For all the people of the earth to
know that Jehovah he is God, none be-
sides.

61 And your hearts be perfect with
Jehovah our God to go in his laws, and
to watch his commands as this day.

62 And the king and all Israel with
him sacrificed a sacrifice before Jeho-
yah.

63 And Solomon will sacrifice a sae-
rifice of peace which he sacrificed to
Jehovah, twenty and two thousand
oxen, and a hundred and twenty thou-
sand sheep. And the king and all the
sons of Israel will consecrate the house
of Jehovah.

64 In that day the king consecrated
the middle of the enclosure which was
before the house of Jehovah: for he did
there the burnt-offering and the gifts
and the fat of the peace: for the altar
of brass which was before Jehovah was
little for containing the burnt-offer-
ing and the gifts and the fat of the
peace,

65 And Solomon will make the festi-
val in that day, and all Israel with
him, a great convocation from the going
in of Hamath even to the torrent of

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Egypt, before Jehovah our God seven
days and seven days, fourteen days.

66 In the eighth day he sent away
the people, and ‘they will bless the king
and go to their tents rejoicing and good
of heart for all the good which Jehovah
did for David his servant and for Israel
his people.

f CHAPTER IX.
ND it will be when Solomon fin-
ished building the house of Je-
hoyah, and the house of the king, and
all the pleasure of Solomon which he
desired to do,

2 And Jehovah will be seen to Sol-
omon the second time as hew was seen to
him in the hill.

8 And Jehovah will say to him, I
heard thy supplication and thy prayer
which thou didst supplicate before me:
1 consecrated this house which thou
didst build to put my name there even
to forever; and mine eyes and my heart
were there all the days.

4 And thou, if thou shalt go before
me as David thy father went with in-
tegrity of heart and in uprightness to do
according to all that I commanded thee,
my law and my judgment thou shalt
watch :

5 And I raised up the throne of thy
kingdom over Israel forever, as T spake
to David thy father, saying, There shall
not be cut off to thee a man from the
throne of Israel.

6 If turning back, ye shall turn back,
ye and your sons from after me, and
shall not watch my commands, my laws
which I gave before you, and ye went
and served other gods and worshiped to
them :

7 And I cut off Israel from the face
of the earth which I gave to them; and
the house which I consecrated to my
name 1 will cast out from my face; and
Israel was for a parable and for a deris-
ion among all peoples.

8 And this house shall be high, every
one passing by it shall be astonished,
and shall hiss: and they said, For what
did Jehovah thus to this land and to
this house?

9 And they said, Because they for-
sook Jehovah their God who br ought

1. KINGS IX.

forth their fathers out of the land of
Kgypt, and they will lay hold upon
other gods and worship to them, and
serve them: for this, Jehovah brought,
upon them all this evil.

10 And it will be from the end of
twenty years, when Solomon built the
two houses, the house of Jehovah and
the house of the king,

11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, aided Solo-
mon in woods of cedars and in woods
of cypresses, and in gold to all his de-
sire) then king Solomon will give Hi-
ram twenty cities im the land of Galilee.

12 And Hiram came out from Tyre
to see the cities which Solomon gave
to him, and they were not right in his
eyes.

13And he will say, What these cities
which thou gavest to me, my brother?
And he will call them the [μη Cabul
even to this day.

14 And Hiram will send to the king
a hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15 And this the word of tribute which
king Solomon brought up to build the
house of Jehovah, and his house, and
the fortress, and the walls of Jerusalem,
and the enclosure, and Megiddo, and
Gezer.

16 Pharaoh king of Egypt came up,
and he will take Gezer ed burn it in
fire, and he killed the Canaanite dwel-
ling in the city, and he will give it a
sending to his daughter, Solomon's
wite.

17 And Solomon will build Gezer,
and the house of the hollow below,

18 And Baalath and T’admor in the
desert, in the land.

19 And all the cities of stores which
were to Solomon, and the cities of char-
iots, and the cities of horsemen, and the
pleasure of Solomon which he pleased
to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon,
and in all the land of his ruling.

20 All the people remaining of the
Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Hivites and the Jebusites, which
were not of the sons of Israel ;

21 Their sons which were left after
them in the land, which the sons of Is-
rael will not be able to destroy them,
and Solomon will bring them up for
tribute of work even to this day.

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22 And of the sons of Israel, Solomon
gave not to serve, for they were men of
war, and his servants and his chiefs,
and his warriors, and chiefs of chariots,
and his horsemen.

23 These the chiefs being stationed
which were over the work to Solomon,
fifty and five hundred going down
among the people working in the work.

24 But Pharaoh’s daughter went up
from the city of David to her house
which he built for her: then he built
the fortress.

25 And Solomon brought up three
times in a year burnt-offerings and
peace upon the altar which he built to
Jehovah, and he burnt incense upon it
that was before Jehovah: and he com-
pleted the house.

26 And Solomon made a ship in
Ezion-Geber, which is with Eloth, upon
the lip of the sea of sedge in the land of
Edom.

27 And Hiram will send in the ships
his servants, men of ships, knowing the
sea with Solomon’s servants.

28 And they will come to Ophir, and
take gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and bring to king Solomon.

CHAPTER X.
ND queen Sheba heard the report
of Solomon for the name of Je-
hovah, and she will come to try him in
enigmas.

2 And she will come to Jerusalem
with very weighty strength, camels lift-
ing up spices, and exceeding much gold
and precious stone: and she will come
to Solomon and will speak to him all
which was in her heart.

8 And Solomon will announce to her
all her words: there was not a word
hid from the king which he announced
not to her.

4 And queen Sheba will see all Sol-
omon’s wisdom, and the house which
he built,

5 And the food of his table, and the
seats of his servants, and the standing
of his attendants, and their vestments,
and his cup-bearers, and his burnt-offer-
ings which he will bring up to the house
- Jehovah; and no more spirit was in

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6 And she will say to the king, The
word was truth which I heard in my
land concerning thy words, and con-
cerning thy wisdom.

7 And I believed not the words un-
til I came, and mine eyes will see it:
and behold, the half was not announced
to me: thou didst add wisdom and
good to the report which I heard.

8 Happy thy men, happy these thy
servants, standing before thee contin-
ually, hearing thy wisdom.

9 Jehovah thy God will be blessed,
who delighted in thee to give thee upon
the throne of Israel: in Jehovah’s lov-
ing Israel forever, and he will set thee
up for king to do judgment and jus-
tice.

10 And she will give to the king a
hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and spices very many, and precious
stone; there came no more as this spice
for multitude which queen Sheba gave
to king Solomon. ἱ

11 And also the ship of Hiram which
lifted up gold from Ophir, brought from
Ophir woods of almugs very many,
and precious stone.

12 And the king will make of the
almug trees a support for the house of
Jehovah, and for the king’s house,
harps and lyres for songs; there came
not such woods of almugs, and were not
seen even to this day.

13 And king Solomon gave to queen
Sheba all her desire which she asked,
besides what he gave to her according
to the hand of king Solomon. And
she will turn and go to her land, she
and her servants.

14 And the weight of gold which
came to Solomon in one year will be
six hundred sixty and six talents of

old,
i 15 Besides from the men travelling
about and from the traffic of the mer-
chants, and all the kings of Arabia and
all the prefects of the earth.

16 And king Solomon will make two
hundred shields of beaten gold; six
hundred of gold will come up upon the
one shield.

17 And three hundred shields of
beaten gold; three parts of gold will
come up upon the one shield: and the

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king will give them to the house of the|a hundred: and thus for all the kings

forest of Lebanon.

18 And the king will make a great

ery throne, and overlaid it with pi 2
old.

- 19 Six steps to the throne, and the

head rounded to the throne from its

back parts: and hands hence and

thence upon the place of the seat, and

two lions standing beside the hands.

20 And twelve lions standing there
upon the six steps, hence and thence:
there was not made thus to all the
kingdoms.

21 And all the drinking vessels of
king Solomon, gold, and every vessel
of the house of the forest of Lebanon,
gold shut up; nothing silver: it was
not reckoned in the days of Solomon
for any thing.

22 For a ship of Tharshish to the
king in the sea with the ship of Hi-
ram: one for three years will come, a
ship of Tharshish lifting up gold and
silver and ivory and apes and _ pea-
cocks.

23 And king Solomon will be mag-
nified above all the kings of the earth
for riches and for wisdom.

24 And all the earth are seeking the
face of Solomon to hear his wisdom
which God gave in his heart.

25 And they were bringing each his
gifts, vessels of silver and vessels of
gold, and garments and weapons and
spices, horses, and mules, the word of a
year in a year.

26 And Solomon will gather togeth-
er chariots and horsemen: and _ there
will be to him a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen; and he will set them down
in the cities of chariots and with the
king in Jerusalem.

27 And the king will give silver in
Jerusalem, as stones, and cedars he gave
as sycamores which are in the plain for
multitude.

28 And a going forth of horses out
of Egypt to Solomon, and a caravan of
the king’s merchants will take the car-
avan at a price.

29 And a chariot will go up and
come forth out of Egypt with six hun-
dred of silver, and a horse at fifty and

of the Hittites and for the kings of
Aram, by their hand they will bring
forth.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
Λ ND king Solomon loved many
strange women, and the daugh-
ter of Pharaoh, Moabites, Ammonites,
Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites ;

2 From the nations which Jehovah
said to the sons of Israel, Ye shall not
go in to them, and they shall not come
im to you: surely they will turn your
heart after their gods: to these Solo-
mon joined to love.

3 And there will be to him seven
hundred chief wives, and three hun-
dred concubines: and his wives will
turn his heart.

4 And it will be at the time of the
old age of Solomon his wives turned
away his heart after other gods: and
his heart was not perfect with Jehovah
his God as the heart of David his
father.

5 And Solomon will go after Ashta-
roth the god of the Zidonians, and after
Milcom the abomination of the Am-
monites.

6 And Solomon will do evil in the
eyes of Jehovah, and he will not fill
up after Jehovah as Dayid his father.

7 Then Solomon will build a height
for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab,
in the mountain which is upon the face
of Jerusalem, and for the king, the
abomination of the sons of Ammon.

8 And thus he did for all his strange
wives, they burning incense and sacri-
ficing to their gods.

9 And Jehovah will be angry with
Solomon, for his heart was turned from
Jehovah the God of Israel, being seen
to him twice.

10 And he commanded him concern-
ing this word not to go after other gods:
and he watched not what Jehovah com-
manded.

11 And Jehovah will say to Solomon,
Because this was with thee, and thou
didst not watch my covenant and my
laws which I commanded upon thee,
rending, I will rend the kingdom from
thee and give it to thy servant.

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12 But in thy days 1 will not do it
for sake of David thy father; out of
the hand of thy son will I rend it.

13 But I will not rend all the king-
dom; one tribe I will give to thy son
for sake of David my servant, and for
sake of Jerusalem which I chose.

14 And Jehovah will raise up an ad-
versary to Solomon, Hadad the Kdom-
ite: he from the king’s seed in Edom.

15 And it will be in David's being
in Edom, and in Joab the chief of the
army going up, he came to bury the
slain, and he will strike every male in
Edom;

16 (For six months Joab dwelt there
and all Israel, till he cut off every male
in --

17 And 11080 will flee, he and the
men, Kdomites, his father’s servants,
with him to go to Egypt; and Hadad
a small boy.

18 And they will rise from Midian
and come to Paran: and they will take
men with them from Paran, and they
will go to Egypt to Pharaoh king of
Keypt; and he will give to him a house
and spake bread for him, and gave to
him land.

19 And 118080 will find favor in the
eyes of Pharaoh greatly, and he will
give to him a wife, sister of his wife,
sister of Tahpenes the mistress.

20 And the sister of Tahpenes will
bare to him Genubath his son, and Tah-
penes will wean him in the midst of
Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath will be
in Pharaoch’s house in the midst of Pha-
raoh’s sons.

21 And Hadad heard in Heypt that
David lay down with his fathers, and
that Joab chief of the army died, and
Hadad will say to Pharaoh, Send me
away, and 1 will go to my land.

22, And Pharaoh will say to him, For
what lackest thou with me, and behold
thee seeking to go to thy land? and
he will say, Naught: but sending, thou
shalt send me away.

23 And God will raise up to him an
adversary, Rezon, son of Eliadah, who
aa from Hadadezer king of Zobah his
ord.

24 And he will gather to himself
men, and he will be chief of a troop in

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David's killing them; and they will go
to Damascus and dwell in it and reign
in Damascus.

25 And he will be an adversary to
Israel all the days of Solomon, and the
evil which Hadad did: and he will ab-
hor against Israel and he will reign over
Aram.

26 And Jeroboam son of Nebat, an
Ephrathite of Zereda, and his mother’s
name Zeruah, a widow woman, servant
to Solomon, and he will lift up the hand
against the king.

27 And this the word for which he
lifted wp the hand against the king:
Solomon built the fortress and shut up
the breaches of the city of David his
father.

28 And the man Jeroboam mighty
of strength: and Solomon will see the
boy that he did work, and he will ap-
point him for the burden of the house
of Joseph.

29 And it will be in that time, and
Jeroboam went forth from Jerusalem,
and Ahijah the Shilonite will find him
going in the way; and he being cover-
ed with a new garment; and they two
alone in the field.

30 And Ahijah will lay hold upon
the new garment which was upon him
and will rend it in twelve rents:

31 And he will say to Jeroboam,
Take to thee .ten rents: for thus said
Jehovah God of Israel, Behold me rend-
ing the kingdom out of the hand of
Solomon, and I gave to thee ten
tribes :

82 (And the one tribe shall be to him,
for sake of my servant David, and for
sake of Jerusalem the city which I chose
in it from all the tribes of Israel :)

83 Because they forsook me and wor-
shiped to Ashtaroth the god of Zidon,
and to Chemosh, god of Moab, and to
Mileom, god of the sons of Ammon, and
they went not in my way to do the
straight in mine eyes, and my laws and
my judgments as David his father.

84 And I will not take all the king-
dom from his hand, for I will set him
chief all the days of his life for sake of
David my servant whom I chose him,
because he watched my commands and
my laws.

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85 And I took the kingdom from the
hand of his son and gave it to thee, the
ten tribes.

86 And to his son I will give one
tribe on account of there being 9
to David my servant all the days be-
fore me in Jerusalem the city which I
chose to me to put my name there.

87 And I will take thee, and thou
shalt reign according to all which thy
soul shall desire, and be king over
Israel.

88 And being if thou shalt hear all
that I shall command thee, and go in
my way and do the straight in mine
eyes to watch my laws and my com-
mands as David my servant did, and I
was with thee and built to thee a faith-
ful house as I built to David, and I
gave Israel to thee.

89 And I will humble the seed of
David for this, but not all the days.

40 And Solomon will seek to kill
Jeroboam, and Jeroboam will rise and
flee to Heypt to Shishak, king of Egypt,
and he will be in Egypt till the death
of Solomon.

41 And the remainder of the words
of Solomon and all that he did, and his
wisdom, are they not written upon the
book of the words of Solomon ?

42 And the days which Solomon
reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel
were forty years.

43 And Solomon will lie down with
his fathers and be buried in the city of
Dayid his father: and Rehoboam. his
son will reign instead of him.

CHAPTER XII.
ND Rehoboam will go to She-
chem, for to Shechem came all
Israel to make him king.

2 And it will be when Jeroboam son
of Nebat heard and he yet in Heypt
where he fled from the face of Solo-
mon the king, and Jeroboam dwelt in
Egypt;

8 And they will send and call for
him: and Jeroboam and all the conyo-
cation of Israel will come and speak to
Rehoboam, saying,

4 Thy father made our yoke hard:
and now do thou lichten from the hard
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heavy yoke which he gave upon us,
and we will serve thee.

5 And he will say to them, Go ye,
until three days, and turn back to me.
And the people will go.

6 And king Rehoboam will consult
the old men which were standing before
Solomon his father in his being alive,
saying, How advise ye to turn back
this people word ?

7 And they will speak to him, say-
ing, If this day thou wilt be a servant
to this people and serve them, and an-
swer them, and speak to them good
words, and they were servants to thee
all the days.

8 And he will forsake the counsel of
the old men which they counseled him,
and he will consult with the children
which grew up with him which were
standing before him.

9 And he will say to them, What do
ye advise? and we will turn back word
to this people who spake to me, say-
ing, Lighten from the yoke which thy.
father gave upon us.

10 And the children which grew up
with him will speak to him, saying,
Thus shalt thou say to this people who
spake to thee, saying, Thy father made
our yoke heavy, do thou lighten from
upon us; thus shalt thou speak to them,
My littleness thick above my father’s
loins.

11 And now my father loaded upon
you a heavy yoke, and I will add upon
your yoke: my father chastised you
with whips and I will chastise you with
scorpions.

12 And Jeroboam and all the people
will come to Rehoboam in the third
day, as the king spake, saying, Turn
back to me in the third day.

18 And the king will answer the peo-
ple hard, and he will forsake the coun-
sel of the old men which they counsel-
ed him ;

14 And he will speak to them accord-
ing to the counsel of the children, say-
ing, My father made your yoke heavy,
and I will add upon your yoke: my
father chastised you with whips and I
will chastise you with scorpions.

15 And the king heard not to the peo-
ple, for the turn was from Jehovah for

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sake of lifting up his word which he
spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shi-
lonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

16 And all Israel will see that the
king heard not to them, and the people
will turn back the king word, saying,
What part to us in David? and no in-
heritance in the son of Jesse: to thy
tents, O Israel: now see to thy house,
David. And Israel will go to their tents.

17 And the sons of Israel dwelling
in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam will
reign over them.

18 And king Rehoboam will send
Adoram who was over the tribute, and
all Israel will stone upon him with
stone, and he will die. And king Re-
hoboam strengthened himself to go up
into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

19 And Israel will break with the
house of David even to this day.

20 And it will be when all Israel
heard that Jeroboam turned back, and
they will send and call him to the as-
sembly, and they will make him king
over all Israel, and there was none af-
ter the house of David except the tribe
of Judah alone.

- 21 And Rehoboam will come to Je-
rusalem, and he will convoke together
all the house of Judah and the tribe of
Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thou-
sand chosen to make war to fight with
the house of Israel to turn back the
kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

22 And the word of God will be to
Shemaiah, a man of God, saying,

23 Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon
king of Judah, and to all the house of
Judah and Benjamin, and the remain-
der of the people, saying,

24 Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not
go up and ye shall not fight with your
brethren, sons of Israel: turn back each
to his house, for this word was from
me. And they will hear the word of
Jehovah and turn back to go according
to the word of Jehovah.

25 And Jeroboam will build She-
chem in mount Ephraim, and dwell in
it; and he will go forth from there and
build Penuel.

26 And Jeroboam will say in his
heart, Now will the kingdom turn back
to the house of David.

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27 If this people shall go up to do
sacrifices in the house of Jehovah in
Jerusalem, and the heart of this people
turned back to their lord, to Rehoboam
king of Judah, and killing me, and
they turned back to Rehoboam king of
Judah.

28 And the king will consult and
make two calves of gold, and he will
say to them, Much for you going up to
Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel,
which brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt.

29 And he will set up the one in the
house of God, and the one he gave in
Dan.

80 And this word will be for sin:
and the people will go before the one,
even to Dan.

31 And he will make a house of
heights, and he will make priests from
the ends of the people who were not of
the sons of Levi.

82 And Jeroboam will make a festi-
val in the eighth month, in the fifteenth
day of the month, according to the fes-
tival that isim Judah, and he will go
up upon the altar. Thus he did in the
house of God to sacrifice to the calves
which he made: and he placed in the
house of God priests of the heights
which he made.

33 And he brought up upon the al-
tar which he made in the house of God,
in the fifteenth day, in the eighth
month, in the month which he devised
of himself; and he will make a festival
to the sons of Israel: and he will go
up upon the altar to burn incense.

CHAPTER XIIL
ND behold aman of God came
out of Judah in the word of Je-
hovah to the house of God; and Jero-
boam stood by the altar to burn in-
cense.

2 And he will call upon the altar in
the word of Jehovah, and he will say,
O altar, altar! thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold, ason was born to the house of
David, Josiah his name; and he saeri-
ficed upon thee, the priests of the
heights burning incense upon thee, and
men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

8 And he will give in that day a

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sign, saying, This the sign which Je-
hovah spake: Behold, the altar rent and
the fat which was upon it, poured out.

4 And it will be when the king heard
the word of the man of God which he
called upon the altar in the house of
God; and Jeroboam will stretch forth
his hand from above the altar, saying,
Seize him. And his hand which he
stretched forth upon him will be dried
up, and he will not be able to turn it
back to him.

5 And the altar was rent, and the fat
will be poured out from the altar 86-
cording to the sign that the man of
God gave by the word of Jehovah.

6 And the king will answer and say
to the man of God, Supplicate the face
of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me,
and my hand shall be turned back to
me. And the man of God will suppli-
cate the face of Jehovah, and the king’s
hand will turn back to him and be as
in the beginning.

7 And the king will speak to the
man of God, Come with me to the
house, and be strengthened, and I will
give to thee a gift.

8 And the man of God will say to
the king, If thou wilt give to me half
thy house I will not go with thee, and
I will not eat bread and I will not drink
water in this place:

9 For thus it was commanded me by
the word of Jehovah, saying, Thou
shalt not eat bread, and thou shalt not
drink water, and thou shalt not turn
back in the way which thou camest.

10 And he will goin another way,
and he turned not back in the way
which he came in it to the house of
God.

11 And one prophet, an old man,
dwelt in the house of God; and his
sons will come and relate to him all the
work which the man of God did that
day in the house of God: the words
which he spake to the king, and they
will relate them to their father.

12 And their father will speak to
them, What way went he? and his sons
will see the way that the man of God
went who came from Judah.

18 And he will say to his sons, Sad-
dle for me the ass: and they will sad-

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dle for him the ass and he will ride
upon it.

14 And he will go after the man of
God, and he will find him sitting under
an oak: and he will say to him, Thou
the man of God who came from Ju-
dah? And he will say, I.

15 And he will say to him, Go with
me to the house and eat bread.

16 And he will say, I shall not be
able to turn back with thee and to go
with thee: and I will not eat bread and
1 will not drink water with thee in this
place:

17 For it was spoken to me by the
word of Jehovah, Thou shalt not eat
bread and thou shalt not drink water
there, thou shalt not turn back to go in
the way which thou wentest in it.

18 And he will say to him, I also a
prophet as thou; and a messenger spalce
to me in the word of Jehovah, saying,
Turn him back with thee to thy house ;
and he shall eat bread and drink wa-
ter. Lying to him.

19 And he will turn back with him
and eat bread in his house, and drink
water.

20 And it will be, they sitting at the
table, and the word of Jehovah will be
to the prophet who turned him back:

21 And he will call to the man of
God who came from Judah, saying,
Thus said Jehovah, Because thou didst
imbitter the mouth of Jehovah and
didst not watch the command, which
Jehovah thy God commanded thee,

22 And thou wilt turn back and eat
bread and drink water in the place
which he spake to thee, Thou shalt not
eat bread and thou shalt not drink
water; thy corpse shall not come to
the grave of thy fathers.

23 And it will be after his eating
bread and after his drinking, and he
will saddle for him the ass for the
prophet which he turned back.

24 And he will go, and a lion will
find him in the way and kill him: and
his corpse will be cast in the way, and
the ass standing by it, and the lion
standing by the corpse.

25 And behold, men passing by, and
they will see the corpse cast in the
way, and the lion standing by the

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corpse: and they will come and speak
in the city where the prophet, the old
man, dwelt in it.

26 And the prophet that brought
him back from the way will hear, and
say, It is the man of God who resisted
the mouth of Jehovah, and Jehovah
will give him to the lion, and he will
break him, and he will kill him ac-
cording to the word of Jehovah which
he spake to him.

27 And he will speak to his sons,
saying, Saddle for me the ass And
they will saddle him.

28 And he will go and find his corpse
cast in the way, and the ass and the
lion standing by the corpse: the lion
ate not the carcass and brake not the

ass.

29 And the prophet will lift up the
corpse of the man of God and place it
upon the ass, and he will turn him
back: and the prophet, the old man,
came to the city, and he will mourn
and he will bury him.

80 And he will lay it down in his
grave, and they will mourn over him,
Alas, my brother !.

81 And it will be after they buried
him, he will say to his sons, saying, In
my dying and ye shall bury me in the
graye which the man of God was bur-
ied in it; by his bones place my bones.

32 For being, the word shall be
which he cried by the word of Jehovah
upon the altar which is in the house of
God, and upon all the houses of the
heights which are in the cities of Sho-
meron.

33 After this word Jeroboam turned
not back from his evil way, and he will
turn back and make from the ends of
the people, priests of the heights: him
desiring he will fill his hand, and he
will be priest of the heights.

84 And in this word it will be for
sin to the house of Jeroboam, and to
cut off and to destroy from the face of
the earth.

CHAPTER XTV.
N that time Abijah son of Jeroboam
was sick.
2 And Jeroboam will say to his wife,
Arise, now, and change thyself, and
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they will not know that thou art the
wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh:
behold there Ahijah the prophet; he
spake concerning me for king over this
people.

3 And take in thy hand ten of bread
and crumb cakes, and a bottle of honey,
and go to him: he will announce to
thee what will be to the boy.

4 And Jeroboam’s wife will do so,
and she will rise and go to Shiloh, and
she will come into the house of Ahijah.
And Ahijah will not be able to see; for
his eyes stood from his old age.

5 And Jehovah said to Ahijah, Be-
hold, the wife of Jeroboam coming to
seek word from thee for her son, for he
was sick: according this and according
to this shalt thou speak to her: and it
will be as she comes, and she. dissem-
bles.

6 And it will be when Ahijah heard
the voice of her feet coming into the
door, and he will say, Come in, thou
wife of Jeroboam; wherefore this thou
dissemblest? and I send to thee hard
things.

7 Go say to Jeroboam, Thus said Je-
hovah God of Israel, Because I raised
thee up from the midst of the people,
and I will give thee chief over my peo-
ple Israel,

8 And I will rend the kinedom from
the house of David, and I will give it
to thee: and thou wert not as my serv-
ant David who watched my commands
and who went after me with all his heart
to do only the straight in mine eyes;

9 And thou wilt be evil doing above
all who were before thee: and thou
wilt go and make to thee other gods,
and molten things to irritate me, and
didst cast me behind thy back. =

10 For this, behold me bringing evil
to the house of Jeroboam, and I cut off
to Jeroboam him pissing against the
wall, the shut up and the forsaken in
Israel, and I took away after the house
of Jeroboam as dung shall be taken
away till its finishing.

11 Him dying to Jeroboam in the
city shall the dogs eat; and him dying
in the field shall the birds of the heay-
ens eat: for Jehovah spake.

12 And arise, thou, go to thy house:

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in the coming of thy feet to the city
and the child died.

13 And all Israel mourned for him,
and they buried him: for this alone to
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, be-
cause there was found in him a good
word to Jehovah God of Israel in the
house of Jeroboam.

14 And Jehovah raised up to him a
king over Israel who will cut off the
house 01 Jeroboam that day : and what ?
also now.

15 And Jehovah smote Israel as a
reed will be shaken in the water, and
he plucked up Israel from this good
land which he gave to their fathers, and
he scattered them from beyond the riv-
er, because they made their images, irri-
tating Jehovah.

16 And he will give up Israel on ac-
count of the sins of Jeroboam who sin-
ned, and who caused Israel to sin.

17 And Jeroboam’s wife will arise
and go, and come to Tirzah: she came
upon the threshold of the house, and
the boy diced.

18 And they will bury him; and all
Tsrael will mourn for him according to
the word of Jehovah which he spake
by the hand of his servant Ahijah the
prophet.

19 And the remainder of the words of
Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
reigned, behold them written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel.

20 And the days which Jeroboam
reigned, twenty and two years, and he
will lie down with his fathers; and Na-
dab his son will reign in his stead.

21 And Rehoboam son of Solomon
reignedin Judah. The son of forty and
one years was Rehoboam in his reign-
ing; and seventeen years he reigned in
Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose
to put his name there from’all the tribes
of Israel: and the name of his mother
Naamah, the Ammonitess.

22 And Judah will do evil in the
eyes of Jehovah, and they will provoke
him to jealousy above all which their
fathers did in the sins which they sin-
ned.

23 And they will also build to them
heights, and statues, and pillars, upon

1. KINGS XY.

every high hill, and under every green
tree.

24 And also there was a holy place
in the land ; and they did according to
all the abominations of the nations that
Jehovah dispossessed from the face of
the sons of Israel.

25 And it will be in the fifth year to
king Rehoboam, Shishak, king of
Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.

26 And he will take the treasures of
the house of Jehovah and the treasures
of the king’s house; and he took all:
and he took all the shields of gold
which Solomon made.

27 And king Rehoboam will make in
their stead shields of brass, and appoint-
ed upon the hand of the chief of the
runners watching the door of the house
of the king.

28 And it will be whenever the king
went to the house of Jehovah, the run-
ners will lift them up and they turned
them back to the runner’s chamber.

29 And the remainder of the words
of Rehoboam, and all which he did, are
they not written upon the book of the
words of the days to the kings of Ju-
dah ?

30 And war was between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days.

81 And Rehoboam will lie down
with his fathers and be buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And the
name of his mother, Naamah, the Am-
monitess. And Abijam will reign in
his stead.

CHAPTER XV.
Λ ND in the eighteenth year to Jer-
oboam son of Nebat, Abijam
reigned over Judah.

2 Three years he reigned in Jerusa-
lem. And the name of his mother
Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.

8 And he went in all the sins of his
father which he did before him: and
his heart was not perfect with Jehovah
as the heart of David his father.

4 For on account of David, Jehovah
his God gave to him a light in Jerusa-
lem, to raise up a son after him, to cause
Jerusalem to stand:

5 Because David did the right in the
eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside

I. KINGS XV.

from all which he commanded all the
days of his life, only in the word of
Uriah the Hittite. .

6 And war was between Rehoboam
and between Jeroboam all the days of
his life.

7 And the remainder of the words of
Abijam, and all which he did, are they
not written upon the book of the words
of the days to the kings of Judah? and
war was between Abijam and Jero-
boam.

8 And Abijam will lie down with
his fathers; and they will bury him in
the city of David; and Asa his son will
reign in his stead.

9 And in the twentieth year to Jero-
boam king of Israel, Asa reigned over
Judah.

10 Forty and one years he reigned
in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
Maachah, daughter of Abishalom.

11 And Asa will do the straight in
the eyes of Jehovah, as David his fa-
ther.

12 And he will take away the holy
places from the land, and he will turn
aside all the blocks which his fathers
made.

13 And also Maachah, his mother, he
will turn aside from being mistress, be-
cause she made terror to a statue; and
Asa will cut off her terror, and burn by
the torrent Kidron.

14 And the heights were not turned
aside: but Asa’s heart was perfect with
Jehovah all his days.

15 And he will bring in the holy
things of his fathers, and his holy things
to the house of Jehovah, silver and gold
and vessels.

16 And war was between Asa and
between Baasha, king of Israel, all their
days.

17 And Baasha, king of Israel, will
come up against Judah, and he will
build Ramah, so that he will not give to
go out or to come in to Asa king of Ju-
dah.

18 And Asa will take all the silver
and the gold being left in the treasures
of the house of Jehovah, and the treas-
ures of the king’s house, and he will
give them into the hand of his servants:
and king Asa will send them to the son

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of Hadad, son of Tabrimon, son of He-
zion, king of Aram, dwelling in Damas-
cus, saying,

19 A covenant between me and be-
tween thee, between my father and
between thy father: behold, 1 sent to
thee a gift of silver and gold; go break
thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel,
and he will go up from me.

20 And the son of Hadad will hear
to king Asa, and he willsend the chiefs
of the forces which were to him against
the cities of Israel, and he will strike
Tjon and Dan, and the meadow of the
House of Oppression, and all Cinneroth
with all the land of Naphtali.

21 And it will be when Baasha heard,
and he will leave off building Ramah,
and he will dwell in Tirzah.

22 And king Asa caused all Judah
to hear; none free: and they will lift
up the stones of Ramah and its woods ©
which Baasha built, and king Asa will
build with them Geba of Benjamin, and
Mizpeh.

23 And the remainder of all the
words of Asa and all his power and all
which he did, and the cities which he
built, are they not written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Judah? only at the time of his
old age, he hurt his feet.

24 And Asa will lie down with his
fathers, and be buried with his fathers,
in the city of Dayid his father: and
Jehoshaphat his son will reign in his
stead.

25 And Nadab son of Jeroboam
reigned over Israel in the second year
to Asa king of Judah; and he will
reign over Israel two years.

26 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, and he will go in the way of
his father, and in his sins which he
caused Israel to sin,

27 And Baasha son of Ahijah, to the
house of Issachar, will conspire against
him; and Baasha will strike him in
Gibbethon, which is to the rovers; for
Nadab and all Israel pressed upon Gib-
bethon,

28 And Baasha will kill him in the
third year to Asa king of Judah, and
he will reign in his stead,

29 And it will be when he reigned,

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he struck all the house of Jeroboam;

he left not any breathing to J eroboam,
till he destroyed him according to the
word of Jehovah which he spake by the
hand of his servant Ahijah the Shilon-

ite:

30 For the sins of Jeroboam which
he sinned, and which he caused Israel
to sin, in his irritation which he irritated
Jehovah the God of Israel.

81 And the remainder of the words
of Nadab and all which he did, are
they not written upon the book of the
words of the days to the kings of Israel ?

200 Acad Fwars wast beter ΠῚ
between Baasha king of Israel, all their
days.

33 In the third year to ‘Asa king of
Judah, reigned Baasha son of Ahijah,
over all Israel in Tirzah twenty and
four years.

34 And he will do evil in the eyes
of Jehovah, and he will go in the way
of Jeroboam, and in his sins which he
caused Israel to sin.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to Jehu, son of Hanani, against
Baasha, saying,

2 Because 1 raised thee up from the
dust, and I will give thee chief over
my people Israel, and thou wilt go in
the way of Jeroboam, and cause my
people ‘Israel to sin, to irritate me in
their sins.

3 Behold me taking away after Baa-
sha, and after his house; and I gave
thy house as the house of Jeroboam
son of Nebat.

4 Ilim dying to Baasha in the city
shall the dogs eat; and him dying to
him in the field, shall the birds’ of the
heavens eat.

5 And the rest of the words of Baa-
sha, and what he did, and his streneth,
are they not written upon the book of
the words of the days to the kings of
Israel ?

6 And Baasha will lie down with his
fathers, and will be buried in Tirzah:
and his son Elah will reign in his stead.

“7 And also by the hand of Jehu son
of Hanani the prophet, the word of Je-
hovah was against Baasha and against

I. KINGS XVI.

his house, and for all the evil which he
did in the eyes of Jehovah to irritate him
in the work of his hands to be as the
house of Jeroboam, and because he
smote him.

8 In the twentieth and sixth year,
the year to Asa king of Judah, Elah,
son of Baasha reigned over Israel ‘in
Tirzah, two years.

9 And Zimri, captain of half his cha-
riots will conspire against him, and he
in Tirzah drinking strong drink in the
house of Arza, who was over his house
in Tirzah.

10 And Zimri will come in and strike
him and wil kill him in the twentieth
and seventh year to Asa king of Judah,
and he will reign in his stead.

11 And it will be in his reigning, in
his sitting upon the throne, he struck
all the house of Baasha; he left not to
him, him pissing against the wall, and
his near relatives and his friends.

12 And Zimri will destroy all the
house of Baasha, according to the word
of Jehovah which he spake against Baa-
sha by the hand of Jehu the prophet.

13 For all the sins of Baasha, and
the sins of Elah lis son, which they
sinned, and which they ‘caused Israel
to sin, to irritate Jehovah the God of
Israel by their vanities.

14 And the rest of the words of Elah
and what he did, are they not written
upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Israel ?

15 In the twenty and seventh year,
the year to Asa king of Judah, Zimri
reigned seven days in Tirzah. And
the people encamping in Gibbethon,
which was to the rovers.

16 And the people enecamping will
hear, saying, Zimri conspired and also
struck the king ; and all Israel will
make Omri chief of the army, king over
Israel in that day in the camp.

17 And Omri will go up, and all Is-
rael with him, from Gibbethon, and
they will press upon Tirzah.

18 And it will be when Zimri saw
that the city was taken, and he will
come to the fortress of the king’s house,
and he will burn over him the king’s
house with fire, and he will die,

19 For his sins which he sinned to

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do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to go in
the way of Jeroboam, and in his sins
which he did to cause Israel to sin.

20 And the rest of the words of Zim-
ri and his conspiracy which he conspir-
ed, are they not written upon the book
of the words of the days to the kings of
Israel ?

21 Then the people of Israel will be
divided to half: half of the people were
after Tibni, son of Ginath, to make him
king; and half, after Omri.

22 And the people will be strength-
ened which were after Omri over the
people which were after Tibni son of
Ginath: and Tibni will die, and Omni
will reign.

23 In the thirty and one year, the
year to Asa king of Judah, Omri reign-
ed over Israel, twelve years; in Tirzah
he reigned six years.

24 And he will buy the mountain
Shomeron of Shomer with two talents
of silver, and he will build the moun-
tain, and call the name of the city
which he built after the name of Sho-
mer, lord of the mountain Shomeron.

25 And Omri will do evil in the eyes
of Jehovah, and he will be evil above
all who were before him.

26 And he will go in all the way of
Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sins
which he caused Israel to sin, to irritate
Jehovah the God of Israel with their
vanities.

27 And the rest of the words of Om-
ri which he did, and his strength which
he did, are they not written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel ?

28 And Omri will lie down with his
fathers, and will be buried in Shome-
ron, and Ahab his son will reign in his
stead.

29 And Ahab son of Omri, reigned
over Israel in the year the thirty and
eighth year to Asa king of Judah: and
Ahab son of Omri will reign over Israel
in Shomeron twenty and two years.

80 And Ahab son of Omri will do
evil in the eyes of Jehovah above all
which were before him.

31 And it will be light for him to go
in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat,

and he will take a wife, Jezebel, daugh- |

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ter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians,
and he will go and serve Baal and wor-
ship to him.

82 And he will raise up an altar to
Baal in the house of Baal which he
built in Shomeron.

89 And Ahab will make a statue;
and Ahab will add to do to irritate Je-
hovah the God of Israel above all the
kings of Israel which were before him.

34 In his days Hiel of the house of
God, built Jericho: in Abiram his first
born he will found it, and in Segub his
younger he set up its gates, according
to the word of Jehovah which he spake
by the hand of Joshua son of Nun.

CHAPTER XVIL
ND Elijah the Tishbite from the
Tishbites of Gilead, will say to
Ahab, Jehovah the God of Israel lives
whom I stood before him if there shall
be dew and rain but according to the
mouth of my word.

2 And the word of Jehovah will be
to him, saying,

3 Go from hence and turn to thyself
east, and hide by the torrent Cherith
which is before Jordan.

4 And being thou shalt drink. from
the torrent; and I commanded the ray-
ens to nourish thee there.

5 And he will go and do according to
the word of Jehovah: and he will go
and dwell by the torrent Cherith which
is upon the face of Jordan.

6 And the ravens bringing to him
bread and flesh in the morning, and
bread and flesh in the evening; and he
will drink from the torrent.

7 And it will be from the end of days,
and the torrent will dry up, for there
was no rain upon the earth.

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
to him, saying,

9 Arise, go to Zarephath which is to
Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I com-
manded a widow woman to nourish
thee there.

10 And he will rise and go to Zare-
phath, and will come to the entrance of
the city, and behold there a widow wo-
man gathering wood: and he will call
to her, and say, Take now to me a little
water in a vessel, and [ will drink.

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11 And she will go to take, and he
will call to her and say, Take now to
me a bit of bread in thy hand.

12 And she will say, Jehovah thy
God lives, if there is to me a cake, but
a handful of flour ina bucket, and a little
oil ina cruse: and behold me gathering
two woods, and I went to do it for me
and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

18 And Elijah will say to her, Thou
shalt not fear; go and do according to
thy word: but make to me from thence
a little cake at first, and bring forth to
me, and for thee and for thy son thou
shalt make at last.

14 For thus said Jehovah the God of
Israel, The bucket of flour shall not be
spent, and the cruse of oil shall not fail
until the day Jehovah shall give rain
upon the face of the earth.

15 And she will go and do according
to the word of Elijah: and she will eat,
she and he, and her house, days.

16 The bucket of flour was not spent,
and the cruse of oil failed not, according
to the word of Jehovah which he spake
by the hand of Elijah.

17 And it will be after these words,
the son of the woman, the lady of the
house, was sick, and his sickness was
very strong till that breath was not left
in him.

18 And she will say to Elijah, What
to me and to thee, thou man of God?
camest thou to me to bring to remem-
brance mine iniquity, and to kill my
son?

19 And he will say to her, Give to
me thy son. And he will take him
from her bosom and bring him up into
an upper chamber where he sat there,
and he will lay him upon his bed.

20 And he will call to Jehovah, and
say, Jehovah my God, didst thou also
do evil upon the widow which I dwelt
with her to kill her son?

21 And he will measure upon the
child three times, and he will call to
Jehovah, and say, Jehovah my God
wilt thou turn back now the soul of this
child within his inner part?

22 And Jehovah will hear to the
voice of Elijah, and he will turn back
the soul of the child within his inner
part, and 116 will live.

I. KINGS XVIII.

23 And Elijah will take the child and
bring him down from the upper cham-
ber of the house, and give him to his
mother: and Elijah will say, See, thy
son lives.

24 And the woman will say to Elijah,
Now this I know that thou a man of
God, and the word of Jehovah in thy
mouth, truth.

CHAPTER XVIII.
Λ ND it will be many days, and the
word of Jehovah was to Elijah
in the third year, saying, Go, be seen
to Ahab; andI will give rain upon the
face of the earth.

2 And Elijah will go to be seen to
Ahab. And the famine strong in Shom-
eron.

3 And Ahab will call for Obadiaha
who was over the house. (And Obadi-

-aha was fearing Jehovah greatly :

4 And it will be in Jezebel’s cutting
off the prophets of Jehovah, and Oba-
diaha will take a hundred prophets,
and hide fifty men in a cave, and he
nourished them with bread and water.)

5 And Ahab will say to Obadiaha,
Go into the land to all the fountains of
waters, and to all the torrents; perhaps
we shall find grass and preserve alive
the horse and the mule, and we shall
not be cut off from the cattle.

6 And they will divide the land to
them to pass over in it: Ahab went in
one way by himself, and Obadiaha went
went in one way by himself.

7 And Obadiaha will be in the way,
and behold, Elijah to his meeting: and
he will behold him and fall upon his
face, and say, Art thou this my lord
Elijah ?

8 And he will say to him, I. go say
to thy lord, Behold, Elijah.

9 And he will say, What did I sin
that thou gavest thy servant into the
hand of Ahab to kill me?

10 Jehovah thy god lives if there is a
nation and kingdom where my lord did
not send there to seek thee: and they
said, No; and he caused the kingdom
and nation to swear that they shall not
find.

11 And now thou sayest, Go, say to
thy lord, Behold Elijah.

I. KINGS XVIII.

12 And being I shall go from thee
and the spirit of Jehovah will lift thee
up where I shall not know; and I went
to announce to Ahab, and he will not
find thee, and he will kill me: and thy
servant feared Jehovah from my youth.

18 Was it not announced to my lord
what I did in Jezebel’s killing the
prophets of Jehovah, and I shall hide
of the prophets of Jehovah,a hundred
men, fifty, fifty men in a cave, and I
shall nourish them with bread and
water ?

14 And now thou sayest, Go, say to
thy lord, Behold, Elijah; and he will
lall me.

15 And Elijah will say to him, Jeho-
vah of armies lives whom 1 stand be-
fore him that this day, I will be seen to
hin.

16 And Obadiaha will go to meet
Ahab, and he will announce to him:
and Ahab will go to meet Elijah.

17 And it will be when Ahab saw
Hlijah, and Ahab will say to him, This
thou, troubling Israel ?

18 And he will say, I troubled not
Israel? but thou and thy father’s house
in your forsaking the commands of Je-
hovah, and thou wilt go after the
Baals.

19 And now send, gather to me all
Israel to mount Carmel, and the proph-
ets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and
the prophets of the pillar, four hundred,
eating at the table of Jezebel.

20 And Ahab will send to all the
sons of Israel and gather the prophets
to mount Carmel.

21 And Elijah will draw near to all
the people and say, How long halt ye
upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God,
go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye af-
ter him. And the people answered
him not a word.

22 And Elijah will say to the people,
I was left alone a prophet to Jehovah ;
and the prophets of Baal four hundred
and fifty men.

23 And they shall give to us two

| bullocks;, and they shall choose for

> themselves the one bullock, and cut it

in pieces and put upon woods, and put

no fire: and I will do the other bullock | offering and upon the woods.
and give upon woods, and put no fire: | will say, Do a second time.

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24 And call ye upon the name of
your god, and I will call upon the
name of Jehovah, and the God who
shall answer by fire, he shall be God.
And all the people will answer and say,
Good the word.

25 And Elijah will say to the proph-
ets of Baal, Choose for yourselves
the one bullock, and do first, for ye are
many ; and call upon the name of your
god, and ye shall not put fire.

26 Amel they will take the bullock
which was given to them, and do, and
they will call upon the name of Baal,
from morning even to noon, saying, O
Baal, answer us. And no voice, and
none answered. And they will leap
upon the altar which was made.

27 And it will be at noon, and Elijah
will deride upon them, and he will say,
Call with a great voice, for he a god:
for he is talking, and because a with-
drawing to him, and because a way to
him, perhaps he is sleeping, and he will
awake.

28 And they will call with a great
voice, and they will cut themselves ac-
cording to their judgment, with swords
and with spears, even to the pouring
out of blood upon them.

29 And it will be as the noon passed
by, and they will prophesy even to the
going up of the gift, and no voice, and
none answered, and no attention.

80 And Elijah will say to all the
people, Draw near to me. And all the
people will draw near to him. And he
will repair the altar of Jehovah, having
been torn down.

81 And Elijah will take twelve
stones according to the number of the
tribes of the sons of Jacob, whom was
the word of Jehovah to him, saying,
Israel shall be thy name:

82 And he will build with the stones
an altar in the name of Jehovah: and
he will make a channel, rolling up two
measures of seed, round about the altar.

88 And he will put in order the
woods, and he will cut the bullock in
pieces and put upon the woods,

84 And he will say, Fill four buck-
ets of water and pour upon the burnt-

And he
And they

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And he will
And they will

will doa second time.
say, Do a third time.
do a third time.

85 And the waters will go round
about the altar; and he also filled the
channel with water.

36 And it will be in the going up of
the gift, and Elijah the prophet will
draw near and say, Jehovah God of
Abraham, Isaak, and Israel, this day it
shall be known that thou art God in
Israel, and I thy servant, and by thy
words I did all these words.

87 Answer me,.O Jehovah, answer
me, and this people shall know that
thou art Jehovah God, and thou didst
turn their heart backwards.

88 And the fire of Jehovah will fall
and will consume the burnt-offering and
the woods, and the stones, and the dust,
and it licked up the waters which were
in the channel.

89 And all the people will see and
fall upon their face, and say, Jehovah,
he is God; Jehovah he is God.

40 And HEhjah will say to them,
Seize the prophets of Baal; ἃ man shall
not escape from them. And they will
seize them, and Elijah will bring them
down to the torrent Kishon, and they
will slaughter them there.

41 And Ehjah will say to Ahab, Go
up, eat and drink; for a voice of a mul-
titude of rain.

42 And Ahab will go up to eat and
todrmk. And Elijah will go up to the
head of Carmel and prostrate himself
upon the earth, and put his face be-
tween his knees.

43 And he will say to his boy, Go up
now, look the way of the sea. And
he will go up and look, and say, Not
any thing. And he will say, Turn
back seven times.

44 And it will be in the seventh, and
he will say, Behold, a little cloud as the
hand of a man, coming up from the
sea. And he will say, Go up; ‘say to
Ahab, Harness; go down, and the rain
shall not hinder thee.

45 And it will be even thus and even
thus, and the heavens were darkened
with clouds and wind, and there will be
a great rain, And Ahab will ride and
go to Jezreel. |

I. KINGS XIX.

46 And the hand of Jehovah was to
Elijah; and he will bind up his loins,
and he will run before Ahab, even to
thy coming to Jezreel.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND Ahab will announce to Jeze-
bel all that Elijah did, and all
how he killed all the prophets with the
sword.

2 And Jezebel will send a messenger
to Elijah, saying, Thus will God do and
thus will he add that according to the
time to-morrow I will set thy soul as
the soul of one of them.

3 And he will see and arise, and go
for his soul, and he will come to the
Well of the Oath which was to Judah,
and he will leave his boy there.

4 And he went into the desert the
way of a day, and he will come and sit
under one broom-tree: and he will ask
for his soul to die: and he will say,
Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul,
for I am not good above my fathers.

5 And he will lie down and sleep
under one broom-tree, and behold, then
a messenger touched upon him, and he
will say to him, Arise, eat.

6 And he will look, and behold, from
his head cakes baked on hot stones, and
a cruse of water: and he will eat and
drink, and turn back and lie down.

7 And the messenger of Jehovah will
turn back the second time, and he will
touch upon him, and say, Arise, eat, for
much for thee the way.

8 And he will rise and eat and drink,
and go in the strength of that food for-
ty days and forty nights, even to the
mountain of God, Horeb.

9 And he will go there into a cave
and lodge there; and behold, the word
of Jehovah to him, and he will say to
him, What to thee here Elijah?

10 And he will say, Being zealous I
was zealous for Jehovah the God of ar-
mies: for the sons of Israel forsook thy
covenant; they tore down thine altars,
and thy prophets they killed with the
sword, and I alone shall be left; and
they will seek my soul to take it.

11 And he will say, Go forth and
stand upon the mountain before Jeho-
yah, And behold, Jehovah passed by,

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and a great and strong wind weakening
the mountains, and breaking the rocks
before Jehovah; Jehovah not in the
wind: and after the wind, a shaking;
Jehovah not in the shaking:

12 And after the shaking, a fire; Je-
hovah not in the fire: and after the fire,
a voice of lght stillness. /

18 And it will be when Elijah heard,
he will cover his face in his large cloak,
and he will go forth and stand at the
opening of the cave; and behold, to
him a voice, and it will say, What to
thee here, Elijah ?

14 And he will say, Being zealous, I
was zealous for Jehovah the God of
armies, for the sons of Israel forsook
thy covenant; thine altars they tore
down, and thy prophets they killed
with the sword, and I alone shall be
left; and they will seek my soul to
take it.

15 And Jehovah will say to him, Go,
turn back to thy way of the desert of
Damascus: and come and anoint Ha-
zael for king over Aram:

16 And Jehu, son of Nimshi, shalt
thou anoint for king over Israel: and
Elisha son of Shaphat, from A bel-Me-
holah, shalt thou anoint for prophet in
thy stead.

17 And it was him escaping from the
‘sword of Hazael shall Jehu 111: and
him escapmg from the sword of Jehu,
shall Elisha all.

18 And I left in Israel seven thou-
sand, all the knees which bowed not to
Baal, and every mouth which kissed
him not.

19 And he will go from thence and
find Elsha son of Shaphat, and he
ploughed with twelve yoke before him,
and he with the twelve: and Elijah
will pass away by him, and he will cast
his wide cloak to him.

20 And he will forsake the oxen and
run after Elijah, and say, I will kiss
now to my father and to my mother,
and I will go after thee. And he will
say to him, Go, turn back; for what
did I to thee?

21 And he will turn back from after
him and take a yoke of oxen and sacri-
fice them, and with the instruments of
the oxen he boiled them the flesh, and

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he will give to the people, and they will
eat. And he will rise and go after
Elijah and serve him.

CHAPTER XX,
ND the son of Hadad, king of

\. Aram, gathered all his strength ;
and thirty and two kings with him, and
horses and chariots: and he will go up
and press upon Shomeron and war
against her.

2 And he will send messengers to
Ahab, king of Israel, to the city,

3 And he will-say to him, Thus said
the son of Hadad, Thy silver and thy
gold it is tome; and thy wives and
thy sons, the good, they are to me.

4 And the king of Israel will answer
and say, According to thy word, my
lord the king, to thee am I and all
which is to me.

5 And the messengers will turn back
and say, Thus said Ben-hadad, saying,
That I sent to thee, saying, Thy silver
and thy gold and thy wives and thy
sons thou shalt give to me,

6 But about the time to-morrow I
will send my servants to thee, and they
searched thy house, and the houses of
thy servants; and it was all the delight
of thine eyes they shall put in their
hand and take.

7 And the king of Israel will eall for
all the old men of the land, and he will
say, Know now, and see that this seeks
evil, for he sent to me for my wives and
for my sons, and for my silver, and for
my gold, and 1 withheld not from him.

8 And all the old men and all the
people will say to him, Thou shalt not
hear, and thou shalt not be willing.

9 And he will say to the messengers
of Ben-hadad, Say to my lord the king,
All which thou sentest to thy servant
at first, I will do: and this word I shall
not be able to do. And the messen-
gers will go and turn back word.

10 And Ben-hadad will send to him
and say, Thus will the gods do to me,
and thus will they add, if the dust of
Shomeron shall suffice for handfuls for
all the people which are at my feet.

11 And -the king of Israel will an-
swer and say, Speak ye. He binding
shall not boast as he loosening.

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12 And it will be when he heard this
word he was drinking, and the kings
in the booths; and he will say to his
servants, Set ye And they will set
against the city.

13 And behold, one prophet drew
near to Ahab king of Israel, and he
will say, Thus said Jehovah, Sawest
thou all this great multitude? Behold
me giving it into thy hand this day and
thou knewest that 1 am Jehovah.

14 And Ahab will say, By whom?
And he will say, Thus said Jehovah,
By the boys of the chiefs of the prov-
inces. And he will say, Who shall
bind the war? And he will say, Thou.

15 And he will review the boys of
the chiefs of the provinces, and they
will be two hundred and thirty: and
after them he reviewed all the people,
all the sons of Israel, seven thousand.

16 And they will go forth at noon.
And Ben-hadad was drinking strong
drink in the booths, he and the kings,
the thirty and two kings helping him.

17 And the boys of the chiefs of the
provinces will go forth at the first; and
Ben-hadad will send and they will an-
nounce to him, saying, Men came forth
from Shomeron.

18 And he will say, 11 for peace they
came forth, seize them living; and if
for war they came forth, seize them
living.

19 And these came forth from the
city, the boys of the chiefs of the proy-
inces, and the strength which was after
them.

20 And they will strike a man his
man: and Aram will flee, and Israel
will pursue them: and Ben-hadad king
of Aram, will escape upon a horse,
and the horsemen.

21 And the king of Israel will go
forth and strike the horse and the cha-
riot, and he struck upon Aram a great
blow.

22 And the prophet will draw near to
the king of Israel, and say to him, Go,
be strengthened, and know, and see
what thou wilt do: for at the return of
the year the king of Aram ‘will come
up against thee. :

23 And the servants of the king of
Aram said to him, A god of the moun-

1 KINGS XX.

tains is their God; for this they were
strong above us; and on the contrary,
we will war with them in a plain;
surely, shall we not be strong above
them ?

24 And do this word, Remove the
kings a man from his place, and put
prefects in their stead.

25 And thou shalt divide out to thee
an army, as the army having fallen
from thee, and horse for horse, and
chariot for chariot: and we will war
with them in the plain; surely, shall we
not be strong above them? And he
will hear to their voice and do so.

26 And it will be at the return of the
year, and Ben-hadad will review Aram,
and he will go up to Aphek 40 the war
with the king of Israel.

27 And the sons of Israel were re-
viewed, and were nourished, and they
will go up to their meeting: and the
sons of Israel will encamp over against
them as two flocks of she goats; and
Aram filled the land.

28 And a man of God will come near
and say to the king of Israel, and he
will say, Thus said Jehovah, Because
Aram said, A God of the mountains is
Jehovah, and he is not the God of the
valleys, and I gave all this great multi-
tude into thy hand; and know ye that
1 am Jehovah.

29 And these will encamp over
against those seven days. And it will
be in the seventh day, and the battle
will draw near: and the sons of Israel
will strike Aram a hundred thousand
footmen in one day.

80 And the rest will flee to Aphek,
to the city ; and the wall will fall wpon
twenty and seven thousand men being
left. And Ben-hadad fled, and he will
come to the city, to a chamber in a
chamber.

81 And his servants will say to him,
Behold now, we heard that the kings of
the house of Israel that they are kings
of merey; we will now put sackcloth
upon our loins and ropes upon our
heads, and we will go forth to the king
of Israel; perhaps he will save alive
thy soul. 2

32 And they will bind sackcloth up-
on their loins, and ropes upon their

I. KINGS ΧΧΙ.

heads, and they will come to the king
of Israel, and say, Thy servant Ben-ha-
dad said, Now wilt thou save alive my
soul? And he will say, Is he yet liv-
ing? he is my brother.

83 And the men will prognosticate,
and hasten, and urge whether it was
from him, and they will say, Thy broth-
er Ben-hadad. And he will say, Go
take him. And Ben-hadad will come
forth to him, and he will bring him up
upon his chariot.

84 And he will say to him, The cities
which my father took from thy father,
I will turn back; and thou shalt set
streets for thee in Damascus, according
as my father setin Shomeron, And 1
will send thee away with a covenant.
And he will cut out to him a covenant
and send him away.

385 And a man, one of the sons of the
prophets, said to his neighbor in the
word of Jehovah, Strike me now. And
the man refused to strike him.

80 And he will say to him, Because
thou heardst not to the voice of Jeho-
vah, behold thee going from me, and
the lion striking thee. And he will go
from beside him, and the lion will find
him and strike him.

87 And he will find another man,
and he will say, Strike me now. And
the man will strike him, striking and
wounding.

98 And the prophet will go and stand
by the king by the way; and he will
be disguised with a bandage oyer his
eyes.

39 And it will be the king passing
by, and he cried to the king, and he will
say, Thy servant went forth imto the
midst of the battle; and behold, a man
turned aside, and he will bring a man
to me, and say, Watch this man: if
missing, he shall be missed, and thy
soul being instead of his soul, or thou
shalt weigh a talent of silver.

40 And it will be thy servant doing
here and there, and he was not. And
the king of Israel will say to him, Thus
thy judgment; thou didst decide.

41 And he will hasten and remove
the bandage from his eyes; and the
king of Israel will know him that he is
from the prophets.

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42 And he will say to him, Thus said
Jehovah, Because thou sentest away a
man I devoted to destruction from thy
hand, and thy soul being instead of his
soul, and thy people instead of his peo-

le.

43 And the king of Israel will go to
his house, rebellious and angry; and
he will come to Shomeron.

CHAPTER ΧΧΙ.
ND it will be after these words,

-\ and a vineyard was to Naboth
the Jezreelite which was in Jezreel, by
the palace of Ahab king of Shomeron,

2 And Ahab will speak to Naboth,
saying, Wilt thou give to me thy vine-
yard? and it shall be to me for a gar-
den of herbs, for it is near by my house:
and I will give to thee in its stead a
vineyard good above it; if ₪000 in
thine eyes I will give thice silver the
price of this.

8 And Naboth will say to Ahab, Far
be it to me from Jehovah, my giving
the inheritance of my fathers to thee.

4 And Ahab will come to his house
rebellious and angry for the word that
Naboth the Jezreelite spake to him:
and he will say, I will not give to thee
the inheritance of my fathers. And he
will le down upon his bed and turn
away his face, and not eat bread.

5 And Jezebel his wife will come to
him, and she will speak to him, What
this thy spirit rebellious, and thou not
eating bread ?

6 And he will speak to her, Because
I shall speak to Naboth the Jezreelite
and say to him, Thou shalt give to me
thy vineyard for silver; or if thou art

‘willing, I will give to thee a vineyard

in its stead. And he will say, I will
not give to thee my vineyard.

7 And Jezebel his wife will say to
him, Thou now wilt do the kingdom
over Israel: arise, eat bread, and do
thy heart good: I will give to thee the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

8 And she will write letters in the
name of Ahab, and seal with his seal;
and she will send the letters to the old
men, and to the nobles who were in his
city dwelling with Naboth.

9 And she will write in the letters,

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saying, Call ἃ fast; set Naboth in the
head of the people:

10 And set two men, sons of Belial,
over against him, and they shall bear
witness, saying, Thou didst praise God
and the king. And they shall bring
him forth and stone him, and he shall die.

11 And the men of his city, the old
men and the nobles, who were dwelling
in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to
them, according to what was written in
the letters which she sent to them.

12 They called a fast; they will set
Naboth upon the head of the people.

18 And two men will come, sons of
Belial, and they will set before him:
and the men of Belial will testify
against Naboth before the people, say-
ing, Naboth ‘praised Jehovah and the
king. And they will bring him with-
out the city, and stone him with stones,
and he will die.

14 And they will send to Jezebel,
saying, Naboth was stoned, and he will
die.

15 And it will be when Jezebel heard
that Naboth was stoned and he will
die, and Jezebel will say to Ahab,
Arise, inherit the vineyard of Naboth
the Jezreelite, which he refused to give
to thee for silver: for Naboth is not
living, but dead.

16 And it will be when Ahab heard
that Naboth was dead, and Ahab will
rise to go down to the vineyard of Na-
both the Jezreelite, and to possess it.

17 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab
king of Israel, which is in Shomeron :
behold, in the vineyard of Naboth
where he went down there to possess it.

19 And speak to him, saying, Thus
said Jehovah, Didst thou kill and also
possess? And speak to him, saying,
Thus said Jehovah, In the place which
the dogs licked the blood of Naboth,
dogs shall lick thy blood, also thine.

20 And Ahab will say to Elijah,
Didst thou find me, O mine enemy?
And he will sayel found: because thou
didst sell thyself to do evil in the eyes
of Jehovah,

21 Behold me bringing evil to thee,
and I took away after thee, and I cut,

I. KINGS XXIL

off to Ahab him pissing against a wall,
and him shut up and left in Israel ;

22 And I gave thy house as the
house of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and
as the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah,
for the irritation which thou didst irri-
tate, and thou wilt cause Israel to sin.

28 And also to Jezebel spake Jeho-
vah, saying, Dogs shall eat Jezebel in
the fortification of Jezreel.

24 Him dymg to Ahab in the city
shall dogs eat; and him dying in the
field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

25 Only there was not as Ahab who
was sold to do evil in the eyes of Jeho-
vah, whom Jezebel stimulated him.

26 And he will cause abhorrence ex-
ceeding to go after blocks, according to
all which the Amorites did whom Je-
hovah dispossessed from the face of the
sons of Israel.

> 27 And it will be when Ahab heard

these words, and he will rend his gar-
ments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh,
and he will fast and lie down in sack-
cloth, and go softly.

28 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

29 Thou sawest that Ahab humbled
himself from before me. Because that
he humbled himself from before me, I
will not bring the evil in his days: in
the days of his sons I will bring the
evil upon his house.

CHAPTER XXII
ND they will dwell three years,
no war between Aram and _ be-
tween Israel.

2 And it will be in the third year,
and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went
down to the king of Israel.

3 And the king of Israel will say to
his servants, Ye knew that to us Ra-
moth-Gilead, and we being inactive talk-
ing it from the hand of the king ofAram.

4 And he will say to Jehoshaphat,
Go with me to battle to Ramoth-Gilead.
And Jehoshaphat will say to the king
of Israel, As me, as thee ; as my people,
as thy people; as my horses, as thy
horses.

5 And Jehoshaphat will say to the
king of Israel, Seek now, according to
the day, the word of Jehovah.

I. KINGS XXIL

6 And the king of Israel will gather
together the prophets, about four hund-
red men, and he will say to them, Shall
I go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or shall
I desist? and they will say, Go up;
and Jehovah will give into the hand of
the king.

7 And Jehoshaphat will say, Is there
not here yet a prophet to Jehovah, and
we will seek from him?

8 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Je-
hovah from him, and I hated him, for
he will not prophesy good concerning
me, but evil, Micaiah, son of Imiah.
And Jehoshaphat will say, The king
shall not say thus.

9 And the king of Israel will call for
one eunuch, and say, Hasten, Micaiah,
son of Imlah.

10 And the king of Israel, and Je-
hoshaphat king of Judah, sitting each
upon his throne, putting on their gar-
ments im the area of the opening of the
gate of Shomeron; and all the prophets
prophesying before them.

11 And Zedekiah, son of Chenaanah,
will make to him horns of iron: and he
will say, Thus said Jehovah, With
these shalt thou push Aram till thou
finished them.

12 And all the prophets prophesying
thus, saying, Go up to Ramath-Gilead
and prosper: and Jehovah gave into
the hand of the king.

13 And the messenger who went to
0811 Micaiah, spake to him, saying, Be-
hold now, the words of the prophets of
one mouth good to the king: will thy
words now be according to the word of
one of them, and speak thou good ?

> 14 And Micaiah will say, Jehovah
lives, for what Jehovah shall say to me
1 will speak it.

15 And he will come to the king, and
the king will say to him, Micaiah, shall
we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or
shall we desist? And he will say to
him, Go up, and prosper: and Jehovah
gave into the hand of the king.

16 And the king will say to him,
Till how many times do I cause thee to
swear that thou wilt not speak to me
only truth in the name of Jehovah?

17 And he will say, I saw all Israel

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scattered to the mountains as sheep
which not to them a shepherd: and Je-
hovah will say, No lords to these; they
shall turn back a man to his house in
peace.

18 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Did I not say to thee he
will not prophesy good concerning me,
but evil?

19 And he will say, For this, hear
the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah
sitting upon his throne, and all the
army of the heavens standing by him
from his right hand and from his left.

20 And Jehovah will say, Who will
deceive Ahab, and he shall go up and
fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this will
say according to this, and this said ac-
cording to this.

21 And the spirit will go forth and
stand before Jehovah, and he will say,
I will deceive him. And Jehovah will
say, By what?

22 And he will say, I will go forth
and be to him a lying spirit in the
mouth of all his prophets) And he
will say, Thou shalt deceive, and thou
shalt be able: go forth and do thus.

23 And now behold, Jehovah gave a
lying spirit in the mouth of all these
thy prophets, and Jehovah spake evil
concerning thee.

24 And Zedekiah the son of Che-
naanah will come near, and strike Mi-
caiah upon the cheek, saying, Where
passed the spirit of Jehovah from me
to speak to thee?

25 And Micaiah will say, Behold
thee seeing in that day when thou shalt
go into a chamber, in a chamber to hide
thyself.

26 And the king of Israel will say,
Take Micaiah and turn him back to
Amon, chief of the city, and to Joash
son of the king.

27 And say, Thus said the king, Put
this in the house of shutting up, and
cause him to eat the bread of oppres-
sion and the waters of oppression till
my coming in peace.

28 And Micaiah will say, If turning
back, thou shalt turn back in peace,
Jehovah spake not inme. And he will
say, Hear, ye peoples, all of them.

29 And the king of Israel will go up,

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and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to Ra-
moth-Gilead.

30 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Disguising myself and go-
ing into the war; and thou put on thy
garments. And the king of Israel will
disguise himself, and will go into the war.

51 And the king of Aram command:
ed the chiefs of the chariots which were
to him, thirty and two, saying, Ye shall
not fight with little and with great, but
with the king of Israel alone.

82 And it will be when the chiefs of
the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, and they
said, Surely he is the king of Israel.
And they will turn aside to fight against
him: and Jehoshaphat will ery out.

88 And it will be when the chiefs of
the chariots saw that it was not the
king of Israel, and they will turn back
from after him.

84 Andaman drew with a bow in
his simplicity, and he will strike the
king of Israel between the joinings and
between the coat of mail; and he will
say to his driver, Turn thy hand, and
שמ‎ me forth from the war, for I was
wounded.

85 And the battle will go up in that
day: and the king was fixed in ‘the
chariot over against Aram, and he will
die in the evening: and the blood of
the wound will flow into the bosom of
the chariot.

86 And a shout of joy will pass
through in the camp as the sun went
down, saying, A man to his city, and a
man to his land.

97 And the king will die, and he will
be brought to Shomeron ; and they will
bury the king in Shomeron.

88 And one will inundate the chariot
in the pool of Shomeron; and the dogs
will lick his blood; and the harlots
washed, according to the word of Jeho-
vah which he spake.

39 And the rest of the words of
Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivo-
ry house which he built, and all the
cities which he built, are they not writ-
ten upon the book of the words of the
days to the kings of Israel?

40 And Ahab will lie down with his
fathers; and Ahaziah his son will reign
in his stead.

I. KINGS XXII

41 And Jehoshaphat son of Asa,
reigned over Judah in the fourth year
to Ahab king of Israel.

42 Jehoshaphat the son of thirty and
five years in his reigning; and twenty
and five years he reigned in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Azubah, daugh-
ter of Shilhi.

43 And he went in all the way of
Asa his father; he turned not aside
from it to do the straight in the eyes of
Jehovah:

44 But the heights were not remoy-
ed; the people γϑὺ sacrificing and burn-
ing incense upon the heights.

465 And Jehoshaphat will make peace
with the king of Israel.

46 And the rest of the words of Je-
hoshaphat, and his strength that he did,
and how he warred, are they not writ-
ten upon the book of the words of the
days to the kings of Judah?

47 And the remainder of the holy
place which was left in the days of
Asa his father, he took away from the
land.

48 And a king not in Edom: a di-
rector reigned.

49 Jehoshaphat built ships of Thar-
shish to go to Ophrah for gold: and it
went not, for the ships were broken in
Ezion-Geber.

50 Then said Ahaziah son of Ahab,
to Jehoshaphat, My servants shall go
with thy servants in the ships. And
Jehoshaphat would not.

51 And Jehoshaphat will lie down
with his fathers, and be buried with his
fathers in the city of David his father:
and Jehoram his son will reign in his
stead.

52 And Ahaziah son of Ahab reign-
ed over Israel in Shomeron in the sey-
enteenth year to Jehoshaphat king of
Judah ; and he will reign over Israel
two years.

53 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah and go in the way of his fa-
ther, and in the way of his mother, and
in the way of Jeroboam, son of Nebat,
who caused Israel to sin:

54 For he will serve Baal and wor-
ship to him, and _ he will irritate Jeho-
vah the God of Israel according to all
which his father did.

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CHAPTER I.
ND Moab broke with Israel after
Ahab died.

2 And Ahaziah will fall through the
lattice in his upper chamber which was
in Shomeron, and he will be sick: and
he will send messengers, and say to
them, Go seek in Baal the fly god of
Ekron, if I shall live from this disease.

8 And the messenger of Jehovah
spake to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to the meeting of the messengers of
the king of Shomeron, and speak to
them, Is it because there is no God in
Israel ye go to seek in Baal the fly god
of Ekron?

4 And for this, thus said Jehovah,
The bed where thou wentest up there,
thou shalt not come down from it, but
dying, thou shalt die, and Elijah will
go.
5 And the messengers will turn back
to him, and he will say to them, Why
this ye turned back?

6 And they will say to him, A man
came up to our meeting, and he will
say to us, Go, turn back to the king
who sent you, and speak to him, Thus
said Jehovah, Is it because. there is no
God in Israel thou sentest to seek in
Baal the fly god of Ekron? for this the
bed where thou wentest up there, thou
shalt not come down from it, for dying,
thou shalt die.

7 And he will speak to them, What
the judgment of the man who came up
to your meeting, and he will speak to
you these words?

8 And they will say to him, A man
possessing hair, girded with a girdle of
skin upon his lois. And he will say,
It is Elijah the Tishbite.

9 And he will send to him a chief of
of fifty and his fifty. And he will go
up to him; and behold, he sat upon
the head of the mountain. And he
will speak to him, Thou man of God,
the king spake, Come down.

10 And Elijah will answer and speak
to the captain of fifty, 11 1 a man of

God, fire shall come down out of the
heavens and consume thee and thy
fifty. And fire will come down from
the heavens and consume him and his
fifty.

11 And he will turn back and send
to him another captain of fifty and his
fifty. And he will answer and speak
to him, O man of God, thus said the
king, Come down quickly.

12 And Elijah will answer and speak
to them, If Ia man of God, fire shall
come down from the heavens and con-
sume thee and thy fifty. And the fire
of God will come down from the heay-
ens and consume him and his fifty.

13 And he will turn back and send
a captain of the third fifty and his fifty.
And the captain of the third fifty will
go up and come and bend upon his
knees before Elijah, and make suppli-
cation to him, and speak to him, O man
of God, shall my soul now be precious,
and the soul of these fifty, thy servants,
in thine eyes?

14 Behold, fire will come down from
heaven and consume the two first cap-
tains and their fifties: and now shall
my soul be precious in thine eyes?

15 And the messenger of Jehovah
will speak to Elijah, Go down with
him: thou shalt not be afraid of his
face. And he will rise and go down
with him to the king.

16 And he will speak to him, Thus
said Jehovah, Because thou didst send
messengers to seek in Baal the fly god
of Ekron, Is it because there is no God
in Israel to seek in his word? for this,
the bed where thou wentest up there,
thou shalt not come down from it, for
dying, thou shalt die.

17 And he will die according to the
word of Jehovah which Elijah spake.
And Jehoram will reign in his stead
in the second year to Jehoram son of
Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; for there
was no son to him.

18 And the rest of the words of Aha-
ziah which he did, are they not written

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upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Israel?

CHAPTER IL.
ND it will be in Jehovah bring-
ing up Ehjah in a tempest to the
heavens, and Ehjah went up, and Ehi-
sha, from Gilgal.

2 And Klijah will say to Elisha, Sit
now, here; for Jehovah sent me even
to the house of God. And 191188 will
say to him, Jehovah lives, and thy soul
lives, if I shall forsake thee. And they
will go down to the house of God.

8 And the sons of the prophets that
were in the house of God will come
forth to Elisha and say to him, Knewest
thou that this day Jehovah takes thy
lord from above thy head? And he
will say, I also knew; be silent.

4 And Elijah will say to him, Elisha,
sit now here; for Jehovah sent me to
Jericho. And he will say, Jehovah
lives, and thy soul lives, if I shall forsake
thee. And they will come to Jericho.

5 And the sons of the prophets which
were in Jericho will come near to Elisha
and say to him, Knewest thou that this
day Jehovah takes thy lord from above
thy head? And he will say, I also
knew; be silent.

6 And Elijah will say to him, Sit
now, here; for Jehovah sent me to Jor-
dan. And he will say, Jehovah lives
and thy soul lives if I shall forsake
thee. And they two will go.

7 And fifty men from the sons of the
prophets went, and they will stand from
opposite from afar off: and they two
stood by Jordan.

8 And Elijah will take his wide cloak
and roll together, and strike the waters,
and they will be divided hence and
thence, and they two will pass through
into the desert.

9 And it will be as they passed
through and Elijah said to Elisha, Ask
what I shall do for thee before I shall
be taken from thee. And Elisha will
say, Now shall the mouth of two in thy
spirit be to me.

10 And he will say, Thou wert hard
to ask: if thou shalt see me taken from
thee, it shall be thus to thee; and if
not, it shall not be.

II. KINGS 1.

11 And it will be they went, going
and speaking, and behold, a chariot of
fire and horses of fire, and they will
separate between them two; and Elijah
will go up in a tempest to the heavens, ἡ

12 And Elisha saw, and he crying,
My father, my father! the chariot of
Israel and his horsemen! and he saw
him no more: and he will lay hold upon
his garments and rend them into two
rents.

13 And he will lift up the wide cloak
of Elijah which fell from above him,
and he will turn back and stand by the
lip of Jordan.

14 And he will take the wide cloak
of Elijah which fell from off him and
strike the waters, and say, Where is Je-
hovah the God of Elijah, even he? And
he will strike the waters and they will
divide hence and thence, and Elisha
will pass through.

15 And the sons of the prophets who
were opposite in Jericho will see, and
they will say, The spirit of Elijah rested
upon Elisha. And they will come to
meet him, and they will worship to him
to the earth.

16 And they will say to him, Behold
now, there is with thy servants fifty
men, sons of strength: they shall go
now and seek thy lord, lest the spirit of
Jehovah lifted him up, and it will cast
him upon one of the mountains or into
one of the valleys. And he will say,
Ye shall not send.

17 And they will press upon him till
he was ashamed, and he will say, Send.
And they will send fifty men; and they
will seek three days, and they found
not.

18 And they will turn back to him,
and he sitting in Jericho; and he will
say 10 them, Did I not say to you, Ye
shall not send?

19 And the men of the city will say
to Elisha, Behold the situation of the
city good, as my lord sees: and the
waters evil and the land barren.

20 And he will say, Take to me 4
new dish, and put salt there. And they
will take to him.

21 And he will go forth to the going
forth of the waters, and he will east
salt there, and he will say, Thus said

II. KINGS IIL

Jehovah, I healed these waters; there
shall be no more from thence death and
barren.

22 And the waters will be healed
even to this day, according to the word
of Elisha which he spake.

23 And he will go up from thence to
the house of God: and he going up in
the way, and little boys will come forth
from the city, and will scoff at him, and
say to him, Go up, thou bald-head; go
up, thou bald-head.

24 And he will turn behind him and
see them, and he will curse them in the
name of Jehovah. And two she-bears
will come forth from the forest and will
rend of them forty and two children.

25 And he will go from thence to
mount Carmel, and from thence he
turned back to Shomeron.

CHAPTER IIL
ND Jehoram son of Ahab reigned
over Israel in Shomeron in the
eighteenth year to Jehoshaphat king of
Judah, and he will reign twelve years.

2 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, but not as his father and as
his mother; and he will remove the
statue of Baal which his father made.

3 But in the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who caused Israel to
sin, he adhered; he departed not from
them.

4 And Misha king of Moab was a
shepherd, and he turned back to the
king of Israel a hundred thousand
lambs, and a hundred thousand rams,
with the fleece.

5 And it will be as Ahab died, and
the king of Moab will break with the
king of Israel.

6 And king Jehoram will go forth in
that day out of Shomeron, and he will
review all Israel.

7 And he will go and send to Jehosh-
aphat king of Judah, saying, The king
of Moab broke with me; go with me
against Moab to war. And he will say,
I will go: as me, as thee; as my peo-
ple, as thy people; as my horses as thy
horses.

8 And he will say, Where the way
we shall ₪0 up? And he will say, The
way of the desert of Edom.

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9 And the king of Israel will ₪0, and
the king of Judah, and the king of
Edom: and they will encompass a way
of seven days; and there was no water
for the camp, and for the cattle which
were at their feet.

10 And the king of Israel will say,
Alas, that Jehovah called for these
three kings to give them into the hand
of Moab!

11 And Jehoshaphat will say, Is
there not here a prophet to Jehovah,
and we will seek Jehovah from him?
And one of the servants of the king of
Israel will answer and say, Here is 19[1-
sha, son of Shaphat, who poured water
upon the hands of Elijah.

12 And Jehoshaphat will say the
word of Jehovah is with him, and the
king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and
the king of Edom will come down to
him.

13 And Elisha will say to the king
of Israel, What to me and to thee? go
to the prophets of thy father and to the
prophets of thy mother. And the king
of Israel will say to him, Nay; for Je-
hovah called these three kings to give
them into the hand of Moab.

14 And Elisha will say, Jehovah of
armies lives whom I stand before him,
for unless I accept the face of Jehosha-
phat king of Judah, if I will look to
thee and if I will see thee.

15 And now take to me a player on
an instrument. And it was when the
player played, and the hand of Jeho-
vah will be upon him.

16 And he will say, Thus said Jeho-
vah, Make this torrent, pits, pits.

17 For thus said Jehovah, Ye shall
not see wind, and ye shall not see rain;
and that torrent shall be full of water,
and ye drunk, and your possessions,
and your cattle.

18 And this was light in the eyes of
Jehovah, and he gave Moab into your
hand.

19 And strike ye every fortified city
and every chosen city, and every good
tree ye shall cause it to fall, and all the
fountains of water ye shall shut up, and
every good part ye shall mar with
stones.

20 And it will be in the morning

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when the gift went up, and behold, wa-
ter coming from the way of Edom, and
the earth will be filled with waters.

.21 And all Moab heard that the
kings came up to war against them, and
they will be gathered together from all
girding on a girdle, and above, and
they will stand upon the bound.

22 And they will rise early in the
morning, and the sun rose upon the

waters and Moab will see from opposite
the waters red as blood:

23 And they will say, This the blood
of the sword ; the kings were destroyed,
and they will strike a man his neigh-
bor: and now to the spoil, Moab.

24 And they will go to the camp of

‘Israel, and Israel will rise and strike
' Moab and they will flee from their face :

and they will come upon it and smit-
ing Moab.

25 And they will tear down the cities,

-and on all the good portion of Moab
they will cast a man his stone, and they
filled it; and they will shut up all the

, fountains of water, and they will cause
every good tree to fall: till he left its
stones in the city of potsherds, and the
slingers will encompass and strike it.

26 And the king of Moab will see

_ that the battle was strong above him,
and he will take him seven hundred
men drawing sword to break through
to the king of Edom, and they will not
be able.

27 And he will take his son, the
firstborn, which shall reign in his stead,
and bring him up a burnt-offering upon
the wall: and there will be great anger
against Israel, and they will remove

' from him and turn back to the land.

CHAPTER IV.

ND one woman from the wives ot

the sons of the prophets cried to

Elisha, saying, Thy servant my hus-

- band died, and thou knewest that thy

servant was fearing Jehovah: and the

\ creditor came to take my two children
for servants.

2 And Elisha will say to her, What
shall I do for thee? announce to me
what is to thee in the house. And she
will say, Not anything to thy servant
- in the house but a flask of oil.

1. KINGS IY.

8 And he will say, Go ask for thy-
self vessels from without from all thine
dwelling near; empty vessels; thou
shalt not be little.

4 And come in and shut the door af-
ter thee and after thy sons, and thou
shalt pour into all these vessels, and
the full thou shalt remove.

5 And she will go from him and shut
the door after her and after her sons,
they bringing near to her, and she pour-
ing out.

6 And it will be as the vessels being
full, and she will say to her son, Bring
to me yet a vessel. And he will say,
Not a vessel more. ‘And the oil will
stand.

7 And she will go and announce to
the man of God, and he will say, Go
sell the oil and requite thy creditor, and
thou shalt live with thy sons by the
rest.

8 And it will be the day, and Elisha
will pass through to Shunem, and a
great woman there; and she will lay
hold on him to eat bread. And it will
be as often as he passed by, he will
turn aside there to eat bread.

9 And she will say to her husband,
Behold now, I knew that he is a holy
man of God, passing by us continually.

10 Now we will make a little wall
chamber and put for him there a bed
and a table, and a throne and a candle-
stick; and being in his coming to us he
will turn aside there.

11 And the day will be and he will
come there, and he will turn aside into
the chamber, and lie there.

12 And he will say to Gehazi his
boy, Call for this Shunamitess. And
he will call for her, and she will stand
before him.

13 And he will say to him, Say now
to her, Behold, thou didst hasten for us
all this concern; what to be done for
thee? is it to spealx for thee to the king,
or to the chief of the army? And she
will say, In the midst of my people I
dwell.

14 And he will say, And what to be
done for her? And Gehazi will say,
Truly, not a son to her, and her hus-
band an old man.

15 And he will say, Call to her.

IL KINGS IV.

And he will call to her, and she will
stand in the door.

16 And he will say, At this appoint-
ment ahout the time thou living to em-
brace a son. And she will say, My
lord, thou man of God, do not deceive
with thy servant.

17 And the woman will conceive and
bear a son at this appointment about
the time of living which Elisha spake
to her.

18 And the child will grow; and the
day will be and he will go forth to his
father to those reaping.

19 And he will say to his father, My
head, my head. And he will say to
the boy, Lift him up to his mother.

20 And he will lift him up and bring
him to his mother, and he will lift him
up and bring him to his mother, and he
will sit upon her knees till noon, and
he will die.

21 And she will go up and lay him
down upon the bed of the man of God,
and she will shut up after her and go
forth.

22 And she will call to her husband
and say, Send now to me one of the
boys, and one of the she asses, and I
will run even to the man of God, and
I will turn back.

23 And he will say, Wherefore goest
thou to him this day? not new moon,
and not Sabbath. And she will say,
Peace.

24 And she will saddle the ass, and
say to her boy, Lead on, and go; thou
shalt not hold back for me to ride ex-
cept I said to thee.

25 And she will go and come to the
man of God to mount Carmel. And it
will be when the man of God saw her
from opposite, and he will say to Geha-
zi his boy, Behold this Shunamitess.

26 Now run now to her meeting, and
say to her, Is peace to thee? and peace
to thy husband? and peace to the child?
And she will say, Peace.

27 And she will come to the man of
God to the mountain, and she will lay
hold upon his feet; and Gehazi will
come near to push her away; and the
man of God will say, Let go to her, for
her soul is bitter to her: and Jehovah
hid from me and announced not to me.

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28 And she will say, Did I ask a son
from my lord? said I not, Thou shalt
not deceive me?

29 And he will say to Gehazi, Gird
up thiy loms and take my prop in thy
hand, and go: If thou shalt find a man,
thou shalt not praise him; and if aman
shall praise thee, thou shalt not answer
him: and put my prop upon the face

‘of the boy.

80 And the mother of the boy will
say, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives,
I will not leave thee. And he will rise
and go after her.

31 And Gehazi passed over before
them, and he will put the prop upon
the face of the boy, and no voice and
no attention. And he will turn back
to meet him; and he will announce to
him, saying, The boy awaked not.

32 And Elisha will go into the house,
and behold, the -boy dead, lying upon
his bed.

83 And he will go in and shut the
door after them two, and he will pray
to Jehovah.

84 And he will come up and lie down
upon the child, and put his mouth upon
his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes,
and his hands upon his hand; and he
will bow himself upon him, and the
flesh of the child will be warm.

35 And he will turn back and go
into the house, once hence, and 6
thence ; and he will go up, and he will
bow himself upon him: and the boy
will sneeze, even to seven times; and
the boy will open his eyes.

86 And he will call to Gehazi and
say, Call to this Shunamitess. And he
will call her, and she will come to him,
and he will say, Lift up thy son,

37 And she will go in and fall at his
feet, and worship him to the earth; and
she will lift up her son and go forth.

88 And Elisha turned back to Gilgal.
And the famine in the land; and the
sons of the prophets sitting before him:
and he will say to his boy, Place the
great pot, and boil pottage for the sons
of the prophets.

89 And one will go forth to the field
to gather green herbs, and he will find
a vine of the field, and he will gather
from it wild cucumbers of the field his

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garment full, and he will come and cut
up into the pot of pottage: for he knew
it not.

40 And they will pour out for the
men to eat, and it will be as they were
eating from the pottage, and they eried
out, and they will say, Death in the
pot, O man of God. And they could
not eat.

41 And he will say, Take flour. And
he will cast into the pot and say, Pour
out for the people, and they shall eat.
And there was not a word of eyil in
the pot.

42 And a man came from the lord of
three, and he will bring to the man of
God bread of the first-fruits, twenty of
bread of barley, and garden fruits in his
sack; and he will say, Give to the peo-
ple, and they shall eat.

43 And he serving will say, What!
shall I give this before a hundred men?
and he will say, Give to the people, and
they shall eat; for thus said Jehoyah,
Eating, and they leave.

44 And he will give before them, and
they will eat and leave, according to
the word of Jehovah.

CHAPTER V.
Λ ND Naaman chief of the army of
the king of Aram was a great
man before his lord, and he was lifted
up in the face, for by him Jehovah gave
salvation to Aram: and the man was
mighty of strength; being leprous.

2 And Aram will go forth by troops,
and take captive from the land of Israel
alittle girl; and she will be before Naa-
man’s: wife,

3 And she will say to her mistress,
O that my lord was before the prophet
that is in Shomeron! then he will gath-
er him from his leprosy.

4 And one will go and announce to
his lord, saying, According to this, and
according to this, spake the girl which
was from the land of Israel.

5 And the king of Aram will say,
Go; come, I will send a letter to the
king-of Israel. And he will go and
take in his hand ten talents of silver
and six thousand of gold, and ten
changes of garments.

6 And he will bring the letter to the

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king of Israel, saying, Now when this
letter comes to thee, behold, I sent
Naaman my servant, and do thou gather
him from his leprosy.

7 And it will be when the king of
Israel read the letter, and he will rend
his garments and say, Am I God to kill
and to make alive, that this one sent to
me to gather a man from his leprosy?
for surely know ye now, and see that
he seeks occasion against me.

8 And it will be when Elisha the
man of God heard that the king of Ts-
rael rent his garments, and he will send
to the king, saying, Wherefore rentest
thou thy garments? He shall come
now to me and know that there is a
prophet in Israel.

9 And Naaman will come with his
horse and with his chariot, and he will
stand at the door of the house to Elisha.

10 And Elisha will send a messenger
to him, saying, Go and wash seven
times in Jordan and thy flesh shall turn
back to thee and be clean.

11 And Naaman will be angry, and
go, and. say, Behold, I said coming
forth, he will come forth to me, and
stand and call in the name of Jehovah
his God, and wave his hand up and
down to the place, and he will gather
him being leprous.

12 Is not Abana and Pharpar, rivers
of Damascus, good above all the waters
of Israel? and shall I not wash in them
and becleansed? And he will turn and
go in wrath.

13 And his servants will come near
and speak to him, and say, My father,
spake the prophet a great word to thee,
wilt thou not do? and much more he
said to thee, Wash and be cleansed.

14 And he will go down and dip in
Jordan seyen times, according to the
word of the man of God, and his flesh
will turn back as the flesh of a small
boy, and he will be cleansed.

15 And he will turn back to the man
of God, he and all his camp; and he
will come and stand before him, and
say, Behold now, I knew that there is no
God in all the earth but in Israel: and
now, take now a blessing from thy ser-
vant.

16 And he will say, Jehovah lives

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whom I stood before him if I will take.
And he will press upon him to take,
and he will refuse.

17 And Naaman will say, And shall
there not now be given to thy servant
a pair of mules lifting up earth? for
thy servant will no more do a burnt-
offering and a sacrifice to other gods
but to Jehovah.

18 For this word will Jehovah for-
give to thy servant in the going of my
lord to the house of Rimmon to worship
there, and he Jeaning wpon my hand,
and I worshiped in the house of Rim-
mon: in my worshiping in the house
of Rimmon now will Jehovah forgive
to thy servant in this word?

19 And he will say to him, Go for
peace. And he will go from-him a
measure of land.

20 And Gehazi the boy of Elisha,
the man of God, will say, Behold, my
lord spared Naaman this Aramite from
taking from his hand what he brought:
Jehovah lives, for if I ran after him
and took from him something.

21 And Gehazi will pursue after
Naaman, and Naaman will see he ran
after him, and will descend from his
chariot to meet him, and he will say,
Is it peace?

22 And he will say, Peace. My lord
sent me, saying, Behold, now there
came here to me two boys from mount
Ephraim from the sons of the prophets :
wilt thou give to them a talent of sil-
ver and two changes of garments?

23 And Naaman will say, Be con-
tent, take two talents) And he will
press upon him, and he will bind two
talents of silver in two bags, and two
changes of garments, and he will give
to his two boys, and they will lift up
before him.

24 And he will come to the hill and
take from their hand and deposit in the
house: and he will send away the men,
and they will go.

25 And he came in, and he will stand
by his lord: and Elisha will say to
him, From whence, Gehazi? And he
will say, Thy servant went not hence
and thence.

26 And he will say to him, Went
not my heart when the man turned

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again from his chariot to meet thee?
Is it a time to take silver, and to take
garments, and olive trees, and vine-
yards, and sheep and oxen, and sery-
ants and maids?

27 And the leprosy of Naaman shall
cleave upon thee and upon thy seed
forever. And he will go forth from his
face being leprous as snow.

CHAPTER תט‎
ND the sons of the prophets will
say to Elisha, Behold now, the
place where we dwell there before thee
18 narrow for us.

2 We will go now even to Jordan
and take from thence each, one beam,
and we will make for us a place to
dwell there. And he will say, Go.

3 And one will say, Be content, now,
and go with thy servants. And he will
say, I will go.

4 And he will go with them; and
they will come to Jordan, and they will
cut woods.

5 And one will be felling the beam,
and the iron fell into the water: and
he will cry out and say, Alas, my lord!
and it was borrowed. ;

6 And the man of God will say,
Where fell it? And he will cause him
to see the place. And he will cut down
wood and east there; and the iron will
overflow.

7 And he will say, Lift up to thee.
And he will stretch forth his hand and
take it. ὲ

8 And the king of Aram was warring
against Israel, and he counseled with
his servants, saying, To such a certain
place my encampments.

9 And the man of God will send to
the king of Israel, saying, Watch from
passing through this place, for there
Aram encamps.

10 And the king of Israel will send
to the place which the man of God said
to him and warned of it, and he watch-
ed himself there, not once, and not
twice.

11 And the heart of the king of Aram
will be agitated for this word ; and he
will call to his servants and say to them,
Will ye not announce to me who is
leading us astray to the king of Israel?

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12 And one of his servants will say,
No, my lord the king; but Elisha the
prophet, who is in Israel, will announce
to the king of Israel the words which
thou wilt speak in thy bed-chamber.

18 And he will say, Go, and see
where he is, and I will send and take
him. And it will be announced to him,
saying, Behold, in Dothan.

14 And he will send there horses and
chariots, and weighty strength: and
they will come by night, and they will
surround upon the city.

15 And he serving the man of God

will rise early to stand up, and he went}

forth, and behold, strength surrounding
the city, and horse and chariot. And
his boy will say to him, Alas, my lord!
how shall we do?

16 And he will say, Thou shalt not
fear: for the many which are with us
are more than with them.

17 And Elisha will pray, and say,
Jehovah open now his eyes, and he
shall see. And Jehovah will open the
boy’s eyes, and he will see: and behold,
the mountain full of horses and char-
iots of fire round about Elisha.

18 And they will come down to him,
and Elisha will pray to Jehovah, and
say, Strike now, this nation with blind-
ness. And he will strike them with
blindness, according to the word of
Elisha.

19 And Elisha will say to them, This
not the way, and this not the city: go
ye after me, and I will take you to the
man whom ye will seek. And he will
cause them to go to Shomeron.

20 And it will be when they came to
Shomeron, and Elisha will say to Jeho-
vah, Open the eyes of these, and they
shall see. And Jehovah will open their
eyes, and they will see; and behold, in
the midst of Shomeron.

21 And the king of Israel will say to
Elisha when he saw them, Shall I strike ?
shall I strike, my father ?

22 And he will say, Thou shalt not
strike: whom thou tookest captive with
thy sword and with thy bow, strikest
thou? set bread and water béfore them,
and they shall eat and drink and go to
their lord.

23 And he will purchase for them a

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great purchase: and they will eat and
drink, and he will send them, and they
will go to their lord. And the troops
of Aram will add no more to come into
the land of Israel.

24 And it will be after this, and Ben-
hadad king of Aram will gather all his
camp and come up and press upon
Shomeron.

25 And a great famine will be in
Shomeron: and behold them pressing
upon it till the head of an ass was for
eighty of silver, and the fourth of a cup
of doves’ dung, for five of silver.

26 And the king of Israel will be
passing by upon the wall, and a woman
cried out to him, saying, Save, O lord
the king.

27 And he will say, Wilt not Jeho-
vah save thee, from whence shall I save
thee’ from the threshing-floor or from
the wine-press ?

28 And the king will say to her,
What to thee? and she will say, This
woman said to me, Thou shalt give thy
son, and we will eat him this day, and
my son we will eat to-morrow.

29 And we shall boil my son, and
eat him: and saying to her on the day
after, Thou shalt give thy son, and we
will eat him: and she will hide her
son.

80 And it will be when the king
heard the woman’s words, and he will
rend his garments; and he passed by
upon the wall, and the people will see,
and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh,
from within.

31 And he will say, Thus will God
do to me, and thus will he add, if the
head of Elisha son of Shaphat, shall
stand upon him this day.

32 And Elisha sitting in his house,
and the old men sitting with him; and
he will send a man from before him:
before the messenger will come to him,
and he said to the old men, See ye that
this son of a murderer sent to take
away my head? see, when the messen-
ger comes, shut the door and press him
in the door: is not the voice of the feet
of his lord behind him?

33 While yet speaking with them,
behold, the messenger will come down
to him: and he will say, Behold, this

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evil from Jehovah; what more shall I
wait for Jehovah?

CHAPTER VIL
ND Elisha will say, Hear the word
of Jehovah, thus said Jehovah,
About the time to-morrow a measure
of fine flour for a shekel, and two meas-
ures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
of Shomeron.

2 And the third, which was to the
king leaning upon his hand, will an-
swer the man of God, and say, Behold,
Jehovah making lattices in the heavens,
will this word be? and he will say, Be-
hold thee seeing with thine eyes, and
from thence thou shalt not eat.

3 And there were four men being
leprous at the entrance of the gate, and
they will say a man to his neighbor,
What, shall we sit here till our death ?

4 If we said, We will go into the
city, and the famine in the city, and
our death there: and if we sat here,
and we died. And now come, and we
will fall to the camp of Aram: if they
will save us alive we shall hve; and if
they will kill us, and we died.

5 And they will rise in darkness to
go to the camp of Aram: and they will
come even to the end of the camp of
Aram, and behold, not a man there.

6 And Jehovah caused the camp of
Aram to hear a voice of chariot and a
voice of horse, a voice of great strength :
and they will say a man to his brother,
Behold, the king of Israel hired the
kings of the Hittites and the kings of
Egypt to come upon us.

7 And they will rise and flee in dark-
ness, and leave their tents, and their
horses and their asses, the camp as it
was, and flee for their soul.

8 And these leprous will come even
to the end of the camp, and go to one
tent, and eat and drink and lift up
from thence silver and gold, and gar-
ments, and they will go and hide and
turn back, and come to another tent,
and lift up from thence, and go and
hide.

9 And they will say a man to his
neighbor, Not thus do we: this day, it
is a day of glad tidings, and we being
silent: and waiting till morning light

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and sin will fina us: ana now come
and we will go and announce to the
king’s house.

10 And they will go and call to the
gate of the city and announce to them,
saying, We came to the camp of Aram,
and behold, not a man there, and voice
of man, but the horse made fast, and
the ass made fast, and the tents as they
are.

11 And it will be called out at the
gates, and they will announce to the
king’s house within.

12 And the king will rise by night
and say to his servants, I will now an-
nounce to you what Aram did to us.
They knew that we are hungry, and
they went forth from the camp to hide
in the field, saying, When they shall
come forth from the city and we will
seize them living, and we will go into
the city.

13 And one of his servants will an-
swer and say, They shall take five of
the horses remaining which were left in
it, (behold them as all the multitude of
Israel which were left in it: behold
them as all the multitude of Israel
which were finished :) and we will send
and see.

14 And they will take two chariot
horses, and the king will send after the
camp of Aram, saying, Go and see.

15 And they will go after them even
to Jordan; and behold, all the way
full of garments and vessels which
Aram cast away in their being terrified.
And the méssengers will turn back and
announce to the king.

16 And the people will go out and
plunder the camp of Aram. Anda
measure of fine flour will be for a shek-
el, and two measures of barley for a
shekel, according to the word of Jeho-
vah.

17 And the king appointed the third
who leaned upon his hand over the
gate: and the people will tread upon
him in the gate: and he will die ac-
cording to the word of the man of God
who spake in the king’s coming down
to him.

18 And it will be as the man of God
spake to the king, saying, ‘l'wo meas-
ures of barley for a shekel, and a meas-

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ure of fine flour for ἃ shekel will be
about the time to-morrow in the gate of
Shomeron.

19 And the third will answer the
man of God and say, Behold, Jehovah
making lattices in the heavens, will it
be according to this word? and he will
say, Behold thee seeing with thine eyes,
and thou shalt not eat from thence.

20 And thus it will be to him: and
the people will tread upon him in the
gate, and he will die.

CHAPTER VIII.

ND Elisha spake to the woman

whom he restored to life her son,

saying, Arise, and go thou, and thy

house, and sojourn where thou wilt so-

journ ; for Jehovah called for a famine ;

and also coming to the land seven
years.

2 And the woman will rise and will
do according to the word of the man of
God: and will go, she and her house,
and she will sojourn in the land of the
rovers seven years.

3 And it will be from the end of
seven years, and the woman will turn
back from the land of the rovers, and
come to cry to the king for her house
and for her field.

4 And the king speaking to Gehazi
the boy of the man of God, saying, Re-
late now to me all the great things
which Elisha did.
= 5 Andit will be, he relating to the king
how he restored the dead to life, and
behold, the woman whom he restored
to life her son, cried to the king for her
house and for her field. And Gehazi
will say, O lord the king, this the woman
and this her son whom Hlisha restored
to life.

6 And the king will ask the woman,
and she will relate to him: and the
king will give to her one eunuch, say-
ing, Turn back all which was to her,
and all the fruits of the field from the
day she left the land and even till now.

7 And Elisha will come to Damas-
cus: and the son of Hadad king of
Aram was sick: and it will be an-
nounced to him, saying, The man of
God came even here.

8 And the king will say to Hazael,

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Take in thy hand a gift, and go to the
meeting of the man of God, and seek
Jehovah from him, saying, Shall I live
from this sickness?

9 And Hazael will go to meet him,
and he will take a gift in his hand, and
every good of Damascus, the lifting up
of forty camels, and he will go and
stand before him, and say, Thy son the
son of Hadad king of Aram sent me to
thee, saying, Shall I live from this sick-
ness ?

10 And Elisha will say, Go, say, Liv-
ing, shalt thou not live? and Jehovah
caused me to see that dying, he shall
die.

11 And he will set his face, and he
will set even till he was ashamed: and
the man of God will weep.

12 And Hazael will say, Wherefore
weeps my lord? and he will say, Be-
cause I knew that thou wilt do to the
sons of Israel evil: their fortifications
thou wilt send forth into fire, and their
chosen thou wilt kill with the sword,
and thou wilt dash in pieces their chil-
dren, and the pregnant thou wilt cleave
asunder.

18 And Hazael will say, For what!
thy servant, the dog, that he will do
this great word? and Elisha will say,
Jehovah caused me to see thee king
over Aram.

14 And he will go from Elisha and
come to his lord; and he will say to
him, What said Elisha to thee? and he
will say, He said to me, Living, thou
shalt live.

15 And it will be on the morrow, and
he will take a coarse cloth and dip in
water and spread over his face, and he
will die: and Hazael will reign in his
stead.

16 And the fifth year to Joram son
of Ahab king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat
king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehosh-
aphat king of Judah, reigned.

17 The son of thirty and two years
was he in his reigning; and eight years
reigned he in Jerusalem.

18 And he will go in the way of the
kings of Israel, as did the house of
Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was
to him for wife: and he will do evil in
the eyes of Jehovah.

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19 And Jehovah would not destroy
Judah on account of David his servant,
as he said to give to him a light for his
sons all the days.

20 In his days Edom broke from un-
der the hand of Judah, and they will
make a king over them.

21 And Joram will pass over to Zair,
_ and all the chariots with him: and he
will be rising by night, and he will
strike Edom surrounding upon him,
and the captains of his chariots: and
the people will flee to his tents.

22 And Edom will break from un-
der Judah even to this day. Then Lib-
nah will break in that time.

23 And the rest of the words of Jo-
ram, and all that he did, are they not
written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Judah?

24 And Joram will lie down with his
fathers, and he will be buried with his
fathers in the city of David; and Aha-
ziah his son will reign in his stead.

25 In the year, the twelfth year to
Joram, son of Ahab king 01 Israel,
reigned Ahaziah son of Jehoram king
of Judah.

26 The son of twenty and two years
was Ahaziah in his reigning; and he
reigned one year in Jerusalem, And
his mother’s name Athaliah, daughter
of Omri, king of Isvael.

27 And he will go in the way of the
house of Ahab, and he will do evil in the
eyes of Jehovah, as the house of Ahab,
for he was son-in-law of the house of
Ahab.

28 And he will go with Jehoram son
of Ahab, to war with Hazael king of
Aram, in Ramoth-Gilead; and the
Avamites will strike Jehoram.

29 And king Jehoram will turn back
to be healed in Jezreel from the blows
which the Aramites will strike him in
Ramah, in his fighting with Hazael
king of Aram. And Ahaziah son of
Jehoram king of Judah, went down to
see Joram son of Ahab, in Jezreel, for
he was sick.

CHAPTER IX.
A ND Elisha the prophet called to
one of the sons of the prophets,
and he will say to him, Gird thy loins,

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and take this flask of oil in thy hand,
and go to Ramoth-Gilead.

2 And go there and see there Jehu
son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi,
and go and cause him to rise from the
midst of his brethren, and bring him to
a chamber in a chamber ; ;

8 And take the flask of oil and pour
upon his head, and say, Thus said Je-
hovah I anointed thee for king 10 Is-
rael. And open the door and flee, and
thou shalt not wait.

4 And the boy will go, the boy the
prophet, to Ramoth-Gilead.

5 And he will go in, and behold, the
captains of the army sitting; and he
will say, A word to me for thee the
chief. And Jehu will say, To which
of all of us? And he will say, To thee
the chief.

6 And he will rise and go into the
house, and he will pour the oil upon his
head, and say to him, Thus said Jeho-
vah the God of Israel, I anointed thee
for king to the people of Jehovah to
Israel.

7 And smite thou the house of Ahab
thy lord, and I avenged the bloods of
imy servants the prophets, and the bloods
of all the servants of Jehovah from the
hand of Jezebel.

8 And all the house of Ahab shall
perish: and I cut off to Ahab him pis-
sing against the wall, and him shut up
and left in Israel.

9 And I gave the house of Ahab as
the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat;,
and as the house of Baasha son of Ahi-
jah :

10 And Jezebel shall the dogs eat in
a part of Jezreel, and none to bury.
And he will open the door and flee.

11 And Jehu will go forth to the
servants of his lord: and it will be said
to him, Peace? wherefore came this
raving to thee? And he will say,
to them, Ye knew the man and his
speech.

12 And they will say, A falsehood ;
announce to us now. And he willsay,
According to this, and according to
this he said to me, saying, Thus said
Jehovah, I anointed thee for king to
Israel.

18 And they will hasten and take a

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man his garment, and will put under
him to the body of the steps, and they
will strike upon the trumpet and say,
Jehu reigned.

14 And Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son
of Nimshi will conspire against Joram.
(And Joram watched in Ramoth-Gilead,
he and all Israel, from the face of Ha-
zael king of Aram.

15 And Jehoram the king turned
back to be healed in Jezreel from the
blows which the Aramites struck him
in his warring with Hazael king of
Aram.) And Jehu will say, If it is
your soul, none escaping, shall go forth
from the city to go to announce in Jez-
reel.

16 And Jehu will ride and go to Jez-
reel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaz-
iah king of Judah went down to see
Joram.

17 And he watching stood upon the
tower in Jezreel, and he will see the
multitude of Jehu in his coming, and
he will say, I see a multitude, And
Jehoram will say, Take a horseman and
send to meet them, and he shall say, Is
it peace ?

18 And a horseman of the horse will
go to meet him, and he will say, Thus
said the king, Is it peace? And Jehu
will say, What to thee and to peace?
turn behind me. And he watching will
announce, saying, The messenger went
even to them and turned not back.

19 And he will send a second horse-
man of horse, and he will go to them
and say, Thus said the king, Is it peace?
ahd Jehu will say, What to thee and to
peace? turn behind me.

20 And he watching will announce,
saying, He came even to them and
turned not back: and the driving as the
driving of Jehu son of Nimshi, for he
will drive in madness.

21 And Jehoram will say, Harness.
And he will harness his chariot. And
Jehoram king of Israel will go forth,
and Ahaziah king of Judah, a man in
his chariot; and they will go forth to
meet Jehu, and they will find him in
the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

22 And it will be when Jehoram saw
Jehu, and he will say, Is it peace? and
Jehu will say, What the peace, while

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the fornications of Jezebel thy mother
and her sorceries are many?

23 And Jehoram will turn his hands
and flee, and say to Ahaziah, Fraud, O
Ahaziah.

24 And Jehu filled his hand with a
bow, and he will strike Jehoram be-
tween his arms, and the arrow will go
forth from his heart, and he will bow .
down in his chariot.

25 And he will say to Bidkar the
third, Lift up, cast him im the portion
of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite;
for I remember I and thou riding in
pairs after Ahab his father, and Je-
hovah lifted up upon him this lift-
ing up.

26 But the bloods of Naboth and the
bloods of his sons did I not see yester-
night, said Jehovah; and I requited to
thee in this portion, said Jehovah, And
now lift up, and cast him into the por-
tion according to the word of Jehovah.

27 And Ahaziah king of Judah saw,
and he will flee the way of the house
of the garden. And Jehu will pursue
after him, and he will say, Strike him
also to the chariot in the ascent of Gur,
which is with Ibleam. And he will
flee to Megiddo, and die there.

28 And his servants will cause him
to ride to Jerusalem, and they will bury
him in his grave with his fathers in the
city of David.

29 And in the year, the eleventh year
to Joram, son of Ahab, Ahaziah reigned
over Judah.

80 And Jehu will come to Jezreel,
and Jezebel heard, and she will put her
eyes in paint, and do her head good,
and she will look through the window.

81 And Jehu came into the gate, and
she will say, Was peace to Zimri, kill-
ing his lord?

32 And he will lift up his face to the
window, and say, Who with me? who?
and there will look towards him two,
three eunuchs.

33 And he will say, Throw her down.
And they will throw her down, and
there will be sprinkled of her blood
upon the wall and upon the horses: and
he will tread her under foot.

34 And he will go in and eat and
drink, and he will say, Review now this

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curse, and bury her, for she the daugh-
ter of a king.

35 And they will go to bury her:
and they found not of her but the skull
and the feet, and the palms of the hands.

86 And they will turn back and an-
nounce to him, and he will say, This
the word of Jehovah which he spake
by the hand of his servant Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jez-
reel, dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.

87 And the careass of Jezebel was as
dung upon the face of the field in the
portion of Jezreel; that they shall not
say this is Jezebel.

CHAPTER X.
ND to Ahab seventy sons in Shom-
eron. And Jehu will write let-
ters and send to Shomeron to the chiefs
of Jezreel, the old men, and to Ahab’s
nourishers, saying,

2 And now when this letter comes to
you, and with you your lord’s sons, and
with you chariots and horses, and a for-
tified city, and weapons ;

8. And see the good and the straight
of your lord’s sons, and set upon the
throne of his father, and war for the
house of your lord.

4 And they will fear greatly, greatly,
and say, Behold, two kings stood not
before him, and how shall we stand.

5 And he over the house will send,
and he over the city, and the old men,
and the nourishers, to Jehu saying, We
thy servants, and all which thou shalt
say to us we will do; we will not make
aman king: do thou the good in thine
eyes.

6 And he will write to them a second
letter, saying, If ye are for me and ye
hear to my voice, take the heads of the
men your lord’s sons, and come to me
according to the time to-morrow, to Jez-
reel. (And the king’s sons seventy
men with the great of the city growing
up with them.)

7 And it will be when the letter came
to them, and they will take the sons of
the king‘and slaughter seventy men,
and put their heads in baskets, and send
to him to Jezreel.

8 And a messenger will come and
announce to him, saying, They brought

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the heads of the king’s sons. And he
will say, Put them two heaps at the
door of the gate till the morning,

9 And it will be in the morning, and
he will go forth and stand and say to
all the people, Ye are just: behold, I
conspired against my lord, and I will
ΚΙ] him: and who struck all these?

10 Know now that nothing shall fall
from the word of Jehovah to the earth
which Jehovah spake concerning the
house of Ahab: for Jehovah did what
he spake by the hand of his servant
Elijah.

11 And Jehu will strike all those be-
ing left to the house of Ahab in Jezre-
el, and all his great, and all his acquaint-
ance, and his priests, till he left to him
nothing escaping.

19 And he will rise and come, and
go to Shomeron. He in the house of
binding of the shepherds in the way.

18 And Jehu found the brethren of
Ahaziah king of Judah, and he will
say, Who are ye? and they will say,
We the brethren of Ahaziah; and we
shall go down for the peace of the sons
of the king and the sons of power.

14 And he will say, Seize them liy-
ing. And they will seize them living,
and they will slaughter them at the pit
of the house of binding, forty and two
men; and he left not a man of them.

15 And he will go from thence and
find Jehonadab son of Rechab at his
meeting: and he will bless him, and
say to him, Is thy heart straight, as my
heart with thy heart? and Jehonadab
will say, It is. And it is, give me thy
hand. And he will give his hand; and
he will bring him up to him in the
chariot.

16 And he will say, Come with me,
and see in my being zealous to Jeho-
vah. And they caused him to ride
with him in his chariot.

17 And he will come to Shomeron,
and he will strike all those remaining
to Ahab in Shomeron till the destroy-
ing him according to the word of Jeho-
vah which he spake to Elijah.

18 And Jehu will gather together all
the people, and say to them, Ahab
served Baal a little; Jehu will serve
him much,

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19 And now all the prophets of Baal,
all his servants and all his priests, call
ye to me: a man shall not be missing:
for a great sacrifice to me for Baal; ev-
ery one who shall be missing shall not
live. And Jehu did in fraud, in order
to destroy the servants of Baal.

20 And Jehu will say, Consecrate an
assembly to Baal, and they will call.

21 And Jehu will send in all Israel :
and all the servants of Baal will come,
and there was not a man left who came
not. And they will come to the house
of Baal, and the house of Baal will be
filled, mouth to mouth.

22 And he will say to him over the
vestry, Bring forth garments for all the
servants of Baal. And he will bring
forth to them garments.

23 And Jehu will come, and Jehona-
dab son of Rechab, to the house of Baal,
and he will say to the servants of Baal,
Search and see, lest there is here with
you of the servants of Jehovah, but
the servants of Baal only.

24 And they will go in to do saeri-
fices and burnt-offerings, and Jehu set
to him without, eighty men; and he
will say, The man who shall escape
from these men which I bring upon
your hands, his soul instead of his soul.

25 And it will be when they finished
doing the burnt-offering, and Jehu will
say to the runners and to the third ru-
lers, Go in; strike them; a man shall
not go forth. And they will strike
them with the mouth of the sword ; and
the runners and the thirds will cast out,
and they will go even to the city of the
house of Baal.

26 And they will bring forth the pil-
lars of the house of Baal, and they will
burn them.

27 And they will lay waste the im-
ages of Baal, and they will lay waste the
house of Baal, and they will set it for
a sink even to this day.

28 And Jehu will destroy Baal out
of Israel.

29 But the sins of Jeroboam son of
Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, Jehu
turned not away from after them, the
calves of gold which were in the house
of God and which were in Dan.

30 And Jehovah will say to Jehu,

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Because thou didst good to do the
straight in mine eyes, according to all
which was in my heart thou didst to
the house of Ahab, thy son of the de-
scendants of the fourth generation 1
sit to thee upon the throne of Israel.

31 And Jehu watched not to go in
the law of Jehovah God of Israel with
all his heart: he turned not away from
the sins of Jeroboam who caused Israel
to sin.

32 In those days Jehovah began to
cut off in Israel, and Hazael will strike
them in all the bound of Israel ;

33 From Jordan from the rising of
the sun, all the land of Gilead, the
Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the
Manassites, from Aroer which upon
the torrent Arnon, and Gilead and Ba-
shan.

34 And the remainder of the words
of Jehu, and all which he did, and all
his strength, are they not written upon
the book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel ?

35 And Jehu will lie down with his
fathers, and they will bury him in Sho-
meron. And Jehoahaz his son will
reign in his stead.

36 And the days which Jehu reigned
over Israel twenty and eight years, in
Shomeron.

CHAPTER XI.
ND Athaliah mother of Ahaziah,
and she saw that her son dead;
and she will rise and destroy all the
seed of the kingdom.

2 And Jehosheba daughter of king
Joram, sister of Ahaziah, will take Joash
son of Ahaziah, and steal him from the
midst of the king’s sons being slain,
him and his nurse in the bed-chamber,
and they will hide him from the face of
Athaliah, and he was not killed.

8 And he will be with her in the
house of Jehovah being hid six years.
And Athaliah reigned over the land.

4 And in the seventh year Jehoida
will send and take the captains of hund-
reds for executioners, and for runners,
and he will bring them to him to the
house of Jehovah, and he will cut out
to them a covenant, and he will cause
them to swear in the house of Jehovah,

Π. KINGS 1

and he will cause them to see the king’s

.ה
And he will command them, saying,‏ 5
This the word which ye shall do: The‏
third of you coming in the Sabbath,‏
and watching the watches of the king’s‏
house;‏

6 And the third in the gate of Sur;
and a third in the gate behind the run-
ners: and watch the watches of the
house from being swept away.

7 And two hands among you all
going forth the Sabbath, and watch ye
the watches of the house of Jehovah
for the king.

8 And surround upon the king round
about, a man and his weapon in his
hand: and he coming into the ranks
shall be slain. And be ye with the
king in his going forth and in his com-
ing in.

9 And the captains of hundreds will
do according to all that Jehoida the
priest commanded: and they will take
each his men going in the Sabbath, with
those going forth the Sabbath, and they
will come to Jehoida the priest.

10 And the priest will give to the
captains of hundreds the spears and
shields which were to king David,
which were in the house of Jehovah.

11 And the runners will stand, a man
his weapon in .his hand, from the right
shoulder of the house even to the left
shoulder of the house, to the altar and
to the house by the king round about.

12 And he will bring forth the king's
son, and he will give upon him the dia-
dem and the testimonies; and they will
make him king, and anoint him; and
they will strike the hand and say, The
king shall live.

13 And Athaliah will hear the voice
of the runners of the people,-and she
will go in to the people to the house of
Jehovah,

14 And she will see and behold, the
king standing by the pillar according
to judgment, and the captains and the
trumpets to the king, and all the people
of the land rejoicing, and striking with
the trumpets. And Athaliah will rend
her garments and call out, A conspir-
acy! a conspiracy !

15 And ו‎ the priest will com-

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mand the captains of hundreds oversee-
ing the army, and he will say to them,
Bring her forth to within the ranks, he
going after her being killed with the
sword. For the priest said, She shall
not be killed in the house of Jeho-
vah.

16 And they will put their hands
upon her; “ar she will go the way of
the entrance of the horses of the king’s
house: and she will die there.

17 And Jehoida will cut out the cov-
enant between Jehovah and between
the king, and between the people, to be
for a people to Jehovah; and between
the king and between the people.

18 And all the people of the land
will go into the house of Baal, and lay
it waste ; his altars and his images they
brake in pieces diligently, and Mattan,
priest of Baal, they slew before the al-
tars. And the priest will set overseers
over the house of Jehovah.

19 And he will take the captains of
hundreds, and the executioners, and the
runners, and all the people of the land ;
and they will bring down the king from
the house of Jehovah, and they will
come the way of the gate of the run
ners of the king’s house. And he will
sit upon the throne of the kings.

20 And all the people of the land
will rejoice, and the city rested: and
they killed Athaliah with the sword in
the house of the king,

CHAPTER 1
igre son of seven years, Jehoash in
his reigning.

2 In the seventh year to Jehu, Jeho-
ash reigned ; and forty years he reigned
in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
Zibiah, from the Well of the Oath.

8 And Jehoash will do the straight
in the eyes of Jehovah all his days
which Jehoida the priest taught him.

4 Only the heights were not removed ;
the people yet sacrificing and burning
incense upon the heights.

5 And Jehoash will say to the priests,
All the silver of the holies which shall
come to the house of Jehovah, the silver
of a man passing by, the silver of the
souls of his estimation, all the silver
which shall come up upon the heart of

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a man to bring in to the house of Jeho-
vah,

6 The priests shall take to themselves
a man from his selling; and they shall
rake firm the breach of the house to
all which a breach shall be found there.

7 And it will be in the year the
twenty and third year to king Jehoash,
and the priests strengthened not the
breach of the house.

8 And king Jehoash will eall for Je-
hoida the priest, and for the priests, and
he will say to them, Wherefore are ye
not strengthening the breach of the
house? now ye shall not take silver
from the selling, for ye shall give it for
the breach of the house.

9 And the priests will consent not to
take silver from the people, and not to
strengthen the breach of the house.

10 And Jehoida the priest will take
one ark and bore a hole in its door, and
he will give it by the altar on the right
ina man’s coming to the house of Je-
hovah: and the priests watching the
threshold will give there all the silver
being brought to the house of Jehovah.

11 And it will be when they saw
much silver was in the ark, and the
king’s scribe will come up, and the great
priest, and they will bind together, and
number the silver found in the house of
Jehovah.

12 And they gave the silver being
prepared into the hand of those doing
the work of those overseeing the house
of Jehovah: and they will bring forth
+0 the artificers of wood, and to the
builders doing the house of Jehovah,

18 And to those building the wall,
and to the cutters of stone, and to buy
woods and stones being cut to strength-
en the breach of the house of Jehovah,
and for all which went forth upon the
house to strengthen.

14 But there shall not be made for
the house of Jehovah silver dishes,
snuffers, vases, trumpets, any vessels of
gold and vessels of silver from the sil-
ver being brought to the house of Jeho-
vah:

15 For they shall give to those doing
the work, and they strengthened with
it the house of Jehovah.

16 And they will not reckon with

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the men which they will give the silver
into their hand to give to those doing
the work, for they do in faith.

17 The silver of trespass and the sil-
ver of sins shall not come into the
house of Jehovah: it shall be to the
priests.

18 Then Hazael king of Aram will
go up and war against Gath, and he
will take it: and Hazael will set his
face to go up to Jerusalem.

19 And Jehoash king of Judah will
take all the holy things which Jehosh-
aphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah his
fathers, kings of Judah, consecrated, and
his holy things, and all the gold found
in the treasures of the house of Jeho-
vah, and the king’s house, and he will
send to Hazael king of Aram: and he
will go up from Jerusalem.

20 And the rest of the words of Jo-
ash, and all which he did, are they not
written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Judah?

21 And his servants will arise and
conspire a conspiracy, and strike Joash
in the house of the fortress going down
to Silla.

22 And Jozachar son of Shimeath,
and Jehozabad son of Shomer, his ser-
vants, will smite him, and he will die;
and they will bury him with his fathers
in the city of David: and Amaziah his
son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XIII.
15 the twentieth year and third year
to Joash son of Ahaziah king of
Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu, reigned
over Israel in Shomeron seventeen
years.

2 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, and go after the sins of Jero-
boam son of Nebat, who caused Israel
to sin; he turned not away from them.

3 And the anger of Jehovah will kin-
dle against Israel, and he will give them
into the hand of Hazael king of Aram,
and into the hand of Ben-hadad son of
Hazael, all the days.

4 And Jehoahaz will supplicate the
face of Jehovah, and Jehovah will hear
to him, for he saw the oppression of Is-
rael, for the king of Aram oppressed
them.

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5 (And Jehovah will give to Israel a
saviour, and they will go forth from
under the hand of Aram: and the sons
of Israel will dwell in their tents as
yesterday the third day.

6 But they turned not away from the
sins of the house of Jeroboam who
caused Israel to sin; he went in it: and
also a statue stood in Shomeron.)

7 For he left not to Jehoahaz of the
people but fifty horsemen and ten char-
iots and ten’ thousand footmen ; for the
king of Aram destroyed them, and he
will set them as dust to trample upon.

8 And the rest of the words of Jeho-
ahaz, and all which he did, and his
strength, are they not written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel?

9 And Jehoahaz will lie down with
his fathers; and they will bury him in
Shomeron: and Joash his son will
reign in his stead.

10 And in the thirtieth year and sev-
enth year to Joash king of Judah, Je-
hoash son of Jehoahaz will reign over
Israel in Shomeron sixteen years.

11 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah; he turned not away from all
the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who
caused Israel to sin; he went in it.

12 And the rest of the words of Jo-
ash, and all which he did, and his pow-
ers with which he warred with Amazi-
ah king of Judah, are they not written
upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Israel ?

13 And Joash will lie down with his
fathers, and Jeroboam will sit upon his
throne, and Joash will be buried in Sho-
meron with the kings of Israel.

14 And Elisha was sick with his
sickness which he will die in it. And
Joash king of Israel will come down to
him and weep over his face, and say,
My father! my father! the chariot of
Israel and its horsemen !

15 And Elisha will say to him, Take
a bow and arrows. And he will take
to him a bow and arrows.

16 And he will say to the king of
Israel, Cause thine hand to ride upon
the bow. And he will cause his hand
to ride: and Elisha will put his hands
upon the king’s hands,

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17 And he willsay, Open the window
eastward. And he will open.. And
Elisha will say, Shoot. And he will
shoot. And he will say, The arrow of
salvation to Jehovah, and the arrow of
salvation against Aram; and_ strike
thou Aram in Aphek, till finishing.

18 And he will say, Take the arrows.
And he will take. And he will say to
the king of Israel, Strike the earth.
And he will strike three times, and
stand.

19 And the man of God will be an-
gry against him, and he will say, To
strike five or six times, then thou hadst
struck Aram till the finishing: and now
three times thou wilt strike Aram.

20 And Hlisha will die, and they
will bury him. And the troops of
Moab will come against the land, the
year came in.

21 And it will be they were burying
aman, and behold, they saw a troop;
and they will cast the man into the
tomb of Elisha: and the man will go
and touch upon the bones of Eli-
sha, and he will live and rise upon his
feet.

22 And Hazael king of Aram pressed
Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

23 And Jehovah will compassionate
them, and he will pity them, and he will
turn to them on account of his covenant
with Abraham, Isaak, and Jacob; and
he would not destroy them, and he
cast them not from his face even till
now.

24 And Hazael king of Aram will
die; and Ben-hadad his son will reign
in his stead.

25 And Jehoash son of Jehoahaz will
turn back and take the cities out of the
hand of Ben-hadad, son of Hazael,
which he took out of the hand of Jeho-
ahaz his father, in war. Three times
Joash struck him, and he will turn back
the cities of Israel.

CHAPTER XIV.
ἡ δ the second year to Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah
son of Joash king of Judah reigned.
2 The son of twenty and five years
was he in his reigning, and twenty and
nine years he reigned in Jerusalem.

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And his mother’s name Jehoaddan,
from Jerusalem.

3 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah, but not according to
David his father: he did according to
all which his father Joash did.

4 But the heights were not turned
away: the people yet sacrificing and
burning incense in the heights.

5 And it will be when the kingdom
was strengthened in his hand, and he
will smite his servants striking the king
his father.

6 The sons of those striking he put
not to death: according as it was writ-
ten in the book of the Laws of Moses
which Jehovah commanded, saying,
Fathers shall not be put to death for
sons, and sons shall not be put to death
for fathers; but a man shall be put to
death in his sin.

7 He struck Edom in the valley of
salt, ten thousand; and he seized the
rock in war, and he will call its name
Joktheel, even to this day.

8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to
Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu
king of Israel, saying, Come, we will
see faces.

9 And Jehoash king of Israel will
send to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
The thorn-bush which was in Lebanon
sent to the cedar which was in Leba-
non, saying, Thou shalt give thy daugh-
ter to my son fora wife: and a beast
of the field which was in Lebanon will
ἐν by and will tread down the thorn-

ush.

10 Striking, thoustruckest Edom, and
thy heart lifted thee up: be honored,
and sit in thy house: and wherefore wilt
thou contend with evil, and fall, thou
and Judah with thee?

11 And Amaziah heard not. And
Jehoash king of Israel will come up,
and they will see faces, he and Amazi-
ah king of Judah, in the house of the
sun, which was to Judah.

12 And Judah will be smitten before
Israel; and they will flee a man to his
tent.

18 And Jehoash king of Israel seized
Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jeho-
ash son of Ahaziah, in the house of the
sun; and he will come to Jerusalem,

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and he will break in the wall of Jeru-
salem in the gate of Ephraim, even to
the gate of the corner, four hundred
cubits.

14 And he took all the gold and the
silver and all the vessels being found in
the house of Jehovah, and in the treas-
ures of the king’s honse, and the sons
of suretyship, and he will turn back to
Shomeron.

15 And the rest of the words of Je-
hoash which he did, and his powers,
and how he warred with Amaziah king
of Judah, are they not written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel ?

16 And Jehoash will lie down with
his fathers, and he will be buried in
Shomeron with the kings of Israel ; and
Jeroboam his son will reign ἴῃ his
stead.

17 And Amaziah son of Joash king
of Judah, will live after the death of
Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel,
fifteen years.

18 And the rest of the words of Am-
aziah, are they not written in the book
of the words of the days to the kings of
Judah?

19 And they will conspire against
him a conspiracy in Jerusalem, and he
will flee to Lachish ; and they will send
after him to Lachish, and kill him
there.

20 And they will lift him up upon
horses; and he will be buried in Jeru-
salem with his fathers in the city of
David.

21 And all the people of Judah will
take Azariah, and he the son of sixteen
years, and they will make him king in-
stead of his father Amaziah.

22 He built Elath, and he will turn
it back to Judah; afterwards the king
will lie down with his fathers.

23 In the year the fifteenth year to
Amaziah, son of Joash king of Judah,
Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel
reigned in Shomeron forty and one
years.

24 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah: he turned not away from all
the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who
caused Israel to sin.

25 He turned back the bound of Is-

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rael from the entrance of Hamath, even
to the sea of the sterile region, accord-
ing to the word of Jehovah the God of
Israel which he spake by the hand of
his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai
the prophet, which was of the wine-
press of the pit.

26 For Jehovah saw the affliction of
Israel exceedingly bitter, and none shut
up, and none left, and no helper to Israel.

27 And Jehovah spake not to wipe
away the name of Israel from under
the heavens: and he will save them by
the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

28 And the rest of the words of Jero-
boam, and all which he did, and his
powers, how he warred, and how he
turned back Damascus and Hamath to
Judah in Israel, are they not written
upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Israel ?

29 And Jeroboam will lie down with
his fathers, with the kings of Israel;
and Zechariah his son will reign in his
stead.

CHAPTER XV.
N the twentieth year and seventh
year to Jeroboam king of Israel,
reigned Azariah son of Amaziah king
of Judah.

2 The son of sixteen years was he in
his reigning, and fifty and two years he
reigned in Jerusalem. And his moth-
er’s name Jecholiah, from Jerusalem.

8 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah, according to all which
Amaziah his father did.

4 But the heights were not turned
away: the people yet sacrificing and
burning incense upon the heights.

5 And Jehovah will strike the king,
and he will be leprous until the day of
his death, and he will dwell in a house
of infirmity. And Jotham the king's
son over the house, judging the people
of the land.

6 And the rest of the words of Aza-
riah, and all that he did, are they not
written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Judah?

7 And Azariah will lie down with his
fathers and they will bury him with his
fathers in the city of David; and Jo-
tham his son will reign in his stead.

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8 And in the thirtieth year and
eighth year to Azariah king of Judah,
reigned Zechariah son of Jeroboam over
Israel in Shomeron six months.

9 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, as did his fathers: he turned
not away from the sins of Jeroboam
son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

10 And Shallum son of Jabesh will
conspire against him, and strike him
before the people, and kill him, and
reign in his stead.

11 And the rest of the words of Zech-
ariah, behold them written upon the
book of the words of the days to the
kings of Israel. .

12 This the word of Jehovah which
he spake to Jehu, saying, The fourth
sons shall sit to thee upon the throne
of Israel, and it will be so.

13 Shallum son of Jabesh reigned in
the thirtieth year and ninth year to.
Uzziah king of Judah; and he will
reign a month of days in Jerusalem.

14 And Menahem son of Gadi from
Tirzah, will go up, and will come to
Shomeron and strike Shallum son of
Jabesh, in Shomeron, and kill him, and
reign in his stead.

15 And tlhe rest of the words of Shal-
lum, and his conspiracy which he con-
spired, behold them written upon the
book of the words of the days to the:
kings of Israel.

16 Then Menahem will strike Tiph-
sah and all which was in her, and her
bounds from Tirzah: for it was not
opened, and he will strike; all those
being pregnant in it he clave asunder.

17 In the thirtieth year and ninth.
year to Azariah king of Judah, reigned
Menahem son of Gadi, over Israel, ten
years in Shomeron.

18 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah: he turned not away from
the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who
caused Israel to sin, all his days.

19 Pul, king of Assyria came upon
the land; and Menahem will give to
Pul a thousand talents of silver, for his
hands to be with him to strengthen the
kingdom in his hand.

20 And Menahem will bring forth
the silver upon Israel, upon all the
mighty of strength, to give to the king

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of Assyria fifty shekels of silver to one
man. And the king of Assyria turned
back and stood not there in the land.

21 And the rest of the words of Me-
nahem and all which he did, are they
not written upon the book of the words
of the days to the kings of Israel?

22 And Menahem will 116 down with
his fathers; and Pekahiah his son will
reign in his stead.

23 In the year the fiftieth year to
Azariah king of Judah, reigned Peka-
hiah son of Menahem oyer Israel in
Shomeron, two years.

24 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah: he turned not away from the
sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat who
caused Israel to sin.

25 And Pekah son of Remaliah, his
third, will conspire against him, and
will strike him in Shomeron, in the
fortress of the king’s house, with Argob
and Arieh, and with him fifty men from
the sons of the Gileadites: and he will
Jall him, and reign in his stead.

26 And the rest of the words of Pek-
ahiah and all which he did, behold
them written upon the book of the
words of the days to the kings of Israel.

27 In the fiftieth year and second
vear to Azariah king of Judah, reigned
Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel in
Shomeron, twenty years.

28 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah: he turned not away from the
sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat who
caused Israel to sin.

29 In the days of Pekah king of Is-
‘rael, came Tiglath-Pileser, king of As-
syria, and he will take Ijon, and Abel
of the house of oppression, and Janoah,
and Kadesh and Hazer, and Gilead,
and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali,
and he will carry them captive to As-
syria.

80 And Hoshea son of Elah will con-
spire a conspiracy against Pekah son of
Remaliah, and he will smite him and
kill him, and reign in his stead, in the
twentieth year to Jotham son of Uz-
ziah.

31 And the rest of the words of Pe-
kah and all that he did, behold them
written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Israel.

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89 In the second year to Pekah son
of Remaliah, king of Israel, reigned
Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah.

33 The son of twenty and five years
was he in his reigning, and sixteen years
he reigned in Jerusalem. And his
pees name Jerusha, daughter of Za-

ok.

84 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah: he did according to
all which Ahaziah his father did.

35 But the heights were not removed :
the people yet sacrificing and burning
incense upon the heights. He built the
gate of the house of Jehovah the Most
High.

36 And the rest of the words of Jo-
tham and all which he did, are the
not written upon the book of the tie
of the days to the kings of Judah?

87 In those days Jehovah began to
send against Judah, Rezin, king of
Aram, and Pekah son of Remaliah.

38 And Jotham will lie down with
his fathers, and he will be buried with
his fathers in the city of David his fa-
ther: and Ahaz his son will reign in
his stead.

CHAPTER XVI.
| the year the seventeenth to Pekah
son of Remaliah, reigned Ahaz son
of Jotham king of Judah.

2 The son of twenty years was Ahaz
in his reigning, and sixteen years he
reigned in Jerusalem; and he did not
the straight in the eyes of Jehovah his
God as David his father.

3 And he went in the way of the
kings of Israel, and also he caused his
son to pass through in fire, according to
the abominations of the nations which
Jehovah dispossessed them from the
face of the sons of Israel.

4 And he will sacrifice and burn in-
cense in the heights, and upon the hills,
and under every green tree.

5 Then Rezin king of Aram will go
up, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king
of Israel, to Jerusalem to war: and
they will press upon Ahaz, and they
will not be able to fight.

6 In that time Rezin king of Aram
turned back Elath to Aram, and he
will cast out the Jews from Elath, and

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the Aramites came to Elath and dwelt
there even to this day.

7 And Ahaz will send messengers to
Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assur, saying,
I thy servant and thy son: come up
and save me out of the hand of the
king of Aram, and out of the hand of
the king of Israel rising up against me.

8 And Ahaz will take the silver and
the gold found in the house of Jeho-
vah, and in the treasures of the king's
house, and send a gift to the king of
Assur.

9 And the king of Assur will hear to
him and the king of Assur will come
up to Damascus and seize it, and carry
the city into exile; and he killed Re-

zin.

10 And king Ahaz will go up to the
meeting of Tiglath-Pileser king of As-
sur to Damascus, and he will see an
altar which was in Damascus: and
king Ahaz will send to Uriah the
priest a likeness of the altar and its
structure, for all its work.

11 And Urijah the priest will build
an aitar according to all which king
Ahaz sent from Damascus: thus did
Urijah the priest till the coming of
king Ahaz from Damascus.

12 And the king will come from Da-
mascus, and the king will see the altar:
and the king will come near upon the
> altar, and he will bring up upon it.

13 And he will burn his burnt-offer-
ing and his gift, and will pour out his
libation, and sprinkle the blood of the
peace, which were to him, upon the al-
tar.

14 And the altar of brass which was
before Jehovah, and he will bring from
the face of the house from between the
altar and from between the house of
Jehovah, and he will give it upon the
thigh of the altar to the north.

15 And king Ahaz will command
him, Urijah the priest, saying, Upon
the great altar burn the burnt-offering
of the morning, and the gift of the eve-
ning, and the king’s burnt-offering and
his gift, and the burnt-offering of all
the people of the land, and their gifts
and their libations, and all the blood of
the burnt-offering and all the blood of
the sacrifice: thou shalt sprinkle upon

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it and the altar of brass shall be to me
for the morning.

16 And Urijah the priest will do ae-
cording to all which king Ahaz com-
manded.

17 And king Ahaz will cut off all
the enclosings of the bases, and he will
remove from off them the wash-basin;
and he will take down the sea from off
the oxen of brass which was under it,
and he will give it upon a pavement of
stones.

18 And the shelter of the Sabbath
which they built in the house, and the
entrance of the king without, he turned
from the house of Jehovah from the
face of the king of Assur.

19 And the rest of the words of Ahaz
which he did, are they not written upon
the book of the words of the days to the
kings of Judah?

20 And Ahaz will lie down with his
fathers, and be buried with his fathers
in the city of David: and Hezekiah his
son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XVII.
| the twelfth year to Ahaz king of
Judah, reigned Hoshea son 01 Elah,
in Shomeron over Israel nine years.

2 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, but not as the kings of Israel
which were before him.

3 Against him came up Shalmaneser
king of Assur; and Hoshea will be to
him a servant, and he will turn back
to him a gift.

4 And the king of Assur will find
conspiracy in Hoshea, because he sent
messengers to So, king of Egypt, and
he brought up no gift to the king of
Assur, as year by year; and the EDS
of Assur will surround him and bin
him in the house of shutting-up.

5 And the king of Assur will come
up upon all the land, and he will come
up to Shomeron, and press upon her
three years.

6 In the ninth year to Hoshea the
king of Assur took Shomeron, and he
will carry Israel into exile to Assur,
and set them in Halah and in Habor,
the river 01 Gozan, and the cities of the ἡ
Medes.

7 And it will be that the sons of Is-

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rael sinned against Jehovah their God,
having brought them up out of the land
of Eeypt, from under the hand of Pha-
סג‎ king of Egypt, and they will fear
other gods.

| 8 And they will go in the laws of the
nations which Jehovah dispossessed
from the face of the sons of Israel, and
the kings of Israel which they made.

9 And the sons of Israel will cover
the words not thus concerning Jehovah
their God, and they will build to them
heights in all their cities from the tower
of those watching even to the fortified
city.

10 And they will set to them statues
and images upon every high hill, and
under every green tree.

' 11 And they will burn incense there
in all the heights as the nations which
Jehovah carried into exile from their
face; and they will do evil words to ir-
ritate Jehovah:

12 And they will serve blocks which
Jehovah said to them, Ye shall not do
this word.

_ 18 And Jehovah will testify in Isra-
el and in Judah by the hand of all his
aa all seeing, saying, Turn back

rom your evil ways and watch my
commands, my laws according to all my
instruction which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by the
hand of my servants the prophets.

14 And they heard not, and they will
harden their neck as the neck of their
fathers who did not believe in Jehovah
their God.

“15 And they will reject his laws and
his covenant which he eut out with
their fathers, and his testimonies which
he testified in them; and they will go
after vanity, and they will be vain, and
after the nations which were round
about them which Jehovah commanded
them not to do as they.

16 And they will forsake all the
commands of Jehovah their God, and
make to them a molten thing, two
calves; and they will make images, and
they will worship to all the army of the
heavens, and serve Baal.

17 And they will ‘cause their sons
and their daughters to pass through in
fire, and divine divinations and enchant-

II. KINGS XVIL

ments, and they will be sold to do evil
in the eyes of Jehovah to irritate him.

18 And Jehovah will be greatly an-
gry against Israel, and he will remove
them from his face: not to leave only
the tribe of Judah alone.

19 Also Judah watched not the com-
mands of Jehovah their God, and they
will go in the laws of Israel which they
made.

20 And Jehovah will reject in all the
seed of Israel, and will afflict them, and
he will give them into the hand of plun-
derers, till he cast them from his face.

21 For he rent Israel from above the
house of David; and they will make
Jeroboam son of Nebat, king; and Jer-
oboam will thrust out Israel from after
Jehovah, and he caused them to sin a
great sin.

22 And the sons of Israel will go in
all the sins of Jeroboam which he did;
they turned not away from them ;

23 Till Jehovah removed Israel from
his face, as he spake by the hand of all
his servants the prophets. And he will
carry Israel into exile from his land to
Assur, even to this day.

24 And the king of Assur will come
from Babel and from Cuthah, and from
Ava, and from Hamath, and Sephar-
vaim, and he will set in the cities of
Shomeron instead of the sons of Israel:
and they will possess Shomeron and
dwell in her cities.

25 And it will be in the beginning of
their dwelling there, they will not fear
Jehovah; and Jehovah will send against
them lions, and they will be kuilling
among them.

26 And they will say to the king of
Assur, saying, The nations which thou,
carriedst into exile, and thou wilt set in
the cities of Shomeron, knew not the’
judgment of the God of the land, and
he will send among them lions, and be-
hold them slaying them because they
knew not the judgment of the God of
the land.

27 And the king of Assur will com-
mand, saying, Carry there one of the
priests which ye brought from thence;
and they shall go and dwell there, and
he shall teach them the judgment of
the God of the land. ;

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28 And one of the priests which they
carried into exile from Shomeron will
come and dwell in the house of God,
and he will be teaching them how they
shall fear Jehovah. .

. 29 And the -nation, nation, will be

making his gods, and. will put in the
house of the “heights which the Samar-
itans made, nation, nation, in their cities
which they dwell there.

30 And the men of Babel made Suc-
eoth-Benoth, and the men 01 Cuth made
Nergal, and the men of Hamath, made
Ashima.

81 And the Avites made Nibhaz and
Tartak, and the Sepharvites were burn-
ing their sons in fire to Adrammelech
and Anammelech, the gods of Sephar-
vaim.

32 And they will be fearing Jehovah,
and make to them priests of “their ends
upon the heights, and they will be doing
to them in the houses of the heights.

33 They were fearing Jehovah, and
were serving their gods according to the
judgment of the nations who carried
them into exile from thence.

84 Even to this day they are doing
according to the former judgments:
they not fearing Jehovah, and not doing
according to their laws and according
to their judgments and according to the
instruction and according to the com-
mand which Jehovah commanded the
sons of Jacob, whom he set his name
Israel.

35 And Jehovah cut out a covenant
with them, and he commanded them,
saying, Ye shall not fear other gods,
and ye shall not worship to them, and
ye shall not serve them, and ye shall
not sacrifice to them.

36 But Jehovah who brought you up
out of the land of Kgypt ‘with great
power and with an extended arm, him
shall ye fear, and to him shall ye wor-
ship, and to ‘him shall ye sacrifice.

87 And the laws and the judements,
and the instruction and command which
he wrote for you, ye shall watch to do
all the days; and ye shall not fear other
gods.

38 And the covenant which I cut out
with you ye shall not forget; and ye
shall not fear other gods.

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39 But Jehovah your God ye shall
fear, and he shall deliver you from the
hand of all your enemies.

40 And they did not hearken, but
they were doing according to their for-
mer judgments.

41 And these nations were fearing
Jehovah and were serving their carved
images, also their sons and their sons’
sons ; as their fathers did, they are doing
even to this day.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND it will be in the third year to
Hoshea son of Elah, king of Is
rael, reigned Hezekiah son of Ahaz,
king of Judah.

2'The son of twenty and five years

was he in hisreigning; and twénty and
nine years reigned ‘he in Jer usalem :
and his mother's name Abi, the daugh-
ter of Zachariah. ;

3 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah, according to all which
David his father did.

4 He removed the heights, and he
brake in pieces the statues, and he cut
off the image, and he beat down the
serpent of brass which Moses made: for
till those days the sons of Israel were
burning incense to it: and they Cue
it brass.

5 And he trusted in Jehovah the God
of Israel; and after him wis not like
him among all the kings of Judah, and
who were before him,

6 And he will cleave upon Jehovah;
he turned not away from after him, and
he will watch his commands which Je-
hovah commanded Moses.

7 And Jehovah was with him: in all
which he will go forth he will prosper;
and he will rebel against the king of
Assur, and not serve him.

8 He struck the rovers even to Az
zah, and her bounds from the tower of
those watching to the fortified city.

9 And it will be in the fourth year
to king Hezekiah, this the seventh year
to Hoshea son of Klah, king of Is:
rael, Shalmaneser, king of Assur, came
up against Shomeron and pressed
upon it.

10 And he will take it from the end
of three years: in the sixth year to

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Hezekiah, this the ninth year to 11081108
king of Israel, Shomeron was taken.

11 And the king of Assur will carry
Tsrael into exile to Assur, and put
them in Halah and Habor, the river of
Gihon, and the cities of the Medes:

12 Because they heard not to the
voice of Jehovah their God, and they
will pass by his covenant, all which
Moses commanded, the servant of Jeho-
vah, and they heard not and did not.

13 And in the fourteenth year to
Hezekiah, Senherib, king of Assur,
came up against all the fortified cities of
Judah, and he will seize them.

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah will
send to the king of Assur to Lachish,
saying, I sinned; turn back from me:
what thou givest upon me 1 will bear.
And the king of Assur will put upon
Hezekiah three hundred talents of sil-
ver, and thirty talents of gold.

15 And Hezekiah will give all the
silver found in the house of Jehovah,
and in the treasures of the king’s house.

16 In that time Hezekiah broke off
the doors of the temple of Jehovah,
and the supporters which Hezekiah
king of Judah overlaid, and he will give
them to the king of Assur.

17 And the king of Assur will send
Tartan, Rab-Saris, and Rabshakeh from
Lachish to king Hezekiah, with weighty
strength to Jeruslaem; and they will
go up and come to Jerusalem: and they
will go up and come and stand by the
aqueduct of the highest pool in the
highway of the field of the fuller.

18 And they will 6811 for the king,
and there will go forth to them Elia-
kim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the
house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah
son of Asaph reminding.

19 And Rabshakeh will say to them,
Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the
great king, the king of Assur, What
this confidence in which thou trust-
edst ?

20 Thou saidst (but a word of the
lips) Counsel and strength for war.

Now upon whom didst thou trust that

thou rebelledst against me ?

21 Now behold, thou trustedst to thy-
self, upon the stay of this broken reed,
upon Egypt, which a man shall lean

Il KINGS XVIII.

upon it and it will go into his hand and
bore it; thus Pharaoh king of Egypt
to all trusting upon him.

22 And if ye shall say to me, We
trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not
he of whom Hezekiah turned away his
heights and his altars, and he will say
to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem ?

23 And now become surety to my
lord the king of Assur, and I will give
to thee two thousand horses if thou
shalt be able to give to thyself riders
upon them.

24 And how wilt thou turn back the
face of one prefect of my lord’s servants
of the least, and wilt thou trust to thy-
self upon Kgypt for chariots and for
horsemen ?

25 Now came I up without Jehovah
upon this place to destroy it? Jeho-
vah said to me, Go up against this land
and destroy it.

26 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, will
say, and Shebna, and Joah, to Rabsha-
keh, Speak now to thy servants in Sy-
riac; for we hear: and thou shalt not
speak with us in Judaic in the ears of
the people who are upon the wall.

27 And Rabshakeh will say to them,
To thy lord and to thee did my lord
send me to speak these words? is it not
to the men sitting upon the wall to eat
their dung and to drink their piss with

ou?

28 And Rabshakeh will stand and
call with a great voice in Judaic, and
speak and say, Hear ye the words of
the great king, the king of Assur:

29 Thus said the king, Hezekiah
shall not be lifted up to you: for he
shall not be able to deliver you from
my hand:

30 And Hezekiah shall cause you to
trust to Jehovah, saying, Delivering,
Jehovah will deliver us, and this same
city shall not be given into the hand of
the king of Assur.

81 Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah:
for thus said the king of Assur, Make
me a gift, and come forth to me, and
eat ye a man his vine and a man his fig
tree, and drink ye a man water of his
well,

32 Till my coming and I took you to

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1. KINGS XIX.

a land as your land, a land of grain and
new wine, a land of bread and vine-
yards, a land of olive-oil and honey ;
and live ye, and yeshall not die: and
ye shall not hear to Hezekiah, for he will
seduce you, saying, Jehovah will de-
liver us.

33 Delivering, did the gods of the
nations deliver each his hand out of the

4 hand of the king of Assur?

34 Where the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? where the gods of Sepharvaim,
Hena, and Ivah? for did they deliver
Shomeron out of my hand?

35 Who of all the gods of the lands
who delivered their land out of my
hand, that Jehovah shall deliver Jeru-
salem out of my hand?

36 And the people were silent and
answered him not a word: for it was
the command of the king, saying, Ye
shall not answer.

87 And there came Eliakim, son of
Hilkiah, who was over the house, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of
Asaph reminding, to Hezekiah, their
garments rent; and they will announce
to him the words of Rabshakeh.

CHAPTER XIX.
Λ ND it will be when king Hezekiah
heard and he will rend his gar-
ments and cover himself with sackcloth,
and go into the house of Jehovah.

2 And he will send Khakim who was
over the house, and Shebna the scribe,
and the old men of the priests, covered
with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amos.

3 And they will say to him, Thus
said Hezekiah, A day of straits and
chastisement and reproach this day:
for the sons came to the breaking forth,
and no strength to her bringing forth.

4 Perhaps Jehovah thy God will
hear all the words of Rabshakeh which
the king of Assur his lord sent him to
reproach the living God; and he will
decide upon the words which Jehovah
thy God heard: and lift thou up a
prayer for the remnant being found.

5 And the servants of the king Hez-
ekiah will come to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah will say to them, Thus
shall ye say to your lord, Thus said Je-

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hovah, Thou shalt not be afraid from
before the words which thou heardest
with which the boys of the king of As-
sur reviled me.

7 Behold me giving upon him a
spirit, and he heard a hearing, and he
turned back to his land; and I caused
him to fall by the sword in his land.

8 And Rabshakeh will turn back and
find the king of Assur warring against
Libnah: for he heard that he removed
from Lachish.

9 And he will hear Tirhakah king
of Cush, saying, Behold, he came forth
to war with thee: and he will turn
back and send messengers to Hezekiah,
saying,

10 Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah
king of Judah, saying, Thy God will
not lift thee up -whom thou trustest in
him, saying, Jerusalem shall not be
given into the hand of the king of As-
sur.

11 Behold, thou heardest what the
kings of Assur did to all lands to de-
stroy them: and shalt thou be deliv-
ered?

12 Did the gods of the nations deliy-
er them which my fathers destroyed—
Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the
sons of Eden who were in Thelasar ?

13 Where the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king to the
city of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?

14 And Hezekiah will receive the
letters from the hand of the messengers,
and read them: and he will go up to
the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah
will spread it out before Jehovah.

15 And Hezekiah will pray before
Jehovah, and say, O Jehovah God of
Tsrael, dwelling upon the cherubims,
thou God himself alone to all the king-
doms of the earth; thou madest the
heavens and the earth.

16 O Jehovah, incline thine ear, and
hear: O Jehovah open thine eyes and
see: and hear the words of Senherib,
which sent him to reproach the living
God.

17 Indeed, O Jehovah, the kings of
Assur laid waste the nations and their
land.

18 And they gave their gods into fire,
for they were not gods, but the work

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of the hands of man, wood and stone:
and they will destroy them.

19 And now, O Jehovah our God,
save us now out of his hand, and all
the kingdoms of the earth shall know
that thou Jehovah art God alone.

20 And Isaiah son of Amos will send
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah
God of Israel, What thou hast prayed
to me against Senherib king of Assur,
1 heard.

21 This the word which Jehovah
spake concerning him: The virgin
daughter of Zion despised, she derided
thee; after thee the daughter of Jeru-
salem shook her head.

22 Whom didst thou reproach and
revile? and against whom didst thou
lift up the voice, and thou wilt lift up
thine eyes on high against the holy one
of Israel ?

23 By the hand of thy messengers
thou didst reproach Jehovah, and thou
wilt say, With the chariot of my horse-
man I came up upon the height of the
mountains of the sides of Lebanon, and
1 said, I will cut off the height of the
cedars and the chosen of its cypresses :
and I will go in to the lodging-place of
the extremity of the forest of its Car-
mel.

241 dug and drank the waters of
strangers, and I will dry up with the
sole of my foot all the rivers of the
fortress.

25 Didst thou not hear from remote-
ness I made it from days before and
I formed it? and now I brought it in,
and thou wilt be to set fortified cities
for desolate ruins.

26 And the inhabitants were short of
hand, they were terrified and they were
ashamed; they were the grass of the
field and the green herbage, and the
grass of the roofs, and blasted before it
rose up.

27 And thy sitting and thy going out
and thy coming in I knew, and thy
wrath against me.

28 Because thy wrath against me,
and thine arrogance came up into mine
ears, and I put my hook in thy nose
and my bit into thy lips, and I turned
thee back in the way which thou cam-
est in it,

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29 And this the sign to thee, to eat
this year things growing spontaneously,
and in the second year, things springing
up, and the third year, sow ye and reap,
and plant vineyards and eat their fruits.

30 And the escaping of the house of
Judah being left shall add a root down-
ward, and make fruit above.

31 For from Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and an escaping from mount
Zion: the zeal of Jehovah will do this.

82 Therefore, thus said Jehovah to
the king of Assur, He shall not come
into this city, and he shall not shoot an
arrow there, and a shield shall not come
before it, and he shall not cast a mound
against it.

33 In the way in which he shall come
in it he shall turn back, and to this city
he shall not come in, says Jehovah.

34 And I protected this city, to save
it for my sake and for sake of David
my servant.

35 And it will be in that night the
messenger of Jehovah will strike in the
camp of Assur, a hundred eighty and
five thousand; and they will rise early
in the morning, and behold, all of them
dead corpses.

86 And Senherib king of Assur will
turn away and go and turn back and
dwell in Nineveh.

87 And he will be worshiping in
the house of Nisroch his god, and
Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him
with the sword: and they escaped to
the land of Ararat: and Hsarhaddon
his son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XX.
N those days Hezekiah was sick to
death ; and Isaiah son of Amos the
prophet will come in to him, and he
will say to him, Thus said Jehovah,
Command to thy house, for thou art
dying, and thou shalt not live.

2 And he will turn his face to the
wall and pray, saying,

3 O Jehovah, remember now how I
went before thee in truth and with a
perfect heart, and I did the good in
thine eyes. And Hezekiah will weep
a great weeping.

4 And it will be Isaiah went not
forth to the city of the middle, and the

II. KINGS XXL

word of Jehovah was to him, say-

ing,

3 Turn back and say to Hezekiah
the leader of my people, Thus said Je-
hovah, God of David thy father, I heard
thy prayer, I saw thy tears: behold me
healing thee: in the third day thou
shalt go up to the house of Jehovah.

6 And ] added to thy days fifteen
years; and from the hand of the king
of Assur I will deliver thee and this
city; and I protected this city for my
sake, and for sake of David my ser-
vant.

7 And Isaiah will say, Take a round
mass of figs) And they will take and
put upon the burning sore, and he will
live.

8 And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah,
What the sign that Jehovah will heal
me, and I went up in the third day to
the house of Jehovah?

9 And Isaiah will say, This the sign
to thee from Jehovah, that Jehovah
will do the word which he spake: the
shadow going ten steps, or shall it turn
back ten steps?

10 And Hezekiah will say, A light
thing to the shadow to bow ten steps:
nay, for the shadow shall turn back-
wards ten steps.

11 And Isaiah the prophet will call
to Jehovah, and he will turn back the
shadow in the steps which went down,
in the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten de-
grees.

12 In that time Berodach-Baladan
son of Baladan, king of Babel, sent let-
ters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he heard
that Hezekiah was sick.

18 And Hezekiah will hear to them,
and caused them to see all the house of
his spices, the silver and the gold, and
the spices and the good oil, and all the
house of his vessels, and all which was
found in his treasures: and there was
not a word which Hezekiah caused
them not to see in his house, and in all
his dominion.

14 And Isaiah the prophet will come
to king Hezekiah and say to him, What
said these men? and from whence will
they come to thee? and Hezekiah will
say to him, From a land far off came
they, from Babel.

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15 And he will say, What saw they
in thy house? And Hezekiah will say,
All which is in the house they saw;
there was not a word which I caused
them not to see in my treasures,

16 And Isaiah will say to Hezekiah,
Hear the word of Jehovah.

17 Behold, the days coming, and
there was lifted up all which was in
thy house, and what thy fathers treas-
ured up, even to this day, to Babel:
not a word shall be left, said Jehovah.

18 And from thy sons which shall
go forth from thee, which thou shalt
beget, shall be taken; and they were
eunuchs in the temple of the king of
Babel.

19 And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah,
Good the word of Jehovah which thou
spakest. And he will say, Shall not
peace and truth be in my days?

20 And the rest of the words of Hez-
ekiah, and all his powers, and how he
made the pool and the aqueduct, and
he will bring waters to the city, are
they not written upon the book of the
words of the days to the kings of Judah ?

21 And Hezekiah will lie down with
his fathers, and Manasseh his son will
reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXL
ANASSEH the son of .twelve

8 years in his reigning, and fifty
and five years he reigned in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Hephzibah.

2 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, according to the abominations
of the nations which Jehovah dispos-
sessed from the face of the sons of Israel.

ὃ And he will turn back and build
the heights which Hezekiah his father
destroyed ; and he will raise up altars
to Baal, and make a statue as did Ahab
king of Israel; and he will worship to
all the army of the heavens, and serve
them.

4 And he built altars in the house of
Jehovah where Jehovah said, In Jeru-
salem I will put my name.

5 And he will build altars to all the
army of the heavens in the two enclos-
ures of the house of Jehovah.

6 And he caused his sons to pass
through in fire, and he practiced magic,

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and took auguries, and made necro-
mancy and a wizard spirit: he multi-
plied to do evil im the eyes of Jehovah
to irritate.

7 And he will set up a carved thing
of the image which he made in the
house, of which Jehovah said to David
and to Solomon his son, In this house
and in Jerusalem which I chose from
all the tribes of Israel, I will set my
name forever :

8 And I will not add to move the
foot of Israel from the land which I gave
to their fathers; only if they will watch
to do according to all I commanded
them, and for all the instructions which
Moses my servant commanded them.

9 But they heard not, and Manasseh
will cause them to go astray to do evil
more than the nations which Jehovah
destroyed from the face of the sons of
Israel.

10 And Jehovah will speak by the
hand of his servants the prophets, say-
ing,

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah
did these abominations, doing evil above
all which the Amorites did that were
before him, and he will also cause Ju-
dah to sin with his blocks:

12 For this, thus said Jehovah the
God of Israel, Behold me bringing evil
upon Jerusalem and Judah, which all
hearing it, his two ears shall tingle.

18 And I stretched over Jerusalem
the cord of Shomeron, and the weight
of the house of Ahab: and I wiped off
Jerusalem as one will wipe dishes, wip-
ing, and turning upon its face.

14 And I thrust out the remainder of
my inheritance, and I gave them into
the hand of their enemies; and they
were for plunder and for a prey to all
their enemies.

15 Because they did evil in mine
eyes, and they will be irritating me
from the day which their fathers came
forth out of Egypt, and even to this
day.

16 And also Manasseh poured out
innocent blood exceeding much, till he
filled Jerusalem mouth to mouth; be-
sides his sins which he caused Judah to
sin to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

17 And the rest of the words of Ma-

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nasseh, and all that he did, and his sins
which he sinned, are they not written
upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Judah?

18 And Manasseh will lie down with
his fathers, and will be buried in the
garden of his house, in the garden of
Uzzah: and Amon his son will reign
in his stead.

19 The son of twenty and two years
was Amon in his reigning, and two
years he reigned in Jerusalem. And
lis mother’s name Meshullemeth,
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

20 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah as did Manasseh his father.

21 And he will go im all the ways
which his father went, and he will serve
the blocks which his father served, and
he will worship to them.

22 And he will forsake Jehovah the
God of his fathers, and he went not in
the way of Jehovah.

23 And the servants of Amon will
conspire against him, and they will Jall
the king in his house.

24 And the people of the land will
strike all those conspiring against king
Amon; and the people of the land will
make Josiah his son king in his stead.

25 And the rest of the words of
Amon which he did, are they not writ-
ten upon the book of the words of the
days to the kings of Judah?

26 And he will be buried in his tomb
in the garden of Uzzah; and Josiah his
son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXIL
ΠΣ son of eight years was Josiah
in his reigning, and thirty and
one years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Jedidah, daugh-
ter of Adaiah of Boscath.

2 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah, and go in all the way
of David his father, and he turned not
aside to the right or the left.

3 And it will be in the eighteenth
year to king Josiah, the king sent Shap-
han,son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam,
the scribe of the house of Jehovah, say-
ing,

5 Go up to Hilkiah the great priest,
and he shall complete the silver being

II. KINGS XXIII.

brought to the house of Jehovah, which
the watchers of the threshold gathered
from the people.

5 And they shall give it into the hand
of those appointed in the house of Jeho-
vah: and they shall give it to those
doing the work which is in the house of
Jehovah to strengthen the breach of the
house.

6 To the artificers, and to the build-
ers and the wall builders, and to buy
woods and stones hewn to strengthen
the house.

7 But the silver given into their hand
will not be reckoned with them, for
they do in faith.

8 And Hilkiah the great priest will
say to Shaphan the scribe, I found the
book of the law in the house of Jeho-
vah, and Hilkiah will give the book to
Shaphan and he will read it.

9 And Shaphan the scribe will come
to the king, and he will turn the king
back word, and he will say, Thy ser-
vants melted the silver found in the
house, and they will give it into the
hand of those doing the work being ap-
pointed in the house of Jehovah.

10 And Shaphan the scribe will an-
nounce to the king, saying, Hilkiah
the priest gave to me a book, and Shap-
han will read it before the king.

11 And it will be when the king
heard the words of the book of the law,
and he will rend his garments.

12 And the king will command Hil-
kiah the priest and Ahikam son of
Shaphan, and Achbor, son of Michaiah,
and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah
the king’s servant, saying,

13 Go ye, seek Jehovah for me, and
for the people, and for all Judah, con-
cerning the words of this book being
found: for great the anger of Jehovah
burning upon us because that our fath-
ers heard not to the words of this book
to do according to all written concern-
ing us.

14 And Hilkiah the priest went, and
Ahikam and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, to Huldah the prophetess
wife of Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of
Harhas, watching the garments; (and
she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second
rank ;) and they will speak to her.

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15 And she will say to them, Thus
said Jehovah God of Israel, Say ye to
the man who sent you to me,

16 Thus said Jehovah, Behold me
bringing evil to this place, and upon its
inhabitants all the words of the book
which the king of Judah read. ~

17 Because they forsook me, and they
will burn incense to other gods to irri-
tate me in all the work of their hands;
and my wrath burnt upon this place
and it shall not be quenched.

18 To the king of Judah sending you
to seek Jehovah, thus shalt thou say to
him, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel,
The words which thou heardest;

19 Because thy heart was tender and
thou wilt be humble from before Jeho-
vah in thy hearing what I spake against
this place, and against its inhabitants to
be for desolation, and for a curse, and
thou wilt rend thy garments and weep
before me; and 1 also heard, says Je-
hovah.

20 For this, behold me gathering thee
to thy fathers, and thou wert gathered
to thy tomb in peace; and thine eyes
shall not look upon all the evil which
I bring upon this place. And they will
turn back the king word.

CHAPTER XXIIL
ND the king will send and gather

Ἃ to him all the old men of Judah
and Jerusalem.

2 And the king will go up to the
house of Jehovah and all the men of
Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem with him, and the priests and the
prophets, and all the people to the
small, and even to the great: and he
will read in their ears all the words of
the book of the covenant found in the
house of Jehovah.

3 And the king will stand by the
pillar, and he will cut out a covenant
before Jehovah to go after Jehovah,
and to watch his commands and his
testimonies and his laws, with all the
heart and with all the soul, and to raise
up the words of this covenant written
upon this book. And all the people
will stand in the covenant.

4 And the king will command Hil-
kiah the great priest and the priests of

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the second rank, and the watchers of
the threshold to bring forth out of the
temple of Jehovah all the vessels being
made for Baal and for the image, and
for all the army of the heavens: and
they will burn them without Jerusalem
in the fields of Kidron, and he lifted up
their dust to the house of God.

5 And he caused the obscurations to
cease which the kings of Judah gave,
and he will burn incense in the heights
in the cities of Judah, and those being
round about Jerusalem, and those burn-
ing incense to Baal, to the sun and to
the moon and to the constellations and
to all the army of the heavens.

6 And he will bring forth the image
from the house of Jehovah from with-
out Jerusalem to the torrent Kidron,
and he will burn it by the torrent Ki-
dron, and he will beat small to dust
and cast the dust upon the grave of the
sons of the people.

7 And he will break down the houses
of the holy places, which were in the
house of Jehovah, where the women
wove there houses for the image.

8 And he will bring all the priests
out of the cities of Judah and defile the
heights where the priests burnt incense
there from the hill even to the Well of
the Oath, and he brake down the heights
of the gates which were at the door of
the gate of Joshua chief of the city
which were at the left of a man in the
gate of the city.

9 But the priests of the heights will
not come up to the altar of Jehovah in
Jerusalem, but they ate the unleavened
in the midst of their brethren.

10 And he defiled Topheth in the
valley of the sons of Hinnom, for a man
not to cause his son and his daughter
to pass through in fire to the king.

11 And he will take away the horses
which the kings of Judah gave to the
sun at the going in of the house of Je-
hovah into the chamber the king gave
the eunuth which was in the open por-
tico, and he burnt the chariots of the
sun in fire.

12 And the altars which were upon
the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz
which the kings of Judah made, and
the altars which Manasseh made in the

KINGS XXIIL‏ זז

two enclosures of the house of Jehovah,
the king broke down, and he will break
in pieces from thence, and cast their
dust into the torrent Kidron.

18 And the heights which were be-
fore Jerusalem which were from the
right to the mount, of destruction which .
Solomon king of Israel built to Ashta-
roth the abomination of the Sidonians,
and to Chemosh the abomination of
Moab, and to Mileom the abomination
of the sons of Ammon the king de-
filed.

14 He brake in pieces the statues and
he will cut off the images, and fill their
places with bones of man.

15 And also the altar which was in
the house of God, the height which Jer-
oboam son of Nebat who caused Israel
to sin, made, also that altar and height
he broke down and he will burn the
height, and he beat small to dust, and
he burnt the image.

16 And Josiah will turn and see the
tombs which were there in the mount,
and he will send and take the bones
from the tombs and burn upon the altar,
and he will defile it according to the
word of Jehovah which the man of God
called who called these words.

17 And he will say, What this pillar
which I see? And the man of the city
will say to him, The tomb of the man
of God who came from Judah, and he
will call these words which thou didst
upon the altar of the house of God.

18 And he will say, Give rest to him ;
aman shall not move his bones; and
they will let escape his bones and the
bones of the prophet who came from
Shomeron.

19 And also all the houses of the
heights which were in the cities of
Shomeron which the kings of Israel
made to irritate, Josiah turned away,
and he will do to them according to all
the doings which he did in the house of
God.

20 And he will sacrifice all the priests
of the heights which were there upon
the altars, and he will burn the bones
of man upon them, and he will turn
back to Jerusalem.

21 And the king will command all
the people, saying, Do the passover to

1. KINGS XXIV.

Jehovah your God, according to the
writing upon the book of this covenant.

22 For there was not done according
to this passover from the days of the
judges who judged Israel and all the
days of the kings of Israel, and the
kings of Judah.

23 But in the eighteenth year to king
Josiah was done this passover to Jeho-
vah in Jerusalem.

24 And also the necromancers, and
the wizards and the family gods, and
the blocks, and all the abominations
that were seen in the land of Judah and
in Jerusalem, Josiah took away in order
to set up the words of the law written
upon the book which Hilkiah the priest
found in the house of Jehovah.

25 And like him was there not a
king before him who turned back to
Jehovah with all his heart and with all
his soul and with all his might, aceord-
ing to all the Jaw of Moses; and after
him there arose not like him.

26 But Jehovah turned not back from
the burning of his great anger, his an-
ger which kindled against Judah _ be-
cause of all the provocations with which
Manasseh irritated him.

27 And Jehovah will say, I will also
turn away Judah from my face, as I
turned away Israel, and I rejected this
city which I chose, Jerusalem, and the
house of which I said, My name shall
be there.

28 And the rest of the words of Jo-
siah, and all which he did, are they not
written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Judah?

29 In his days Pharaoh-Necho, king
of Egypt, came up against the king of
Assur, upon the river Phrath, and king
Josiah will go up to his meeting, and
he will kill him at Megiddo when he
saw him.

30 And his servants will cause him
to mde dead from Megiddo, and bring
him to Jeusralem and bury him in his
tomb. And the people of the land will
take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and they
will anoint him and make him king
instead of his father.

31 The son of twenty and three years
was Jchoahaz in his reigning; and
three months he reigned in Jerusalem.

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And his mother’s name Hamautal,
daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.

32 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah according to all which his
fathers did.

33 And Pharaoh-Necho will bind
him in Riblah in the land of Hamath,
in reigning in Jerusalem; and he will
give a fine upon the land, a hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold.

84 And Pharaoh-Necho will make
Eliakim son of Josiah, king, instead of
Josiah his father, and he will turn his
name to Jehoiakim, and he took Jeho-
ahaz: and he will come to Egypt and
die there.

35 And the silver and the gold Je-
hoiakim gave to Pharaoh; but he esti-
mated the land to give the silver at the
mouth of Pharaoh ; a man according to
his estimation, he exacted the silver
and the gold with the people of the
land to give to Pharaoh-Necho.

36 The son of twenty and five years
was Jehoiakim in his reigning, and
eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Zcbudah,
daughter of Pedaiah of Ramah.

87 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah according to all which his
fathers did.

CHAPTER XXIV.
N his days came up Nebuchadnez-
zar, king of Babel, and Jehoiakim
will be to him a servant three years: and
he will turn back and rebel against him.

2 And Jehovah will send against him
troops of Chaldeans and troops of
Aram, and troops of Moab, and troops
of the sons of Ammon, and he will send
them against Judah to destroy it, ac-
cording to the word of Jehovah which
he spake by the hand of his servants
the prophets.

3 But at the mouth of Jehovah it
was upon Judah to turn away from his
face through the sins of Manasseh, ac-
cording to all which he did.

4 And also the innocent blood which
he poured forth, (and he will fill Jeru-
salem with innocent blood) and Jeho-
yah would not pardon.

5 And the rest of the words of Jeho-
iakim, and all that he did, are they not:

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written upon the book of the words of
the days to the kings of Judah?

6 And Jehoiakim will 116 down with
his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son will
reign in his stead.

7 And the king of Egypt added no
more to come forth from his land, for
the king of Babel took from the torrent
of Hgypt, even to the river Phrath, all
which was to the king of Eygpt.

8 The son of eighteen years was Je-
hoiachin in his reigning, and three
months he reigned in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name Nehushta, daughter
of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah according to all which his
father did.

10 In that time the servants of Nebu-
chadnezzar, king of Babel, came up to
Jerusalem, and the city will come into
slege.

11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babel, will come against the city and
his servants were pressing upon it.

12 And Jehoiachin king of Judah
will go forth upon the king of Babel,
he and his mother, and his servants,
and his chiefs, and his eunuchs: and
the king of Babel will take him in the
eighth year to his reigning.

13 And he will bring forth from
thence all the treasures of the house of
Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's
house, and he will cut off all the ves-
sels of gold which Solomon king of Is-
rael made in the temple of Jehovah,
according to the word of Jehovah.

14 And he carried into exile all Je-
rusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the
mighty of strength, ten thousand exiles,
and all the artificers, and the smiths:
there was not left except the powerless
of the people of the land.

15 And he will carry Jehoiachin into
exile into Babel, and the king’s moth-
er, and the kine’s wives and his eu-
nuchs and the powerful of the land, he
brought away exiles from Jerusalem
into Babel.

16 And all the men of strength, sev-
en thousand and the artificers, and the
smiths, a thousand, all strong, making
war; and the king of Babel will brin
them into exile into Babel.

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17 And the king of Babel will make
Mattaniah his uncle, king in his stead ;
and he will turn his name to Zede-
הר‎

18 The son of twenty and one years
was Zedekiah in his reigning, and
eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Hamutal,
daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

19 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah according to all which Jehoia-
kim did.

20 For upon the wrath of Jehovah it
was in Jerusalem and in Judah, till he
cast them from his face, and Zedekiah
will rebel against the king of Babel.

CHAPTER ΧΧΥ.

ND it will be in the ninth year to
his reigning, in the tenth month,
in the tenth to the month, Nebuchad-
nezzar, king of Babel came, he, and all
his strength, against Jerusalem, and he
will encamp against it, and build a watch

tower against her round about.

2 And the city will go into siege till
the eleventh year to king Zedekiah.

3 In the ninth to the month and the
famine will be strong in the city, and
ee was not bread for the people of the
land.

4 And the city will be broken up,
and all the men of war by night the
way of the gate between the walls by
the king’s garden: (and the Chaldees
against the city round about;) and he
will go the way of the sterile region.

5 And the strength of the Chaldees
will pursue after the king, and they
will overtake him in the sterile region
of Jericho: and all his strength was
seattered from him.

6 And they will seize the king and
bring him up to the king of Babel to
Riblah ; and they will speak judgment
with him. ᾿

7 And they slaughtered the sons of
Zedekiah betore his eyes, and he blind-
ed the eyes of Zedekiah, and he will
bind him with fetters, and bring him to
Babel.

8 And in the fifth month, in the
seventh to the month, (this year the
nineteenth year to king Nebuchadnez-
zar, king of Babel,) came Nebuzara-

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dan, chief of the cooks, servant of the
king of Babel, to Jerusalem.

9 And he will burn the house of Je-
hovah, and the king’s house, and all
the houses of Jerusalem, and every
great house he burnt in fire.

10 And the walls of Jerusalem round
about, all the strength of the Chaldees
which were with the chief of the cooks
brake down.

11 And the rest of the people being
left in the city, and those falling away
which fell to the king of Babel, and the
rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan
chief of the cooks carried into exile.

12 And of the powerless of the land
the chief of the cooks left for vine-
dressers and for ploughers.

13 And the pillars of brass which
were in the house of Jehovah, and the
bases, and the sea of brass, which were
in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldees
brake in pieces, and they will hft up
their brass into Babel.

14 And the pots and the shovels and
the snuffers and the dishes, and all the
vessels of brass which they served in
them, they took.

15 And the fire pans and the vases
which were of gold, gold, and which
were of silver, silver, the chief of the
cooks took.

16 The two pillars, the one sea, and
the bases which Solomon made for the
house of Jehovah; there was no weight
to the brass of these vessels.

17 Eighteen cubits the height of the
one pillar, and the capital upon it of
brass: and the height of the capital,
three cubits; and the net and the pome-
granates upon the capital round about,
all of brass; and according to these for
the second pillar upon the net.

18 And the chief of the cooks will
take Seraiah the head priest, and Zeph-
aniah the second priest, and the three
watchers of the threshold :

19 And out of the city he took one
eunuch, he who was appointed over the
men of war, and five men seeing the
face of the king, who were found in the
city, and the scribe of the chief of the
army mustering the people of the land,
and sixty men from the people of the
land being found in the city:

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20 And Nebuzaradan, chief of the
cooks, will take them and bring them
to the king of Babel to Riblah:

21 And the king of Babel will strike
them and kill them in Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and Judah will be
carried into exile from their land.

22 And the people being left in the land
of Judah which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel left, and he will appoint over them
Gedaliah,son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.

23 And all the chiefs of the armies,
they and their men, will hear that the
king of Babel appointed Gedahah and
there will come to Gedaliah to Mizpeh,
and Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, and Jo-
hanan, son of Kareah, and Seraiah, son
of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and
Jaazaniah son cf a Maachathite, they
and their men.

24 And Gedalian will swear to them
and to their men, and say to them, Ye
shall not fear serving the Chaldees:
dwell in the land and serve the king of
Babel, and it shall be well to you.

25 And it will be in the seventh
month, Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, son
of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom,
came, and ten men with him, and he
will strike Gedaliah, and he will die,
and the Jews and the Chaldees who
were with him in Mizpeh.

26 And all the people will rise from
small and even to great, and the chiefs
of the armies, and they will go to Egypt,
for they were afraid from the face of
the Chaldees.

27 And it will be in the thirty and
seventh year to the exile of Jehoiachin,
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in
the twenty and seventh of the month,
Kvil-Merodach king of Babel in 6
year of his reigning lifted up the head
of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the
house of shutting up.

28 And he will speak with him good
things, and he will give his throne
above the throne of the kings which
were with him in Babel.

29 And he changed the garments of his
shutting up: and he ate bread contin-
ually before him all the days of his life.

80 And his ration a ration continually,
given to him from the king, the word of
a day in its day all the days of his life.

TSATAEL

CHAPTER I.
HE vision of Isaiah son of Amos
which he saw concerning Judah
and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, Ahaz, Hezelsiah, kings of Ju-
dah.

2 Hear, ye heavens, and give ear
thou earth, for Jehovah spake: for I
caused to grow and lifted up sons, and
they rebelled against me.

8 The ox knew his possessor, and
the ass his lord’s stall: Israel knew
not; my people understood not.

4 Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy
with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting
wickedly ; they forsook Jehovah; they
despised the holy one of Israel; they
separated themselves backward.
> 5 For what shall ye be yet struck?
will ye add apostasy? every head for
sickness, and every heart sick.

6 From the sole of the foot and even
to the head, no wholenessin it; a
wound and bruise, and a fresh blow:
they were not pressed out, and they
were not bound up, and they were not
softened with oil.

7 Your land made desolate, your
cities burnt with fire, your land before
your strangers eating 15 up, and made
desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion was left
as a booth ina vineyard, as a lodge in
a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged.

9 Unless Jehovah of armies left to
us an escaping so small, we were as
Sodom and we were made like to Go-
morrab.

10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye
leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law
of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

11 For what to me the multitude of
your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I
was filled with the burnt-offerings of
rams and the fat of fatlings; and I de-
lighted not in the blood of bullocks,
and of he lambs and of he goats.

12 When ye shall come to be seen
before me who sought this from your
hand to tread my enclosure.

13 Ye shall not add to bring gifts of
iniquity ; Incense, this an abomination
to me; the new moon and the Sabbath,
the calling of the assembly ; I shall not
be able to bear vanity and restraining.

14 Your new moons and your ap-
pointments my soul hated; they were
for a burden upon me; 1 was wearied
to lift up.

15 And in the spreading forth of
your hands I will hide mine eyes from
you; alsowhen yeshall multiply prayer
I hear not: your hands were full of
blood.

16 Wash ye, cleanse yourselves:
turn away evil from your doings from
before mine eyes; leave off the evil ;

17 Learn to do good; seek out judg-
ment, lead right the oppressor, judge
the orphan, contend for the widow.

18 Come now we will confute togeth-
er, Jehovah will say: if your sins shall
be as deep scarlet, they shall be white
as snow; if they shall be red as crim-
son, they shall be as wool.

19 If ye shall be willing and hear,
ye shall eat the good of the land.

20 And if ye shall refuse and rebel,
ye shall be eaten by the sword: for the
mouth of Jehovah spake.

21 How was the faithful city for a
harlot! I filled with judgment; justice
will lodge in her; and now they are
killing.

22 Thy silver was for dross, thy wine
adulterated with water.

23 Thy chiefs turning away, and as-
sociates of thieves: every one loving a
gift and following recompenses: the or-
phan they will not judge, and the cause
of the widow will not come to them.

24 For this says the lord Jehovah of
armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo!
I will take vengeance of mine adversa-
ries, and I will avenge myself of mine’
enemies :

25 And I will turn back my hand
upon thee, and I will straiten thy dross
according to pureness, and I will re-
move all thine alloy:

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26 And I will turn back thy judges
as in the beginning, and thy counsellors
as in the beginning: after this he shall
call to thee, The city of justice, the
faithful city.

27 Zion shall be ransomed with judg-
ment and her captivity with justice.

28 Breaking the transgressing and
the sinning together, and they forsak-
ing Jehovah shall be finished.

29 For they shall be ashamed of their
mighty ones which ye desired, and ye
shall blush for the gardens which ye
chose.

30 For ye shall be as an oak the leaf
withering, and as a garden which there
no water to it.

31 And the strong was for tow, and
his work for a spark, and they two were
burnt together, and none quenching.

CHAPTER II.
HE word which Isaiah son of
Amos saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem.

2 And it was in the last days, the
mountain of the house of Jehovah shall
be prepared upon the head of the
mountains, and lifted up above the
hills; and all nations flowed to it.

8 And many people went and said,
Come, and we will go up to the mount-
ain of Jehovah, to the house of the God
of Jacob, and he will teach us from his
ways, and we will go in his paths: for
out of Zion shall go forth the law, and
the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

4 And he judged between the nations,
and he will decide for many peoples:
and they shall beat down their swords
to plough-shares and their spears to
pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, and they shall
no more learn war.

5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and we
will go in the light of Jehovah.

6 For thou didst cast out thy people
the house of Jacob, for they were filled
from the east, and practicing magic as
the rovers, and they will strike hands
with the children of strangers.

7 And their land shall be full of sil-
ver and gold, and no end to their treas-
ures; and their land shall be full of
horses, and no end to their chariots.

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8 And their land will be full of noth-
ings; they will worship to the work of
their hand, to what their fingers made:

9 And man will bow down, and a
man will humble himself, and thou
shalt not lift up to them.

10 Go into the rock, and hide in the
dust from the face of the fear of Jeho-
vah, and from the splendor of his maj-
esty.

11 The lofty eyes of man were hum-
bled, and the height of men bowed
down, and Jehovah alone was exalted
in that day. .

12 For the day to Jehovah of armies
is upon all the haughty and the high, and
upon all lifted up ; and he was humbled :

13 And upon all the cedars of Leba-
non being high and lifted up, and upon
all the oaks of Bashan,

14 And upon all the high mountains,
and upon all the hills being lifted up,

15 And upon every lofty tower, and
upon every fortified wall,

16 And upon all the ships of Tar-
shish, and upon all the flags of desire.

17 And the haughtiness of man was
bowed down, and the height of man
was humbled: and Jehovah alone was
exalted in that day.

18 And the nothings he shall cause
to wholly pass away.

19 And they shall go into the caves
of the rocks, and into the caverns of
the dust, from the face of the fear of
Jehoyah, and from the splendor of his
majesty in his rising to terrify the earth.

20 In that day man shall cast the
nothings of his silver and the nothings
of his gold which they made for him to
worship, to the digging of moles and to
bats.

21 To go into the clefts of the rocks,
and into the fissures of the rocks from
the face of the fear of Jehovah, and
from the splendor of his majesty in his
rising to terrify the earth.

22 Cease to you from man of whom
the breath is in his nose: for in what
was he reckoned ?

CHAPTER IIL
OR behold, the Lord Jehovah of
armies taking away from Jerusa-
lem and from Judah the stay, and the

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stay, all the stay of bread, and all the
stay of water.

2 The strong one and the man of war,
the judge and the prophet, and the di-
vines, and the old man,

3 The captain of fifty and the elevat-
ed of face, and the counselor, and the
wise of the artificers, and the intelligent
one enchanting.

4 And I gave boys their chiefs, and
the petulant shall rule over them.

5 And the people were pressed, man
by man, and a man by his neighbor:
the boy shall enlarge himself against
the old man and the despised against the
honorable.

6 For a man shall seize upon his
brother of the house of his father, A
garment to thee, thou shalt be chief to
us, this ruin under thy hand:

7 He shall lift up in that day, saying,
T will not be binding up; and in my
house no bread and no garment: thou
shalt not set me a chief of the people.

8 For Jerusalem was weak, and Ju-
dah fell: for their tongues and their
doings are against Jehovah to embitter
the eyes of his glory.

9 The withdrawing of their face an-
swered against them; and they an-
nounced their sins as Sodom, and they
covered not. Wo to their soul! for
they rewarded evil to themselves.

10 Say to the just, that it is good that
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

11 Wo to the unjust! evil: for the
reward of his hands shall be done to
him.

12 My people, their tyrants from
children, and women ruled over them.
My people, they calling thee happy,
causing to err; they destroyed the way
of thy paths,

18 Jehovah stood up to contend and
he stood to judge the peoples.

14 Jehovah will go into judgment
with the old men of his people and his
chiefs: and ye burnt up the vineyard ;
the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15 Why will ye crush my people and
grind the faces of the poor? says the
Lord Jehovah of armies.

16 And Jehovah will say, Because
the daughters of Zion were lifted up,
and they will go extending the neck

ISAIAH IV.

and ogling their eyes, going and trip-
ping their going, and binding back their
eet:

17 And Jehovah made bald the crown
of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah
opened the redundance.

18 In that day Jehovah will turn
away the ornament of the ankle bands,
and the inter-weavings, and the cres-
cents,

19 The drops, and the chains, and the
veils,

20 The head-dresses and the step
chains, and the girdles, and the houses
of thé soul, and the amulets.

21 The signet rings and the rings of
the nose.

22 The costly garments and the
cloaks, and the mantles, and the caskets.

23 The mirrors and the shirts and
the turbans and the veils.

24 And it was instead of a sweet
smell there shall be rottenness, and in-
stead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of
turned work, baldness, and instead of a
variegated garment, a girding of sack-
cloth: a brand instead of beauty.

25 Thy men shall fall by the sword,
and thy strength in the war.

26 And her entrances sighed and
mourned; and being clean, she shall
sit upon the earth.

CHAPTER IV.
: ND seven women shall lay hold
upon one man in that day, saying,
We will eat our bread, and we will be
clothed with our garments: only thy
name shall be called upon us to take
away our reproach.

2 In that day shall the springing up
of Jehovah be for beauty and for glory,
and the fruit of the earth for majesty
and for ornament, for the escaping of
Israel.

3 And it was he being left in Zion

and he remaining in Jerusalem, he shall

say to him holy, all being written for
their life in Jerusalem.

4 When Jehovah washed out the ex-
crements of the daughters of Zion, and
he shall cleanse the blood of Jerusalem
from her midst with the spirit of judg-
ment, and with the spirit of burning.

5 And Jehovah created upon all the

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foundation of mount Zion and upon all
her convocation, a cloud by day, and
smoke, and the shining of afire of flame
by night: and upon all the glory a cov-
ering.

6 And a booth shall be for a shadow
by day from heat, and for a refuge, and
for a hiding place fr n the storm, and

from rain.

/ WILL sing now to my beloved a
song of my love for his vineyard.

There was a vineyard to my beloved fn

the horn of the son of oil:

2 And he will dig it up, and he will
free it from stones, and he will plant it
with a vine of purple grapes, and build
a tower in its midst, and he will also
hew out a wine-vat in it: and he will
wait for grapes to be made, and it will
make wild grapes.

3 And now, ye inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem, and men of Judah, judge ye now,
between me and between my vine-
yard.

4 What to do more to my vineyard,
and did I not in it? wherefore I waited
for grapes to be made, and it will make
wild grapes.

5 And now I will make known to you
now what I do to my vineyard, taking
away its hedge, and it was for consum-
ing, breaking down its wall, and it was
for a treading down.

6 And I will make it a desolation; it
shall not be pruned and it shall not be
dressed, and there came up sharp points
and thorns: and upon the clouds I will
command from raining rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of ar-
mies is the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah the plant of his pleasures:
and he will wait for judgment, and
behold bloodshed; for justice, and be-
hold a ery.

8 Wo to those touching house upon
house, they will bring near field upon
field, till no more place, and ye dwelt
yourselves alone in the midst of the
earth.

9 In the ears of Jehovah of armies, If
not many houses shall be for desolation,
great and good from none dwelling.

10 For ten measures of a vineyard

CHAPTER V.

shall make one bath, and the seed of
an omer shall make an ephah.

11 Wo to those rising early in the
morning, they will follow strong drink;
remaining in the evening, wine will in-
flame them.

12 And there was the harp and the
lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the
wine of their drinkings: but the work
of Jehovah they will not look at, and
the work of his hands they saw not.

13 For this my people were carried
into exile from not knowing; and their
honor, men of famine, and their multi-
tude dry with thirst.

14 For this, hades enlarged her soul,
and opened wide her mouth without
bound: and’ her honor shall go down,
and her multitude, and her tumult, and
he rejoicing, into her.

15 And man shall bow down, and
man shall be humbled, and the eyes of
the haughty shall be humbled.

16 And Jehovah of armies shall be
exalted in judgment, and the holy God
consecrated in justice.

17 And the lambs feed according to
their word, and the deserts of the fat
ones shall strangers eat.

18 Wo to those drawing iniquity
with cords of evil, and sin as the cords
of a wagon:

19 Saying, He shall hasten, he shall
urge on his work, so that we shall see:
and the counsel of the holy one of Is-
rael shall draw near and come and we
shall know.

20 Wo to those saying, to evil, good,
and to the good, evil; putting darkness
for light, and light for darkness; put-
ting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

21 Wo to the wise in their eyes, and
knowing before their face.

22 Wo to the strong to drink wine,
and men of strength to mix strong drink:

23 Justifying the unjust on account
of a gift, and they will take away the
justice of the just from him.

24 For this as the tongue of fire con-
sumes the straw, and the dry grass of
flame will collapse: their root shall be
as rottenness, and their flower shall go
up as dust: for they rejected the law
of Jehovah of armies, and the saying of
the Holy One of Israel they despised.

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25 For this the anger of Jehovah was
kindled against his people, and he will
stretch forth his hand against them and
strike them: and the mountains will be
moved and their carcasses shall be as
dung in the midst of the streets. In
all this his anger was not turned back,
and his hand was yet stretched out.

26 And he lifted up a signal to the
nations from far off, and he hissed to
them from the extremity of the earth ;
and behold, they shall come swift from
haste.

27 None fainted, and none were
weak among them; none shall slumber
and none shall sleep; and the girdle of
their Joins was not loosed, and the
thong of their shoes was not broken:

28 Whose arrows were sharpened,
and all their bows bent, the hoofs of
their horses were reckoned as the rock,
and their wheels as the whirlwind.

29 The roaring to him as the lion,
and he roared as the young lions: and
they shall groan and shall lay hold of
the prey, andit shall escape, and none
delivering.

30 And they shall groan against them
in that day as the groaning of the sea:
and they looked to the land and, behold,
straitened darkness, and the light dark-
ened in its clouds.

CHAPTER VL
ἢ ἐν the year king Uzziah died, and I
shall see Jehovah sitting upon his
throne, high and lifted up, and his train
filing the temple.

2 And seraphs standing from above
to it; six wings, six wings to one;
with two he will cover his face, and
with two he will cover his feet, and
with two he will fly.

3 And this called to this, and said,
Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies:
all the earth full of his glory.

4 The foundations of the thresholds
will tremble from the voice calling, and
the house will be filled with smoke.

5 And saying, Wo to me! for I was
cut off; because [a man of unclean lips,
and in the midst of a people of unclean
lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the
king, Jehovah of armies.

6 And one from the seraphs will fly

ISAIAH VI., VII.

tome, and in his hand a [10% stone, he
took with the tongs from off the altar:

7 And he will touch upon my mouth,

and say, Behold, this touched upon thy
lips; and took away thine iniquity, and
thy sin shall be covered.
- 8 And [shall hear the voice of Jeho-
yah, saying, Whom shall I send, and
who shall go for us? and behold me
saying, Send me.

9 And he will say, Go, and say to
this people, Hearing, hear ye, and ye
shall not understand; and seeing, see
‘ye, and ye shall not know.

10 Make the heart of this people fat
and their ears heavy, and blind their
eyes, lest they shall see with their eyes
and hear with their ears, and their heart
shall understand and turn back and be
healed to them.

11 And saying, How long, O Lord?
And he will say, Till when the cities
were laid waste from not being inhab-
ited, and the houses from not a man,
and the land shall be laid waste with
desolation.

12 And Jehovah put man far away,
and much forsaking in the midst of the
land.

18 And yet in it a tenth, and it
turned back, and it was for consuming,
as the terebinth and as the oak which
in casting the trunk in them the holy
seed its pillar.

CHAPTER VII.

Λ ND it will be in the days of Ahaz

son of Jotham son of Uzziah,

king of Judah, Rezin, king of Aram

came up, and Pekah, son of Remaliah,

king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to war

against her, and he was not able to
fight against her.

2 And it will be announced to the
house of David, saying, Aram rested
upon Ephraim ; and his heart will move
to and fro and the heart of his people,
as the woods of the forest moved from
the face of the wind.

3 And Jehovah will say to Isaiah, Go
forth now to meet Ahaz, thou and
Shear-Jashub thy son, at the extremity
of the channel of the highest pool of
the highway, of the fuller’s field ;

4 And say to him, Watch and rest;

ISAIAH VIIL

thou shalt not fear, and thy heart shall
not be tender from the two tails of these
smoking fire-brands, upon the heat of
anger of Rezin and Aramj and the son
of Remaliah.

5 Because Aram, Ephraim, and the
son of Remaliah, will counsel evil against
thee, saying,

6 We will go up against Judah and
terrify her and subdue her for us, and
we will make a king in the midst of her,
the son of Tabeal :

7 Thus said the Lord Jehovah, It
shall not stand, and it shall not be.

8 For the head of Aram, Damascus,
and the head of Damascus, Rezin, and
in yet sixty and five years Ephraim
shall be broken from a people.

9 And the head of Ephraim, Shome-
ron, and the head of Shomeron, the son
of Remaliah. If ye will not believe,
because ye will not believe.

10 And Jehovah will add to speak
to Ahaz, saying,

11 Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah
thy God; make deep the asking, or
make high upwards.

12 And Ahaz will say, I will not ask
and I will not tempt Jehovah.

13 And he will say, Hear ye now,
house of David; is it small for you to
weary men, but will ye weary God
also?

14 For this, Jehovah he will give to
you a sign: Behold, the virgin conceiy-
ing, and she will bare a son, and call
his name Immanuel.

15 Curdled milk and honey he shall
eat, for his knowing to. reject in evil,
and to choose in good.

16 For before the boy shall know to
reject in evil and to choose in good the
land which thou abhorrest shall be for-
saken from the face of its two kings.

17 Jehovah shall bring upon thee and
upon thy people, and upon thy father’s
house, days which came not, from the
day Ephraim turned away from Judah ;
the king of Assur.

18 And it was in that day Jehovah
shall hiss for the fly which is in the ex-
tremity of the rivers of Egypt, and for
the bee which is in the land of Assur.

19 And they shall come and rest all
of them in the valleys, and in the clefts

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of the rocks, and in all the thorn
hedges, and in all pastures.

20 In that day shall Jehovah shave
with a hired razor by those beyond the
river, by the king of Assur, the head
and the hair of the feet: and it also
shall scrape off the beard.

21 And it was in that day a man
shall preserve alive a heifer of the herd,
and two sheep.

22 And it was from the abundance
of making milk he shall eat curdled
milk; for curdled milk and honey
shall eat all they being left in the midst
of the land.

23 And it was in that day every
place shall be where shall be there a
thousand vines for a thousand of silver,
for sharp points and thorns shall it be.

24 With arrows and with bows shall
he come there: for sharp points and
thorns shall be all the land.

25 And all the mountains which
shall be dressed with the hoe, the fear
of sharp points and thorns shall not
come there: and it was for the sending
forth of the ox and for the treading of
sheep.

CHAPTER VIIL
ND Jehovah will say to me, Take
to thee a great tablet, and write
upon it with a man’s graving tool to
hasten the spoil, urging on the plunder.

2 I will take to witness to me faith-
ful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

3 And 1 shall draw near to the proph-
etess; and she will conceive and bear a
son, and Jehovah will say to me, Call
his name, Hastening the spoil, urging on
the plunder.

4 For before the boy shall know to
call, My father and my mother, he
shall lift up the strength of Damascus
and the spoil of Shomeron before the
king of Assur. :

5 And Jehovah will add yet to speak
to me, saying,

6 Because this people rejected the
water of Shiloh, going softly and re-
joicing in Rezin and the son of Rema-
hah ;

7 And for this, behold Jehovah
bringing up upon them the water of the

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river, strong and many, the king of
Assur and his glory: and he came up
over all his channels and he went over
all his banks.

8 And he went in Judah; and he
overflowed and passed through; he
will reach even to the neck; and the
expansion of his wings was the fulness
of the land, God with us.

9 Make friendship, ye peoples, and
be broken in pieces; and give ear,
every land from afar; be girded and
be broken in pieces; be girded and be
broken im pieces.

10 Counsel ye, counsel, and it shall
be dispersed; speak the word and it
shall not stand: for God is with us.

11 For thus said Jehovah to me with
streneth of the hand, and he will turn
me away from going in the way of this
people, saying,

12 Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to
all whom this people shall say a con-
spiracy; and ye shall not fear their
fear, and ye shall not be afraid.

13 Jehovah of armies, him shall ye
consecrate; and he your fear, and he
your terror.

14 And he was for a holy place and
for a stone of striking, and for a rock
of falling to the two houses of Israel;
for a trap net and for a snare to the in-
habitants of Jerusalem.

15 And many fainted among them
and fell, and were broken, and snared,
and taken.

16 Bind up the oracle, seal up the
law among the disciples.

17 And I waited for Jehovah in his
hiding his face from the house of Ja-
cob, and I trusted to him.

18 Behold me and the children which
Jehovah gave to me for signs and for
wonders in Israel from Jehovah of ar-
mies dwelling in mount Zion.

19 And when they shall say to you,
Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards
peeping and panting: shall not a peo-
ple seek their God among the living for
the dead ?

20 To the law and to the testimony :
if they will not speak according to this
word, because no morning is in them.

21 And passing through it, harshly
oppressed and hungry; and it was

ISAIAH IX.

when he shall be hungry, and they
brake forth and cursed against their
king and their God, and looked up-
wards. ᾿

22 And they shall look to the earth,
and behold, straits and darkness and
fainting of distress; and to darkness
being removed.

23 For the fainting not to what the
straits to her according to the time of
the first he made light the land of Zeb-
ulon and the land of Naphtali; and af-
terward he made heavy the way of the
sea beyond Jordan of Galilee of the na-
tions.

CHAPTER IX.
HE people going in darkness saw
a great light: they dwelling in the
land of the shadow of death, light shone
upon them.

2 Thou didst multiply the nation,
thou didst not increase the joy: they
rejoiced before thee according to the
joy in harvest as they will exalt in
their dividing the spoil.

3 For the yoke of his burden and
the rod of his shoulder, and the rod of
him oppressing with it thou didst brealx
in pieces the day of Midian.

4 For every shoe of the shod with
trembling, and a garment being rolled
in bloods; and it was for burning the
food of fire.

5 For a child was born to us, a son
was given to us, and the dominion
shall be upon his shoulder, and his
name shall be called, Wonderful, Coun-
sellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father,
Captain of Peace.

6 To the increase of his dominion
and to peace no end, upon the throne of
Dayid and upon his kingdom to pre-
pare it and to support it in judgment
and in justice from now and even to
forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies
will do this.

7 Jehovah sent a word into Jacob,
and it fell upon Israel.

8 And the people shall know, all they
of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Sho-
meron, in pride and in greatness of
heart, saying,

9 The bricks fell, and we will build
with hewn stone: the syeamores were

ISAIAH X.

cut down, and the cedars we will re-
new.

10 And Jehovah will set on high the
adversaries of Rezin against him, and
he will arouse his enemies:

11 Aram from the east, and the ro-
vers from behind; and they will eat up
Israel with all the mouth. In all this
his anger was not turned back, and yet
his hand stretched out.

12 And the people turned not back
even to him smiting them, and Jehovah
of armies they sought not.

13 And Jehovah will cut off from
Israel head and tail, palm branch and
reed in one day.

14 The old man and they lifting up
faces, he the head; and the prophet
teaching falsehood, he the tail.

15 And there will be those leading
this people causing them to wander ;
and those being led being swallowed
up.

16 For this upon their young men
Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their or-
phans and their widows he will not
compassionate ; for they all are polluted
and doing evil, and every mouth speak-
ing folly. In all this his anger turned
not back, and yet his hand stretched
out.

17 For wickedness burnt as fire; the
sharp point and the thorn it shall con-
sume, and shall burn in the thickets of
the forest, and they shall roll up in the
mounting up of smoke.

18 In the outpourings of Jehovah of
armies the land was consumed, and the
people will be as the food of fire: and
they shall not pity a man to his brother.

19 And he shall cut upon the right
hand, and hungering; and he shall eat
upon the left, and they were not satis-
fied: they shall eat a man the flesh of
his arm.

20 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephra-
im, Manasseh : they being united against
Judah. In all this his anger turned not
back, and yet his hand stretched out.

CHAPTER X.
O to those deereeing not decrees,
and they wrote writings of la-
bor ;
2 To turn away the judgment of the

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powerless, and to strip off judgment of
the distressed of my people, for widows
to be their plunder, and they will plun-
der orphans.

3 And what will ye do for the day of

reviewing, and for the tempest coming
from far off? upon whom will ye flee
for help? and where will ye leave your
glory ?
4 4 Not to bow under the bound, and
they shall fall under the slain; in all
this his anger turned not back, and yet
his hand stretched out.

5 Wo to Assur the rod of mine an-
ger, and that rod in their hand, my
wrath.

6 Against a polluted nation will I
send him, and upon a people of my out-
pouring will I command him to spoil a
spoil and to plunder a plunder, and to
set them a treading down as the clay of
the streets.

7 And he will not thus purpose, and
his heart will not reckon thus; for in his
heart to destroy and to cut off nations
not few.

8 For he will say, Are not my chiefs
united together kings?

9 Isnot as Carchemish, Calno? if not
as Arpad, Hamath? if not as Damas-
cus, Shomeron ?

10 As my hand found for the king-
doms of nothing, and their carved
images from Jerusalem and from Sho-
meron ;

11 Is it not according to what I did
to Shomeron and to her nothings, thus
will I do to Jerusalem and to her
images ?

12 And it was when the Lord will
complete all his work upon mount Zion
and upon Jerusalem, 1 will review upon
the fruit of the great heart of the king
of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes
lifted up.

13 For he said, By strength of my
hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I
was discreet: and I will remove the
bounds of the people, and their things
prepared I plundered, and I will bring
down as a strong one the inhabitants.

14 And my hand will find as a nest
for the strength of the peoples: and as
he gathering eggs left, I gathered all the
land; and there was not moving the

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wing, and opening wide the mouth, and
peeping.

15 Shall the axe yaunt itself against
him hewing with it? shall the saw mag-
nify itself against him moving it up and
down? as the rod moving up and down
with those lifting it up; as the lifting
up of the rod not wood.

16 For this shall Jehovah, the Lord
of armies send among his fatnesses lean-
ness; and under his glory he shall burn
a burning as the burning of fire.

17 And the light of Israel was for a
fire, and his Holy for a flame: and he
burnt and consumed his thorns, and his
sharp points in one day:

18 And the glory of his forest and
his Carmel, from the soul and even to
the flesh, he shall finish, and it was as
he fainting pined away.

19 And the remainder of the wood
of his forest shall be of number, and a
boy shall write them.

20 And it was in that day the re-
mainder of Israel shall no more add, and
the escaping of the house of Jacob, to
lean upon him smiting them; and were
leaning upon Jehoyah the holy of Israel
in truth.

21 The remainder shall turn back the
remainder of Jacob to the mighty God.

22 For if my people Israel shall be
as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall
turn back among them: a consumption
decided overflowing justice.

23 For the Lord Jehovah of armies
made a completion, and decided it in
the midst of all the land.

24 Vor this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah of armies, Thou my people dwell-
ing in Zion shalt not fear from Assur:
with the rod he shall strike thee and he
will lift up his rod upon thee; in the
way of Heypt.

25 For yet avery little and wrath
finished, and mine anger, in their de-
struction.

26 And Jehovah of armies roused up
for him a scourge according to the blow
of Midian at the rock Oreb: and his
rod upon the sea, and he lifted it up in
the way of Egypt.

27 And it was in that day, his bur-
den shall remove from off thy shoulder,
and his yoke from off thy neck, and the

ISAIAH XL.

yoke was lightened from the face of the
anointing,

28 He came upon Aioth, he passed
through into Migron; at Michmash he
will deposit his vessels.

29 They passed through the passage :
the hill a lodging to us; Ramah trem-
bled; the hill of Saul fled.

30 Cry aloud with thy voice, thou
daughter of Gallim: hearken to Laish,
Anathoth answered.

31 Madmenah moved; they dwelling
in Gebim fled for safety.

82 Yet the day to stand in Nob: his
hand will shake the mountain of the
daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

83 Behold the Lord Jehovah of ar-
mies dividing the bough with sudden
violence: and the high of stature hewn
down, and the lofty shall be humbled.

84 And he cut down the thickets of
the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall
fall with a lofty one.

CHAPTER XL -
ND arod shall come forth from
the stock of Jesse, and a sprout
shall blossom from his roots :

2 And the spirit of Jehovah resting
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and un-
derstanding, the spirit of counsel and
strength, the spirit of knowledge and
the fear of Jehovah:

3 His sweet odor in the fear of Jeho-
vah: and not according to the seeing
of his eyes shall he judge, and not ac-
cording to the hearing of his ears shall
he decide.

4 And he judged the powerless with
justice, and he decided in straightness
for the humble of the earth: and he
struck the earth with the rod of his
mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he
will slay the unjust.

5 And justice was the girding of his
loins, and truth the girding of his loins.

6 The wolf dwelt with the lamb;
and the panther will lie down with the
kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together, and a little boy
leading with them.

7 And the heifer and the bear shall
feed together, and their young shall
lie down; and the lion shall eat straw
as the ox.

ISAIAH XIL, XIII.

8 And the suckling was delighted
upon the hole of the asp, and upon the
viper’s den the weaned directed his hand.

9 They shall not do evil, and they
shall not destroy in all my holy mount-
ain, for the earth full of the knowledge
of Jehovah as the waters covering to
the sea.

10 And there was in that day a root
of Jesse which stood for a signal of the
peoples; to him shall the nations seek,
and his rest was glory.

11 And it was in that day Jehovah
shall add the second time his hand to
gain the remnant of his people which
shall be left from Assur and from
Egypt, and from Pathros, and from
Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar,
and from Hamath, and from the islands
of the sea.

12 And he lifted up ἃ signal to the
nations, and he gathered the outcasts
of Israel, and he will collect the dis-
persed of Judah from the four wings
of the earth.

13 And the jealousy of Ephraim was
removed, and the adversaries of Judah
shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not
envy Judah, and Judah shall not press
upon Ephraim.

14 And they flew upon the shoulder
of the rovers to the sea; together shall
they plunder the sons of the east:
Edom and Moab the sending forth of
their hand, and the sons of Ammon
their audience.

15 And Jehovah exterminated the
tongue of the sea of Egpyt, and he
moved to and fro his hand over the
river with the strength of his wind, and
he struck it to the seven torrents, and
he caused them to tread in shoes.

16 And there was a highway for the
remnant of his people which shall be
left from Assur, as it was to Israel in
the day of his coming up from the land
of Hgypt.

CHAPTER XIL
Λ ND thou saidst in that day, I will
praise thee, O Jehovah: for thou
wert angry with me, thine anger will
turn back and thou wilt comfort me.
2 Behold God my salvation; I will
trust and not be afraid: for my

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strength and song is Jah Jehovah, and
he will be to me for salvation.

3 Ye drew water with gladness from
the fountains of salvation.

4 And ye said in that day, Praise ye
to Jehovah, call upon his name; make
known his deeds among the peoples;
keep ye in remembrance that his name
was exalted.

5 Strike the chords to Jehovah, for
he did a liftmg up: this being known
in all the earth.

6 Cry out and shout for joy thou in-
habitress of Zion, for great in the midst
of thee the Holy One of Isarel. \

CHAPTER א‎
HE burden of Babel which Isaiah
/ son of Amos saw.

2 Lift ye up a signal upon the bare
mountain, lift up the voice to them;
move the hand to and fro and they
shall come in to the entrances of the
noble minded.

8 I commanded to the consecrated,
also I called the strong ones for mine
anger, those exulting in my lifting up.

4 The voice of a mulitude in the
mountains, the likeness of much people ;
the voice of the uproar of kingdoms,
nations being gathered: Jehovah of ar-
mies reviewing the army of battle.

5 Coming from a land from afar,
from the extremity of the heavens, Je-
hovah and the vessels of his wrath to
overthrow all the earth.

6 Pipe ye, for the day of Jehovah
draws near; as desolation shall it come
from the Almighty.

7 For this all hands shall be relaxed,
and every heart of man shall melt.

8 And they trembled; pains and
writhings will lay hold of them; as she
bringing forth they will be in pain:
they shall wonder a man at his neigh-
bor; their faces the face of flames.

9 Behold, the day of Jehovah coming
fierce and overflowing, and burning an-
ger to set the earth for desolation: and
he will destroy the sinner out of it.

10 For the stars of the heavens and
the giants of the sky shall not shine
their light: the sun was darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not
cause her light to shine,

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11 And I appointed evil over the
habitable globe, and upon the unjust
their iniquity; and I caused to cease
the pride of the arrogant, and I will
humble the pride of the terrible.

12 I will make a man precious above
pure gold, and a man above the gold of
Ophir.

13 For this I will provoke the heay-
ens to anger, and the earth shall trem-
ble from her place, in the wrath of Je-
hovah of armies, and in the day of his
burning anger.

14 And it was as the roe being thrust
down and as a sheep and not a man
gathering: to his people shall they turn,
and they shall flee a man to his land.

15 All being found shall be thrust
through; and every one scraped ἴο-
gether shall fall by the sword.

16 And their children shall be dash-
ed in pieces before their eyes, and their
Isouses shall be plundered, and their
wives shall be ravished.

17 Behold me rousing up the Medes
against them, who shall not reckon sil-
ver ; and gold they shall not delight in it.

18 And the bows of the boys shall
be dashed in pieces, and the fruit of the
womb they shall not pity ; and upon their
sons their eye shall not have compassion.

19 And Babel the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldees’ grandeur was
as God overthrowmg Sodom and Go-
morrah.

20 It shall not be inhabited forever,
and it shall not be dwelt in even to
generation and generation: and the
Arabian shall not go on there, and the
shepherds shall not recline there.

21 And inhabitants of the desert re-
clined there, and their houses were fill-
ed with howlings, and the daughters of
the ostrich dwelt there, and he goats
shall leap there.

22 And howlers cried out in its
palaces, and great serpents in the tem-
ples of delight: and her time draws
near to come, and her days shall not be
protracted.

CHAPTER XIV.
ו‎ Jehovah will pity Jacob, and
he yet chose in Israel, and he gave
them rest upon their land: and the

ISAIAH XIV.

stranger was joined to them, and they
joined themseves to the house of Jacob.

2 And peoples took them and brought
them to their place, and the house of
Israel inherited them upon the land of
Jehovah for servants and for maids:
and they were captives to those having
been made captives, and they came
down upon those pressing them.

8 And it was in that day Jehovah
gave rest to thee from thy toil and from
thy trouble, and from the hard sétvice
which was served upon thee.

4 And thou tookest up this parable
against the king of Babel, and thou
saidst, How did he oppressing, cease!
oppression ceased.

5 Jehovah broke in pieces the rod of
the unjust, the rod of the rulers.

6 Striking the peoples in wrath a
blow not removed, bringing down the
nations in anger; pursuing, not sparing.

7 All the earth rested, having quiet:
they broke forth a rejoicing.

8 Also the cypresses rejoiced at thee,
the cedars of Lebanon: From that time
thou wert laid down, he cutting off will
not come up against us.

9 Hades from beneath was moved
for thee to meet thy coming: it roused
the shades for thee, all the leaders of
the earth : it raised up from their thrones
all the kings of the nations.

10 All they will answer and say to
thee, Also thou wert weak as we; thou
wert made like to us.

11 Thy grandeur was brought down
to hades, the sound of thy harps: the
worm was spread under thee, and
worms covering thee.

12 How thou fallest from the heay-
ens, brilliant star, son of the morning!
thou wert cut off to the earth, over-
throwing upon the nations!

13 And thou saidst in thy heart, I
will go up to the heavens; from above
to the stars of God I will lift up my
throne, and I will sit upon the mount-
ain of appointment in the thighs of the
north.

14 I will go up upon the heights of
the cloud: I will become like the Most
High.

15 But to hades shalt thou come
down, to the thighs of the pit.

ISATAH XV.

16 They seeing thee shall look upon
thee, they shall attend to thee. This
the man moving the earth, shaking
kingdoms:

17 Setting the habitable globe as a
desert, and destroying its cities: for
his bound opening not the house.

18 All the kings of the nations, all of
them, lay down in honor, a man in his
house.

19 And thou wert cast out of thy
grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment
of the slain thrust through with the
sword, and going down to the stones of
the pit as a corpse trodden down.

20 Thou shalt not be united with
them in the grave, for thou destroyedst
thy land, and didst slay thy people:
the seed of those doing evil shall not
be called forever.

21 Prepare slaughter for his sons, for
the iniquity of their fathers; they shall
not rise and possess the land, and fill
the face of the habitable globe with
cities.

22 And I rose against them, said Je-
hovah of armies, and I cut off to Ba-
bel the name and remainder, offspring
and progeny, says Jehovah.

23 And I set it for the possession of
the hedge-hog, and pools of water:
and I swept her with the broom of des-
olation, says Jehovah of armies.

24 Jehovah of armies sware, saying,
Τί not as I purposed thus it was, and
as I counseled, this shall stand:

25 To break Assur in my land, and
upon my mountain I will tread him
down: and his yoke was removed from
off them, and his burden shall remove
from off their shoulder.

26 This the counsel being counseled
upon all the land: and this the hand
stretched out upon all the nations.

27 For Jehovah of armies counseled
and who shall bring to nought? and
his hand was stretched out, and who
shall turn it back?

28 In the year king Ahaz died was
this burden.

29 Thou shalt not rejoice Philistia,
all of thee, because the rod of him
striking thee was broken: for from the
root of the serpent shall come forth a
viper, and his fruit burning flying.

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30 And the first-born of the poor
were fed, and the needy shall lie down
confidently : and I killed thy root with
famine, and thy residue he shall slay.

31 Wail, thou gate; ery out, thou
city; all thou Philistia, melting away,
for from the north a smoke coming,
and none being alone in his appoint-
ments.

32 And what shall the messengers of
the nations answer? for Jehovah found-
ed Zion, and the humble of his people
shall trust in her.

CHAPTER XV.
HE burden of Moab. For in the
night the city of Moab was de-
stroyed, perishing; for in the night the
wall of Moab was destroyed, perish-
ing.

2 He went up to the house and to
Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Ne-
bo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon
all their heads baldness; every beard
cut off.

3 And in their places without they
girded themselves with sackcloth: up-
on her roofs and in her streets every
one shall wail, going down into weep-
ing.

4 And Heshbon shall ery and Elea-
lah; even to Jahaz their voice was
heard: for this the loins of Moab shall
make a loud noise; his soul shall be
evil to him.

5 My heart shall ery out for Moab;
passing through even to Zoar, a heifer
of three years: for going up to Luhith
with weeping shall they go up into it:
for the way of Horonaim they shall
rouse up a cry of breaking.

6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolation ; for the grass dried up, the
herbage failed; there was no green.

7 For this the abundance made and
their wealth upon the torrent of the
Arabians shall they 116 them up.

8 For the ery surrounded the bound
of Moab, its wailing even to Kglaim,
and its wailing to the well of Elim.

9 For the waters of Dimon were
filled with blood: I will put addi-
tions upon Dimon, to the escaping
of Moab, lions, and to the rest of the
land.

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CHAPTER XVI.
Sonne ye a lamb to the ruler to the
land, from the rock of the desert
to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

2 And it shall be as the bird fleeing,
the nest cast out, the daughters of
Moab shall be from the passages to Ar-
non.

3 Bring ye counsel, do judgment;
place as the night thy shadow in the
midst of noon; hide the driven out;
thou shalt not betray the fugitive.

4 The outeast shall dwell with thee,
Moab; be thou a covering to them from
the face of him laying waste: for the
oppressor ceased, violence was finished,
the treaders-down were consumed out
of the land.

5 And the throne was set up in mer-
cy: and he sat upon it in truth in the
tent of David, judging and seeking
judgment, and hastening justice.

6 We heard the pride of Moab; he
was greatly elated; his haughtiness and
his pride and his wrath; not so his
empty talk.

7 For this shall Moab wail for Moab,
every one shall wail: for the foundations
of the wall of Haresheth shall ye sigh ;
surely they were smitten.

8 For the fields of Heshbon lan-
guished, the vine of Sibmah: the lords
of the nations struck its vine of purple
grapes, they reached even to Jazer, they
wandered to the desert: her sprouts
were thrust out, they passed over the
sea.

9 For this I will weep with the weep-
ing of Jazer the vine of Sibmah; I will
water thee with my tears, Ὁ Heshbon
and Elealah: for upon thy fruit har-
vest and upon thy harvest the vintage
shout fell.

10 And joy and gladness was taken
away from Carmel, and in the vine-
yards there shall be no shout for joy,
there shall be no ery with a loud voice:
and he treading shall not tread out wine
in the wine-vat: I caused the vintage
shout to cease.

11 For this my bowels shall sound as
a harp for Moab, and my inner parts
for the wall of Haresh.

12 And it was when it was seen that
Moab was weary upon the height, and

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coming to his holy place to pray and he
shall not be able.

13 This the word which Jehovah
spake to Moab from that time.

14 And now Jehovah spake, saying,
In three years as the years of a hireling,
and the honor of Moab despised with
with all the great multitude; and the
remnant being small, not great.

CHAPTER XVIL
HE burden of Damascus. Behold,
Damascus being taken away from
a city, and it was a falling heap of rub-
bish.

2 The cities of Aroer were forsaken :
they shall be for flocks, and they lay
down, and none terrifying.

3 And the fortress ceased from Eph-
raim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Aram: they shall
be as the glory of the sons of Israel,
says Jehovah of armies.

4 And it was in that day the glory
of Jacob shall be feeble, and the fatness
of his flesh shall waste away.

5 And it was as he gathered the har-
vest of standing grain, and he shall reap
the ears with his arm; and it was as he
gathering ears in the valley of Rephaim. |

6 And he left in it gleaning, as the
beating of the olive tree, two, three ber-
ries upon the head of the summit, four,
five in the branches of its fruit, says
Jehovah, God of Israel.

7 In that day shall the man look
upon him making him, and his eyes
shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not look-to the altars,
the work of his hands, and what his
fingers made he shall not see, and the
statues and the images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities
be as the forsaken thicket, and the sum-
mit which they forsook from the face
of the sons of Israel: and it was a des-
olation.

10 For thou didst forget the God of
thy salvation, and didst not remember
the rock of thy fortress, for this, thou
shalt plant pleasant plants, and thou
shalt sow it with vine shoots of the
stranger.

11 In the day of thy planting thou
shalt hedge in, and in the morning thou

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shalt make thy seed fruitful: the har-
vest a heap in the day of thy posses-
sion and incurable pain.

12 Wo to the multitude of many
peoples; they will sound as the sound
of the seas; and the tumult to the na-
tions shall rage as the tumult of great
waters.

13 To the nations as the tumult of
many waters they shall rage, and he re-
buked him and he fled from far off and
was pursued as the chief of the mount-
ains before the wind and as stubble be-
fore the whirlwind.

14 For the time of evening, behold,
terror; before morning he is not. This
the portion of those plundering us, and
the lot of those spoiling us.

CHAPTER XVIIL
O to the land of the whizzing of
wings, which is from beyond
the rivers of Cush:

2 Sending messengers upon the sea,
and in vessels of the bulrush upon the
face of the waters, Go, ye swift messen-
gers, to a nation drawn out and sharp-
ened, to a people to be feared from this,
and farther off; a nation of might, of
might, and of treading down, of which
the rivers divided up its land.

3 All ye inhabiting the habitable
globe, and dwelling in the earth, when
lifting up a signal on the mountains, ye
shall see; and when striking the trum-
pet, ye shall hear.

4 For thus said Jehovah to me, I
will cause rest, and I will behold in my
dwelling plaee as the serene heat upon
the light, and as a cloud of dew in the
heat of harvest.

5 For before the harvest, when the
flower was completed, and the sour
grape shall be ripening in the flower,
and he cut off the shoots with pruning-
hooks, and cutting off he took away the
tendrils.

6 They shall be left together to the
ravenous bird of the mountains, and to
the beasts of the earth: and the rav-
enous bird summered upon them, and
all the beasts of the earth shall winter
upon them.

7 In that time shall a gift be brought
to Jehovah of armies of a people drawn

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out, and sharpened, and from a people
to be feared from this, and farther 017 ;
a nation of might, of might, and of
treading down, of which the rivers di-
vided up its lands, to the place of the
name of Jehovah of armies, mount Zion.

CHAPTER XIX.
HE burden of Egypt. Behold, Je-
hovah riding upon ἃ swift cloud
and coming to Egypt: and the vanities
of Egypt moved to and fro from his
face, and the heart of Egypt will melt
in its midst.

2 And aroused Egypt against Keypt,
and they warred a man against his
brother, and a man against his neigh-
bor; city against city, and kingdom
against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt was emp-
tied in its midst, and its counsel I will
destroy : and they sought to the vanities
and to the mutterers, and to the necro-
mancers, and to the wizards.

4 And 1 shut up Egypt into the hand
of hard lords, and a strong king shall
rule over them, says the Lord Jehovah
of armies.

5 And the water faiied from the sea,
and the river will waste and dry up.

6 They cast away the rivers; the
rivers of Heypt languished and dried
up; the reed and the sedge pined
away.

7 The naked places by the river upon
the mouth of the river, and everything
being sown by the river was dried up,
driven away, and nothing of it.

8 And the fishermen groaned, and all
casting the hook into the river mourned,
and they spreading nets upon the face
of the water, languished.

9 And they working hatcheled flax
and they weaving white linens were
ashamed.

10 And her pillars were broken in
pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful
In soul.

11 Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish,
the wise counseling Pharaoh the coun-
sel became brutish: how shall ye say
to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the
son of kings of old?

12 Where are they? where thy wise?
and they shall announce to thee now,

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and they shall make known what Jeho-
vah shall counsel upon Egypt.

13 The chiefs of Zoan were foolish,
the chiefs of Noph were deceived ; and
they caused Egypt to wander, the pin-
nacles of its tribes.

14 Jehovah mingled in the midst of
her a spirit of perversities, and they
caused Kgypt to wander in all its works
as the intoxicated wanders in his vomit.

15 And there shall not be to Egypt
a work which shall make head and tail,
branch and reed.

16 In that day Egypt shall be as wo-
men; and it trembled and was afraid
from the face of the shaking of the
hand of Jehovah of armies which he
shook: over it.

17 And the land of Judah was to
Eeypt for consternation, all which shall
have it in remembrance shall be afraid
to himself from the face of the counsel
of Jehovah of armies which he shall
counsel against it.

18 In that day there shall be five
cities in the land of Egypt speaking the
lip of Canaan, and they sware to Jeho-
vah of armies; and to one it shall be
said, The city of the sun.

19 In that day there shall be an altar
to Jehovah in the midst of the land of
Kegypt, and a pillar near its bound to
Jehovah.

20 And it was for a sign and fora
witness to Jehovah of armies m the
land of Egypt, for they shall ery to Je-
hovah from the face of those pressing
them, and he shall send to them him
saving, and great, and he delivered
them.

21 And Jehovah shall be known to
Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know
Jehovah in that day, and they made a
sacrifice and gift, and they vowed a
vow to Jehovah, and they completed.

22 And Jehovah smote Egypt, and
he smote and healed: and they turned
back even to Jehovah, and he was
entreated by them, and he healed
them.

23 In that day shall be a highway
from Egypt to Assur, and Assur came
into Egypt, and Kgypt into Assur, and
the Egyptians served with Assur.

24 In that day Israel shall be the

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third to Egypt and to Assur, and a
blessing in the midst of the land:

25 Whom Jehovah of armies blest
him, saying, Blessed my people of
Egypt, and the work of my hand, Assur,
and my inheritance Israel.

CHAPTER XX.
N the year Tartan came to Ashdod,
(in Sargon’s sending him, king of
Assur) and he will fight with Ashdod
and take it:

2 In that time spake Jehovah by the
hand of Isaiah, son of Amos, saying,
Go loose the sackcloth from off thy
loins, and thou shalt draw off the shoe
from thy foot. And he will do so,
going naked and barefoot.

3 And Jehovah will say, As my ser-
vant Isaiah went naked and barefoot
three years, a sign and miracle upon
Egypt and upon Cush:

4 Thus shall the king of Assur lead
the captivity of Egypt, and the exile of
Cush, boys and old men naked and bare-
foot, and buttocks uncovered, the naked-
ness of Egypt.

5 And they were dismayed and
ashamed of Cush their expectation, and
of Egypt their glory.

6 And he inhabiting this island said
in that day, Behold, thus our expecta-
tion, where we fled there for help to be
delivered from the face of the king of
Assur: and how shall we escape?

CHAPTER XXL
HE burden of the desert of the sea.
As whirlwinds in sthe south for
passing through, from the desert it came,
from a fearful land.

2 A hard vision was announced to
me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying
waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam:
press, O Media; all her sighing I caused
to cease. :

8 For this, my loins were filled with
pain: distress took hold of me as the
pains of her bringing forth: I was shalk-
en from hearing; I trembled from see-
ing.

4 My heart wandered; trembling
made me afraid: the evening twilight
of my desire he put to me for fear.

5 Set in order the table; view the

ISAIAH XXII.

watch-tower ; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs,
anoint the shield.

6 For thus said Jehovah to me, Go
set up a watchman, he shall announce
what he shall see.

7 He will see a chariot, a pair of horse-
men, the rider of an ass, the rider of a
camel; and listening, he listened with
much attention.

8 And he will call, A lion: on the
watch-tower, my lord, I stand contin-
ually in the day, and upon my watch I
stand all the night.

9 And behold, here came a chariot,
a man, a pair of horsemen. And he
will answer and say, She fell, Babel
fell; and the carved images of her god
he brake in pieces to the earth.

10 O my threshing, and the son of
my threshing-floor, what I heard from
Jehovah of armies the God of Israel, 1
announced to you.

11 The burden of Dumah. He called
to me from Seir, Watch, what of the
night? watch, what of the night?

12 The watch said, I will mark out
morning, and also night; if ye will
seek, seek ye: turn back, come.

13 The burden of Arabia. In the
forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye way-
farers of Dedanim.

14 To meet the thirsty, bring ye wa-
ter, O inhabitants of the land of Tema:
anticipate ye him wandering, with
bread.

15 For they fled from the face of the
swords, the sword drawn out, and from
the face of the bent bow, and from the
face of the heaviness of war.

16 For thus said the Lord to me,
Within yet a year, as the years of a
hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was
finished.

17 And the rest of the bows of the
strong sons of Kedar shall be few: for
Jehovah God of Israel spake.

CHAPTER XXII
HE burden of the valley of vision.
What to thee now, that thou went-
est up all of thee, to the roofs?
2The city put in commotion was
filled with noise, the exulting city: th
wounded not wounded of the sword,
and not the dead of war.

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3 All thy chiefs fled together, the
were bound of the bow: all they find-
ing thee were bound together; they
fled from from far off.

4 For this I said, Look ye away from
me; I will be bitter in my weeping, ye
shall not hasten to comfort me upon the
desolation of the daughter of my people.

5 For a day of consternation, wel of
treading down, and perplexity by the
Lord Jehovah of armies of the valley of
vision, of undermining the wall, and of
a cry for help to the mountains.

6 And Elam lifted up the quiver
with the chariot of men, horsemen;
and Kir made naked the shield.

7 And it shall be the chosen of thy
valleys was filled with chariots, and
the horsemen placed a seat at the gate.

8 And he will uncover the covering
of Judah, and thou wilt look in that
day to the weapons of the house of the
forest.

9 The clefts of the city of David ye
saw, that they were many: and ye
shall gather the water of the lowest
pool.

10 The houses of Jerusalem ye num-
bered, and ye will break down the
houses to fortify the wall.

11 And ye made a gathering place
between the two walls for the water of
the old pool; and ye looked not to him
making it, and ye saw not him forming
it from far off.

12 And the Lord Jehovah of armies
in that day will call to weeping and to
wailing, and to baldness and to girding
with sackcloth :

13 And behold, gladness and joy,
killing cattle and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat
and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

14 And it was uncovered in the ears
of Jehovah of armies, If this iniquity
shall be expiated to you till ye shall
die, said the Lord Jehovah of armies.

15 Thus said the Lord Jehovah of
armies, Go, come in to this associate to
Shebna who is over the house,

16 What to thee here, and who to
thee here, that thou hewedst to thee
here a tomb, he hewing from on high
his tomb and cutting in a dwelling ina
rock to himself ?

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17 Behold, Jehovah casting thee
down, the casting down of a man, and
covering, he covered thee.

18 Rolling, he will roll thee a roll as
a ball into a land broad of hands: there
shalt thou die, and there the chariots
of thy glory the dishonor of thy lord’s
house.

19 And I thrust thee from thy sta-
tion, and from thy standing place he
will pull thee down.

20 And it was in that day I called
for my servant, for Eliakim, son of 1111-
Iuah:

21 And I will clothe him with thy
tunic, and I will strengthen him with
thy girdle, and I will give thy domin-
jon into his hand, and he was for a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah.

22 And I gave the key of the house
of David upon his shoulder, and he
opened and none shut, and he shut and
none opened. :

23 And I fastened him a peg ina
faithful place; and he was for a throne
of glory to his father’s house.

24 And they hung upon him all the
glory of his father’s house, the offspring
and the sprouts, all the vessels of small-
ness, from the vessels of lavers and
eyen to all the vessels of flasks.

25 In that day, says Jehovah of ar-
mies, shall the peg fastened in a faith-
ful place give way, and it was cut
down, and it fell; and the lifting up
which was upon it was cut off: for Je-
hovah spake.

CHAPTER XXIL
HE burden of Tyre. Wail, ye
ships of Tarshish, for it was laid
waste from a house from going in: from
the land of Chittim it was uncovered to
them. :

2 Be ye silent, O inhabitants of the
isle; the merchants of Zidon passing
over the sea filled thee.

3 On many waters the seed of Sihor,
the harvest of the river her produce;
and she shall be the emporium of na-
tions.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the
sea said, the strength of the sea, saying,
I was not pained, I brought not forth,

ISAIAH 1

and I caused not youths to grow, and I
raised not up virgins.

5 As the hearing to Egypt, they
shall be pained as the hearing of Tyre.

6 Pass ye through Tarshish ; wail, ye
inhabitants of the isle.

7 This to you the exulting from the
days of old, her beginning; her feet
shall fail her sojourning from far off.

8 Who will counsel this against Tyre,
encircled with a crown, whom her mer-
chants, chiefs; her merchants the hon-
ored of the earth.

9 Jehovah of armies purposed it to
profane the pride of all glory, to make
light all the honored of the earth.

10 Pass through thy land as a river,
thou daughter of Tarshish: no more
eirding.

11 He stretched forth his hand over
the sea, he disquieted kingdoms: Jeho-
vah commanded to Canaan to destroy
her fortress.

12 And he will say, Thou shalt no
more add to exalt, thou violated virgin,
daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to
Chittim ; also there it shall not be rest
to thee.

13 Behold the land of the Chaldees ;
this people was not; Assur founded it
for the inhabitants of the desert: they
set up its watch-towers, they raised up
its fortresses, he set it for ruins.

14 Wail, ye ships of Tarshish: your
strength was laid waste.

15 And it was in that day, and Tyre
was forgotten seventy years, according
to the days of one king: from the end
of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as
the song of a harlot.

16 Take a harp, go about the city, O
harlot having been forgotten; be cheer-
ful, playing on the instrument; increase
the song so that thou shalt be remem-
bered.

17 And it was from the end of sev-
enty years, Jehovah will review Tyre,
and she turned back to her gift, and she
committed fornication with all the king-
doms of the land upon the face of the
earth.

18 And her traffic and her gift holy
to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured
up, and it shall not be laid up; for to
those dwelling before Jehovah her traf-

ISAIAH XXIV., ΧΧΥ.

fic shall be for eating to be satisfied,
and for a splendid covering.

CHAPTER XXIV.
EHOLD, Jehovah emptying the
earth and making it waste, and

subverting its face, and scattering 105 in-
habitants.

2 And it was as the people, so the
priest: as the servant, so his lord; as
the maid, so the mistress; as the buyer,
so he selling; as he lending, so the bor-
rower; as he lending on interest, so he
exacting interest to him.

8 Being emptied, the land shall be
emptied: and being plundered, it shall
be plundered: for Jehovah spake this
word.

4The earth mourning, fell away:
the habitable globe languishing, fell
away: the heights of the people of the
land languished,

5 And the earth was polluted under
its inhabitants, for they passed by the
instructions, they changed the law, they
broke the eternal covenant.

6 For this, the curse consumed the
earth, and they dwelling in it, will
transgress: for this, they dwelling upon
the earth were burned, and those re-
maining, men of fewness.

7 The new wine mourned, the vine
languished, all they joyful of heart,
sighed.

8 The exulting of the drums ceased,
the noise of those triumphing, left off,
the exulting of the harp ceased.

9 They shall not drink wine with a
song; strong drink shall be bitter to
those drinking it.

10 The city of desolation was broken
down: every house was shut up from
coming ἸΏ.

11 An outcry for wine in the streets ;

all joy grew dark, the exulting of the
earth was carried into exile.

12 Desolation was left in the city, and
the gate shall be struck in ruins.

18 For thus it shall be in the midst
of the land in the midst of the peoples,
as the beating of the olive, as the glean-
ings if the vintage was finished.

14 They shall lift up their voice, they
shall shout for joy in the majesty of
Jehovah ; they cried aloud from the sea.

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15 For this, with lights they honored
Jehovah in the isles of the sea, the name
of Jehovah the God of Israel.

16 From the wing of the earth we
heard songs, glory to the justone. And
saying, Destruction to me, destruction
tome, wotome! they acting deceitful-
ly, acted deceitfully ; and spoiling, they
acting deceitfully, acted deceitfully.

17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
upon thee, thou inhabiters of the earth.

18 And it was he fleeing from the
voice of the fear shall fall into the pit;
and he coming up out of the midst of
the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for
the windows from the height were open-
ed, and the foundations of the earth
will tremble.

19 And being broken, the earth was
broken to pieces, and the earth bein
abolished, it was abolished; the earth
being shaken, shook, =

20 The earth moving to and fro, shall
move to and fro as the intoxicated, and
it was removed as a lodge; and its
transgression was heavy upon it and it
fell, and it shall not add to rise.

21 And it was in that day Jehovah
shall review upon the army of the
height upon the height, and upon the
kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they gathered a collection of
the bound into the dungeon. and they
were shut up into a shutting up, and
after many days they shall be reviewed.

23 And the moon blushed, and the
sun was ashamed, for Jehovah of armies
reigned in mount Zion, and in Jerusa-
lem, and was honored before his old men.
QO JEHOVAH, thou my God; I will

exalt thee, I will praise thy name,
for thou didst a wonder; counsels from
far off, stability, faithfulness.

2 For thon didst set from a city to a
heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace
of strangers from a city; it shall not be
built forever,

3 For this shall the strong people
honor thee, the city of terrible nations
shall fear thee.

4 For thou wert a fortress to the poor,
a fortress to the needy in straits; to him
a refuge from the inundation, a shadow

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from the heat when the wind of the ter-
rible ones as the inundation of the wall.

5 As the heat in Zion the noise of
strangers thou shalt bring down; the
heat with the shadow of a cloud: the
song of the terrible shall be humbled.

6 Jehovah of armies will make to all
peoples in this mountain a drinking of
fatness, a drinking of lees of wine, fat-
ness of marrows, strained lees of wine.

7 And he will swallow up in this
mountain the face of the covering coy-
ered over all peoples, and the veil coy-
ered over all nations.

8 He swallowed up death for glory,
the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the reproach of
his people he will remove from off all
the earth, for Jehovah spake.

9 And it was said in that day, Be-
hold, this our God, we hoped for him,
and he will save us: this Jehovah, we
hoped for him, we will rejoice and be
glad in his salvation.

10 For the hand of Jehovah shall
rest in this mountain, and Moab was
thrust down under him as straw was
thrust down in the water of the dung-
hill.

11 And he spread forth his hands in
their midst, as he swimming will spread
forth to swim: and he humbled their

ride with the ambuscades of their
ands.

12 And the fortress of the height of
thy walls shall be brought low; be
humbled, be struck to the earth, even
to the dust.

CHAPTER XXVL
N that day this song shall be sung in
the land of Judah: A strong city
to us; he will set salvation the wall
and the fortification.

2 Open ye the gates and the just na-
tion watching truths shall come in.

8 The mind placed upon thee thou
wilt form peace, peace, because he
trusted in thee.

4 Trust ye in Jehovah even to eter-
nity, for in Jah Jehovah is the rock of
ages.

5 For he bows down those dwelling
in height; for the city set up on high
he will bring it down; he will bring it

ISAIAH XXVI

down even to the earth; he will cause
it to touch even to the dust.

6 The foot shall tread it down, the
feet of the humble, the steps of the poor.

7 The way to the just one is straight-
ness: being upright, thou wilt prepare
the departing of the just one.

8 Also the way of thy judgments, O
Jehovah, we hoped for thee; to thy
name and to thy remembrance is the
desire of the soul.

9 My soul desired thee in the night;
also my spirit in the midst of me I will
seek thee: for when thy judgments to
the earth, those dwelling in the habit-
able globe will learn justice.

10 Shall the unjust be shown favor?
He learnt not justice; in the land of
justice he will act perversely, and he
will not see the majesty of Jehovah.

11 O Jehovah, high thy hand, they
will not see: they shall see and be
ashamed for their jealousy of the peo-
ple; also the fire of thine enemies shall
consume them. :

12 O Jehovah, thou wilt judge peace
for us: for also all our works thou didst
for us.

13 O Jehovah our God, lords besides
thee had dominion over us; but in thee
alone will we make mention of thy
name.

14 The dead shall not live; the
shades shall not rise; for this, thou re-
viewedst and thou wilt destroy them,
ἘΠ all remembrance to them shall per-
ish.

15 Thou didst add to the nation, O
Jehovah, thou didst add to the nation ;
thou wert honored: thou didst put far
away all the ends of the earth.

16 O Jehovah, in straits they looked
after thee; they poured out a whisper-
ing thy correction to them.

17 As she conceiving will draw near
to bring forth, she will be pained and
cry out in her pangs, thus were we from
before thee, O Jehovah.

18 We conceived, we were pained,
thus we brought forth wind; we shall
not make the earth salvation, the in-
habitants of the habitable globe shall
not fall.

19 Thy dead shall live, with my
corpse shall they rise. Awake and

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shout, ye dwelling in dust: for the dew
of brightness is thy dew, and the land
of the shades shall fall.

20 Go, my people, enter into thy
apartments and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thee as a little moment till
the wrath shall pass by.

21 For behold, Jehovah will come
forth out of his place to review the
iniquity of him dwelling in the earth
upon him; and the earth uncovered
her bloods, and she will no more cover
over her slain.

CHAPTER XXVII
| that day Jehovah will review with
his hard and great and strong sword
upon leviathan the serpent fleeing, and
upon leviathan the winding serpent ;
and he killed the dragon which was in
the sea.

2 In that day, A vineyard being red,
sing to her.

8 I Jehovah watched her ; for the mo-
ments I will water her; lest he will re-
view upon her, night and day I will
watch her.

4 Wrath not to me: who shall dis-
tribute to me the sharp point of the
thorn in battle? I will rush upon her;
I will set her on fire together.

5 Or he shall lay hold upon my
strength, he shall make peace to me, he
shall make peace to me.

6 Those coming of Jacob shall he
cause to take root: Israel shall blossom
and be fruitful, and they filled the face
of the habitable globe with produce.

7 According to the blow of him strik-
ing him, he struck him; or according
to the killing of those killmg him, he
lalled.

8 In measure, in sending her forth
thou wilt contend with her: he took
away with a hard spirit in the day of
the east.

9 Therefore by this the iniquity of
Jacob shall be expiated; and this all
the fruit to remove his sin; in his set-
ting all the stones of the altar as stones
of lime broken in pieces, the statues
and images shall not stand up.

10 For the fortified city was separa-
ted, the habitation being cast out and
forsaken as the desert: there shall the

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ealf feed, and there he shall lie down,
and there he finished its branches.

11 In its harvest being dried up, wo-
men shall break it off in coming, illu-
minating it: for it is a people not un-
derstanding: for this he making them
will not compassionate them, and he
forming them will not have merey upon
them.

12 And it was in that day Jehovah
will beat off from the stream of the
river even to the torrent of Egypt, and
ye shall be gathered together by one,
one, ye sons of Israel.

13 And it was in that day he shall
strike upon the great trumpet, and they
perishing came into the land of Assm,
and the outcasts into the land of Egypt,
and they worshiped to Jehovah in the
holy mountain in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XXVIIL
Ke to the crown of pride, wo to

the hirelings of Ephraim! a
flower falling away is the glory of his
beauty which is upon the fe of the
valley of fatness of those smitten with
wine.

2 Behold, a strong and active one to
Jehovah, as astorm of hail, a destroy-
ing tempest, as a storm of vast waters
overflowing, let fall to the earth with
the hand.

3 With the feet shall the crown of
pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be
trodden down.

4 And the flower falling away was
the glory of his beauty which is upon
the head of the valley of fatness, as the
first-fruits before fruit harvest which
he looking at it shall see, in its contin-
uing in his hand he will swallow it up.

5 In that day shall Jehovah of ar-
mies be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, to the remnant of
his people.

6 And for a spirit of judgment to
him sitting upon the judgment, and for
strength of them turning back the bat-
tle of the storm.

7 And these also went astray by
wine, and by strong drink they erred ;
the priest and the prophet went astray
by strong drink, they were swallowed
up from wine, they erred from strong

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drink, they went astray in seeing, they
wavered in judgment.

8 For all tables were full of vomit,
of filth without place.

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge?
whom shall he cause to understand
hearing? those weaned from milk and
those taken away from the breasts.

10 For precept to precept, precept to
precept; line to line, line to line; a lit-
tle there, a little there:

11 For with the stammerings of the
lip and with another tongue he will
speak to this people.

12 To whom he said to them, This
the rest they caused to the weary to
rest; and this the quiet: and they
would not hear.

18 And the word of Jehovah was to
them, precept to precept, precept to pre-
cept; line to line, line to line; a little
there, a little there, so that they shall
go and they stumbled backward, and
were broken and snared and taken.

14 For this, hear ye the word of Je-
hoyah, ye men of scorn, ruling this
people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye said, We cut out a
covenant with death, and with hades
we did this; when this overflowing
scourge passed through it shall not
come to us, for we set falsehood our
refuge, and in a lie we hid ourselves.

16 For this, thus said the Lord Je-
hovah, Behold me placing for a foun-
dation in Zion a stone, a stone of trial,
a corner precious, a foundation being
founded: and he believing shall not
hasten.

17 And 1 set judgment to the line and
pastice to the weight : and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of falsehood,
and the waters shall overflow the coy-
ering.

18 And your covenant with death
was obliterated, and your league with
hades shall not stand; when the over-
flowing scourge shall pass through and
ye were for a treading down to it.

19 When passing through it shall
take you: for by morning by morning
it shall pass through in the day and in
the night: and it was only an agitation
to understand the hearing.

20 For the spreading was shortened

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above stretching out, and the covering
narrow for hiding one’s self.

21 For as mount Perazim shall Je-
hovah rise up, as the valley in Gibeon
shall he be moved to do his work, his
strange work, and to work his service,
his unknown service.

22 And now ye shall not be mockers
lest your bonds shall be strong: for I
heard a completion and decision from
the Lord Jehovah of armies upon all
the earth.

23 Give ear and hear my voice; at-
tend and hear my saying.

24 Shall he ploughing, plough all the
day to sow? shall he open and level
his earth ?

25 Did he not make level its face and
disperse the fennel flower, and -he will
scatter the cummin, and he set the wheat
in order, and designated the barley, and
the spilt in his bound?

26 He will instruct him, according to
judgment his God will teach him.

27 For the fennel flower shall not be:
beaten with the threshing sledge, and
the wheel of a wagon shall not be turned
about upon the cummin; for the fennel
flower shall be beaten out with the rod
and the cummin with the rod.

28 Bread shall be beaten small; for
threshing, he will not forever thresh it ;
and the wheel of his wagon he put in
motion and his horsemen shall not beat
it small.

29 Also this shall come forth from
Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful
of counsel and great of understanding.

CHAPTER XXIX.
O to Ariel, Ariel, the city David
encamped in! add ye year upon
year; the festivals shall הגוע‎ their
circle.

2 And I pressed upon Ariel, and
there was sorrow and sighing, and it
was to me as Ariel.

3 And I encamped as a circle upon
thee, and I pressed upon thee with a
garrison, and I raised intrenchments
against thee.

4 And thou being brought down, thou
shalt speak from the earth, and thy word
shall be depressed out of the dust, and
thy voice as a necromancer from the

ISAIAH XXX.

earth, and thy saying shall peep from
the dust.

5 And the multitude of thy strangers
was as the thin dust, and as the chaff
passing away, the multitude of the ter-
rible ones: and it was at a moment sud-
denly.

6 From Jehovah of armies shalt thou
be reviewed, with thunder and with
shaking, and a great voice, whirlwind
and storm, and the flames of consuming
fire.

7 And it was as a dream of a vision
of the night, the multitude of all the
nations warring against Ariel and all
warring against her and her fastnesses,
and those pressing upon her.

8 And it was as when the hungry
shall dream, and behold, he ate; and
he awoke and his soul was empty: and
as when the thirsty shall dream, and
behold, he drank, and he awoke, and
behold, he fainted, and his soul desired :
thus shall be the multitude of all the
nations warring against mount Zion,

9 Linger ye, and wonder; delight
yourselves, and be ye blinded; they
were drunken and not with wine; they
reeled and not with strong drink.

10 For Jehovah poured out upon you
the spirit of deep sleep, and he will
close your eyes: the prophets and your
heads, the seeing he covered.

11 And the vision of all will be to
you as the words of the book being
sealed, which they shall give to him, to
him knowing writing, saying, Read now,
this: and he said, I shall not be able,
for it was sealed.

12 And the book was given to him
not knowing writing, saying, Read now,
this: and he said, 1 know not writing.

13 And Jehovah will say, Because
that this people drew near with their
mouth, and honored me with their lips,
and their heart was far from me, and
their fear towards me shall be taught
from the command of men.

14 For this, behold me adding to be
wonderful with this people, dealing
wonderfully and being a wonder: and
the wisdom of their wise perished, and
the understanding of their understand-
ing ones shall be hid.

15 Wo to those making deep to hide

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counsel from Jehovah, and their work
was in darkness, and they will say,
Who saw us? and who knew us?

16 Shall not your perverting be reck-
oned as the potter’s clay? for shall the
work say to him making it, He made
me not? and he being formed, say to
him forming, He understood not?

17 Is it not yet a very little and Leb-
anon turned back to Carmel, and Car-
mel shall be reckoned for a forest ?

18 In that day the deaf heard the
words of the book, and the eyes of the
blind shall see out of thick darkness,
and darkness.

19 And the humble shall add joy in
Jehovah, and the poor of men shall re-
joice in the Holy One of Israel.

20 For the terrible one ceased, the
mocker was consumed, and they watch-
ing vanity were cut off:

21 Leading a man into sin by a word,
and laying snares for him doing justice
in the gate, and they will turn aside the
just one by vanity.

22 For this, thus said Jehovah, to
the house of Jacob, who redeemed
Abraham, Jacob shall not now be
ashamed and his face shall not now be-
come pale.

23 For in his seeing his children, the
work of my hand, in his midst, they
shall consecrate my name, and conse-
erate the Holy One of Jacob, and they -
shall fear the God of Israel.

24 And they going astray shall know
understanding, and they murmuring
shall learn knowledge.

CHAPTER XXX. |

O to sons turning aside, says. Je-

hovah, to make counsel and

not from me; and to cover a covering,

and not my spirit so as to add sin upon
sin:

2 Going to come down to Egypt, and
my mouth they asked not; to be
strengthened by the strength of Phara-
oh, and to trust in the shadow of
Egypt.

3 And the strength of Pharaoh was
to you for shame, and the refuge in the
shadow of Keypt for reproach.

4 For his chiefs were in Zoan, and
his messengers will reach to Hanes.

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5 All acted wickedly for a people
who will not profit them, not for help
and not for profiting, but for shame and
also for a reproach.

6 The burden of quadrupeds of the
south: into the land of straits and dis-
tress, the lioness and the lion from them,
the viper and the burning flying they
will lift up upon the shoulder of young
asses, their riches, and upon the humps
of camels their treasures, for a people
who shall not profit.

7 And the Egyptians shall help in
vain, and to no purpose; therefore I
called to this their violence ceased.

8 Now go, write it to them upon a
tablet, and engrave it upon a book, and
it shall be for the latter day, forever
even forever.

9 For this isa people of contradic-
tion, sons of lies, sons who will not to
hear the law of Jehovah.

10 Who said to the seeing, Ye shall
not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall
not perceive for us right things, speak
to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

11 Remove from the way, turn aside
from the path, cause to cease from be-
fore us the Holy One of Israel.

12 Therefore thus said the Holy One
of Israel, Because ye rejected in this
word, and ye will trust in violence and
perverseness, and ye will do upon it.

18 For this, this iniquity shall be to
you as a breach falling, gushing out in
a high wall, of which the breaking will
come suddenly at a moment.

14 And he broke it as the breaking
of a vessel of the potter’s being crushed ;
he will not spare: and there shall not
be found in its crushing ἃ sherd to take
fire from the burning, and to skim off
water from the reservoir.

15 For thus said Jehovah, the Holy
One of Israel, In turning back and in rest
shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust
shall be your strength, and ye would
not.

16 And ye will say, No; for upon
horses we will flee: for this ye shall
flee: and upon the swift will we ride;
for this they pursuing you shall be
swift. 4

17 One thousand from before the re-
buke of one; from before the rebuke of

ISAIAH XXX.

five shall ye flee: till ye were left as
a mast upon the head of the mountain, -
and as a signal upon the hill.

18 And for this Jehovah will wait to
compassionate you, and for this he will
be lifted up to pity you, for Jehovah is
a God of judgment: happy all they
waiting for him.

19 For the people shall dwell in Zion
in Jerusalem: weeping, thou shalt not
weep: pitying, he will pity thee at the
voice of thy ery; for in his hearing, he
answered thee.

20 And Jehovah gave to you the
bread of straits and the waters of op-
pression, and he will no more cover
those teaching thee, and thine eyes
shall be seeing those teaching thee:

21 And thine ears shall hear the word
from after thee, saying, This the way,
go ye in it when ye shall turn to the
right, and when ye shall turn to the left.

22 And defile ye the thin covering
of the carved images of thy silver, and
the overlaying of the molten things of
thy gold: thou shalt scatter them as a
menstruous cloth, thou shalt say to it,
Go forth.

23 And he gave the rain of thy seed
which thou shalt sow the earth and
bread of the increase of the earth: and
it was fat and fertile, thy cattle shall
feed in that day in a large meadow.

24 And the oxen and the young asses
working the land shall eat salted prov-
ender which was winnowed with the
fan and by the winnower.

25 And there was upon every moun-
tain being lofty and every hill lifted up,
brooks and streams of water in the day |
of much slaughter, in the falling of the
towers.

26 And the light of the moon was as
the light of the sun, and the light of the
sun shall be seven fold, as the light of
seven days, in the day Jehovah bound
up the breaking of his people, and he
will heal the wound of his smiting.

27 Behold, the name of Jehovah
coming from far off, burning his wrath,
and its lifting up heavy: his lips they
were full of anger, and his tongue as
consuming fire: ;

28 And his spirit as the torrent over-
flowing, shall divide even to the neck,

ISAIAH XXXI., XXXIL

to shake the nations in the sieve of
ruin: and a curb upon the cheeks of the
people, causing to err.

29 The song shall be to you as by
night, consecrating a festival and glad-
ness of heart, as he going with a pipe
to come into the mountain of Jehovah
to the rock of Israel.

80 And Jehovah caused the swelling
of his voice to be heard, and he will
cause the letting down of his arm to be
seen in the anger of his wrath, and the
flame of a consuming fire, violent rain
and tempest, and the stone of hail.

31 For from the voice of Jehovah
shall Assur be broken down, he will
smite’ with a rod.

32 And it was every one passing by
the rod of foundation which Jehovah
shall cause to rest upon him, with
drums and with harps: and in battles
of moving to and fro shall he war with
with it.

33 For tophet was set in order from
yesterday; also it was prepared; for
the king, he made deep, he made broad,
its pile fireand much wood; the breath
of Jehovah as a torrent of pitch burned
upon it.

CHAPTER XXXL

7 O to those going down to Egypt

for help; and they will look up-

on horses, and trust upon chariots, be-
cause they are many; and upon horse-
men because they were strong greatly ;
and they looked not upon the Holy
One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.

2 And he also being wise and he will
bring evil, and he removed not his
words: and he rose up against the
house of those doing evil, and against
the help of those working vanity.

3 And the Egyptians, men and not
God; and their horses, flesh and not
- spirit. And Jehovah will stretch forth
his hand, and he helping became weak,
and he being helped, fell, and together
shall they all be finished.

4 For thus spake Jehovah to me, As
the lion shall grow], and the young lion
over his prey, when a fulness of shep-
herds shall be called against him, from
their voice shall he not be terrified, and
shall ₪05 he be humbled from their

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noise: thus shalt Jehovah of armies
come down to war from mount Zion
and for its hill.

5 Its birds flying, so will Jehovah of
armies cover over Jerusalem, covering
and he delivered ; and passing over he
saved.

6 Turn ye back to him against whom
the sons of Israel made a deep turning
away.

7 For in that day they shall reject a
man the vanities of his silver, and the
vanities of his gold which your hands
made for you to sin.

8 And Assur fell’ by the sword, not
of a man, and the sword not of a man,
shall consume him, and he fled for him-
self from the face of the sword, and his
young men shall be for tribute.

9 And his rock shall pass through
from fear, and his chiefs were terrified
from the signal, says Jehovah whose
light to him in Zion, and furnace to
him in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XXXIL
EHOLD, a king shall reign for
justice, and for chiefs they shall
rule for judgment.

2 And a man was as a hiding of the
spirit, and a covering of the tempest;
as brooks of water in Zion, as the
shadow of a weighty rock in a weary
land.

3 And the eyes of those seeing shall
not be blinded, and the ears of those
hearing shall attend.

4 And the heart of the hasty shall
understand to know, and the tongue of
those stammering shall hasten to speak
plain,

5 Liberal shall no more be called to
the foolish, and noble shall not be said
to the deceiver.

6 For the foolish will speak folly, and
his heart will do vanity to do profane-
ness and to speak error to Jehovah, to
empty the soul of the hungry; and he
will cause the drink of the thirsty to
fail.

7 And the implements of the deceiver
are evil: he will meditate counsels to
destroy the humble with words of false-
hood, and in the needy’s speaking judg-
ments,

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8 And the liberal will counsel liberal
things, and upon liberal things shall he
stand.

9 Rise up, ye careless women ; hear
my voice, ye confident daughters; give
ear to my word.

10 Days over a year shall ye being
confident, be disturbed ; for the vintage
being finished, the ingathering shall not
come.

11 Tremble, ye careless ; be disturbed,
ye confident: strip and be naked, gird
upon the loins.

12 Smiting upon the breasts for the
fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.

13 Upon the land of my people shall
come up the thorn of the sharp point;
so upon the houses of rejoicing of the
exulting city.

14 For the fortress was left, the mul-
titude of the city was forsaken; the hill
and the watch-tower for caves even
forever; the rejoicing of the wild asses
a pasture of the flocks ;

15 Until the spirit shall be poured
upon us from on high, and the desert
be for Carmel, and Carmel be reckoned
for a forest. |

16 And judgment dwelling in the
desert, and justice shall sit in Carmel.

17 And the work of justice was peace,
and the service of justice, rest and con-
fidence, even to forever.

18 And my people shall sit in a
dwelling of peace, and in habitations of
trust and in quiet resting places.

19 And the hail hailing upon the
forest; and the city shall be made low
in lowness.

20 Happy ye sowing upon all waters,
sending the foot of the ox and the
ass.

ISAIAH

CHAPTER XXXIIL
O to thee oppressing, and thou
not oppressed ; and spoiling, and
they spoiled not upon thee! when thou
fimshing to oppress, thou shalt be op-
pressed; when thou ceasing to spoil,
they shall spoil upon thee.

2 O Jehovah, pity us; we hoped for
thee: be thou their arm for the morn-
ings, also our salvation in time of
straits.

3 From the voice of the multitude

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peoples fled; from thy lifting up, na-
tions were scattered.

4 And your spoil was gathered the
gathering of the locust: as the run-
ning about of locusts he ran to and fro
upon it.

5 Jehovah was exalted; for he dwells
on high: he filled Zion with judgment
and justice.

6 And the stability of thy times, the
strength of salvation, was wisdom and
knowledge: the fear of Jehovah this
his treasure.

7 Behold the lions of God they cried
out without: the messengers of peace
shall weep bitterness.

8 The highways lay waste, the trav-
eler passing by, ceased: he brake the
covenant, he despised the cities, he
reckoned them not men.

9 The earth mourning, languished :
Lebanon being ashamed, pined away:
Sharon was as a sterile region, and Ba-
shan was shaken, and Carmel.

10 Now will I rise, Jehovah will
say; now will I be exalted; now will
I be lifted up.

11 Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye
shall bring forth straw: your spirit of
fire shall consume you.

12 And peoples were the burnings of
lime; thorns cut down, in fire shall
they be burnt.

18 Hear, ye afar off, what I did and
know, ye drawing near, my strength.

14 The sinners in Zion trembled;
trembling seized the profane. Who to

us shall sojourn with devouring fire?

who to us with everlasting burning?

15 He going in justice and speaking
uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of
oppressions, shaking his hands from
holding upon a gift, shutting his ear
from the hearing of bloods, and binding
up his eyes from looking ἀπ evil;

16 He shall dwell upon heights: the
strongholds of rocks his height: his
bread was given; his waters sure.

17 Thine eyes shall perceive the king
in his beauty: they shall see the land
from far off.

18 Thy heart shall meditate terror.
Where the scribe? where the weigher ?
where he writing the towers? ,

19 Thou shalt not see a firm people,

ISAIAH XXXIV., טאאא‎

a people of a deep lip above hearing;
of astammering tongue, of no under-
standing.

20 Behold Zion, the city of our ap-
pointment: thine eyes shall see Jerusa-
lem a quiet dwelling, the tent shall not
remove; its pegs shall not be pulled up
forever, and none of its cords shall be
broken.

21 But there the mighty Jehovah to
us a place of rivers, rivers broad of
hands; a ship with the oar shall not go
in it, and a mighty ship shall not pass
over it.

22 For Jehovah is our Judge, Jeho-
vah our law-giver, Jehovah our king;
he will save us.

23 Thy cords were broken in pieces;
they will not well strengthen their mast :
they spread not the flag: then was the
prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
plundered the plunder.

24 And the inhabitant shall not say,
- Iwas sick: to the people dwelling in
it, iniquity was lifted up.

CHAPTER XXXIV.
RAW near, ye nations, to hear;
and ye people, attend: the earth
shall hear, and its fulness; the habitable
globe, and all its offspring.

2 For the wrath of Jehovah is upon
all nations, and anger upon all their
army: he devoted them to destruction,
he gave them to slaughter.

8 And their wounded shall be cast
out, and their careasses the stench shall
go up, and the mountains flowed down
from their blood.

4 And all the army of the heavens
melted, and the heavens shall roll to-
gether as a book, and all their army
shall fall away as the leaf falling from
the vine, and as a falling from the fic
tree.

5 For my sword was drunk in the
heavens: behold, it shall come down
upon Kdom, and upon the people of
destruction for judgment.

6 The sword of Jehovah was filled
with blood, it was made fat from the
fat of the blood of lambs and he goats,
from the fat of kidneys of rams: for a
sacrifice to Jehovah in Bozrah, and a
great slaughter in the land of Kdom,

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7 And the buffaloes shall come down
with them, and the bullocks with the
strong ones; and their land was drunk
from blood, and from fat shall their
dust be made fat.

8 For a day of vengeance to Jehovah,
a year of retributions for the contention
of Zion. |

9 And its torrents turned to pitch,
and its dust to sulphur, and its land to
burning pitch.

10 Night and day it shall not be
quenched ; its smoke shall go up for-
ever: from generation to generation it
shall be laid waste; none passing
through it forever to forever.

11 And the pelican and the hedge-
hog shall possess it; the ibis and the
raven shall dwell in it: and he stretch-
ed out upon it the line of desolation
and the stones of emptiness.

12 Its nobles shall be called to the |
kingdom, and none there, and all its
chiefs shall be no more.

13 And thorns came up in her pal-
aces, the nettle and the thorn bush in
her fortifications, and it was a dwelling
of jackals, an enclosure for the daugh-
ters of the ostrich.

14 And animals of the desert lighted
upon the howlers, and the he goat
shall call to his neighbor; also there
the night spectre rested, and found for
herself a resting place.

15 There the arrow-snake nested, and
she will lay eggs and hatch, and brood
in her shadow: also there the falcons
were collected, the female with her
companion.

16 ₪068 ye from the book of Jeho-
vah, and read; One of these was not
wanting; a female her companion the
missed not: for my mouth it command-
ed, and his spirit it collected them.

17 And he cast the lot for them, and
his hand divided it to them by line ;
they shall possess it even forever, to
generation and generation they shall
dwell in it.

CHAPTER XXXV.
HE desert and the dryness shall
be glad for them; and the sterile
region shall rejoice and blossom as the
meadow flower. .

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2 Blossoming, it shall blossom and
rejoice, also with joy and shouting: the
glory of Lebanon was given to it, the
majesty of Carmel and Sharon they
shall see the glory of Jehovah, the
majesty of our God.

5 Strengthen the relaxed hands and
make firm the feeble knees.

4 Say to those hasty of heart, Be
strong, ye shall not fear; behold, your
God will come with vengeance, the re-
compense of God; he will come and
save you.

5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be
opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be opened.

6 Then shall the lame one leap as
the stag, and the tongue of the dumb
shall give forth the voice: for waters
brake forth im the desert, and torrents
in the sterile region.

7 And the dry was for a pool, and
the thirsty land for fountains of water:
in the dwelling of jackals its lying
down, an enclosure for the reed and the
bulrush.

8 And a highway was there, and a
way, and it shall be called to it, A way
of holiness; the unclean one shall not
pass through it; and it is for them; he
going the way, and the foolish shall not
err.

9 The lion shall not be there, and the
rapacious beast shall not go up upon it,
it shall not be found there; and the re-
deemed went.

10 And the ransomed of Jehovah
shall turn back and come to Zion with
a shout of joy and eternal joy upon
their heads: and they shall attain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and sighing
shall flee away.

CHAPTER XXXVI
ND it will be in the fourteenth
Δ year to king Hezekiah, Senherib
king of Assur came up against all the
fortified cities of Judah, and he will
seize them.

2 And the king of Assur will send
Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
to king Hezekiah with a weighty army.
And he will stand by the channel of
the higher pool in the highway of the
fuller’s field.

ISAIAH XXXVI.

3 And Hliakim, son of Hilkiah, will
come forth, who was over the house,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah,
Asaph’s son, remembering.

4 And Rabshakeh will say to them,
Say now to Hezekiah, Thus said the
king, the great king of Assur, What
this trust in which thou trustedst?

5 I said, (also a word of the lips)
Counsel and strength for the war; now
upon whom trustedst thou that thou
didst rebel against me? -

6 Behold, thou trustedst upon the
staff of this broken reed, upon Egypt;
which, shall a man rest upon it, it was
into his hand and pierced it: thus Pha-
ree king of Egypt to all trusting upon
um.

7 And if thou shalt say to me, We
trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not
he whom Hezekiah turned away his
heights, and his altars, and he will say
to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this
altar shall ye worship?

8 And now, become surety now, to
my lord the king of Assur, and I will
give to thee two thousand horses if
thou shalt be able to give to thee riders
upon them.

9 And how wilt thou turn back the
face of one prefect of the servants of
my lord, the smallest of them, and trust
for thee upon Egypt for chariot and for
horsemen ?

10 And now came I up without Je-
hovah against this land to destroy it?
Jehovah said to me, Go up against this
land and destroy it.

11 And Eliakim will say, and Sheb-
na, and Joah, to Rabshakeh, Speak
now to thy servants Aramean, for we
hear; and thou shalt not speak to us
Judaic in the ears of the people who
are upon the wall.

12 And Rabshakeh will say, Did my
lord send me to thy lord and to thee to
speak these words? did he not to the
men sitting upon the wall to eat their
excrements and to drink their urine
with you?

13 And Rabshakeh will stand and
0811 with a great voice in Judaic, and
say, Hear ye the words of the king, the
great king of Assur.

14 Thus said the king, Hezekiah

ISAIAH XXXVII.

shall not lift up to you, for he will not
be able to deliver you.

15 And Hezekiah shall not cause
you to trust to Jehovah, saying, Deliv-
ering, Jehovah will deliver us: this
city shall not be given into the hand of
the king of Assur.

16 Ye shall not hear to Hezekiah;
for thus said the king of Assur, Make
to mea blessing, and come forth to me:
and eat a man of his vine and a man of
his fig tree, and drink ye a man water
of his cistern ;

17 Till my coming and I took you to
aland as your land, a land of grain
and new wine, a land of bread and
vineyards.

18 Lest Hezekiah shall stimulate
you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.
Did each of the gods of the nations de-
liver his land from the hand of the
king of Assur?

19 Where the gods of Hamath and
Arpad? where the gods of Sephar-
vaim? and when have they delivered
Shomeron from my hand?

20 Who among all the gods of these
lands who delivered their land from
my hand, that Jehovah will deliver Je-
rusalem from my hand ?

21 And they will be silent and not
answer him a word: for this the com-
mand of the king, saying, Ye shall not
answer.

22 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah who
was over the house, will go in, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of
Asaph, remembering, to Hezekiah, their
garments rent, and they will announce
to him the words of Rabshakeh.

CHAPTER XXXVIL
ND it will be when king Hezeki-
ah heard, and he will rend his
garments, and he will be covered with
sackcloth and go in to the house of Je-
hovah.

2 And he will send Eliakim who
was over the house, and Shebna the
scribe, and the old men of the priests
covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah, son
of Amos, the prophet.

8 And they will say to him, Thus
said Hezekiah, A day of straits and
chastisement and reproach, this day ;

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for the sons came even to the breaking
forth and not strength to bring forth.

4 Perhaps Jehovah thy God will hear
the words of Rabshakeh whom his lord
the king of Assur sent him to reproach
the living God, and judge upon the
words which Jehovah thy God heard ;
and lift thou up a prayer for the rem-
nant being found.

5 And the servants of king Hezekia
will come to Isaiah. ;

6 And Isaiah will say to them, Thus
shall ye say to your lord, Thus said Je-
hovah, Thou shalt not fear from the
face of the words which thou heardest
which the boys of the king of Assur
reviled me.

7 Behold me giving a spirit into him,
and he heard a report, and he turned
back to his land; and I caused him to
fall by the sword in his land.

8 And Rabshakeh will turn back
and find the king of Assur warring
against Libnah: for he heard that he
removed from Lachish.

9 And he heard concerning Tirhakah,
king of Cush, saying, He came forth to
war with thee. And he will hear, and
send messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

10 Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah
king of Judah, saying, Thy God in
whom thou trustest shall not hft thee
up in him, saying, Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of
Assur.

11 Behold, thou heardest what the
kings of Assur did to all the lands to
destroy them; and shalt thou be deliy-
ered ?

12 Did the gods of the nations de-
liver them which my fathers destroyed,
Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the
sons of Eden which were in Thelassar ?

13 Where the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king to the
city of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?

14 And Hezekiah will take the letter
from the hand of the messengers and
read it: and he will go up to the house
of Jehovah, and Hezekiah will spread
it before Jehovah.

15 And Hezekiah will pray to Jeho-
vah, saying,

16 Jehovah of armies, God of Israel,
dwelling in the cherubims, thou thy-

self God alone to all the kingdoms of
the earth; thou hast made the heavens
and the earth.

17 Bend, O Jehovah, thine ear, and
hear; open, O Jehovah, thine eye, and
see; and hear all the words of Senhe-
rib which he sent to reproach the living
God.

18 Indeed, O Jehovah, the kings of
Assur laid waste all the lands, and
their land ;

19 And he gave their gods into fire ;
for they were not God but the work of
man’s hands, wood and stone: and they
will destroy them.

20 And now, Jehovah our God, save
us from his hand, and all the kingdoms
of the earth shall know that thou alone
art Jehovah.

21 And Isaiah son of Amos will send
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said Jeho-
vah God of Israel, Because thou didst
pray to me against Senherib the king of
Assur:

22 This the word that Jebovah spake
concerning him: The virgin daughter
of Zion despising to thee, deriding to
thee; the daughter of Jerusalem shook
her head after thee.

23 Whom didst thou reproach and
revile, and against whom didst thou
raise up the voice, and wilt thou lift up
thine eyes on high to the Holy One of
Israel ?

24 By the hand of thy servants thou
didst reproach Jehovah, and wilt thou
say, By the multitude of my chariots I
came up to the height of the mountains,
to the thighs of Lebanon; and I will
cut down the stature of his cedars, the
choicest of his eypresses: and I will go
into the height of his extremity, the
forest of his Carmel.

95 1 dug and drank water; and 1
will dry up with the sole of my foot-
step all the rivers of Egypt.

26 Didst thou not hear to remoteness
I did it? from days of old and I formed
it? now did I bring it and thou shalt
be to lay waste fortified cities into
straits.

27 And their inhabitants short of
hand ; they were dismayed and ashamed ;
they were the green herb of the field
and the verdure, and the tender grass

ISATAH XXXVIII.

of the enclosure of the roofs, and a
blasting before it rose up.

28 And thy dwelling, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, I knew; and
thine anger against me.

29 Because thine anger against me
and thine arrogance came up into mine
ear, and 1 put my hook in thy nose
and my curb in thy lips, and I turned
thee back in the way which thou cam-
est in it.

30 And this the sign to thee: To eat
this year the self-sown; and in the sec-
ond year, that growing of itself: and in
the third year, sow and reap, and plant
vineyards and eat the fruits.

31 And the escaping of the house of
Judah being left shall add a root down-
ward and make fruit upward :

82 For from Jerusalem shall come
forth a remnant, and the escaping from
mount Zion: the zeal of Jehovah of
armies shall do this.

88 For this, thus said Jehovah con-
cerning the king of Assur, Thou shalt
not come into this city, and thou shalt
not shoot an arrow there, and thou shalt
not go before it with a shield, and thou
shalt not cast a mound against it.

34 In the way which he came in it
he shall turn back, and to this city he
shall not come in, says Jehovah.

35 And I covered over this city to
save it for my sake, and for the sake of
David my servant.

86 And the messenger of Jehovah
will go forth, and strike in the camp of
Assur a hundred and eighty-five thou-
sand: and they will rise early in the
morning, and behold, all of them dead
corpses.

37 And Senherib king of Assur will
remove and go and turn back and dwell
in Nineveh. .

88 And it will be he worshiping in
the house of Nisroch his god, and Ad-
rammelech and Sharezer, his sons,
struck him with the sword; and they
escaped to the land of Ararat ; and Hsar-
Haddon his son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
jek those days Hezekiah was sick to
death. And Isaiah son of Amos,
the prophet, will come in to him, and

ISAIAH XXXIX.

say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Com-
mand to thy house, for thou diest, and
shalt: not live.

2 And Hezekiah will turn his face to
the wall and pray to Jehovah.

8 And he will say, Ὁ Jehovah, re-
member now how I went before thee in
truth and with a perfect heart, and I
did the ₪000 in thine eyes. And Hez-
ekiah will weep a great weeping.

4 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Isaiah, saying,

5 Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said
Jehovah, the God of David thy father,
1 heard thy prayer, and I saw thy tears :
behold, I will add to thy days fifteen

ears.
, 6 And I will deliver thee and this
city from the hand of the king of As-
sur: and I covered over this city.

7 And this to thee the sign from Je-
hovah that Jehovah will do this word
which he spake:

8 Behold me turning back the shad-
ow of the steps which will go down in
the steps of Ahaz in the sun, backward
ten steps. And the sun will turn back
ten steps in the steps which it will go
down.

9 The writing to Hezekiah king of

Judah in his being sick, and he will!

live from his sickness:

10 I said in the quiet of my days, I
- shall go to the gates of hades: I was
missed the remainder of my years.

11 1 said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in
the land of the living: I shall no more
behold man with the inhabitants of the
place of rest.

12 Mine age removed, and was car-
ried away from meas a shepherd's tent :
I rolled together as a weaver my life:
from the thread he will eut me 011 : from
the day even to the night thou wilt fin-
ish me.

18 I set till the morning, as the lion
thus will he break all my bones: from
the day even to the night thou wilt fin-
ish me.

14 As the twittering swallow so shall
I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove:
mine eyes languished for height: O Je-
hovah, oppression is to me; be surety
for me.

15 What shall I speak? and he said

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to me, and he did: I shall go slowly
all my years upon the bitterness of my
soul.

16 O Jehovah, upon these they shall
live, and for all of these the life of my
spirit: and thou wilt heal me and cause
me to live.

17 Behold, for peace bitterness, to me
bitterness: and thou didst cleave to my
soul from the pit of destruction: and
thou didst cast all my sin behind my
back.

18 For not hades shall praise thee,
death celebrate: they going down to
the pit shall not hope for thy truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall
praise thee, as from me this day the fa-
ther to the sons shall make known for
thy truth.

20 Jehovah to save me; and striking
my stringed instruments all the days of
our life for the house of Jehovah.

21 And Isaiah will say, They shall
lift up round 081608 of figs, and rub over
the burning sore, and he shall live.

22 And Hezekiah will say, What the
sign that I shall go up to the house of
Jehovah?

CHAPTER XXXIX.
N that time Merodach-Baladan, son
of Baladan king of Babel, sent let-
ters and a gift to Hezekiah: and he
will hear that he was sick, and he will
be strengthened.

2 And Hezekiah rejoiced over them,
and he will cause them to see the house
of the spices, the silver and the gold and
the aromatics, and the good oil, and all
the house of his vessels: and all which
was found in his treasures, there was
not a word which Hezekiah caused
them not to see, in his house and in all
his dominions.

3 And Isaiah the prophet will come
to king Hezekiah, and say to him, What
said these men? and from whence will
they come to thee? And Hezekiah
will say, From a land far off came they
to me, from Babel.

4 And he will say, What saw they
in thy house? and Hezekiah will say,
All which is in my house they saw:
there was not a word that I caused them
not to see in my treasures.

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5 And Isaiah will say to Hezekiah,
Hear thou the word of Jehovah of ar-
mies:

6 Behold, the days coming and all
which is in thy house and which thy
fathers treasured up, even to this day,
being lifted up to Babel: there shall
not be left a word, said Jehovah.

7 And from thy sons that shall come
forth from thee which thou shalt beget,
they shall take ; and they were eunuchs
in the temple of the king of Babel.

8 And Hezekiah will say to Isaiah,
Good the word of Jehovah which thou
spakest. And he will say, That there
shall be peace and truth in my days.

CHAPTER XL.
OMFORT ye, comfort ye my peo-
ple, will your God say.

2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusa-
lem, and call to her that her war was
filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that
she received from the hand of Jehovah
double for all her sins.

5 The voice of him ealling in the de-
sert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah,
make straight in the sterile region a high-
way for our God.

4 Kvery valley shall be lifted up, and
every mountain and hill shall be made
low: and the acclivity was for even-
ness, and the mountain ranges for a val-

ey:

5 And the glory of Jehovah was un-
covered, and all flesh saw it together:
for the mouth of Jehovah spake.

6 The voice said, Call. And he said,
What shall I call? All flesh grass,
and all its goodness as the flower of the
field :

7 The grass was dried up, the flower
fell away: for the spirit of Jehovah
blew upon it: surely the people grass.

8 The grass was dried up, the flower
fell away: and the word of our God
shall stand forever.

9 Upon the high mountain come up
for thee, O Zion: announcing the good
news, lift up thy voice with strength, O
Jerusalem; announcing the good news,
lift up, thou shalt not be afraid; say to
the cities, Behold your God!

10 Behold the Lord Jehovah will come
in strength, and his arm ruling for him:

ISAIAH XL.

behold, his reward with him and his
work before him.

11 As a shepherd he will feed his
flock: with his arm he will gather the
lambs, and will lift up into his bosom,
he will lead those coming up.

12 Who measured the water in his
palm, and measured the heavens with
a span, and held the dust of the earth
in a third, and weighed the mountains
in a balance and the hills in scales?

13 Who measured the spirit of Jeho-
vah? and will a man of his counsel
make him to know?

14 With whom did he consult, and
will he cause him to understand and
teach him in the path of judgment, and
teach him knowledge, and cause him
to know the way of understanding ?

15 Behold, the nations as a drop
from a bucket; they were reckoned as
the fine dust of the scales: behold, he
will cast down the isles as small dust.

16 And Lebanon not enough to burn,
and its beasts not enough for a burnt-
offering.

17 All the nations as nothing before
him; they were reckoned to him from
nothing, and vanity.

18 And to whom will ye liken God?
what likeness will ye compare to him?

19 The artificer cast the carved im-
age, and the founder will spread it out
with gold, and he smelted chains of
silver.

20 And he being poor of oblation
will choose wood that will not be rot-
ten; he will seek to him a wise artificer
to prepare a carved image that will not
shake.

21 Will ye not know? will ye not
hear? was it not announced to you
from the beginning? did ye not under-
stand from the foundations of the earth ?

22 He sitting upon the circle of the
earth, and its inhabitants as locusts ;
he stretching out the heavens as fine
cloth, and he will extend them as a
tent to dwell in:

23 He gave princes to nothing; he
made the judges of the earth as vanity.

24 Also they were not planted: also
they were not sown: also their stock
took not root in the earth: and he also
blew upon them and they will be dried

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up, and the storm will lift them up as
straw.

25 And to whom will ye liken me,
and shall I be equal? will say the
Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and
see who created these, bringing forth
their army by number: he will call to
all of them by name, from the multi-
tude of their strength ; and he is strong
of power; a man was not wanting.

27 For what wilt thou say, O Jacob,
and wilt thou speak, O Israel, My way
was hid from Jehovah, and my judg-
ment will pass over from my God.

28 Didst thou not know? heardest
thou not the eternal God, Jehovah,
creating the extremities of the earth,
will not faint, and will not be weary?
no searching to his understanding.

29 He gave power to the faint; and
to the not strong he will increase
strength.

30 And the boys shall be faint and
weary, and the young men faltering,
shall become feeble:

81 And they waiting for Jehovah
shall change power; they shall go up
on the wing as eagles; they shall run
and not be weary; they shall go and
not faint.

CHAPTER ΧΙ].
E silent to me, ye islands; and
the people shall change strength:
they shall draw near; then shall they
speak: together we will come near for
judgment.

2 Who raised up justice from the
sunrising? he shall call him to his
foot; he will give the nations before
him; and he will bring down kings:
he will give as the dust of his sword, as
driven straw, his bow.

3 He will pursue them, he will pass
over in peace; the path he will not
come in with his feet.

4 Who made and did, calling the
generations from the beginning? I Je-
hovah, the first, and with the last; I
am. he.

5 The isles saw, and they will be
afraid; the extremities of the earth
will tremble; they drew near and they
will come.

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6 They will help a man his neigh-
bor, and he will say to his brother, Be
strong.

7 And the artificer will strengthen
the founder, he making smooth with |
the hammer, he beating the anvil, say-
ing, It is good for the welding; he will
strengthen it with nails; it shall not
totter.

8 And thou, Israel, my servant Ja-
cob whom I chose thee, the seed of
Abraham my beloved:

9 Whom 1 held thee fast from the
extremities of the earth, and I called
thee from its sides, and saying to thee,
Thou my servant; I chose thee, and I
rejected thee not.

10 Thou shalt not fear, for I am with
thee: thou shalt not look around for
help for I thy God will strengthen thee;
also I helped thee; also I held thee up
with the right hand of my justice.

11 Behold, all they burning with an-
ger against thee shall be ashamed and
disgraced: they shall be as nothing;
and the men of thy strife shall be de-
stroyed.

12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt
not find them; the man of thy conten-
tion, the men of thy war, shall be as
nothing and as no more.

18 For I Jehovah thy God holding
thy right hand, saying to thee, Thou
shalt not fear; I helped thee.

14 Thou shalt not fear, thou worm
Jacob, ye men of Israel; I helped thee,
says Jehovah, and thy redeemer the
Holy One of Israel.

15 Behold, I set thee to a new cut-
ting threshing sledge having mouths:
thou thalt thresh the mountains, and
beat small, and the hills thou shalt set
as chaff.

16 Thou shalt winnow them, and the
wind shall lift them up, and the storm
shall scatter them: and thou shalt re-
joice in Jehovah, and glory in the Holy
One of Israel.

17 The poor and the needy seeking
water, and none ; their tongue failing
in thirst, 1 Jehovah will answer them;
the God of Israel, I will not forsake
them.

18 I will open rivers upon naked
hills, and fountains in the midst of the

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valleys: I will set the desert for a pool
of water, and the dry land for goings
forth of water.

19 I will give in the desert the cedar,
the acacia, and the myrtle, and the tree
of oil; I will set in the sterile region
the cypress, the elm and the box tree
together.

20 So that they shall see and know
and attend, and consider together that
the hand of Jehovah did this, and the
Holy One of Israel created it.

21 Bring near your cause, will say
Jehovah; draw near your strong de-
fences, will the king of Jacob say.

22 They shall draw near and an-
nounce to us what shall happen:
shewed they the former things, what
they were, and we will set our heart,
and we shall know their latter state;
or did we hear things coming?

23 Announce the things coming
hereafter, and we shall know that ye
are God: also will ye do good or will
ye do evil, aud we shall look around
for help and see together.

24 Behold, ye are from nothing, and
your work no more: an abomination
he will choose in you.

25 I roused up from the north, and
he will come: from the rising of the
sun he shall call upon my name: and
he shall come upon prefects as clay,
and as the potter will tread down the
mud.

26 Who announced from the begin-
ning, and we shall know? and before,
and we shall say, He is just; also none
announcing; also none hearing; also
none heard your words.

27 The first to Zion, Behold, behold
them: and to Jerusalem I will give
him announcing good news.

28 And I shall see, and no man;
and from these, and no counselor; and
1 shall ask them, and they will not turn
back a word. ᾿

29 Behold, all of them, nothing;
their works are no more: wind and
emptiness are their libations.

CHAPTER XLII
ἐπ ον my servant, I will hold
fast in him; my chosen, my soul
delighted; I gave my spirit upon him:

ISATAH XLII

he shall bring forth judgment to the
nations.

2 He shall not ery, and he shall not
lift up, and he shall not cause his voice
to be heard without.

3 A broken reed he shall not break,
and bedimmed flax shall he not quench
it: he shall bring forth judgment to
truth.

4 He shall not be weak, and he shall
not break, till he shall set judgment in
the earth, and the isles shall wait for
his law.

5 Thus said God Jehovah, creating
the heavens and stretching them out;
and spreading out the earth and its pro-
duetions; giving breath to the people
upon it, and spirit to those going
upon it:

61 Jehovah called thee in justice,
and I will hold by thy hand, and I will
guard thee and give thee for a covenant
of the people, for the light of the na-
tions,

7 To open the eyes of the blind, to
bring forth the bound out of prison,
those sitting in darkness out of the
house of the prison:

8 I Jehovah, this my name: and my
glory 1 will not give to another, and
my praise to carved images.

9 The first things, behold, they came,
and new things I announce: before
they shall spring up I will cause you
to hear.

10 Sing ye to Jehovah a new song,
and his praise from the extremity of
the earth, ye going down to the sea, and
its fulness; the isles and their inhabit-
ants.

11 The desert and its cities shall lift
up, the enclosures shall Kedar inhabit:
they inhabiting the rock shall shout for
joy, from the head of the mountains
they shall shout for joy.

12 They shall set glory to Jehovah,
and they shall announce his praise in
the islands.

13 Jehovah as a strong one shall go
forth ; as a man of war he shall raise up
jealousy: he shall shout, also he shall
cry aloud; he shall. be strong against
his enemies.

14 1 was silent of old; I will be still,
I will restrain myself: as she brmging

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forth I will ery out; I will lay waste
and snuff up together.

15 1 will lay waste mountains and
hills, and I will dry up all their green
herbage; and I set the rivers for isl-
ands, and 1 will dry up the pools.

16 I brought the blind by a way they
knew not; and I will cause them to
tread in beaten paths they knew not:
I will set darkness for light before them,
and crooked ways into straightness ;
these words I did them, and I forsook
them not.

17 They were turned back, they will
be ashamed with shame, trusting in the
carved image, saying to the molten im-
age, Thou our God.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind,

to see.
19 Who blind but my servant? and
deaf as my messenger I shall send?
who blind he being perfect? and blind
as the servant of Jehovah?

20 Seeing many things, and thou wilt
not watch; opening the ears, and he
will not hear.

21 Jehovah was pleased for sake of
his justice; he will magnify the law
and make glorious.

22 And this people was plundered
and spoiled; snaring all of them in
holes, and they were hid in houses of
prisons: they were for plunder and
none delivering; a treading down, and
none said, Turn back.

23 Who among you will give ear to
this? and will attend and hear here-
after ?

24 Who gave Jacob for a tread-
ing down, and Israel 10 1
did not Jehovah against whom we
sinned? and they would not go in
his ways and they heard not to his
laws.

25 And he will pour upon him the
heat of his anger, and the strength of
war: and it will burn him from round
about, and he will not know; and it
will feed upon him and he will not lay
to the heart.

CHAPTER XLII.
ND now, thus said Jehovah crea-
ting thee, O Jacob, and forming
thee, ץש‎ Thou shalt not fear, for

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I redeemed thee ; I called by thy name;
thou art to me.

2 When thou shalt pass through the
waters, I with thee; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
when thou shalt go through fire thou
shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall
not consume thee.

3 For I Jehovah thy God, the Holy
One of Israel, saving thee: I gave Egypt
expiating thee, Cush and Seba instead
of thee.

4 From that thou wert precious in
mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I
loved thee: and I will give man instead
of thee, and peoples instead of thy
soul.

5 Thou shalt not fear, for I am with
thee: I will bring thy seed from the
sunrisings, and from the west I will
gather thee.

6 Say to the north, Thou shalt give,
and to the south thou shalt not with-
hold: brmg in my sons from far off,
and my daughters from the extremities
of the earth ;

7 All being called by name: and I
created him; for my glory I formed
him; also I made him.

8 Bring forth the blind people, and
there are eyes; and the deaf, and ears
to them.

9 Gather all nations together, and
people shall be collected: who among
them shall announce this, and will they
cause us to hear former things? shall
they give their witnesses, and be justi-
fied? and will they hear, and. say,
Truth?

10 Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah,
and my servants whom I chose: so
that ye shall know and trust to me,
and understand that I am he: before
me was no God formed, and after me
shall be none.

111, I, Jehovah, and none saving
besides me.

12 1 announced and I saved, and I
caused to hear, and no stranger among
you: and ye are witnesses, says Jeho-
vah, and I am God.

18 Also from the day I am he,
and none delivering from my hand:
1 will do and who shall turn it
back?

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14 Thus said Jehovah redeeming
you, the Holy One of Israel; For your
sake I sent to Babel, and brought down
the bars all of them, and the Chal-
dees shouting in their ships.

15 I Jehovah your Holy One, creat-
ing Israel your king.

16 Thus said Jehovah giving a way
in the sea, and a beaten path in the
strong waters ;

17 Bringing forth the chariot and the
horse, the strength and the might to-
gether, they shall fall down, they shall
not rise: they went out; they were
quenched as tow.

18 Will ye not remember the former
things? will ye not discern the things
of old?

19 Behold me doing a new thing;
now it shall spring forth, shall ye not
know it? I will also set a way in the
desert, rivers in the waste.

20 The beast of the field shall know
me, the sea monster and the daughters
of the ostrich: for I gave waters in the
desert, rivers in the waste to give
drink to my people, my chosen.

21 This people I formed for myself;
they shall recount my praise.

22 And thou calledst me not, O Ja-
cob; and thou wert weary of me, O
Israel.

23 Thou broughtest not to me the
sheep of thy burnt-offering, and thou
honoredst me not with thy sacrifices.
I caused thee not to serve with a gift,
and I wearied thee not with frankin-
cense.

24 Thou broughtest not for me a
buying with silver, thou didst not sa-
tiate me with the fat of thy sacrifices:
also thou causedst me to serve with
thy sins, thou didst weary me with
thine iniquities.

25 I, 1am he wiping away thy trans-
gressions for my sake, and I will not
remember thy sins.

26 Cause me to remember; we will
judge together; relate thou so that
thou shalt be justified.

27 Thy first father sinned, thy inter-
preter transgressed against me.

28 And I will defile the chiefs of the
holy place, and I will give Jacob to be
devoted, and Israel for reproaches.

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CHAPTER XLIV.
EAR now, O Jacob and Israel,
whom I chose:

2 Thus said Jehovah making thee,
and forming thee from the belly, he
will help thee ; Thou shalt not be afraid,
my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom
I chose.

3 For I will pour water upon the
thirsty, and flowings upon the dry: I
will pour my spirit wpon thy seed, and
my blessing upon thine offspring.

4 And they sprung up in the midst
of the enclosure as willows by streams
of water.

5 This shall say, I to Jehovah; and
this shall call in the name of Jacob;
and this shall write his hand to Jeho-
vah, and he shall address in the name
of Israel.

6 Thus said Jehovah king of Israel,
and Jehovah of armies, redeeming him,
I the first and I the last; and besides
me no God.

7 And who as I shall call and an-
nounce it, and set it in order for me
from my placing the people of old?
and the things coming and that shall
come, they shall announce to them.

8 Ye shall not tremble, and ye shall
not be afraid: did I not from thence
cause thee to hear? and I announced,
and ye my witnesses? Is there a God
besides me? and no rock; 1 knew not.

9 They forming a carved image all
of them emptiness; and their delights
shall not profit, and they are their wit-
nesses ; they will not see and they will
not know, so that they- shall be
ashamed.

10 Who formed a god and a carved

molten image, profiting for nothing?

11 Behold, all his associates shall be
ashamed : and the workmen, they from
man, they shall be gathered together,
all of them; they shall stand, they shall
tremble, they shall be ashamed ἰο-
gether.

12 The workman of iron with an axe
also worked with coal, and he will
cleave it with hammers, and will work
with the arm of his strength: also he
hungered and no strength: he drank
not water and was wearied.

13 The workman of woods stretched

ISAIAH XLV.

out the line; he will delineate it with
an awl, he will do it with chisels, and
he will delineate it with a compass, and
he will make it according to the image
of a man, according to the beauty of
man; to dwell in the house.

14 To cut down for him cedars, and
he will take the fir'tree and the oak,
and he will strengthen for himself
among the trees of the forest: he plant-
ed an ash and the rain will cause to
grow.

15 And it was for a man to burn:
and he will take from them and he will
be warmed; also he will kindle, and
bake bread; also he will make a god,
and he will worship; he made it a
carved image, and he will fall down to
them.

16 Half of it he burnt in the fire;
upon half of it he will eat flesh ; he will
roast roast, and he will be: satisfied:
also he will be warm, and he will say,
Aha, I was warm, I saw the light.

17 And its remainder he made for a
god, for his carved image: he will fall
down to it, and he will worship and
pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou
my -god.

18 They will not know, and they
will not discern: he spread over their
eyes from seeing; their heart from con-
sidering.

19 And none will set to his heart;
and not knowledge, and not under-
standing to say, Half of it I burnt in
the fire; and also 1 baked bread upon
its coals; I will roast flesh and eat:
and its remainder shall I make for an
abomination? shall I fall down to a
trunk of wood?

20 He fed upon ashes: a deceived
heart turned him away, and he shall
not deliver his soul, and he shall not
say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

21 Remember these, O Jacob and Is-
rael; for thou art my servant: I form-
ed thee; a servant to me: thou Israel
shalt not forget me.

22 I wiped away as a cloud thy trans-
gressions, and as a cloud thy sins: turn
back to me for I redeemed thee.

23 Shout, ye heavens, for Jehovah
made: make a loud noise, ye lower
parts of the earth: break forth into a

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shout of joy, ye mountains, thou forest
and every tree in it, for Jehovah. re-
deemed Jacob, and he will be honored
in Israel.

24 Thus said Jehovah redeeming
thee, and forming thee from the belly,
I am Jehovah making all; stretching
forth the heavens alone; spreading out
the earth from myself :

25 Bringing to nought the signs of
vain boasters, and he will make those
divining, foolish; turning back the
wise backward, and he will frustrate
their knowledge.

26 Setting up the word of his sery-
ant, and he will complete the cousnel of
his messengers; saying to Jerusalem,
Thou shalt be dwelt in; and to the cit-
ies of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I
will raise up her wastes :

27 Saying to the depth, Be thou dry,
and I will dry up thy rivers.

28 Saying to Cyrus, My shepherd,
and he shall complete all my delight:
and saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be
built; and the temple shall be founded.

CHAPTER XLV.
HUS said Jehovah to his Messiah,
LL to Cyrus whom 1 held by his
right hand to bring down nations before
him; and I will loosen the loins of
kings to open before him the doors, and
the gates shall not be shut.

21 will go before thee, and I will
make straight the circles: I will break
in pieces the doors of brass, and I will
cut down the bars of iron:

3 And I gave to thee the treasures
of darkness, and the hidden stores of
lurking places, so that thou shalt know
that I Jehovah calling by thy name am
the God of Israel.

4 For sake of my servant Jacob, and
Israel my chosen, and I will call to
thee by thy name: and I will address
thee, and thou knewest me not.

5 1 am Jehovah, and none yet, no
God besides me: I will gird thee and
thou knewest me not:

6 So that they shall know from the
rising of the sun, and from the west,
that none besides me. I am Jehovah,
and none yet.

7 I shall form light and create dark-

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ness: making peace and creating evil:
I Jehovah doing all these.

8 Drop, ye heavens, from above, and
the clouds shall shake out justice: the
earth shall open, and they shall bring
forth salvation, and justice shall spring
up together; I Jehovah created it.

9 Wo to him striving with him form-
ing him! the potsherd with the pot-
sherds of the earth. Shall the clay say
to him forming it, What wilt thou
make? and thy work, No hands to it?

10 Wo to him saying to the father,
What wilt thou beget? and to the wo-
man, What wilt thou bring forth ?

11 Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One
of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of
things coming concerning the sons, and
concerning the work of my hands will
ye command me?

12 I made the earth, and man upon
it I created: my hand stretched forth
the heavens, and all their army I com-
manded.

13 I roused him up in justice, and 1
will make straight all his ways: he
shall build my city, and he shall send
away my captivity, not by price and
not by a gift, said Jehovah of armies.

14 Thus said Jehovah, The labor of
Keypt and the gain of Cush, and of the
Sabeans, men Οὗ" measure, shall pass
over iipon thee, and to thee shall they
be: after thee shall they come in fet-
ters: they shall pass over and to thee
shall they worship and supplicate to
thee, Surely God is in thee, and none
yet: no God.

15 Surely thou art God hiding thy-
self, the God of Isracl, the Saviour.

16 They were ashamed and also dis-
graced, all of them: together they went
in shame the workmen of images.

17 Israel was saved in Jehovah with
an everlasting salvation: ye shall not
be ashamed and ye shall not be dis-
graced even to forever, forever.

18 For thus said Jehovah creating
the heavens, He the God forming the
earth, and he made it; he prepared it,
he created it not in vain, he formed it
to be dwelt in: I Jehovah and none
besides.

19 I spake not in secret in a dark.

place of the earth: I said not to the

ISATAH XLVL

seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain:
I Jehovah speak justice, announcing
straightnesses.

20 Assemble ye together and come;
draw ye near together, the escaped of
the nations: they knew not lifting up
the wood of their carved image, and
praying to God he will not save.

21 Announce ye, and bring near;
also ye shall take counsel together: who
caused this to be heard from of old,
from then announcing it? was it not I
Jehovah? and no God more beside me;
a just God and Saviour; none beside
me.

22 Look to me all ye ends of the
earth and be saved, for I am God, and
none else.

23 By myself I sware the word, jus-
tice went forth out of my mouth, and
shall not turn back, That to me every
knee shall bend, every tongue shall
swear,

24 Surely saying, In Jehovah to me
justice and strength; even to him shall
he come; and all being angry against
him shall be ashamed.

25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of
Israel be justified, and shall glory.

CHAPTER XLVI.
ins bent ; Nebo bowed down ; their
images were for the beast and for
the cattle: your gifts were carried; a
lifting up to the weary.

2 They bowed down, they bent to-
gether; they were not able to deliver
the burden and their soul went into cap-
tivity.

3 Hear to me, ye house of Jacob, and
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
being carried from the belly, being lift-
ed up from the womb:

4 And even to old age I am he; and
even to grayness I will bear; I made
and I will lift up, and I will bear, and
I will deliver.

5 To whom will ye liken me and
make equal? and compare me and we
shall be like?

6 Squandering gold out of the bag,
and they will weigh silver in the bal-
ance, they will hire a founder, and he
will make it a god: they will fall down,
they will also worship.

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7 They will lift him up upon the
shoulder, they will carry him, they will
set him down in his place and he will
stand ; from his place he shall not de-

art: also he will ery out to him and
1e will not answer; he will not save
him from his straits.

8 Remember this, shew yourselves
men: turn back, ye transgressing, upon
the heart.

9 Remember the former things from
forever: for 1am God and no god be-
sides, and none like me.

10 Announcing the last part from the
beginning, and from of old what was
not done, saying, My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all my delight :

11 Calling a ravenous beast from the
sunrising, from a land afar off a man of
my counsel: also I spake, also I will
bring it; I formed, also I will do it.

12 Hear. to me, ye strong of heart,
being far from justice.

18 1 brought near my justice; it
shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not delay: and I gave salvation
in Zion for Israel my beauty.

CHAPTER XLVIL
OME down and sit upon the dust,
thou virgin daughter of Babel, sit
upon the earth: no throne, thou daugh-
ter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt not
be added for them to call thee tender
and delicate.

2 Take the two mill-stones and grind
flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off
the train, uncover the leg, pass through
the rivers.

3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,
also thy reproach shall be seen: I will
take vengeance, I will not make peace
with man.

“4 Jehovah of armies redeemed us, his
name the Holy One of Israel.

5 Sit thou silently and go into dark-
ness, thou daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be added for
them to call thee The mistress of king-
doms,

6 I was angry against my people; I
defiled my inheritances, and I will give
them into thine hand, and thou didst
not set mercy to them; upon the old
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7 And thou wilt say, I shall be mis-
tress forever: till thou didst not set
these upon thy heart, thou didst not re-
member its last part.

8 And now hear this, thou living del-
icately, dwelling securely, saying in her
heart, I, and none besides me; I shall
not sit a widow, and 1 shall not know
bereavement.

9 And these two shall come to thee
suddenly, in one day, bereavement and
widowhood : as finished they came upon
thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries,
and in the great numbers of thy en-
chantments.

10 And thou wilt trust in thy wick-
edness: thou saidst, None saw me.
Tky wisdom and thy knowledge it
caused thee to turn away; and thou
wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet
besides me.

11 And evil came upon thee; thou
shalt not know its dawn, and ruin shall
fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able
to expiate it, and desolation shall sud-
denly come upon thee; thou shalt not
know.

12 Stand now with thine enchant-
ments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries in which thou didst labor from
thy youth; perhaps thou wilt be able
to be of use, perhaps thou wilt cause
fear.

13 Thou wert wearied in the multi-
tude of thy counsels. Shall those
searching out the heavens, those look-
ing upon the stars, causing to know
concerning the months, now stand and
save thee from what shall come upon
thee?

14 Behold, they were as straw; the
fire burnt them; they shall not deliver
their soul from the hand of the flame:
not a coal for warming, light to sit be-
fore it.

15 Thus shall they be to thee for
whom thou didst labor, thy merchants,
from thy youth; they wandered a man
to his other side; none saving thee.

CHAPTER XLVIII.
EAR this, ye house of Jacob, be-
ing called by the name of Israel,
and from the water of Judah they came
forth swearing by the name of Jehovah,

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and by the God of Israel they shall
bring to remembrance, not in truth and
not in justice.

2 For they were called of the holy
city, and rested themselves upon the
God of Israel; Jehovah of armies his
name.

8 From then I announced the former
things, and they went forth out of my
mouth, and I caused them to be heard ;
I did suddenly, and they shall come.

4 From my knowledge that thou wert
hard, and thy neck an iron sinew, and
thy forehead of brass:

5 I will announce to thee from then ;
before it shall come I caused thee to
hear, lest thou shalt say, My image did
them; and my carved image, and my
molten image commanded them. -

6 Thou heardest, seeing it all; and
will ye not announce? I caused thee
to hear new things from now, and
hidden things, and thou knewest them
not.

7 Now were they created and not
from then ; and before the day and thou
heardest them not; lest thou shalt say,
Behold, I knew them.

8 Also thou heardest not; also thou
knewest not; also from then thine ear
was not opened: for I knew, acting de
ceitfully, thou wilt act deceitfully, and
it was called to thee transgressing from
the womb,

9 For sake of my name I will delay
mine anger; I will be muzzled towards
thee, not cutting thee off.

10 Behold, I purified thee and not
with silver; I chose thee in the fur-
nace of affliction.

11 For my sake, for my sake will I
do: for how shall it be defiled? and I
will not give my glory to another.

12 Hear to me, O Jacob and Israel,
my calling; Lam he, I the first, also I
the last.

13 Also my hand will found the
earth, and my right hand spread out
the heavens: I call to them, they shall
stand together.

14 Assemble, all ye, and hear; who
among them announced these things?
Jehovah loved him: he will do his de-
light upon Babel, and lis arm upon the
Chaldeans.

ISAIAH XLIX.

15 I, I spake; also I called him: I
brought him, and his way prospered.

16 Draw ye near to me, hear this;
I spake not in secret in the beginning;
from the time of its being, there was I:
and now the Lord Jehovah sent me, and
his spirit.

17 Thus said Jehovah redeeming
thee, the Holy One of Israel: I Jeho-
vah thy God teaching thee to profit,
causing thee to tread in a way thou
shalt go.

18 Would thou didst attend to my
commands! and thy peace shall be asa
river, and thy justice as the billows of
the sea.

19 And thy seed shall be as the
sand, and the offspring of thy bowels
as its bowels; his name shall not be
cut off and shall not be destroyed from
before me.

20 Go ye forth from Babel ; flee from
the Chaldeans; with the voice of shout-
ing, announce ye; cause this to be
heard ; cause it to go forth, even to the
extremity of the earth; say ye, Jeho-
vah redeemed his servant Jacob.

21 And they thirsted not causing
them to go in dry places: he caused
the waters to flow out of the rock for
them: and he will cleave asunder the
rock, and the waters will flow out.

22 No peace, said Jehovah, to the
unjust.

CHAPTER XLIX.
EAR to me, ye islands, and at-
tend ye people from far off; Je.
hovah called me from the belly; from
my mother’s bowels he made mention
of my name.

2 And he set my mouth as a sharp
sword; in the shadow of his hand
he hid me, and he will set me for
a polished arrow; in his quiver he
hid me.

3 And he will say to me, Thou my
servant, Israel, whom I will be honored
in thee,

4 And 1 said, I labored in vain, for
emptiness; and I finish my strength
vainly; surely my judgment is with
Jehovah and my work with my
God.

5 And now, said Jehovah, forming

ISAIAH XLIX.

me from the belly for servant to him to
turn back Jacob to him, And Israel
shall not be gathered, and I shall be
honored in the eyes of Jehoyah, and
God was my strength.

6 And he will say, It was light thou
being to mea servant to raise up the
tribes of Jacob, and to turn back the
preserved of Israel: and I gave thee
for a light of the nations to be my sal-
vation even to the extremity of the
earth.

7 Thus said Jehovah redeeming Isra-
el, his Holy One, to the despised of soul,
to him being abhorred of the nations,
to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see
and princes arose, and they shall wor-
ship him for sake of Jehovah who was
faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he
shall choose thee.

8 Thus said Jehovah, In a time of
acceptance I answered thee, and in the
day of salvation I helped thee: and I
will guard thee, and I will give thee for
a covenant of the people to cause the
earth to stand, to cause to inherit the
inheritance of desolations.

9 To say to the bound, Go forth; to
those in darkness, Uncover yourselves.
They shall feed upon the ways, and in
all naked hills their pastures.

10 They shall not hunger and they
shall not thirst, and the heat shall not
strike them, and the sun: for he pity-
ing them shall lead them, and to fount-
ains of water he shall conduct them.

11 And I set all the mountains for a
way, and the highways shall be raised

up.

12 Behold, these shall come from far
off; and behold, these from the north,
and from the sea; and these from the
land of Sinim.

13 Shout, ye heavens, and rejoice
thou earth; and the mountains shall
break forth with shouting: for Jehovah
comforted his people and he will pity
his afflicted.

14 And Zion will say, Jehovah for-
sook me, and the Lord forgot me.

15 Shall a woman forget her child,
from pitying the son of her womb?
also these shall forget, and I shall not
forget thee.

16 Behold, upon the palms I engray-

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ed thee; thy walls before me continu-
ally.

0 Thy sons hastened; they destroy-
ing thee and laying thee waste shall
come forth from thee.

18 Lift up round about thine eyes
and see: they all gathered themselves
together, they came to thee. I live,
says Jehovah, thou shalt put them all
on as an ornament, and thou shalt bind
them as a bride.

19 For thy wastes and thy desola-
tions, and the land of thy destruction,
for now it shall press for the inhabit-
ants, and they swallowing thee up were
far away.

20 Yet shall the sons of thy bereave-
ment say in thine ears, The place is
strait to me: draw near to me and 1
shall dwell.

21 And thou saidst in thy heart, Who
begat these to me, and I being bereaved.
and barren, an exile, and departing?
and who caused these to grow? Behold,
I was left alone; they, where were
they ?

22 Thus said the Lord Jehovah, Be-
hold, I will lift up my hand to the na-
tions, and to the peoples I will raise up
my signal: and they brought thy sons
in the bosom, and thy daughters shall
be lifted up upon the shoulder.

23 And kings were thy supporters,
and princesses thy nurses: their faces
to the earth they shall worship to thee,
and the dust of thy feet shall they lick
up; and thou knewest that I Jehovah,
that they shall not be ashamed waiting
for me,

24 Shall the prey be taken from the
strong? and if the captivity of the just
shall be delivered ?

25 For thus said Jehovah, Also the
captivity of the strong shall be taken,
and the prey of the terrible shall es-
cape: and I will contend with him con-
tending with thee, and thy sons I will
save.

26 And I will cause those oppressing
thee to eat their own flesh, and they
shall drink their blood to the full as
new wine: and all flesh shall know
that I am Jehovah saving thee, and
redeeming thee, the Mighty One of
Jacob.

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CHAPTER L.

HUS said Jehovah, Where this
writing of cutting off of your
mother which I sent her away? or
which of my creditors whom I sold
you to him? Behold, in your iniquities
ye sold yourselves, and in your trans-

gressions your mother was sent away.

2 Wherefore, I came, and no man? I
called and none answered. Being short,
was my hand shortened from redeem-
ing? and if not power in me to deliv-
er? behold, in my rebuke I will dry up
the sea; I will set the rivers a desert:
their fish shall stink from no water, and
they shall die with thirst.

3 I will put darkness upon the heay-
ens, and [ will put sackcloth their -ץ60‎
ering.

4 The Lord Jehovah gave to me the
tongue of the expert to know to help
the weary with a word: he will rouse
up in the morning by morning, he will
rouse up to me the ear to hear as the
expert.

5 The Lord Jehovah opened to me
the ear and I opposed not, and I drew
not back.

6 My back I gave to those smiting,
and my cheeks to those tearing out the
hair: and my face I-hid not from
shame and spittle.

7 And the Lord Jehovah will help
to me: for this I was not ashamed;
for this I set my face as the flint, and I
shall know that I shall not be ashamed.

8 He drawing near justifying me:
who shall contend with me? we will
stand together: who the lord of my
judgment? he shall draw near to me.

9 Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help
for me; who is he that shall condemn
me? behold, they all shall decay as a
garment; the moth shall eat them.

10 Who among you fearing Jehovah,
hearing to the voice of his servant?

who goes in darkness and no light to}

him? he shall trust in the name of Je-
hovah and rest upon his God.

11 Behold, all ye kindling a fire,
girding yourselves with fiery darts:
go ye in the light of your fire, and in
the fiery darts ye kindled. Krom my
hand was this to you; ye shall lie down
for sorrow.

ISAIAH τι, LL

CHAPTER LL
| to me, ye pursuing justice,
seeking Jehovah: look to the
rock ye hewed, and at the quarry of
the pit ye dug out.

2 Look to Abraham your father, and
to Sarah bringing you forth: for one
1 called him, and I will bless him, and
I will inerease him.

8 For Jehovah comforted Zion: he
comforted all her wastes, and he will
set her desert as Eden, and her sterile
region as the garden of Jehovah; joy
and gladness shall be found in her con-
fession, and the voice of song.

4 Attend to me, my people, and
give ear to me, my nation : fora law
shall go forth from me, and I will
cause my judgment to rest for the light
of the peoples.

5 My justice is near; my salvation
went forth, and mine arms shall judge
the peoples; the islands shall wait for
me, and to mine arm shall they hope.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look to the earth from beneath :
for the heavens as smoke vanished
away, and the earth as a garment shall
decay, and they imhabiting as thus shall
die; and my salvation shall be forever,
and my justice shall not be broken.

7 Hear to me, ye knowing justice,
the people my law in their heart; ye
shall not fear the reproach of men;
and from their reviling ye shall not be
dismayed.

8 For the moth shall eat them asa
garment, and as wool shall the moth
eat them: and my justice shall be for-
ever, and my salvation to generation
of generations.

9 Rouse up, rouse up, put-on strength,
thou arm of Jehovah; rouse up as the
days of old, cf everlasting generations.
Was it not with him cutting off Rahab,
wounding the sea monster ?

10 Was it not with him desolatin
the sea, the water of the great dee
setting the depths of the sea a way for
the redeemed to pass over?

11 And the redeemed of Jehovah
shall turn back, and they came to Zion
with shouting and eternal joy upon their
head: and gladness and joy shall they
attain; sorrow and sighing fled.

JSAIAH LIL.

19 I, Iam he comforting you: who
thou? and shalt thou be afraid of man
he shall die, and of the son of man
shall be given for grass?

18 And shalt thou forget Jehovah
making thee, stretching out the heav-
ens and founding the earth? and thou
wilt tremble continually all the day
from the face of the anger of him press-
ing as being prepared to destroy: and
where the wrath of him pressing?

14 He being bowed down hastened
to be loosed, and he will not die in the
pit, and his bread shall not fail.

15 And I am Jehovah thy God
causing the sea to tremble. And its
billows shall be put in motion: Jeho-
vah of armies his name.

16 And I will put my word in thy
mouth, and in the shadow of my hand
I covered thee, to plant the heavens
and to found the earth, and to say to
Zion, Thou my people.

17 Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusa-
lem, who drank from the hand of Je-
hoyah the cup of his wrath; thou
didst drink the goblet cup of reeling,
pressing out.

18 None providing for her of all the
sons she brought forth; and none hold-
ing by her hand of all the sons she
caused to grow.

19 These two encountering thee; who
shall be moved for thee? desolation and
breaking, and famine, and the sword:
by whom shall I comfort thee?

20 Thy sons fainted; they lay down
upon the head of all the streets as an
antelope in a net: being full of the
wrath of Jehovah the rebuke of thy
God.

21 For this, hear now this, thou af-
flicted and drunken, and not from
wine:

22 Thus said thy Lord Jehovah
and thy God, he will contend for his
people, Behold, I took from thy hand
the cup of reeling, the goblet cup of my
wrath; thou shalt not add to drink it
more.

23 And I put it in the hand of those
afflicting thee; who said to thy soul,
Bow down, and we will pass over; thou
wilt set thy middle as the earth, and as
the street to those passing over.

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CHAPTER LIL
WAKE, awake, put on thy
strength, O Zion; puton the gar-
ments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the
holy city: for the uncircumcised shall
no more add to come into thee, and the
unclean.

2 Shake thyself from dust: arise, sit
down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from
the bonds of thy neck, thou captive
daughter of Zion.

8 For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold
yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall
not be redeemed with silver.

4 Thus said the Lord Jehovah, My
people at first went down to Egypt to
sojourn there, and Assur oppressed
them for nothing.

5 And now what to me here, says
Jehovah, that my people were taken
gratuitously ? ruling, they will cause to
give a sharp sound, says Jehovah; and
continually all the day my name being
despised.

6 For this, my people shall know my
name: for thisin that day, for I am he
speaking: behold me.

7 How exalted upon the mountains
the feet of him announcing good news,
causing peace to be heard: announcing
good news of good, causing salvation to
be heard; saying to Zion, Thy God
reigns !

8 They watching thee lifted up the
voice; the voice together they will
shout: for they shall see eye to eye in
Jehovah’s turning back Zion.

9 Break forth into joy, shout togeth-
er, ye wastes of Jerusalem, for Jeho-
vah comforted his people, he redeemed
Jerusalem. J

10 Jehovah uncovered his holy arm
to the eyes of all nations, and all the
ends of the earth saw the salvation of
our God.

11 Turn aside, turn aside, come ye
forth from thence; ye shall not touch
the unclean thing; come forth from the
midst of her; be separated ye lifting up
the vessels of Jehovah.

12 For ye shall not come forth with
haste, and in flight ye shall not go; for
Jehovah goes before you, and he gath-
ering you the God of Israel.

18 Behold, my servant shall be wise,

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he shall be exalted, and lifted up, and
be high exceedingly.

14 As many were astonished at thee,
his appearance being so spoiled from
* man, and his form from the sons of men.

15 So shall he cause many nations to
rejoice for him; kings shall shut their
mouth; for what was not recounted to
them they saw; and what they heard
not, they considered.

CHAPTER LIIL
110 believed in ovr repdért? and
to whom was the arm of Jeho-
vah uncovered ?

2 116 shall come up as a sucking
child before him, and as a root out of
a land of dryness: no form to him and
no decoration; and we shall see him,
and no appearance and we shall desire
him.

8 116 was despised and forsaken of
men; aman of gricfs and knowing af-
fliction: and as hiding the faces from
him; he was despised and we regarded
him not.

4 Surely he lifted up our afflictions,
and our griefs he carried them: and we
reckoned him to be smitten, struck of
God, and afflicted.

5 And he being wounded for our
transgressions, and crushed from our
iniquities; the correction of our peace
upon him, and in the marks of his
stripes it was healed to us.

6 All we as sheep went astray; we
turned a man to his way; and Jehovah
caused the iniquity of us all to fall up-
on him.

7 He was pressed, and he was afflict-
ed, and he will not open his mouth: he
‘was brought as a sheep for the slaugh-
ter, and as a sheep before his shearers
being dumb and he will not open his
mouth.

8 From constraint and from judg-
ment was he taken, and his generation
who shall comprehend? for he was cut
off out of the land of the living: for
the transgression of my people was he
struck for them.

9 And he will give with the unjust
his grave, and with the rich in his
deaths, for he did no violence, and no
deceit in his mouth,

ISATAH LIL, LIV.

10 And Jehovah inclined to crush
him; piercing him when his soul shall
be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see
seed, he shall prolong the days, and the
delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his
hand.

11 And he shall see of the labor of
his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge my just servant shall justify
for many; and he shall bear their in-
iquities. :

12 For this I will divide to him with
many, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong; for which his soul was
poured out to death, and he was num-
bered with transgressors; and he lifted
up the sin of many, and he will suppli-
cate for transgressors.

CHAPTER LIV.
ee thou barren, not bringing
forth ; break forth in shouting, ery
aloud, not being pained; for more the
sons of the desolate than the sons of
the married, said Jehovah.

2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, stretch
forth the hangings of thy dwellings;
thou shalt not spare ; lengthen thy cords
and strengthen thy pegs.

3 For the right and the left thou
shalt break forth, and thy seed shall in-
herit the nations, and they shall cause
desolated cities to be inhabited.

4 Thou shalt not fear; for thou shalt
not be ashamed: and thou shalt not be
disgraced, and thou shalt not be put to
shame, for thou. shalt forget the shame
of thy youth, and thou shalt no more
remember the reproach of thy widow-
hood.

5 For thy Lord making thee; Jeho-
vah of armies his name; and he re-
deeming thee, the Holy One of Israel ;
the God of the earth shall he be called.

6 As a wife forsaken and grieved of
spirit Jehovah called thee, and a wife
of youth; for thou shalt be rejected,
said thy God.

7 In a little moment I forsook thee;
and with great mercies I will gather
thee.

8 In the outpouring of anger I hid a
moment my face from thee; and in
eternal mercy I compassionated thee,
said Jehovah redeeming thee.

ISAIAH LV., LVI.

9 For this the water of Noah to me:
as I sware to the water of Noah from
again passing over the earth; thus I
sware from being angry against thee
and from rebuking upon thee.

10 For the mountains shall remove
and the hills shall waver; and my mer-
cy shall not remove from thee, and the
covenant of my peace shall not waver,
said Jehovah compassionating thee.

11 Thou afflicted, tossed about, not
comforted! behold me laying thy stones
with paint, and I founded thee with
sapphires.

12 And I set thy battlements the ru-
by, and thy gates in stones of spark-
ling, and all thy bound in stones of de-
light.

13 And all thy sons taught of Je-
hovah; and much the peace of thy
sons.

14 In justice shalt thou be prepared:
go far off from violence; for thou shalt
not be afraid: and from terror, for it
shall not draw near to thee.

15 Behold, gathering, it shall gather
together, not from me: who sojourned
with thee shall fall for thee.

16 Behold, I created the workman
blowing the coals in the fire, and bring-
ing forth a utensil for his work; and I
created the destroyer to overthrow.

17 Every vessel formed against thee
shall not prosper: and every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment
thou shalt condemn. This the inherit-
ance of the servants of Jehovah, and
their justice is from me, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER LY.
O, every one thirsting, come ye to
the waters, and whom there is
not to him silver, come ye, buy and
eat; and come ye, and buy without sil-
ver and without price, wine and milk.

2 Wherefore will ye weigh silver
without bread? and your labour not
for fulness? hearing, hear ye to me,
and eat good, and your soul shall de-
light in fatness.

3 Incline your ear, and come to me,
and hear, and your soul shall live; and
I will cut out with you an eternal coy-
enant, the sure mercies of David.

4 Behold, I gave him a witness of

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the nations, a leader and commanding
the nations.

5 Behold, nations thou shalt not
know ; thou shalt call, and nations that
knew thee not shall run to thee, for
sake of Jehovah thy God, and for the
Holy One of Israel; for he honored
thee.

6 Seek ye Jehovah in his being
found, and call him in his being near.

7 The unjust one shall forsake his
way, and the man of vanity פוג[‎ pur-
poses, and turn back to Jehovah, and he
will pity him, and to our God, for he
will multiply to forgive.

8 For not my purposes your pur-
poses, and not your ways my ways, says
Jehovah.

9 As the heavens were high above
the earth, so my ways were high above
your ways, and my purposes above
your purposes.

10 For as the rain coming down and
the snow from the heavens, and shall
not turn back there, but watering the
earth and causing it to bring forth and
sprout, and giving seed to be sown, and
bread to be eaten ;

11 So shall be my word which went
forth out of my mouth: it shall not
turn back to me empty, but doing what
I delighted in, and it shall prosper for
what I send it.

12 For with joy shall ye go forth,
and in peace shall ye be led forth; the
mountains and hills shall break forth
before you into shouting, and all the
trees of the field shall clap the hand.

13 Instead of the thorn-hedge shall
come up the cypress; instead of the
briar shall come up the myrtle: and it
was to Jehovah for a name for an eter-
nal sign; it shall not be cut off.

CHAPTER LVI.
ἥδε said Jehovah, Watch ye judg-
ment and do justice ; for my sal-
vation drew near to come, and my jus-
tice to be uncovered.

2 Happy the man that shall do this,
and the son of man that shall Jay hold
upon it ; watching the Sabbath from de-
filing it, and watching his hand from
doing all evil.

8 And the son of the stranger join-

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ing himself to Jehovah, shall not say,
saying, Jehovah separating, will sepa-
rate me from his people; and the eu-
nuch shall not say, Behold me a dry
tree.

4 For thus said Jehovah to the eu-
nuchs who shall watch my Sabbaths,
and choose in what I delighted, and
taking hold upon my covenant ;

5 And I gave to them in my house
and in my wails a hand and a name good
above sons and above daughters: an
eternal name will I give to him which
shall not be cut off.

6 And the sons of the stranger join-
ing themselves to Jehovah to serve him,
and to love the name of Jehovah, to be
to him for servants, every one watching
the Sabbath from defiling it, and taking
hold upon my covenant ;

7 And 1 brought them to my holy
mountain, and I made them rejoice in
the house of my prayer: their burnt-of-
fermgs and their sacrifices for accept-
ance upon mine altar; for my house
shall be called the house of prayer for
all the peoples.

8 Says the Lord Jehovah gathering
the outcasts of Israel, Yet will I gather
to him to his gathered.

9 All ye beasts of the fields, come ye
to eat; all ye beasts in the forest.

10 Look about, ye blind; they all
knew not, they all dumb dogs, they
shall not be able to bark; dreaming, ly-
ing down, loving to slumber.

11 And dogs hard of soul, they knew
not fulness; and they are evil, they
know not understanding; they all
looked to their way, a man to his plun-
der from his extremity.

12 Come ye, I will take wine, and
we will drink strong drink to excess ;
and the morrow being as this day, the
remainder great exceedingly.

CHAPTER LVITI.
HE just one perished and none put
upon the heart: men of kindness
being taken away, for none understand-
ing that the just one was taken away
from the face of evil:
2 He shall come into peace: they
shall rest upon their beds, he went in
his justice,

ISAIAY DUvrr.

3 And ye, come ye near here, sons of
her practicing magic, seed of the adul-
terer and the harlot. ו‎

4 Against whom will ye deride?
against whom will ye make broad the
mouth, will ye thrust out the tongue?
are ye not children of transgressing and
a seed of falsehood?

5 Being comforted with gods under
every’ green tree, slaughtering the child-
ren in the valleys, under the clefts of
the rocks ?

6 In the smoothnesses of the torrent
they thy portion, they thy lot; also to
them thou didst pour out a libation,
thou didst bring up a gift. Shall I be
comforted with these ?

7 Upon a mountain high and lifted
up thou didst set thy bed: also there
thou wentest up to sacrifice a sacri-
fice.

8 Behind the doors and the door-post
thou didst set thy memorial: for from
me thou didst migrate, and thou wilt
go up; thou didst make broad thy bed,
and thou wilt cut out to thee from
them; thou didst love their bed; thou
didst look upon the hand.

9 And thou wilt pour out for the
king with oil and thou wilt increase
thy perfumes, and thou wilt send thy
messengers even from far off, and thou
wilt be made low, even to hades.

10 In the abundance of thy way
thou wert wearied ; thou saidst, Not to
give over; thou didst find the living
of thy hand; for this, thou wert not
pained.

11 And whom didst thou fear? and
wilt thou be afraid? for thou wilt 116,
and thou didst not remember me; thou
didst not put it upon thy heart; was
not I being silent and from of old, and
thou wilt not be afraid of me?

12 I will announce thy justice and
thy works, and they shall not profit
thee.

13 In thy erying out, shall thy gath-
erings deliver thee? and the wind shall
lift them all up; a breath shall take:
and he taking refuge in me shall inher-
it the land, and he shall inherit my
holy mountain ; /

14 And he shall say, Lift ye up, lift
ye up; clear the way, take up the

ISAIAH LVIII.

stumbling block out of the way of my
people.

15 For thus said the high and lifted
up inhabiting eternity, and his name
Holy ; being 111060 up, and I will dwell
in the holy place, and with the broken
and humble of spirit, to preserve alive
the spirit of the humble, and to revive
the heart of the broken.

16 For. not forever will I contend,
and not to everlasting will I be angry:
for the spirit will faint from before me,
and the lives I made.

17 For the iniquity of his plunder
was I angry, and I will smite him:
covering myself, and I will be angry,
and he went turning away in the way
of his heart,

18 I saw his ways, and I will heal
him: and I will lead him and I will
restore comforts to him, and to his
mourners.

19 Creating the fruit of the lips;
Peace, peace to him being far off, and
to him being near, said Jehovah; and
1 healed him.

20 And the unjust as the tossed sea
when it shall not be able to rest, and
its waters will toss up mud and mire;
no peace, said God, to the unjust.

CHAPTER LVIII
ALL with the throat; thou shalt
not spare; as a trumpet lift up
thy voice, and announce tomy people
their transgression, and to the house of
Jacob their sin.

2 And day, day, they will seek me,
and delight to know my way as ἃ na-
tion who did justice and forsook not
the judgment of his God: they will ask
me the judgments of justice, they will
delight to draw near to God.

8 For what did we fast, and thou
sawest not? we humbled our soul and
thou wilt not know? Behold, גג‎ 6
day of your fasting ye will find desire,
and ve will exact all your labors.

4 Behold, for contention and strife
ye will fast, and to strike with the fist
of injustice: ye shall not fast as to-day
0 he your voice to be heard on
high.

5 Will this be the fast I shall choose?
a day fora man to humble his soul?

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to bend his head asa bulrush, and he
will place sackcloth and ashes?’ wilt
thou call this a fast and a day of ac-
ceptance to Jehovah.

6 Is not this the fast I shall choose?
to loose the bands of injustice, to shake
off the bundles of the yoke, and to
send away the broken free, and ye shall
break every yoke?

7 Is it not to break thy bread to the
hungry, and thou shalt bring the wan-
dering poor to thy house? when thou
shalt see the naked and cover him;
and thou shalt not hide from thy flesh,

8 Then shall thy light break forth
as the dawn, and thy healing shall
spring forth quickly: and thy justice
going before thee; the glory of Jeho-
vah shall gather thee.

9 Then shalt thou call and Jehovah
will answer; thou shalt cry for help,
and he will say, Behold me. If thou
shalt take away from the midst of thee
the yoke, the extending of the finger,
and the word of vanity ;

10 And thou shalt give out thy soul
to the hungry, and satisfy the humble
soul; and thy light rising in darkness,
and thy thick darkness as the noon.

11 And Jehovah led thee continual-
ly, and he satisfied thy soul in dry
places, and he will make thy bones
strong: and thou wert as a watered
garden, and as a spring of water which
its waters shall not deceive.

12 And from thee the old wastes
were built; the foundations of genera-
tion and generation thou shalt raise
them up, and it was called to thee,
Walling the breach, Turning back the
beaten paths to dwell in.

13 Τῇ thou shalt turn back thy foot
from the Sabbath, doing thy delight in
my holy day; and thou calledst to the
Sabbath a delight for the holy of Je-
hovah, being honored; and thou honor-
edst him from doing thy ways, from
finding thy delight, and speaking the
word.

14 Then shalt thou delight thyself
in Jehovah, and I caused thee to ride
upon the heights of the earth, and I
caused thee to eat the inheritance of
Jacob thy father: for the mouth of
Jehovah spake.

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CHAPTER LIX. :
EHOLD, the hand of Jehovah
was not shortened from saving,
and his ear heavy from hearing :

2 But your iniquities were separating
between you and between your God,
and your sins caused to hide the face
from you from hearing.

3 For your hands were polluted with
blood, and your fingers with imiquity ;
your lips spake falsehood, your tongue
will mutter evil.

4 None called upon justice, and none
judged in truth: trusting im vanity and
speaking evil, they conceived labor and
brought forth vanity.

5 They plundered vipers’ eggs, and
they will weave spiders’ webs: he eat-
ing from their eggs shall die, and being
crushed, it shall break forth a viper.

6 Their webs shall not be for a gar-
ment, and they shall not be covered
with their works: their works the
works of vanity, and the worl of vio-
lence in their hands.

7 Their feet will run to evil, and
they will hasten to pour out innocent
blood: their purposes, purposes of van-
ity; destruction and breaking in their
highways.

8 The way of peace they knew not,
and no judement in their paths: they
perverted their beaten paths for them-
selves: every one treading in it shall
not know peace.

9 For this judgment was far off from
us, and justice shall not overtake us:
we shall wait for light, and behold,
darkness; for brightness, and we shall
walk in thick darkness.

10 We shall feel for the wall as the
blind, and we shall feel as no eyes:
we stumbled at noon as at evening tw1-
light; in fertile fields as the dead.

11 We shall growl as bears all of us,
and murmuring we shall murmur as
doves: we shall wait for judgment, and
none; for salvation, it was far from us.

12 For our transgressions were mul-
tiplied before thee, and our sins an-
swered against us: for our transgres-
sions are with us, and our iniquities we
knew them.

18 Transeressing and lying against
Jehovah, and departing from after our

ISAIAH LIX., LX.

God, speaking violence and apostasy,
they conceived and muttered from the
heart words of falsehood.

14 And judgment was turned away
behind, and justice shall stand from far
off: for truth fainted in the street, and
right will not be able to come in.

15 And truth shall be lacking; and
he departing from evil being plundered :
and Jehovah will see, and tt will be
evil in his eyes, for no judgment.

16 And he will see that not a man,
and he will be astonished that none was
supplicating: and his arm will save for
him, and his justice it upheld him.

17 And he will put on justice as a
coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation
upon his head; and he will put on
robes of vengeance a garment, and he
will clothe himself with zeal as an up-
per garment.

18 According to the works, accord-
ingly he will recompense, wrath to his
adversaries, recompense to his enemies ;
to the islands will he requite recom-
pense.

19 And from the west they shall fear
the name of Jehovah, and from the ris-
ing of the sun, his glory. When the
adversary shall come in as a river, the
we of Jehovah was lifted up against

im.

20 And he redeeming came to Zion,
and they turning away transgression in
Jacob, says Jehovah.

21 And 1, this my covenant with
them, said Jehovah: my spirit which
is upon thee, and my word which I put
in thy mouth shall not depart from th
mouth, and from the mouth of thy seed,
and from the mouth of thy seed’s seed,
said Jehovah, from now and even for-
ever.

CHAPTER LX.
RISE, shine, for thy light has
come, and the glory of Jehovah
has risen upon thee.

2 For behold, the darkness shall
cover the earth, and gloom the nations:
and Jehovah shall arise upon thee, and
his glory shall be seen upon thee.

8 And nations shall come to thy
light, and kings to the brightness of thy
rising.

ISAIAH ΤΧΙ.

4 Lift up thine eyes round about,
and see: they all gathered together,
they came to thee: thy sons shall come
from far off, and thy daughters shall be
supported upon the side.

5 Then thou shalt see and flow to-
gether, and thy heart shall fear and be
enlarged ; for the multitude of the sea
shall turn to thee, the strength of the
nations shall come to thee.

6 An abundance of camels shall
cover thee, the young camels of Midian
and Ephah; all they from ₪608 shall
come: they shall lift up gold and
frankincense; they shall announce good
news, the praises of Jehovah.

7 All the sheep of Kedar shall be
gathered together to thee, the rams of
Nebaioth shall serve thee: they shall

Ὁ up for acceptance to mine altar and
1 will adorn the house of my glory.

8 Who are these? they will fly asa
cloud, and as doves to their lattices.

9 For the islands shall wait for me,
and the ships of Tarshish among the
first to bring thy sons from far off, their
silver and their gold with them, to the
name of Jehovah thy God, and to the
Holy One of Israel, because he honored
thee.

10 And the sons of the stranger built
thy walls, and their kings shall serve
thee: for in my wrath I struck thee,
and in mine acceptance I compassion-
ated thee.

11 And thy gates were opened con-
tinually ; day and night they shall not
be shut; to bring to thee the strength
of the nations, and their kings being
led on.

12 For the nation and the kingdom
which will not serve thee shall perish ;
and the nations shall be laid waste with
the sword.

13 The glory of Lebanon shall come
to thee, the cypress, the plane tree, and
the box tree together, to adorn my holy
place; and I will honor the place of my
foot.

14 And sons humbling thee came
bowing down to thee: and all they de-
spans thee worshiped at the soles of
thy feet; and they called thee, The
4 εἰ Jehovah, Zion, the Holy One of

srael.

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15 Because of thy being forsaken and
hated, and none passed through, and I
set thee for a perpetual excellency, the
Joy of generation and generation.

16 And thou didst suck the milk of
nations, and thou shalt suck the breast
of kings: and thou knewest that I am
Jehovah, saving thee and redeeming
thee, the Mighty One of Jacob.

17 Instead of brass I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring sil-
ver, and instead of woods, brass, and
instead of stones, iron: and I set thine
overseers peace, and thy rulers justice.

18 Violence shall no more be heard
in thy land,.desolation and breaking in
thy bounds: and thou calledst thy
walls Salvation, and thy gates, Praise.

19 The sun shall be no more to thee
for light by day, and for brightness the
moon shall not shine to thee: and Je-
hovah was to thee for an eternal light,
and thy God for thy glory.

20 Thy sun shall no more go down,
and thy moon shall not withdraw, for
Jehovah shall be to thee for an eternal
light, and the days of thy mourning
were finished.

21 And thy people all of them just:
forever shall they inherit the land,
watching his planting, the work of my
hand for glory.

22 The little one shall be for a thou-
sand, and the small for a strong nation:
I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.

CHAPTER LXI.

HE spirit of the Lord Jehovah is

upon me ; because Jehovah anoint-
ed me to announce good news to the
afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the
broken of heart, to call freedom to the
captives, and the opening of the prison
to the bound.

2 To call the year of acceptance to
Jehovah, and the day of vengeance to
our God; to comfort all those mourn-
mg;
3 To set to those mourning in Zion,
to give to them adorning instead of
ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourn-
ing, the vestment of praise for the spirit
of faintness; and it shall be called to
them, The mighty trees of justice of the
planting of Jehovah, to be honored.

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4 And they shall build the perpetual
wastes ; they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they renewed the cities
of the waste, the desolations of genera-
tion and generation.

5 And strangers stood and fed your
sheep, and the sons of the stranger, your
husbandmen and your vinedressers.

6 And ye shall be called the priests
of Jehovah, serving our God; he shall
say to you, Ye shall eat the strength of
the nations, and ye shall take place in
their honor.

7 For your shame the second place;
and they shall rejoice in reproach, their
portion: for this in their land they
shall inherit the second place; eternal
joy shall be to them.

8 For I Jehovah love judgment, hat-
ing robbery for burnt-offering; and I
gave their works in truth, and I will
cut out to them an eternal covenant.

9 And their seed was known among
the nations, and their offspring in the
midst of the peoples: all seeing them
shall recognise them, for they the seed
Jehovah blessed.

10 Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jeho-
vah, my soul shall exult in my God, for
he put upon me the garments of salva-
tion, and he clothed me with a robe of
justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest
with a turban, and as a bride will be
adorned with her dress.

11 For as the earth will bring forth
her sprout, and as a garden will cause
the things sown to sprout, so the Lord
Jehovah will cause justice and praise to
sprout before all naticns.

CHAPTER LXIL
OR sake of Zion I will not be si-
lent, and for sake of Jerusalem I
will not rest till its justice shall go forth
as brightness, and her salvation as a
flame shall burn.

2 And the nations shall see thy jus-
tice, and all kings thy glory: and a
new name shall be called to thee which
the mouth of Jehovah shall name it.

3 And thou wert a crown of glory in
the hand of Jehovah, and a tiara of
royalty in the hand of thy God.

4 It shall no more be said.to thee,
Forsaken; and to thy land it shall no

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more be said, Desolation; for it shall be
called to thee, My delight in her, and
to thy land, Married: for Jehovah de-
lighted in thee, and thy land shall be
married,

5 Asa young man will marry a vir-
gin, thy sons shall marry thee: and the
bridegroom rejoicing over the bride, thy
God will rejoice over thee.

6 I appointed those watching over
thy walls, O Jerusalem: all the day
and all the night continually they shall
not be silent: ye remembering Jeho-
yah, no stillness to you.

7 And ye shall not give rest to him
till he shall prepare, and till he shall
set Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8 Jehovah sware by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength, If I
shall give more thy grain for food to
thine enemies, and if the sons of the
stranger shall drink thy new wine which
thou didst labor for it :

9 For they gathering it shall eat it,
and praise Jehovah; and they collect-
ing it shall drink it in the enclosures of
my holy place.

10 Pass through, pass through in
the gates; clear ye the way of the peo-
ple; lift up, lift up the highway; free
it from stone; raise up a signal for the
peoples. :

11 Behold, Jehovah caused to be
heard to the extremity of the earth, Say
ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy
salvation coming: behold, his reward
with him, and his work before his face.

12 And they called to them, The
holy people, redeemed of Jehovah: and
it shall be called to thee, A city sought
for; not forsaken.

CHAPTER LXIII.
HO this coming from Edom,
splendid with garments from
Bozra? this adorned in his attire, bow-
ing himself in his strength? I, spealk-
ing in justice, great for salvation.

2 Wherefore red to thine attire, and
thy garments as he treading in the wine
press ?

8.1 trod the wine-press alone; and
from the people not a man with me:
and I will tread them down in my
wrath, and I will trample them in mine

ISAIAH LXIV.

anger, and their juice shall be sprinkled
upon my garment, and I will stain all
my vestment.

4 For the day of vengeance is in my
heart, and the year of my redemption
came.

5 AndI shall look, and none help-
ing; and I shall be astonished and none
upholding: and my arm will save for
me, and my wrath it upheld me.

6 And I will tread down peoples in
mine anger; and I will make them
drunk in my wrath, and I will bring
down their juice to the earth.

7 I will remember the mercies of Je-
hovah, the praises of Jehovah accord-
ing to all that Jehovah benefited us,
and the abundance of good to the house
of Israel which he benefited them ac-
cording to his mercies and according to
the multitude of his kindnesses.

8 And he will say, Surely they my
people, sons that will not lie: and he
will be to them for Saviour.

9 In all their straits not an adversa-
ry, and a messenger of his face saved
them: in his love and in his pity he re-
deemed them; and he will take them
up and bear them all the days forever.

10 They embittered and grieved his
holy spirit; and he will turn to them
for an enemy ; he fought against them.

11 And he will remember the days
of old, Moses his people; Where he
bringing them up from the sea with the
shepherd of his sheep? where he put-
ting his holy spirit in the midst of him?

12 Leading by the right hand of Mo-
ses, the arm of his glory dividing the
waters from before them to make to him
an eternal name.

13 Leading them through the depths
as a horse in the desert, they shall not
be weak.

14 As cattle in the valley the spirit
of Jehovah will come down, it will
cause us to rest: so thou didst lead thy
people, to make to thee a name of
glory.

15 Look from the heavens, and see
from thy holy dwelling and thy glory:
where thy zeal and thy strength? the
multitude of thy bowels and thy com-
passions to me restrained themselves.

16 For thou our Father, for Abra-

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ham knew us not, and Israel will not
recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father
redeeming us; thy name from eter-
nity. ,

17 Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou
cause us to wander from thy ways, wilt
thou harden our heart from thy fear?
turn back for sake of thy servants, the
tribes of thine inheritance.

18 For a little while the people of
thy holy place possessed it: our adversa-
ries trod down thy holy place.

19 We were from of old: thou didst
not rule with them; thy name was not
called upon them. Would that thou
didst rend the heavens; thou camest
down; the mountains flowed from be-
fore thee.

CHAPTER LXIV.

S the fire of meltings was kindled

the fire will cause the water to

boil, to cause thy name to be known to

thine adversaries; from thy face shall
the nations be moved.

2 In thy doing wonderful things we
shall not expect, thou camest down, the
mountains flowed from before thee.

3 From forever they heard not, they
gave not ear, the eye saw not, O God,
besides thee, he will do to him waiting
for him.

4 Thou mettest him rejoicing and
doing justice, they shall remember thee
in thy ways: behold, thou wert angry;
and we shall sin in them of old, and we
shall be saved.

5 And we were al! as the unclean,
and all our justice as the garment of
monthly courses; and we shall all fall
away as the leaf; and our iniquities as
the wind will take us away.

6 And none calling upon thy name,
none rousing himself to take hold upon
thee: for thou hiddest thy face from us,
and thou wilt melt us by the hand of
our iniquities.

7 And now, O Jehovah, thou our
Father; we the clay and thou forming
us; and we all the work of thy hand.

8 Thou wilt not be angry, O Jeho-+
vah, even greatly, and not forever wilt
thou remember iniquity: behold, look
now, we are all thy people.

9 The cities of thy holy place were a

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desert; Zion was a desert, Jerusalem a
desolation.

10 The house of our holy place and
our glory where our fathers praised
thee, was for a burning of fire, and ail
our precious things were for desolation.

11 For these wilt thou refrain thyself,
O Jehovah? wilt thou be silent, and
wilt thou humble us even greatly ?

1 WAS sought by them they asked

not; I was found by them not seek-
ing me: I said, Behold me, behold me,
to a nation not calling upon my name.

21 spread forth my hands all the
day to a perverse people. going the way
not good, efter their purposes.

3 The people irritating me to my face
continually ; sacrificing in gardens, and
burning incense upon bricks;

4 Dwelling among the graves, and
they will lodge among the watchers, eat-
ing swine’s flesh, and broth of unclean
things in their vessels,

5 Saying, Come near to thyself; thou
shalt not touch upon me, for 1 was
clean to thee. These a smoke in my
wrath, a fire burning all the day.

6 Behold, it written before me: I will
not be silent, but 1 requited, and I re-
quited upon their bosom,

7 Your iniquities and the iniquities
of your fathers together, said Jehovah,
who burnt incense upon the mountains,
and upon the hills they reproached me:
and I measured their former work upon
their bosom.

8 Thus said Jehovah, As the new
wine will be found in the cluster, and
he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it,
fora blessing in it: thus will I do for
sake of my servant, to not destroy them
all.

9 And I brought forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah he shall in-
herit my mountain: and my chosen
shall inherit it, and my servants shall
dwell their.

10 And Sharon was for a dwelling
of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a
resting place of the herd, for my peo-
ple who sought me.

11 And ye forsaking Jehovah, for-
getting my holy mountain, and prepar-

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ISAIAH LXV.

ing a table for Gad, and filling up for
fate from mixed wine.

12 And I numbered you to the sword,
and ye all shall bend to the slaughter,
because I called, and ye answered not;
I spake and ye heard not; and ye will
do evil in mine eyes, and in what I de-
lighted not, ye chose.

13 For this, thus said the Lord Je-
hovah, Behold, my servants shall eat
and ye shall be hungry: behold, my
servants shall drink and ye shall thirst:
behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye
shall be ashamed.

14 Behold, my servants shall shout
from good of heart, but ye shall ery
from pain of heart, and wail from break-
ing of spirit.

15 And ye set down your name for
a curse to my chosen: and the Lord
Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call
his servants another name. :

16 That he praising himself in the
earth shall praise himself in the true
God; and he swearing in the earth,
shall swear in the true God; for the
former straits were forgotten, and be-
cause they were hid from mine eyes.

17 For behold me creating new heay-
ens and a new earth: and the former
things shall not be remembered, and
they shall not come upon the heart.

18 But be ye glad and rejoice even
forever, for what I create: for behold
me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her
people a rejoicing.

19 And I rejoiced in Jerusalem, and
was glad in my people; and the voice
of weeping shall no more be heard in
her, and the voice of erying.

20 There shall be no more from
thence a child of days, and an old man
who shall not fill up his days: for the
boy shall die the son of a hundred
years; and he sinning, the son of a
hundred years, shall be cursed.

21 And they built houses and they
dwelt in them; and they planted vine-
yards, and they ate the fruit.

22 They shall not build and another
inhabit; they shall not plant and an-
other eat: for as the days of a tree the
days of my people, and my chosen shall
wear out the work of their hands.

28 They shall not labor in vain, and

ISATAH LXVI

they shall not bring forth for terror ;
for they the seed of the blessed of Jeho-
vah, and their offspring with them.

24 And it was before they shall call,
I will answer; they yet speaking, and
I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed
as one, and the lion and the ox shall
eat straw, and the serpent, dust his
bread. They shall not do evil, and
they shall not destroy in all my holy
mountain, said Jehovah.

CHAPTER LXVI
TUS said Jehovah, The heavens
my throne, and the earth the
footstool of my feet: where this house
או‎ hich ye will build to me? and where
this p'aze of my rest?

2 And all these my hand made, and
all these shall be, says Jehovah : and to
this will I look, to the humble and
smitten of spirit, and trembling at my
word.

3 He slaughtering the ox, striking a
man; he sacrificing a sheep, broke a
dog’s neck; he bringing up ἃ gift,
swine’s blood; he making remembrance
of frankincense, praising vanity ; also
they chose their ways, and in their
ב‎ their soul delighted.

4 Also I will choose upon their vex-
ations, and I will bring their fears to
them; for I called, and none answered ;
I spake, and they heard not: and they
will do evil in mine eyes, and in what
I delighted not, they chose.

5 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye
trembling at his word: Your brethren
hating you, excluding you for sake of
my name, said, Ji ehovah shall be hon-
ored: and he was seen to your joy, and
they shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of uproar from the city, a
voice from the temple, a voice of Jeho-
vah requiting retribution to his enemies.

7 Bringing forth before she will trav-
ail, before pain will come to her, she
was delivered of a male.

8 Who heard such as this? who saw
such as these things? shall the earth
be made to travail in one day? if a
nation shall be brought forth at once?
for Zion was pained, she also brought
forth her sons.

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9 Shall I cause to break and not
cause to bring forth? will Jehovah
say: If I cause to bring forth and did
I shut up? said thy God.

10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and
be glad in her, all ye loving. her: re-
joice with her from j joy, all ye mourn-
ing over her:

11 So that ye shall suck and be sat-
isfied from the breast of her consola-
tion; so that ye shall press out and be

delighted from the brightness of her
glory.
12 For thus said Jehovah, Behold

me extending peace to her as a river,
and as a torrent flowing to the glorv of
the nations: and ye sucked, ye shall
be lifted upon the side, and ye shall be
caressed upon the knees.

13 As aman whom his mother shall
comfort him, so will I comfort you;
and in Jerusalem ye shall be com-
forted.

14 And ye saw, and your heart re-
joiced, and your bones shall break
forth as the tender grass: and the hand
of Jehovah was known with his ser-
vants, and his wrath to his enemies.

15 For behold, Jehovah will come
with fire, and his chariots as a whirl-
wind, to turn back in the wrath of his
anger, and his rebuke in flames of fire.

16 For with fire and with sword Je-
hovah judged all flesh : and the wound-
ed of Jehovah were many.

17 They consecrating themselves and
cleansing themselves in the gardens, be-
hind one in the midst, eating swine’s
flesh, and the abomination, and the
mouse; together shall they perish, says
Jehovah.

18 And I come to gather together
all nations and tongues, their works
and ל‎ purposes ; and ac came and.
ee ny glory.

ndI set a sign among them,
et. I sent those escaping of them to
the nations, Tarshish, Pul, and Lud,
drawing the bow, Tubal and Javan,
the isles far off, that heard not my re-
port, and saw not my glory; and ‘they
announced my glory among the nations,

20 And they brought all your breth-
ren out of all the, nations a gift to Je-
hoyah, upon horses, and in chariots,

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and in litters, and upon mules, and
upon swift camels, to my holy mount-
ain Jerusalem, said Jehovah, as the
sons of Israel shall bring a gift in a
clean vessel to the house of Jehovah.
21 And I also will take from them
for priests, for Leyites, said Jehovah.
22 For as the new heavens and the
new earth which I made, standing be-

fore me, says Jehovah, so shall stand
your seed and your name.

JEREMIAH 1.

23 And it was as often as the new
moon in its new moon, and as often as
the Sabbath in its Sabbath, all flesh
shall come to worship before me, says
Jehovah.

24 And they went forth and saw
the carcasses of the men transgressing
against me: for their worm shall not
die, and their fire shall not be quench-
ed; and they were an abhorrence to
all flesh.

JHREMTAH.

CHAPTER I.
HE words of Jeremiah son of Hil-
kiah, of the priests that were in
Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

2 When the word of Jehovah was to
him in the days of Josiah son of Amon,
king of Judah, in the thirteenth year to
his reigning.

3 And it will be in the days of Jehoi-
akim son of Josiah king of Judah, even
to the fulness of the eleventh year to
Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah,
even to the captivity of Jerusalem in
the fifth month.

4 And the word of Jehovah will be

‘to me, saying,

5 Before I shall form thee in the bel-
ly, I knew thee; and before thou shalt
go forth from the womb I consecrated
thee; I gave thee a prophet to the na-
tions.

6 And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, be
hold I knew not to speak: for I a boy.

7 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou
shalt not say, Ia boy; for thou shalt
go to all to whom I shall send thee, and
all which I shall command thee thou
shalt speak.

8 Thou shalt not be afraid of their
faces, for I am with thee to deliver
thee, says Jehovah.

9 And Jehovah will stretch forth his
hand and touch upon my mouth: and
Jehovah will say to. me, Behold, I gave
my werds into thy mouth.

10 See, I appointed thee this day
over the nations and over the kingdoms
to pluck up and to tear down, and to
destroy, and to overthrow, to build
and to plant.

11 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying, What seest thou, Jere-
miah? and saying, I see the shoot of
an almond tree.

12 And Jehovah will say to me,
Thou didst well to see; for I watch
upon my word to do it.

13 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me the second time, saying, What
seest thou? and saying, I see a pot
blown under, and its face from the face
of the north.

14 And Jehovah will say to me,
From the north shall evil be opened
upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

15 For behold me calling to all the
families of the kingdoms of the north,
says Jehovah; and they came, and
gave aman his throne at the opening
of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon
all her walls round about and upon all
the cities of Judah.

16 And I spake my judgment with
them concerning all their evil, who for-
sook me, and they will burn incense to
other gods, and they will worship to
the works of their hands.

17 And thou shalt gird thy loins and
rise and speak to them all that I shall
command thee: thou shalt not be terri-

JEREMIAH II.

fied from their face lest I shall break
thee before them.

18 Behold, I gave thee this day for a
fortified city and fgr a pillar of iron
and for a wall of brass upon all the
land to the kings of Judah, to her
chiefs, to her priests, and to the people
of the land.

19 And they warred against thee;
and they shall not prevail against thee,
for I am with thee, says Jehovah, to
deliver thee.

CHAPTER II.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying, °

2 Go and call in the ears of Jerusa-
lem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I re-
membered for thee the kindness of thy
youth, the love of thy completion, thy
going after me in the desert in a land
not sown.

3 Israel is holy to Jehovah, the be-
ginning of the produce: all consuming
him shall transgress; evil shall come
upon them, says Jehovah.

4 Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O
house of Jacob, and the families of the
house of Israel :

5 Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity
found your fathers in me that they re-
moved far off from me, and went after
vanity, and they became vain?

6 And they said not, Where is Jeho-
vah bringing us up out of the land of
Egypt, causing us to go through the
desert into a sterile land and a pit,
through a land of drought and the
shadow of death, through a land not a
man passed through it, and not a man
dwelt there?

7 And I will bring you to the land
of Carmel, to eat its fruit and its good-
ness; and ye will come and defile my
land, and ye set mine inheritance for
an abomination.

8 The priests said not, Where is Je-
hovah? and they holding the law
knew me not: and the shepherds trans-
gressed against me, and the prophets
prophesied by Baal, and they went
after what will not profit.

9 For this I will even contend with
you, says Jehovah, and with your sons’
sons will I contend.

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10 For pass over the isles of Chittim,
and see; and send to Kedar, and con-
sider greatly, and see whether there
was like this.

11 Did a nation change their gods,
and they no gods? and my people
changed their glory for what will not
profit.

12 Be astonished, ye heavens, at this,
and shudder; be ye greatly desolate,
says Jehovah.

13 For my people did two evils: they
forsook me the fountain of living wa-
ters, to hew out for them wells, broken
wells which will not hold water.

14 Is Israel a servant? if he was born
in the house wherefore was he for plun-
dex?

15 Upon him the young lions roared,
they gave their voice, they will set his
land for a desolation: his cities were
burned from not being inhabited.

16 Also the sons of Noph and Ta-
hapanes, they will feed thee upon the
crown of the head.

17 Wilt thou not do this to thyself?
thou didst forsake Jehovah thy God in
the time of thy being led in the way.

18 And now what to thee for the
way of Egypt, to drink the water of
Sihor? and what to thee to the way of
Assur, to drink the water of the river?

19 Thy wickedness shall correct thee,
and thy turnings back shall convict
thee: and know thou and see that evil
and bitter thy forsaking Jehovah thy
God, and that my fear was not 0 6
says the Lord Jehovah of armies.

20 For from of old I broke thy yoke,
I burst thy bonds; and thou wilt say,
I will not serve; for upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou
turnest one side, committing fornication.

21 And I planted thee a vine of pur-
ple grapes, wholly a true seed: and
how didst thou turn to me the remoy-
ings of a strange vine?

22 For if thou shalt wash thyself
with nitre, and thou shalt increase to
thee cleansing, thine imiquity was
graven before me, says the Lord Jeho-
vah.

23 How wilt thou say, I was not de-
filed? I went not after the Baalims?
See thy way in the valley, know what

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thou didst; a young she camel entan-
gling her ways;

24 A wild ass accustomed to the des-
ert in gratifying her soul, panting after
the wind in her heat; who shall turn
her back? all seeking her will not be
wearied; in hernew moon they shall
find her.

25 Withhold thy foot from being
barefoot, and thy throat from thirst:
and thou wilt say, Despairing, no; for!
loved strangers, and after them will I go.

26 As the shame of the thief when
he shall be found, so was the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their
chiefs, and their priests, and their
prophets,

27 Saying to the wood, Thou my
father; and to the stone, Thou didst
bring me forth: for they turned to me
the back of the neck and not their face:
and in the time of their evil they will
say, Arise, and save us.

28 And where thy gods which thou
didst make to thee? they will arise, if
they shall save thee in the time of
thine evil: for from the numbering of
thy cities were thy gods, O Judah.

29 Wherefore will ye contend against
me? all ye transgressed against me, says
Jehovah,

80 In vain did I strike your sons;
they received no instruction: your
sword consumed the prophets as a lion
destroying.

31 O generation, see ye the word of
Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel?
Tf a land of thick darkness? wherefore
said my people, We had dominion, we
will come no more to thee?

32 Will a virgin forget her orna-
ments, or a bride her girdles? and my
people forgat me days of no numbering.

33 How wilt thou make good thy
way to seek love? for this also thou
didst teach the evil ones thy ways.

84 Also in thy wings were found the
blood of the souls of the innocent poor :
not by breaking in did I find them, but
upon all these.

85 And thou wilt say, Because I was
innocent his anger turned back from
me. Behold me judging thee for thy
saying, I sinned not.

80 Why wilt thou despise greatly to

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do the second time thy way? also thou
shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert
ashamed of Assur.

87 Also from thjs thou wilt go forth
and thy hands upon thy head : for Jeho-
vah rejected thy trusts and thou shalt
not give success to them.

CHAPTER IIL

AYING, If a man shall send away

his wife, and she went from him

and she was to another man, shall he

yet turn back to her? Being defiled,

shall not that land be defiled ? and thou

committedst fornication with many

shepherds; and ‘turn back to me, says
Jehovah.

2 Lift up thine eyes upon the naked
hills and see where thou wert not lain
with. Upon the ways thou didst sit
for them as the ravens in the desert;
and thou wilt defile the land with thy
fornications and with thine evil.

83 And the showers will be withheld,
and the latter rain was not; and the
forehead of a woman a harlot was to
thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed.

4 From the time didst thou not call
to me, My father, thou the friend of my
youth ?

5 Will he guard forever? if he will
watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and
wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be
able?

6 And Jehovah will say to me in the
days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou
what Israel turning back, did? She
went up upon every high mountain
and under every green tree, and she will
commit fornication there.

7 And saying after she did all these,
Thou shalt turn back tome. And she
turned not back; and her faithless sis-
ter Judah will sce it.

8 And I shall see for all the canses
that Israel turning away committed
adultery, I sent her away and I shall
give a writing of her cutting off to her;
and her faithless sister Judah was not
afraid, and she will go and commit for-
nication, she also.

9 And it was her fornication being
light, and she will defile the land, and
she will commit adultery with stones
and with woods.

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10 And also in all this her faithless
sister Judah turned not back to me
with all the heart, but in falsehood,
says Jehovah.

11 And Jehovah will say to me, Is-
racl turning away justified her soul
above faithless Judah.

12 Go and call these words to the
north, and say, Turn back, O Israel,
turning away, says Jehovah; I will not
cause my face to fall upon you: for I
am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not
guard forever.

13 Only know thine iniquity that
thou didst transgress against Jehovah
thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways
to strangers under every green tree,
and to my voice ye heard not, says Je-
hovah.

14 Turn back, ye sons having turned
away, says Jehov “ὦ for I was lord
over you: and 1 took you one from a
city and two from a family, and I
brought you to Zion.

15 And I ¢ gave to you shepherds ac-
cording to my heart, and they fed you
with knowledge and understanding.

16 And it was that ye shall be “mul-
tiplied and be fruitful in "ἢ land in
those days, savs Jehovah; they shall
no more say, The ark of she covenant
of Jehovah: and it shall not come up
upon the heart, and they shall not re-
member upon it, and they shall not re-
view; and it shall be done no more.

17 In that time they shall eall to Je-
rusalem the throne of Jehovah; andall
nations assembled together to her to the
name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: and
they shall no more go after the stub-
bornness of their evil heart.

18 In those days the house of Judah
shall ξο with the house of Israel, and
they shall go together out of the land of
the north to a land which I caused your
fathers to inherit.

19 And I said, How shall I place
thee among the sons, and I will give to
thee a land of desire, an inheritance of
glory of the armies of nations? And
saying, Ye sh ull call to me, My father ;
and ye shall not turn back from after
me.

20 Surely a wife acting faithlessly
by her friend, so ye acted faithlessly

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against me, O house of Israel, says Je-
hovah.

21 A voice was heard upon the naked
hills, weepings, supplications of the sons
of Israel: for they perverted their way,
they forgot Jehovah their God.

22 Turn 0801 ye sons turning away ;
I will heal your turnings-away. Be-
hold, we came to thee; for thou Jeho-
vah our God.

23 Truly in vain from the hills; the
multitude of mountains; truly in Jeho-
vah our God the salvation of Israel.

24 And shame consumed the labor of
our fathers from our youth; their sheep
and their herd, their sons and their
daughters.

25 We shall lie down in our shame,
and our reproach will cover us: for we
sinned against- Jehovah our God, we
and our fathers, from our youth even
to this day, and we heard not to the
voice of Jehovah our God. .

CHAPTER IV.
F thou wilt turn back, O Israel, says
Jehovah, thou shalt turn back to
me: and if thou wilt remove thine
abominations from my face thou shalt
not be moved.

2 And thou swearest, ado ah lives
in truth, in judgment, and in justice ;
and the nations were blessed in him,
and in him shall they praise.

9 For thus said Jehovah to the men
of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up
to you the fallow ground, and ye shall
not sow to thorns.

4 Be circumcised to Jehovah, and re-
move the uncircumcision of your heart,
ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Je-
rusalem; lest my wrath shall come
forth as fire, and burn, and none quench-
ing it from the face of the evil of your
doings.

5 Announce ye in Judah, and cause
to be heard in Jerusalem; and say,
Strike the trumpet in the land: call,
fill up, and say, Be ye gathered tovether
and we will go to the fortified cities.

6 Lift up the signal of Zion: save ye
by flight, ye shall not stand : for I bring
evil from ‘the north, and a great break:
ing.

"7 The lion came up from his thicket,

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and destroying, he broke up the nations ;
he went forth from his place to set thy
land for a desolation; thy cities shall
be laid waste from none inhabiting.

8 For this, be ye girded with sack-
cloth, lament and wail: for the heat of
the anger of Jehovah turned not back
from us.

9 And it was in that day, says Jeho-
vah, the heart of the king shall perish,
and the heart of the chiefs; and the
priests were astonished, and the proph-
ets shall wonder.

10 And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah!
surely, deceiving, thou didst deceive to
this people and to Jerusalem, saying,
Peace shall be to you; and the sword
reached even to the soul.

11 In that time it will be said to this
people and to Jerusalem, A clear wind
of the naked hills in the desert the way
of the daughter of my people, not for
winnowing, and not for separating.

12 A spirit of fulness above these
shall come to me: now will I also speak
judgments to them.

18 Behold, he shall come up as clouds,
and his chariots as the whirlwind: his
horses were swift above eagles. Wo
to us! for we were laid waste.

14 O Jerusalem, wash from evil to
thy heart so that thou shalt be saved.
How Jong shall purposes of thy vanity
lodge in the midst of thee?

15 For a voice announcing from Dan,
and causing calamity to be heard from
mount Ephraim.

16 Bring ye to remembrance to the
nations; behold, cause to be heard
against Jerusalem, watchers coming
from a land afar off, and they shall give
their voice against the cities of Judah.

17 As watching a field they were
against her from round about; for she
embittered against me, says Jehovah.

18 Thy way and thy doings did these
things to thee; this thine evil, for it
was bitter because it reached even to
thy heart.

19 My bowels, my bowels! I shall
afflict the walls of my heart; my heart
made commotion to me; I shall not be
silent, for the voice of the trumpet thou
didst hear, O my soul, the tumult of war.

20 Breaking upon breaking was call-

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ed; for all the land was laid waste:
suddenly were my tents laid waste, my
curtains In ἃ moment.

21 How long shall I see the signal,
shall I hear the voice of the trumpet?

22 For my people are foolish, they
knew me not; foolish sons are they and
they not understanding; wise are they
to do evil, and to do good they knew
not.

23 I saw the earth, and behold, emp-
tiness and a void; and to the heavens,
and no lights.

24 I saw the mountains, and behold
them trembling, and all the hills were
shaken.

25 I saw, and behold, no man, and
all the birds of the heavens fled away.

26 I saw, and behold, Carmel a des-
ert, and all its cities were broken down
from the face of Jehovah, from the face
of the heat of his anger.

27 For thus said Jehovah, All the
earth shall be a desert; and I will not
make a completion.

28 For this, shall the earth mourn,
and the heavens became dark from
above: because I spake, I purposed, I
lamented not, and I will not turn back
from it.

29 From the voice of the horseman
and the throwing of the bowman all
the city fled; they went into thickets,
and they went up upon rocks: every
city was forsaken, and not a man dwell-
ing in them.

30 And thou being laid waste, what
wilt thou do? If thou shalt put on
scarlet, if thou shalt adorn thee with
ornaments of gold, if thou shalt rend
thine eyes with paint, in vain shalt thou
beautify thyself: the lovers despised
thee ; they will seek thy soul.

81 For I heard the voice as of her
bringing forth, the anguish as of her
bearing her first child; the voice of the
daughter of Zion, she will sigh, she will
spread forth her hands, Wo now to
me! for my soul fainted for those slay-

ing,

CHAPTER V.
UN ye to and fro in the streets of
Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in her broad places, if

JEREMIAH ץצ‎

ye shall find a man, if there is he doing
judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I
will pardon to her.

2 And if Jehovah lives, they will
say, for this they will swear to a false-
hood.

3 O Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon
faithfulness? thou didst smite them,
and they were not pained; thou didst
consume them, they refused to take in-
struction: they made their faces firm
above the rock; they refused to turn
back.

4 And I said, Surely, they are weak ;
they became foolish: for they knew
not the way of Jehovah, the judgment
of their God.

5 1 will go for myself to the great
ones, and I will speak to them; for
they knew the way of Jehovah, the
judgment of their God: surely they to-
gether broke the yoke and tore away
the bonds.

6 For this, a lion from the forest
struck them, a wolf of the deserts will
destroy them, the panther watched
over their cities: every one going forth
from thence shall be torn in pieces:
for their transgressions were multiplied,
their turnings away were strong.

7 How shall I forgive to thee for
this? thy sons forsook me, and they
will swear by not God; and I will sat-
isfy them, and they will commit adul-
tery, and they will crowd themselves
together to the house of the harlot.

8 They were horses seducing to for-
nication: roaming about, they will
neigh, a man for the wife of his neigh-

or.

9 For these shall I not review? says
Jehovah; and shall not my soul be
| avenged upon a nation such as this?

10 Go ye up upon her walls and de-
stroy ; and ye shall not make a comple-
tion: remove her twigs, for they are
not to Jehovah.

11 For acting faithlessly, the house
of Israel and the house of Judah acted
faithlessly against me, says Jehovah.

12 They lied against Jehovah, and
they will say, Not he; and evil shall
not come upon us; and we shall not
see the sword and famine:

18 And the prophets shall be for

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wind, and the word not in them: so
shall it be done to them.

‘14 For this, thus said Jehovah, the
God of armies, Because ye spake this
word, behold me giving my word in
thy mouth for fire, and this people
wood, and it consumed them.

15 Behold me bringing upon you a
nation from far off, O house of Israel,
says Jehovah: it is a nation of strength,
it is a nation of old, a nation thou wilt
not know its tongue, and thou shalt
not hear what it will speak.

16 Its quiver as a grave being open-
ed, all they are strong.

17 And it ate thy harvest and thy
bread, that thy sons and thy daughters
shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and
thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and
thy fig-trees: it shall break down thy
fortified cities which thou trustedst in
them, with the sword. ;

18 And also in those days, says Je
hovah, I will not make with you a
completion.

19 And it was when ye shall say,
For what did Jehovah our God all
these things to us? and thou saidst to
them, As ye forsook me, and ye will
serve a strange god in your land, so
shall ye serve strangers in a land not
to you.

20 Announce ye this in the house of
Jacob, and cause it to be heard in Ju-
dah, saying,

21 Hear now this, O foolish people,
and no heart; eyes to them and they
will not see; and ears to them, and
they will not hear:

22 Will ye not fear me? says Jeho-
vah; or will ye not tremble from my
face, who set the sand a bound to the
sea a law forever, and it shall not pass
over it: and its waves shall toss them-
selves and shall not prevail; and they
were put in commotion and shall not
pass over it.

23 And to this people was a_heart
turning aside and perverse, and they
turned aside and departed.

24 And they’said not in their heart,
Now will we fear Jehovah our God, giv-
ing rain, and the early and latter rain
in its time: the appointed sevenths of
harvest he will watch for us

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25 Your iniquities turned away these
things, and your sins withheld the good
from you.

26 For evil ones were found among
my people: he will look about as the
stooping of fowlers; they set snares,
they will take men.

27 As a cage full of birds, so their
houses full of deceit: for this they were
magnified and they will be rich.

28 They became fat, they shone:
they passed over words of evil: they
judged not judgment, the judgment of
the orphan, and they will give success;
and the judgment of the needy they
judged not.

29 For these things shall I not re-
view? says Jehovah: or shall not my
soul be avenged upon a nation such as
this?

80 Astonishment and horror was in
the land.

31 The prophets prophesied in false-
hood, and the priests will spread out
with their hands; and my people loved
it thus: and what will ye do to its last
part.

CHAPTER VI.
E strong, ye sons of Benjamin,
from the midst of Jerusalem, and
in Tekoa strike the trumpet, and lift up
a lifting up upon the house of the vine-
yard, for evil overhung from the north,
and great breaking.

21 likened the daughter of Zion to
her becoming and delicate.

3 To her shall come the shepherds
and their flocks; they fixed the tents
upon her round about; they fed each
with his hand.

4 Consecrate ye war against her;
arise, and we will go up at noon. Wo
to us! for the day turned away, for the
shadows of the evening will stretch
forth.

5 Arise, and we will go up in the
night, and we will destroy her fort-
resses.

6 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
Cut off the wood, and throw up a mound
against Jerusalem: this the city to be
reviewed ; oppression is wholly in her
midst.

7 Asa pit, letting flow her waters,

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so she dug up her evil: violence and
oppression will be heard in her; wpon
my face continually disease and smit-
ing.

8 Be admonished, O Jerusalem, lest
thy soul shall be alienated from thee ;
lest I shall set thee a desolation, a land
not inhabited.

9 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Glean-
ing, they shall glean as a vine the re-
mainder of Israel: turn back thy hand
ἢ he gathering grapes into wicker bas-
<ets,

10 To whom shall 1 speak and testi-
fy, and they will hear? bchold, their
ear being uncircumcised, and they shall
not be able to hearken: behold, the
word of Jehovah was to them for a re-
proach ; they will not delight in it.

11 I was filled with the wrath of Je-
hovah; I was weary holding up; to
pour out upon the child in the street
and upon the assembly of the young
men together; for also the man with the
woman shall be taken, the old man
with the full of days.

12 And their houses were turned to
others, the fields and women together ;
for I will stretch out my hand upon the
inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah.

13 For from their little even to their
great, every one plundering, plundered ;
and from the prophet and even to the
priest every one did falsehood.

14 And they will heal the breaking
of the daughter of my people by mak-
ing light, and saying, Peace, peace ; and
no peace.

15 Were they ashamed when they
did abomination? also shaming they
will not be ashamed; also they knew
not feeling shame; for this they shall
fall with those falling: in the time of
my reviewing them they shall faint,
said Jehovah.

16 Thus said Jehovah, Stand ye up-
on the ways, and see, and ask for the
beaten paths of old, where this the good
way, and go ye in it, and find rest to
your soul. And they will say, We
will not go. :

17 And I set up watchers over you,
Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet.
And they will say, We will not attend.

18 For this, hear ye nations, and

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know, O Assembly, what is among
them.

19 Hear, thou earth: Behold me
bringing evil to this people, the fruit of
their purposes, for tomy word they
hearkened. not, and my law they will
reject it.

20 Wherefore this to me shall frank-
incense come from Sheba, תה‎ the
good cane from a land from far off?
your burnt-offerings are not for accept-
ance, “and your sacrifices were not
sweet to me.

21 For this, thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me giving to this people stum-
bling blocks, and they stumbled upon
them, the fathers and sons together ;
the inhabitant and his neighboy shall
perish.

22 Thus said Jehovah, Behold, a
people coming from the land of the
north, and a great nation shall be
raised up from the thighs of the earth.

23 They shall lay hold of bow and
javelin; itis fierce and they will not
pity; their voice will roar as the sea,
and they will ride upon horses arrang-
ed as men for war against thee, Ὁ
daughter of Zion..

24 We heard its report: our hands
were relaxed; straits held us, pain as
of her bringing forth.

25 Thou shalt not go forth to the
field, and thou shalt not go by the
way; for the sword to the enemy, fear
from round about.

26 O daughter of my people, gird on
sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes:
> make to thee the mourning of an only
begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for
he laying waste shall suddenly come
upon us.

27 I gave thee a watch-tower among
my people, a fortification, and thou
shalt know and try their way.

28 They are all turning aside, degen-
erate shoots, going about tale-bearing :
brass and iron, they are destroyers all
of them.

29 The bellows were burnt from
their fire, the founder melted the lead
in vain, and the evil were not plucked
up.

80 They called to them, Rejected sil-
ver, because Jehovah rejected them.

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CHAPTER VIL
ΠΕ word that was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying

2 Stand in the gate of the house of

Jehovah, and eall “there this word, and

say, Hear ye the word of J chovah, all

Judah coming into these gates to wor-
ship to Jehovah.

3 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, Make good your ways and
your doings, and I will cause you to
dwell in this place.

4 Ye shall not trust to yourselves to
words of falsehood, saying, The temple
of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the
temple of Jehovah are they.

5 For if making good, ye shall make
good your ways Vand your doings; if
doing, ye shall do judgment between
man “and between his neighbor;

6 Ye shall not oppress the stranger,
the orphan and the widow, and inno-
cent blood ye shall not pour out in this
place, and after other gods ye shall not
go, for evil to you;

7 And I caused you to dwell in this
place, in the land which I gave to your
fathers from forever even to forever.

8 Behold, you trusting to yourselves
upon Ww ords of falsehood not to receive
profit.

9 Stealing, lalling, and committing
adultery, and swearing for falsehood,
and burning incense to Baal, and going
after other gods which ye knew not;

10 And ye came and stood before
me in this house which my name was
called upon it, and ye said, We were
delivered to do all these abominations.

11 Was this house which my name
was called upon it a cave of those
breaking down in your eyes? also I,
behold, I saw, says s Jehovah.

12 But go now to my place which is
in Shiloh, where I caused my name to
dwell there at the first, and see what I
did to it from the face of the evil of my
people Israel.

18 And now, because ye did all
these works, says Jehovah, and I will
speak to you, rising early and speaking,
and ye heard not; and I will call you
and ye answered not;

14 And I did to the house which
my name was called upon it, which ye

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are trusting in it, and to the place which
I gave to you and to your 8 as I
did to Shiloh.

15 And I cast you out from my face,
as 1 cast out all your brethren, all the
seed of Ephraim.

16 And thou shalt not pray for this
people, and thou shalt not lift up a
wailing and prayer for them, and thou
shalt not entreat upon me: for I hear
thee not.

17 Seest thou not what they are do-
ing in the cities of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem ?

18 The sons are gathering up woods,
and the fathers kindling the fire, and
the women knead the dough to make
cakes for the queen of the heavens, and
to pour out libations to other gods, to
irritate me.

19 Are they irritating me? says Je-
hovah. Are they not themselves to the
shame of their faces ?

20 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah; Behold my anger and my wrath
was poured out to this place, upon man,
and upon cattle, and upon the tree of
the field, and upon the fruit of the land ;
and it burnt and it shall not be
quenched.

21 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel; Add your burnt-offermgs
upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.

22 For I spake not to your fathers,
and I commanded them not in the day
of bringing them forth out of the land
of Egypt, concerning my word of burnt-
offering and sacrifice :

23 But this word I commanded them,
saying, Hear to my voice, and I was to
you for God, and ye shall be to me for
a people: and go in all the ways which
I shall command you, so that it shall be
well to you.

24 And they heard not and inclined
not their ear, and they went in the
counsels in the stubbornness of their
evil heart, and they shall be for behind
and not before.

25 From the day that your fathers
came forth out of the land of Egypt
even to this day, and I will send to you
all my servants the prophets, in the day
rising early and sending:

26 And they heard not to me and

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they inclined not their ear, and they will
harden their neck: they did evil above
their fathers.

27 And speak thou to them all these
words, and they will not hear to thee:
and call to them, and they will not an-
swer.

28 And say to them, This a nation
that heard not to the voice of Jehovah
its God, and they received not instrue-
tion: faithfulness perished, and was cut
off from their mouth. 1

29 Shave thy consecration and cast
away, and lift up a lamentation upon
the lips; for Jehovah rejected and east
out the generation of his wrath.

30 For the sons of Judah did evil in
mine .eyes, says Jehovah; they set
their abominations in the house which
my name was called upon it, to de-
file it.

31 And they built heights to Tophet
which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters in fire; which I commanded
not, and it came not upon my heart.

32 For this, behold, the days coming,
says Jehovah, and it shall no more be
said, Tophet, and The valley of the son
of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaugh-
ter: and they buried in Tophet, from
not being place.

33 And the carcass of this people
was for food to the birds of the heav-
ens and for the cattle of the earth; and
none terrifying. 1

84 And I caused to cease from the
cities of Judah and from the streets of
Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride:
for the land shall be for a desolation.

CHAPTER VIIL

N that time, says Jehovah, and they

- shall bring forth the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his
chiefs, and the bones of the priests, and
the bones of the prophets, and the bones
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out
of their graves:

2 And they spread them to the sun
and to the moon, and to all the army
of the heavens which they loved, and
which they served, and which they

JEREMIAH IX.

went after, and which they sought and
which they worshiped to them: they
shall not be gathered and they shall not
be buried; they shall be for dung upon
the face of the earth.

3 And death was chosen above life
to all the remnant of those being left
from this evil family, in all the places
being left where I cast them out there,
says Jehovah of armies.

4 And say to them, Thus said Jeho-
vah, Shall they fall and not rise? if he
shall turn back, and not turn back?

5 Wherefore did this people of Jeru-
salem turn away a continual turning
away? they laid: hold upon deceit ;
they refused to turn back.

6 I hearkened and I will hear, they
shall not speak thus: no man lamented
for his evil, saying, What did I?
Every one turned back in his race as
the horse rushing into battle.

7 Also the stork in the heavens knew
her appointment; and the turtle-dove,
and the swallow, and the twitterer
watched the time of their coming; and
my people knew not the judgment of
Jehovah.

8 How shall ye say, We are wise,
and the law of Jehovah with us? Be-
hold, surely for falsehood he made the
style of the scribes a lie.

9 The wise were ashamed, they were
confounded, and they will be taken:
behold, they rejected in the word of
Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?

10 For this I will give their wives to
others; their fields to those inheriting
them: for from small and even to great
all plundering a plunder, from the
prophet and even to the priest, all did
falsehood.

11 And they will heal the breaking
of the daughter of my people by mak-
ing light of, saying, Peace, peace; and
no peace.

12 Were they ashamed when they
did abomination? also shaming they
will not be ashamed, and they knew
not to feel shame: for this they shall
fall among the falling: in the time of
their reviewing they shall faint, said
Jehovah.

13 Destroying, I will destroy them,
says Jehovah; no grapes upon the

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vine, and no figs upon the fig-tree, and
the leaf fell away; and what I shall
give to them shall pass by them.

14 For what are we sitting? gather
ye together and we will go into the for-
tified cities, and we shall be silent there:
for Jehovah our God caused us to
cease, and he will give us to drink the
water of poison, for we sinned against
Jehovah.

15 Hoping for peace, and no good;
fora time of healing, and behold, ter-
ror.

16 From Dan was heard the snorting
of his horses; from the voice of the
neighings of his strong ones all the Jand
trembled: and they will come and cut
up the land, and its fulness; the city
and those dwelling in it.

17 For behold me sending serpents,
vipers among you, which to them no
hissing, and they bit you, says Jeho-
vah.

18 Because I afflicted not sorrow
upon myself, my heart was sick upon

me.

19 Behold the voice of the ery for
help of the daughter of my people from
the land of those being far off: is not
Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in
her? wherefore did they irritate me
with their carved images, with strange
vanities ?

20 The harvest passed by, the sum-
mer was completed, and we were not
saved.

21 For the breaking of the daughter
of my people was I broken; I was
darkened; astonishment took hold of
me.

22 Is there no balsam in Gilead, or
healing there? for wherefore did not
the health of the daughter of my peo-
ple go up?

23 Who will give my head waters,
and mine eyes a fountain of tears? and
I will weep day and night for the
wounded of the daughter of my people.

CHAPTER IX.
\ | 110 will give me in the desert a
lodging-place of travelers? and
I will leave my people and go from
them, for they all commit adultery ; an
assembly of those acting faithlessly.

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2 And they will bend their tongue,
their bow, a lie: and they were not
strong for faithfulness upon the land ;
for from evil to evil they went forth,
and they knew me not, says Jehovah.

3 Watch ye each from his neighbor,
and to any brother ye shall not trust,
for every brother deceiving, will de-
ceive, and every neighbor will go tale-
bearing.

4 And they will mock, a man upon
his neighbor, and they will not speak
the truth: they taught their tongue to
speak falsehood, they wearied them-
selves to sin.

5 Thy dwelling is in the midst of de-
ceit; by deceit they refused to know
me, says Jehovah.

6 For this, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies, Behold me melting them, and I
tried them; for how shall I do for the
face of the daughter of my people?

7 Their tongue a deadly arrow,
speaking deceit; m his mouth he will
speak peace to his neighbor, and he
will lay his wait in his midst.

8 For these things, shall I not review
upon them? says Jehovah; or shall
not my soul be avenged upon a nation
such as this?

9 For the mountains I will lift up
weeping and lamentation, and for the
seats of the desert, a song of mourning,
for they were burnt, from not a man
passing through; and they heard not
the voice of cattle: from the bird of the
heavens and even to the cattle, they
fled away, they departed.

10 And I gave Jerusalem for heaps
and a dwelling of jackals; and the cit-
ies of Judah I will give a desolation
from none inhabiting.

11 Who the wise man and he will
understand this? and which the mouth
of Jehovah spake to him, and he will
announce it, for what the land perished
it was burnt as the desert, from not be-
ing passed through.

12 And Jehovah will say, For their
forsaking my law which I gave before
their face, and they heard not to my
voice, and they went not in it.

18 And they went after the stubborn-
ness of their heart, and after the Baa-
lims which their fathers taught them.

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14 For this, thus said Jehovah of
armies, God of Israel: Behold me
causing this people to eat wormwood,
and I gave them to, drink water of poi-
son.

15 And I scattered them in the na-
tions which they knew not, they and
their fathers: and I sent after them the
sword till I consumed them.

16 Thus said Jehovah of armies,
Give heed, and call ye for the wailing
women, and they shall come forth ; and
send ye to the wise women, and they
shall come forth.

17 And they shall hasten and lift wp
a lamentation for ‘us, and our eyes
shall go down with tears, and our eye-
lashes shall shake out waters.

18 For a voice of lamentation was
heard from Zion: How were we laid
waste! we were greatly ashamed, for
we forsook the land, and cast away our
dwellings.

19 For hear, ye women, the word of
Jehovah, and your ear shall receive the
word of his mouth, and teach ye your
daughters lamentation, and a woman
her neighbor, the song of mourning.

20 For death came up into our win-
dows, it came into our palaces to cut
off the child from without, the young
men from the streets.

21 Speak: Thus says Jehovah, The
carcasses of men fell as dung upon the
face of the field, as the handful after
the reaper, and none gathering.

29 Thus said Jehovah, The wise
shall not boast in his wisdom, and the
strong shall not boast in his strength ;
the rich shall not boast in his riches:

23 But he boasting shall boast in
this, to understand and know me, that
Iam Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment
and justice in the earth: for in these I
delighted, says Jehovah.

24 Behold, the days coming, says
Jehovah, and 1 reviewed over all 1
cireumcised with the uncircumcised ;

25 Over Egypt and over Judah and
over Edom, and over the sons of Am-
mon, and over Moab, and over all cut
off of the extremity dwelling in the
desert: for all the nations being uncir-
eumcised, and all the house of Israel
uncircumcised of heart.

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CHAPTER X.
EAR ye the word which Jehovah
spake to you, O house of Israel:

2 Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not
learn according to the way of the na-
tions, and from the signs of the heavens
ye shall not be terrified ; for the nations
will be terrified from them.

3 For the laws of the peoples, this
vanity: for they cut down a tree out
of the forest, the work of the hands of
the workman with the axe.

4 With gold and with silver they
will beautify ; with nails and with ham-
mers they will make firm and it will
not move.

5 They are of turned work, as the
palm tree, and they shall not speak;
being lifted up they shall be lifted up,
for they shall not mount up. Ye shall
not be afraid of them, for they will not
do eyil, and also doing good is not with
them.

6 For none like thee, O Jehovah;
thou art great, and great thy name in
streneth.

7 Who shall not fear thee, thou king
of the nations? for to thee he shall
come: for among all the wise of the na-
tions, and among all their kings, from
none like thee.

8 And in one they will become brut-
ish, and they will be foolish: the tree
itself a correction of vanities.

9 Silver beaten out shall be brought
from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,
the work of the workman, and the
hands of the founder: cerulean purple
and red purple their clothing: they all
are the work of the wise.

10 And Jehovah the God of truth;
he the living God, and king eternal:
from his wrath the earth shall tremble,
and the nations shall not prevail over
his anger.

11 Thus shall ye say to them, The
gods who made not the heavens and
the earth shall perish from the earth,
and from under these heavens.

12 He made the earth in his power,
setting upright the habitable globe by
his wisdom, and by his understanding
he stretched out the heavens.

18 At the voice his giving a multi-
tude of waters in the heavens, and he

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will bring the lifting up from the end
of the earth ; he made lghtnings to the
rain, and he will bring forth the wind
from his treasures.

14 Every man was brutish from
knowledge: every founder was ashamed
from his carved image; for his molten
image a falsehood, and no spirit in
them.

15 They are vanity, the work of de-
lusions: in the time of their reviewing
they shall perish.

16 The portion of Jacob not as these:
for he forming all things, and Israel the
rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of ar-
mies his name.

17 Gather the bundles out of the
land, thou dwelling in the fortress.

18 For thus said Jehovah: Behold
me slinging out those inhabiting the
land at this once, and I pressed upon
them so that they shall find.

19 Wo to me for my breaking! my
blow was sickly; and I said, Surely
this a sickness, and I will bear it.

20 My tent was laid waste, and all
my cords were broken: my sons went
forth from me, and they are not: none
stretched forth my tent any more, and
the place of my curtains.

21 For the shepherds were brutish,
and they sought not Jehovah: for this
they considered not, and all their flock
was scattered.

22 Behold, a voice of tidings coming,
and a great shaking from the land of
the north, to set the cities of Judah a
desolation, a dwelling of jackals.

23 I knew, O Jehovah, that not to
man his way; not to man to go and
set right his step.

24 Correct me, O Jehovah, but in
judgment, not in thy wrath, lest thou
shalt make me small.

25 Pour out thy wrath upon the na-
tions which knew thee not, and upon the
families that called not upon thy name:
for they ate up Jacob and consumed
him, and they will finish him, and they
made desolate his dwelling.

CHAPTER XI.

HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying,

2 Hear ye the words of this covenant,

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and speak to the men of Judah and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem :

3 And say to them, Thus said Jeho-
vah, God of Israel: Cursed the man
who will not hear the words of this coy-
enant,

4 Which I commanded your fathers
in the day of my bringing them forth
out of the land of Egypt, from the fur-
nace of iron, saying, Hear ye to my
voice, and do them according to all that
I shall command you: and be to me for
a people, and I will be to you for God:

5 Vo establish the oath which 1
sware to your fathers, to give to them
a land flowing milk and honey, as this
day. And I shall answer and say,
Verily, O Jehovah.

6 And Jehovah will say to me, Call
all these words in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying,
Hear ye the words of this covenant,
and do them.

7 For testifying, I testified to your

fathers in the day of my bringing them
up out of the land of Egypt, even to
this day, rismg early and testifying,
saying, Hear ye to my voice.

8 And they heard not, and inclined
not their ear, and they went a man in
the stubbornness of their evil heart:
and I will bring upon them all the
words of this covenant which I com-
manded to do; and they did not.

9 And Jehovah will say to me, A
conspiracy was found in the men of
Judah, and in the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem.

10 They turned back to the iniquities
of their fathers before them who refused
to hear my words; and they went after
other gods to serve them: the house of
Israel and the house of Judah brake
my covenant which I 68% out with
their fathers.

11 For this, thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me bringing evil to them which
they shall not be able to go forth from
it; and they cried to me and I will not
hear to them.

12 And the cities of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem went and cried
to the gods which they burnt incense
to them: and saving, they will not save
to them in the time of their evil.

JEREMIAH ΧΙ.

18 For from the numbering of thy
cities were thy gods, O Judah; and
from the numbering of the streets of
Jerusalem, ye set up altars to shame,
altars to burn incense to Baal.

14 And thou shalt not pray for this
people, and thou shalt not hft up for
them an outcry and a prayer: for I
hear not in the time of their calling to
me for their evil.

15 What is to my beloved in my
house making mischief to many, and
they shall cause the holy flesh to pass
away from thee? for thou didst evil,
then wilt thou exult.

16 A green olive tree, fair, of fruit
of figure, Jehovah called thy name;
by the voice of a great noise he kin-
dled a fire upon her, and its branches
were evil.

17 And Jehovah of armies planting
thee, spake evil against thee, on account
of the evil of the house of Israel and
the house of Judah which they did to
themselves to irritate me, burning in-
cense to Baal.

18 And Jehovah made known to me
and I shall know: then thou caused
me to see their doings.

19 And I as a gentle lamb being
brought to the slaughter; and I knew
not that against me they purposed pur-
poses: We will destroy the tree with its
food, and we will cut him off from the
land of the living, and his name shall
no more be remembered.

200 Jehovah of armies, judging
justice and trying the reims and the
heart, I shall see thy vengeance from
them, for to thee I uncovered my
cause.

21 For this, thus said Jehovah, con-
cerning the men of Anathoth seeking
my soul, saying, Thou shalt not proph-
esy in the name of Jehovah, and thou
shalt not die by our hand.

22 For this, thus said Jehovah of
armies, Behold me reviewing over
them: their young men shall die by
the sword; their sons and their daugh-
ters shall die by famine:

23 And a remnant shall not be to
them: for I will bring evil to the men
of Anathoth, the year of their review-

ing.

JEREMIAH זא‎ XIII.

CHAPTER ΧΙ].
UST art thou, O Jehovah, for I will
strive to thee: surely I will speak
judgments with thee: Wherefore did
the way of the evil prosper? all they
acting faithlessly with treachery were
secure ?

2 Thou didst plant them; they took
root; they went on, also they made
fruit: thou being near in their mouth,
and far off from their reins.

3 And thou, Jehovah, knew me:
thou wilt see me, and thou didst try
my heart with thee: pluck them out
as sheep for the slaughter, and conse-
erate them to the day of slaughter.

4 How long shall the land mourn,
and the herbage of every field dry up
from the evil of those dwelling in it?
the earth perished, and the birds; for
they said, He shall not see our last

art.

5 Tf thou didst run with the footmen
and they will weary thee, and how
wilt thou contend with horses? and in
the land of peace thou trustest, and
how wilt thou do in the grandeur of
Jordan?

6 For also thy brethren and the
house of thy father, they also acted
faithlessly with thee; they also called

after thee a fulness: thou shalt not be- |

lieve in them for they will speak to
thee good things.

71 forsook my house, I rejected
mine inheritance; I gave the beloved
of my soul into the hand of her ene-
mies.

8 My inheritance was to me as a lion
in the forest; she gave upon me with
her voice: for this I hated her.

9 The ravenous hyena is my inherit-
ance to me, rushing round about upon
her; go ye, gather together all the beasts
of the field, set ye upon to eat her.

10 Many shepherds destroyed my
vineyard, they trod down my portion,
they gave the portion of my desire for a
desert of desolation. .

11 Setting her for a desolation, she
mourned to me; all the land was set a
desolation, for no man put upon his
heart.

12 They spoiling came upon all the
hills of the desert: for the sword of Je-

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hovah consumed from the extremity of
the land even to extremity of the land :
no peace to all flesh.

18 They sowed wheat and they
reaped thorns: they were wearied, they
shall not profit ; and they were ashamed
of your gains from the burning of the
anger of Jehovah.

14 Thus said Jehovah concerning all
my evil neighbors, those touching upon
the inheritance which I caused my peo-
ple Israel to inherit: behold me tearing
them up from their land, and I will
tear up the house of Judah trom the
midst of them.:

15 And it was after my tearing them
up I will turn back and compassionate
them, and cause them to dwell aman to
his inheritance, and a man to his land.

16 And it was if learning, they shall
learn the ways of my people to swear
in my name, Jehovah lives; 88 they
taught my people to swear by Baal;
and they were built up in the midst of
my people.

17 And if they will not hear, tearing
up and destroying, I tore up that na-
tion, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER XIII.
HUS said Jehovah to me, Go buy
for thee a girdle of linen, and put
it upon thy loins, and thou shalt not
cause it to come into water.

2 And I shall buy the girdle accord-
ing to the word of Jehovah, and I shall
put upon my loins.

83 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me the second time, saying,

4 Take the girdle that thou boucht-
est, which is upon thy loins, and aris-

ing, go to Euphrates and hide it there
in the cleft of the rock.

5 And I shall go and hideit by Eu-
phrates as Jehovah commanded me.

6 And it will be from the end of
many days, and Jehovah will say to
me, Rising, go to Euphrates, and 6
from thence the girdle which I com-
manded thee to hide it there.

7 And I shall go to Euphrates, and
dig, and take the girdle from the place
which I hid it there: and behold, the
girdle was corrupted, it will not profit
for anything.

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8 And the word of Jehovah will be

to me, saying,

9 Thus said Jehovah, According to
this I will corrupt the pride of Judah
and the great pride of Jerusalem.

10 This evil people, refusing to hear
my words, going in the stubbornness of
their heart, and they will go after other
gods to serve them and to worship to
them, and it shall be as this girdle which
shall not profit for anything.

11 For as the girdle will adhere to
the loins of a man, so did I cause to ad-
here to me all the house of Israel and
all the house of Judah, says Jehovah:
to be to me for a people, and for a name,
and for a praise, and for glory: and
they heard not.

12 And say to them this word: Thus
said Jehovah God of Israel, Every flask
shall be filled with wine: and they said
to thee, Knowing, shall it not be known
that every flask shall be filled with
wine?

13 And say to them, Thus said Je-
hoyah, Behold me filling all inhabiting
this Jand, and all the kings sitting to
David upon his throne, and the priests
and the prophets, and all inhabiting Je-
rusalem, with drunkenness.

14 And I dashed them in pieces, a
man against his brother, and the fathers
and the sons together, says Jehovah, 1
will not pity, and I will not spare, and
I will not compassionate from destroy-
ing them.

15 Hear ye, and give ear; ve shall
not be proud: for Jehovah spake.

16 Ye shall give glory to Jehovah
your God, before he shall darken, and
before your feet shall strike upon the
mountains of darkness, and ye waited
for light, and he set it for the shadow
of death, he will place for gloom.

17 And if ye will not hear it, my
soul shall weep in hiding places from
the face of pride, and mine eye weeping
shall weep and bring down tears, be-
cause the flock of Jehovah was taken
captive.

18 Say to the king and to the mis-
tress, Humble yourselves, sit down:
for the crown of your glory was brought
down from your heads.

19 The cities of the south were shut

JEREMIAH XIV.

up and none opened: Judah was car-
ried away captive, it was all carricd
away captive, the whole of them.

20 Lift wp your eyes and see them
coming from the north: where the flock
given to thee, the sheep of thy glory?

21 What wilt thou say when he shall
review upon thee? and thou didst
teach them the chiefs for head over
thee: shall not pains lay hold of thee
as a woman bringing forth ?

22 And if thou shalt say in thy
heart, Wherefore did these things be-
fal me? for the multitude of thine in-
iquities thy skirts were uncovered, thy
heel treated with violence.

23 Will the Cushite change his skin
and the panther his variegated spots?
Ye shall also be able to do good, being
taught to do evil.

24 And I will scatter them as ihe
straw passing away by the wind of the
desert.

25 This thy lot and the portion of
thy measure from me, says Jehovah ;
because thou didst forget me and thou
wilt trust in falsehood.

26 And also I uncovered thy skirts
upon thy face and thy dishonor was
seen.

27 Thine adulteries and thy neigh-
ings, the purpose of thy harlotry upon
the hills, in the field, I saw thine abom-
inations. Wo to thee, O Jerusalem!
thou wilt not be cleansed after me;
how long yet?

CHAPTER XIV.
HE word of Jehovah which was to
Jeremiah concerning the words of
the drought.

2 Judah mourned and her gates lan-
guished; they were darkened to the
earth, and the outcry of Jerusalem
went up.

8 And their great ones sent their
small ones to the waters; they came
to the wells, they found no water; they
turned -back their vessels empty ; they
were ashamed and disgraced, and they
covered their head.

4 For the land was broken, for there
was no rain in the land; the husband-
men were ashamed, they covered their
head.

JEREMIAH XV.

5 For also the hind brought forth in
the field, and forsook, for there was no

grass.

6 And the wild asses stood upon the
naked hills, they panted after the wind
as the jackals; their eyes failed because
no grass.

7 If our iniquities answered against
us, O Jehovah, do for sake of thy name:
for our turnings back were many; we
sinned against thee.

8 The hope of Israel, saving him in
time of straits, wherefore wilt thou be
as a sojourner in the earth, and asa
traveler turning aside to lodge?

9 Wherefore shalt thou be as a man
struck dumb? as a strong one he shall
not be able to save? and thou in the
midst of us, O Jehovah, and thy name
was called upon us; thou wilt not leave

us.

10 Thus said Jehovah to this people,
Thus they loved to wander, they re-
strained not their feet, and Jehovah ac-
cepted them not; now will he remem-
ber their iniquity and he will review
their sin.

11 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou
shalt not pray for this people for good.

12 When they shall fast I hear not
their outcry; and when they shall
bring up a burnt-offering and gift, I ac-
cept them not; for with the sword and
by famine and by death I consume
them.

13 And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah!
behold, the prophets saying to them,
Ye shall not see the sword, and famine
shall not be to you; for the peace of
truth will I give to you in this place.

14 And Jehovah will say to me, The
prophets are prophesying a lie in my
name: I sent them not, and I com-
manded them not, and I spake not to
them: a vision of falsehood and a div-
ination, and nought, and the deceit of
their heart they are prophesying to
you.

15 For this, thus said Jehovah con-
cerning the prophets prophesying in my
name, and I sent them not, and they
saying, The sword and famine shall not
be in this land; by the sword and by
famine shall these prophets die.

16 And the people which they are

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prophesying to them shall be cast out
in the streets of Jerusalem, from the
face of the famine and the sword; and
none to them burying them, their wives
and their sons and their daughters;
and I poured their evil upon them.

17 And say to them this word: Mine
eyes shall bring down tears night and
day, and they shall not rest: for the
virgin daughter of my people was bro:
ken with a great breaking, a very sick-
ly wound.

18 If 1 shall go forth into the field,
and behold, the wounded of the sword!
and if I came into the city, and behold,
they shall be sick with famine! for also
the prophet, also the priest went about
to a land they knew not.

19 Rejecting, didst thou reject Ju-
dah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion?
wherefore didst thou smite us, and no
healing to us? waiting for peace, and
no good; and for a time of healing,
and behold terror.

20 We knew, O Jehovah, our evil,
the iniquity of our fathers: for we sin-
ned to thee.

21 Thou wilt not despise us; for
sake of thy name, thou wilt not dis-
grace the throne of thy glory: remem-
ber, thou wilt not break thy covenant
with us.

22 Is there among the vanities of the
nations those causing ruin? and if thé
heavens will give showers? Art not
thou he, Jehovah our God? And we
will wait for thee: for thou didst make
all these.

CHAPTER XV.
\ ND Jehovah will say to me, If
Moses shall stand, and Samuel,
before my face, my soul not to this peo-
ple: casting from my face they shall
go forth.

2 And it was if they shall say to thee,
Whither sha!l we go forth? And say
to them, Thus said Jehovah, Whom
for death to death; and whom for the
sword to the sword; and whom for fa-
mine to famine; and whom for captiv-
ity to captivity.

3 And I reviewed over them four
kinds, says Jehovah: the sword to kill,
and dogs to tear in pieces, and the birds

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of the heavens, and the beasts of the
earth, to consume and destroy.

4 And i gave them for maltreatment
to all the kingdoms because of Manas-
seh, sou of Hezekiah, king of Judah,
for what he did in Jerusalem.

5 For who shall haye compassion
upon thee, O Jerusalem? and who shall
bewail for thee? and who shall turn
aside to ask for thy peace?

6 Thou didst reject me, says Jeho-
vah; thou wilt go backward; and I
will stretch forth my hand against thee,
and I will destroy thee; I was weary of
lamenting.

7 And I will scatter them with a
scattering in the gates of the land; I
bereaved of offspring, I destroyed my
people ; they turned not back from
their ways.

8 Their widows were many to me
above the sand of the seas: 1 brought
to them against the mother a young
man laying waste at noon: I caused to
fall upon her suddenly wrath and _ter-
ror.

9 She bringing forth seven, languish-
ed: she breathed out her soul; her sun
went down in the midst of the day:
she was ashamed and blushed : and
their remainder I will give to the sword
before their enemies, says Jehovah.

10 Wo tome, my mother, for thou
broughtest me forth a man of strife and
a man of contention to all the earth, I
lent not on interest and they lent not to
me on interest: they are altogether
cursing me.

11 Jehovah said, If to do well to thy
remnant; if not, I caused the enemy in
the time of evil and in time of straits to
supplicate to thee.

12 Shall iron break the iron of the
north, and brass? ,

13 Thy strength and thy treasures I
will give for a spoil not for price, and
in all thy sins and in all thy bounds.

14 And I caused to pass with thine
enemies into a land thou knewest not:
for a fire was kindled in my wrath; it
shall burn upon you.

15 Thou knewest, O Jehovah: re-
member me, and review me, and avenge
for me from him pursuing me; not for
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me away; know, I suffered reproach
for thee.

16 Thy words were found, and eating
them; and thy word will be to me for
the gladness and for the joy of my
heart: for thy name was called upon
me, Jehovah the God of armies.

17 I sat not in the assembly of those
mocking, and I will not exult; from
the face of thy hand I sat alone, for
thou didst fill me with anger.

18 Wherefore was my pain everlasting
and my blow incurable, refusing to be
healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as
falsehood, the waters were not faithful ?

19 For this, thus said Jehovah, If
thou wilt turn back, and I will turn
thee back, thou shalt stand before me:
and if thou shalt bring forth the pre-
cious from the vile thou shalt be as my
mouth: they shall turn back to thee
and thou shalt not turn back to them.

20 And I gave thee to this people
for a wall of brass, fortified: and they
shall war against thee, and they shall
not prevail against thee: for I am with
thee to save thee and to deliver thee,
says Jehoyah.

21 And I delivered thee out of the
hand of the evil, and I redeemed thee
from the hand of the terrible.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying,

2 Thou shalt not take to thee a wife,
and sons and daughters shall not be to
thee in this place.

3 For thus said Jehovah concerning
the sons, and concerning the daughters
born in this place, and concerning their
mothers bearing them, and concerning
their fathers begetting them in this land :

4 Deaths of diseases shall they die;
they shall not be lamented, and they
shall not be buried; they shall be for
dung upon the face of the earth, and by
sword and by famine shall they be con-
sumed, and their carcass was for food
to the birds of the heavens and to the
beasts of the earth.

5 For thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt
not go in to the house of wailing, and
thou shalt not go to lament and thou
shalt not deplore for them, for I took

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away my peace from this people, says
Jehovah; kindness and mercies.

6 And the ereat and small died in
this land: they shall not be buried, and
they shall not lament for them, and
none shall cut himself or make bald for
them :

7 They shall not break bread in
mourning to comfort him for the dead ;
and they | shall not give them to drink
the cup of consolations for his father
and for his mother.

8 And to the house of drinking thou
shalt not go in to sit with them to eat
and to drink,

9 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel: Behold me, causing to
cease from this place to your eyes ‘and
in your days the voice of gladness and | ץ‎
the voice of joy, the voice of the bride-
groom and the voice of the bride.

10 And being when thou shalt an-
nounce to this ‘people all these words,
and they said to thee, For what did Je-
hovah speak against us all this great
evil? and what our iniquities? and
what our sins which we sinned to Jeho-
hovah our God?

11 And say to them, Because your
fathers forsook me, says Jehovah, and
went after other gods, and they will
serve them and worship to them, and
they forsook me, and my law they watch-
ed not;

12 And ye acted wickedly to do more
than your fathers; and behold, you go-
ing a man after the stubbornness of his
evil heart for not hearing to me.

13 And I cast you out from this land
upon the land which ye knew not, ye
and your fathers; and ye served there
other gods day and night, where 1 will
not give to you mercy.

14 For this, behold, the days comin
says Jehovah, and it shall no more be
said, Jehovah lives who brought up the
sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

15 But Jehovah lives who brought
up the sons of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the lands where
he thrust them away there:
turned them back upon their land which
I gave to their fathers.

16 Behold me sending for many fish-
ers, says Jehovah, and they fished

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them; and after this I will send for
many hunters, and they hunted them
from every mountain, and from every
hill, and from the clefts of the rocks.

17 For mine eyes are upon all their
ways, and they were not hid from my
face, and their iniquity was not con-
cealed from before mine eyes.

18 And 1 requited first double their
iniquity and their sin, for their defiling
my land, with the carcasses of their
abominable things, and their abomina-
tions they filled up mine inheritance.

19 O Jehovah, my strength and my
fortress, and my refuge i in days of straits,
to thee ‘shall the nations come from the
ends of the earth, and they sball say,
Surely our fathers inherited falsehood,

vanity, and no receiving profit in them.

20 Shall man make to himself gods,
and they not gods?

21 For this, behold me causing them
to know in this once, I will cause them
to know my hand and my strength;
and they shall know that my name is
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XVII.
HE sin of Judah was written with
a style of iron, with the nail of
diamond: being graved upon the table

of their heart, and to the horns of your

altars.

2 For their sons remember their al-
tars and their images by the green tree
upon the high hills.

3 O my mountain in the field, thy
strength, all thy treasures I will give
for plunder, thy heights for sin in all
thy bounds.

4 And thou wert thrust in thyself
from thine inheritance which I gave to
thee; and I caused thee to serve thine

g,|enemies in a land which thou knewest

not: for ye kindled a fire in mine an-
ger; it shall burn forever.

5 Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the

man who shall trust in man, and set
flesh his arm, and shall turn away his
heart from Jehovah.
6 And he was as ruins in the sterile
region, and he shall not see when good
shall come ; he inherited the arid places
in the desert, a salt land, and it shall
not be inhabited.

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7 Blessed the man who shall trust in] Judah, and all inhabiting Jerusalem,

Jehovah, and his trust was Jehovah.

8 And he was asa tree planted by
the waters, and it shall spread out its
roots by the river, and it shall not see
when heat shall come, and its leaf was
green; and it shall not be afraid in the
vear of restraint, and it shall not with-
draw from making fruit.

9 The heart is deceitful above all,
and man himself, who shall know
him?

101 Jehovah searching the heart,
trying the reins, to give to each accord-
ing to his way, according to the fruit of
his doings.

11 The partridge brooded and she
brought not forth; to make riches and
not in judgment, he shall leave them in
the half of his days, and in his latter
part he shall be foolish.

12 A throne of glory being lifted up
from the first our holy place.

13 The hope of Israel, Ὁ Jehovah,
all forsaking thee shall be ashamed,
turning away from me they shall be
written in the earth, for they forsook
the fountain of the water of life, Jeho-
vah.

14 Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall
be healed; save me, and I shall be
saved: for thou my praise.

15 Behold them saying to me, Where
the word of Jehovah? it shall come
now.

16 And I withdrew not from follow-
ing after thee; I desired not man’s day,
thou knewest: the going forth of my
lips was straight before thee.

17 Thou wilt not be for a terror to
me; thou my refuge in the evil day.

18 They pursuing me shall be asham-
ed, and I shall not be ashamed: they
shall be dismayed, and I shall not be
dismayed: bring upon them the evil
day, and break them with a double
breaking.

19 Thus said Jehovah to me: Go
and stand in the gate of the sons of the
people which the kings of Judah shall
come in in it, and which they shall go
forth in it, and in all the gates of Jeru-
salem.

20 And say to them, Hear the word
of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all

coming in by these gates:

21 Thus said Jehovah: Watch ye in
your souls, and ye shall not lift up a
lifting up in the day of the Sabbath, and
bring in by the gates of Jerusalem.

22 And ye shall not bring forth a
burden from your houses in the day of
the Sabbath, and all work ye shall not
do, and consecrate the day of the Sab-
bath as I commanded your fathers.

28 And they heard not, and they in-
clined not their ear, and they will har-
den their neck not to hear, and not to
receive instruction.

24 And it was, if hearing, ye shall
hear to me, says Jehovah, not to bring
a burden into the gates of this city in
day of the Sabbath, and to consecrate
the day of the Sabbath, not to do in it
any work;

25 And there came into the gates of
this city kings and chiefs sitting upon
the throne of David, riding in chariots
and upon horses, they and their chiefs,
men of Judah and inhabitants of Jeru-
salem: and this city was inhabited for-
ever.

26 And they came from the cities of
Judah and from round about Jerusa-
lem, and from the land of Benjamin,
and from the plain, and from the mount-
ain, and from the south, bringing a
burnt-offering and sacrifice, and gift, and
frankincense, and bringing praise into
the house of Jehovah.

27 And if ye will not hear to me to
consecrate the day of the Sabbath, not
to lift up a burden, and coming into
the gates of Jerusalem in the day of the
Sabbath; and I kindled a fire in her
gates and it consumed the palaces of
Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched.

CHAPTER XVIII.
HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying,

2 Arise, and go down to the potter's
house, and there I will cause thee to
hear my word.

3 And 1 shall go down to the pot-
ter’s house, and behold him doing a
work upon the stone.

4 And the vessel which he made was
destroyed as clay in the hand of the

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potter: and he turned back, and he will| cause them to see the neck and not the

make another vessel as was right in the
eyes of the potter to make.

5 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

6 As this potter shall I not be able
to do to you, O house of Israel ? δὸς
Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the
hand of the potter, thus are ye in my
hand, O house of Israel.

7 The moment I shall speak concern-
ing a nation and concerning a kingdom,
to pluck up and to tear down, and to
destroy :

8 And that nation which 1 spake
against it turned back from its evil, and
I lamented for the evil which I pro-
posed to do to it.

9 And the moment I shall speak con-
cerning a nation and concerning a king-
dom, to bnild and to plant :

10 And it did evil in mine eyes not
to hear to my voice, and I lamented for
the good which I said to do well to it.

11 And now, say now to the men of
Judah, and concerning the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jeho-
vah: Behold, I will form evil against
_ you, and purpose a purpose against
you; turn ye back now each from his
evil way, and make your ways and
your doings good.

12 And they said, We shall despair ;
for after our purposes we will go, and
we will do each the stubbornness of his
evil heart.

18 For this, thus said Jehovah: Ask
now among the nations, who heard like
as these things: the virgin of Israel did
very horrible things.

14 Shall the field cut loose from the
rock the snow of Lebanon? or shall the
cold flowing waters of an inundation
be dried up? |

15 Because my people forgat me
they will burn incense in vain; by their
ways they will cause the paths of old
to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not
cast up;

16 To set their land for a desolation,
eternal hissings; every one passing over
- it shall be astonished and shall shake
with his head.

17 As the east wind I will scatter them
before the face of the enemy; I will

face, in the day of their destruction.

18 And they will say, Come, and we
will purpose purposes against Jeremiah ;
for law shall not perish from the priest,
and counsel from the wise, and the
word from the prophet. Come, and we
will strike him with the tongue, and we
will not attend to any of his words.

19 Attend to me, O Jehovah, and
hear for the voice of mine adversary.

20 Shall evil be requited for good?
for they dug a pit for my soul. Re-
member my standing before thee to
speak good for them, to turn back thy
wrath from them.

21 For this, give their sons to the
famine, and pour them out upon the
hands of the sword; and their wives
shall be bereaved of offspring, and be
widows; and their men shall be slain
by death; their young men struck of
the sword in battle.

22 A cry shall be heard from their
houses, for thou shalt bring upon them
a trap suddenly, for they dug a pit to
take me, and hid snares for my feet.

23 And thou, O Jehovah, knewest
all their counsel against me to kall: thou
wilt not expiate for their iniquity, and
their sin from before thee thou wilt not
wipe away, and they shall be weak
before thee ; do with them in the time of
thine anger.

CHAPTER XIX.
HUS said Jehovah, Go and buy a
potter’s earthen bottle, and from
the old men of the people and from the
old men of the priests ;

2 And go forth to the valley of the
son of Hinnom, which is at the open-
ing of the gate of the pottery, and call
there the words which I shall speak to
thee.

3 And say, Hear the word of Jeho-
vah, ye kings of Judah, and ye dwell-
ing in Jerusalem; Thus said Jehovah
of armies, God of Israel: Behold me
bringing evil upon this place, which
every one hearing it, their ears shall
tingle.

4 Because they forsook me and re-
jected this place, and they will burn in-
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knew them not, they and their fathers,
and the kings of J 0/0 ; and they filled
this place with the blood of the inno-
cent ones.

5 And they built the heights of Baal
to burn their sons with fire, burnt-offer-
ings to Baal, which I commanded not,
and I spake not, and it came not up
upon my heart.

6 For this, behold, the days coming,
says Jehovah, and it shall no more be
called to this place Tophet, and The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but the
valley of Slaughter.

7 And 1 emptied out the counsel of
Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and
I caused them to fall by the sword be-
fore their enemies, and by the hands of
them seeking their soul: and I gave
their carcasses for food to the fowls of
the heavens and to the beasts of the
earth.

8 And I set this city for a desolation,
and for hissing: every one passing over
it shall be astonished and shall hiss over
all her blows.

9 And I caused them to eat the flesh
of their sons and the flesh of their daugh-
ters, and each the flesh of his neighbor
shall they eat in the straitness and in
the distress which their enemies, and
they seeking their souls, shall press
upon them.

10 And break the bottle before the
eyes of the men going with thee,

11 And say to them, Thus said Je-
hovah of armies: According to this
will I break this people and this city,
as he will break the potter’s vessel which
shall not be able to be healed any more:
and in Tophet shall they bury, from
not a place to bury.

12 Thus will I do to this place, says
Jehovah, and to its inhabitants, and to
give this city as Tophet :

13 And the houses of Jerusalem and
the houses of the kings of Judah were
defiled as the place of Tophet to all the
houses which they burnt incense upon
their roofs to all the army of the heay-
ens, and pouring out libations to other

ods.

14 And Jeremiah will come from To-
phet where Jehovah sent him there to
.prophesy; and he will stand in the en-

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closure of the house of Jehovah and
say to all the people,

15 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, Behold me bringing to this
city and upon all her cities all the evil
which I spake against her, because they
ב‎ their neck not to hear my
word,

CHAPTER XX.
ND Pashur, son of Immer the
priest, and he appointed overseer
of the house of Jehovah, will hear Jer-
emiah prophesying these words.

2 And Pashur will strike Jeremiah
the prophet and give him upon the
stocks which were m the gate of Benja-
min the highest, which were in the house
of Jehovah.

8 And it will be on the morrow, and
Pashur will bring forth Jeremiah
from the stocks. And Jeremiah will
say to him, Jehovah called not thy
name Pashur, but Terror from round
about. [

4 For thus said Jehovah, Behold me
giving thee for terror to thyself and to
all loving thee; and they fell by the
sword of their enemies, and thine eyes
seeing: and I will give all Judah into
the hand of the king of Babel, and he
carnied them captive to Babel, and he
struck them with the sword. ~

5 And 1 gave all the strength of this
city, and all her labors, and everything
precious of hers, and all the treasures
of the kings of Judah will I give into
the hand of their enemies, and they
spoiled them, and took them and
brought them to Babel.

6 And thou, Pashur, and all dwelling
in thy house shall go into captivity:
and thou shalt come to Babel, and thou
shalt die there, and there shalt thou be
buried, and all those loving thee to
whom thou didst prophesy to them in
falsehood.

7 Thou didst persuade me, O Jeho-
vah, and I shall be persuaded: thou
didst hold me fast, and thou wilt pre-
vail: I was for a derision all the day,
all mocking to me.

8 For as often 88 I shall speak I shall
ery; violence and oppression I shall
eall; for the word of Jehovah was to

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me for a reproach and for a derision all
the day.

9 And I said, I will not bring him to
remembrance, and I will no more speak
in his name. And it was in my heart
as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
and I was wearied to endure, and I
shall not be able.

10 For I heard the slander of many,
terror from round about. Announce
ye, and we will announce. Every man
of my peace watching my halting: per-
haps he will be persuaded, and we shall
prevail against him, and we will take
our vengeance of him.

11 And Jehovah is with me as a
strong terrible one: for this, they pur-
suing shall be weak, and they shall not
prevail; they were greatly ashamed, for
they prospered not; perpetual shame
shall not be forgotten.

12 And Jehovah of armies trying the
just, seeing the reins and the heart, I
shall see thy vengeance of them: for to
thee I uncovered my cause.

13 Sing ye to Jehovah, praise ye Je-
hovah: for he delivered the soul of the
needy from the hand of those doing
evil.

14 Cursed the day which I was born
in it; the day which my mother
brought me forth shall not be blessed.

15 Cursed the man who announced
to my father, Good news; saying, A
son, a male was born to thee; with
rejoicing, making him rejoice.

16 And that man being as the cities
which Jehovah overthrew, and lament-
ed not: and hearing the cry in the
morning and the loud noise in time of
noon.

17 Because he Killed me not from
the womb, and my mother will be to
me my grave, and her womb pregnant
forever.

18 Wherefore this came I forth from
the womb to see labor and sorrow, and
my days shall be finished with shame?

CHAPTER XXI.
HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah in king Zedekiah’s
sending to him Pashur son of Melchi-
ah, and Zephaniah son Maaseiah the
priest, saying,

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2Seek now Jehovah for us; for
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel is war-
ring against us; perhaps Jehovah will
do with us his wonders, and he shall
go up from us.

8 And Jeremiah will say to them,
Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah :

4 Thus said Jehovah God of Israel:
Behold me turning about the weapons
of war which are in your hands which
ye are fighting with them with the king
of Babel, and the Chaldeans, pressing
upon you without the wall, and I gath-
ered you to the midst of this city.

5 And I warred with you with a
hand stretched out and with an arm of
strength, and in anger and in heat and
in great wrath.

6 And I struck the inhabitants of
this city, and man and beast: in great
death they shall die.

7 And after this, says Jehovah, I
will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and
his servants, and the people, and those
being left in this city, from death, from
the sword, and from famine, into the
hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba-
bel, and into the hand of their enemies,
and into the hand of them seeking
their soul: and he smote them with the
mouth of the sword; he shall not have
compassion upon them, and he shall
not spare, and he shall not pity.

8 And 1o this people thou shalt say,
Thus said Jehovah, Behold me giving
before your face the way of life and the
way of death.

9 He dwelling in this city shall die
by the sword, and by the famine, and
by death: and he going forth and fall-
ing to the Chaldeans pressing upon you,
shall live, and his soul was to him for
booty.

10 For I set my face against this city
for evil, and not for good, says Jeho-
vah: into the hand of the king of Ba-
bel shall it be given, and it was burnt
with fire.

11 And for the house of the king of
Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:

12 O house of David, thus said Je-
hovah, Judge judgment for the morn-
ing, and deliver him taken by force
from the hand of him oppressing, lest
my wrath shall go forth as fire, and

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burn, and none quenching from the face|and ye shall not bewail for him: weep

of the evil of your doings.

13 Behold me against thee, thou in-
habitress of the valley, rock of the plain,
says Jehovah; those saying, Who
shall come down against us? and who
shall come into our habitations ?

14 And I reviewed over you accord-
ing to the fruit of your doings, says
Jehovah: and I kindled a fire in her
ee and it consumed all round about

er.

CHAPTER XXII.
HUS said Jehovah: Go down to
the house of the king of Judah
and speak there this word,

2 And say, Hear thou the word of
Jehovah, O king of Judah, sitting upon
the throne of David, thou and thy ser-
vants, and thy people coming in to
these gates :

3 Thus said Jehovah, Do ye judg-
ment and justice, and deliver him taken
by force, from the hand of him oppress-
ing: ye shall not be- violent, ye shall
not oppress the stranger, the orphan,
and the widow, and ye shall not pour
out innocent blood in this place.

4 For if doing, ye shall do this word,
and kings came into the gates of this
house, sitting to David upon his throne,
riding in chariots and upon horses, he
send his servants and his people.

5 Andif ye will not hear these words,
by myself 1 sware, says Jehovah, that
this house shall be for a desolation.

6 For thus said Jehovah, concerning
the house of the king of Judah: Thou
Gilead to me, the head of Lebanon, if I
shall not set thee adesert cities not in-
habited.

7 And I consecrated destroyers
against thee, a man and his weapons:
and they cut off from the chosen of thy
cedars and cast upon the fire.

8 And many nations passed through
this city, and they said a man to his
neighbor, For what did Jehovah thus
to this great city ?

9 And they said, Because they for-
sook the covenant of Jehovah their
God, and they will worship to other
gods, and serve them. =

10 Ye shall not weep for the dead,

ye, weep ye for him going away, for
he shall no more turn back and see the
land of his nativity.

11 For thus said Jehovah to Shallum
son of Josiah, king of Judah, reigning,
instead of Josiah his father, who went
forth from this place: He shall no more
return there:

12 For in the place where they car-
ried him captive, there he shall die, and
shall no more see this land.

13 Wo to him building his house
not with justice, and his upper chambers
not with judgment; by his neighbor
he will work gratuitously, and he will
give him not for his work ;

14 Saying, I will build to me a house
of extension, and airy upper chambers,
and he rent to himself windows; and
ἽΝ with cedar, and painted with
red.

15 Shalt thou reign, for thou art kin-
dled with cedar? did not thy father eat
and drink and do judgment and justice,
then it was well to him?

16 He judged the judement of the
poor and the needy ; then it was well:
was this not knowing me? says Jeho-
vah.

17 For thine eyes and thy heart not
but for thy plunder and for guiltless
blood to pour out, and for oppression
and for running, to do.

18 For this, thus said Jehovah of Je-
hoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
They shall not lament for him: Alas,
my brother! and, Alas, sister! they
shall not lament for him, Alas, lord!
and, Alas, the majesty !

19 He shall be buried the burial of
an ass, dragged and cast from beyond
the gate of Jerusalem.

20 Go up to Lebanon and ery, and in
Bashan thou shalt give thy voice and
cry from the passages, for all they lovy-
ing thee were broken.

21 I spake to thee in thy securities,
thou saidst, I will not hear. This thy
way from thy youth, for thou heardest
not to my voice.

22 The wind shall feed all thy shep-
herds, and they loving thee shall go into
captivity: for then shalt thou be asham-
ed and disgraced for all thine evil.

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23 Thou dwelling in Lebanon, build-
ing a nest in the cedars, how being
compassionated in pangs coming to thee
the pain as of her bringing forth.

24 I live says Jehovah, for if Coniah
son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, shall
be the seal upon my right hand, I will
pluck thee off from thence.

25 And I gave thee into the hand of
those seeking thy soul, and into the
hand of whom thou fearest their facé,
and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel, and into the hand of the
Chaldeans.

26 And I cast thee and thy mother
who bare thee upon another land where
ye were not born there, and there shall
ye die.

27 And upon the land where they
lift up their soul to turn back there,
there they shall not turn back.

28 Is this man Coniah a despised
broken earthen vessel? or a vessel no
delight in it? wherefore they were cast
out, he and his seed, and they were
cast upon a land which they knew not.

29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the
word of Jehovah.

30 Thus said Jehovah, Write ye this
man destitute, a man shall not prosper
in his days: for not a man of his seed
shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of
David, and ruling yet in Judah.

CHAPTER XXIII
Ne to the shepherds destroying

and scattering the sheep of my
pasture! says Jehovah.

2 For this, thus said Jehovah God
of Israel, against the shepherds feeding
my people: Ye scattered my flock and
ye will thrust them away, and ye re-
viewed them not: behold me reviewing
over you the evil of your doings, says
Jehovah.

3 And I will gather the remnant of
my flock from all the lands where I
thrust them away there, and I turned
them back to their rests, and they were
fruitful and multiplied.

4 And I set up shepherds over them,
and they fed them; and they shall no
more fear, and they shall not be tern-
fied, and they shall not be reviewed,
says Jehovah.

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5 Behold the days coming, says Jeho.
vah, and I raised up to David a just
sprout, and a king reigned and prosper-

‘ed, and he did judgment and justice in

the earth.

6 In his days shall Judah be saved,
and Israel shall dwell with confidence :
and this his name which he shall be
ealled: Jehovah Our Justice.

7 For this, behold the days coming,
says Jehovah, and they shall no more
say, Jehovah lives, who brought up
the sons of Israel out of the land of
Kegypt;
8 But Jehovah lives who brought up
and who caused the seed of the house
of Israel to come from the land of the
north, and from all the lands where I
thrust them away there; and they shall
dwell upon their land.

9 For the prophets my heart was
broken in the midst of me,.and all my
bones were relaxed; I was as a man
intoxicated, and as a man wine passing
over him, from the face of Jehovah, and
from the face of the words of his holi-
ness.

10 For the land was filled from adul-
teries, for from the face of these the
land mourned, the beautiful things of
the desert were dried up, and their race
will be evil, and their strength not
right.

11 For also the prophets, also the
priests were polluted ; alsoin my house
I found their evil, says Jehovah.

12 For this their way shall be to
them as slippery places in darkness:
they shall be thrust away and they fell
in it; for I will bring evil upon them,
ie year of their reviewing, says Jeho-
yah.

13 And I saw folly in the prophets
of Shomeron ; they prophesied in Baal,
and they will cause my people Israel to
wander.

14 And in the prophets of Jerusalem
I saw a-horrible thing, committing
adultery and going in falsehood: and
they strengthened the hands of those
doing evil, they turned not back a man
from his evil: they were to me all of
them as Sodom, and those dwelling in
her as Gomorrah.

15 For this, thus said Jehovah of ar-

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mies concerning the prophets, Behold
me feeding them with wormwood, and
I caused to drink the water of poison :
for from the prophets of Jerusalem went
forth profaneness to all the earth.

16 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Ye
shall not hear to the words of the proph-
ets prophesying to you; they making
you vain: they will speak the vision of
their heart, not from the mouth of Je-
hovah.

17 Saying to say to those despising
the word of Jehovah, There shall be
peace to you; and every one going in
the stubbornness of his heart, they said,
Evil shall not come to you.

18 For who stood in the consultation
of Jehovah, and will see and hear his
word? who attended to his word and
will hear ?

19 Behold, the storm of Jehovah
went forth with wrath, a piercing storm ;
it shall be “hurled upon the head of the
evil ones.

20 The anger of Jehovah shall not
turn back till his doing, and till his set-
ting up the purposes of his heart: in the
last of the days ye shall understand in
it with understanding.

21 1 sent not the prophets, and they
ran; I spake not to them, and they
prophesied.

22 And if they stood in my consul-
tation, and they will cause my people
to hear my word, and turn them back
from their evil way and from the evil
of their doings.

23 Aim 1 God from near, says Jeho-
vah, and not God from far off ?

24 1] a man shall hide in secret
places and I shall not see him, says Je-
hovah. Do 1 not fill the heavens and
the earth? says Jehovah.

25 1 heard what the prophets said,
prophesying a falsehood in my name,
saying, I dreamed, I dreamed.

26 How long is it in the heart of the
prophets prophesying a lie, and proph-
esying the deceit of their heart?

27 Reckoning to cause my people to
forget my name by their dreams which
they will recount a man to his neigh-
bor, as their fathers forgat my name in
Baal.

28 The prophet whom with him a

dream, he will recount a dream; and
whom my word with him, he will speak
my word in truth. What to the straw
with the grain? says Jehovah.

29 So is not my word as fire? says
Jchovah; and as a hammer, it will
break the rock in pieces.

30 For this, behold me against the
prophets, says Jehovah, stealing my
words, a man from his neighbor.
> 81 Behold me against the prophets,
says Jehovah, taking their tongue, and
they will mutter an oracle.

32 Behold me against them prophe-
sying dreams of falsehood, says Jeho-
vah, and they will recount them, and
will cause my people to wander by their
falsehoods and by their boasting; and I
sent them not, and I commanded them
not; and helping, they shall be of no
profit to this people, says Jehovah.

338 And when this people, or prophet,
or priest, shall ask thee, saying, What
the burden of Jehovah ? and thou saidst
to them, What burden? And I cast
you off, says Jehovah.

84 And the prophet and the priest
and the people which shall say, The
burden of Jehovah, and I reviewed up-
on that man, and upon his house.

80 Thus shall ye say, a man to his
neighbor, a man to his brother, What
answered Jehovah? and what spake
Jehovah ?

36 And ye shall no more make men-
tion of the burden of Jehovah, for the
burden to a man shall be his word ; and
ye perverted the words of the living
God, Jehovah of armies our God.

37 Thus shalt thou say to the proph-
et, What answered Jehovah? and what
spake Jehovah?

88 And if ye shall say, The burden
of Jehovah; for this, thus said Jeho-
vah, Because ye said this word, The
burden of Jehovah, and I shall send to
you, saying, Ye shall not say, The bur-
den of Jehovah:

39 Therefore behold me, and neglect-
ing, I deserted you, and I cast you off,
and the city which I gave to you and
to your fathers from my face.

40 And I gave upon you an eternal
reproach and perpetual shame, which
shall not be forgotten.

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CHAPTER XXIV.
EHOV AH showed me, and behold,
two baskets of figs set before the
face of the temple of Jehovah, after
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel carried
away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoia-
kim, king of Judah; and the chiefs of
Judah, and the artificers, and the smiths,
from Jerusalem, and he will bring them
to Babel.

2 One basket of figs exceedingly good
as the figs first ripe, and the one basket
of figs exceedingly evil, which shall not
be eaten from being evil.

3 And Jehovah will say to me,
What seest thou, ד‎ aid say-
ing, Figs: the good figs, exceedingly
good; and the evil, exceedingly evil,
which shall not be eaten from being
evil.

4 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

5 Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel :
As these good figs, so will I know the
captivity of Judah which I sent out of
this place to the land of the Chaldeans
for good.

6 And I set mine eyes upon them
for good, and 1 turned them back upon
this land: and I built them, and I will
not pull down: and I planted them,
and 1 will not pluck up.

7 And I gave to them a heart to know
me, that 1 am Jehovah: and they were
to me for a people, and I will be to
them for God: for they shall turn back
to me with all their heart.

8 And as the evil figs which shall
not be eaten from being evil; for thus
said Jehovah, So will I give Zedekiah
king of Judah, and his chiefs, and the
remainder of Jerusalem, those remain-
ing in this land, and those dwelling in
the land of Egypt:

9 And I gave them for maltreatment,
and for evil to all the kingdoms of the
earth, for a reproach and for a parable,
and for a derision, and for a curse in
all the places which I shall thrust them
away there.

10 And I sent among them the
sword, the famine, and the death, even
to the consuming them from off the
land which I gave to them and to their
fathers.

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CHAPTER ΧΧΥ.

HE word which was to Jeremiah

concerning all the people of Ju-
dah, in the fourth year to Jehoiakim,
son of Josiah, king of Judah, this the
first year to Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel ;

2 Which Jeremiah the prophet spake
to all the people of Judah, all dwelling
in Jerusalem, saying,

3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah
son of Amon, king of Judah, and even
to this day, this the three and twentieth
year, the word of Jehovah was to me,
and I will speak to you, rising early
and speaking, and ye heard not.

4 And Jehovah sent to you all his
servants the prophets, rising early and
sending; and ye heard not, and. ye in-
clined not your ear to hear.

5 Saying, Turn back now each from
his evil way, and from the evil of your
doings, and dwell upon the land which
Jehovah gave to you and to your fa-
thers to from forever and eyen to for-
ever.

6 And ye shall not go after other
gods to serve them and to worship to
them, and ye shall not irritate me in
the work of your hands; and 1 will
not do evil to you.

7 And ye heard not to me, says Je-
hovah ; so as to irritate me in the works
of your hands for eyil to you.

8 For this, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies: Because ye heard not my
word,

9 Behold me sending, and I took all
the families of the north, says Jehovah,
to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my
servant, and I brought them against
this land and against its inhabitants,
and against all these nations round
about, and I devoted them to destruc-
tion, and I set them for a desolation
and for a hissing, and for perpetual
wastes.

10 And I destroyed from them the
voice of joy and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride, the voice of the two
millstones and the light of the lamp.

11 All this land was for a waste, for
a desolation, and these nations served
the king of Babel seventy years.

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12 And it was when seventy years
were filled up, I will review over the
king of Babel and upon this nation,
says Jehovah, their iniquity, and upon
the land of the Chaldeans, and I set it
for eternal desolations.

13 And I brought upon this land all
the words I spake against it, all being
in this book which Jeremiah prophesied
against all the nations.

14 For many nations they also served
upon them, and great kings: and 1 re-
quited to them according to their work
and according to the doings of their
hands.

15 For thus said Jehovah God of Is-
rael tome: Take the cup of wine of
this wrath from my hand, and cause all
the nations which I sent thee to them
to drink it.

16 And they drank and they stag-
gered, and they were mad from the
face of the sword which I sent in the
midst of them.

17 And I shall take the cup from the
hand of Jehovah, and I shall cause all
the nations which Jehovah sent me to
them to drink.

18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah
and her kings, her chiefs, to give them
for a waste and for a desolation, and
for a hissing and for a cursing; as this
day.

19 Pharaoh king of Egypt and his
servants, and his chiefs, ו‎ all his peo-

le.

20 And all the intermingled, and all
the kings of the land of Uz, and all the
kings of the land of the rovers, and
Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and
the remnant of Ashdod,

21 Edom and Moab and the sons of
Ammon,

22 And all the kings of Tyre, and
all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of
the island which is beyond the sea,

23 Dedan and Tema, and Buz, and all
the cutting off the extremity,

24 And all the kings of Arabia, and
all the kings of the intermingled dwell-
ing in the desert,

25 And all the kings of Zimri, and
all the kings of Elam, and all the kings
of the Medes.

26 And all the kings of the North,

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being near and being far off, a man to
his brother, and all the kingdoms of the
land which are upon the face of the
earth: and the king of Sheshach shall
drink after them.

27 And say to them, thus said Jeho-
vah of armies, God of Israel, Drink ye
and be drunken, and vomit and fall,
and ye shall not rise from the face of
the sword which I sent in the midst of
you.

28 And it was if they shall refuse to
take the cup from my hand to drink,
and say to them, Thus said Jehovah of
armies: Drink ye; ye shall drink.

29 For behold me beginning to do
evil upon the city which my name was
called upon it; and shall ye being ae-
quitted be unpunished? Ye shall not
be unpunished, for I call a sword upon
all the inhabitants of the earth, says Je-
hovah of armies.

30 And thou shalt prophesy to them
all these words, and say to them; Jeho-
vah shall roar from on high, and he will
give his voice from his holy habitation ;
roaring, he will roar from his seat; he
shall cry aloud as they treading, to all
the inhabitants of the earth.

31 A noise came even to the extrem-
ity of the earth; fora strife to Jehovah
with the nations; he judged for all
flesh ; he gave them being evil, to the
sword, says Jehovah.

32 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Be-
hold, evil shall go forth from nation to
nation, and a great storm shall be rais-
ed up from the thighs of the earth.

89 And the wounded of Jehovah
were in that day from the extremity of
the earth and even to the extremity of
the earth: they shall not be lamented,
and they shall not be gathered, and
they shall not be buried; they shall be
for dung upon the face of the earth.

34 Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and
wallow yourselves, ye chiefs of the
flocks; for your days for slaughter and

our dispersions were filled up, and ye
fell as a vessel of desire.

35 And flight perished from the
shepherds, and escaping from the chiefs
of the flock.

86 A voice of the cry of the shep-
herds, and wailing of the chiefs of the

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flock, for Jehovah laid waste their
pasture.

37 And the dwellings of peace were
destroyed from the face of the burning
of the anger of Jehovah.

88 He forsook his booth as the young
lion: for their land was for a desola-
tion from the face of the burning of
him oppressing, and from the face of
the burning of his anger.

CHAPTER XXVI.
[9 the beginning of the reign of Je-
hoiakim son of Josiah king of Ju-
dah, was this word from Jehovah, say-
ing,

2 Thus said Jehovah, Stand in the
enclosure of the house of Jehovah and
speak to all the cities of Judah coming
to worship in the house of Jehovah, all
the words which I command thee to
speak to them; thou shalt not withhold
a word.

3 Perhaps they will hear and turn
back a man from his eyil way, and 1
lamented for the evil which I purposed
to do to them from the face of the evil
of their doings.

4 And say to them, Thus said Jeho-
vah, If ye will not hear to me to go in
my law which I gave before your face,

5 To hear to the words of my ser-
vants the prophets which I sent to you,
and rising early and sending, and ye
heard not;

6 And I gave this house as Shiloh,
and this city I will give for cursing to
all the nations of the earth.

7 And the priests and the prophets
and all the people will hear Jeremiah
speaking these words in the house of
Jehovah.

8 And it will be as Jeremiah finish-
ed to speak all which Jehovah com-
manded to speak to all the people, and
the priests and the prophets and all the
people will seize him, saying, Dying,
thou shalt die.

9 Wherefore didst thou prophesy in
the name of Jehovah, saying, This
house shall be as Shiloh, and this city
shall be laid waste from none inhabit-
ing? And all the people will be con-
voked together to Jeremiah in the
house of Jehovah.

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10 And the chiefs of Judah will hear
these words, and they will come up
from the king’s house to the house of
Jehovah, and they will sit in the open-
ing of the new gate of Jehovah.

11 And the priests and the prophets
will say to the chiefs, and to all the
people, saying, The judgment of death
for this man, for he prophesied against
this city, as ye heard with your ears.

12 And Jeremiah will say to all the
chiefs and to all the people, saying, Je-
hovah sent me to prophesy against this
house and against this city all the words
which ye heard.

13 And now make good your ways
and your doings, and hear to the voice
of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah
will lament for the evil which he spake
against you.

14 And I, behold me in your hand:
do to me as the good and right in your
eyes:

15 But knowing, ye shall know that
if ye put me to death, that ye give in-
nocent blood upon yourselves and upon
this city, and to her inhabitants: for in
truth Jehovah sent me to you to speak
in your ears all these words.

16 And the chiefs will say, and all
the people, to the priests and to the
prophets: Not for this man the jude-
ment of death, for in the name of Jeho-
yah his God he spake to us.

17 And men will rise up from the
old men of the land, and they will say
to all the convocation of the people,
saying, .

18 Micah the Morasthite was proph-
esying in the days of Hezekiah king of
Judah, and he will say to all the peo-
ple of Judah, saying, Thus said Jeho-
vah of armies: Zion shall be ploughed
a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins,
and the mountain of the house for the
heights of a forest.

19 Putting to death, did Hezekiah
king of Judah put him to death, and
all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah,
and wait for the face of Jehovah, and
Jehovah will lament for the evil which
he spake against them? And we are
doing great evil against our souls.

20 And also a man was prophesying
in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of

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Shemaiah, from the city of the forests,
and he will prophesy against this city
and against this land according to all
the words of Jeremiah.

21 And ling Jehoiakim will hear,
and all the great ones, and all the chiefs,
his words, and the king will seek to
kill him: and Urijah will hear and be
afraid, and he will flee and go to Kgypt.

22 And king Jehoiakim will send
men to Egypt, Elnathan, son of Ach-
bor, and men with him to Egypt.

23 And they will bring forth Unijah
from Egypt and bring him to king Je-
hoiakim; and he will strike him with
the sword, and 0886 his eareass into the
graves of the sons of the people.

24 But the hand of Ahikam son of
Shaphan was with Jeremiah not to
give him into the hand of the people to
kill him.

CHAPTER XXVII.
N the beginning of the reign of Je-
hoiakim son of Josiah king of Ju-
dah was this word to Jeremiah from
Jehovah, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah to me: Make
to thee bonds and rods and give them
upon thy neck,

3 And send them to the king of
Edom, and to the king of Moab, and
to the king of the sons of Ammon, and
to the king of Tyre, and to the king of
Zidon, by the hand of messengers com-
ing to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of
Judah ;,

4 And command them to say to their
lords, Thus said Jehovah of armies God
of Israel: Thus shall ye say to your
lords:

5 I made the earth, the man and the
cattle which are upon the face of the
earth, by my great power and by mine
arm stretched forth, and I gave it to
whom was right in mine eyes.

6 And now I gave all these lands in-
to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel, my servant; and also the beasts
of the field gave I to him to serve him.

7 And all the nations served him,
and his son, and his son’s son, even till
the time itself also of his land came:
and many nations and great kings sery-
ed upon him.

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8 And it was the nation and king-
dom which shall not serve him, Nebu-
chadnezzar king of Babel, and which
shall not give his neck in the yoke of
the king of Babel, with the sword and
with famine and with death I will review
upon that nation, says Jehovah, even to
my finishing them by his hand.

9 And ye shall not hear to your
prophets and to your divinations, and
to your dreamers, and to those of you
practicing magic, and to your sorcerers,
which they are saying to you, saying,
Ye shall not serve the king of Babel:

10 For they are prophesying a lie to
you so as to remove you far off from
your land; and I thrust you away, and
ye perished.

11 And the nation which shall bring
his neck into the yoke of the king of
Babel and serve him, and I gave him
rest upon his land, says Jehovah; and
he worked it, and dwelt in it.

12 And to Zedekiah king of Judah
I spake according to all these words,
saying, Bring your necks into the yoke
of the king of Babel, and serve him and
his people, and live.

13 Wherefore will ye die, thou and
thy people, by the sword and by fam-
ine and by death, as Jehovah spake
against the nation who will not serve
the king of Babel?

14 And ye shall not hear to the words
of the prophets, saying to you, saying,
Ye shall not serve the king of Ba-
bel; for they are prophesying a lie to

ou,

15 For I sent them not, says Jeho-
vah, and they are prophesying im my
name for falsehood; for my thrusting
you away, and ye perish, ye, and the
prophets prophesying to you.

16 And to the priests and to all this
people I spake, saying, Thus said Jeho-
vah: Ye shall not hear to the words of
your prophets prophesying to you, say-
ing, Behold the vessels of the house of
Jehovah being now turned back from
Babel speedily : for they are prophesy-
ing a lie to you.

17 Ye shall not hear to them; serve
ye the king of Babel, and live: where-
fore shall this city be laid waste?

18 And if they be prophets, and if

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the word of Jehovah be with them,
they shall now supplicate to Jehovah
of armies for the vessels being left in
the house of Jehovah, and the house of
the king of Judah, in Jerusalem, not to
go into Babel.

19 For thus said Jehovah of armies
concerning the pillars, and concerning
the sea, and concerning the bases, and
concerning the remainder of the vessels
being left in this city.

20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel took them not in his carrying
away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoia-
kim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem
into Babel, and all the nobles of Judah
and Jerusalem.

21 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, concerning the vessels
being left in the house of Jehovah, and
the house of the king of Judah and Je-
rusalem :

22 They shall be brought to Babel,
and there shall they be till the day of
my reviewing them, says Jehovah; and
I brought them up and turned them
back to this place.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

A ND it will be in this year, in the

beginning of the reign of Zede-

kiah king of Judah, in the fourth year,

in the fifth month, Hananiah son of

Azur the prophet which was from the

hill, said to me in the house of Jehovah,

before the eyes of the priests, and all
the people, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, saying, I broke the yoke of
the king of Babel.

3 In yet two years of days I turn
back to this place all the vessels of the
house of Jehovah which Nebuchadnez-
zar king of Babel took from this place,
and brought them to Babel.

4 And Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim
king of Judah, and all the captivity of
Judah going to Babel, I turn back to
this place, says Jehovah; for I will
break the yoke of the king of Babel.

5 And Jeremiah the prophet will say
to Hananiah the prophet, before the
eyes of the priests and before the eyes
of all the people standing in the house
of Jehovah,

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6 And Jeremiah the prophet will say,
Verily: so will Jehovah do: will Jeho-
vah raise up thy words which thou didst
prophesy, to turn back the vessels of
the house of Jehovah, and all the cap-
tivity from Babel to this place.

7 But hear now this word which I
speak in thine ears and in the ears of
all the people ;

8 The prophets which were before
me and before thee from of old, and
they will prophesy to many lands, and
against great kingdoms, for war and for
evil and for death.

9 The prophet which will prophesy
for peace in the coming of the word of
the prophet, the prophet shall be known
that Jehovah sent him in truth.

10 And Hananiah the prophet will
take the yoke from off the neck of Jer-
emiah the prophet, and break it.

11 And Hananiah will say before the
eyes of all the people, saying, Thus
said Jehovah, Thus will I break the
yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babel in yet two years of days from
off the neck of all the nations. And
Jeremiah the prophet will go to his
way.

12 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet
broke the yoke from off the neck of
Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

18 Go and say to Hananiah, saying,
Thus said Jehovah, Thou didst break
the staves of wood; but make instead
of them staves of iron.

14 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, I gave an iron yoke
upon the neck of all these nations to
serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel:
and they served him: and also the
beasts of the field I gave to him.

15 And Jeremiah the prophet will
say to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now,
Hananiah ; Jehovah sent thee not; and
thou didst cause this people to trust
upon falsehood.

16 For this, thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me sending thee from off the face
of the earth: this year thou diest, be-
cause thou spakest turning away against
Jehovah.

17 And Hananiah the prophet will
die in this year in the seventh month.

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CHAPTER XXIX.

ND these the words of the writ-

ing which Jeremiah the prophet

sent from Jerusalem to the remnant of

the old men of the captivity, and to the

priests and to the prophets, and to all

the people which Nebuchadnezzar car-

ried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babel ;

2 (After the going forth of Jeconiah,
the king and the mistress, and the eu-
nuchs, the chiefs of Judah and Jerusa-
lem, and the artificers, and the smiths,
from Jerusalem ;(

.8 By the hand of Elasah son of
Shaphan, and Gemariah, son of Hilki-
ah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah
sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel,
into Babel) saying,

4 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, to all the captivity, which I
caused to be carried away captive from
Jerusalem into Babel :

5 Build ye houses and dwell; and
plant gardens and eat their fruit:

6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and
daughters; and take wives for your
sons, and ye shall give your daughters
to husbands, and they shall bring
forth sons and daughters: and ye be in-
creased there, and ye shall not be dimin-
ished.

7 And seek ye the peace of the city
where I caused you to be carried away
captive there, and pray for it to Jeho-
vah; for in her peace, peace shall be to

ou.

8 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, Your prophets in the
midst of you shall not deceive to you,
and your diviners; and you shall not
hear to your dreams which ye dream.

9 For they are prophesying in false-
hood to you in my name: I sent them
not, says Jehovah.

10 For thus said Jehovah, That ac-
cording to the filling up to Babel of
seventy years I will review you and lift
up to you my good word to turn you
back to this place.

11 For I knew the purposes which I
purposed concerning you, says Jeho-
vah; purposes of peace, and not for
evil, to give to you the last part and
expectation. ,

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12 And ye called me, and went and
prayed to me, and I heard to you.

13 And ye sought me and found, for
ye will seek me with all your heart.

14 And I was found to you, says Je
hovah: and I turned back your captiv-
ity, and I gathered you from all the na-
tions, and from all the places where I
thrust you away there, says Jehovah;
and I turned you back to the place
where I caused you to be carried away
captive from thence.

15 For ye said Jehovah raised up to
us prophets in Babel.

16 For thus said Jehovah to the king
sitting upon the throne of David, and
to all the people dwelling in this city,
your brethren which went not forth
with you into captivity.

17 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Be-
hold me sending upon them the sword,
the famine, and the death, and I gave
them as evil figs which shall not be
eaten from being evil.

18 And I pursued after them with
the sword, with famine and with death,
and I gave them for agitation to all the
kingdoms of the earth, for a curse and
for astonishment, and for hissing and
for a reproach among all the nations
which I thrust them away there:

19 For that they heard not to my
word, says Jehovah, which I sent to
them with my servants the prophets,
rising early and sending; and ye heard
not, says Jehovah.

20 And hear ye the word of Jeho-
vah, all the captivity which I sent
from Jerusalem into Babel.

21 Thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, to Ahab son of Kolaiah,
and to Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, proph-
esying a lie to you in my name; Be-
hold, I gave them into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and he
struck them before your eyes ;

22 And a curse was taken from them
to all the captivity of Judah which are
in Babylon, saying, Jehovah will set
thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom
the king of Babel roasted them in fire ;

23 Because they did folly in Israel,
and they will commit adultery with
their neighbors’ wives, and they will
speak the word of a lie in, my name,

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which I commanded them not; and I
know, and a witness, says Jehovah.

24 And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite
thou shalt say, saying,

25 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, saying, Because thou didst
send writings as thy name to all the
people which are in Jerusalem, and to
Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest,
and to the priests, saying,

26 Jehovah gave thee priest instead
of Jehoida the priest to be overseers of
the house of Jehovah, and for every
man raving andprophesying, and give
him to the stocks and to the prison.

27 And now wherefore didst thou
not reprove with Jeremiah of Ana-
thoth prophesying to you?

28 For, for this, he sent to us in Ba-
bel, saying, This is long: build ye
houses, and inhabit; plant gardens,
and eat their fruit.

29 And Zephaniah the priest will
read this writing in the ears of Jeremi-
ah the prophet.

30 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah, saying,

31 Send to all the captivity, saying,
Thus said Jehovah to Shemaiah the
Nehelamite ; Because Shemaiah proph-
esied to you, and I sent him not, and
he will cause you to trust in falsehood :

82 For this, thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me reviewing upon Shemaiah the
Nehelamite, and upon his seed: there
shall not be to him a man in the midst
of this people; and he shall not look
upon the good I do to my people, says
Jehovah; for he spake turning away
against Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXX.
HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah God of Israel,
saying, Write for thee all the words
which I spake to thee upon the writing.

3 For behold, the days coming, says
Jehoyah, and I turned back the captiv-
ity of my people Israel and Judah, said
Jehovah: and I turned them back to
the land which I gave to their fathers,
and they shall inherit it.

4 And these the words which Jeho-
vah spake to Israel and to Judah.

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5 For thus said Jehovah; We heard
the voice of fear and of terror, and not
of peace.

6 Ask ye now, and see if a male
brought forth? wherefore did I see
every man his hands upon his loins as
she bringing forth, and all faces were
turned to paleness?

7 Alas! for that day is great from
none being like it: and this the time
of straits to Jacob and he shall be saved
from it.

8 And it was in that day, says Jeho-
vah of armies, I will break his yoke
from off thy neck, and I will tear away
thy bonds, and strangers shall no more
serve upon him.

9 And they served Jehovah their
God, and David their king whom I
will raise up to them.

10 And thou my servant Jacob shall
not fear, says Jehoyah, and thou Israel
shalt not be dismayed: for behold me
saving thee from far off, and thy seed
from the land of their captivity; and
Jacob turned back and rested, and was
quiet, and none making afraid.

11 For 1 am with thee, says Jehovah,
to serve thee: for I will make a com-
pletion to all nations where I scattered
thee there, but with thee I will not
make a completion: and I corrected
thee for judgment, and acquitting, I
will not let thee go unpunished.

12 For thus said Jehovah, Thy break-
ing is incurable, and thy blow sickly.

18 None judging thy judgment for
binding up: no healing will come up
to thee.

14 All loving thee forgat thee; they
will not seek thee; for I struck thee the
blow of an enemy, the correction of the
cruel one, for the multitude of thine in-
iquity ; thy sins were strong,

15 Why wilt thou ery for thy break-
ing? thy pain is incurable for the mul-
titude of thine iniquity: thy sins were
strong, I did these things to thee.

16 For this, all consuming thee shall
be consumed ; and all thine adversaries,
all of them shall go into captivity ;
and they spoiling thee, were for spoil-
ing, and all plundering thee I will give
to plunder.

17 For I will bring up healing to

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thee, and I will heal thee of thy blows,
says Jehovah; for they called to thee
an outcast: This is Zion, none seeking
for her.

18 Thus said Jehovah, Behold me
turning back the captivity of Jacob's
tents, and I will compassionate his hab-
itations; and the city was built upon
her hill, and the palace sat upon its
judgment.

19 And thanksgiving shall go forth
from them, and the voice of those
playing, and I multiplied them, and
they shall not be few; and I honored
them, and they shall not be small.

20 And their sons were as of old, and
their testimony shall be prepared before
me, and I reviewed upon all pressing
them.

21 And his mighty one was from
himself, and his ruler shall go forth
from his midst; and I caused him to
draw near, and he came near to me:
for who this pledging his heart to ap-
proach to me? says Jehovah.

22 And ye were to me for a people,
and I will be to you for God.

23 Behold, the storm of Jehovah
went forth with wrath, a cutting storm:
it shall be hurled upon the head of
the wicked.

24 The burning of the anger of Jeho-
vah shall not turn back till his doing,
and till his setting up the thoughts of
his heart: in the last of the days ye
shall have understanding in it.

CHAPTER XXXL
N that time, says Jehovah, I will be
for God to all the families of Israel,
and they shall be to me for a people.

2 Thus said Jehovah, The people
escaped of the sword found grace in
the desert; Israel שתנסש‎ to cause him
to rest.

3 Jehovah was seen to me from afar
off; and I loved thee an eternal love:
for this I drew thee in kindness.

4 I will yet build thee, and thou wert
built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet
be adorned with the tabret, and thou
wentest forth into the dance of those
playing.

5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon
the mountains of Shomeron: — they

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planting, planted, and they made com-
mon.

6 For there is a day they watching
upon mount Ephraim called, Arise ye,
and we will go up to Zion to Jehovah
our God.

7 For thus said Jehovah, Shout elad-
ness to Jacob, and ery aloud to the
head of the nations: cause ye to be
heard, praise ye and say, O Jehovah
save thy people, the remnant of: Israel.

8 Behold me bringing them from the
land of the north, and I gathered them
from the thighs of the earth, with them
the blind and the lame, her being preg-
nant, and her bringing forth together :
a great convocation shall turn back
hither.

9 In weeping will they come, and I
will lead them in mercies ; I will cause
them to go to the streams of waters in
a straight way; they shall not stumble
in it: for I was to Israel for a father,
and Ephraim he is my first-born.

10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye
nations, and announce in the islands
from far off, and say, He scattering Is-
rael will gather him, and watch him as
the shepherd his flock.

11 For Jehovah redeemed Jacob, and
ransomed him from the hand of the
stronger than he.

12 And they came and shouted in
the height of Zion, and they flowed to-
gether to the goodness of Jehovah, for
the grain and for the new wine, and for
the oil, and for the sons of the flock
and the herd: and their soul was asa
watered garden, and they shall not add
to pine away any more.

13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in
the dance, and the young men and old
men together: and I turned their
mourning to joy, and I comforted them
and caused them to rejoice from their
sorrow.

14 And I satiated the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people
shall be satisfied with my goodness,
says Jehovah.

15 Thus said Jehovah, A yoice was
heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping
of bitterness; Rachel weeping for her
sons, refused to be comforted for her
sons, for they are not.

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16 Thus said Jehovah, Restrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes
from tears: for there is a reward to thy
work, says Jehovah; and they turned
back from the land of the enemy.

17 And there is hope to thy latter
state, says Jehovah, and thy sons
turned back to their bound.

18 Hearing, I heard Ephraim being
thrust away: Thou didst correct me,
and I shall be corrected as a calf not
being taught: turn me back and I shall
be turned back, for thou Jehovah my
God.

19 For after my being turned back I
was comforted ; and after my knowing
I struck upon the thigh: I was asham-
ed and also disgraced, for I bore the
reproach of my youth.

20 Is Ephraim a precious son to me?
if a child of delights? for whenever my
speaking against him, remembering, I
shall remember him yet; for this the
bowels were put in motion tome; com-
passionating, I will compassionate him,
says Jehovah.

21 Set up to thee thorns, set to thee
bitternesses: place thy heart to the
highway, the way thou wentest: turn
back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to
these thy cities.

22 How long wilt thou wander about,
O daughter turning away? for Jeho-
vah created a new thing in the earth:
A female shall go about a male.

23 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel: Yet shall they say this word
in the land of Judah and in its cities,
in my turning 0868 their captivity ;
Jehovah shall bless thee, thou habita-
tion of justice, thou mountain of holi-
ness.

24 And in Judah shall dwell in it,
and in all its cities together, husband-
men, and they removed with the flock.

25 For I satiated the weary soul,
and every soul pining away I filled.

26 Upon this I awoke, and I shall
see; and my sleep sweet to me.

27 Behold, the days coming, says
Jehovah, and I sowed the house of Js-
rael and the house of Judah, the seed
of man and the seed of beast.

28 And it was as I watched over
them to pluck up and to break down,

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and to destroy and to cut off, and to
break in pieces; so will I watch over
them to build and to plant, says Jeho-
yah.

29 In those days they shall no more
say, The fathers ate sour grapes and
the sons’ teeth will be blunted.

30 But each shall die in his iniquity:
every man eating the sour grape, his
teeth shall become dull.

51 Behold the days coming, says Je-
hovah, and I cut out the house of Isra-
el and the house of Judah a new cove-
nant.

82 Not according to the covenant
which I 65 out with their fathers in
the day I laid hold upon their hand to
bring them forth out of the land of
Egypt; which they brake my cove-
nant, and I was Lord over them, says
Jehovah.

89 For this the covenant that I will
cut out with the house of Israel: After
those days, says Jehovah, I gave my
law in the midst of them, and upon
their heart will I write it; and I was
to them for God, and they shall be to
me for a people.

84 And they shall teach no more a
man his neighbor and a man his broth-
er, saying, Know Jehovah: for they all
shall know me to their small and even
to their great, says Jehovah: for I will
forgive their iniquity, and to their sin
I will have no more remembrance.

35 Thus said Jehovah, giving the
sun for light the day, the laws of the
moon and the stars for a light the night,
causing the sea to tremble, and its
waves shall roar; Jehovah of armies
his name.

36 If these laws shall depart from
my face, says Jehovah, also the seed of
Israel shall cease from being a nation
before me all the days.

37 Thus said Jehovah: If the heay-
ens from above shall be measured, and
the foundations of the earth shall be
searched out beneath, I also will reject -
in all the seed of Israel for all which
they did, says Jehovah.

38 Behold the days, says Jehovah,
and the city was built to Jehovah, from
the tower of Hananeel, even to the gate
of the corner.

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89 And the line of measure shall yet
go forth over against it upon the hill
Gareb, and it went about Goath. :

40 And all the valley of the carcass-
es and the ashes, and all the fields even
to the torrent Kidron, even to the cor-
ner of the gate of horses, from the sun-
rising, a holy place to Jehovah ; it shall
not be plucked up, and it shall no more
be destroyed forever.

CHAPTER XXXIE
HE word which was to Jeremiah
.1 from Jehovah in the tenth year to
Zedekiah king of Judah, this year the
eighteenth year to Nebuchadnezzar.

2 And then the strength of the king
of Babel pressed upon Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in
the enclosure of the prison which was
in the house of the king of Judah.

3 For Zedekiah king of Judah shut
him up, saying, Wherefore prophesiest
thou, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me giving this city into the hand
of the king of Babel, and he took it.

4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall
not escape from the hand of the Chal-
deans, for giving, he shall be given into
the hand of the king of Babel, and
speaking to him, his mouth with his
mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes:

5 And he shall eall Zedekiah to go
to Babel, and he shall be there till my
reviewing him, says Jehovah: if ye
shall war with the Chaldeans, ye shall
not prosper.

6 And Jeremiah will say, The word
of Jehovah was to me, saying,

7 Behold, Hanameel son of Shallum
thine uncle, coming to thee, saying, Buy
to thee my field which is in Anathoth:
for to thee the judgment of redemption
to-day.

8 And Hanameel mine uncle’s son
will come to me according to the word
of Jehovah, to the enclosure of the pris-
on, and he will say to me, Buy now,
my field, which is in Anathoth, in the
land of Benjamin: for to thee judg-
ment of possession, and to thee the re-
demption; buy to thee, and I shall
know that this is the word of Jehovah.

9 And I shall buy the field of Hana-

meel son of mine uncle, which is in An-

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athoth; and I shall weigh to him seven
shekels and ten of silver.

10 And I shall write in a book, and
seal and affirm witnesses, and weigh the
silver in the balances.

11 And I will take the book of the
purchase, being sealed, the command
and laws, and being unrolled :

12 And I shall give the writing of
the purchase to Baruch, son of Neriah,
son of Maaseiah, before the’eyes of Ha-
nameel mine uncle, and before the eyes
of the witnesses, writing in the book of
the purchase before the eyes of all the
Jews sitting in the enclosure of the

rison.

13 And I shall command Baruch be-
fore their eyes, saying,

14 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, take these writings, this writ-
ing of the purchase, and the sealed, and
this writing unrolled, and give them in-
to an earthern vessel, so that they shall
stand many days.

15 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, Houses and fields and
eat shall yet be bought in this
land.

16 And 1 shall pray to Jehovah, af-
ter my giving the writing of the pur-
chase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying,

17 Thou Lord Jehovah! behold thou
madest the heavens and the earth by
thy great power and by thine arm
stretched forth; any word shall not be
separated from thee.

18 Doing kindness to thousands, and
requiting the iniquity of the fathers into
the bosom of their sons after them:
The Great, The Strong God, Jehovah
of armies, his name.

19 Great of counsel, and vast of do-
ing: for thine eyes being opened upon
all the ways of the sons of men to 6
to each according to his ways, and ac-
cording to the fruit of his doings:

20 Who set signs and wonders in the
land of Egypt, even to this day, and in
Tsrael, and in man; and thou wilt make
to thee a name according to this day.

21 And thou wilt bring forth thy
people Israel from the land of Egypt
with signs and with wonders, and with
a strong hand and with an arm stretch-
ed forth, and with great fear;

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99 And thou wilt give to them this
Jand which thou swarest to their fathers
to give to them, a land flowing milk
and honey.

23 And they will come in and pos-
sess it; and they heard not to thy voice,
and they went not in thy law; all which
thou didst command to them to do they
did not, and thou wilt cause all this evil
to befall them.

24 Behold the mounds, they came to
the city to take it; and the city was
given into the hand of the Chaldees
warring against it from the face of the
sword, and the famine, and the death;
and it was what thou spakest; and be-
hold thee seeing. -

25 And thou saidst to me, O Lord
Jehovah, Buy to thee the field for sil-
ver, and affirm witnesses; and the city
was given into the hand of the Chal-
deans.

26 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah, saying,

27 Behold, I am Jehovah, God of all
rata : isthere any word separated from
me?

28 For this, thus said Jehovah, Be-
hold me giving this city into the hand
of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and he
took it.

29 And the Chaldeans warring
against this city came, and they burnt
this city in fire, and they burnt it and
the houses which they burnt incense
upon their roofs to Baal, and they
poured out libations to other gods to
irritate me.

30 For the sons of Israel and the
sons of Judah were only doing evil in
mine eyes from their youth: for the
sons of Israel were only irritating me
with the work of their ‘hands, says Je-
hovah.

31 For this city was to me for mine
anger and for my wrath, from the day
which they built it and even to this
day, to remove it from my face.

32 For all the evil of the sons of Is-
rael and the sons of Judah which they
did to irritate me, they, their kings,
their chiefs, their priests, and their
prophets, and the man Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,

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33 And they will turn to me the neck
and not the face: and teaching them,
and rising early and teaching, and they
not hearing to receive instruction.

84 And they will set their abomina-
tions in the house which my name was
called upon it, to defile it.

85 And they will build the heights
of Baal which are in the valley of the-
son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and
their daughters to pass through to Mo-
lech, which I commanded them not;
and it came not up upon my heart to
do this abomination to cause Judah to
sin.

86 And now for this, thus said Jeho-
vah, God of Israel, to this city of which
ye are saying, It was given into the
hand of the king of Babel by sword and
by famine, and by death.

37 Behold me gathering them from
all the lands where I thrust them away
there in mine anger, and in my wrath,
and in great, anger; and I turned them
back to this place, and I caused them
to dwell with confidence.

38 And they were to me for a peo-
ple, and I will be to them for God.

89 And I gave to them one heart
and one way, to fear me all the days,
for good to them and to their sons after
them.

40 And I cut out to them an eternal
covenant that I will not turn back from
after them, to do them good; and I
will give my fear in their heart not to
turn away from me.

41 And I rejoiced over them to do
them good, and I planted them in this
land in truth with all my heart and
with all my soul.

42 For thus said Jehovah, As I
brought to this people all this great evil,
so I bring upon them all the good which
I speak concerning them.

43 And the field was purchased in
in this land which ye are saying, It is
a desolation without man and cattle;
it was given into the hand of the Chal-
deans.

44 They shall buy fields with silver,
and write thou in the book, and seal
and affirm witnesses in the land of Ben-
jamin, and in round about Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Judah, and in the

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cities of the mountain, and in the cities
of the low country, and in the cities of
the south: for I will turn back their
captivity, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXIIL
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah the second time, and
he yet shut up in the enclosure of the
prison, saying, :

2 Thus said Jehovah making it, Je-
hovah forming it, to prepare it, Jehovah
his name:

8 Call to me and 1 will answer thee,
and I will announce to thee great and
mighty things which thou knewest
them not.

4 For thus said Jehovah, God of Is-
rael, concerning the houses of this city,
and concerning the houses of the kings
of Judah, being torn away to the
mounds and to the sword ;

5 Coming to war with the Chaldeans,
and to fill them with the corpses of man
whom I struck in mine anger and in
my wrath, and that I hid my face from
this city for all their wickedness.

6 Behold me bringing up to it health
and healing, and healing them, and I
uncovered to them the abundance of
peace and truth,

7 And I turned back the captivity
of Judah and the captivity of Israel,
and I built them as at the first.

8 And 1 cleansed them from all their
. iniquity which they sinned to me, and
which they transgressed against me.

9 And it was to me for a name of
joy, for a praise and for an honor to all
the nations of the earth who shall hear
all the good which I did them: and
they trembled and were moved for all
the good and for all the peace which I
did to it.

10 Thus said Jehovah: Yet shall be
heard in this place which ye were say-
ing it was laid waste without man and
without cattle, in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem, being
desolate without man and without in-
habitant, and without cattle,

11 The voice of joy and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride, the voice of
those saying, Praise ye Jehovah of ar-

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mies: for Jehovah is good, for his mer-
ey is forever: of them bringing thanks-
giving to the house of Jehovah; for I
will turn back the captivity of the land
as at the first, said J hort

12 Thus said Jehovah of armies:
Yet shall be in this place being laid
waste without man and without cattle,
and in all its cities, the habitation of
the shepherds causing the sheep to lie
down.

18 In the cities of the mountain, in
the cities of the low country, and in
the cities of the south, and in the land
of Benjamin, and in round about Je-
rusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
shall the sheep yet pass through upon
tie hand of him numbering, said Jeho-
vah.

14 Behold, the days coming, says Je-
hovah, and I raised up the good word
which I spake to the house of Israel
and for the house of Judah.

15 In those days and in that time I
will cause the sprout of justice to
spring up to David; and he did judg-
ment and justice in the land.

16 In those days shall Judah be βαυ-
ed, and Jerusalem shall dwell with
confidence; and this is what shall be
called to her: Jehovah our Justice.

17 For thus said Jehovah, I will not
cut off to David a man sitting upon the
throne of the house of Israel ;

18 And to the priests, the Leyites, I
will not cut off a man from my face
bringing up burnt-offerings, and burn-
ing the gift, and doing sacrifice all the
days.

19 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah, saying,

20 Thus said Jehovah, If ye shall
break my covenant of the day and my
covenant of the night, and there was
not day and night in their season ;

21 Also my covenant shall be brok-
en with David my servant from there
being to him ason reigning upon his
throne; and with the Levites, the
priests, from serving me.

22 As the army of the keavens shal]
not be numbered, and the sand of the
sea shall not be measured: so will I
multiply the seed of David my servant,
and the Levites serving me,

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23 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah, saying,

24 Sawest thou not what this people
spake, saying, The two families which
Jehovah chose in them, and he will
reject them? and they will despise my
people from being yet a nation before
them.

25 Thus said Jehovah, If not my
covenant of the day and of the night,
the laws of the heavens and the earth I
set not up.

26 Also the seed of Jacob, and David
my servant, will I reject from taking
from his seed those ruling over the seed
of Abraham, Isaak, and Jacob: for I
will turn back their captivity, and I
compassionated them.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

HE word that was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah and Nebuchadnez-
zar king of Babel, and all his strength,
and all the kingdoms of the earth, the
dominion of his hand, and all the peo-
ples warring against Jerusalem, and

against all its cities, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel,
Go and say to Zedekiah king of Judah,
and say to him, Thus said Jehovah,
Behold me giving this city into the
hand of the king of Babel, and he burnt
it with fire.

3 And thou shalt not escape from his
hand, for being seized, thou shalt be
seized and be given into his hand; and
thine eyes shall see the eyes of the king
of Babel, and his mouth shall speak to
thy mouth, and thou shalt go to Babel.

4 But hear the word of Jehovah, O
Zedekiah, king of Judah: Thus said
Jehovah concerning thee, Thou shalt
not die by the sword:

5 In peace shalt thou die: and with
the burnings of thy fathers the former
kings which were before thee, thus shall
they burn for thee; and, Alas, Lord!
they shall mourn for thee; for I spake
the word, says Jehovah.

6 And Jeremiah the prophet will
speak to Zedekiah king of Judah all
these words in Jerusalem.

7 And the strength of the king of
Babel warred against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities of Judah being

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left against Lachish, and against Aze-
kah: for these remained of the cities of
Judah, fortified cities.

8 The word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah after king Zedekiah cut
out a covenant with all the people
which were in Jerusalem, to call to
them liberty ;

9 For a man to send away his sery-
ant, and a man his maid, the Hebrew or
the Hebrewess, free; for a man not to
serve with them with a Jew his
brother.

10 And all the chiefs will hear, and
all the people which came into the -ץ00‎
enant, to send away a man his servant
and aman his maid, free, no more to
serve with them, and they will hear and
will send away.

11 And they will turn back after this,
and they will cause their servants and
their maids to turn back whom they
sent away free, and they subdued them
for servants and for maids.

12 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

13 Thus said Jehovah, God of Isra-
el, I cut out a covenant with your fa-
thers in the day of my bringing them
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of servants, saying,

14 From the end of seven years ye
shall send away a man his brother, the
Hebrew who shall be sold to thee, and
serving thee six years, and send him
away free from thee; and your fathers
heard not to me and inclined not their
ear.

15 And ye will turn back to-day and
do the straight in mine eyes, to call lib-
erty a man to his neighbor; and ye will
cut out a covenant before me in the
house which my name was called upon it.

16 And ye will turn back and pol-
lute my name, and ye will cause to turn
back a man his servant and a man his
maid, whom ye sent away free to their
soul, and ye will subdue them to be to
you for servants and for maids.

17 For this, thus said Jehovah, Ye
heard not to me to call liberty, a man
to his brother and a man to his neigh-
bor: behold me calling to you liberty,
says Jehovah, to the sword, to the death,
and to the famine; and I gave you for

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agitation to all the kingdoms of the
earth.

18 And I gave the men passing by
my covenant who raised not up the
words of the covenant which they cut
out before me, the calf which they cut
in two, and they will pass through be-
tween its parts.

19 The chiefs of Judah, and the chiefs
of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and 6
priests, and all the people of the land
passing between the parts of the calf.

20 And I gave them into the hand
of their enemies and into the hand of
those seeking their soul; and their
corpses were for food to the birds of the
heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

21 And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and
his chiefs, I will give into the hand of
their enemies, and into the hand of
those seeking their soul, and into the
hand of the army of the king of Babel
going up from you.

22 Behold me commanding, says Je-
hovah; and 1 turned them back to this
city, and they warred against it and
took it, and burnt it m fire: and the
cities of Judah will I give to desolation
from none inhabiting.

CHAPTER XXXYV.
HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah in the days of Je-
hoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah,
saying,

2 Go to the house of the Rechabites
and speak with them, and bring them to
the house of Jehovah, to one of the
chambers, and give them wine to drink.

3 And I shall take Jaazaniah son of
Jeremiah, son of Habazaniah and his
brethren, and all his sons, and all the
house of the Rechabites ;

4 And I shall bring them to the
house of Jehovah to the chamber of the
sons of Hanan, son of Igdaliah, a man
of God, which was near the chamber of
the chiefs, which was from above to
the chamber of Maaseiah, son of Shal-
lum, watching the threshold.

5 And 1 shall give before the sons
of the house of the Rechabites, pots full
of wine, and cups, and saying to them,
Drink ye wine.

6 And they will say, We shall not

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drink wine: for Jonadab, son of Rechab
our father, commanded to us, saying,
Ye shall not drink wine, ye and your
sons even to forever.

7 And ye shall not build ahouse, and
ye shall not sow seed, and ye shall not
plant a vineyard, and it shall not be to
you: for in tents shall ye dwell all your
days, so that ye shall live many days
upon the face of the earth where ye are
strangers there.

8 And we will hear to the voice of
Jonadab son of Rechab our father, for
all which he commanded us, not to
drink wine all our days, we, our wives,
our sons, and our daughters ;

9 Not to build houses for our dwel-
ling; and vineyard and field and seed
shall not be to us.

10 And we will dwell in tents, and
we will hear and we will do according
to all which Jonadab our father com-
manded us.

11 And it will be in the coming up
of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, to the
land, and we shall say, Come, and we
will go to Jerusalem from the face of
the army of the Chaldeans, and from
the face of the army of Aram, and we
will dwell in Jerusalem.

12 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah, saying,

18 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, Go and say to the man Ju-
dah and to the inhabitants of Jerusa-
lem, Will ye not receive instruction to
hear to my word? says Jehovah.

14 The words of Jonadab son of Re-
chab who commanded his sons not to
drink wine, were raised up; and they
drank not even to this day, for they
heard the command of their father: and
I spake to you, rising early and speak-
ing; and ye heard not to me.

15 And 1 shall send to you all my
servants the prophets, rising early and
sending, saying, Turn ye back now each
from his evil way, and! make good your
doings, and ye shall not go after other
gods to serve them, and turn ye back
to the land which I gave to you and to
your fathers: and ye inclined not your
ear and ye heard not to me.

16 For the sons of Jonadab son of
Rechab raised up the commands of their

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father which he commanded them ; and
this people heard not to me.

17 For this, thus said Jehovah, God
of armies, God of Israel, Behold me
bringing to Judah and to all the inhab-
itants of Jerusalem, all the evil which
I spake concerning them; because I
spake to them and they heard not; and
1 shall call to them and they answered
not.

18 And Jeremiah said to the house
of the Rechabites, Thus said Jehovah of
armies, God of Israel, Because that ye
heard to thecommand of Jonadab your
father, and ye will watch all his com-
mands, and ye will do all which he
commanded you:

19 For this, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies, God of Israel, A man shall not
be cut off to Jonadab son of Rechab, to
stand before my face all the days.

CHAPTER XXXVI.
ND it will be in the fourth year
of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah king
of Judah, this word being to Jeremiah
from Jehovah, saying,

2 Take to thee a roll of writing, and
write in it all the words which I spake
to thee against Israel and against Ju-
dah, and against all the nations, from
the day I spake to thee from the days
of Josiah and even to this day.

3 Perhaps the house of Judah will
hear all the evil which I purpose to do
to them; so that they will turn back
each from his eyil way; and I pardon-
ed their iniquity and their sin.

4 And Jeremiah will call Baruch the
son of Neriah: and Baruch will write
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the
words of Jehovah which he spake to
him upon the roll of the book.

5 And Jeremiah will command Ba-
ΤΌΘ, saying, I being shut up shall not
be able to go into the house of Jeho-
vah:

6 And go thou and read in the roll
which thou wrotest from my mouth,
the words of Jehovah in the ears of the
slg in the house of Jehovah in the

ay of fasting: and also in the ears of
all Judah coming from their cities thou
shalt read them.

7 Perhaps their mercy will fall be-

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fore the face of Jehovah, and they will
turn back each from his evil way: for
great the anger and the wrath which
Jehovah spake against this people.

8 And Baruch son of Neriah will do
aceording to all which Jeremiah the
prophet commanded him, to read in the
book the words of Jehovah in the house
of Jehovah.

9 And it will be in the fifth year to
Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah,
in the ninth month, they called a fast
before Jehovah to all the people in Je-
rusalem, and all the people coming from
the cities of Judah into Jerusalem.

10 And Baruch will read in the book
all the words of Jeremiah in the house
of Jehovah in the chamber of Gemariah
son of Shaphan the scribe, in the en-
elosure the highest of the entrance of
the new gate of the house of Jehovah,
in the ears of all the people.

11 And Micaiah son of Gemariah
son of Shaphan, will hear all the words
of Jehovah from the book.

12 And he will go down to the house
of the king to the seribe’s chamber, and
behold, there all the chiefs sitting, Eli-
shama the scribe, and Delaiah son of
Shemaiah, and Elnathan son of Achbor,
and Gemariah son of Shaphan, and
Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the
chiefs.

18 And Micaiah will announce to
them all the words which he heard in
the reading of Baruch in the book in
the ears of the people.

14 And all the chiefs will send to Ba-
ruch, Jehudi, son of Nethaniah, son of
Shelemiah, son of Cushi, saying, The
roll in which thou readest in the ears of
the people, take it in thy hand and come.
And Baruch the son of Neriah will take
the roll in his hand, and come to them.

15 And they will say to him, Sit
down now, and read it in our ears.
And Baruch will read in their ears.

16 And it will be when they heard
all the words, they trembled, a man
with his neighbor, and they will say to
Baruch, Announcing, we will announce
to the king all these words.

17 And they asked Baruch, saying,
Announce now to us how thou didst
write all these words from his mouth?

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18 And Baruch will say to them,
From his mouth he will read to me all
these words, and I will write upon the
book with ink.

19 And the chiefs will say to Baruch,
Go hide, thou, and Jeremiah; and a
man not knowing where ye are.

20 And they will come in to the king
to the enclosure, and they deposited the
roll in the chamber of Elishama the
scribe, and they will announce all the
words in the ears of the. king.

21 And the king will send Jehudi
to take the roll: and he took it from
the chamber of Elishama the scribe.
And Jehudi will read in the ears of the
king and in the ears of all the chiefs
standing from about the king.

22 And the king will sit in the win-
ter house in the ninth month, and a
furnace burning before him.

23 And it will be as Jehudi read
three columns and four, he will rend it
with the knife of the scribe, and cast
into the fire which was in the furnace,
even till all the roll was consumed upon
the fire which was upon the furnace.

24 And they trembled not, and they
rent not their garments, the king and
all his servants hearing all these words.

25 And also Elnathan and Delaiah
and Gemariah supplicated to the king
not to burn the roll: and he heard to
them not.

26 And the king commanded Jerah-
meel, son of the king, and Seraiah, son
of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Ab-
deel, to take Baruch the 3017106 and Jer-
emiah the prophet; and Jehovah will
hide them.

27 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah after the king burnt the
roll, and the words which Baruch wrote
from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

28 Turn back, take to thee another
roll, and write upon it all the former
words which were upon the first roll
which Jehoiakim king of Judah, burnt.

29 And to Jehoiakim king of Judah
thou shalt say, Thus said Jehovah, Thou
didst burn this roll, saying, Wherefore
didst thou write upon it, saying, Com-
ing, the king of Babel shall come and
destroy this land, and cause to cease
from it man and cattle?

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30 For this, thus said Jehovah con-
cerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He
sitting upon the throne of David shall
not be to him, and his corpse shall be
cast out to the heat in the day, and to
the cold in the night.

31 And I reviewed upon him, and
upon his seed, and upon his servants,
their iniquity; and I brought upon
them and upon the inhabitants of Jeru-
salem, and upon the men of Judah all
the evil which I spake against them,
and they heard not.

32 And Jeremiah took another roll,
and he will give it to Baruch son of
Neriah the scribe; and he will write
upon it from the mouth of Jeremiah all
the words of the book which Jehoiakim
king of Judah burnt in the fire: and he
anided yet to them many words like
them.

CHAPTER XXXVII.
ND. king Zedekiah son of Josiah
will reign instead of Coniah son
of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel made king in the land of
Judah.

2 And he heard not, he and his ser-
vants, and the people of the land, to
the words of Jehovah which he spake
by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet.

3 And king Zedekiah will send Je-
hucal, son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah,
son of Maaseiah the priest, to Jeremiah
the prophet, saying, Pray now for us to
Jehovah our God.

4 And Jeremiah came and went forth
in the midst of the people: and they
gave him not to the house of the pri-
son.

5 And Pharaoh’s army came forth
out of Egypt: and the Chaldeans press-
ing upon Jerusalem will hear their re-
port, and they will come up from Jeru-
salem.

6 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

7 Thus said Jehovah God of Israel,
Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah
sending’ you to me to seek me out, Be-
hold the army of Pharaoh coming forth
to you for help, turning back to its land
of Egypt.

8 And the Chaldeans turned back and

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warred against this city, and took it and
burnt it with fire.

9 Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not
lift up your souls, saying, Departing,
the Chaldeans will go from us: for they
shall not go.

10 For if ye struck all the army of
the Chaldeans warring with you, and
men thrust through remained among
them, they shall arise a man in his tent
and burn this city in fire.

11 And it was in the going up of the
army of the Chaldees from the face of
the army of Pharaoh.

12 And Jeremiah went forth from
Jerusalem to go to the land of Benja-
min to distribute from thence in the
midst of the people.

13 And he will be in the gate of
Benjamin, and there a master of the
ward, and his name Irijah son of Shele-
miah, son of Hananiah; and he will
take Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Thou fallest to the Chaldeans.

14 And Jeremiah will say, A false-
hood; I fall not to the Chaldeans.
And he heard not to him: and Ivijah
will seize upon Jeremiah and he will
bring him to the chiefs.

15 And the chiefs will be angry
against Jeremiah and they struck him,
and gave him to the house of bonds the
house of Jonathan the scribe: for they
made it for a house of prison.

16 For Jeremiah came to the house
of the pit and to the vaults, and Jere-
miah sat there many days.

17 And king Zedekiah will send and
take him, and the king will ask him in
his house in secret, and say, Is there a
word from Jehovah? and Jeremiah
will say, There is: and he will say, In-
to the hand of the king of Babel shalt
thou be given.

18 And Jeremiah will say to king
Zedekiah, What did I sin against thee,
and against thy servants, and against
this people that thou gavest me to the
house of the prison?

19 And where now your prophets
who prophesied to you, saying, The
king of Babel shall not come against
you and against this land?

20 And now, hear now my lord the
king: my mercy shall fall now before

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thy face, and thou shalt not cause me
to turn back to the house of Jonathan
the seribe, and I shall not die there.

21 And king Zedekiah will com-
mand, and they will commit Jeremiah
to the enclosure of the prison, and giv-
ing to him a round of bread for the
day from the street of the baker’s, till
all the bread was consumed out of the
city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the en-
closure of the prison.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.
ND Shephatiah son of Mattan,
will hear, and Gedaliah son of
Pashur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah,
and Pashur son of Malchiah, the words
which Jeremiah was speaking to all the
people, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah, He dwelling in
this city shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by death; and he going
forth to the Chaldeans shall live: and
his soul was to him for booty, and he
lived.

3 Thus said Jehovah, Being given,
this city shall be given into the hand of
the army of the king of Babel, and he
took it.

4 And the chiefs will say to the king,
Now shall this man be put to death:
for thus he is relaxing the hands of the
men of war remaining in this city, and
the hands of all the people to speak to
them according to these words; for this
man sought not for peace to this peo-
ple but for evil. :

5 And king Zedekiah will say, Be-
hold him in your hands; for the king
will not be able a word with you.

6 And they will take Jeremiah and
send him to the pit of Malchiah son of
the king which was in the enclosure of
the prison: and they will cast Jeremi-
ah with cords, and im the pit no water
but mud: and Jeremiah will sink in
the mud.

7 And the king’s servant, the Cush-
ite, a man, an eunuch, will hear, and he
in the house of the king, that they gave
Jeremiah to the pit; and the king sit-
ting in the gate of Benjamin.

8 And the king’s servant went forth
from the house of the king, and he will
speak to the king, saying,

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9 My lord the king, these men did
611 all which they did to Jeremiah the
prophet whom they cast into the pit;
and he will die in his low place from
the face of hunger, for no more bread
in the city.

10 And the king will command the
king’s servant the Cushite, saying,
Take in thy hand from here thirty
men, and bring up Jeremiah the
prophet from the pit before he shall
die.

11 And the king’s servant will take
the men in his hand and go to ‘the
house of the king under the store-house,
and he will take from thence old torn
rags, and ragsrubbed small, and he will
cast them to Jeremiah into the pit with
cords.

12 And the king’s servant the Cush-
ite will say to Jeremiah, Put now the
old rags torn and rubbed small, under
the joints of thy hands from under the
cords; and Jeremiah will do so.

13 And they will draw up Jeremiah
with the cords, and bring him up out
of the pit: and Jeremiah dwelt in the
enclosure of the prison,

14 And king Zedekiah will send and
take Jeremiah the prophet to him to the
third entrance which was in the house
of Jehovah; and the king will say to
Jeremiah, I ask thee a word; thou
shalt not hide a word from me.

15 And Jeremiah will say to Zede-
ldah, If I shall announce to thee, kill-
ing, wilt thou not put me to death?
and if I shall counsel thee, thou wilt
not hear to me?

16 And king Zedekiah will swear to
Jeremiah in secret, saying, Jehovah
lives who made to us this soul, if 1 shall
put thee to death, and if I shall give
thee into the hand of these men who
are seeking thy soul.

17 And Jeremiah will say to Zede-
liah, Thus said Jehovah, God of ar-
mies, God of Israel, If going forth, thou
wilt go forth to the chiefs of the king
of Babel, and thy soul lived, and this
city shall not be burnt with fire; and
thou livedst and thy house:

18 And if thou wilt not go forth to
the chiefs of the king of Babel, and this
city was given into the hand of the

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Chaldeans, and they burntit with
fire, and thou shalt not escape from
their hand.

19 And king Zedekiah will say to
Jeremiah, I fear the Jews who fell to
the Chaldeans, lest they shall give me
into the hand and they ill-treated
me.

20 And Jeremiah will say, They shall
not give. Hear, now, to the voice of
Jehovah for which I speak to thee:
and it shall be well to thee, and thy
soul shall live.

21 And if thou refuse to go forth,
this the word which Jehovah caused me
to see:

22 And behold, all the women which
were left in the house of the king of
Judah being brought forth to the chiefs
of the king of Babel, and they say, The
men of thy peace enticed thee, and
they prevailed against thee: they sank
thy foot in mire, they turned away
back.

23 And all thy women and all thy
sons being brought forth to the Chal-
deans: and thou shalt not escape from
their hand, for thou shalt be seized
by the hand of the king of Babel:
and thou shalt burn this city with
fire.

24 And Zedekiah will say to Jere-
miah, No man shall know of these
words, and thou shalt not die.

25 And if the chiefs shall hear that
I spake with thee, and they came to
thee, and said to thee, Announce now
to us what thou spakest to the king;
thou shalt not hide from us, and we
will not put thee to death; and what
said the king to thee:

26 And say thou to them, I cause
my supplication to fall before the king,
not to turn me back to the house of
Jonathan, to die there.

27 And all the chiefs will come to
Jeremiah, and they will ask him: and
he will announce to them according to
all these words which the king com-
manded. And they will be silent from
him, for the word was not heard.

28 And Jeremiah dwelt in the en-
closure of the prison even to the day
that Jerusalem was taken: and he was
when Jerusalem was taken.

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CHAPTER XXXIX.
ו‎ the ninth year to Zedekiah king
of Judah, in the tenth month, came
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and all
his army, against Jerusalem, and they
pressed upon her.

2 In the eleventh year to Zedekiah,
in the fourth month, in the ninth to the
month, the city was broken.

3 And all the chiefs of the king of
Babel will come and sit in the middle
gate, Nergal-Sarezer, Samgar-Nebo,
Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal-Sharezer,
Rab-Mag, and all the remainder of the
chiefs of the king of Babel.

4 And it will be as Zedekiah king of
Judah saw them, and all the men of
war, and they will flee and go forth at
night from the city the way of the
king’s garden, in the gate between the
two walls: and he will go forth the
way of the desert.

5 And the army of the Chaldeans
will pursue after them, and they will
overtake Zedekiah in the sterile region
of Jericho, and they will take him and
bring him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel, to Riblah in the hand of Hamath,
and he will speak with him judgments.

6 And the king of Babel will slaugh-
ter the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah be-
fore his eyes: and all the nobles of Ju-
dah the king of Babel slaughtered.

7 And he blinded the eyes of Zede-
kiah, and he will bind him with fetters
of brass to bring him to Babel.

8 And the Chaldeans burnt the
house of the king, and the house of
the people, with fire, and they broke
the walls of Jerusalem.

9 And the remainder of the people
being left in the city, and those falling
away which fell to him, and the remain-
der of the people being left, Nebuzara-
dan chief of the cooks, carried away
captive to Babel.

10 And from the weak people which
to them was nothing, Nebuzaradan
chief of the cooks left in the land of
Judah, and he will give to them yvine-
yards and fields in that day.

11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Ba-
bel will command concerning Jeremiah
by the hand of Nebuzaradan chief of
the cooks, saying,

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12 Take him and set thine eyes upon
him, and thou shalt do to him nothing
evil; but as he shall speak to thee
thus do to him.

13 And Nebuzaradan chief of the
cooks will send, and Nebushasban, Rab-
saris, Nergal-Sharezer, Rab-Mag, and
all the chiefs of the king of Babel;

14 And they will send and take Jer-
emiah from the enclosure of the prison
and they will give him to Gedaliah son
of Ahikam son of Shaphan, to carry
him forth to the house: and he will
dwell in the midst of the people.

15 And to Jeremiah was the word of
Jehovah in his being shut up in the en-
closure of the prison, saying,

16 Go and say to the king’s servant
the Cushite, saying, Thus said Jehovah
of armies, God of Israel, Behold me
bringing my words to this city for evil
and not for good; and they were in
that day before thee.

17 And I delivered thee in that day,
says Jehovah: and thou shalt not be
given into the hand of the men thou
wilt be afraid of their face.

18 For escaping, I will let thee es-
cape, and thou shalt not fall by the
sword, and thy soul was to thee for
booty: for thou didst trust in me, says
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XL.

HE word which was to Jeremiah
from Jehovah after Nebuzaradan
chief of the cooks sent him from Ra-
mah, in his taking him, he being bound
in manacles in the midst of all the
captivity of Jerusalem and Judah, be-

ing carried away captive to Babel.

2 And the chief of the cooks will
take to Jeremiah and say to him, Je-
hovah thy God spake this evil against
this place.

3 And Jehovah will bring and do as
he spake: because ye sinned against
Jehovah, and ye heard not to his voice,
and this word was to you.

4 And now behold I loosed thee this
day from the manacles which were upon
thy hand. If good in thine eyes to go
with me to Babel, come; and I will
set mine eye upon thee: and if evil in
|thine eyes to go with me to Babel, de-

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sist: see all the land before thee: if
good and for the straight in thine eyes
to go, go.

5 And while he will not turn back,
And turn back to Gedaliah, son of Ahi-
kam, son of Shaphan, whom the king
of Babel appointed over the cities of
Judah, and dwell with him in the midst
of the people: or to all the straight
in thine eyes to go, go. And the chief
of the cooks will give to him a portion
and a gift, and he will send him away.

6 And Jeremiah will go to Gedaliah
son of Ahikam, to Mizpeh, and he will
dwell with him in the midst of the peo-
ple being left in the land.

7 And all the chiefs of the armies
which were in the field, they and their
men will hear, for the king of Babel ap-
pointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over
the land, and that he committed to
him the men and the women and child-
ren and the poor of the land from
whom they were not carried away cap-
tive to Babel.

8 And they will come to Gedaliah
to Mizpeh, and Ishmael son of Nethan-
jah, and Johanan and Jonathan, sons
of Kareah, and Seraiah, son of Tan-
humeth, and the sons of Ephai the Ne-
tophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Ma-
achathite, they and their men.

9 And Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son
of Shaphan, will swear to them and to
their men, saying, Ye shall not fear
serving the Chaldeans: dwell in the
land and serve the king of Babel, and
it shall be well to you.

10 And I, behold me dwelling in
Mizpeh to stand before the Chaldeans
who will come to us: and ye, gather ye
wine, and the fruit harvest, and oil, and
put in your vessels, and dwell in your
cities which ye took.

11 And also all the Jews which are
in Moab, and among the sons of Am-
mon, and in Edom, and in the lands,
heard that the king of Babel gave a
remnant to Judah, and that he appoint-
ed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam,
son of Shaphan.

12 And all the Jews from all the
places where they were thrust out there
will turn back, and they will come to
the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Miz-

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peh, and they will gather wine and the
fruit harvest exceeding much.

13 Johanan son of Kareah, and all
the chiefs of the armies which were in
the field came to Gedaliah to Mizpch.

14 And they will say to him, Know-
ing, wilt thou know that Baalis, king of
the sons of Ammon sent Ishmael son of
Nethaniah to strike thee in soul? And
Gedaliah son of Ahikam believed not
in them.

15 And Johanan son of Kareah said
to Gedaliah in Mizpeh, in secret, say-
ing, I will go now and strike Ishmael
son of Nethaniah, and no man shall
know: wherefore shall he strike the
soul, and all the Jews gathered to thee
be seattered, and the remnant of Judah
perish ?

16 And Gedaliah son of Ahikam
will say to Johanan son of Kareah,
Thou shalt not do this word, for thou
speakest falsehood concerning Ishmael.

CHAPTER XLI.
ND it will be in the seventh
month, came Ishmael son of Ne-
thaniah son of Elishama, from the seed
of the kingdom, and the chiefs of the
king, and ten men with him, to Geda-
liah son of Ahikam, to Mizpeh, and
there will they eat bread together in
Mizpeh.

2 And Ishmael son of Nethaniah
will rise, and the ten men which were
with him, and they will strike Gedaliah
son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, with
the sword, and he will kill him whom
the king of Babel appointed over the
land.

8 And all the Jews which were with
him with Gedaliah in Mizpeh, and the
Chaldeans which were found there with
the men of war, Ishmael smote.

4 And it will be in the second day of
killing Gedaliah, and not a man knew.

5 And men will come from Shechem,
from Shiloh, and from Shomeron,
eighty men, shaving the beard, and
their garments rent, and cutting them-
selves, and-a gift and frankincense in
their hand, to bring to the house of Je-
hoyah.

6 And Ishmael son of Nethaniah
came forth to meet them from Mizpeh ;

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he went going and weeping: and it
will be as he fell in with them, and he
will say to them, Come to Gedaliah,
son of Ahikam.

7 And it will be as they came to the
midst of the city, Ishmael, son of Ne-
thaniah, will slaughter them to the
midst of the pit, he and the men that
were with him.

8 And ten men were found among
them, and they will say to Ishmael,
Thou shalt not slay us: for there is to
us treasures in the field, wheat and
barley and oil and honey. And he
will desist and kill them not in the
midst of their brethren.

9 And the pit where Ishmael cast
there all the corpses of the men whom
he struck by the hand of Gedaliah was
that which king Asa made from the
face of Baasha king of Israel: Ishmael
son of Nethaniah filled it with the
wounded.

10 And Ishmael will carry away
captive all the remnant of the people
which were in Mizpeh, the king’s daugh-
ters and all the people being left in
Mizpeh, which Nebuzaradan chief of
the cooks committed to Gedaliah son of
Ahikam: and Ishmael son of Nethani-
ah will carry them captive, and he will
depart to pass over to the sons of Am-
mon.

11 And Johanan son of Kareah will
hear, and all the chiefs of the armies
which were with him, all the evil which
Ishmael son of Nethaniah did.

12 And they will take all the men
and go to fight with Ishmael son of
Nethaniah, and they will find him at
the many waters which are in the hill.

18 And it will be as all the people
that were with Ishmael saw Johanan
son of Kareah, and all the chiefs of the
army which are with him, they will re-
joice.

14 And all the people which Ishma-
el carried away captive from Mizpeh
will turn about and turn back and go
to Johanan son of Kareah.

15 And Ishmael son of Nethaniah
escaped with eight men from the face
of Johanan, and he went to the sons of
Ammon.

16 10 Johanan son of Kareah will

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take, and all the captains of the armies
which were with him, all the remnant
whom he turned back from Ishmael
son of Nethaniah from Mizpeh, after he
struck Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the
strong men of war, and the women and
children, and the eunuchs which he
turned back from the hill.

17 And they will go and dwell in the
habitation of Chimham, which is near
the house of bread, to go to come into
Egypt,

18 From the face of the Chaldeans:
for they were afraid from their face, be-
cause Ishmael son of Nethaniah, struck
Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the
king of Babel appointed over the land.

CHAPTER XLIL
ND all the chiefs of the armies
will draw near, and Johanan son
of Kareah, and Jezaniah son of Hosha-
iah, and all the people from the small
even to the great.

2 And they will say to Jeremiah the
prophet, Now shall our supplication
fall before thee, and pray thou for us to
Jehovah thy God, for all this remnant;
for we were left few from many as thine
eyes see us.

3 And Jehovah thy God will an-
nounce to us the way which we shall
go in it, and the word which we shall do.

4 And Jeremiah the prophet will say
to them, I heard; behold me praying
to Jehovah your God according to your
words; and it was all the word that
Jehovah shall answer you I will an-
nounce to you; I will not withhold a
word from you.

5 And they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah
will be with us for a witness of truth
and faithful, if not according to all the
words which Jehovah thy God will send
thee to us, thus will we do.

6 If good, and if evil, we will hear to
the voice of Jehovah our God which we
sent thee to him; so: that it shall be
well to us, for we will hear to the voice
of Jehovah our God.

7 And it will be from the end of ten
days, and the word of Jehovah will be

‘to Jeremiah.

8 And he wiil call to Johanan son of
Kareah, and to all the chiefs of the ar-,

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mies which were with him, and to all
the people, from small even to great,

9 And he will say to them, Thus
said Jehovah God of Israel, whom ye
sent me to him for your supplication to
fall before him.

10 11 dwelling, ye will dwell in this
land, and I built you, and I will not
pull down, and I planted you, and 1
will not pluck up: for I grieved for
the evil which I did to you.

11 Ye shall not fear from the face of
the king of Babel whom ye fear; from
his face ye shall not fear, says Jehovah:
for I am with you to save you and to
deliver you out of his hand.

12 And I will giye mercies to you,
and he compassionated you, and turned
you back to your land.

13 And if ye say, We will not dwell
in this land, not hearing to the voice of
Jehovah your God,

14 Saying, No; for we will go to the
land of Egppt where we shall not see
war, and we shall not hear the voice of
the trumpet, and for bread we shall not
hunger: and there will we dwell.

15 And now for this, hear the word
of Jehovah, ye remnant of Judah:
Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of
Israel, If setting, ye shall set your faces
to go to Egypt, and ye went to sojourn
there ;

16 And it was the sword which ye
were afraid of it, there it shall overtake
you in the land of Egypt, and the fam-
ine which ye feared from it, shall cleave
after you there in Egypt, and there
shall ye die.

17 And it shall be all the men who
set their faces to go to Egypt to sojourn
there shall die with the sword, and with
famine, and with death: and there shall
not be to them fleeing or escaping from
the face of the evil which I bring upon
them.

18 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel, as mine anger was poured
out, and my wrath upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be
poured out upon you in your going to
Egypt: and ye were for a curse and
for an astonishment and for reviling,
and for reproach ; and ye shall no more
see this place.

JEREMIAH זא‎

19 Jehovah spake concerning you, Ye
remnant of Judah, ye shall not go to
Egypt: knowing, ye shall know, for I
testified against you this day.

20 For ye erred in your souls when
ye sent me to Jehovah your God,
saying, Pray for us to Jehovah our
God; and according to all Jehovah
will say, so announce to us, and we
will do.

21 And I will announce to you this
day; and ye heard not to the voice of
Jehovah your God, and to all which he
sent me to you.

22, And now knowing, ye shall know

‘that by sword and by famine and by

death ye shall die in the place where
ye desired to go to sojourn there.

CHAPTER XLIII.
ND it will be as Jeremiah finished
speaking to all the people all the
words of Jehovah their God, which Je-
hovah their God sent him to them all
these words,

2 And Azariah son of Hoshaiah will
say, and Johanan son of Kareah, and
all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah,
Thou speakest falsehood: Jehovah our
God sent thee not to say, Ye shall not
go to Hgypt to sojourn there:

3 For Baruch son of Neriah entices
thee against us to give us into the hand
of the Chaldeans, to kill us and carry
us away captive to Babel.

4 And Johanan son of Kareah heard
not, and all the chiefs of the armies, and
all the people, to the voice of Jehovah,
to dwell in the land of Judah.

5 And Johanan son of Kareah will
take, and all the chiefs of the armies,
all the remnant of Judah who turned
back from all the nations, where they
were thrust away there to sojourn in
the land of Judah ;

6 Men and women and children, and
the king’s daughters, and every soul
which Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks
left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son
of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet,
and Baruch, son of Neriah.

7 And they will come to the land of
Egypt: for they heard not to the voice
of Jehovah, and they will come even to
Tahpanhes.

JEREMIAH XLIV.

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Jeremiah in T'ahpanhes, saying,

9 Take in thy hand great stones, and
hide them in the mortar in the brick
kiln, which is in the entrance of the
house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, before
the eyes of the men of Judah,

10 And say to them, Thus said Jeho-
vah of armies, God of Israel, Behold
me sending and I took Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel, my servant, and I set
his throne from above these stones
which I hid; and he spread his tapes-
try upon them.

11 And coming and smiting the land
of Egypt, whom for death to death, and
whom for captivity to captivity, and
whom for the sword to the sword.

12 And I kindled a fire in the houses
of the gods of Egypt, and he burnt
them and carried them away captive:
and he covered himself with the land
of Egypt as the shepherd will cover
himself with his garment; and he will
go forth from thence in peace.

13 And he brake the pillars of the
house of the sun which is in the land of
Egypt; and the houses of the Gods of
Egypt he shall burn in fire.

CHAPTER XLIV.
HE word which was to Jeremiah
to all the Jews dwelling in the
land of Egypt, dwelling in the tower,
and in Tahpanhes, and Noph, and in
the land of Pathros, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah of armies, God
of Israel, Ye saw all the evil which I
brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all
the cities of Judah; and behold them
a waste this day, and none dwelling in
them;

3 From the face of their evil which
they did to irritate me, going to burn
incense to serve other gods whom they
knew not, they, and your fathers.

4 And I will send to you all my ser-
vants the prophets, rising early and
sending, saying, Now ye shall not do
this abomination which I hated.

5 And they heard not and inclined
not their ear to turn back from their
evil, not to burn incense to other gods.

6 And my wrath will be poured out,
and mine anger, and it will be kindled

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in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem; and they shall be fora
waste, for a desolation as this day.

7 And now, thus said Jehovah, God
of armies, God of Israel: Wherefore ye
do great evil to your souls to cut off
to you man and woman and child and
suckling from the midst of Judah, not
to leave a remnant to you;

8 For your irritating me with the
works of your hands, to burn incense
to other gods in the land of Egypt,
where ye go to sojourn there, to cut off
to you, and for your being for a curse
and for a reproach in all the nations of
the earth.

9 Forgat ye the evil of your fathers,
and the evil of the kings of Judah, and
the evil of their wives, and your evil,
and the evil of your wives, which they
did in the land of Judah and in the
streets of Jerusalem ?

10 And they were not humbled even
to this day, and they feared not and
they went not in my instructions and in
my laws which I gave before you and
before your fathers.

11 For this, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies, God of Israel, Behold me setting
my face against you for evil, and to cut
off all Judah.

12 And I took the remainder of Ju-
dah, that set their faces to go to the
land of Egypt to sojourn there, and
they were all consumed in the land of
Ῥεγρί; they shall fall by the sword
and by famine: they shall be consumed
from small and even to great, by the
sword and by famine: they shall die,
and they were for an oath, and fora
desolation, and for a eurse, and fora
reproach.

13 And I reviewed over those dwell-
ing in the land of Egypt, as I reviewed
over Jerusalem, by the sword, by fam-
ine and by death.

14 And there shall not be escaping
or fleeing to the remnant of Judah go-
ing to sojourn there in the land of
Kgypt, to turn back to the land of Ju-
dah, which they lift up their soul to
turn back to dwell there: for they
shall not turn back but the escaped.

15 And they will answer Jeremiah,
all the men knowing that their wives

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burn incense to other gods, and all the
women standing, a great convocation,
and all the people dwelling in the land
of Egypt in Pathros, saying,

16 The word which thou spakest to
us in the name of Jehovah, we hear not
to thee.

17 But doing, we will do all the word
which went forth from our mouth, to
burn incense to the queen of the heay-
ens, to pour out libations to her, as we
did, we and our fathers, our kings and
our chiefs in the cities of Judah and in
the streets of Jerusalem: and we shall
be filled with bread, and we shall be
well, and see not evil.

18 From then we ceased to burn in-
cense to the queen of the heavens, and
to pour out libations to her, we wanted
all things, and were consumed by
sword and by famine. /

19 And when we burn incense to the
queen of the heavens, and pour out
libations to her, did we without our
men make cakes to her, to serve her,
and pour out libations to her?

20 And Jeremiah will say to all the
people, to the men and to the women,
and to all the people answering him
the word, saying,

21 The incense which ye burned in
the cities of Judah and im the streets of
Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your
kings and your chiefs, and the people
of the land, did not Jehovah remember
them, and it will come up upon his
heart?

22 And Jehovah shall no more be
ab‘e to lift up from the face of the evil
of your doings from the face of the
abominations which ye did; and your
Jand shall be for a waste, and for an
astonishment, and for a curse, without
any inhabitant, as this day.

23 From the face of what ye burned
incense, and what ye sinned against Je-
hovah, and ye heard not to the voice
of Jehovah, and in his instructions and
in his laws and in his testimonies ye
went not; for this, this evil befell you
as this day.

24 And Jeremiah will say to all the
people, and to all the women, Hear ye
the word of Jehovah, all Judah who
are in the land of Egypt:

25 Thus said Jehovah of armies,

God of Israel, saying, Ye and your.

wives, and ye will speak with your
mouth, and with your hands ye filled
up; saying, Doing, we will do our vows
which we vowed, to burn incense to
the queen of the heavens, and to pour
out libations to her: setting up, ye will
set up your vows, and doing, ye will
do your vows.

26 For this, hear ye the word of Je-
hovah, all Judah dwelling in the land
of Egypt: Behold, 1 sware by my great
name, said Jehovah, if my name shall
yet be called by the mouth of all the
men of Judah, saying, The Lord Je-
hovah lives, im all the land of Egypt.

27 Behold me watching over them
for evil and not for good: and they
were consumed, all the men of Judah
who are in the land of Egypt, by sword
and by famine, even till their finishing.

28 And escaping the sword there
shall turn back from the land of Egypt
to the land of Judah, men of number,
and all the remnant of Judah going to
the land of Epypt to sojourn there,
shall know whose word shall be raised
up frem me and from them.

29 And this a sign to yeu, says Jeho-
vah, that I review upon you in this
place, so that ye shall know that rais-
ing up, I will raise wp my word against
you for evil.

80 Thus said Jehovah, Behold me
giving Pharaoh-Hoplhra, king of Egypt,
into the hand of his enemies, seeking
his soul; as I gave Zedekiah king of
Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnez-
zar king of Babel, his enemy, and seek-
ing his soul.

CHAPTER XLV.
HE word which Jeremiah the
prophet spake to Baruch, son of
Neriah, in his writing these words up-
on the book from the mouth of Jeremi-
ah, in the fourth year to Jehoiakim son
of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel,
to thee, O Baruch;

3 Thou saidst, Wo to me now! for
Jehovah added grief upon my pain; I
was weary in my sighing, and I found.
not rest.

JEREMIAH XLVI.

4 Thus shalt thou say to him, Thus
said Jehovah, Behold, what I built I
pulled down, and what I planted I
plucked up, and all this land.

5 And thou, wilt thou seek great
things to thyself? thou shalt not seek:
for behold me bringing evil upon all
flesh, says Jehovah: and I gave to thee
thy soul for a booty to all the places
where thou shalt go there.

CHAPTER XLVI.
HE word of Jehovah which was
to Jeremiah the prophet against
the nations;

2 To Egypt against the army of Pha-
raoh-Necho, king of Egypt, that was
upon the river Phrath in Carchemish,
which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel
smote in the fourth year to Jehoiakim
son of Josiah, king of Judah.

3 Prepare the covering and the shield,
and approach to the war.

4 Harness the horses, and come up,
ye horsemen, and stand in the helmets ;
polish the spears, and put on the coats
of mail.

5 Wherefore did I see them terrified,
drawing back behind? and their strong
ones shall be broken, and they fled a
flight, and they turned not: fear being
round about, says Jehovah.

6 The swift shall not flee away, and
the strong shall not escape: to the north
upon the hand of the river Phrath they
stumbled and fell.

7 Who this as a river he shall come
up, as the rivers his waters shall be
moved ?

8 Egypt as a river will come up, and
as rivers the waters will be moved; and
he will say, I will go up, I will cover
the earth; I will destroy the city and
those dwelling in it.

9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye
chariots; and the strong ones shall
come forth: Cush and Phut seizing
the shield; and the Ludims, bending
the bow.

10 And that the day to the Lord Je-
hovah of armies, a day of vengeance to
be avenged of his adversaries: and the
sword consumed and was satiated, and
drunk their blood to the full; for a sac-
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the land of the north by the river
Phrath.

11 Go up to Gilead, and take balsam,
O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain
shalt thou bring up many healings;
none to thee.

12 The nations heard thy shame, and
thy outcry filled the land: for the
strong stumbled against the strong;
they two fell together.

18 The word which Jehovah spake
to Jeremiah the prophet, for Nebuchad-
nezzar king of Babel to come to strike
the land of Egypt.

14 Announce ye in Egypt, and cause
to be heard in the tower, and cause to
be heard in Noph and in Tahpanhes:
say ye, Stand, and prepare for thyself;
for the sword consumed round about
thee.

15 Wherefore were thy powerful cast
down, not to stand? for Jehovah thrust
them away.

16 He multiplied the faltering, also a
man fell to his neighbor: and they will
say, Arise, and we will turn back to
our people, and to the land of our birth,
from the face of the oppressing sword.

17 They called there, Pharaoh king
of Egypt an uproar; he passed by the
appointment.

18 I live, says the King, Jehovah of
armies his name, For as Tabor in the
mountains, and as Carmel in the sea, he
shall come.

19 Make to thee instruments of cap-
tivity, thou daughter dwelling in Egypt:
for Noph shall be for a waste and deso-
late from not being inhabited.

20 Egypt a heifer, fair of mouth;
destruction came; from the north it
came.

21 Also her hirelings in the midst of
her as calves of the stall; for also they
turned, they fled together: they stood
not, for the day of their calamity came
upon them, the time of their reviewing.

22 Her voice shall go as the serpent;
for with an army in the sand they shall
go, and with axes they came to her, as
they hewing wood.

23 They cut down her forest, says
Jehovah, for it shall not be searched
out, for they were many above the lo-
cust, and no number to them.

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24 The daughter of Egypt was
ashamed; she was given into the hand
of the people of the north.

25 Jehovah of armies, God of Jsrael,
said, Behold me reviewing for the mul-
titude of No, and upon Pharaoh and
upon Egypt, and upon her gods, and
upon her kings; and upon Pharaoh
and upon those trusting in him:

26 And I gave them into the hand
of those seeking their souls, and into
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babel, and into the hand of his servants :
and after this she shall be inhabited as
the days of old, says Jehovah.

27 And thou shalt not fear, O my
servant Jacob, and thou shalt not be
terrified, O Israel: for behold me say-
ing thee from far off, and thy seed from
the land of their captivity; and Jacob
turned back, and rested and was quiet,
and none making afraid.

28 Thou shalt not fear, O my servant
Jacob, says Jehovah: for I am with
thee; for I will make a completion
among all nations where I thrust thee
away there: and I will not make a
completion with thee, and I will correct
thee for judgment; and acquitting, I
will not let thee go unpunished.

CHAPTER XLVIL
HE word of Jehovah which was to
Jeremiah the prophet, against the
rovers, before Pharaoh will smite Gaza.

2 Thus said Jehovah, Behold, waters
coming up from the north, and they
were for an overflowimg torrent, and
they shall overflow the land, and its
fulness; the city and those dwelling in
it: and the men eried out, and all in-
habiting the land wailed.

5 From the voice of the stamping of
the hoofs of his strong ones, from the
bounding of his chariot, the noise of his
wheels, the fathers turned not back to
the sons from slackness of hands;

4 For the day came to lay waste all
the rovers, to cut off from Tyre and
Zidon every one left of help: for Jeho-
vah laid waste the rovers, the remnant
of the island of Caphtor.

5 Baldness came upon Gaza; Ashke-
lon was destroyed, the remnant of their
valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

6 Alas, thou sword of Jehovah, till
when wilt thou rest? be gathered to
thy sheath; be quiet and be still.

7 How. shalt thou rest, and Jehovah
commanded to it against Ashkelon, and
against the sea shore? there he con-
firmed it.

CHAPTER XLVIII.
GAINST Moab thus said Jehovah
of armies, God of Israel, Wo to
Nebo! for it was laid waste: Kiriathaim
was ashamed and taken: Misgab was
ashamed and terrified.

2 No more praise of Moab: in Hesh-
bon they purposed evil against it;
come, and we will cut it off from a na-
tion. ‘Thou also shalt be destroyed, O
Madmen; the sword shall go after
thee.

3 A voice of a ery from Horonaim,
laying waste, and great breaking.

4 Moab was broken; her youths
caused a ery to be heard.

5 For the going up of Luhith weep-
ing shall go up with weeping; for in
the going down of Horonaim the ene-
mies heard a ery of breaking.

6 Flee, 8876 your souls, and ye shall
be as ruins in the desert.

7 For because of thy boasting in thy
works and in thy treasures, also thou
shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go
forth into captivity, his priests and his
chiefs together. |

8 And he laying waste shall come up
on every city, and no city shall escape :
and the valley was destroyed, and
straightness was laid waste, as said Je-
hovah.

9 Ye shall give a wing to Moab, that
fleeing she shall go forth: for her cities
shall be for a desolation, from none
dwelling in them.

10 Cursed he doing the work of Je-
hovah slothfully, and cursed he with-
holding his sword from blood.

11 Moab was tranquil from his youth,
and he rested upon his lees, he was not
poured out from vessel to vessel, and
he went not into captivity: for this his
taste stood in him, and his breath was
not changed.

12 For this, behold, the days coming,
says Jehovah, and I sent to him those

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turned aside,

turning aside, and ney
his vessels and

and they will empty
break his bottles.

18 And Moab was ashamed of Che-
mosh, as the house of Israel was asham-
ed of the house of God their confidence.

14 How shall ye say, We are mighty
and men of strength for war?

15 Moab was laid waste, and she
went up from her cities, and the choice
of his young men went down to the
slaughter, says the King, Jehovah of
armies, his name.

16 The calamity of Moab drew near
to come, and his evil hastened greatly.

17 All ye about him, bewail for him ;
and all ye knowing his name, say, How
was the strong rod brolxen, the beauti-
ful shoot!

18 Come down from thy glory, sit in
thirst, thou daughter dwelling in Di-
bon; for he laying Moab waste came
wp upon thee, destroying thy fortress.

19 Stand to the way and look about,
thou inhabiting Aroer; ask him fleeing,
and her escaping, say, What was it?

20 Moab was ashamed; for she was
broken down: wail, ye, and cry; an-
nounce in Arnon that Moab was laid
waste,

21 And judgment came to the land
of straightness; to Holon, and to Jaha-
zah, and upon Mephaath,

22, And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo,
and upon the house of cakes of figs,

23 And upon the city of forests, and
upon the house of the weaned, and
upon the house of habitation,

24 And upon Kerioth, and upon
Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the
land of Moab, far off and near.

25 The horn of Moab was cut off,
and his arm was broken, says Jehovah.

26 Make him drunk; for he was
magnified against Jehovah, and Moab
vomited forth in his vomit, and he was
for a derision.

27 And if Israel was not a derision
to thee? if he was found among thieves ?
for after thy speaking of him thou wilt
move to and fro.

28 Those inhabiting Moab, forsook
the cities and dwelt in the rock, and
they were as the dove, she will nest in
the regions beyond the mouth of the pit.

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29 We heard the pride of Moab; he
was greatly lifted up; his haughtiness
and his pride, and his lifting up, and
the elation of his heart.

30 I knew, says Jehovah, his wrath ;
and not thus ; his empty talks did not so.

31 For this I will wait for Moab, and
T will cry out for all Moab; it shall
grieve for the men of Kirheres.

32 With the weeping of Jazer, I will
weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy
tendrils passed over the sea, even to the
sea of Jazer they reached: he laying
waste fell upon thy fruit harvest, and
upon thy vintage.

83 And joy and gladness was taken
away from’ Carmel, and from the land
of Moab; and I caused wine to cease
from the wine vats: they shall not
tread the shout of joy; the shout of
joy, not the shout of joy.

34 From the cry of Heshbon even to
Elealah, even to Jahaz, they gave their
voice from Zoar even to Horonaim, a
heifer of the third year: for also the wa-
ters of Nimrim shall be for desolations.

85 And I caused to cease to shout,
says Jehovah, him bringing up to the
height, and him burning incense to his
gods.

36 For this, my heart shall sound for
Moab 88 pipes, and my heart shall
sound for the men of Kirheres as_ pipes:
for the riches he made perished.

37 For every head bald, and every
beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings,
and upon the loins sackcloth.

38 Upon all the roof of Moab, and in
the streets altogether lamentation: for
I brake Moab as a vessel, no delight in
it, says Jehovah.

39 How was it broken! they wailed;
how did Moab turn back the neck with
shame! and Moab was for derision and
for terror to all round about him.

40 For thus said Jehovah: Behold,
as an eagle he shall fly, and he spread
his wings to Moab.

41 Kerioth was taken, and the fast-
nesses were seized, and the heart of the
strong ones of Moab in that day was as
the heart of a woman being distressed.

42 And Moab was destroyed from a
people, for he was magnified against Je-
hovah.

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43 Fear, and the pit and the snare
upon thee, thou inhabiting Moab, says
Jehovah.

44 He fleeing from the face of fear
shall fall into the pit; and he coming
up out of the pit shall be taken in the
snare: for I will bring upon it, upon
Moab, the years of their reviewing, says
Jehovah.

45 They fleeing from the power stood
in the shadow of Heshbon: for a fire
will come forth from Heshbon, and a
flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall
consume the corners of Moab and the
crown of the sons of noise.

46 Wo to thee, Ὁ Moab! The peo-
ple of Chemosh perished: for thy sons
were taken into captivity, and thy
daughters into captivity.

47 And I turned back the captivity
of Moab in the latter days, says Jeho-
vah. Even to this the judgment of
Moab.

CHAPTER XLIX.
O the sons of Ammon, thus said
Jehovah: Is there no sons to Is-
rael? none inheriting to him? Where-
fore did their king inherit Gad, and his
people dwelt in his cities?

2 For this, behold, the days coming,
says Jehovah, and I caused to be heard
the alarm of war to Rabbah of the sons
of Ammon; and it was for a heap of
desolation, and her daughters shall be
burned with fire; and Israel shall in-
herit those inheriting him, says Jehovah.

3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai was laid
waste: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah,
gird yourselves with sackcloth ; lament,
and run to and fro in the walled places ;
for their king shall go into captivity,
his priests and his chiefs together.

4 Wherefore wilt thou boast in the
valleys, thy valley flowing away, O
daughter turning away? trusting in her
treasures, Who shall come to me?

5 Behold me bringing fear upon thee,
says the Lord Jehovah of armies, from
all round about thee; and ye were
thrust away every man to his face, and
none gathering to him wandering.

6 And after this I will turn back the
captivity of the sons of Ammon, says
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7 To Edom, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies, Is wisdom no more in Teman?
did counsel perish from the discerning ?
was their wisdom poured out?

8 Flee ye, turn back, make deep to
dwell, ye dwelling in Dedan; for I
brought the calamity of Esau upon him,
the time of his reviewing.

9 Ifthe vintages came to thee will
they not leave gleanings? if thieves by
night, they destroyed their sufficiency.

10 For I made Esau naked, I uncoy-
ered his secret places, he shall not be
able to hide: his seed was laid waste,
and his brethren and his neighbors, and
he is not.

11 Leave thine orphans, I will pre-
serve alive, and thy widows shall trust
upon me.

12 For thus said Jehovah: Behold,
whose judgment was not to drink the
cup, drinking, they will drink; and art
thou he being acquitted, shalt thou be
unpunished? thou shalt not be unpun-
ished, for drinking, thou shalt drink.

13 For by myself did I swear, says
Jehovah, that Bozrah shall be for a des-
olation, for a reproach, and for a waste,
and for a curse; and all her cities shall
be for wastes forever.

161 heard a report from Jehovah,
and a messenger sent to the nations:
Gather ye together, and come against
her, and rise up for war.

15 For behold, I gave thee small
among the nations, despised among
men,

16 Thy terror deceived thee, the pride
of thy heart, thou dwelling in the asy-
lums of the rock, holding the height of
the hill:.if thou shalt make thy nest
high as the eagle, from thence will I
bring thee down, says Jehovah.

17 And Edom was for a desolation :
all passing over her shall be astonished,
and shall hiss at all her blows.

18 As the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah and her neighbors, said Je-
hovah, a man shall not dwell there, and
the son of man shall not sojourn in
her.

19 Behold, as the lion he shall come
up from the excellency of Jordan against
the habitation of strength: for I will
wink, 1 will cause him to run from her:

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and who the chosen I shall appoint to
her? for who like me? and who shall
testify for me? and who this shepherd
which shall stand before me?

20 For this, hear ye the counsel of
Jehovah which he counseled against
Edom: and his purposes which he
purposed against the inhabitants of
Teman: 11 not the least of the flock
will drag them out: if he shall not
make their habitation destitute upon
them.

21 From the voice of their falling the
earth trembled, at the ery its voice was
heard in the sea of sedge.

22 Behold, as the eagle he shall come
up and fly and spread. his wings over
Bozrah, and the heart of the strong of
Edlom was in that day as the heart of
a woman being distressed.

23 To Damascus: Hamath was asham-
ed, and Arpad: for they heard the evil
report: they melted ; fear upon the sea ;
it will not be able to rest.

24. Damascus was relaxed, she turned
back to flee, and terror 1810 hold of her,
and pain and sorrows seized her, as she
bringing forth.

25 How was the city of praise not
left, the city of my joy!

26 For this her young men shall fall
in her street, and all the men of war
shall be destroyed in that day, says Je-
hovah of armies.

27 And I will kindle a fire in the
walls of Damascus, and it consumed the
palaces of the son of Hadad.

28 To Kedar, and to the kingdoms
of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babel struck, thus said Jehovah:
Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and lay waste
the sons of the east.

29 Their tents and their flocks they
shall take away: their curtains, and all
their vessels, and their camels, shall
they lift up for themselves; and they
called to them, Fear from round about.

30 Flee, move yourselves greatly,
make deep to dwell, ye inhabitants of
Hazor, says Jehovah; for Nebuchad-
nezzar king of Babel counseled counsel
against you, and purposed a purpose
agaunst you.

31 Arise, go ye up to the nation at
rest, dwelling with confidence, says Je-

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hovah ; no gates and no bars to it; they
shall dwell alone.

82 And their camels were for plun-
der, and the multitude of their cattle
for a spoil: and I scattered them to
every wind cut off to the corner; and
from all its regions beyond 1 will bring
their calamity, says Jehovah.

33 And Hazor was for a dwelling of
jackals, a desolation even to forever: a
man shall not dwell there, and the son
of man shall not sojourn in 6

34 The word of Jehovah which was
to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam
in the beginning of the kingdom of
Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

35 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Be-
hold me breaking the bow of Hlam
the beginning of their strength.

56 And I brought upon Elam the
four winds from the four ends of the
heavens, and I scattered them to all
these winds; and there shall not be a
nation where the outcasts of Elam shall
not come there.

37 And I confounded Elam before
their enemies, and before them seeking
their soul: and I brought evil upon
them, the burning of mine anger, says
Jehovah; and I sent after them the
sword even till I finished then.

38 And I set my throne in Elam,
and I destroyed from thence the king
and the chiefs, says Jehovah.

89 And it was in the last days I will
turn back the captivity of Elam, says
Jehovah.

CHAPTER L.
HE word that Jehovah spake
against Babel, against the land of
the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah
the prophet.

2 Announce ye in the nations, and
cause to be heard, and lift up a signal ;
cause to be heard, ye shall not hide:
say, Babel was faker: Bel was ashamed,
Merodach was broken : her images
were ashamed, her blocks were broken.

8 For a nation came up from the
north against her; it shall set her land
for a desolation, and none shall be
dwelling in her: from man and even
to beast they moved, and they went.

4 In those days ‘and in that time,

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says Jehovah, the sons of Israel shall
come, they and the sons of Judah to-
gether, going, and they wept: they
shall go and shall seek Jehovah their
God.

5 To Zion shall they ask the way,
thither their faces: Come ye, and we
will join ourselves to Jehovah an eter-
nal covenant; it shall not be forgotten.

6 My people were lost sheep: their
shepherds caused them to wander, they
turned them away in the mountains:
they went from mountain to hill, they
forgot their place to lie down.

7 All finding them consumed them:
and their adversaries said, We shall not
transgress, for they sinned against Je-
hovah the habitation of justice, and the
hope of their fathers, Jehovah.

8 Move from the midst of Babel, and
from the land of the Chaldeans; come
forth and be ye as the he goats before
the flock.

9 For behold I raise up and bring up
against Babel a convocation of great
nations from the land of the north: and
they arranged against her; from thence
she shall be taken: his arrow as of a
strong destroyer shall not turn back in
vain.

10 And Chaldea was for a spoil: all
spoiling her shall be satisfied, says Je-
hovah.

11 Because thou wilt be glad, because
thou wilt exult, ye plundering mine
inheritance, because thou wiit show off
proudly as a heifer at grass, and thou
wilt neigh as the strong ones ;

12 Your mother was greatly asham-
ed; she bearing you was put to shame:
behold the last of the nations a desert,
dryness and a sterile region.

13 From the wrath of Jehovah she
shall not be inhabited, and it was whol-
ly a desolation: every one passing over
Babel shall be astonished and shall hiss
at all her blows.

14 Arrange yourselves against Babel
round about: all ye bending the bow,
cast at her, ye shall not spare to the
arrow, for she sinned against Jeho-
vah.

15 Shout against her round about:
she gave her hand: her supports fell,
her walls were pulled down: for it is

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the vengeance of Jehovah: avenge ye
upon her; as she did, do ye to her.

16 Cut off him sowing from Babel,
and him holding the sickle in time of
harvest: from the face of the Grecian
sword they shall turn a man to his peo-
ple, and they shall flee a man to his
land.

17 Israel a scattered sheep; the lions
thrust away: first the king of Assur
consumed him; and the last this Nebu.
chadnezzar king of Babel bound him
fast.

18 For this, thus said Jehovah of
armies, God of Israel, Behold me re-
viewing for the king of Babel, and for
his land, as I reviewed to the king of
Assur,

19 And I turned back Israel to his
habitation, and he fed in Carmel and
Bashan; and upon mount Ephraim and
Gilead shall his soul be satisfied.

20 In those days and in that time,
says Jehovah, he will seek the iniquity
of Israel, and not any; and the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found:
for I shall forgive to whom I shall
leave.

21 Go up against the land of double
rebellion, against her, and against the
inhabitants of Pekod, laying waste and
destroying after them, says Jehovah;
and do according to all which I com-
manded thee.

22 The voice of war in the land, and
a great breaking.

23 How was the hammer of all the
earth cut off, and it will be broken!
How was Babel for a desolation among
the nations !

24 J laid snares for thee and also thou
wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest
not: thou wert found and thou wert
also taken, for thou didst contend
against Jehovah.

25 Jehovah opened his treasure, and
he will bring forth the vessels of his
anger: for this the work to the Lord
Jehovah of armies in the land of the
Chaldeans.

26 Come ye against her from the ex-
tremity; open her store-houses: cast
her up as heaps and exterminate her:
there shall be no remnant to her.

27 Lay waste all her bullocks; come

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down to the slaughter: wo to them!
for their day came, the time of their
reviewing.

28 The voice of those fleeing and es-
caping out of the land of Babel, to an-
nounce in Zion the vengeance of Jeho-
vah our God, the vengeance of his
temple.

29 Cause ye many to be heard against
Babel: all ye bending the bow encamp
against her round about; there shall
be no escaping: requite her according
to her work ; according to all she did,
do to her: for she acted proudly
against Jehovah, against the Holy One
of Israel.

80 For this her young men shall fall
in her streets, and all the men of her
war shall be destroyed in that day, says
Jehovah.

31 Behold me against thee, O pride,
says the Lord Jehovah of armies: for
thy day came, the time I reviewed
thee.

32 And pride stumbled and fell, and
none lifting up to it: and I kindled a
fire in his cities and it shall consume
all round about him.

33 Thus said Jehovah of armies:
the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah
being oppressed together: and all tak-
ing tltem captive held upon them; they
refused to send them away.

34 He redeeming them is strong;
Jehovah of armies, his name: pleading,
he will plead their cause, so that he
caused the land to rest, and caused dis-
quiet to the inhabitants of Babel.

95 A sword upon the Chaldeans,
says Jehovah, and to the inhabitants of
Babel and to her chiefs, and to her
wise.

36 A sword against the liars; and
they were foolish: a sword against her
strong ones, and they were broken.

37 A sword against his horses and
against his chariots, and against all the
mixture which is in her midst; and
they were for women: a sword against
her treasures, and they were plundered.

88 A sword upon her waters, and
they shall be dried up: for it is a land
of carved images, and in their terrors
they will be foolish.

89 For this the inhabitans of the des-

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erts shall dwell with the islanas, and
the daughters of the ostrich shall dwell
in her: and it shall be no more inhab-
ited forever; and she shall not be
dwelt in even to generation and genera-
tion.

40 As God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah and her neighbors, says Je-
hovah; a man shall not dwell there,
and the son of man shall not sojourn
in her.

41 Behold, a people coming from the
north and a great nation, and many
kings shall be raised up from the thighs
of the earth.

42 They shall hold the bow and the
javelin: they are fierce, and they will
not pity: their voice shall sound as the
sea, and they shall ride upon horses,
being arranged as a man for war, against
thee, O daughter of Babel.

43 The king of Babel heard their re-
port, and his hands were relaxed: an-
guish seized him as the pain of her
bringing forth.

44 Behold, as a lion he will come up
from the excellency of Jordan to the
habitation of strength: for I will wink;
T will cause them to run away from her:
and who the chosen I shall appoint to
her? for who like me? and who shall
arraign me? and who that shepherd
who shall stand before me?

45 For this, hear ye the counsel of
Jehovah which he counseled against
Babel; and his purposes which he pur-
posed against the land of the Chalde-
ans: if the last of the flock shall not
drag them out: if he shall not lay
waste the habitation upon them.

46 From the voice of the taking of

Babel the earth was shaken, and the

ery was heard among the nations.

CHAPTER LL
HUS said Jehovah: Behold me
raising up against Babel and against
those dwelling in the heart of those
rising up, a destroying spirit.

2 And I sent forth to Babel those
scattering, and they scattered her, and
they shall empty her land: for they
were against her round about in the
day of evil.

3 Against him bending shall he bend-

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ing, bend the bow, and against him go-
ing up in his coat of mail: and ye shall
not spare to her young men; extermi-
nate all her army.

4 And the wounded fell in the land
of the Chaldeans, and those being thrust
through in her streets.

5 For Israel not in widowhood, and
Judah from his God, from Jehovah of
armies; if their land was filled with
guilt because of the Holy One of Israel.

6 Flee from the midst of Babel and
save ye each his soul: ye shall not be
destroyed in her iniquity: for it is the
time of vengeance to Jehovah ; he will
do to her a recompense.

7 Babel a cup of gold in the hand
of Jehovah, making all the earth drunk :
the nations drank from her wine; for
this the nations will be foolish.

8 Babylon fell suddenly, and she will
be broken: wail ye for her; take bal-
sam for her pain, perhaps she will be
healed.

9 We healed Babel, and she was not
healed: forsake ye her and we will go
each to his land: for her judgment
reached to the heavens, and was lifted
up even to the clouds.

10 Jehovah brought forth our jus-
tice: come ye, and we will recount in
Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

11 Polish the arrows; fill the quiv-
ers: Jehovah roused up the spirit of
the kings of the Medes: for his pur-
pose is against Babel, to destroy her;
jor it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the
vengeance of his temple.

12 Lift ye up a signal against the
walls of Babel, strengthen the watch,
set up the watchers, prepare the am-
bushes: for Jehovah also purposed and
also did what he spake to the inhabit-
ants of Babel.

13 Dwelling upon many waters,
abundant in treasures, thine end came,
the measure of thy plunder.

14 Jehovah of armies sware by his
soul: That if I filled thee with men as
with locusts, and they struck up a
shout against thee.

15 He made the earth by his power,
he prepared the habitable globe by his
wisdom, and by his understanding he
stretched forth the heavens.

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16 For a voice he gives a multitude
of waters in the heavens; and he will
bring up the clouds, from the extremity
of the earth, making lightnings to the
rain, and he will bring forth the wind
from his treasures.

17 Every man was brutish from
knowledge ; every founder was ashamed
from his carved image: for his found-
ing is a falsehood, and no spirit in
them.

18 They are vanity, the work of de-
lusions: in the time of reviewing they
shall perish.

19 Not as these the portions of Ja-
cob; for he the former of all: and the
rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of ar-
mies his name.

20 Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of
war: and I broke the nations in pieces
with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms
with thee;

21 And I broke in pieces with thee
the horse and his rider; and I broke
in pieces with thee the chariot and its
charioteer ;

22 And I broke in pieces with thee
man and woman; and I broke in pieces
with thee the old man and the boy;
and I broke in pieces with thee the
young man and the virgin;

23 And I broke in pieces with thee
the shepherd and his flock; and 1
broke in pieces with thee the husband-
man and his yoke; and I broke in
pieces with thee the prefects and the
rulers.

24 And I recompensed to Babel and
to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all
their evil which they did in Zion be-
fore your eyes, says Jehovah.

25 Behold me against thee, thou de-
stroying mountain, says Jehovah, de-
stroying all the earth: and 1 stretched
out my hand upon thee, and I rolled
thee from the rocks, and I gave thee for
a burnt mountain.

26 And they shall not take from
thee a stone fora corner, and a stone
for foundations; for thou shalt be des-
olations forever, says Jehovah.

27 Lift up asignal in the earth, strike
ye the trumpet in the nations, conse-
erate the nations against her, cause ye
to be heard against her the kingdoms

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of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; ap-
point over her a satrap; bring up the
horse as the bristling locust.

28 Consecrate against her the nations,
with the kings of the Medes, her pre-
fects and all her rulers, and all the
land of his dominion.

29 And the earth shall shake and be
wearied; for the purpose of Jehovah
was set up against Babel, to set the
land of Babel for a desolation from not
being inhabited.

30 The strong ones of Babel ceased
to fight ; they dwelt in fastnesses ; their
strength failed ; they were for women:
they burned her dwellings; her bars
were broken.

31 A runner shall run to meet a run-
ner, and he announcing, to meet him an-
nouncing, to announce to the king of
Babel that his city was taken from the
extremity.

32 And the passages were taken, and

they burnt the ropes in fire, and the’

men of war trembled.

83 For thus said Jehovah of armies,
God of Israel: the daughter of Babel
is as a threshing-floor, the time of her
treading ; yet a little while and the time
of harvest coming to her.

384 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel
consumed us, he destroyed us, he set us
an empty vessel, he swallowed us down
as a dragon, he filled his belly with my
delicacies, he thrust us away.

30 My violence and my remainder
upon Babel, shall she dwelling in Zion
say; and my blood to the inhabitants
of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

86 For this, thus said Jehovah: Be-
hold me pleading thy cause, and I took
vengeance with thy vengeance; and I
dried up her sea, and made her fount-
ains dry.

37 And Babel was for heaps, a habi-
tation of jackals, an astonishment and
a hissing, from none inhabiting.

88 Together as lions shall they roar:
they shook themselves as the lion’s
whelps.

39 In their heat I will set their drink-
ings, and 1 made them drunken so that
they shall exult, and sleep an eternal
sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says
Jehovah.

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40 I will bring them down as lambs
for the slaughter, as rams with he goats.

41 How was Sheshach taken! and
the praise of all the earth will be seized ;
how was Babel for a desolation among
the nations !

42 The sea came up against Babel:
with the multitude of rolling waves was
she covered.

43 Her cities were for a desolation, a
land of dryness and a sterile region, a
land not a man dwells in them, and not
the son of man shall pass through
them.

44 And 1 reviewed over Bel in Babel,
and brought forth his swallowing from
his mouth: and the nations shall no
more flow to him: also the wall of Ba-
bel fell. ὃ

45 Go ye out from her midst, my
people, and save ye each his soul from
the burning of the anger of Jehovah.

46 And lest your heart shall be faint
and ye be afraid for the report being
heard in the land; and a report came
in a year, and after it in a year a re-
port, and violence in the land, domin-
גוסנ‎ against dominion.

47 For this, behold, the days coming
and I. reviewed upon the carved images
of Babel: and all her land shall be
ashamed, and all her wounded shall fall
in her midst.

48 And the heavens and the earth
shouted against Babel, and all which is
in them: for those laying waste shall
come against her from the north, says
Jehoyah.

49 Also Babel for the falling of the
wounded of Israel, also for Babel fell
the wounded of all the earth.

50 Being saved from the sword, go:
ye shall not stand: remember from far
off Jehovah, and Jerusalem shall come
up upon your heart.

51 We were ashamed for we heard
reproach: shame covered our faces, for
strangers came to the holy places of the
house of Jehovah.

52 For this, behold, the days coming,
says Jehovah, and I reviewed upon her
carved images: and in all her land the
wounded shall groan.

53 If Babel shall go up to the heay-
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of her strength, from me shall they lay-
ing waste come to her, says Jehovah.

54 The voice of a ery from Babel,
and a great breaking from the land of
the Chaldeans:

55 For Jehovah laid Babel waste,
and he destroyed from her the great
voice: and the billows roared as many
waters, and a noise of their voice was
given.

56 For he spoiling came upon her,
upon Babel, and her strong ones were
taken, their bow was broken: for the
God of recompenses, Jehovah requit-
ing will requite.

57 And I made drunk her chiefs and
her wise, her prefects and her rulers,
and her strong ones: and they shall
sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall
not rise up, says the King, Jehovah of
armies his name.

58 Thus said Jehovah of armies:
The broad walls of Babel being demol-
ished, shall be demolished, and her
high gates shall be burnt in fire; the
peoples shall labor in vain, the nations
for the fire, and they shall be weary.

59 The word which Jeremiah the
ו‎ commanded Seraiah, son of

eriah, son of Maaseiah, in his going
with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babel,
in the fourth year to his reigning. And
Seraiah was chief of the resting place.

60 And Jeremiah will write all the
evil which shall come to Babel, in one
book, all these words being written
against Babel.

61 And Jeremiah will say to Serai-
ah, When thou comest to Babel, and
thou sawest, and didst read all these
words,

62 And thou saidst, O Jehovah, thou
spakest against this place, to cut it off,
for none to be dwelling in it, to man
and even to beast, for it shall be deso-
lations forever.

63 And it was as thou finishedst to
read this book, thou shalt bind upon
it a stone and cast it into the midst of
Phrath:

64 And thou saidst, Thus shall Ba-
bel sink, and shall not rise from the
face of the evil which I bring upon her:
and they shall be weary. Even to this
the words of Jeremiah.

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CHAPTER LIT.
ΠῚ son of twenty and one years
was Zedekiah in his reigning, and
eleven years he reigned in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Hamutal,
daughter of Jeremiah 01 Libnah.

2 And he will do evil in the eyes of
Jehovah, according to all which Jehoi-
akim did.

3 For upon the anger of Jehovah it
was in Jerusalem and Judah, till his
casting them away from his face, and
Zedekiah will rebel against the king of
Babel.

4 And it will be in the ninth year to
his reigning, in the tenth month, in the
tenth to the month, Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel came, he and all his
army, against Jerusalem, and they will
encamp against her, and build a watch-
tower against her round about.

5 And the city will go into siege till

the eleventh year to king Zedekiah.
- 6 In the fourth month, in the ninth
to the month, and the famine will be
strong in the city, and there was not
bread for the people of the land.

7 And the city will be broken up, and
all the men of war will flee and will go
forth from the city by night, the way
of the gate between the walls, which
was by the king’s garden; (and the
Chaldeans upon the city round about :)
and they will go the way of the sterile
region.

8 And the army of the Chaldeans
will pursue after the king, and they
will overtake Zedekiah in the sterile re-
cions of Jericho; and all his strength .
was scattered from him.

9 And they will seize the king and
they will bring him up to the king of
Babel to Riblah in the land of Hamath ;
and he will speak judgment with him.

10 And the king of Babel will slaugh-
ter the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes:
and he slaughtered also 811 the chiefs of
Judah in Riblah.

11 And he blinded the eyes of Zede-
kiah; and the king of Babel will bind
him with fetters and bring him to Ba-
bel and give him in the house of wards
till the day of his death.

12 And in the fifth month, in the tenth
to the month, this year the nineteenth

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ear to king Nebuchadnezzar king of

abel, came Nebuzaradan, chief of the
cooks, standing before the face of the
king of Babel, into Jerusalem,

13 And he will buyn the house of
Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all
the houses of Jerusalem, and every

> great house he burnt in fire:

14 And all the walls of Jerusalem
round about, all the strength of the
Chaldees which were with the chief of
the cooks, brake down.

15 And from the weak of the people,
and the rest of the people being left in
the city, and those falling away which
fell to the king of Babel, and the rest
of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of
the cooks carried into exile.

16 And from the weak of the land,
Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks left for
vine-dressers and for ploughmen.

17 And the pillars of brass which
were to the house of Jehovah, and the
bases, and the sea of brass which was
in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans
brake in pieces, and they will lift up
their brass to Babel.

18 And the pots and the shovels and
the snuffers and the vases and the dish-
es, and all the vessels of brass which
they served in them, they took.

19 And the basins and the fire-pans
and the vases and the pots and the
chandeliers, and the dishes and the
cups, which were of gold, gold, and
which of silver, silver, the chief of the
cooks took.

20 The two pillars, the one sea, and
the twelve oxen of brass which were
under the bases, which king Solomon
made for the house of Jehovah; there
was no weight to their brass of all these
vessels.

21 And the pillars, eighteen cubits
the height of the one pillar; and a
thread of twelve cubits will surround
it; and its thickness four fingers: it
was hollow.

22 And a capital upon it of brass;
and the height of the one capital, five
cubits, and the net and the pomegran-
ates upon the capitals round about, all
of brass. And according to these, to
the second pillar and the pomegranates.

23 And the pomegranates were ninety

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and six a side; all the pomegranates a
hundred upon the net round about.

24 And the chief of the cooks will
take Seraiah the priest, the head, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the
three watchers of the threshold :

25 And from the city he took one
eunuch who was appointed over the
men of war; and seven men seeing the
face of the king, who were found in the
city ; and the scribe of the chief of the
army mustering the people of the land ;
and sixty men from the people of the
land being found in the midst of the city.

26 And Nebuzaradan chief of the
cooks, will take them, and will bring
them to the king of Babel to Riblah.

27 And the king of Babel will strike
them, and kill them in Riblah in the
land of Hamath. And Judah will be
carried into exile from his land.

28 This the people which Nebuchad-
nezzar carried into exile: in the seventh
year three thousand Jews and twenty
and three.

29 In the eighteenth year to Nebu-
chadnezzar, eight hundred thirty and
two souls from Jerusalem :

30 In the three and twentieth year to
Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan chief of
the cooks carried away captive of the
Jews seven hundred forty and five
souls: all the souls four thousand and
six hundred.

31 And it will bein the thirty and
seventh year to the captivity of Jehoi-
achin king of Judah, in the twelfth
month, in the twenty and fifth to the
month, Evyil-Merodach, king of Babel,
in the year of his reigning lifted up the
head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and
brought him forth from the house of
the prison,

32 And he will speak with him good
things, and he will give his throne from
above to the throne of the kings which
were with him in Babel,

33 And he changed the garment of
his shutting up: and he ate bread before
him continually all the days of his life.

84 And his ration a ration continu-
ally, given to him from the king of Ba-
bel, the word of a day in its days, even
to the day of his death, all the days of
his life.

EZEKIEL.

CHAPTER I.
ND it will be in the thirtieth year,
in the fourth, in the fifth to the
month, and I in the midst of the cap-
tivity by the river Chebar, the heavens
were opened and I shall see visions of
God.

2 In the fifth to the month, this the
fifth year to the captivity of king Jeho-
jachin,

8 The word of Jehovah being, was
to Jehezhel, son of Buzi, the priest, in
the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah will
be there upon him.

4 And I shall see, and behold, the
spirit of a tempest came from the north,
a great cloud, and a fire taking itself,
and a shining to it round about, and
from its midst as the appearance of bur-
nished brass from the midst of the fire.

5 And from its midst the likeness of
four living creatures: and this their
vision; and the likeness of a man to
them.

6 And four faces to one, and four
wings to one, to them.

7 And their feet a straight foot; and
the sole of their feet as the sole of a
ealf’s foot; and sparkling as the appear-
ance of polished brass.

8 And his hand of a man from under
their wings upon their four sides; and
their faces and their wings to these
four.

9 And their wings joined every one
to the other; they will not turn in their
going, they will go each over against
his face.

10 And the likeness of their face, the
face of a man and the face of a lion, to
the right, to these four: and the face
of an ox from the left to these four;
and the face of an eagle to these four.

11 And their faces: and their wings
spread out from above; to each of the
two being joined each, and two cover-
ing their bodies.

12 And they will go each over
against his face; to where the spirit

will be there to go, they will go; they
will not turn in their going.

13 And the likeness of the living ~
creatures, their appearance as burning
coals of fire, as the appearance of flames
going about between the living crea-
tures; and a shining to the fire, and
from the fire will go forth lightning.

14 And the living creatures ran and
turned back as the appearance of light-
ning.

15 And 1 shall see the living crea-
tures, and behold, one wheel upon the
earth by the living creatures, to his four
faces.

16 The appearance of the wheels and
their works as the appearance of topaz:
and one likeness to these four: and
their appearance and their works as a
wheel will be in the midst of the wheel.

17 In their going they will go upon
their four sides: they will not turn in
their going.

18 And their backs, and the height
to them, and terror to them; and their
backs full of eyes round about to them
four.

19 And in the going of the living
creatures, the wheels will go by them:
and in the lifting up of the living crea-
tures from the earth the wheels will be
lifted up.

20 To where the spirit will be there
to go they will go, there the spinit to
go; and the wheels will be lifted up
with them: for the spirit of life in the
wheels. .

21 In their going, they will go: and
in their standing, they will stand; and
in their being lifted up from the earth
the wheels will be lifted up with them:
for the spirit of life in the wheels.

22 And the likeness upon the heads
of the living creatures a firmament as
the eye of the terrible crystal, stretched
forth upon their heads from above.

23 And under the expansion their
wings straight each to the other: to
each, two, covering upon them, to each
two covering to them their bedies. =

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24 And I shall hear the voice of their
wings, as the voice of many waters, as
the voice of the Almighty in their go-
ing, the voice of speech, as the voice of
acamp: in their standing, their wings
wil! slacken.

25 And a voice will be from above
to the expansion which was over their
head ; in their standing their wings will
slacken.

26 And from above to the expansion
which was over their head as the ap-
pearance of a sapphire stone: the like-
ness of a throne, and over the likeness
of a throne, the likeness as the appear-
ance of a man upon it from above.

27 And I shall see as the appearance
of burnished brass, as the appearance
of fire within to it round about, from
the appearance of his loins and above,
and from the appearance of his loins to
below, I saw as the appearance of fire,
and a shining to it round about.

28 As the appearance of the bow
which will be in the cloud in the day
of rain, so the appearance of the shining
round about. ‘This the appearance of
the likeness of the glory of Jehovah.
And I shall see it and I shall fall upon
my face, and I shall hear the voice of
him speaking.

CHAPTER II.
ND he will say to me, Son of
man, stand upon thy feet, and I
will speak with thee.

2 And the spirit will come into me
as he spake to me, and he will cause
me to stand upon my feet, and I shall
hear him speaking to me.

8 And he will say to me, Son of man,
1 send thee to the sons of Israel, to re-
bellious nations who rebelled against
me: they and their fathers transgressed
against me even to this same day.

4 And the sons hard of face and
strong of heart. I send thee to them;
and say to them, Thus said the Lord
Jehovah.

5 And if they will hear, and if they
will desist, (for they a house of contra-
diction,) and they shall know that a
prophet was in the midst of them.

6 And thou son of man, thou shalt
not be afraid of them, and thou shalt

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not be afraid of their words, if rebels
and thorns with thee, and thou art
dwelling with scorpions: thou shalt
not be afraid of their words, and thou
shalt not be terrified from their face,
for they a house of contradiction.

7 And speak my word to them, if
they will hear and if they will desist:
for they are contradiction.

8 And thou son of man, hear what I
speak to thee: Thou shalt not be con-
tradiction as the house of contradiction :
open thy mouth and eat what I give to
thee.

9 And I shall see, and behold, a
hand sent to me; and behold, in it a
roll of a book.

10 And he will spread it out before
me: and it was written the face and
the back side: and written upon it
lamentations, sighing, and wo.

CHAPTER IIL
ND he will say to me, Son of

Ἃ man, eat what thou shalt find;
eat this roll, and go speak to the house
of Israel.

2 And I shall open my mouth, and
he will cause me to eat this roll.

3 And he will say to me, Son of
man, thou shalt cause thy belly to eat,
and thou shalt fill thy bowels with this
roll which I give to thee. And eating
it, it will be in my mouth as honey for
sweetness.

4 And he will say to me, Son of
man, go; come to the house of Israel
and speak my word to them.

5 For not toa people deep of lip and
heavy of tongue; thou art sent to the
house of Israel ;

6 Not to many peoples deep of lip
and heavy of tongue which thou wilt
not hear their words. If to them I
sent thee, they will hear to thee.

7 And the house of Israel will not
hear to thee; for they are not willing
to hear to me: for all the house of Is-
rael are strong of forehead, and they
are hard of heart.

8 Behold, I gave thy face strong
over against their face, and thy fore-
head strong over against their forehead.

9 As the diamond strong above the
rock I gaye thy forehead: thou shalt

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not fear them, and thou shalt not be
terrified from their face, for they are a
house of contradiction.

10 And he will say to me, Son of
man, all my words which I shall speak
to thee take into thy heart, and with
thine ears hear thou.

11 And go, come to the captivity, to
the sons of my people, and speak to
them, and say to them, Thus said the
Lord Jehovah; if they will hear, and
if they will desist.

12 And the spirit will lift me up, and
I shall hear behind me a voice of a
great shaking: Praised be the glory of
Jehovah from his place.

13 And the voice of the wings of the
living creatures, kissing one to the
other, and the voice of the wheels over
against them, and the voice of a great
shaking.

14 And the spirit lifted me up, and
it will take me and I shall go bitter, in
the heat of my spirit; and the hand of
Jehovah was strong upon me.

15 And I shall go to the captivity,
the hill of the green ears, those dwell-
ing at the river Chebar, and where
they are sitting there, I shall sit there
seyen days, being astonished in the
midst of them.

16 And it will be from the end of
seven days, and the word of Jehovah
will be to me, saying,

17 Son of man, I gave thee a watch-
man to the house of Israel: and hear
thou the word from my mouth, and
admonish them from me.

18 In my saying to the unjust, Dy-
ing, thou shalt die; and thou admon-
ished him not, and thou spakest not to
admonish the unjust from his way of
injustice to preserve him alive; this un-
just one shall die in his iniquity, and
his blood I will seek from thy hand.

19 And if thou hast admonished the
unjust one, and he turned not back
from his evil and from his way of in-
justice, he shall die in his iniquity and
thou deliveredst thy soul.

20 And in the just turning back from
his justice and doing evil, and I gave a
stumbling-block before his face, he
shall die: for thou didst not admonish
him, in his sins he shall die, and his

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justice shall not be remembered which
he did; and his blood will I seek from
thy hand.

21 And if thou admonishedst the just
for the just not to sin, and he sin not,
living, he shall live, for he was admon-
ished; and thou didst deliver thy soul.

22 And the hand of Jehovah will be
there upon me; and he will say to me,
Arise, go forth to the valley, and there
I will speak with thee

23 And I shall arise and go forth to
the valley: and behold there the glery
of Jehovah stood as the glory which I
saw by the river Chebar: and I shall
fall upon my face.

24 And the spirit will come into me,
and will cause me to stand upon my
feet, and will speak with me, and say
to me, Come in and be shut up in the
midst of thy house.

25 And thou, son of man, behold,
they gave bands upon thee, and they
bound thee with them, and thou shalt
not go forth in the midst of them:

26 And will cause thy tongue to
cleave to thy palate, and thou wert
dumb, and thou shalt not be to them
for a man reproying: for they are a
house of contradiction.

27 And in my speaking with thee I
will open thy mouth, and say thou to
them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
He hearing, shall hear; and he desist-
ing, shall desist: for they are a house
of contradiction.

CHAPTER IV.
ND thou son of man take to thee
a brick, and give thou it before
thee, and delineate upon it the city Je-
rusalem ;

2 And give siege against it, and build
a watch tower against it, and cast a
mound against it, and give the camp
against it, and set battering-rams against
it round about. ;

3 And thou, take to thee an iron pan
and give it a wall of iron between thee
and between the city: and prepare thy
face against it, and she was in siege, and
press upon her. This a sign to the
house of Israel.

4 And le thou upon thy left side,
and put the iniquity of the house of Is-

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rael upon it: the number of days which
thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt lift up
their iniquity.

5 And I gave to thee the years of
their iniquity according to the number
of days, three hundred םה‎ ninety
days: and thou didst bear the miquity
of the house of Israel.

6 And finishing these, and thou didst
lie upon thy right side the second time,
and thou didst bear the iniquity of the
house of Judah forty days: a day for
a year, a day for a year I gave it to
thee.

7 And to the siege of Jerusalem thou
shalt prepare thy face, and thine arm
being uncovered, and prophesy against
her.

8 And behold, I gave bands upon
thee, and thou shalt not turn from thy
side to thy side, even to thy finishing
the days of thy siege.

9 And thou, take to thee wheat, and
barley, and the bean, and lentiles, and
millet, and spelt, and give them into
one vessel, and make them to thee for
bread, the number of days which thou
didst lie upon thy side; three hundred
and ninety days shalt thou eat it.

10 And thy food which thou shalt
eat by weight, twenty shekels for a day :
from time even to time shalt thou eat it.

11 And water by measure shalt thou
drink, the sixth of the hin: from time
even to time shalt thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it cakes of bar-
ley, and it shall be baked with dung
coming forth of man, before their eyes.

13 And Jehovah will say, Like this
shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled
bread among the nations where I shall
thrust them away there.

14 And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah!
behold, my soul not being defiled: and
acareass and the torn in pieces I ate
not from my youth and even till now;
there came not flesh of uncleanness into
my mouth.

15 And he will say to me, See, I
gave to thee the dung of oxen instead
of man’s dung, and make thy bread up-
on them.

16 And he will say to me, Son of
man, behold me breaking the staff of
bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread

by weight and with fear; and they shall
drink water by measure, and with as-
tonishment.

17 So that they shall want bread and
water, and they were astonished, a man
and his brother, and they were melted
in their iniquity.

CHAPTER V.
ND thou son of man, take to thee
a sharp sword, the barber's razor,
thou shalt take them to thee and cause
to pass over thy head and over thy
beard : and take to the balances of weigh-
ing and divide them.

2 Thou shalt burn the third in fire in
the midst of the city, according to the
filling up of the days of the siege: and
taking the third thou shalt strike it
with the sword round about it; and the
third thou shalt scatter to the wind;
and I will draw out the sword after
them.

8 And take from thence a few in
number and bind them in thy wings.

4 And thou shalt yet take from them
and cast them into the midst of the fire,
and burn them in fire: from it shall
come forth fire to all the house of Is-
rael,

5 Thus said the Lord Jehovah : this
is Jerusalem; I set her in the midst of
the nations and lands round about her.

6 And she will change my judgments
for injustice more than the nations, and
my laws more than the lands which are
round about her: for they rejected up-
on my judgments, and my laws they
walked not in them.

7 For this, said the Lord Jehovah:
Because of your tumult more than the
nations which are round about you, ye
went not in my laws, and my judg-
ments ye did not, and according to the
judgments of the nations which are
round about you ye did not.

8 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me, me also, against thee,
and I did judgments in the midst of
thee before the eyes of the nations.

9 And I did in thee what I did not,
and what I will no more do like, be-
cause of all thine abominations.

10 For this the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons

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shall eat their fathers; and I did judg-
ments in thee, and I scattered all thy
remnant to every wind.

11 For this, I live, says the Lord Je-
hovah, if not because thou didst defile
my holy place with all thine abomina-
ble things, and with all thine abomina-
tions, and I will also diminish; and
mine eye shall not spare, and also I
will not pity.

12 A third of thee in death shall die,
and with famine shall they be consumed
in the midst of thee: and a third shall
fall by the sword round about thee;
and the third I will scatter to every
wind, and I will draw out the sword af-
ter them.

18 And mine anger was completed,
and I caused my wrath to rest upon
them, and I was comforted: and they
shall know that I Jehovah spake in my
zeal in my completing my wrath upon
them.

14 And I will give thee for a waste,
and for a reproach among the nations
which are round about thee, before the
eyes of all passing by.

15 And it was a reproach and revil-
ing, an instruction and an astonishment
to the nations which are round about
thee, in my doing judgments in thee in
anger and in wrath, and in reproofs of
wrath. I Jehovah spake.

16 In my sending the evil arrows of
famine upon them which were for de-
struction, which I shall send to destroy

rou: and 1 will add famine upon you,
and I broke to you the staff of bread.

17 And I sent upon you famine and
the evil beast, and it bereaved thee;
and death and blood shall pass through
thee; and I will bring the sword upon
thee. I Jehovah spake.

CHAPTER VI.
ND the word ot Jehovah will be

-\ to me, saying,

9 Son of man, set thy face to the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy
against them,

3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord Jehovah:
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the
mountains and to the hills, to the tor-
rents and to the valleys: behold me, I

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bring the sword upon you, and I de-
stroyed your heights.

4 And your altars were laid waste,
and your images were broken: and I
caused your wounded to fall before
your blocks.

5 And 1 gave the carcasses of the sons
of Israel before their blocks; and I
scattered your bones round about your
altars.

6 In all your dwellings the cities shall
be laid waste, and the heights shall be
made desolate ; so that your altars shall
be laid waste and destroyed, and your
blocks were broken and ceased, and
your images were cut down, and your
works were wiped away.

7 And the wounded fell in the midst
of you, and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah.

8 And I left in being to you them
escaping the sword among the nations,
in my scattering you in the lands.

9 And those escaping of you remem-
bered me among the nations where
they were carried captive there, because
I was broken with their heart of a har-
lot, which turned away from me, and
their eyes committing formication after
their blocks: and they loathed in their
faces for the evils which they did for
all their abominations.

10 And they shall know that I am
Jehovah; not in yain spake I to do
to them this evil.

11 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Strike with thy hand and stamp with
thy foot, and say, Alas, for all the evil
abominations of the house of Israel! for
they shall fall by the famine and by the
sword and by death.

12 He being far off, in death shall he
die; and he being near shall fall by the
sword ; and he remaining and he being
besieged shall die by famine: and 1
finished my wrath upon them.

13 And ye knew that 1 am Jehovah
in their wounded being in the midst of
their blocks round about their altars,
upon every high hill, upon all the
heads of the mountains, and under
every green tree, and under eyery
thick oak, the place where they gave
there an odor of sweetness to all their
blocks,

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14 And I stretched forth my hand
upon them, and I gave the land a des-
olation and an astonishment from the
desert of Diblath, in all their dwellings:
and they shall know that I am Jeho-
vah.

CHAPTER VII.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 And thou son of man, thus said
the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel :
An end, the end came upon the four
corners of the land.

3 Now the end upon thee, and I sent
mine anger against thee, and I judged
thee according to thy ways, and I gave
upon thee all thine abominations.

4 And mine eye shall not spare upon
thee, and I will not pity: for I will
give thy ways upon thee, and thine
abominations shall be in the midst. of
thee: and ye knew that 1 am Jehovah.

5 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: An
evil, one evil, behold, coming.

6 An end came, the end came: it
awaked against thee; behold, it came.

7 The circle came to thee, thou in-
habiting the land: the time came, the
day of consternation drew near, and not
the shout of joy of the mountains.

8 The time drawing near I will pour
out my wrath upon thee, and I com-
pleted mine anger against thee: and I
judged thee according to thy ways, and
I gave upon thee all thine abomina-
tions.

9 And mine eye shall not spare, and
I will not pity: I will give upon thee
according to thy ways, and thine abom-
inations, they shall be in the midst of
thee; and ye knew that Lam Jehovah
striking.

10 Behold the day, behold, it came:
the circle shall go forth; the rod _blos-
somed, pride flourished.

11 Violence rose up for a rod of in-
justice: not from them, not from their
multitude, and not from their confusion :
and nothing eminent in them.

12 The time came, the day drew
near: he buying shall not rejoice, and
he selling, shall not mourn: for burn-
ing upon all her multitude.

13 For he selling shall not turn back

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to the sale, and it was in their yet liv-
ing: for the vision for all her multi-
tude; it shall not turn back, and a man
shall not be strengthened in his iniqui-
ty of his life.

14 They shall strike upon the trum-
pet, and to prepare all; and none went
to the war: for my burning is upon all
her multitude.

15 The sword without, and the death
and the famine from within: who is in
the field shall die by the sword; and
who is in the city, the famine and death
shall consume him,

16 And they escaping, escaped, and
they were on the mountains as doves
of the valleys, all of them slain, 8 man
for his iniquity.

17 All hands shall be relaxed, and
all knees shall go into water.

18 And they girded on sackcloth and
trembling covered them; and shame to
all faces, and upon all heads, baldness.

19 They will cast their silver into
the streets, and their gold shall be for
uncleanness: their silver and their gold
shall not be able to deliver them in the
day of the outpouring of Jehovah:
they shall not satisfy their souls, and
they shall not fill their bowels: for it
was the stumbling-block of their in-
iquity.

20 The matter of his ornament they
set for pride; and they made the im-
ages of their abominations, their abom-
inable things upon it: for this I gave
it to them for uncleanness.

21 And I gave it into the hands of
strangers for plunder, and to the unjust
of the earth for a spoil; and they pro-
faned it.

22 And I turned my face from them,
and they profaned my sceret; and the
rapacious came into it and profaned it.

23 Make the chain: for the land was
filled with judgment of bloods, and the
city was filled with violence.

24 And I brought the evil ones of
the nations, and they inherited their
houses: and I caused the pride of the
strong ones to cease, and their holy
places were profaned.

25 And terror came, and they sought
peace, and none.

26 And ruin upon ruin shall come,

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and report shall be to report; and they
sought a vision from the prophet; and
law shall perish from the priest, and
counsel from the old men.

27 The king shall mourn, and the
prince shall put on desolation, and
the hands of the people of the land
shall tremble: from their way will I do
with them, and with their judgments I
will judge them, and they shall know
that 1 am Jehovah.

CHAPTER VIIL
ND it was in the sixth year, in
the sixth, in the fifth to the
month, I sitting in my house, and the
old men of Judah sitting before me,
and the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell
there upon me.

2 And I saw, and behold, a likeness
as the appearance of fire: from the ap-
pearance of his loins and downward,
fire; and from his loins and upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as the ap-
pearance of burnished brass.

3 And he sent forth the likeness of a
hand, and he took me by a lock of my
head; and the spirit lifted me up be-
tween the earth and between the heay-
ens, and it brought me to Jerusalem in
the visions of God, to the door of the
gate within, looking to the north ; where
was there the seat of the image of jeal-
Ousy possessing.

+ And behold there the glory of the
God of Israel as the vision which I saw
in the valley.

5 And he said to me, Son of man,
lift up now thine eyes the way of the
north. And I lifted up mine eyes the
way of the north, and behold, from the
north at the gate of the altar this image
of jealousy in the entrance.

6 And he said to me, Son of man,
secst thou what they are doing, the

great abominations which the house of
Isracl are doing here, to go far off from
my holy place? And thou shalt yet
turn back, thou shalt see great abomin-
ations.

7 And he brought me to the door of
the enclosure, and I saw, and behold,
one hole in the wall.

8 And he said to me, Son of man,
break thou now, into the wall: and I|

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broke through into the wall, and be-
hold, one door.

9 And he said to me, Come and see
the evil abominations which they are
doing here.

10 And I came and saw, and behold,
every form of creeping thing, and
beast of abomination, and all the
blocks of the house of Israel, deline-
ated upon the wall round about, round
about.

11 And seventy men from. the old
men of the house of Israel, and Jaaza-
niah, son of Shaphan, stood in the
midst of them, standing before them,
and each his censer in his hand; and a
rich cloud of incense went up.

12 And he said to me, Sawest, thou
son of man, what the old men of the
house of Israel are doing in darkness, a
man in the chambers of his images? for
they are saying, Jehovah sees us not;
Jehovah forsook the earth.

13 And he said to me, Thou shalt
turn back yet; thou shalt sce great
abominations which they are doing.

14 And he brought me to the door
of the gate of the house of Jehovah
which was to, the north; and behold,
there women sat weeping for Tam:
muz.

15 And he said to me, Sawest, thou
son of man? yet shalt thou turn back,
thou shalt see abominations great above
these.

16 And he brought me to the enclos-
ure of the house of Jehovah within,
and behold, a door of the temple of Je-
hovah, and between the porch and be-
tween the altar, about twenty and
five men, their backs to the temple, and
their faces to the east; and they wor-
shiping the east to the sun.

17 And he said to me, Sawest, thou
son of man? Was it light to the house
of Judah doing the abominations which
they did here? for they filled the land
with violence, and they turned back to
irritate me: and behold them sending
the branch to their nose.

18 And also I will do in wrath:
mine eye shall not spare and I will
not pity: and they shall call in mine
ear with a great voice, and I will not
hear them.

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CHAPTER IX.
ND he will call in mine ears with
a great voice, saying, Draw near,
ye having oversight of the city, each the
vessels of his destruction in his hand.

2 And behold, six men coming from
the way of the highest gate which look-
ing to the north, and each a weapon of
smiting in pieces in his hand; and one
man in the midst of them clothed with
linen, an inkhorn of the seribe upon his
loins: and they will come and stand
by the altar of brass.

3 And the glory of the God of Isra-
el came up from the cherub where he
was upon it, to the threshold of the
house. And he will call to the man
clothed with linen to whom the inkhorn
of the scribe upon his loins.

4 And Jehovah will say to him,
Pass through into the midst of the city,
in the midst of Jerusalem, and mark a
mark upon the foreheads of the men
sighing and groaning for all the abom-
inations being done in her midst.

5 And to these he said in mine ears,
Pass through into the city after him,
and strike: your eye shall not spare,
and ye shall not pity.

6 The oid man, the young man, and
5 the virgin, and little ones, and women,
= 6ץ‎ shall slay to destruction: and every
man which upon him the mark, ye
shall not touch; and ye shall begin
from my holy place. And they will
begin upon the old men which are be-
fore the house.

7 And he will say to them, Defile the
house, and fill the enclosures with the
wounded: go ye forth, And they
went forth and struck in the city.

8 And it will be as they were strik-
ing them, and I being left, and I shall
fall upon my face, and I shall ery, and
saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah! destroyest
thou all the remnant of Israel in thy
pouring forth thy wrath upon Jerusa-
lem?

9 And he will say to me, The iniqui-
ty of the house of Israel and Judah,
great exceedingly, and the land will be
filled with blood and the city being
filled with wresting: for they said, Je-
hoyah forsook the land, and Jehovah
saw not.

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10 And also I, mine eye shall not
spare, and I will not pity, I gave their
way upon their head.

11 And behold, the man clothed
with linen to whom the inkhorn upon
his loins, turning back word, saying, I
did as thou didst command me.

CHAPTER X.
ND I shall see, and behold, to the

Ἃ firmament which is over the
head of the cherubs, as a stone of sap-
phire, as the vision of the 111500088 of a
throne was seen over them.

2 And he will say to the man clothed
with linen, and he will say, Go in be-
tween the wheel, underneath to the
cherub, and fill thy fists with coals of
fire from between the cherubs, and scat-
ter over the city. And he will go in
before mine eyes.

3 And the cherubs standing from the
right to the house, in his going in, the
man; and the cloud filled in the inner
enclosure.

4 And the glory of Jehovah will rise
from off the cherub over the threshold
of the house, and the house will be fill-
ed with the cloud, and the enclosure
was filled with the shining of the glory
of Jehovah. :

5 And the voice of the wings of the
cherubs was heard, even to the enclos-
ure without, as the voice to the Al-
mighty in his speaking.

0 And it will be in his commanding
the man clothed with linen, saying,
Take the fire from between the wheel
from between the cherubs; and he will
go in and stand by the wheel.

7 And the cherub will stretch forth
his hand from between the cherubs to
the fire which is between the cherubs,
and he will lift up and will give into
the fists of him clothed with linen: and
he will take and he went forth.

8 And there will be seen to the cher-
ubs the form of a man’s hand under
their wings.

9 And I shall see, and behold, the
four wheels by the cherubs, one wheel
by the one cherub, and one wheel by
the one cherub: and the vision of the
wheels as the eye of a stone of topaz.

10 And their appearances one like-

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ness to them four, as the wheel will be]

in the midst of the wheel.

11 In their going, upon their four
sides they will go; they will not turn
in their going, for to the place where
the head will turn after it will they go;
they will not turn in their going.

12 And all their flesh, and their back,
and their hands, and their wings, and
the wheels being filled with eyes round
about, the wheels to them four.

13 To the wheels to them was called,
Gilgal! in mine ears.

14 And four faces to the one: the
one face the face of the cherub, and the
second face the face of a man, and the
third, the face of a lion, and the fourth,
the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubs will be lifted up.
This the living creature which I saw by
the river Chebar.

16 And in the going of the cherubs,
the wheels by them will go: and in the
lifting up of the cherubs their wings
to rise up from the earth, the wheels
they also from beside them will not
turn.

17 In their standing, they will stand :
and in their rising, they will rise with
them : for the spirit of life was in them:

18 And the glory of Jehovah went
forth from off the threshold of the
house, and it will stand over the cher-
ubs.

19 And the cherubs will lift up their
wings, and will rise from the earth be-
fore mine eyes: in their going forth
and the wheels with them, and they
will stand at the door of the eastern
gate of the house of Jehovah; and 6
glory of the God of Israel over them
from above.

20 This the living creature I saw un-
der the God of Israel by the river
Chebar; and I shall know that they
are the cherubs.

21 Four, four faces to the one, and
four wings to the one; and the likeness
of the hands of a man under their
wings.

22 And the likeness of their faces
these faces which I saw upon the river
Chebar, their appearance and them-
selves: they will go each over against
his face,

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CHAPTER ΧΙ.

Λ ND the spirit will lift me up and

bring me to the east gate of the
house of Jehovah looking to the east:
and behold, in the door of the gate,
twenty and five men; and I shall see
in the midst of them Jaazaniah, son of
Azur, and Pelatiah, son of Benaiah,
chiefs of the people.

2 And he will say to say to me, Son
of man, these the men purposing van-
ity and counseling evil counsel in this
city :

3 Saying, It not being near; build
houses: this the pot, and we the flesh.

4 Vor this, prophesy against them,
prophesy, thou son of man.

5 And the spirit of Jehovah will fall
upon me, and he will say to me, Say,
Thus said Jehovah; Thus ye said, O
house of Israel: and the risings of your
spirit, I knew it.

6 Ye multiplied your wounded in this
city, and ye filled its streets with the
wounded.

7 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Your wounded which ye set in
her midst, they the flesh, and this the
pot: and I brought you forth from its
midst.

8 Ye feared the sword; and I will
bring a sword upon you, says the Lord
Jehovah.

9 And I brought you from its midst,
and I gave you into the hand of stran-
gers and 1 did judgment upon you.

10 By the sword shall ye fall upon
the bound of Israel; I will judge you
and ye shall know that I am Jeho-
yah.

11 This shall not be to you for a pot,
and ye shall not be in the midst of her
for flesh; upon the bound of Israel will
I judge you.

12 And ye shall know that Iam Je-
hovah: for in my laws ye went not, and
my judgments ye did not; and accord-
ing to the judgments of the nations
round about you ye did.

13 And it will be as I prophesied,
and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died.
And I shall fall upon my face and ery
with a great voice, and saying, Ah,
Lord Jehovah, thou makest a com-
pletion with the remnant of Israel.

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14 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy
brethren, the men of thy kin, and all
the house of Israel, wholly, which
the inhabitants of Jerusalem said to
them, Go ye far off from Jehovah;
to us this land was given for a posses-
sion.

16 For this, say, Thus said the Lord
Jehovah: If I put them far off among
the nations, and if I scattered them in
the lands, and I will be to them for a
little holy place in the lands where they
went there.

17 For this, say, Thus said the Lord
Jehovah: And I gathered you from
the peoples, and I collected you from
the lands where ye were'scattered among
them, and I gave to you the land of
Israel.

18 And they came there, and they
took away all the abominable things,
and all the abominations from thence.

19 And I gave to them one heart,
and a new spirit I will give in the midst
of you; and I turned away the heart
of stone from their flesh, and I gave to
them a heart of flesh:

20 That they shall walk in my laws,
and they shall watch my judgments
and do them, and they were to me for
a people and I shall be to them for
God.

21 And to the heart going to the
heart of their abominable things and
their abominations, I gave their way
upon their head, says the Lord Jeho-
vah.

22 And the cherubs will lift up their
wings, and the wheels with them; and
the glory of the God of Israel over them
from above.

23 And the glory of Jehovah will go
up from the midst of the city, and stand
upon the mountain which is from the
east to the city.

24 And the spirit lifted me up, and
it will bring me to Chaldea to the cap-
tivity, in a vision by the spirit of God.
And the vision which I saw will go up
from me.

25 And I shall speak to the captiv-
ity all the words of Jehovah which he
caused me to see.

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CHAPTER XII.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, thou art dwelling in
the midst of a house of contradiction,
which to them eyes to see, and they saw
not: ears to them to hear, and they
heard not: for they are a house of con-
tradiction.

3 And thou Son of man, make to
thee vessels of captivity and emigrate
by day before their eyes; and emigrat-
ing from thy place to another place be-
fore their eyes; perhaps they will see
if they are a house of contradiction.

4 And bring forth thy vessels as
vessels of captivity by day, before their
eyes: and thou shalt go forth in the
evening before their eyes, as the goings
forth of captivity.

5 Before their eyes break through to
thee im the wall, and bring forth by it.

6 Before their eyes upon the shoul-
der thou shalt lift up, in thick dark-
ness thou shalt bring forth: thou shalt
cover thy face, and thou shalt not see
the earth: for I gave thee a wonder to
the house of Israel.

7 And I shall do thus as I was com-
manded: I brought forth the vessels as
vessels of captivity by day, and in the
evening 1 broke through for me in the
wall with the hand; in the thick dark-
ness I brought forth, upon the shoul-
der I lifted up before their eyes.

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me in the morning, saying,

9 Son of man, did not the house of
Israel, the house of contradiction, say
to thee, What doest thou ?

10 Say to them, thus said the Lord
Jehovah: The ruler of this burden in
Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel
which they are in the midst of them.

11 Say, 1 am your wonder: as I did,
so it shall be done to them: by emi-
grating, they shall go into captivity.

12 And the prince which is in the
midst of them shall lift up upon the
shoulder in thick darkness, and go
forth: they shall break through into
the wall to bring forth by it: he shall
cover his face so that he shall not see
the earth with the eye.

18 And I spread my net upon him,

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and he was taken in my net: and I
brought him to Babel the land of the
Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and
there he shall die.

14 And all which are round about
him to help, and all his hosts, I will
scatter to every wind; and I will draw
out a sword after them.

15 And they shali know that I am
Jehovah, in my scattering them in the
nations; and I scattered them in the
lands.

16 And 1 left of them men of number,
from the sword and from famine, and
from death, so that they shall recount
all their abominations among the na-
tions where they went there; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah.

17 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

18 Son of man, thou shalt eat thy
bread with trembling, and thou shalt
drink thy water with disquiet and with
dread ;

19 And say to the people of the
land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to the
land of Israel: they shall eat their bread

with dread, and they shall drink their

waters with astonishment, that her land
shall be laid waste from her fulness
from the violence of all dwelling in her.

20 And the cities being inhabited
shall be laid waste, and the land shall
be a desolation; and they knew that I
am Jehovah.

21 And the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying,

22 Son of man, what this parable to
you upon the land of Israel, saying,
The days will be prolonged and every
vision perished?

23 For this, say to them, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah; I caused this para-
ble to cease, and they shall no more use
it for a parable in Israel; but speak to
them: The days drew near, and the
word of every vision.

24 Forno more shall there be any
vain vision and smooth divination in
the midst of the house of Israel.

25 For 1 am Jehovah: I will speak,
what word I will speak and it shall be
done; it shall no more be protracted :
for in your days, Ὁ house of contra-

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diction, I will speak the word, and I
did it, says the Lord Jehovah.

26 And the word of Jehoyah will be
to me, saying,

27 Son of man, behold the house of
Israel saying, The vision which he saw
is for many days, and for the times
afar off he prophesied:

28 For this, say to them, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah: No more shall my
words be protracted, for I will speak
the word and it shall be done, says the
Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XIIT.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the
prophets of Israel pr ophesying , and say
to them prophesying from their heart,
Hear ye the word of Jehovah.

3 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo
upon the foolish prophets which are go-
ing after their spirit, and they saw not.

4 Thy prophets were as the foxes in
the sterile regions, O Israel.

5 Ye went not up into the breaches,
and ye will wall in the wall upon the
house of Israel] to stand in the war in
the day of Jehovah.

6 They saw vanity and a divination
of falsehood, saying, says Jehovah:
and Jehovah sent them not: and they
waited to raise up the word.

7 Saw ye not a vision of falsehood,
and ye said, a divination of a he, and
saying, says Jehovah; and I spake not.

8 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Because ye spake falsehood and
saw ἃ lie, for this, behold me against
you, said the Lord Jehovah.

9 And mine hand shall be upon the
prophets seeing falsehood, and divining
a lie: they shall not be in the assembly
of my people, and they shall not be
written in the writing of the house of
Israel, and to the land of Israel they
shall not come in; and ye knew that I
am the Lord Jehovah.

10 Because, and because they led my
people astray, saying, Peace; and no
peace; and he built a wall and they
plastering it with plaster :

11 Say to them plastering with plas-
ter: And it shail fall: there was a vio-

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lent rain poured out; and ye, O hail-
stones, shall fall; and the spirit of
storms shall rend.

12 And behold, the wall fell; shall
it not be said to you, Where the plas-
tering which ye plastered ?

13 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Trent a spirit of storms in my
wrath; and there shall be a violent
shower overflowing in mine anger, and
stones of hail in my wrath to finish.

14 And I broke in pieces the wall
which ye plastered with plaster, and I
caused it to touch the earth, and its
foundation was uncovered and it fell,
and ye were consumed in its midst:
and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

15 And 1 finished my wrath upon
the wall, and upon those plastering it
with plaster, and saying to you, No
wall, and none plastering it ;

16 The prophets of Israel prophesy-
ing to Jerusalem, and seeing for her a
vision of peace, and no peace, says the
Lord Jehovah.

17 And thou son of man, set thy face
against the daughters of thy people
prophesying from their heart, and proph-
esy thou against them.

18 And say, Thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: Wo to them sewing together
cushions for all the joints of the hands,
and making cushions upon the head of
every height to lie in wait for souls!
will ye lie in wait for the souls to my
people, and will ye preserve alive the
souls to you?

19 Ye will profane me to my people
for handfuls of barley and for morsels
of bread, to kill the souls which shall
not die, and to preserve alive the souls
which shall not live, by your falsehood
to my people hearing the falsehood ?

20 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me against your pillows
with which ye [16 m wait there for the
souls to break forth, and I rent them
from your arms, and I sent away the
souls, the souls which ye 116 in wait for
to break forth.

21 And I rent your cushions and 1
delivered my people from your hand,
and they shall no more be in your hand
for being laid in wait for; and ye knew
that I am Jehovah.

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22 Because ye afflicted the heart of
the just one with falsehood, and I af-
16000 him not; and to strengthen the
hands of the evil one not to turn back
from his evil way, to preserve him alive.

23 For this, ye shall not see false-
hood, and ye shall no more divine a di-
vination: and I delivered my people
from your hand: and ye knew that I
am Jehovah.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND there will come to me men
from the old men of Israel, and
sit before me.

2 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

3 Son of man, these men brought up
their blocks upon their heart, and they
gave the stumbling-block of their 1η1-
quity before their face: shall 1 be
sought out, shall I be sought out for
them ?

4 For this, speak to them and say to
them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: A
man, a man of the house of Israel who
shall bring up his blocks upon his
heart, and shall set up the stumbling-
block of his imiquity before his face,
and coming to the prophet, I Jehovah
answered to him coming according to
the multitude of his blocks;

5 So that taking the house of Israel
in their heart, which were all of them
separated from me by their blocks.

6 For this, say to the house of Israel,
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Turn ye
back, and turn away from your blocks;
and turn away your faces from all your
abominations.

7 For a man, a man of the house of
Israel, and of the stranger who shall
sojourn in Israel, and he shall separate
himself from after me, and shall bring
up his blocks into his heart, and shall
set the stumbling-block of his iniquity
before his face, and coming to the
prophet to seek out to him for me; I
Jehovah will answer to him for me:

8 And I gave my face against that
man, and I set him fora sign and for
parables, and I cut him off fror the
midst of my people; and ye knew that’
I am Jehovah.

9 And-if the prophet shall be de-

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ceived, and he spake a word, I Jeho-
vah deceived that prophet, and I
stretched forth my hand upon him, and
I destroyed him from the midst of my
people Israel.

10 And they bare their iniquity: as
the iniquity of him seeking so shall be
the iniquity of the prophet ;

11 So that the house of Israel shall
no more wander from after me, and
they shall no more be defiled with all
their transgressions; and they were to
me for a people, and I will be to them
for God, says the Lord Jehovah.

12 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

13 Son of man, if a land shall sin
against me to cover a transgression, and
ך‎ stretched forth my hands upon it, and
I broke to it the staff of bread, and J
sent famine upon it, and I cut off from
it man and cattle:

14 And were these three men in its
midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they by
their justice shall deliver their souls,
says the Lord Jehovah.

15 If I shall cause the evil beast to
poss through upon the land, and it was
bereaved, and there was desolation from
not passing through from the face of the
beast :

16 These three men in its midst, I
live, says the Lord Jehovah, if sons and
if daughters they shall deliver; they
alone shall be delivered, and the land
shall be a desolation.

17 Or I shall bring a sword upon
that land, and I said, Sword, thou shalt
pass through the land; and I cut off
from it man and cattle.

18 And these three men in its midst,
I live, says the Lord Jehovah, they
shall not deliver sons and daughters,
for they alone shall be delivered.

19 Or I shall send death to that land,
and 1 poured out my wrath upon it in
blood, to cut off from it man and cattle.

20 And Noah, Daniel, and Job, in
its midst, I live, says the Lord Jeho-
vah, if son if daughter they shall deliv-
er; they by their justice shall deliver
their soul.

21 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Also if I sent my four evil judgments,

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and death to Jerusalem, to cut off from’
it man and cattle?

22 And behold, there was left in it
an escaping, sons and daughters being
brought forth: behold them, they shall
be brought forth to you, and ye saw
their way and their doings: and ye
were comforted concerning the evil
which I brought upon Jerusalem, all
which I brought upon her.

23 And they comforted you, for ye
shall see their way and their doings;
and ye know that not in vain did I do
all which I did in her, says the Lord
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XV.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, what is the tree of the
vine above every tree, the vine-shoot
which was upon the trees of the forest.

3 Shall wood be taken from it to do
for work? or will they take from it a
peg to hang upon it any vessel?

4 Behold, it was given to the fire to
consume; the fire consumed its two
ends, and the midst of it was burned.
Will it succeed for work.

5 Behold, in its being whole, it will
not do for work: but if the fire con-
sumed it, and it was burnt, did it yet
do for work ?

6 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: As the tree of the vine upon the
tree of the forest which I gave it to the
fire for consuming, thus I gave the in-
habitants of Jerusalem.

7 And I gave my face against them ;
they shall go forth from the fire, and
the fire shall consume them; and they
knew that I am Jehovah in my setting
my face against them.

8 And I gave the land a desolation,
because they transgressed a transgres-
sion, says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to

know her abomination,
3 And say, Thus, said the Lord Jeho-
vah to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity from the land of the Canaan-

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ite; thy father the Amorite, and thy
mother a Hittite.

4 And thy nativity, in the day thou
wert born thy navel was not cut, and
thou wert not washed in water for my
looking upon; and salting, thou wert
not salted, and swathing, thou wert not
swathed.

5 No eye spared upon thee to do one
of these to thee, to pity upon thee; and
thou wilt be cast to the face of the field
in loathing of thy soul in the day of
bringing thee forth.

6 And I shall pass.by thee and see
thee being trodden under foot in thy
bloods, and saying to thee in thy bloods,
Live; and saying to thee in thy bloods,
Live.

7 I gave thee ten thousand as the
sprout of the field, and thou shalt be
multiplied and enlarged, and come into
ornament of ornaments: the breasts
were set, and thy hair sprang up, and
thou wert naked and nakedness.

8 And I shall pass by thee and see
thee, and behold, thy time the time of
loves; and I shall spread my wing over
thee and cover thy nakedness: and I
shall swear to thee, and come into coy-
enant with thee, says the Lord Jeho-
vah, and thou shalt be to me.

9 And I will wash thee in water, and
I will wash thy bloods from off thee,
and 1 will cover thee with oil.

10 And I will clothe thee with vari-
egations, and shoe thee with tahash,
and I will bind thee round with fine
linen, and cover thee with sill.

11 And I shall deck thee with orna-
ments, and I shall give bracelets upon
thy hands and a chain upon thy throat.

12 And I will give a ring upon thy
nose, and earrings for thine ears, and a
crown of glory upon thy head.

13 And thou shalt be decked with
gold and silver, and thy clothing fine
linen and silk, and variegation; fine
flour and honey and oil thou didst eat ;
and thou wilt be fair, very exceedingly,
and thou wilt prosper into a kingdom.

14 And a name went forth to thee
among the nations in thy beauty: for
it was perfected by my decoration which
1 ו‎ upon thee, says the Lord Jeho-
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15 And thou wilt trust in thy beauty,
and commit fornication upon thy name,
and thou wilt pour out thy fornications
upon every one passing by; to him it
will be.

16 And thou wilt take from thy gar-
ments and make to thee heights bemg
spotted, and thou wilt commit fornica-
tion upon them: thou camest not in,
and it shall not be.

17 And thou wilt take all thy orna-
ments from my gold and from my sil-
ver, which I gave to thee, and thou wilt
make to thee images of a male and
commit fornication with them.

18 And thou wilt take thy garments
of variegations and cover them: and
thou gavest mine oil and mine incense
before them.

19 And my bread which I gave to
thee, fine flour and oil and honey 1
gave thee to eat, and thou didst give it
before them for an odor of sweetness:
and it will be, says the Lord Jehovah.

20 And thou wilt take thy sons and
thy daughters which thou didst bear
to me, and thou wilt sacrifice them for
these to eat. From thy fornication is it
small ?

21 And thou wilt slaughter my sons
and give them in causing them to pass
through for them.

22 And with all thine abominations
and thy fornications thou didst not re-
member the days of thy youth, in thy
being naked and nakedness, and thou
wert trod under foot in thy blood.

23 And it will be after all thine evil,
Wo, wo to thee! says the Lord Jeho-
vah.

24 Thou wilt build to thee a brothel,
and thou wilt make to thee a height in
every street.

25 At every head of the way thou
didst build thy height, and thou wilt
cause thy beauty to be abhorred, and
thou wilt open wide thy feet to every
one passing by, and thou wilt multiply
thy fornication.

26 And thou wilt commit fornication
with the sons of Egypt thy neighbors,
great of flesh; and thou wilt multiply
thy fornications to irritate me.

27 And behold, I stretched forth my
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thy law, and I will give thee to the
soul of those hating thee, the daughters
of the rovers, being ashamed of thy
way of wickedness.

28 And thou wilt commit fornication
with the sons of Assur, from thy not
being satisfied; and thou wilt commit
fornication with them, and thou wert
not satisfied.

29 And thou wilt multiply thy forni-
nation at the land of Canaan with the
Chaldeans, and also thou wert not sat-
isfied with this.

80 How thy heart languished, says
the Lord Jehovah, in thy doing all
these, the work of a woman, an impe-
rious harlot;

31 In thy building thy brothel in the
head of every way, and thou madest
thy height in every street; and thou
wert not as a harlot to scorn a gift.

89 The wife committing adultery, in-
stead of her husband she will take stran-
gers,

33 To all committing fornication they
will give liberal gifts: and thou gayest
thy liberal gifts to all loving thee, and
thou wilt make them a present to come
in to thee from round about in thy for-
nications.

84 And it will be in thee the reverse
from women in thy fornications, and
none committing fornication after thee :
and in thy giving liberal gifts, and none
giving liberal gifts to thee; and thou
wilt be for the reverse.

85 For this, Ὁ harlot, hear the word
of Jehovah:

86 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause thy brass was poured out, and
thy nakedness will be uncovered in thy
fornications to those loving thee, and to
all the blocks of thine abominations,
and according to the bloods of thy sons
which thou gavest to them ;

87 For this, behold me gathermg all
those loving thee whom thou wert pleas-
ant to them. and all whom thou lovedst,
with all whom thou hatedst; and 1
gathered them against thee from round
about, and I uncovered thy nakedness
to them, and they saw all thy naked-
ness.

88 And I judged thee with judgments
of those committing adultery and pour-

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ing out blood; and I gave thee blood
of wrath and jealousy. [

39 And I gave thee into their hand,
and they pulled down thy brothel, and
they broke down thy heights, and they
stripped thee of thy garments, and they
took all thy glory, and they left thee na-
160 and nakedness.

40 And they brought up a convoca-
tion against thee, and they stoned thee
with stone, and they cut thee in pieces
with their swords.

41 And they burnt thy houses with
fire, and they did judgments upon thee
before the eyes of many women: and I
caused thee to cease from a harlot, and
also thou shalt no more give hire.

42 And I caused my wrath against
thee to rest, and my jealousy departed
from thee, and I will no more be irritated.

43 Because that thou didst not re-
member the days of thy youth, and
thou wilt disquiet me in all these ; and
lo, I also gave thy way upon the head,
says the Lord Jehovah: and thou didst
not do wickedness upon all thine abom-
inations,

44 Behold, all using parables will use
a parable against thee, saying, As the
mother, the daughter.

45 Thou thy mother’s daughter loath-
ing her husband and her sons; and thou
the sister of thy sisters who loathed
their husbands and their sons: your
mother a Hittite, and your father an
Amorite.

46 Thine elder sister, Shomeron, she
and her daughter dwelling upon thy
left hand: and thy sister smaller than
thou, dwelling from thy right hand,
Sodom and her daughters.

47 And thou wentest not im their
ways, and thou didst not their abomi-
nations: loathing as a little, and thou
wilt be corrupted above them in all
thy ways.

48 I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if
Sodom thy sister did, she and her daugh-
ters, as thou didst, thou and thy daugh-
ters.

49 Behold, this was the iniquity of
Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread,
security of rest was to her and to her
daughters, and she strengthened not the
hand of the poor and needy.

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50 And they will be proud, and they
will do abomination before me: and I
shall take them away according to what
I saw.

51 And Shomeron sinned not accord-
ing to half thy sins: and thou wilt
multiply thine abominations above
them, and thou wilt justify thy sisters
in all thine abominations which thou
didst.

52 And thou also bear thy shame,
who didst judge for thy sisters in thy
sins which thou didst make abominable
above them: they shall be justified
more than thou: and also thou, be thou
ashamed and bear thy shame in thy
justifying thy sisters.

53 And 1 turned back their captivity,
the captivity of Sodom and her daugh-
ters, and the captivity of Shomeron and
her daughters, and the captivity of thy
captivities in their midst:

54 So that thou shalt bear thy shame,
and thou wert made ashamed of all
which thou didst in thy comforting
them.

55 And thy sisters, Sodom and her
daughters, shall turn back to their be-
ginning, and Shomeron and her daugh-
ters shall turn back to their beginning,
and thou and thy daughters shall turn
back to your beginning.

56 And thy sister Sodom was not for
a hearing in thy mouth in the day of
thy pride.

57 Before thine evil shall be uncoy-
ered as the time of reproach of the
daughters of Aram and all round about
her, the daughters of the rovers despis-
ing thee from round about.

58 Thy wickedness and thine abom-
inations, thou didst bear them, says Je-
hovah.

59 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
And doing with thee according as thou

didst who despised the oath to break.

the covenant.

60 And I remembered my covenant
with thee in the days of thy youth,
and I set up to thee an eternal cove-
nant. -

61 And thou didst remember thy
ways, and thou wert ashamed in thy re-
ceiving thy sisters great above thee, to
the younger than thee: and 1 gave them

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to thee for daughters, and not from thy
covenant.

62 And 1 set up my covenant with
thee, and thou knewest that I am Je-
hovah.

63 So that thou shalt remember, and
thou wert ashamed, and there shall no
more be to thee an opening of the mouth
from the face of thy shame in my expi-
ating for thee for all which thou didst,
says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XVII.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, propose an enigma and
use a parable to the house of Israel ;

3 And say, Thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: The great eagle great of wings,
long of the wing-feather, full of feath-
ers, which to him variegation, came to
Lebanon, and he will take the foliage
of the cedar.

4 He plucked off the head of the
suckers, and he will bring it to the land
of Canaan, and he set it in a city of
merchants.

5 And he will take from the seed of
the land, and he will give it in a field
of seed; he took it to many waters, he
set it a willow.

6 And it will spring up, and it will
be for a spreading vine low of stature,
for its branches turning towards him,
and its roots will be under him: and it
will be for a vine, and it will make
branches, and it will send forth foliage.

7 And there will be one great eagle,
ereat of wings, and many feathers: and
behold, this vine turned her roots to
him, and sent forth her branches to him,
to water it from the ascendings of its
planting.

8 Ina good field by many waters it
was planted, to make branches to bear
fruit, to be for a great vine.

9 Say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Shall it prosper? shall he not pluck up
its roots, and cut off its fruit, and dry
up all the fresh foliage of its springing
up? It shall be dried up, and not in
its great strength, and by much people
to lift it wp from its roots.

10 And behold, being planted, shall
it prosper? as the east wind strikes up-

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on it? drying up, shall it not be dried
up? it shall be dried up upon the ris-
ings of its springing up.

11 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

12 Say now to the house of contra-
diction, Knew ye not what are these ?
Say, Behold, the king of Babel coming
to Jerusalem, and he will take her king
and her chiefs, and bring them to him
into Babel.

18 And he will take from the seed
of the kingdom and eut out with him a
covenant, and he will bring him in with
an oath, and he took the mighty of the
land:

14 To be a low kingdom, not to be
lifted wp, to watch his covenant to stand
to it.

15 And he will rebel against him to
send his messengers to Egypt, to give to
him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he doing these, escape ?
and breaking the covenant, and escap-
ing?

16 1 live, says the Lord Jehovah, if
not in the place the king making him
king which he despised his oath, and
which he broke his covenant with him,
in the midst of Babel he shall die.

17 And not with great strength and
with a great convocation, shall Phara-
oh do for him in the war by throwing
up a mound and by building a watch-
tower to cut off many souls?

18 And he despised the oath to break
the covenant, and behold, he gave his
hand, and doing all these he shall not
escape.

19 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: I live, if not mine oath which he
despised, and my covenant which he
brake, and I gave it upon his head.

20 And I spread my net upon him
and he was taken in my net, and I
brought him to Babel, and I contended
with him there for his transgression
which he transgressed against me.

21 And all his flight with all his
hosts, they shall fall by the sword, and
they being left shall be dispersed to
every wind: and ye knew that I Jeho-
vah spake.

22 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And
I took from the foliage of the cedar, and

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I gave from the head; I will pluck its
suckers a tender one, and I planted up-
on a mountain of height and heaped up.

23 In the mountain of the height of
Israel I will plant it: and it bare a
branch, and it made fruit, and it was for
a great cedar: and there dwelt under it
all fowls of every wing; in the shadow
of its branches shall they dwell.

24 And all the trees of the field
knew that I Jehovah brought low the
tree of height, made high the low tree,
I dried up the green tree, and I caused
the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah
spake and I did.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 What to you making use of this
parable upon the land of Israel, saying,
The fathers will eat sour grapes and
the sons’ teeth will be blunted ?

3 I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if
it shall be to you more to use this par-
able in Israel.

4 Behold, all souls to me; behold, as
the soul of the father, and so the soul
of the son, they are to me. The soul
sinning, it shall die.

5 And if a man shall be just and do
judgment and justice,

6 Not to eat upon the mountains,
and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of
the house of Israel, and not to defile his
neighbor's wife, and he shall not come
near to a woman of uncleanness.

7 And he shall not oppress a man;
he shall turn back his pledge to the
debtor; he will not strip off plunder,
his bread he will give to him hungry,
and the naked he will cover with a gar-
ment ;

8 And he shall not give upon inter-
est, and he shall not take interest, from
iniquity he shall turn back his hand;
he shall do judgment of truth between
man to man.

9 In my laws he shall go and he
watched my judgments to do the truth;
he is just; living, he shall live, says
the Lord Jehovah.

10 And he begat a rapacious son,
pouring out blood and domg the like-
ness of one of these.

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11 And he doing not all these, but
eating upon the mountains and defiling
his neighbor's wife,

12 Oppressing the poor and needy,
stripping off plunder, he will not turn
back the pledge, and he lifted up his
eyes to the blocks, doing abomination,

18 Giving upon interest, and taking
interest: and living, he shall not live:
doing all these abominations, dying, he
shall die; his bloods shall be upon him.

14 And behold, he begat a son, and
he will see all his father’s sins which he
did, and he will see and will not do
like them;

15 Not eating upon the mountains,
and not lifting up his eyes to the
blocks of the house of Israel, not defil-
ing his neighbor's wife,

16 And not oppressing a man, not
binding the pledge, and not stripping off
prunder, giving his bread to him hun-
gry, and clothing the naked with a gar-
ment.

17 Turning back his hand from the
poor, taking not usury and interest, do-
ing my judgment, going in my laws;
he shall not die in the iniquity of his
father; living, he shall live.

18 His father because oppressing, he
oppressed, stripping off, he stripped off
the brother, and he did not good in the
midst of my people, and behold him dy-
ing in his iniquity.

19 And ye said, Why bore not the
son upon the iniquity of the father?
and the son doing judgment and jus-
tice, watching all my laws, and he
will do them; living, he shall live.

20 The soul sinning, it shall die.
The son shall not bear for the iniquity
of the father, and the father shall not
bear for the iniquity of the son: the
justice of the just one shall be upon
him, and the injustice of the unjust one
shall be upon him,

21 And if the unjust one shall turn
back from all his sins which he did,
and he watched all my laws and did
judgment and justice; living, he shall
live; he shall not die.

22 All his transgressions which he
did shall not be remembered to him: in
his justice which he did he shall live.

23 Delighting, shall I delight in the

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death of the unjust one? says the Lord
Jehovah: not in his turning back from
his way and living?

24 And in the just turning back
from his justice, and doing iniquity ac-
cording to all the abominations which
the unjust one did, will he 60 and live?
all his justices which he did shall not
be remembered: in his transgression
which he transgressed and in his sins
which he sinned, in them he shall die.

25 And ye said, The way of Jehovah
will not make even. Hear ye now, Ὁ
house of Israel; shall not my way
make even? shall not your ways make
not even?

26 In the turning back of the just
one from his justice, and doing iniquity
and dying in them; in his iniquity
which he did he shall die.

27 And in the unjust one turning
back from his injustice which he did,
and he will do judgment and justice, he
shall save his soul alive.

28 And he will see and turn back
from all his transgressions which he
did, living, he shall live; he shall not
die.

29 And the house of Israel said, The
way of Jehovah will not make even.
Will not my ways make even, O house
of Israel, shall not your way not make
even?

80 For this I will judge you, O house
of Israel, each according to his ways,
says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back
and withdraw from all your transgres-
sions; and iniquity shall not be to you
for a stumbling block.

31 Cast away from you all your trans-
gressions which ye transgressed against
me, and make to you a new heart and
a new spirit: and wherefore will ye
die, O house of Israel ?

82 For I shall not delight in the
death of him dying, says the Lord Je-
hovah: and turn ye back and live.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND thou, lift thou up a lamenta-
tion for the princes of Israel,

2 And say, What thy mother? a
lioness: between lions she lay down,
in the midst of young lions she brought
up her whelps.

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3 And she will bring up one of her
whelps: it was a young lion, and it
will learn to rend the prey ; eating man.

4 And the nations will hear concern-
ing him; in their pit he was taken,
and they will bring him with hooks to
the land of Egypt.

5 And she will see that waiting her
hope perished, and she will take one of
her whelps setting him a young lion.

6 And he will go about in the midst
of the lions; he was a young lion, and
he will learn to tear in pieces the prey,
eating man.

7 And he knew their palaces, and he
laid waste their cities; and the land
will be desolate and its fulness from
the voice of his roaring.

8 And the nations will give against
him round about from the provinces,
and they will spread their net upon
him, being taken in their pit.

9 And they will give him in a prison
with hooks, and they will bring him to
the king of Babel: théy will bring him
into fastnesses so that his voice shall
no more be heard upon the mountains
of Israel.

10 Thy mother as a vine in thy
blood, planted by the waters: she was
fruitful and covered from much water.

11 And there will be to her rods of
strength to the rods of those ruling,
and his stature will be lifted קט‎ be-
tween the thick boughs, and he will be
seen in his height from the multitude
of his branches.

12 And she shall be plucked up in
wrath, she was cast down to the earth,
and the wind of the east dried up her
fruit: the rods of her strength were
broken and dried up, and the fire con-
sumed them.

13 And now being planted in the
desert, in a land of dryness and thirst.

14 And a fire will go forth from a
rod of her branches; it consumed her
fruit, and there was not in her a rod of
strength, arod torule. Itis a lamenta-
tion, and it shall be for a lamentation.

CHAPTER XX.
A ND it will be in the seventh year,
in the fifth, in the tenth to the
month, men from the old men of Israel

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came to seek Jehovah, and they sat be-
fore my face.

2 And the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying,

3 Son of man, speak to the old men
of Israel, and say to them, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Come ye to seek
me? I live, if I will be sought for you,
says the Lord Jehovah.

4 Wilt thou judge them, wilt thou
judge, son of man? Cause them to
know the abominations of their fathers :

5 And say to them, Thus said the
Lord Jehovah : In the day of my choos-
ing upon Israel, and I will lift up my
hand to the seed of the house of Jacob,
and I will be known to them in the
land of Egypt, and I will lift up my
hand to them, saying, I am Jehovah
your God;

6 In that day I lifted up my hand
to them to bring them forth out of the
land of Egypt to the land which I spied
out for them flowing milk and honey;
this the glory to all lands:

7 And saying to them, Cast ye away
each the abominations of his eyes, and
ye shall not be defiled with the blocks
of Egypt: Iam Jehovah your God.

8 And they will rebel against me,
and they would not hear to me: they
cast not away each the abominations of
their eyes, and they forsook not the
blocks of Egypt: and saying, To pour
out my wrath upon them to complete
mine anger against them in the midst
of the land of Kgypt.

9 And I will do for sake of my name,
that it was not profaned before the eyes
of the nations which they were in the
midst of them, which I was made known
to them before their eyes to bring them
forth from the land of Egypt.

10 And I shall cause them to go
forth from the land of Egypt, and I
shall bring them to the desert.

11 And I shall give to them my
laws, and my judgments I caused them
to know, which a man shall do them
and he lived in them.

12 And also my Sabbaths I gave to
them to be for a sign between me and
between them, to know that I am Je-
hovah consecrating them.

13 And the house of Israel will rebel

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against me in the desert: in my laws
they went not, and my judgments they
rejected, which a man shall do them
and he lived in them: and my Sabbaths
they profaned greatly: and saying, To
pour out my wrath upon them in the
desert to finish them.

14 And I shall do for sake of my
name, that it was not polluted before
the eyes of the nations which I brought
them forth before their eyes.

15 And also I lifted up my hand to
them in the desert, not to bring them
in to the land which I gave flowing
milk and honey; this the glory to all
lands.

16 Because they rejected upon my
judgments, and my laws they went not
m them, and my Sabbaths they pro-
faned: for their heart went after their
blocks.

17 And mine eye will spare for them
from destroying them, and I made not
a completion with them in the desert.

18 And saying to their sons im the
desert, Ye shall not go in the laws of
your fathers, and their judgments ye
shall not watch, and with their blocks
ye shall not be defiled :

19 Lam Jehovah your God; go ye
in my laws, and watch ye my judg-
ments and do them.

20 And consecrate my Sabbaths;
and they were for a sign between me
and between you to know that i am
Jehovah your Gad.

21 And their sons will rebel against
‘me: they went not in my laws, and my
judgments they watched not to do
them, which a man shall do them and
live in them: my Sabbaths they pro-
faned: and saying, To pour out my
wrath upon them to complete mine an-
ger against them in the desert.

22 And I turned back my hand, and
I will do for sake of my name, that it
was not profaned before the eyes of the
nations which I brought them forth be-
fore their eyes.

23 Also I lifted up my hand to
them in the desert, to scatter them in
the nations, to disperse them in the
lands.

24 Because they did not my judg-
ments, and my laws they rejected, and

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my Sabbaths they profaned, and their
eyes were after their fathers’ blocks.

25 And also I gaye to them laws not
good, and judgments they shall not
live in them.

26 And I will defile them in their
gifts in causing to pass through all
bursting open the womb, so that I shall
make them desolate, that they shall
know that I am Jehovah.

27 For this, speak to the house of Is-
rael, son of man, and say to them, Thus
said the Lord Jehovah: Yet in this
your fathers reviled me, in their trans-
gressing a transgression against me.

28 And I shall bring them to the
land which I lifted up my hand to give
it to them, and they will see every high
hill and every thick tree, and they will
sacrifice there their sacrifices, and they
will give there the provocation of their
oblation, and they will set there the
odor of their sweetnesses, and they will
pour out there their libations:

29 And saying to them, What the
height where ye go there? And its name
will be called Height, even to this day.

80 For this, say to the house of Is-
rael, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Are
ye defiled in the way of your fathers?
and commit ye fornication after their
abominations ?

81 And in lifting up your gifts, in
causing your sons to pass into the fire,
ye are defiled for all your blocks, even
to this day: and shall I be sought for
you, O house of Israel? I live, says the
Lord Jehovah, if I will be sought by
you.

82 And the things were coming up
upon your spirit which will not be
which ye say, We will be as the nations,
as the families of the lands to serve
wood and stone.

33 I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if
not with a strong hand and with an
arm stretched out, and with wrath
poured out, will 1 reign over you.

84 And I brought you forth from the
peoples, and I gathered you from the
lands where ye were scattered in them,
with a strong hand and with an arm
stretched out, and with wrath poured
out.

85 And I brought you into the

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desert of the peoples, and I judged you
there face to face.

36 As I contended with your fathers
in the desert of the land of Egypt, so
will I contend with you, says the Lord
Jehovah.

37 And 1 caused you to pass under
the rod I brought you into the bond of
the 00

38 And I separated from you the re-
bellious and those transgressing against
me: 1 will bring them forth from the
land of their sojournings, and to the land
of Israel they shall not come in: and
ye knew that 1 am Jehovah.

39 And ye, O house of Israel, thus
says the Lord Jehovah: Go serve ye
each his blocks, and afterward if ye
hear not to me and ye shall not profane
my holy name yet with your gifts and
with your blocks.

40 For in my holy mountain, in the
mountain of the height of Israel, says
the Lord Jehovah, there shall all the
house of Israel serve me, all in the land:
there I will receive them into favor,
and there I will 306% your offerings and
the chief of your liftings up, with all
your holy things.

41 With the odor of sweetness I will
receive you into favor in my bringing
you forth from the peoples, and I gath-
ered you from the lands where ye were
scattered in them; and I was consecra-
ted in you before the eyes of the na
tions.

42, And ye knew that I am Jehovah
in my bringing you into the land of Is-
rael, to the land which I lifted up my
hand to give it to your fathers.

43 And ye remembered there your
ways, and all your works which ye
were defiled in them; and ye shall be
wearied in your faces for all your evils
which ye did.

44 And ye knew that I am Jehovah
in my doing with you for sake of my
name, not according to your evil ways
and your corrupt deeds, O house of Is-
rael, says the Lord Jehovah,

CHAPTER XXI.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
\L to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face the way

EZEKIEL XXL.

of the south, and drop to the south, and
prophesy against the forest of the south
field.

3 And say to the forest of the south,
Hear thou the word of Jehovah; thus
said the Lord Jehovah: Behold me
kindling a fire in thee, and it consumed
in thee every green tree and every dry
tree: the flaming flame shall not be
quenched, and all faces from the south
to the north were burned in it.

4 And all flesh saw that I Jehovah
kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

5 And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah,
they say to me, Does he not use para-
bles?

6 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

7 Son of man, set thy face to Jerusa-
lem, and drop to the holy places, and
prophesy to the land of Israel ;

8 And say to the land of Israel, Thus
said Jehovah: behold me against thee,
and I brought forth my sword from its
sheath, and I cut off from thee the just
and the unjust.

9 Because that I cut off from thee
the just and the unjust, for this my
sword shall go forth from its sheath
against all flesh, from south to north.

10 And all flesh knew that I Jeho-
vah brought forth my sword from its
sheath: it shall no more turn back.

11 And thou son of man, sigh with
the breaking of the loins; and with bit-
terness thou shalt sigh before their
eyes.

12 And it was when they shall say
to thee, For what sighest thou? and
say, For the report, because it came:
and every heart melted and all hands
were relaxed, and every spirit was
weak, and all knees shall go into wa-
ter: behold, it came, and it was, says
the Lord Jehovah.

13 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

14 Son of man, prophesy and say,
Thus said Jehovah: Say, A sword, a
sword was sharpened, and also polished.

15 In order to slaughter a slaughter
it was sharpened; in order for light-
ning to be to it, it was polished; then
shall we exult? the rod of my son de-
spised every tree.

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16 And he will give it to be polish-|ing an oath to them, remembering in-

ed, to be taken in the hand: this sword
was sharpened, and it was polished to
give it into the hand of him slaying.

17 Cry and wail, son of man, for it
was upon my people, it was upon all
the princes of Israel: terrors for the
sword were upon my people: for’ this,
strike upon thy thigh.

18 For it is a trial, and what if also
the rod was rejected? it shall not be,
says the Lord Jehovah.

19 And thou, son of man, prophesy,
and strike hand to hand, and thou
shalt double the sword the third time,
the sword of the wounded: this the
sword of the great wounded besieging
them.

20 In order to melt the heart and to
multiply the ruins, I gave the turning
of the sword against all their gates:
Ah! it was made for lightnings, it was
polished for slaughter.

21 Unite thyself to the right, set thy-
self to the left, where thy face wavers.

22 And 1 also will strike my hand to
my hand, and I caused my wrath to
cease: I Jehovah spake.

23 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

24 And thou son of man, set to thee
two ways for the sword of the king of
Babel to come: from one land shall
come forth they two, and form thou a
hand, form upon the head of the way of
the city.

25 Thou shalt set the way for the
sword to come to Rabbath of the sons
of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem
the fortified.

26 For the king of Babel stood at
the mother of the way in the head of
the two ways, to divine a divination ;
he shook with the arrows, he asked in
the family gods, he looked in 6
liver.

27 In his right hand was the divina-
tion of Jerusalem, to set battering-
rams, to open the mouth in breaking in
pieces, to lift up the voice with a loud
noise, to set battering-rams against the
gates, to throw up a mound, to build a
watch-tower.

28 And it was to them as a divina-
tion of falsehood in their eyes, swear-

iquity to be taken,

29 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Because of your causing your
iniquity to be remembered, in your
transgressions being uncovered, for your
sins to be seen in all your works; be-
cause of your causing to be remember-
ed, ye shall be taken in hand.

30 And thou profane unjust prince
of Israel, to whom his day came in the
time of iniquity the end.

81 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Re-
move the tiara, and lift up the crown:
this not thus: lift up the low, and make
low the high.

32 Perverted, perverted, perverted,
will I set her: and this was not till he
came which to him the judgment; and
I gave him.

33 And thou son of man, prophesy
and say, Thus said the Lord Jehovah
to the sons of Ammon, and for their re-
proach ; and say, The sword, the sword
was loosed: for slaughter it was polish-
ed, to consume for sake of the light-
ning:

34 In seeing vanity to thee, in divin-
ing to thee a lie to give thee, to the
necks of the wounded of the unjust, to
whom their day came in the time of in-
iquity the end.

35 Turn back; thou shalt not be na-
ked: in the place where thou wert cre-
ated, in the land of thy nativity, will I
judge thee.

86 1 poured out my wrath upon
thee; in fire 1 made mine anger to
pass over thee, and I gave thee into the
hand of brutish men, machinating de-
struction.

37 Thou shalt be to the fire for con-
suming; thy blood shall be in the midst
of the land; thou shalt not be remem-
bered: for I Jehovah spake.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Thou son of man, wilt thou judge,
wilt thou judge the city of bloods, and
make her to know all her abomina-
tions ?

8 And say, Thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: The city poured out blood in

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the midst of her, for her time to come,
and she made blocks for herself to be
defiled.

4In thy blood which thou didst
pour out thou wert guilty; and by thy
blocks which thou didst make thou
wert defiled; and thou wilt cause thy
days to draw near, and thou wilt come
even to thy years: for this, I gave thee
a reproach to the nations, and a deri-
sion to all the lands.

5 Those being near and those being
far off from thee will scoff at thee; thou
wert defiled of name and much in con-
sternation.

6 Behold, the princes of Israel they
were a man to his arm to pour out
blood in thee.

7 They made light of father and
mother in thee: they did with vio-
lence to the stranger in the midst of
thee: they oppressed the orphan and
the widow in thee.

8 Thou didst despise my holy place,
and thou didst profane my Sabbaths.

9 Men of slander were in thee to pour
forth blood: and they ate upon the
mountains in thee: they did wicked-
ness in the midst of thee.

10 Thy father’s nakedness was un-
covered in thee: they humbled her set
apart for uncleanness in thee.

11 And a man did abomination with
his neighbor’s wife; and a man defiled
his daughter-in-law in wickedness ; and
a man humbled his sister, his father’s
daughter, in thee.

12 They took a gift in thee to pour
out blood; thou tookest usury and in-
terest, and thou wilt plunder thy
neighbors by violence, and thou didst
forget me, says the Lord Jehovah.

13 And behold, I struck my hand at
thy plunder which thou madest, and at
thy blood which was in the midst of

thee.

14 Will thy heart stand, or will thine
hands be strong for the day which I do
with thee? I Jehovah spake, and I
did.

15 And I scattered thee in the na-
tions, and I dispersed thee in the lands,
and I consumed thy uncleanness out of
thee.

16 And thou didst inherit in thee be-

Jvah:

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fore the eyes of the nations, and thou
knewest that I am Jehovah.

17 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

18 Son of man, the house of Israel
became to me for dross: all they brass
and alloy, and iron, and lead, in the
midst of the furnace; they were drosses
of silver.

19 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
because all of them were for
drosses, for this, behold me gathering
you into the midst of Jerusalem.

20 The gathering silver and brass and
iron and lead and alloy to the midst of
the furnace to blow the fire upon it, to
melt; so will I gather in mine anger
and in my wrath, and I put down and
melted you.

21 And I gathered you and blew up-
on you in the fire of my wrath, and ye
were melted in her midst.

22 As silver being melted in the
midst of the furnace, so shall ye be
melted in her midst; and ye knew that
I Jehovah poured out my wrath upon

you.
. 23 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

24 Son of man, say to her, Thou a
land not being cleansed; it was not
rained upon in the day of anger.

25 A conspiracy of her prophets in
her midst as a roaring lion rending the
prey; they consumed the soul; they
will take the wealth and the precious
thing; they multiplied her widows in
her midst.

26 Her priests did violence to my
law, and they will profane my holy
place: between the holy to the pro-
fare they separated not, and they did
not make known between the unclean
to the clean, and from my Sabbath they
hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned
in the midst of them.

27 Her chiefs in her midst as wolves
rending the prey, to pour out blood, to.
destroy souls, for the sake of plundering
plunder.

28 And her prophets plastered die.
ter upon them, seeing vanity, and di-
vining to them falsehood, saying, Thus
said the Lord Jehovah; and Jehovah
spake not.

EZEKIEL XXIII.

29 The people of the land oppressed
with violence and stripped off robbery,
and oppressed the poor and needy, and
did violence to the stranger without
judement.

30 And I sought from them a man to

wall in the wall, and to stand in the
breach before my face for the land, not
to destroy it: and I found not.

311 will pour out my wrath upon
them; I consumed them in the fire of
mine anger: I gave their way upon
their head, says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXIII.
HE word of Jehovah will come to
me, saying,

9 Son of man, there were two women,
daughters of one mother:

3 And they will commit fornication
in Egypt; in their youth they commit-
ted fornication: there were their breasts
pressed, and the breasts of their virgin-
ity fell away.

4 And their names Aholah the el-
der, and Aholibah her sister; and they
will be to me, and they: will bring forth
sons and daughters, and their names
Shomeron-Aholah and Jerusalem-Aho-
libah.

5 And Aholah will commit fornica-
tion under me; and she will desire af-
ter those loving her, after Assur, they
being near.

6 Putting on cerulean purple, pre-
fects and governors, young men of de-
sire all of them, horsemen riding
horses.

7 And she will give her whoredoms
upon them from the choice of the sons
of Assur all of them, and with all whom
she desired ; being defiled with all their
blocks.

8 And her fornications from Egypt
she forsook not: for they lay with her
in her youth, and they handled the
breasts of her virginity, and they will
pour forth her fornications upon her.

9 For this I delivered her into the
hand of those loving her, into the hand
of the sons of Assur whom she desired
after them.

10 They uncovered her nakedness :
they took her sons and her daughters
and slew them with the sword: and she

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will be a name to women, and they did
judgments upon her.

11 And her sister Aholibah will see,
and she will corrupt her love more than
they, and her fornications more than
the fornications of her sister.

12 She desired after the sons of As-
sur, prefects and governors, being near,
putting on splendor, horsemen riding
horses, young men of desire, all of
them.

13 And I shall see that one way was
defiled to both of them.

14 And she will add to her fornica-
tions: and she will see men delineated
upon the wall, the images of the Chal-
deans being delineated with red color.

15 Girding girdles upon their loins,
a superfluity of dippimgs upon their
heads, the appearance of third men all
of them, the likeness of the sons of Ba-
bel of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16 And she will desire after them at
the sight of her eyes, and she will send
messengers to them to Chaldea.

17 And the sons of Babel will come
to her to the bed of loves, and defile
her with their fornications, and she will
be defiled with them, and her soul will
be rent away from them.

18 And she will uncover her fornica-
tions, and she will uncover her naked-
ness: and my soul will be rent away
from her, as my soul was rent away
from her sister.

19 And she will multiply her forni-
cations, to remember the days of her
youth when she committed fornication
in the land of Keypt.

20 And she will desire after their par-
amours, whom the flesh of asses their
flesh, and the flowing of horses their
flowing.

21 And thou wilt review the wicked-
ness of thy youth in the doing of Egypt
thy breasts for the breasts of thy
youth.

22 For this, Ὁ Aholibah, thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Behold me raising
up those loving thee, against thee, whom
thy soul was rent away from them, and
I brought them against thee from round
about.

23 The sons of Babel and all the
Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa,

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all the sons of Assur with them: young
men of desire, prefects and governors,
all of them third men, and celebrated,
riding horses all of them.

24 And they came against thee firm
with chariot and wheel, and with a con-
vocation of peoples, shield and buckler
and helmet, they will set against thee
round about: and I gave judgment be-
fore them, and they judged thee with
their judgments.

25 And I gave my jealousy against
thee, and they did with thee in wrath:
thy nose and thine ears they shall take
away; and thy posterity shall fall by
the sword: they shall take thy sons and
thy daughters, and thy posterity shall
be consumed in fire.

26 And they stripped thee of thy
garments, and they took the instrument
of thy glory.

27 And I caused thy wickedness to
cease from thee, and thy fornication
from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt
not lift up thine eyes to them, and thou
shalt remember Egypt no more.

28 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Behold me giving thee into the hand of
whom thou didst hate, into the hand
of whom thy soul was rent away from
them.

29 And they did with thee in hatred,
and they took all thy labor, and they
left thee naked and nakedness: and the
nakedness of thy fornication was un-
covered, and thy wickedness and thy
fornications.

30 Doing these to thee for thy forni-
cations after the nations, because thou
wert defiled with their blocks.

31 Thou wentest in the way of thy
sister, and I gave her cup into thine
hand.

32 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
thou shalt drink thy sister's cup deep
and much: thou skalt be for laugh-
ter and for derision; containing much.

83 Thou shalt be filled with drunk-
enness and with sorrow, the cup of as-
tonishment and desolation, the cup of
thy sister Shomeron.

34 Thou didst drink it and suck out,
and thou shalt crush its sherds, and
pluck up thy breasts: for I spake, says
the Lord Jehovah.

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35 For this, thus says the Lord Je
hovah: Because thou didst forget me,
and thou wilt cast me behind thy back,
and also bear thou thy wickedness and
thy fornications.

86 And Jehovah will say to me, Son
of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and
Aholibah, and announce to them their
abominations ?

37 For they committed adultery, and
blood is in their hands; and with their
blocks they committed adultery, and
also their sons whom they brought forth
to me they caused to pass through for
them for consuming.

38 Yet this they did to me: they de-
filed my holy place in that day, and
my Sabbaths they profaned.

39 And in their slaughtering their
sons to their blocks, and they will come
to my holy place in that day to profane
it; and behold, thus they did in the
midst of my house.

40 And also that ye will send to men
coming from far off, whom a messenger
was sent to them, and behold, they
came: for whom thou didst wash, thou
paintedst thine eyes, and thou didst deck
with ornaments.

41 And thou wilt sit upon a splendid
bed, and a table set in order before his
face, and thou didst bring up there mine
incense and mine oil.

42 And the voice of a multitude at
rest with her: and to the men of mul-
titude of man bringing Sabeans from
the desert, and they will give bracelets
upon their hands, and crowns of glory
upon their heads.

43 And saying to her worn out with
adulteries, Will she now commit her for-
nications, she also?

44 And they will go in to her as go-
ing into a woman an harlot; thus they
went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the
women of wickedness.

45 And just men they shall judge
them with the judgment of adultresses,
and with the judgment of those pouring
out blood; for they are adultresses, and
blood in their hands.

46 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Bring up upon them a convocation and
give them for a shaking and for a spoil.

47 And the convocation stoned upon

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them with stone, and cut them down
with their swords; they will slay their
sons and their daughters, and their
houses they will burn in fire.

48 And I caused wickedness to cease
from the land, and all the women were
instructed, and they shall not do ac-
cording to your wickedness.

49 And they gave your wickedness
upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of
your blocks: and ye knew that Iam
the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXIV.
Λ ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me in the ninth year, in the
tenth month, in the tenth to the month,
saying,

2 Son of man, write to thee the name
of the day, this same day: the king of
Babel set up against Jerusalem this
same day.

3 And use a parable against the
house of contradiction and say to them,
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Set on
the pot, set on, and also pour water in-
to it:

4 Gather its pieces into it, every good
piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill
with the choice of the bones.

5 Take the choice of the flock and
also wheel the bones under it, boil its
boilings; also they cooked the bones in
the midst of it.

6 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Wo to the city of bloods! the pot
which the rust in it, and her rust went
not forth from it; bring it forth by its
pieces, by its pieces; the lot fell not
upon it.

7 For her blood was in the midst of
her; she set it upona dry rock; she
poured it not forth upon the earth to
cover over it with dust;

8 To cause wrath to come up, to
avenge vengeance; I gave her blood
upon the dry rock not to be covered.

9 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Wo to the city of bloods! I will
make her pile great.

10 Multiply the woods, kindle the
fire, make ready the flesh, and spice
with spicing, and the bones shall be
burned. :

11 And cause it to stand upon its

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coals, empty, so that its brass shall be
warm and burning, and its uncleanness
was melted in the midst of it; its rust
shall be consumed.

12 She was wearied with labors, and
her great rust shall not go forth from
her: in the fire her rust.

13 In thy uncleanness is wickedness:
because I cleansed thee and thou wert
not cleansed, thou shalt no more be
cleansed from thy uncleanness till my
causing my wrath to rest upon thee.

14 1 Jehovah spake: it came, and 1
did; I will not let go loose, and I will
not spare, and I will not lament; ac- .
cording to thy ways and according to
thy works they judged thee, says the
Lord Jehovah.

15 The word of Jehovah will be to
me, saying,

16 Son of man, behold me taking
from thee the desire of thine eyes with
a blow: and thou shalt not lament, and
thou shalt not weep, and thy tears shall
not go.

17 Be silent to the sighing of blood,
thou shalt not make mourning for the
dead; bind thy head-dress upon thee,
and thou shalt put thy shoes upon thy
feet, and thou shalt not cover over the
mustachios, and the bread of men thou
shalt not eat.

18 And I shall speak to the people
in the morning and my wife will die in
the evening and I shall do in the morn-
ing as 1 was commanded.

19 And the people will say to me,
Wilt thou not announce to us what
these things to us that thou doest?

20 And saying to them, The word of
Jehovah was to me, saying,

21 Say to the house of Israel, Thus
sud the Lord Jehovah, Behold me pro-
faning my holy place, the excellency of
your strength, the desire of your eyes,
and the pity of your soul, and your
sons and your daughters whom ye left,
shall fall by the sword.

22 And ye did as I did: ye shall not
cover over your mustachios, and the
bread of men ye shall not eat.

23 And your head-dress upon your
heads, and your shoes upon your feet:
ye shall not lament, and ye shall not
weep; and ye pined away in your ini-

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quities, and ye grieved a man to his
brother.

24 And Ezekiel was to you for a
wonder: according to all which he did
ye shall do: initscoming, and ye knew
that I am the Lord Jehovah.

25 And thou son of man, was it not
in the day, I took from them their
strength, the joy of their glory the de-
sire of their eyes, the lifting up of their
soul, their sons and their daughters.

26 In that day he escaping shall come
to thee to cause to hear with the ears.

27 In that day thy mouth shall be
' opened to him escaping and thou shalt
speak, and thou shalt no more be dumb:
and thou wert to them for a wonder,
and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

CHAPTER ΧΧΥ.
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against
the sons of Ammon, and prophesy
against them.

3 And say to the sons of Ammon,
Hear ye, the word of the Lord Jeho-
vah, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause of thy saying, Aha! to my holy
place, when it was profaned, and against
the land of Israel, when it was made
desolate, and to the house of Judah,
when they went into captivity.

4 For this, behold me giving thee to
the sons of the east for a possession, and
they set their fortress in thee: and in
thee they gave their dwellings, they
shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink
thy milk.

5 And I gave Rabbah for a rest of
camels, and the sons of Ammon for a
bee of lying down of sheep, and ye
knew that I am Jehovah.

6 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Because of thy striking the hand and
thy stamping with the foot, and thou
wilt rejoice in soul with all thy con-
tempt against the land of Israel.

7 For this, behold I stretched forth
my hand against thee, and I gave thee
for a spoil to the nations, and I cut thee
off from the peoples ; and I caused thee
to perish from the lands: I will destroy
thee and thou knewest that Iam Je-
hovah.

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8 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause Moab said, and Seir, Behold, the
house of Judah as all the nations;

9 For this, behold me opening the
shoulder of Moab from the cities, from
his cities, from his extremity, the glory
of the land the house of desolation the
place of dwelling, and the double city.

10 To the sons of the east with the
sons of Ammon, I gave it for a posses-
sion, so that it shall not make mention
of the sons of Ammon among the na-
tions.

11 And I will do judgments upon
Moab; and they shall know that 1 am
Jehovah.

12 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause Edom did against the house of
Judah by revenging vengeance, and
they will transgress a transgression, and
they revenged against them ;

13 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: and I stretched out my hand up-
on Edom, and I cut off from her man
and cattle; and I gave her a waste from
the south ; and Dedan shall fall by the
sword.

14 And I gave my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel :
and they did in Edom according to
mine anger and according to my wrath ;
and they shall know my vengeance,
says the Lord Jehovah:

15 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause the rovers did in vengeance, and
they will avenge vengeance with con-
tempt of heart to destroy, a perpetual
enmity ;

16 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me stretching forth my
hand upon the rovers, and I cut off the
executioners, and I destroyed the rem-
nant of the sea coast.

17 And I did great vengeances upon
them with reproofs of wrath; and they
shall know that I Jehovah, in my giv-
ing vengeance upon them.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND it will be in the eleventh
"Δ year, in one of the month, the
word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
2Son of man, because that 6
said against Jerusalem, Aha! she was
broken, the doors of the peoples: she

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was turned to me: I shall be filled;|]shalt no more be built: for I Jehovah

she was laid waste :

8 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me against thee, O Tyre,
and I brought up many nations agaist
thee as the sea brought up to its
waves.

4 And they destroyed the walls of
Tyre, and pulled down her towers:
and I swept away her dust from her,
and I gave her for a dry rock.

5 It shall be for spreading nets in the
midst of the sea: for I spake, says the
Lord Jehovah: and it was for a spoil
to the nations.

6 And her daughters who are in the
field, shall be slain by the sword; and
they shall know that I am Jehovah.

7 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Behold me bringing upon Tyre Nebu-
chadnezzar king of Babel, from the
north, a king of kings, with horse and
with chariot, and with horsemen, and a
convocation, and much people.

8 Thy daughters in the field he shall
slay with the sword: and he gave a
watch-tower against thee, and he threw
up a mound against thee, and lifted up
the buckler against thee.

9 And he will give the stroke of his
front against thy walls, and with his
sword he will tear down thy towers.

10 From the abundance of his horses,
their dust will cover thee: from the
voice of the horseman, and the wheel,
and the chariot, thy walls shall shake,
in his coming into thy gates, as the en-
terings of a city rent asunder.

11 With the hoofs of his horses he
will tread down all thy streets: he will
slay thy people with the sword, and
the garrisons of thy strength shall go
down to the earth.

19 And they spoiled thy strength,

and they plundered thy traffic, and
they pulled down thy walls, and they
will tear down thy houses of desire,
and they will set thy stones and thy
woods and thy dust in the midst of the
water. .

18 And I caused the noise of thy
songs to cease and the voice of thy
harps shall no more be heard.

14 And I gave thee for a dry rock:
thou shalt be a spreading of nets; thou

spake, says the Lord Jehovah.

15 Thus said the Lord Jehovah to
Tyre: Shall not the islands shake from
the voice of thy fall, in the cry of the
wounded, in the slaying of the slain in
the midst of thee ?

16 And all the princes of the sea
shall come down from their thrones,
and they removed their robes, and they
shall put off the garments of their vari-
egations: they shall put on tremblings ;
they sat upon the earth and trembled at
the moments, and were astonished at
thee.

17 And they lifted up for thee a la-
mentation, and they said to thee, How
wert thou destroyed being inhabited
from the seas, the celebrated city which
was strong in the sea, she and her in-
habitants who gave their terrors to all
her inhabitants.

18 Now shall the isles tremble the
day of thy fall; and the isles which
are in the sea loathed from thy going
forth.

19 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
I measured thee a city being desolated
as the cities which were not inhabited ;
im my bringing up the deep upon thee,
and many waters covered thee.

20 And I brought thee down with
them going down to the pit to the peo-
ple of old, and 1 set thee in the earth,
underneath in desolations from for-
ever with them going down to the pit,
so that thou shalt not be inhabited;
and I gave glory in the land of the liv-
ing.

I will give thee for terrors, and‏ ל
not thee: and thou shalt be soueht and‏
shalt not be found any more forever,‏
says the Lord Jehovah.‏

CHAPTER XXVIL
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Thou son of man, lift up a lament-
ation for Tyre;

3 And say to Tyre, Thou dwelling at
the entrance of the sea, a traffic of the
peoples for many islands, thus said the

ord Jehovah: O Tyre, thou saidst, I
am perfect of beauty.

4 In the heart of the sea thy bounds,

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they building
beauty.

5 They built all thy bounds cypress
from Shenir: they took cedars from
Lebanon to make a mast for thee.

6 The oaks of Bashan they made
thine oars; the house of the Ashurites
made thy desk of ivory from the isles
of Chittim.

7 Kine linen with variegation from
Egypt was thy spreading forth to be to
thee for a signal; cerulean purple, and
reddish purple, from the isles of Elisha
was thy covering.

8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Ar-
vad were rowers to thee: thy wise, O
Tyre, were in thee, they thy sailors.

9 The old men of Gebal and her wise
were in thee making strong thy breach:
all the ships of the sea and thy seamen
were in thee to traffic from thy traffic.

10 Persia and Lud and Phut were in
thy strength, thy men of war: hung
the shield and helmet in thee; they
gave thy decoration.

11 The sons of Arvad and thine
army upon thy walls round about, and
the Gammadims were in thy towers:
they hung their shields upon thy walls
round about; they completed thy
beauty.

12 Tarshish thy merchant from the
multitude of all riches: in silver, iron,
alloy, and lead, they gave thy markets.

13 Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they
thy merchants: they gave from thy
traffic in the soul of man, and vessels
of brass.

14 From the house of Togarmah,
horses and horsemen and mules they
gave thy markets.

15 The sons of Dedan thy mer-
chants; many isles the traffic of thy
hand: and they brought back horns of
ivory and ebony.

16 Aram thy merchant from the mul-
titude of thy works: they gave in thy
markets with the gem, reddish purple,
and variegation, and byssus, and red
corals, and ruby.

17 Judah and the land of Israel, they
' thy merchants: in wheat of Minnith
and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and
balsam, they gave thy traffic.

18 Damascus thy merchant in the

thee completed thy

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multitude of thy works from the multi-
tude of all riches, with wine of Helbon
and wool of whiteness.

19 And Dan and Javan going away
gave in thy markets: making iron;
cassia and sweet cane was in thy traffic.

20 Dedan thy merchant, garments of
spreading out for the chariot.

21 Arabia and all the princes of Ke-
dar, they the merchants of thy hand
with lambs and rams and he goats: in
them thy merchants.

22 The merchants of Sheba and Ra-
amah, they thy merchants with the
head of all spicery, and with every
precious stone and gold they gave thy
markets.

23 Haran and Canneh, and Eden,
the merchants of Sheba, Assur, and
Chilmad, thy merchants.

24 They thy merchants in _perfec-
tions in coverings of cerulean purple,
and variegation and in treasures of va-
riegated stuffs bound with cords and
made fast in thy markets.

25 The ships of Tarshish celebrating
thee in thy traffic; and thou wilt be
filled and honored greatly in the heart
of the sea.

26 Thy rower brought thee into many
waters: the wind of the east broke thee
in the heart of the seas.

27 Thy riches and thy markets, thy
traffic, thy seamen, and thy shipmen,
they making strong thy breach, and
they trafficking thy trafic, and all the
men of thy war that are in thee, and
in all thy convocation which is in
the midst of thee, they shall fall mto
the heart of the sea, in the day of thy
fall.

28 At the voice of the ery of thy
shipmen, the areas shall shake.

29 All holding the oars, the seamen
and the shipmen of the sea, shall come
down from their ships, they shall stand
upon the earth.

30 And with their voice they shall
cause to be heard against thee, and they
shall ery with bitterness, and they shall
bring up dust upon their heads, and
they shall roll themselves in ashes.

81 And they made themselves bald
with baldness for thee, and they girded
themselves with sackcloth, and they

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wept for thee with bitterness of soul
and bitter wailing.

32 And their sons lifted up a lamen-
tation for thee, and they lamented over
thee: Who as Tyre, as she desolated in
the midst of the sea?

33 In the going forth of thy markets
from the seas thou didst satisfy many
peoples; with the multitude of thy
riches and thy traffics thou didst en-
rich the kings of the earth.

34 The time thou wert broken from
the seas in the depths of the waters,
thy traffic and all thy convocation fell
in the midst of thee.

35 All the inhabitants of the isles
were astonished at thee, and their kings
shuddering, shuddered; the faces were
moved.

36 The merchants among the peoples
hissed at thee; thou wert terrors; and
thou not, even forever.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
HE word of Jehovah will be to
me, saying,

2 Son of man, say to the leader of
Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Because thy heart was lifted up, and
thou wilt say, 1 am God, I sat upon the
seat of God in the heart of the seas;
and thou art man and not God, and
thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of
God.

3 Behold thee wise above Daniel;
not any thing hidden was hidden to
thee :

4 With thy wisdom and with thy
understanding thou madest to thee
wealth, and thou wilt make gold and
silver in thy treasures.

5 By the multitude of thy wisdom,
by thy traffic thou didst multiply thy
wealth, and thine heart will be lifted
up in thy wealth.

6 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Because of thy giving thy heart
as the heart of God;

7 For this, behold me bringing stran-
gers upon thee, the terrible of the na-
tions: and they emptied out their
swords against the beauty of thy
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8 They shall bring thee down to the

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pit, and thou didst die the deaths of the
wounded in the heart of the seas.

9 Saying, wilt thou say, I am God,
before him slaying thee? and thou art
man and not God, in the hand of him
wounding thee.

10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers :
for I spake, says the Lord Jehovah.

11 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

12 Son of man, 115 up a lamentation
over the king of Tyre, and say to him,
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou
didst seal up the measure full of wis-
dom and complete of beauty.

13 Thou wert in Eden the garden of
God: every precious stone thy cover-
ing, the ruby, the topaz, the onyx, the
ehrysolite, the sardonyx and the jasper,
the sapphire, the carbuncle and the em-
erald, and gold: the work of thy drums
and thy pipes were prepared in thee in
the day of thy being created.

14 Thou the cherub of expansion
covering; and I gave thee: thou wert
in the holy mountain of God; thou
walkedst about in the midst of the
stones of fire.

15 Thou shalt be perfected in thy
ways from the day of thy being created
even till iniquity was found in thee.

16 In the multitude of thy traffic
they filled the midst of thee with vio-
lence, and thou wilt sin: and I shall
profane thee from the mountain of God,
and destroying thee, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Thine heart was lifted up with
thy beauty, thou didst corrupt thy wis-
dom on account of thy splendor: I
cast thee upon the earth, I gave thee
before kings to look upon thee.

18 From the multitude of thine in-
iquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic,
thou didst profane my holy places;
and I will bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall consume thee, and
I will give thee for ashes upon the earth
before the eyes of all seeing thee.

19 All knowing thee among the peo-
ples were astonished at thee: thou wert
terrors; and thou not, even to forever.

20 And the word of Jehovah will be

.to me, saying,

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21 Son of man, set thy face against
Zidon and prophesy against her,

22 And say, Thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: Behold me against thee, O Zi-
don; and I was honored in the midst
of thee, and they shall know that 1 am
Jehovah, in my doing judgments upon
her; and I was consecrated in her.

23 And I sent death into her, and
blood in her streets; and the wounded
fell in the midst of her by the sword
upon her from round about; and they
shall know that I am Jehovah.

24 And no more shall there be to the
house of Israel a thorn making bitter,
and briars causing pain from all round
about them despising them; and they
shall know that 1 am the Lord Jehovah.

25 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: in
my gathering the house of Israel from
the peoples where they were scattered
among them, and I was consecrated im
them before the eyes of the nations,
and they shall dwell in the land which
I vave to my servant Jacob.

26 And they dwelt upon it with con-
fidence, and they built houses, and they
planted vineyards; and they dwelt with
confidence in my doing judgments up-
on all those despising them from round
about them; and they shall know that
1 am Jehoyah their God.

CHAPTER XXIX.
N the tenth year, in the tenth, in the
twelfth to the month, was the word
of Jehovah to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy
against him and against all Keypt:

3 Speak and say, Thus said the Lord
Jehovah: Behold me against thee Pha-
raoh, king of Egypt, the great sea-mon-
ster lying in the midst of his rivers,
who said, The river is to me, and I
made me.

4 And I gave hooks in thy jaw-bones,
and I glued the fishes of thy rivers up-
on thy scales, and I brought thee up
from the midst of thy rivers, and all the
fishes of thy rivers shall be glued to thy
scales,

5 And I cast thee to the desert, thee
and all the fish of thy rivers: thou
shalt fail upon the face of the field;

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thou shalt not be gathered, and thou
shalt not be collected: I gave thee for
food to the beast of the earth and to
the birds of the heavens.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt
shall know that I am Jehovah, because
they were a support of reed to the house
of Israel.

7 In their taking hold upon thee by
the hand, thou wilt run and rend for
them all the shoulder: and in their
leaning upon thee, thou wilt break, and
cause to them the loins to stand.

8 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me bringing the sword
upon thee, and I cut off from thee man
and cattle.

9 And the land of Egypt was for des-
olation and waste; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah, because he said,
The river 18 to me; 1 made.

10 For this, behold me against thee,
and against thy rivers, and I gave the
land of Egypt for wastes of waste, a
desolation from the tower Seyeneh
and even to the bound of Cush.

11 The foot of man shall not pass
through it, and the foot of cattle shall
not pass through it, and it shall not be
inhabited forty years.

12 And I gave the land of Egypt a
desolation in the midst of the lands be-
ing desolate, and her cities in the midst
of the cities laid waste shall be a deso-
lation forty years: and I scattered
Egypt among the nations, and I dis-
persed them in the lands.

13 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
From the end of forty years I will
gather Egypt from the peoples where
they were scattered there :

14 And I turned back the captivity
of Egypt; and I caused them to turn
back to the land of Pathros upon the
land of their nativity; and they were
there a low kingdom.

15 It shall be lower than the king-
doms, and it shall no more be lifted wp
over the nations: and I made them few
not to rule over the nations.

16 And it shall be no more to the
house of Israel. for trust, bringing ini-
quity to remembrance in their turning
after them: and they shall know that I
am the Lord Jehovah.

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17 And it will be in the twenty and
seventh year, in the first, in the one to
the month, the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying, :

18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babel caused his army to serve
a great service against Tyre: every
head being made bald, and every shoul-
der made smooth: and wages were not
to him and to his army from Tyre for
the service that he served against her.

19 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me giving to Nebuchad-
nezzar king of Babel, the land of Egypt ;
and he lifted up her multitude, and he
spoiled her spoil and plundered her
plunder, and it was the wages to his
army.

20 I gave to him the land of Egypt
the wages which he served against her,
because they worked for me, says the
Lord Jehovah.

21 In that day I will cause the horn
to the house of Israel to spring up, and
to thee will-I give the opening of the
mouth in the midst of them; and they
shall know that 1 am Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXX.

ND the word of Jehovah will be

to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy and say,
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye,
Wo to the day!

3 For the day is near, the day of Je-
hovah is near, the day of a cloud; it
shall be the time of the nations.

4 And the sword came upon Egypt,
and pain was upon Cush, in the falling
of the wounded in Egypt; and they
took her multitude and her foundations
were torn down.

5 Cush and Phut and Lud, and all
the intermingled, and Chub, and the
sons of the land of the covenant, with
them shall fall by the sword.

6 Thus said Jehovah: and they up-
holding Egypt fell, and the pride of her
strength came down: from the tower
Seveneh shall they fall in her by the
sword, says the Lord Jehovah.

And they were desolate in the
midst of the lands being desolated, and
her cities shall be in the midst of the
cities being laid waste.

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8 And they knew that Iam Jehovah
in my giving fire in Egypt, and all her
helpers were broken. .

9 In that day shall go forth messen-
gers from before me in ships to make
confiding Cush afraid, and pain was
upon them as the day of Egypt: for
behold, it came.

10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
and I caused the multitude of Egypt to
cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babel.

11 He and his people with him, the
terrible of the nations, being brought to
destroy the land: and they emptied
their swords upon Egypt, and they
filled the land with the wounded.

12 And I gave the rivers dryness,
and I sold the land into the hand of the
evil: and I made the land desolate, and
its fulness by the hand of strangers: I
Jehovah spake.

13 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
And I destroyed the blocks, and I
caused their nothings to cease from
Noph; and a prince of the land of
Egypt shall be no more: and I gave
fear in the land of Egypt.

14 And I made Pathros desolate,
and I gave fire in Zoan, and I did
judgments in No.

15 And I poured out my wrath upon
Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I cut
off the multitude of No. ΄

16 And I gave fire in Egypt, and
Sin writhing, shall be in pain, and No
shall be for breaking in pieces, and
Noph straits in the day.

17 The young men of Aven and Pi-
beseth shall fall by the sword: and
these shall go into captivity.

18 And in Tahhapanes the day was
darkened in my breaking there the rods
of Egypt: and the pride of her strength
ceased in her: she, a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall go into
captivity.

19 And I did judgments in Egypt,
and they knew that I am Jehovah.

20 And it will be in the eleventh
year, in the first, in the seventh to the
month, the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying,

21 Son of man, I broke the arm of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and behold,

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it not bound up to give healing, to put|in the length of his branches: for his

in bandages to bind it, to make it
strong to hold upon the sword.

22 For this, thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: Behold me against Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and I brake his arms,
the strong, and the broken; and I
caused the sword to fall from his hand.

23 And I scattered Egypt among the
nations, and I dispersed them in the
lands.

24 And I strengthened the arms of
the king of Babel, and I gave my sword
into his hand: and I brake the arms of
Pharaoh, and he groaned the groanings
of the wounded before his face.

25 And I strengthened the arms of
the king of Babel, and the arms of Pha-
raoh shall fall; and they knew that I
am Jehovah in my giving my sword
into the hand of the king of Babel;
and he stretched it out against the land
of Eevpt.

26 And I scattered Egypt among
the nations, and 1 dispersed them in
the lands; and they knew that I am
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXI.
ND it will be in the eleventh year,
in the third, in one to the month,
the word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh king
of Egypt, and to his multitude: To
whom wert thou like in thy greatness ?

3 Behold, Assur a cedar in Lebanon,
fair of branch, and a shading thicket,
and high of stature; and his foliage
was between the thick boughs.

4 The water made him great, the
deep raised him up with her rivers go-
ing round about her planting, and she
sent forth her channels to all the trees
of the field.

5 For this his height was lifted up
more than all the trees of the field, and
his boughs will be multiplied, and his
branches will be extended from many
waters, in his sending forth.

6 And all the birds of the heavens
nested in his boughs, and under his
branches all the beasts of the field
brought forth, and in his shadow dwelt
all the great nations.

7 And he was fair in his greatness,

root was by many waters.

8 The cedars did not hide him in the
garden of God: the cypresses were not
like to his boughs, and the plane trees
were not as his branches; every tree in
the garden of God was not like to him
in his beauty.

9 I made him fair by the multitude
of his branches, and all the trees of
Eden which are in the garden of God
will envy him.

10 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Because thou wert lifted up in
height, and he will give his foliage be-
tween the thick boughs, and his heart
was lifted up in his height;

11 And I will give him into the hand
of the God of the nations; he shall do
his doing to him: I drove him out for
his injustice.

12 And strangers, the terrible of the
nations, shall cut him off and 685% him
down: upon the mountains and im all
the valleys his branches fell, and his
boughs shall be broken by all the tor-
rents of the land; and all the people of
the land shall go down from his shad-
ow, and will 688% him down.

13 Upon his fall shall all the fowls
of the heavens sit, and upon his
branches were all the beasts of the field :

14 So that all the trees of the waters
shall not be lifted up in height, and
they shall not give their foliage between
the thick boughs, and all they drinking
water shall not stand upon them in
their height: for they all were given to
death, to the earth underneath, in the
midst of the sons of man, to those going
down to the pit.

15 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In
the day of his going down to hades I
caused to mourn: I covered the deep
over him, and Τ shall restrain its floods,
and many waters shall be withheld:
and I will cause Lebanon to be darken-
ed for him, and all the trees of the field
fainted for him.

16 From the voice of his fall I caused
the nations to tremble, in my causing
him to go down to hades with those
going down to the pit: and all the trees
of Kden, the choice and good of Leba-
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be comforted in the earth under-
neath.

17 They also went down with him to
hades, to those being wounded with the
sword; and his arm they dwelt in his
shadow in the midst of the nations.

18 To whom wert thou thus like in
glory and in greatness among the trees
of Eden? and thou wert brought down
with the trees of Eden to the earth un-
dermeath: in the midst of the uncir-
cumcised thou shalt lie, with the wound-
ed of the sword. This is Pharaoh and

all his multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXIL
ND it will be in the twelfth year,
in the twelfth month, in one to
the month, the word of Jehovah was to
me, saying,

2 Son of man, lift up a lamentation
for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to
him, Thou wert like a young lion of the
nations, and thou as a whale in the seas:
and thou wilt break forth with thy riv-
ers, and trouble the waters with thy
feet, and thou wilt tread their rivers.

3 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: and
I spread my net over thee with a con-
vocation of many peoples; and they
brought thee up in my net.

4 And I east thee down upon the
earth, upon the face of the field will 1
throw thee, and I caused all the birds
of the heavens to sit upon thee, and I
satiated from thee the beasts of all the
earth.

5 And I gave thy flesh upon the
mountains, and I filled the valleys with
thy height.

6 And I watered the earth with thine
inundation from thy blood, to the
mountains; and the rivers shall be full
from thee.

7 And I covered the heavens in my
quenching thee, and I darkened their
stars; and J will cover the sun with a
cloud, and the moon shall not enlighten
with its ight

8 All the luminaries of light in the

heavens 1 will darken them over thee, |
say to him from the midst of hades
with his helpers: they went down; they

and I gave darkness upon thy land,
says the Lord Jehovah.

9 And 1 irritated the heart of many
peoples - my bringing thy breaking

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among the nations, upon lands which ye
knew not.

10 And I caused many peoples to be
astonished over thee, and kings shall
shudder with shuddering over thee in
my brandishing my sword over their
faces; and they trembled at the mo-
ments each for his soul in the day of,
thy fall.

11 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
The sword of the king of Babel shall
come into thee.

12 By the swords of the strong will
I cause thy multitude to fall, the terri-
ble of the nations, all of them: and
they destroyed the pride of Egypt, and
all her multitude were destroyed.

18 And I destroyed all her eattle
above many waters; and the foot of
man shall not tronble them any more,
and the hoofs of cattle shall not trouble
them.

14 Then will I cause their waters to
subside, and I will cause their rivers to
go-as oil, says the Lord Jehovah.

15 In my giving the land of Egypt a
desolation, and the land was desolate
from her fulness in my striking all
dwelling in it; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah.

16 This the lamentation and the
daughters of the nations lamented her:
they shall lament her for Egypt, and
for all her multitude they shall lament
her, says the Lord Jehovah.

17 And it will be in the twelfth year,
in the fifteenth to the month, the word
of Jehovah was to me, saying,

18 Son of man, Wail for the multi-
tude of Egypt, and cast it down, her,
and the daughters of the powerful na-
tions, to the earth underneath, with
those going down to the pit.

19 Above whom wert thou lovely?
go down, and lie with the uncircum-
cised.

20 In the midst of the wounded of
the sword shall they fall: she was giv-
en to the sword: do ye draw her out
and all her multitude.

21 The strong of the mighty shall

lay uncircumcised, wounded of the

sword.

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22 Assur there and all her convoca-
tion: his graves round about him: all
of them wounded, fallen by the sword.

23 Whose graves were given in the
thighs of the pit, and her convocation
will be round about her grave; all of
them wounded, fallen by the sword,who
gave terror in the jand of the living.

24 There Elam and all her multitude
round about her grave, all of them
wounded, fallen by the sword, who
went down uncircumcised to the earth
underneath, who gave their terror in
the land of the living; and they will
bear their shame with those going down
to the pit.

25 In the midst of the wounded they
gave a bed to her with all her multi-
tude: her graves round about him; all
of them uncireumcised, wounded of the
sword: for their terror was given in
the land of the living, and they shall
bear their shame with those going down
to the pit: he was given into the midst
of the wounded.

26 There Meshech and Tubal and all
her multitude: round about him her
graves: all of them uncircumcised,
wounded of the sword, for they gave
their terror in the land of the living.

27 And they shall not lie with the
strong fallen of the uncircumcised, who
went down to hades with the weapons
of their war: and they will give their
swords under their heads, and their in-
iquities shall be upon their bones for
the terror of the strong in the land of
the living.

28 And thou shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and thou
shalt lie with the wounded of the
sword.

29 There Edom, her kings and all her
princes who were given with their
streneth with the wounded of the sword :
they shall lie with the uncircumcised,
and with those going down to the pit.

80 There the princes of the north,
all of them, and all the Zidonians who
went down with the wounded; with
their terror being ashamed of their
strength; and they shall lie uncireum-
61800 with the wounded of the sword,
and bear their shame with those going
down to the pit.

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81 Pharaoh shall see them, and he’
was comforted over all her multitude
wounded of the sword, Pharaoh and all
his army, says the Lord Jehovah.

82 For I gave his terror in the land
of the living: and he lay down in the
midst of the uncircumcised with the
wounded of the sword, Pharaoh and all
her multitude, says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER הדא אא‎
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, speak to the sons of
thy people and say to them, A land,
when I shall bring the sword upon her,
and the people of the land took one
man from their extremities, and they
gave him to them for a watchman.

5 And he saw the sword coming up-
on the land, and he struck upon the
trumpet and warned the people ;

4 And he hearing, heard the voice of
the trumpet, and he took not warning;
and the sword will come and take him
away; his blood shall be upon his
ἘΠῚ

5 He heard the voice of the trumpet,
and he took not warning; his blood
shall be upon him. He taking warning
delivered his soul.

6 And if the watchman shall see the
sword coming, and he struck not upon
the trumpet, and the Pov were not
warned ; and the sword shall come and
take a soul from them, he was taken
away in his iniquity, and his blood I
will seek from the watchman’s hand.

7 And thou son of man, I gave thee
a watchman to the house of Israel; and
thou heardest the word from my mouth,
and thou didst warn them from me.

8 In my saying to the unjust, O un-
just one, dying, thou shalt die; and
thou spakest not to warn the unjust
from his way, that unjust one shall die
in his iniquity, and I will seek his blood
from thine hand.

9 And thou, if thou warnedst the un-
just from his way to turn back from it,
and he turned not back from his way,
he shall die in his iniquity; and thou
didst deliver thy soul.

10 And thou son of man, say to the
house of Israel; Thus ye said, saying,

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If our transgressions and our sins be
upon us, and we pining away in them,
and how shall we live?

11 Say to them, I live, says the Lord
Jehovah, if I shall delight in the death
of the unjust; but in the turning back
of the unjust one from his way, and he
lived: turn back, turn back from your
evil ways: and wherefore will ye die, O
house of Israel?

12 And thou, son of man, say to the
sons of my people, The justice of the
just shall not deliver him in the day of
his transgression: and the injustice of
the unjust, he shall not stumble in it
in the day of his turning back from his
injustice; and the just shall not be able
to live in the day of his sinning.

13 In my saying to the just, living,
he shall live; and he trusted upon his
justice, and he did evil, all his justice
shall not be remembered; and in his in-
iquity which he did he shall die in it.

14 And in my saying to the unjust,
Dying, thou shalt die; and he turned
back from his sinning and he did judg-
ment and justice ; [

15 The unjust shall turn back the
pledge, he shall restore the spoil, going
in the laws of the living not todo evil;
living, he shall live, he shall not die.

16 All his sins which he sinned shall
not be remembered to him: he did
judgment and justice; living, he shall
live.

17 And the sons of my people said,
The way of Jehovah will not make
even: and they their way shall not
make even.

18 In the turning back of the just
from his justice and doing iniquity, he
shall die in them.

19 And in the turning back of the
unjust from his injustice and doing
judgment and justice upon them, he
shall live.

20 And ye said, The way of Jeho-
vah will not make even. I will judge
you each according to his ways, O house
of Israel.

21 And it will be in the twelfth year,
in the tenth, in the fifth to the month, to
our captivity, he having escaped from
Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city
was struck,

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22 And the hand of Jehovah was to
me in the evening, before he having es-
caped came; and he opened my mouth
till he came to me in the morning; and
he will open my mouth and I was no
more dumb.

23 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

24 Son of man, they inhabiting these
wastes upon the land of Israel say, say-
ing, Abraham was one, and he will
inherit the land: and we are many;
the land was given to us for a posses-
sion.

25 For this, say to them, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Ye will eat with
the bloods, and ye will lift up your eyes
to your blocks, and ye will pour out
blood: and shall ye possess the land ?

26 Ye stood upon your sword, ye did
abomination, and ye defiled each his
neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess
the land? -

27 Thus shalt thou say to them:
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I live if
not they who are in the wastes shall fall
by the sword, and he who is upon the
face of the field I gave him to the beast
to eat him, and they who are in the fast-
nesses and in caves shall die by death.

28 And I gave the land a desolation
and an amazement, and I caused the
pride of her strength to cease; and the
mountains of Israel were desolate from
none passing through.

29 And they shall know that I am
Jehovah in my giving the land a deso-
lation and an astonishment for all their
abominations which they did.

80 And thou son of man, the sons of
my people are speaking against thee by
the walls and in the doors of the houses,
and speaking one to another, a man to
his brother, saying, Come now and hear
what the word coming forth from Je-
hovah.

31 And they will come to thee, ac-
cording to the coming of the people,
and they will sit before thee my people,
and they heard thy words, and they did
them not: for they making loves with
their mouth, their heart went after their
plunder.

82 And behold thee to them as a
song of loves of a fair voice, playing

well an instrument: and they heard
thy words and did them not.

33 And in its coming (behold, it
came) and they shall know that a
prophet was in the midst of them.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

\ ND the word of Jehovah will be

A. to me, saying,

2 Son of man, prophesy against the
shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say
to them, To the shepherds, thus said the
Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds
of Israel who were feeding themselves:
shall not the shepherds feed the sheep?

3 Ye will eat the fat, and ye will put
on the wool, ye will sacrifice the fat-
lings: ye will not feed the sheep.

4 Ye strengthened not the sickly, and
the diseased ye healed not, and the
broken ye bound not up, and 6
thrust away ye turned not back, and
the lost ye sought not; and with force
and with oppression ye ruled them.

5 And they will be scattered from
without a shepherd: and they will be
for consuming to all the beasts of the
field, and they will be scattered.

6 My sheep will wander upon all the
mountains, and upon every high hill:
and upon all the face of the earth my
flock was scattered, and none searching
and none seeking.

7 For this, hear ye shepherds, the
word of Jehovah:

8 I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if
not my sheep were for plunder and my
sheep will be for consuming to all the
beasts of the field from no shepherd ;
and the shepherds sought not my sheep,
and the shepherds will feed themselves,
and my sheep they fed not.

9 For this, hear ye shepherds, the
word of Jehovah:

10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
hold me against the shepherds; and I
sought my flock from their hand, and I
caused them to cease from feeding the
sheep: and the shepherds shall no
more feed themselves; and I delivered
my flock from their face, and they
shall not be to them for consuming.

11 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Behold me, I also sought my sheep,
and I searched them out.

EZEKIEL XXXTV.

12 According to the seeking of the
shepherd of his flock in the day of his
being in the midst of his sheep being
seattered ; so will I search out my sheep
and deliver them from all places where
they were scattered there in the day of
cloud and darkness.

18 And I brought them out from
the peoples, and I gathered them from
the lands, and 1 brought them to their
land, and I fed them upon the mount-
ains of Israel by the torrents, and in all
the dwellings of the earth.

14 In a good pasture will I feed
them, and upon the high mountains of
Israel shall be their rest: there shall
they he in a good rest, and a fat pas-
ture they shall feed upon the mountains
of Israel.

15 1 will feed my sheep, and 1 will
cause them to 116 down, says the Lord
Jehovah.

16 The lost I will seek ont, and the
thrust. away I will turn back, and to
the broken I will bind up, and the dis-
eased I will strengthen: and the fat and
the strong I will destroy; I will feed
them with judgment.

17 And ye, my sheep, thus said the
Lord Jehovah; Behold me judging be-
tween sheep to sheep, to the rams and
to the he goats.

18 Is it small for you ye will feed
the good pasture, and the remainder
of your pastures. ye will tread down
with your feet? and ye will drink from
the settled waters and that, being left
they will tread with your feet.

19 And my sheep will feed of the
trodden down of your feet; and they
will drink of the treading of your
feet.

20 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah to them: Behold me, I also judged
between fat sheep and between lean
sheep.

21 Because with side and with shoul-
der ye will thrust away, and with your
horns ye pushed all the sickly till that
ye scattered them without ;

22 And 1 saved my sheep, and they
shall no more be for plunder; and I
judged between sheep to sheep.

23 And I raised up one shepherd
over them, and he fed them, my ser-

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vant David; he shall feed them and he
shall be to them for shepherd.

241 Jehovah will be to them for
God, and my servant David a prince
in the midst of them; I Jehovah spake.
> 25 And Leut out to them a covenant
of peace, and I caused the evil beast to
cease from the land: and they dwelt
with confidence in the desert, and they
slept in the forests.

26 And 1 gave them and round about
my hill a blessing; and I brought
down the rain in its time, and they shall
be rains of blessing.

27 And the tree of the field gave its
fruit, and the land shall give her prod-
nce, and they shall be upon their land
with confidence, and they knew that I
am Jehovah in my breaking the rods of
their yoke; and I delivered them from
the hand of those serving themselves
in them.

28 And they shall no more be plun-
der to the nations, and the beast of the
earth shall not eat them; and they
dwelt confidently and none making
afraid.

29 And I raised up to them a plant
for a name, and they shall be no more
taken away by famine in the land, and
they shall no more bear the shame of
the nations.

80 And they knew that I Jehovah
their God with them, and they my peo-
ple, the house of Israel, says the Lord
Jehovah.

31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of
my pasture, ye are men, 1 your God,
says the Lord Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXV.
ND the word of the Lord will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against
mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

3 And say to it, Thus said the Lord
Jehovah: Behold me against thee, O
mount Seir; and I stretched out my
hand upon thee a desolation and an
amazement.

41 will set thy cities a waste, and
thou shalt be a desolation, and thou
knewest that I am Jehovah.

5 Because there was a perpetual en-
mity to thee, and thou wilt pour out the

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sons of Israel by the hands of the sword
in the time of their calamity, in the time
of iniquity the end:

6 For this, I live, says the Lord Je-
hovah, for I will make thee for blood.
and blood shall pursue thee: since thou.
hatedst not blood, and blood shall pur-
sue thee.

7 And I gave mount Seir for a deso-
lation, and desolation, and I cut off
from it him passing through and him
turning back.

8 And I filled his mountains with his
wounded: in thy hills and in thy val-
leys, and all thy torrents the wounded’
of the sword shall fall in them:

9 I will give thee perpetual desola-
tions, and thy cities shall not be inhab-
ited: and ye knew that I am Jeho-
vah. i

10 Because of thy saying, The two
nations and the two lands shall be to
me, and we will possess it; and Jeho-
vah was there:

11 For this, I live, says the Lord Je-
hovah, and I did according to thine an-
ger and according to thine envy which’
thou didst in thy hatred against them ;
and I was known among them accord-
ing to that I will judge thee.

12 And thou knewest that I am Je-
hovah; I heard all thy reproaches
which thou spakest agvinst the mount
ains of Israel, saying, They were given
to us a desolation to consume.

13 And ye will be magnified against
me with your mouth, and ye multi-
plied your words against me: I heard. ἡ

14 Thus said the Lord- Jehovah:
When all the earth rejoiced I will make
thee a desolation.

15 For thy rejoicing at the inherit-
ance of the house of Israel, because it
was a desolation, thus will I do to thee:
thou shalt be a desolation O mount Seir,
and all Edom, all of it: and they shall
know that I am Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

ND thou son of man, prophesy to

7 \ the mountains of Israel, and say,

Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word
of Jehovah :

2 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-

cause the enemy said against you, Aha!

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and the heights of old were for a pos-
session to us:

8 For this, prophesy and say, Thus
said the Lord Jehovah: Because for,
because of making desolate, and pant-
ing after you from round about, for you
to be a possession for the remainder of
the nations, and ye will come up upon
the lips of the tongue and a slander of
the people

4 For this ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord Jehovah:
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to the
mountains and to the hills, to the tor-
rents and to the valleys, and to the des-
olate wastes, and to cities being forsak-
en which were for plunder and for de-
rision to the rest of the nations that are
from round about;

5 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: If not in the fire of my jealousy
1 spake against the rest of the nations
and against all Edom who gave my
land to them for a possession with joy
of all the heart, with contempt of soul
for casting it out for plunder.

6 For this, prophesy against the land
of Israel, and say to the mountains and
to the hills, and to the torrents and to
the valleys, Thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me, in my jealousy and in
my wrath did I speak because ye bore
the shame of the nations.

7 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: I lifted up my hand; if not the
nations who are from round about to
you, they shall bear their shame.

8 And ye mountains of Israel, ye
shall give your branch, and ye shall
bear your fruit to my people Israel ; for
they drew near to come.

9 For behold me for you, and I turn-
ed to you and ye were tilled and sown.

10 And I multiplied man upon you,
all the house of Israel, all of it: and
the cities were inhabited and the wastes
shall be built.

11 And I multiplied upon you man
and cattle; and they multiplied and
were fruitful: and I caused you to dwell
according to your former times, and I
did good above your beginnings: and
ye knew that I am Jehovah.

12 And I caused man to go upon
you, my people Israel; and they shall

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possess thee, and thou wert to them for
an inheritance, and thou shalt no more
add to bereave them.

13 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Be-
cause of their saying to you, Thou didst
consume man, and thou wert bereaving
thy nations ;

14 For this, thou shalt no more con-
sume man, and thou shalt no more be-
7 thy nations, says the Lord Jeho-
vah.

15 And 1 will no more cause to be
heard in thee the shame of the nations,
and thou shalt bear no more the re-
proach of the peoples, and thou shalt no
more bereave thy nations, says the Lord
Jehovah.

16 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

17 Son of man, the house of Israel
dwelling upon their land, and they will
defile it with their way and with their
doings: their way was before me as the
uncleanness of her set apart.

18 And I will pour out my wrath
upon them upon the blood which they
poured out upon the land, and they de-
filed it by their blocks:

19 And I will scatter them among
the nations, and they shall be dispersed
in the lands : according to their ways
and according to their doings, I judged
them.

20 And he will come to the nations
where they came in there, and they
will profane my holy name in saying
to them, These the people of Jehovah,
and they went forth from their land.

21 And I will spare for my holy

name that the house of Israel profaned
among the nations where they went
there.

22 For this, say to the house of Is-
rael, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: I do
not for your sake, O house of Israel,
but for my holy name which ye pro-
faned among the nations where ye went
there.

23 And I consecrated my great name,
being profaned among the nations which
ye profaned, in the midst of them; and
the nations shall know that I am Jeho-

vah, says the Lord Jehovah, in my
being consecrated among you before
your eyes,

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94 And I took you from the nations
and I gathered you from all the lands,
and I brought you into your land.

25 And I sprinkled clean waters up-
on you, and ye were cleansed: from all

our uncleannesses and from all your
locks will I cleanse you.

26 And I gave to you a new heart,
and a new spirit will I give in the midst
of you: and I turned away your heart
of stone from your flesh, and i gave to
you an heart of flesh.

27 And my spirit I will give in the
midst of you, and I made that ye shall
go in my laws, and my judgments shall
ye watch and do.

28 And ye dwelt in the land which I
gave to your fathers, and ye were to
me for a people, and I shall be to you
for God.

29 And I saved you from all your
uncleannesses: and I called for the grain
and I multiplied it, and I will not give
famine upon you.

30 And I multiplied the fruit of the
tree and the produce of the field, so
that ye shall no more take the reproach
of famine among the nations.

31 And ye remembered your evil
ways and your doings which not being
good, and ye loathed with your faces
for your iniquities and for your abomi-
nations.

32 I did not for your sakes, says the
Lord Jehovah, it shall be known to
you: be ashamed and be disgraced for
your ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In
the day of my cleansing you from all
your iniquities, and I caused the cities
to be inhabited, and the walls were
built.

34 And the desolate land shall be
worked instead of its being a desolation
before the eyes of all passing by.

85 And they said: This land being
desolate was as the garden of Eden:
and the cities laid waste and desolated
and destroyed, being fortified, were in-

habited.

386 And the nations which shall be

> 168 round about you shall know that I

Jehovah built the destroyed, I planted
the desolated: I Jehovah spake, and I
di

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87 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Yet
this will I be sought out to the house
of Israel, to do to them; I will multi-
ply them with men as sheep.

88 As holy sheep, as the sheep of
Jerusalem in her appointments; thus
shall the cities laid waste be filled with
flocks of men: and they shall know
that I am Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXYVIL
HE hand of Jehovah was upon me,
and he will bring me forth in the
spirit of Jehovah, and he will set me
down in the midst of the valley; and
it was filled with bones.

2 And he caused me to pass over
them round about, round about: and
behold, exceeding many upon the face
a the valley ; and behold, exceedingly

ry.

3 And he will say to me, Son of
man, shall these bones live? And say-
ing, Thou Lord Jehovah knoweth.

4 And he will say to me, Prophesy
over these bones, and say to them, Ye
dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah.

ὃ Thus said the Lord Jehovah to
these bones: Behold, I bring upon you
the spirit, and ye lived.

6 And I gave sinews upon you, and
I brought up flesh upon you, and I
drew skin over you, and I gave spirit
ἴῃ you, and ye lived; and ye shall
know that 1 am Jehovah.

7 And I prophesied as I was com-
manded : and there will be a voice as 1
prophesied, and behold a shaking, the
bones will draw near, bone to his bone.

8 And I saw and behold, upon them
sinews and flesh came up, and the skin
will draw over them from above: and
no spirit in them.

9 And he will say to me, prophesy
to the spirit, prophesy, son of man, and
say to the spirit, thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: Come from the four winds, O
wind and blow upon these slain, and
they shall live.

10 And I prophesied as he com-
manded me, and the spirit will come
upon them and they will live, and they
will stand upon their feet, an army
great, exceedingly, exceedingly.

11 And he will say to me, Son of

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man, these bones all the house of Isra-|] two nations, and they shall no more be

el: behold them saying, Our bones
were dried up, and our hope perished,
and we were cut off to us.

12 For this, prophesy and say to
them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Behold, 1 opened your graves and
brought you up from your graves, O
my people, and I brought you to the
land of Israel.

13 And ye knew that I was Jehovah
in my opening your graves and in my
bringing you up from your graves, Ὁ
my people.

14 And I gave my spirit in you, and
ye lived, and I caused you to rest upon
your land: and ye knew that I Jeho-
vah spake, and I did, says the Lord Je-
hovah.

15 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

16 Arid thou son of man, take to
thee one tree and write upon it, For Ju-
dah, and for the sons of Israel his com-
pany: and take one tree and write up-
on it, For Joseph, the tree of Ephraim,
and all the house of Israel his com-
pany:

17 And draw them near one to one
to thee, for one tree; and they were for
one in thine hand.

18 And when the sons of thy people
shall say to thee, saying, Wilt thou not
announce to us what these to thee?

19 Speak to them, thus said the Lord
Jehovah: Behold I take the tree of Jo-
seph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his company,
and I gave them upon him with the
tree of Judah, and ye made them for
one tree, and they were one in my
hand.

20 And the trees which thou shalt
write upon them were in thy hand be-
fore their eyes. '

21 And speak to them, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I take the
sons of Israel from among the nations
where they went there, and I gathered
them from round about, and I brought
them to their land:

22 And I made them for one nation
in the land in the mountains of Israel ;
and one king shall be to them all for
king: and they shall no more be for

divided into two kingdoms at all.

23 And they shall no more be defiled
with their blocks and with their abom-
inable things, and in all their trans-
gressions: and I saved them from all
their dwellings where they sinned in
them, and I cleansed them: and they
were to me for a people, and I will be
to them for God.

24 And my servant David a king
over them; and one shepherd shall be
to all of them: and in my judgments
they shall go and they shall watch my
laws and do them.

25 And they shall dwell upon the
land which I gave to my servant to
Jacob which your fathers dwelt upon
it, and they shall dwell upon it, they
and their sons and their sons’ sons, even
to forever: and David my servant a
prince to them forever.

26 And I eut out to them a covenant
of peace; it shall be an eternal cove-
nant with them: and I gave them,
and I multiplied them, and I gave my
holy place im the midst of them forever.

27 And my dwelling was with them,
and I was to them for God, and they
shall be to me for a people. :

28 And the nations shall know that
Τ am Jehoyah consecrating Israel in my
holy place, being in the midst of them
forever.

CHAPTER XXXVIIL
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

2 Son of man, set thy face against
Gog, the land of Magog, the head
prince of Meshech and Tubal, and
prophesy against him,

3 And say, Thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Behold me against thee, O Gog,
head prince of the head of Meshech
and Tubal :

4 And I turned thee back, and I gave
hooks in thy jaw bones, and I brought
thee forth and all thine army of horses
and horsemen, clothed in perfection, all
of them a great convocation with buck-
ler and shield, holding swords all of
them :

5 Persia, Cush and Phut with them,

_all of them with shield and helmet.

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6 Gomer and all his hosts; the house
of Togarmah of the thighs of the north,
and all his hosts: many peoples with
thee.

7 Be prepared, and be prepared for
thyself, thou, and all thy convocation
convoked together to thee, and be to
them for watching.

8 From many days thou shalt be re-
viewed: in the last of the years thou
shalt come to the land turned back from
the sword, being gathered from many
pecples upon the mountains of Tsrael,
which were continually for waste: and
she was brought forth from the peoples,
and they dwelt confidently all of them.

9 Ascending, thou shalt come as a
storm, as a cloud to cover the earth
shalt thou be and all thy hosts, and
many peoples with thee.

10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: and
it was in that day words will come up
upen thy heart, and thou purposed an
evil purpose :

11 And thou saidst, I will come up
upon the land of the open country; I
will ₪0 to those being at rest, dwelling
confidently, all of them dwelling with-
out a wall, and bar and doors not to
them,

12 To spoil a spoil and to plunder a
plunder; to turn back thy hand upon
the wastes being ‘inhabited, and upon
the people being gathered out of the
nations making cattle and substance,
dwelling upon the summit of the land.

13 Sheba and Dedan and the mer-
chants of Tarshish, and all her young
lions, they shall say to thee, For spoil-
ing a spoil art thou come? For plun-
dering a plunder didst thou call together
thy convocation? to lift up silver and
gold, to tale cattle and substance, to
spoil a great spoil?

14 For this, prophesy, O son of man,
and say to Gog, Thus said the Lord Je-
hovah: In that day in my people Israel
dwelling confidently, shalt thou not
know?

15 And thou camest out of the places
from the thighs of the north, thou, and
many peoples with thee, riding horses
all of them, a great convocation and
much strength:

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Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it
shall be in the last of the days, and I
brought thee forth against my land, for
the nations to know me in my being
consecrated in thee before their eyes, O
Gog.

17 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Art
thou he of whom I spake in days of old
by the hand of my servants the proph-
ets of Israel, prophesying in those days
years to bring thee against them ?

18 And it was in that day, in the day
Gog came upon the land of Israel, says
the Lord Jehovah, my wrath shall come
up in my face.

19 And in my jealousy, in the fire of
my wrath I spake, If not in that day
shall be a great shaking upon the land
of Israel.

20 And from my face shall shake the
fish of the sea, and the birds of the
heavens, and the beasts of the field, and
every creeping thing creeping upon the
earth, and every man which is upon the
face of the earth; and the mountains
were overthrown, and the precipices fell,
and every wall shall fall to the earth.

21 And I ealled to all my mountains
a sword against him, says the Lord Je-
hovah: and the sword of each shall be
against his brother.

22 And 1 will contend with him with
death and with blood; and an over-
flowing rain, and hailstones, fire and
sulphur will I rain upon him and upon
his hosts, and upon many peoples which
are with him.

23 And I magnified myself, and I
consecrated myself; and I was made
known to the eyes of many nations, and
they knew that I am Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
ND thou son of man, prophesy
against Gog, and say, Thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Behold me against
thee, O Gog, prince of the head of Me-
shech and Tubal:

2 And I turned thee back, and I led
thee, and I caused thee to come up from
the thighs of the north, and I brought
thee upon the mountains of Israel :

3 And I struck thy bow out of thy
left hand, and thine arrows will I cause

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4 Upon the mountains of Israel shalt
thou fall, thou and all thy hosts, and
the peoples which are with thee: to the
ravenous bird, the bird of every wing,
and to the beasts of the field I gave to
consume.

5 Upon the face of the field thou
shalt fall: for I spake, says the Lord
Jehovah.

6 And I sent a fire upon Magog, and
upon them dwelling with confidence in
the islands: aud they knew that 1 am
Jehovah.

7 And I will make known my holy
name in the midst of my people Israel ;
and I will no more profane my holy
name: and the nations shall know that
Iam Jehovah, the Holy One im Israel.

8 Behold, it came, and it was, says
the Lord Jehovah; this the day which
I spake.

9 And they dwelling in the cities of
Israel went forth and kindled and set
on fire with the weapons and the shield
and the buckler, with the bow and with
the arrows, and with the rods of the
hand and with the spear, and they burnt
a fire with them seven years:

10 And they shall not lift wp wood
from the field, and they shall not eut
down from the forests; for they shall
kindle fire with the weapons, and they
spoiled those spoiling them, and they
plundered those plundering them, says
the Lord Jehovah.

11 And it was in that day, I will
give to Gog a place there, a sepulchre
in Israel, the valley of those passing
through east of the sea: and it stopped
those passing by: and they buried there
Gog, and all his multitude: and they
called the valley, The Multitude.

12 And the house of Israel buried
them to cleanse the land seven months.

13 And they buried all the people of
the land: and it was to them for name
the day of honoring me, says the Lord
Jehovah.

14 And they shall separate men con-
tinually, passing through in the land
burying those transported with those
remaining upon the face of the earth,
to cleanse it: from the end of seven
months they shall search.

15 And they caused to pass through,

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passed through in the land, and he see-
ing a bone 01 man and he built a pillar
by it, they burying, buried it in the
valley of the multitude of Gog.

16 And also the name of the city,
The Multitude. And they cleansed the
land.

17 And thou, son of man, thus said
the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird of
every wing and to all the beasts of the
field, Gather yourselves together, and
come; assemble yourselves from round
about to my sacrifice which I sacrifice
to you, a great sacrifice upon the mount-
ains of Israel; and ye ate flesh and
drank blood.

18 The flesh of the strong shall ye
eat, and the blood of the princes of the
earth shall ye drink, rams, lambs and
he goats, bullocks being fattened, of
Bashan all of them.

19 And ye ate fat to satiety, and ye
drank blood to drunkenness, from my
sacrifice which I sacrificed for you.

20 And ye were satiated at my table
with horse and chariot, with the strong,
and every man of war, says the Lord
Jehovah.

21 And I gave my honor among the
nations, and all the nations saw my
judgments which I did, and my hand
that I put upon them.

22 And the house of Israel knew
that I am Jehovah their God, from this
day and farther.

23 And the nations shall know that
for their miquity the house of Israel
were carried away captive: because
they transgressed against me, and I will
hide my face from them, and I will
give them into the hand of their ene-
mies, and they shall fall by the sword,
all of them.

24 According to their uncleanness
and according to their transgressions I
did with them, and I will hide my face
from them.

25 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: Now will I turn back the captiv-
ity of Jacob, and I compassionated all
the house of Israel, and I was jealous
for my holy name;

26 And they bare their shame and
all their transgression which they trans-
gressed against me, in thew dwelling

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upon their land confidently, and none
terrifying.

27 In my turning them back from
the peoples, and I gathered them from
the lands of their enemies, and I was
| consecrated in them before the eyes of
many nations;

28 And they shall know that I am
Jehovah their God in my carrying them
captive to the nations: and I collected
them into their land, and I will no
more leave from them there.

29 And I will no more hide my face
from them, for I poured out my spirit
upon the house of Israel, says the Lord
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XL.

N the twenty and fifth year to our

captivity, in the beginning of the

year, in the tenth to the month, in the

fourteenth year after that the city was

struck, in this very day the hand of

Jehovah was upon me, and he will
bring me there.

2 In the visions of God he brought
me to the land of Israel, and he will set
me down upon an exceeding high
mountain, and upon it as the building
of a city from the south.

3 And he will bring me there, and
behold, a man, his appearance as the
appearance of brass, and a cord of flax
in his hand, and a reed of measure; and
he stood in the gate.

4 And the man will speak to me,
Son of man, see with thine eyes, and
hear with thine ears, and set thy heart
to all which I cause thee to see; for in
order to cause thee to see thou wert
brought hither: announce all which
thou seest to the house of Israel.

5 And behold a wall from without to
the house round about, round about,
and in the man’s hand a reed of meas-
ure six cubits by the cubit, and a hand-
breadth: and he will measure the
breadth of the building, one reed: and
the height, one reed.

6 And he will come to the gate which
its face the way of the east, and he will
come up upon its steps, and he will
measure the threshold of the gate, one
reed the breadth, and the other thresh-
old, one reed the breadth.

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7 And the chamber one reed the
length, and one reed the breadth; and
between the chambers, five cubits: and

the threshold of the gate from the side
of the porch of the gate from the house,
one reed.

8 And he will measure the porch of
the gate from the house, one reed.

9 And he will measure the porch of
the gate, eight cubits; and its projection,
two cubits; and the porch of the gate
from within.

10 And tie chambers of the gate the
way of the east, three from hence, and
three from thence; one measure to
their three: and one measure to the
projections from hence and from
thence.

11 And he will measure the breadth
of the door of the gate, ten cubits; the
length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

12 And the bound before the face of
the chambers, one cubit, and one cubit
the bound from hence: and the cham-
ber six cubits from hence, and six cubits
from thence.

13 And he will measure the gate from
the roof of the chamber to its roof; the
breadth, twenty and five cubits, door
over against door.

14 And he will make projections six-
ty cubits, and to the projection of the
enclosure of the gate round about, round
about.

15 And upon the face of the gate of
the entrance to the face of the porch of
the gate, fifty cubits.

16 And windows closed to the cham-
bers, and to their posts inside to the
gate, round about, round about, and thus
to the porches: and to the windows
round about, round about inside, and
to the post, palm trees.

17 And he will bring me to the en-
closure without, and behold, cells and a
tesselated pavement made to the enclos-
ure round about, round about: thirty
cells to the tesselated pavement.

18 And the tesselated pavement to
the shoulder of the gates over against
the length of the gates, the lower tessel-
ated pavement.

19 And he will measure the breadth
from the face of the lower gate to the
face of the enclosure within from with-

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out, a hundred cubits to the east and
to the north.

20 And a gate whose face the way of
the north to the enclosure without, he
measured its length and its breadth.

21 And its chamber, three from hence,
and three from thence ; and its post and
its porch was as the measure of the first
gate: fifty cubits its length, and its
breadth five and twenty by the cubit.

22 And its windows and its porch
and its palm tree, as the measure of the
gate whose face the way of the east:
and they will go קט‎ into it by seven
steps ; and its porch before them.

23 And the gate to the interior en
closure over against the gate to the
north and to the east: and he will
measure from gate to gate, a hundred
cubits.

24 And he will cause me to go the
way of the south, and behold a gate the
way of the south: and he measured its
post and its porch according to these
measures.

25 And windows to it, and to its
porch round about, round about, as
those windows: fifty eubits the length,
and the breadth, five and twenty cubits.

26 And its going up, seven steps, and
its porch before them: and palm trees
to it, one from hence, and one from
thence, to its post.

27 And a gate to the inner enclosure
the way of the south: and he will meas-
ure from gate to gate the way of the
south, a hundred eubits.

28 And he will bring me to the inner
enclosure by the gate of the south: and
he will measure the gate of the south
according to these measures.

29 And its chamber and its projec-
tion, and its porch, according to these
measures: and windows to its porch
round about, round about: fifty cubits
the length, and the breadth five and
twenty cubits.

30 And the porches round about,
round about, the length five and twenty
cubits, and the breadth five cubits.

81 And its projections to the enclos-
ure without; and palm trees toits post:
and its going up, eight steps.

32 And he will bring me to the inner
enclosure the way of the east: and he

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will measure the gate according to these
measures.

38 And its chamber, and its post, and
its porch, according to these measures:
and windows to it and to its porch round
about, round about: the length fifty
cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.

34 And its porch to the enclosure
without; and palm trees to its post from
hence and from thence: and its going
up, eight steps.

35 And he will bring me to the gate
of the north, and he measured accord-
ing to these measures ;

36 Its chamber, its post, and its porch,
and windows to it round about, round
about: the length fifty cubits, and the
breadth five and twenty cubits.

87 And its post to the court-yard
without; and palm trees to its post from
hence and from thence: and its going
up, eight steps.

88 And the cell and its entrance by
the posts of the gates, there they will
cleanse the burnt-offering.

39 And in the porch of the gate two
tables from hence, and two tables from
thence, to slaughter upon them the
burnt-offering and the sin and the tres:
pass.

40 And upon the shoulder from with-
out to the going up to the entrance of
the gate of the north, two tables; and
upon the other shoulder which was at
the porch of the gate, two tables.

41 Four tables from hence, and four
tables from thence, to the side of the
gate; eight tables they will slaughter
upon them.

42 And the four tables for the burnt-
offering, of cut stones, the length, one
eubit and a half, and the breadth, one
eubit and a half, and the height, one
eubit: upon them they placed the in-
struments which they willslaughter the
burnt-offering with them, and the sacri-
fice.

43 And stalls one hand-breadth set
up in the house round about, round
about: and upon the tables the flesh of
the oblation.

44 And from without to the inner
gate, cells placed in order in the inner
enclosure which was upon the side of

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the gate of the north; and their faces
the way of the south: one at the side
of the gate of the east, the face the way
of the north.

45 And he will speak to me, This
the cell whose face the way of the south,
for the priests watching the watches of
the house.

46 And the cell whose face the way
of the north, for the priests watching
the watches of the altar: they the sons
of Zadok drawing near from the sons of
Levi, to Jehovah to serve him.

47 And he will measure the enclos-
ure, the length a hundred cubits, and
the breadth a hundred cubits, quad-
rated; and the altar before the house.

48 And he will bring me to the porch
of the house, and he will measure the
post of the porch, five cubits from
hence, and five cubits from thence: and
the breadth of the gate three cubits
from hence, and three cubits from
thence.

49 The length of the porch, twenty
cubits, and the breadth, eleven cubits;
and by the steps which they will go up
to it: and pillars to the posts, one from
hence, and one from thence.

CHAPTER XLI.
A ND he will bring me to the temple,
and he will measure the posts,
six cubits the breadth from hence, and
six cubits the breadth from thence, the
breadth of the tent.

2 And the breadth of the entrance,
ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance,
five cubits from hence, and five cubits
from thence: and he will measure its
length, forty cubits: and the breadth,
twenty cubits.

8 And he went inside, and he will
measure the post of the entrance, two
eubits; and the entrance, six cubits;
and the breadth of the door, seven cu-
bits.

4 And he will measure its length,
twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty
cubits, to the face of the temple: and
he will say to me, This the holy of ho-
lies.

5 And he will measure the wall of
the house, six cubits; and the breadth
of the rib, four eubits, round about,

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round about to the house, round
about.

6 And the ribs, side to side, three and
thirty times; and entering into the wall
which was to the house to the sides
round about, round about, to be hold-
ing, and they shall not be holding in
the wall of the house.

7 It was broad and turned round up-
wards, upwards to the sides: for the
circuit of the house, upwards, upwards
round about, round about to the house:
for this the breadth of the house up-
wards, and thus the lowest will go up
upon the highest to the middle.

8 And I saw to the house the height
round about, round about: the founda-
tions of the sides the fulness of a reed,
six cubits the joining.

9 The breadth of the wall which was
to the side without, five cubits: and
that remaining of the house the sides
which were to the house.

10 And between the cells, the breadth,
twenty cubits round about to the house,
round about, round about:

11 And the entrance of the side to
that remaining, one door the way of
the north, and one door to the south:
and the breadth of the remaining place,
five cubits round about, round about.

12 And the building which was at
the face of the separation the side the
way of the sea, the breadth, seventy
cubits; and the wall of the building,
five cubits the breadth, round about,
round about; and its length ninety cu-
bits.

13 And he measured the house, the
length, a hundred cubits; and the sep-
arated place and the building and its
walls, the length, a hundred eubits.

14 And the breadth of the face of the
house, and the separated place to the
east, a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of
the building at the face of the separated
place which was upon its back part,
and its offsets from hence, and from
thence, a hundred cubits, and the inner
temple and the porches of the enclos-
ure.

16 The thresholds, and the windows
closed, and the offsets round about to
their three over against the threshold,

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a board of wood round about, round
about, and the earth even to the win-
dows, and the windows being cov-
ered.

17 To above the door and even to
the inner house, and to without, and to
all the wall round about, round about,
in the inside and on the outside meas-
ures.

18 And cherubs being made, and
palm trees, and a palm tree between a
cherub to a cherub: and two faces to
the cherub;

19 And the face of man to the palm
tree from hence, and the face of a young

lion to the palm tree from thence: be-|*

ing made to all the house round about,
round about.

20 From the earth even to above the
entrance, the cherubs and the palm
trees being made, and the wall of the
temple.

21 The temple glittering four-square,
and the face of the holy place; the
vision according to the vision.

22 The altar of wood, three cubits
the height, and its length, two cubits;
and its angles to it, and its Jength, and
its walls, of wood: and he will speak
+0 me: This the table which is before
the face of Jehovah.

23 And two doors to the temple and
to the holy place.

24 And two doors to the doors, two
turning doors; two to the one door,
and two to the other door.

25 And being made upon them upon
the doors of the temple, cherubs and
palm trees, according to those being
upon the walls; and thick wood upon
the face of the porch from without.

26 And closed windows and the
palm trees from hence, and from thence,
upon the shoulders of the porch, and
the sides of the house, and upon the
thresholds,

CHAPTER XLII.

ND he will bring me forth to the
enclosure without, the way a way
of the north: and he will bring me to
the cell which was over against the sep-
arated place, and which was over against

the building to the north.
2 To the face of the length a hundred

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eubits the door of the north, and the
breadth, fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty which
were for the inner enclosure, and over
against the tesselated pavement which
was to the court without, an offset to
the face of an offset in threes.

4 And before the cells a walk, ten
cubits the breadth of the inside, a way
of one eubit; and their doors to the
north.

5 And the upper cells shortened, for

the offsets will prevail above these, from
the lower and from the middle of the
building.
6 For they were from threes, and no
pillars to them as the pillars of the en-
closures: for this it was contracted
from the lower and from the middle
from the earth.

7 And the wall that was without
over against the cells, the way of the
enclosure without to the face of the
cells, its length, fifty eubits.

8 For the length of the cells which
were to the enclosure without, fifty cu-
bits: and behold, at the face of the
temple a hundred eubits.

9 And from under to these cells the
entrance from the east, in his going to
them from the enclosure without.

10 In the breadth of the wall of the
enclosure the way of the east to the
separated place and to the face of the
building, the cells.

11 And the way before them as the
appearance of the cells which were the
way of the north, as the length so the
breadth: and all their goings out ac-
cording to their judgments and accord-
ing to their entrances.

12 And according to the doors of the
cells which were the way of the south,
a door in the head of the way, the way
in the face of the wall suitable the way
of the east in entering.

13 And he will say to me, The cells
of the north, the cells of the south
which are at the face of the separated
place, they the cells of the holy place,
where the priests shall eat there, that
draw near to Jehovah, the holies of ho-
lies: there shall they set the holies of
holies, and the gift, and the sin, and
the trespass ; for the place is holy,

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14 On the priests’ coming in, and
they shall go not forth from the hoy
place to the enclosure without, and there
they shall set their garments which
they shall serve in them; for they
are holy; they shall put on other gar-
ments, and approach to that for the
people.

15 And he finished the measure of
the inner house, and he brought me
forth the way of the gate whose face the
way of the east, and he measured it
round about, round about.

16 He measured the wind of the east
with the reed of measure, five hundred
reeds, by the reed of measure round
about.

17 He measured the wind of the north,
five hundred reeds by the reed of meas-
ure round about.

18 The wind of the south he meas-
ured five hundred reeds by the reed of
measure.

19 He turned to the wind of the sea,
he measured five hundred reeds by the
reed of measure.

20 ΤῸ the four winds he measured it:
the wall to it round about, round about,
the length five hundred, and the breadth
five hundred, to separate between the
holy to the profane.

CHAPTER XLIIL
ND he will cause me to go to the
gate, the gate whose face the way
of the east.

2 And behold, the glory of the God
of Israel came from the way of the east:
and his voice as the voice of many wa-
ters; and the earth was illuminated
from his glory.

3 And as the appearance of the vision
which 1 saw, as the vision which I saw
in my coming to destroy the city: and
the visions as the vision which I saw at
the river Chebar; and I shall fall upon
my face.

4 And the glory of Jehovah came
into the house the way of the gate
which its face the way of the east.

5 And the spirit will lift me up agd
bring me to the inner enclosure ; and
behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the
house.

6 And Τ shall hear him speaking to

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me from the house; and a man was
standing by me.

7 And he will say to me, Son of
man, the place of my throne, and the
place of the soles of my feet, where I
shall dwell there in the midst of the
sons of Israel forever, and the house of
Israel shall no more defile my holy
name, they and their kings by their
fornication, and by the corpses of their
kings in their heights.

8 In their giving their threshold with
my thresholds, and their door-post by
my door-posts, and the wall between
me and between them, and they defiled
my holy name with their abominations
which they did: and consuming them
in my anger.

9 Now they shall put far off their
fornication, and the corpses of their
kings, from me, and I dwelt in the
midst of them forever.

10 Thou son of man, announce to
the house of Israel, the house, and they
shall be ashamed of their iniquities:
and measure the structure.

11 And if they were ashamed of all
which they did, the form of the house
and its structure, and all its goings out
and all its comings in, and 81] 115 forms,
and all its laws, and all its forms, and
all its instructions, make known to
them: and write before their eyes, and
they shall watch all its instructions and
all its laws, and do them.

12 This the instruction of the house:
Upon the head of the mountain all its
bound round about, round about, holy
of holies. Behold, this the instruction
of the house.

18 And these the measures of the al-
tar by cubits: a cubit, a cubit and a
hand-breadth ; and the bosom, a cubit
and a eubit the breadth; and its bound
to its lip round about, one span: and
this the back of the altar.

14 And from the bosom of the earth
even to the lower terrace, two cubits,
and the breadth, one cubit; and from
the small terrace even to the great ter-
race, four cubits, and the breadth, the
cubit.

15 And the mountain of God, four
cubits; and from the lion of God and
upwards, four horns,

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16 And the lion of God, twelve the
length by twelve the breadth; four
square to its four squares.

17 And the terrace, fourteen the
length by fourteen the breadth, to its
four squares; and the bound round
about it half a eubit, and the bosom to
it, a cubit round about; and its steps
turning east.

18 And he will say to me, Son of
man, thus said the Lord Jehovah:
These the laws of the altar in the day
of making it to bring up a burnt-offer-
ing upon it, and to sprinkle upon it
blood.

19 And give to the priests the Le-
vites, those which are of the seed of
Zadok, drawing near to me, says the
Lord Jehovah, to save me, a bullock,
son of a cow, for sin.

20 And take from its blood and give
upon its four horns, and to the four
corners of the terrace, and to the border
round about: and cleanse it and expi-
ate it.

21 And take the bullock of the sm
and burn it in the appointed place of
the house from without to the holy
place.

22 And in the second day thou
shalt bring near a kid of the goats
complete for sim; and cleanse ye
the altar as they cleansed for the bul-
lock.

98 In thy finishing the cleansing thou
shalt bring a bullock, son of a cow,
blameless, and a blameless ram from
the sheep ;

24 And bring them near before Jeho-
vah, and the priests cast salt upon them,
and they brought them up a burnt-
offering to Jehovah.

25 Seven days thou shalt do a he
goat of sin for the day, and a bullock,
son of a cow, and a ram from the sheep,
blameless, shall they do.

26 Seven days and they expiated the
altar, and they cleansed it; and they
filled his hand.

27 And they finished the days, and
it was in the eighth day and forward,
the priests will do your burnt-offerings
upon the altar, and your peace: and I
received you into favor, says the Lord
Jehovah.

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CHAPTER XLIV.
ND he turned me back the way of
the gate of the holy place with-
out, looking to the east; and it was
shut.

2 And Jehovah will say tome; This
gate shall be shut, it shall not be open-
ed, and a man shall not come in through
it; because Jehovah God of Israel came
in through it and it was shut.

8 The prince, the prince, he shall sit
in it to eat bread before Jehovah; from
the way of the porch of the gate he will
go in, and from its way he went out.

4 And he will bring me the way of
the gate of the north to the face of the
house: and I shall see, and behold, the
glory of Jehovah filled the house of Je-
hovah: and I shall fall upon my face.

5 And Jehovah will say to me, Son
of man, set thy heart, and see with
thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all
which I speak to thee concerning all
the laws of the house of Jehovah, and
concerning all its instructions; and set
thy heart to the entering of the house,
and all the goings out of the holy place.

6 And thou shalt say to the perverse
to the house of Israel, Thus said the
Lord Jehovah: Enough for you of all
your abominations, O house of Israel.

7 In your bringing in the sons of the
stranger, uncircumcised of heart and
uncircumcised of flesh, to be in my ho-
ly place to profane it, my house, in
your bringing near my bread, the fat
and the blood, and they will break my
covenant by all your abominations.

8 And ye watched not the watches
of my holy place: and ye set for watch-
ing of my watches in my holy place for
yourselves.

9 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Every son of the stranger, uncireum-
eised of heart and uncircumcised of
flesh, shall not come in to my holy
place, to every scn of the stranger
which is the midst of the sons of Israel.

10 But the Levites who went far off
from me, in the going astray of Israel
Wo went astray from me after their
blocks; and they bare their iniquity.

11 And they were serving in my
holy place, reviewing at the gates of
the house, and serving the house: they

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shall slaughter the burnt-offering and
the sacrifice for the people, and they
shall stand before them to serve them.

12 Because they will serve them be-
fore their blocks, and they were to the
house of Israel for a stumbling block of
iniquity; for this I lifted up my hand
against them, says the Lord Jehovah,
and they bare their iniquity.

13 And they shall not come near to
me to be priest to me, to come near all
my holy things, to the holies of holies:
and they bare their shame, and their
abominations which they did.

14 And I gave them watchers of the
watches of the house for all its service,
and for all which shall be done in it.

15 And the priests the Levites, sons
of Zadok, who watched the watches of
my holy place in the going astray of
the sons of Israel from me, they shall
draw near to me to serve me, and they
stood before me to bring near to me the
fat and the blood, says the Lord Jeho-
vah :

16 They shall come into my holy
place, and they shall draw near to my
table, to serve me; and they watched
my watches.

17 And it was in their going in to
the gates of the inner enclosure they
shall put on linen garments; and wool
shall uot come up upon them in their
serving in the gates of the inner enclos-
ure, and the house.

18 And linen turbans shall be upon
their heads, and linen drawers shall be
upon their loins; and they shall not be
girded with sweat.

19 And in their going forth to the
enclosure without, to the enclosure to
the people, they shall lay off their gar-
ments which they serve in them, and
set them in the cells of the holy place,
and put on other garments; and they
shall not consecrate the people in their
garments.

20 And they shall not shave their
heads, and shearing, they shall shear
their heads.

21 And they shall not drink wine
every priest in their going in to the in-
ner enclosure.

22 And they shall not take a widow
and her thrust away, to them for

wives: but virgins from the seed of the
house of Israel, and a widow whith
shall be a widow from a priest, shall
they take.

23 And they shall point out tomy
people between the holy to the profane,
and they shall cause them to know -be-
tween the unclean to the clean.

24 And upon contention they shall
stand to judge in my judgments, and
they judged: and my instructions and
my laws in all my appointments, they
shall watch; and my Sabbaths shall
they consecrate.

25 And to a dead man they shall not
come to be defiled: but for father and
for mother, and for son and for daugh-
ter, for brother, for sister who was not
to a husband, they shall be defiled.

26 And after his cleansing they shall
number to him seven days.

27 And in the day of his going into
the holy place, to the inner court to
serve in the holy place, he shall bring
near his sin, says the Lord Jehovah.

28 And it was to them for an inher-
itance; Iam their inheritance: and a
possession ye shall not give to them in
Israel: I am their possession.

29 The gift and the sin and the tres-
pass shall they eat; and every devoted
thing in Israel shall be to them.

30 And the first of all the first-fruits
of all, and every oblation of all from
all your oblations, shall be for the
priests: and the first of your grouts ye
shall give to the priest to cause the
blessing to rest upon thy house.

31 Every carcass or torn from bird
and from cattle, the priests shall not eat

CHAPTER XLV.

ND in your causing the land to

fall in inheritance, ye shall lift up

an oblation to Jehovah, holiness from

the land: the length, five and twenty

thousand the length ; and the breadth,

ten thousand : it is holy in all its bounds
round about.

2 There shall be from this to the hol
place five hundred, by five hundred,
being square round about; and fifty
cubits the area to it round about.

8 And from this measure thou shalt
measure the length, five and twenty

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thousand, and the’ breadth, ten thous-
and: and in it shall be the holy place,
the holy of holies.

4 A holy place from the land this
shall be to the priests serving the holy
place drawing near to serve Jehovah:
and it was to thema place for their
houses and a holy place for the holy
place.

. 6 And five and twenty thousand the
length, and ten thousand the breadth,
shall be to the Levites serving the house
to them for a possession of twenty cells.

6 And ye shall give the possession of
the city, five thousand the breadth, and
the length, five and twenty thousand,
over against the oblation of the holy
pices it shall be to all the house of

srael. ,

τ 7 And for the prince from this, and
from this to the oblation of the holy
place, and to the possession of the city,
at the face of the oblation of the holy
place, and at the face of the possession
of the city from the side of the sea, the
sea, and from the side of the east to the
east: and the length over against one
of the portions from the bound of the
sea to the bound of the east.

_ 8 In the land it shall be to him for a
possession in Israel: and my princes
shall no more oppress my people; and
they shall give the land to the house of
Israel according to their tribes. :

9 Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Enough to you, O princes of Israel: re-
move ye violence and oppression, and
do judgment and justice, lift up your
expulsions from off my people, says the
Lord Jehovah.

10 A just balance, and a just ephah,
and a just bath, shall be to you.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be
‘one measure, for the bath to lift up the
tenth of the homer, and the ephah the
tenth of the homer: to the homer shall
it be from its measure.

. 12 And the shekel twenty gerahs:
twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels,
fifteen shekels the maneh shall be to

you.

3 18 This the oblation which ye shall
lift wp: the sixth of an ephah of an ho-
-mer of wheat, and give the sixth of an
-ephah of an homer of barley.

EZEKIEL XLV.

14. And the law of oil, the bath of oil,
the tenth of the ,bath from the cor, ten
baths the homer, for ten baths are the
homer.

15 And one sheep from the flock out
of two hundred, out of the well watered
region of Israel, for a gift and for the
burnt-offering, and for the peace to ex-
piate for them, says the Lord Jehovah.

16 All the people of the land shall
be τς this oblation for the prince in 18-
rael.

17 And for the prince it shall be the
burnt-offerings; and the gift, and the li-
bation, in the festivals and in the new
moons, and in the Sabbaths, and in all
the appointments of the house of Israel :
he shall do the sin, and the gift, and
the burnt-offering, and the peace to ex-
piate for the house of Israel.

18 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In
the first, in one to the month, thou shalt
take a bullock, son of a cow, blameless,
and cleanse the holy place:

19 And the priest took of the blood
of the sin and gave upon the door-posts
of the house, and upon the four corners
of the terrace, to the altar and upon the
door-posts of the gate of the inner en-
closure.

20 And thus shalt thou do in the
seventh to the month, from each going
astray and from the simple: and ye ex-
plated the house. ᾿

21 In the first, in the fourteenth day
in the month, the. passover shall be to
you the festival of seven days; unleay-
ened shall be eaten.

22 And in that day the prince did
for himself -and for all the people of the
land the bullock of sin.

23 And seven days of the festival he
shall do a burnt-offering to Jehovah,
seven bullocks and seven rams blame-
less for the day, seven days; and the
sina he goat of the goats for the day.

24 And the gift an ephah for a bul-
lock, and:an ephah for a ram shall he
do, and oil, an hin to the ephah.

25 In the seventh, in the fifteenth
day to the month, in the festival shall
he do according to these things, seven
days, according to the sin, according to
the burnt-offering, and according to the
gift and according to the oil. |

EZEKIEL XLVI.

CHAPTER XLVI.
HUS said the Lord Jehovah: The
gate of the inner enclosure turning
to the east shall be shut six days of
work; and in the day of the Sabbath it
shall be opened, and in the day of the
new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince went in the way of}

the porch of the gate from without, and
he stood by the door-posts of the gate,
and the priests did his burnt-offerings
and his peace, and he worshiped upon
the threshold of the gate, and he went
forth: and the gate shall not be shut
until the evening.

3 And the people of the land wor-
shiped 86 the door of that gate in the
Sabbaths and in the new moons, before
Jehovah.

4 And the burnt-offermg which the
prince shall bring near to Jehovah in
the day of the Sabbath, six blameless
lambs, and a blameless ram.

5 And the gift an ephah to a ram, a
gift for the lambs the giving of his
hand, and the oil, an hin to the ephah.

6 And in the day of the new moon,
a blameless bullock, the son of a cow,
and six lambs and a ram: they shall be
blameless.

7 And an ephah to the bullock and
an ephah to a ram shall he do the gift,
and to the lambs, according as his hand
shall attain, and the oil, an hin to the
ephah.

8 And in the going in of the prince
he shall go in the way of the poreh of
the gate, and in its way he shall go forth.

9 And in the going in of the people
of the land before Jehovah in the ap-
pointments, he going in the way of the
gate of the north to worship, shall come
forth the way of the gate of the south;
and he going in the way of the gate of
the south, shall come forth the way of
the gate of the north: he shall not turn
back the way which he came in it, but
he shall come forth opposite to it.

10 And the prince in the midst of
them, in their going in, shall go in;
and in their going forth, his going
forth.

11 And in the festivals and in the
appointments the gift shall be an ephah
10 a bullock, and an epbah fora ram,

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and for the lambs the giving of his
hand, and the oil, an hin to the ephah.

12 And when the prince shall do a
voluntary gift of a burnt-offering or
peace a voluntary gift to Jehovah, and
he opened to him the gate turning to
the east, and he did his burnt-offering
and his peace according as he will do in
the day of the Sabbath: and he went
forth and shut the gate after his going
forth.

13 And a blameless lamb the son of
his year thou shalt do for a burnt-offer-
ing for the day to Jehovah: in the
oe by the morning, shalt thou

ο it.

14 And thou shalt do the gift for it
in the morning by the morning, the
sixth of an ephah, and the oil, the third
of an hin, to sprinkle the fine flour; a
gift to Jehovah a law forever, continu-
ally.

15 And prepare ye the lamb and the
cift, and the oil, in the morning, by the
morning, a burnt-offering continually.

16 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: If
the prince shall give a gift to a man of
his sons, of his inheritance, it shall be to
his sons; this their possession by inher-
itance. |

17 And if he shall give a gift of his
inheritance to one of his servants, and
it was to him until the year of liberty ;
and it turned back to the prince: but his
inheritance his sons’ ; to them it shall be.

18 And the prince shall not take of
the inheritance of the people to oppress
them, from their possession; from: his
possession he shall cause his sons to in-
herit, so that my people shall not be
scattered each from his possession.

19 And’ he will bring me through
the entrance which is by the shoulder
of the gate, into the cells of the holy
place, to the priests, turning to the
north: and behold, there a place wpon
the two thighs of the sea.

20 And he will say to me, This the
place where the priests shall boil there
the trespass and the sin, where they
shall cook the gift; not to bring forth
to the enclosure without to consecrate
the people.

21 And he will bring me forth to the
enclosure without, and he will cause

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me to pass through to the four angles
of the enclosure; and behold, an en-
closure in an angle of the enclosure; an
enclosure in an angle of the enclosure.

22 In the four angles of the enclos-
ure, enclosures shut up, forty the length
and thirty the breadth: one measure to
these four angles.

23 And a wall round about in them,
round about to them four, and boiling
places made from under the walls round
about.

24 And he will say to me, These the
house of those boiling where those sery-
ing the house shall boil there the sacri-
fice of the people.

CHAPTER XLVII.
ND he will turn me back to the

Ἃ door of the house; and behold,
waters coming forth from under the
threshold of the house to the east: for
the face of the house eastward, and the
waters coming down from under from
the right shoulder of the house, from
the south to the altar.

2 And he will bring me forth the
way of the gate of the north; and he
will turn me round the way without to
the gate without the way looking to the
east; and behold, waters flowing from
the right shoulder.

3 And in the going forth of the man
eastward, and the line in his hand, and
he will measure a thousand by the cu-
bit, and he will cause me to pass through
the waters; the waters of the soles.

4 And he will measure a thousand,
and he will cause me to pass through
the waters; the waters of the knees.
And he will measure a thousand, and
cause me to pass through; the waters
of the loins. shite

5 And he will measure a thousand, a
torrent which I shall not be able to pass
through: for the waters rose, waters of
swimming, a torrent which shall not be
passed through.

6 And he will say to me, Didst thou
see, son of man? And he will cause
me to go, and he will turn me back
upon the lip of the torrent.

7 In my turning back, and behold,
upon the lip of the torrent very much
wood from here and from there.

EZEKIEL XLVI.

8 And he will say to me, These wa-
ters going forth to the circuit of the
east, and they went down to Arabia,
and came into the sea: being brought
forth to the sea and the waters were
healed.

9 And it was every living soul that
shall ereep, to all where the two tor-
rents shall come there, shall live: and
there was very many fish, because these
waters came there: and they shall be
healed and all lived where the torrent
shall come there.

10 And it was the fisherman shall
stand upon it from the fountain of the
kid, even to the fountain of the two
calves; they shall be a spreading for
nets; their fish shall be according to its
kind as the fish of the great sea very
many.

11 Its marshes and its pools and they
shall not be healed; they were given to
salt.

12 And upon the torrent shall come
up upon its lip, from hence and from
thence, every tree of food, its leaf shall
not fade, | its fruit shall not be con-
sumed: for its months it shall bear
early fruit, for its waters from the holy
place they come forth: and its fruits
were for food and its leaf for medicine.

13 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: This
the bound by which ye shall inherit
the land for the twelve tribes of Israel :
Joseph two portions.

14 And ye inherited it, each as his
brother: which I lifted up my hand to
give it to your fathers: and this land
fell to you in inheritance.

15 And this the bound of the Jand to
the side of the north from the great sea,
the way of Hethlon, to go to Zedad.

16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which
is between the bound of Damascus and
between the bound of Hamath; the
middle enclosure which is to the bound
of Hauran.

17 And the bound from the sea was
the enclosure of fountains, the bound of
Damascus, and the north northward,
and the bound of Hamath. And the
side of the north.

18 And the side of the east from be-
tween Hauran and from between Da-
mascus, and from between Gilead and

EZEKIEL XLVIIL

from between the land of Israel, Jordan,
from the bound to the east sea shall ye
measure: and the east side.

19 And the south side southward
from Tamar even to the waters of con-
tradiction in Kadesh, the torrent to the
the great sea: and the south side south-
ward.

20 And the side of the sea the great
sea from the bound, even to over
against the entrance of Hamath. This

the side of the sea.
"21 And ye divided that land to you
for the tribes of Israel.

22 And ye shall cause it to fall in
inheritance to you, and to the strangers
sojourning in the midst of you, who be-
gat sons in the midst of you: and they
were to you as the nation among the
sons of Israel; with you they shall fall
in the inheritance in the midst of the
tribes of Israel.

23 And it was in the tribe which the
stranger sojourned with it there shall
ye give his inheritance, says the Lord
Jehovah.

CHAPTER XLVIIL

ND these the names of the tribes:
ΓᾺ From the extremity north to the
hand of the way of Hethlon to go to
Hamath, the enclosure of the fountain,
the bound of Damascus northward to
the hand of Hamath, and they were to

him the east side, the sea, Dan, one.

2 And upon the bound of Dan from
the side east even to the side of the sea,
Asher, one.

3 And upon the bound of Asher from
the side east even to the side of the sea,
Naphtali, one.

4 And by the bound of Naphtali from
the side east even to the side of the sea,
Manasseh, one.

5 And upon the bound of Manasseh
from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Ephraim, one.

6 And upon’the bound of Ephraim
to the side east, even to the side of the
sea, Reuben, one.

7 And upon the bound of Reuben
from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Judah, one.

8 And upon the bound of Judah
from the side east even to the side of

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the sea, shall be the oblation which ye
shall lift up, five and twenty thousand
the breadth, and the length as one of
the portions from the side east, even to
the side of the sea: and the holy place
was in the midst of it.

9 The oblation which ye shall lift up
to Jehovah, the length, five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth, ten thousand.

10 And to these shall be the holy ob-
lation to the priests; the north, five and
twenty thousand, and to the sea, the
breadth ten thousand, and eastward, the
breadth ten thousand, and to the south,
the length five and twenty thousand,
and the holy place of Jehovah was in
the midst of it.

11 To the priests being consecrated
of the sons of Zadok, who watched my
watches, who went not astray in the
going astray of the sons of Israel, as the
Levites went astray.

12 And the oblation from the obla-
tion of the land shall be to them holy
of holies to the bound of the Levites.

13 And the Levites over against the
beund of the priests, five and twenty
thousand the length, and the breadth
ten thousand: all the length five and
twenty thousand, and the breadth ten
thousand.

14 And they shall not sell from it,
and it shall not be exchanged, and he
shall not cause the first-fruits to pass
away, for it is holy to Jehovah.

15 And the five thousand being left
in the breadth upon the face of the five
and twenty thousand, this profane to
the city for dwelling and for an area,
and the city was in the midst of it.

16 And these its measures: the side
north, five hundred and four thousand,
and the south side five hundred and
four thousand, and from the side east
five hundred and four thousand, and
the side of the sea, five hundred and
four thousand.

17 And the area was to the city
northward, fifty and two hundred, and
south, fifty and two hundred, and east,
fifty and two hundred, and the sea,
fifty and two hundred.

18 And the remainder in the length
over against the oblation of holiness,
ten thousand eastward, and ten thou,

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sand to the sea: and it was over against
the oblation of the holy place; and its
produce was for bread to the servants
of the city.

19 And serving the city they shall
serve it from all the tribes of Israel.

20 All the oblation five and twenty
thousand by five and twenty thousand :
four square ye shall lift up the oblation
of holiness for a possession of the
city.

21 And the remainder to the prince,
from hence and from thence to the ob-
lation of the holy place, and to the
possession of the city at the face of five
and twenty thousand of the oblation
even to the bound eastward, and the
sea, upon the face of five and twenty
thousand upon the bound of the sea,
over against the portions to the prince:
and it was the oblation of holiness; and
the holy place of the house in the midst
of it.

22 From the possession of the 1,6:
vites from the possession of the city, m
the midst of that to the prince, it shall
be between the bound of Judah and be-
tween the bound of Benjamin, to the
prince it shall be.

23 And the rest of the tribes, from
the side east even to the side of the sea,
Benjamin, one.

24 And upon the bound of Benjamin
from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Simeon, one.

25 And upon the bound of Simeon
from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Issachar, one.

26 And upon the bound of Issachar

HOSEA 1.

from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Zebulon, one.

27 And upon the bound of Zebulon
from the side east even to the side of
the sea, Gad, one.

28 And upon the bound of Gad at
the side south southward, the bound
shall be from Tamar, the waters of con-
tradiction of Kadesh, the torrent to the
great sea.

29 This the land which ye shall
cause to fall for inheritance to the
tribes of Israel, and these their portions,
says the Lord Jehovah.

30 And these the goings out of the
city from the side north, five hundred
and four thousand the measure. ;

31 And the gates of the city for the
names of the tribes of Israel, three
gates north; the gate of Reuben, one;
the gate of Judah, one; the gate of
Levi, one.

82 And to the side east, five hun-
dred and four thousand: and three
gates; the gate of Joseph, one; the
gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan,
one ;

33 And the side south, five hundred
and four thousand the measure: and
three gates; the gate of Simeon, one;
the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of
Zebulon, one.

34 The side of the sea five hundred
and four thousand; three gates; the
gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher,
one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

35 Round about eighteen thousand :
and the name of the city from the day,
Jehovah there.

EOS Ta

CHAPTER I.

HE word of Jehovah which was to
Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings
of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam,
son of Joash, king of Israel.

2 The beginning of the word of Je-

hhovah by Hosea, And Jehovah will’

say to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of
fornications and children of fornica-

tions; for the land committing fornica,
tion, will commit fornication from after
Jehovah. i

3 And he will go and take Gomer,

daughter of Diblaim ; and she will con.
ceive and bring forth to him a son.

HOSEA II. |

4 And Jehovah will say to him, Call
his name Jezreel; for yet a little and 1
reviewed the bloods of Jezreel upon the
house of Jehu, and I caused the king-
-dom of the house of Israel to cease.

5 And it was in that day and I broke
the bow of Israel in the valley of Jez-
reel.

6 And she will yet conceive and
bring forth a daughter. And he will
say to him, Call-her name, Not being
compassionated: for I will no more add
to compassionate the house of Israel ;
for taking away, I will take them
away.

7 And I will compassionate the house
‘of Judah, and I saved them by Jeho-
vah their God, and I will not save them
by bow and by sword, and by battle,
by horses and by horsemen.

8 And she will wean the Not being

compassionated, and she will ἐς conceive
and bring forth a son.

9 And he will say, Call his name, Not
my people: for ye are not my people,

‘and I will not be to you.

CHAPTER IL

ND the number of the sons of Is-

rael was as the sand of the sea

which shall not be measured and shall

not be numbered: and it was in the

lace which it shall be-said to them,

ve are not my people, and it shall be

said to them, Ye the sons of the living
God.

2 And the sons of Judah and the
sons of Israel were gathered together.
and they appointed to them one head,
‘and they came up out of the land: for
great the day of Jezreel.

ὃ Say ye to your brethren, My peo-
ple; and to your sisters, Being compas-
- slonated.

4 Contend with your mother, contend
Τ᾿ for she is not my wife, and I not

er husband: for she shall put away
her fornications from her face, and her
-adulteries from between. her breasts ;

5 Lest I shall strip her naked, and I
set her as the day of her birth, and I
set her as a desert, and I set her asa
land of dryness, and I slew her with
ae

- 6 And her sons I will not compas-

sionate, for they are the sons of fornica-
tions.

7 For their 1 committed forni-
cation: she conceiving them acted
shamefully: for she said, I will go after
those loving me giving me my bread
and my water, my wool and my linen,
mine oil and my drinks.

8 Therefore, behold me hedging in
thy way with thorns, and I walled a
wall.and she shall not find her beaten
paths.

9 And she pursued those loving Hei,
and she shall not overtake them; and
she sought them and she shall not ‘find :
and she said, I will go and turn back
to my former husband, for it was well
to me then more than now.

10 And she: knew not that I gave to
her grain, and new wine, and new oil,
and 1 multiplied silver to her, and gold
they made for Baal.

11 For this I will turn back and take
away my grain in its time, and my new
Wine in its appointment, and I todl
away my wool and my hnen to: covér
her nakedness.

12 And now will I uncover her wick-
edness before the eyes of those loving
her, and a man shall not deliver her
from my hand.

13 And I caused all her rejoicing to
00886, her festival and her new moon,
and her Sabbath and all her appojnt-
ment.

14 And I destroyed her vine and her
fig tree, of which she said, They ate
wages to me which those loving me
gave to me: and I set them for a forest,
and the beasts of the field ate them. τ"

15 And I reviewed upon her the days
of the Baals, which she will burn in-
cense to them, and she will be decked
with her earring and ‘her necklace, and
she will: go after those lovi ing her, atid
she forgat me, says Jehovah.

16 For this, behold, I entice her, and
I caused her to go into the desert, and
I spake to her heart.

17 And 1 gave to her her 0
from thence, and the yalley of Achor
for a door of hope: and she was hum- °
bled there as the days of her youth and
as the days of her coming up out of the
land of Egypt.

584 HOSEA

18 And it was in that day, says Je-
hovah, thou shalt call me, My husband ;
and thou shalt no more call to me, My
Lord.

19 And I put away the names of the
Baals out of her mouth, and they shall
no more be remembered by their name.

20 And I cut out for them a coye-
nant in that day with the beasts of the
tield, and with the birds of the heavens,
and the creeping things of the earth:
and I will break the bow and the sword
and the battle out of the land, and I
caused them to he down confidently.
21 And I betrothed thee to me for-
ever; and I betrothed thee to me in
justice and in judgment, and in kind-
ness and in compassions.

.22 And I betrothed ,thee to me in
faithfulness, and thou knewest Jehovah.

| 23 And it was in that day, I will an-
swer, says Jehovah, I will answer the
heavens and they shall answer the earth ;

24 And the earth shall answer the
grain and the new wine and the new
oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.

25 And I sowed her to me in the
earth; and I compassionated her Not
being compassionated; and I said to
Not my people, Thou my people; and
they will say, My God.

ἢ CHAPTER IIL
‘A ND Jehovah will say to me, Yet
go, love a woman loving evil and

an adulteress, as Jehovah loves the sons
of Israel, and they took to other gods
and love raisin-cakes.

> 2 And 1 shall buy her to me for fif-
teen of silver, and an homer of barley,
and.a measure of barley :

3 And saying to her, Many days
thou shalt dwell with me; and thou
shalt not commit fornication, and thou
shalt not be for a man: and also 1 am
for thee.

4 For many days shall the sons of
Israel dwell, not a king and not a chief
and not a sacrifice and not a pillar and
not one ephod and teraphim :

| 8 Afterward the sons of Israel shall

> turn back and they sought Jehovah
their God, and David their king; and
-they trembled at Jehovah and at his
goodness in the last of the days.

LIL, IV.

CHAPTER IV.
EAR the word of Jehovah, ye
sons of Israel; for a contention
to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the
land, for no truth and no kindness and
no knowledge of God in the land.

2 Swearing and lying, and breaking
in pieces, and stealing and committing
adultery, they broke forth; and bloods
touched upon bloods.

3 For this the land shall mourn, and
every one in it languished with the
beasts of the field and with the fowls of
the heavens; and also the fish of the
sea shall be taken away. |

4 But aman shall not contend, and
he shall not admonish a man: and my
people as contending with the priest. |

5 And thou wert weak in the day,
and the prophet also was weak with thee
by night, and I destroyed thy mother.

6 My people were cut off from not
knowing: because thou didst reject
knowledge and I will reject thee from
being priest tome: and thou wilt forget
the instructions of thy God; I will also
forget thy sons, also I.

7 As they multiplied so they sinned
against me: I will change their glory
into dishonor.

8 They will eat up the sin of my peo-
ple, and they will lift up their soul to
their iniquity.

9 And it was as the people so the
priest: and I reviewed upon them their
way; and their doings I will turn back
to them.

10 For they ate and they shall not
be satisfied, and they committed forni-
cation and they shall not spread abroad :
for with Jehovah they left off to watch.

11 Fornication and wine and new
wine will take away the heart,

12 My people will ask in their coun- |
sel, and with their rod they will an-
nounce to them: for the spirit of forni-
cations caused to err, and they will com-
mit fornication from under their God.

18 Upon the heads of the mountains
they will sacrifice, and upon the hills
they will burn incense, under the oak
and the white poplar and the terebinth,
because its shadow was good: for this
your daughters will commit fornication,
and your brides shall commit adultery.

HOSEA V., VL

14 I will not review over your
daughters when they shall commit for-
nication, and over your brides when
they shall commit adultery: for they
will separate themselves with harlots,
and with prostitutes will they sacrifice:
and the people will not understand,
they shall be thrown down.

15 If thou Israel commit fornication
Judah shall not transgress; and ye
shall not come to Gilgal, and ye shall
not go up to the house of vanity, and
ye shall not swear, Jehovah lives.

16 For .as a stubborn heifer Israel
was stubborn: now will Jehovah feed
them as a lamb in a wide place.

17 Ephraim is joined to images:
leave him.

18 Their drinking bout departed:
committing fornication, they committed
fornication: they loved, give ye shame
upon her shields.

19 The wind bound her up in her
wings, and they shall be ashamed of
their sacrifices.

CHAPTER V.

EAR this, ye priests, and attend,

ye house of Israel, and give ear,

ye house of the king; for the judgment

is to you, because ye were ἃ snare to

the watch tower and a net stretched out
upon Tabor.

2 And the rowers made deep the

slaughter, and I a correction to them all.

3 1 knew Ephraim and Israel were
not hid from me: for now thou didst
commit fornication, O Ephraim ; Israel
was defiled.

4 They will not give their doings to
turn back to their God, for the spirit of
fornications is in the midst of them, and
they knew not Jehovah.

5 And the pride of Israel was hum-
bled in his face, and Israel and Ephraim
shall be weak in their iniquity ; Judah
also being weak with them.

6 With their sheep and with their
oxen they will go to seek Jehovah;
and they shall not find; he withdrew
himself from them.

7 Against Jehovah they acted faith-
lessly: for they begat strange sons:
now shall the new moon consume them
with their portions.

585,

8 Strike the horn upon the hill, and
the trumpet upon the height: make a
loud noise at the house of vanity after
thee, O Benjamin.

9 Ephraim shall be for desolation in
the day of chastisement: in the tribes of
Israel 1 made known the faithful thing.

10 The princes of Judah were as
they removing the bound: upon them
will I pour out my wrath as water.

11 Ephraim was oppressed, he was
broken in judgment because he was
willing to go after the command.

12 And I as a moth to Ephraim, and
as rottenness to the house of Judah.

18 And Ephraim will see his disease
and Judah his wound, and Ephraim
will go to Assur, and he will send to
king Jareb: and he will not be able to
heal for you, and he will not remove
from you the wound.

14 For 1 as the lion to Ephraim, and
as the young lion to the house of Ju-
dah: I, I will rend and goaway; I will
take away and none delivering.

15 1 will go and turn back to my
place, even till when they shall be
guilty, and they sought my face: in
straitness to them they will turn to me.

CHAPTER VIL
Ge ye and we will turn back to Je-
hovah: for he rent and he will
heal us; he will strike, and he will
bind us up.

2 He will revive us after two days:
in the third day he will raise us up and
we shall live before him.

3 And we shall know, we shall pur-
sue to know Jehovah: as the morning
his going forth was prepared; and he
shall come as the rain to us, as the lat-
ter rain, the early rain of the earth.

4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephra-
im? What shall I do to thee, O Ju-
dah? and your kindness as the cloud
of the morning, and as the dew being
early went away.

5 For this I cut off by the prophets;
I slew them by the words of my mouth:
and thy judgments the light going
forth.

6 For I delighted in mercy and not
sacrifice; and the knowledge of God
more than burnt-offerings.

7 And they as man passed by the
covenant: there they acted faithlessly
against me.

8 Gilead a city working vanity, de-
frauding from blood.

9 As troops waiting for a man, the
company of priests will break in pieces
the way with the shoulder: for they
did wickedness.

10 In the house of Israel I saw some-
‘thing horrible: there the fornications
to Ephraim, Israel was defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, he set a harvest
for thee in my turning back the captiv-
ity of my people.

CHAPTER VIL

\ ₪ 1 168160 to Israel, the iniquity

of Ephraim was uncovered, and
the evils of Shomeron: for they did
falsehood, and the thief will come in,
and the troop invaded without.

2 And they will not say to their
heart, I remembered all their evil: now
their doings surrounded them; they
were before my face.

3 By their eyil they will gladden the
king, and the chiefs by their false-
-hoods.

4 All of them committing adultery,
as an oven set on fire from baking;
he will cease from raising from knead-
ing the dough till its leavening.

5 The day of our king the chiefs be-
gan anger from wine; stretching forth
his hand with mockers.

6 For they drew near their heart as
a furnace in their lying in wait: all the
night their baker slept; in the morning
it burnt as the fire of flame.

7 They were all hot as a furnace, and
they consumed their judges; all their
kings fell: none among them calling to
“me.

8 Ephraim will mingle himself among
my people; Ephraim was a cake not
turned.

9 Strangers consumed his strength,
and he knew not: also grayness of hair
was sprinkled upon him, and he knew
not.

10 And the pride of Israel was hum-
‘bled in his face: and they turned not
-back to Jehovah their God, and sought
him not in all this.

HOSEA VIL, VIIL

11 And Ephraim will be as an en-
ticed dove, not a heart: they called
Egypt, they went to Assur.

12 When they shall go I will spread
my net upon them; as birds of the
heavens I will bring them down; I will
correct them when hearing to their as-
sembly. .

13 Wo! to them, for they fled from
me: destruction to them! because they
transgressed against me: and I will re-
deem them and they spake falsehoods
against me.

14 And they cried not to me in their
heart, for they ‘shall wail upon their
beds: for corn and new wine they will
assemble themselves together ; they will
turn aside against me.

15 And I corrected and strengthened
their arms, and they will purpose evil
against me.

16 They will turn back not to the
Highest: they were as a bow of deceit:
their chiefs shall fall by the sword from
the wrath of their tongue: this their de-
rision in the land of Kgypt.

CHAPTER VIIL
fa trumpet to thy mouth: as an
eagle upon the house of Jehovah,
because they passed by my covenant
and they transgressed against my laws.

2 Israel shall cry to me, My God, we
knew thee.

3 Israel rejected the good: the ene-
my shall pursue him.

4 They made kings, and not from
me: and they made princes, and I knew
not: their silver and their gold they
made to them images to cut off.

5 Thy calf rejected, O Shomeron;
mine anger was kindled against them:
how long shall they not be able to be
clean ?

6 For from Israel, and this workman
made it, and it is not God: for the calf
of Shomeron shall be broken in pieces.

7 For they shall sow the wind, and
they shall reap the whirlwind: no stalk
to it: the sprout shall not make flour:
perhaps it will make, strangers will
swallow it down. .

8 Israel was swallowed down: now
they were among the nations as a vessel

-|no delight in it.

HOSEA IX, א‎

9 For they went up to Assur, Ephra-
im a wild ass alone to himself: they
hired those loving.

10 Also if they will hire among the
nations, now will I gather them, and
shall they be weak a little from the lift-
ing up of the king of the princes.

11 Because Ephraim muitiplied altars
to sin, altars were to him to sin.

12 I will write to him his multitude
of my instructions; they were reckoned
as a strange thing.

13 The sacrifices of my gifts they will
sacrifice flesh, and they will eat; Jeho-
vah delighted not in them; now will
he remember their iniquity, and he will
review their sins: they shall turn back
to Egypt.

14 And Israel will forget him mak-
ing him, and he will build temples;
and Judah multiplied fortified cities :
and I sent a fire upon his cities and it
will consume its palaces.

CHAPTER IX.
HOU shalt not rejoice, O Israel ;
exult not as the peoples: for thou
didst commit fornication from thy God ;
thou didst love a gift upon all the
threshing-floors of grain.

2 The threshing-floor and the wine-
press shall not feed them, and the new
wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in the land of
Jehovah ; and Ephraim turned back to
Egypt, and in Assur they shall eat the
unclean thing.

4 They shall not pour out wine to
Jehovah, and they shall not be pleas-
ant to him: their sacrifices as the bread
of sorrows to them ; all eating it shall be
defiled: for their bread for their soul
shall not come in to the house of Jeho-
vah.

5 What will ye do for the day of ap-
pointment, and for the day of the festi-
yal of Jehovah ?

6 For ‘behold, they went from des-
truction: Egypt shall gather them to-
gether; Memphis shall bury them: the
desire for their silver, the prickly weed
shall possess them: the thorn in their
tents.

7 The days of oversight came, the
days of recompense came; Israel knew:

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‘the prophet is foolish, the man of the

spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine
iniquity and great destruction.

8 The watchman of Ephraim with
God: the prophet the snare of a fowler
upon all his ways; destruction in the
house of his God.

9 They made deep, they were cor-
rupted as the days of the hill: he will
remember their iniquity, he will re-
view their sins.

10 I found Israel as grapes in the de-
sert; as the first fruit in the fig-tree in
her beginning I saw your fathers: they
went to Baal-Peor, and they will sepa-
rate themselves to shame, and _ their
abominable things will be according to
their love.

11 Ephraim shall fly away as a bird,
their glory of birth and of the womb
and of conception.

12 But if they shall bring up their
sons and I bereayed them from man:
but also, wo to them in my departing
from them.

13 Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was
planted in a habitation: and Ephraim
to bring forth his sons to him slaying.

14 Give to them, O Jehovah: what
wilt thou give? give to them a miscar-
rying womb, and dry breasts.

15 All their wickedness in Gilgal:
for there I hated them: for the evil of
their doings I will drive them out from
my house, I will not add to love them:
all their chiefs are turning away.

16 Ephraim’ was smitten, their root
was dried up, they shall not make fruit:
also if they shall bring forth, and I de-
stroyed the desires of their womb.

17 God will reject them, for they
heard not to him: and they will be
wandering about among the nations.

CHAPTER X.
oe an empty vine, he will place
fruit to himself: according to the
multitude to his fruit he multiplied to
his altars; according to the goodness of
his land they made good pillars.

2 Their heart was divided ; now shall
they be guilty: he will break down
their altars, he shall lay waste their im-
ages,

3 For now they will say, No king to

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us because we feared not Jehovah ; and
what shall the king do to us?

4 They spake words swearing false-
hood, cutting out a covenant: and judg-
ment broke forth as the head upon the
furrows of the field.

5 For the calves of the house of van-
ity they shall fear dwelling in Shome-
ron: for his people mourned over it,
and his priests will exult over it, for its
glory, for it was removed from it.

6 Also it shall be brought to Assur
a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall
take shame, and Israel shall be ashamed
of his counsel.

7 Shomeron, her king was cut off as
chiefs upon the face of the waters.

8 And the heights of vanity were de-
stroyed, the sin of Israel: the thorn and
weeds shall come up upon their altars;
and they said to the mountains, Cover
us; and to the hills, Fall upon us.

9 From the days of the hill thou
didst sin, O Israel: there they stood:
the battle in the hill against the sons of
iniquity shall not overtake them.

10 In my coming and 1 shall correct
them, and the peoples shall be gathered
together against them in their being
bound to their two sins.

11 And Ephraim a heifer being
taught, loving to tread out the grain,
and I passed over upon the good of her
neck: I will cause Ephraim to ride;
Judah shall be silent, and Jacob shall
be strong to him,

12 Sow to yourselves for justice, reap
ye for the mouth of kindness; break
up to you the fallow ground: and the
time to seek Jehovah till he shall come
and cast justice upon you.

13 Ye ploughed injustice, ye reaped
iniquity ; ye ate the fruit of falsehood:
for thou didst trust in thy way in the
multitude of thy strong ones.

14 And an uproar arose among thy

eople, and all thy fortifications shall
laid waste, as Shalman laid waste the
house of the ambush of God in the day
of battle: the mother was dashed in
pieces upon the sons.

15 Thus did the house of God to you
from the face of the evil of your evil:
in the morning the king of Israel being
cut off, was cut off,

HOSEA XI, XIL

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
HEN Israel was a child, and I
loved him, and I called for my
son out of Egypt.

2 They called to them, thus they
went from them: they will sacrifice to
the Baals, and to the carved images
they will burn incense.

3 And I taught Ephraim to walk,
taking them by their arms; and they
knew not that I healed them.

4 I will draw them with the cords of
man, with the bands of love: and I
will be to them as those lifting up the
yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will
gently give them to eat.

5 He shall not turn back to the land
of Egypt, and Assur shall be his king,
for they refused to turn back.

6 And the sword was polished in his
cities, and it consumed his branches,
and devoured from their counsels.

7 And my people are bent to turning
away from me: and they will call to-
gether to the Most High; he will not
exalt them,

8 How shall I give thee up, O Eph-
raim? Shall I deliver thee over, O Is-
rael? How shall I give thee as the
earth? Shall I set thee as 20087 My
heart was turned upon me; my griev-
ings were kindled together.

9 I will not do the burning of mine
anger, I will not turn back to destroy
Ephraim: for I am God, and not a
man; the Holy One in the midst of
thee: and 1 will not come into the city,

10 They shall go after Jehovah: as
a lion shall he roar: for he shall roar,
and the sons of the waters shall trem-
ble.

11 They shall tremble as a bird out
of Kgypt, and as a dove out of the land
of Assur: and I caused them to.dwell
in their houses, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER XII.
PHRAIM surrounded me with
falsehood, and the house of Israel
with deceit: and Judah even ruled with
God, and was faithful with the holy
ones.
2 Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he
pursued the east wind: all the day he
multiplied falsehood and destruction ;

HOSEA XIIL

and they will cut out a covenant with
Assur, and oil will be brought to
Egypt. י‎ ε

8 And a contention to Jehovah with
Judah, and to review Jacob according
to his ways; he will turn back to him
according to his doings.

4 In the belly he circumvented his
brother, and by his strength he was a
leader with God.

5 And he will be a leader to the mes-
senger, and he will prevail: he wept,
and he will make supplication to him:
in the house of God he will find him,
and there he will speak with him.

6 And Jehovah God of armies, Jeho-
vah his remembrance.

7 And thou, in thy God thou shalt
turn back: watch mercy and judgment,
and wait always for thy God.

8 Canaan in his hand, the balances of
deceit: he loved to oppress.

9 And Ephraim will say, Surely 1
became rich, I found to me wealth: all
my labors shall not be found to me in-
iquity which was sin.

10 And I am Jehovah thy God from
the land of Egypt; I will even cause
thee to dwell in tents as in the days of
the appointment.

11 And I spake by the prophets, and
I multiplied the vision, and by the
hand of the prophets I will use simili-
tudes.

12 If Gilead nothing? Surely they
were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed
oxen; also their altars as heaps upon
the furrows of the field.

13 And Jacob will flee to the field of
Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife,
and for a wife he watched.

14 And by a prophet Jehovah
brought trp Israel out of Egypt, and by
a prophet he was preserved.

15 Ephraim provoked bitternesses,
and bloods shall fly swiftly upon him,
and his reproach shall his Lord turn
back to him.

CHAPTER XIII.
A CCORDING to the word Eph-
raim being terrified he was lifted
up in Israel; and he will transgress in
Baal and die.
2 And now they will add to sin, and

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they will make to them a molten image
of their silver, in their understanding
images the work of artificers all of it:
they saying to them, The men sacrific-
ing shall kiss the calves.

3 For this they shall be as the cloud
of the morning, and as the early dew
going away; as the chaff will be driven
from the threshing-floor on the wind,
and as the smoke from the chimney.

4 And Iam Jehovah thy God from
the land of Egypt, and thou shalt not
know a God except me: and none sav-
ing but me.

5 I knew thee in the desert, in the
land of thirst.

6 According to their pasture, and
they will be satiated; they were satiat-
ed, and their heart will be lifted up: for
this they forgat me.

7 And I will be to them as a lion:
as a panther upon the way I will look
around. τ

8 I will fall upon them as a bear be-
reaved, and 1 will rend the enclosure of
their heart, and devour them there as a
lion: the beast of the field shall cleave
them asunder.

9 O Israel, thou didst destroy thy-
self; but in me in thy help.

10 Now will I be thy king, and he
shall save thee in all thy cities, and thy
judges of whom thou saidst, Thou shalt
give to me a king and princes.

11 I will give to thee a king in mine
anger, and I will take away in my
wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephraim was
bound up; his sin was concealed.

13 The pains of her bringing forth
shall come to him: he a son not wise ;
for now he shall not stand in the break-
ing forth of sons.

14 From the hand of hades will I re-
deem them; from death will I ransom
them: I will be thy words, O death, I
will be thy cutting off, O hades: con-
solation will be hid from mine eyes.

15 If he shall bear fruit in the midst
of his brethren, the east wind shall
come, the wind of Jehovah came up
from the desert, and his fountain shall
be dried up, and he shall lay waste his
place of fountains: he shall plunder
the treasure of all vessels of desire.

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CHAPTER XIV.

JOEL I.

ΘΙ will be as the dew to Israel: he

eee shall be guilty, for|shall blossom as the lily and strike his
she rebelled against her God: by | roots as Lebanon.

the sword shall they fall: their infants
shall be dashed in pieces, and they hay-
ing conceived shall be cleft asunder.

2 Turn back, O Israel, even to Jeho-
vah thy God, for thou wert weak in
thine iniquity.

3 Take with you words and turn back
to Jehovah: say to him, Thou wilt take
away all iniquity, and take good: and
we will requite the fruits of our lips.

4 Assur will not save us; we will
not ride upon a horse, and we will no
more say, Our God, to the work of our
hands, for in thee the orphan shall be
compassionated.

5 1 will heal their turning away, I
loved them largely: for mine anger
turned away from him.

7 His sprouts shall go, and _ his
strength shall be as the olive tree, and
the odor to him as Lebanon.

8 They sitting in his shadow shall
turn back; they shall live upon the
grain, and they shall blossom as the
vine: his remembrance as the wine of
Lebanon.

9 Ephraim: What to me yet to im-
ages? I humbled, and I will regard
him: I as the green cypress. From
me thy fruit was found.

10 Who being wise, and he shall un-
derstand these things? and knowing,
and he shall know them? for the ways
of Jehovah are straight, and the just
shall go in them: and they transgress-
ing shall be weak in them.

JOEL.

CHAPTER I.
HE word of Jehovah which was to
Joel son of Pethuel.

2 Hear this, ye old men, and give
ear, all ye inhabitants of the earth.
Was this in your days, and if in the
days of your fathers ?

8 Concerning it recount to your sons,
and your sons to their sons, and their
sons to another generation.

4 The residue of the creeping 10-
cust the common locust ate; and the
residue of the common locust the feeder
ate; and the residue of the feeder the
devourer ate.

5 Awake, ye intoxicated, and weep ;
and wail, all ye drinking wine, on ac-
count of the new wine, for it was cut off
from your mouth,

6 For a nation came up upon my
land, strong, and no number; his teeth
the teeth of a lion, and a biter’s teeth of
the lioness to him.

7 He set my vine for destruction, and
my fig tree for breaking: he stripped off
its covering and cast away; and _ its
shoots were whitened.

8 Wail as the virgin girded with sack-
cloth for the husband of her youth.

9 The gift was cut off and the liba-
tion from the house of Jehovah;
mourn, ye priests serving Jehovah.

10 The field was laid waste, the land
mourned ; for the grain was laid waste,
the new wine was dried up, the new
oil languished.

11 The husbandmen were ashamed;
wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat
and for the barley, for the harvest of
the field perished.

12 The vine was dried up, and the
fig tree languished; the pomegranate,
also the palm tree and the apple tree;
all the trees of the field were dried up,
for joy was dried up from the sons of
man.

13 Be ye girded and lament, ye
priests: wail, ye, serving the altar:
come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye
serving God: for the gift and the liba-
tion were withheld from the house of
your God.

14 Consecrate a fast, call an assembly,
gather together the old men, all the in-

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habitants of the land to the house of|the wall; and they shall go each in his

Jehovah your God, and ery to Jehovah.

15 Alas! for the day: for the day of
_Jehovah is near, and as destruction
from the Almighty shall it come.

16 Was not the food cut off before
our eyes, from the house of our God,
joy and gladness ?

17 The kernels died beneath the
clods, the treasures were laid waste, the
garners were pulled down, for the grain
was dried up.

18 How the beasts erdaned! the
-herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to
them; also the flocks of sheep were laid
waste.

19 To thee, O Jehovah, will I call:
for a fire consumed the habitations of
the desert, and the flame burned all the
trees of the field.

20 Also the beasts of the field will
look up to thee: for the channels of
waters were dried up, and the fire de-
voured the habitations of the desert.

CHAPTER II.
LANG ye the trumpet in Zion,
shout in my holy mountain: all
the inhabitants of the land shall be
moved, for the day of Jehovah is com-
ing, for it is near.

2 A day of darkness and of thick
‘darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as
the morning spread upon the mount-
ains: great ‘and strong people; the like
to him was not from forever, and after
him there shall not be added eyen to
the years of generation and generation.

3 Before him a fire devoured, and
after him a flame shall burn; the land
as the garden of Eden before him, and
after him a desert of desolation; and
also there was no escaping to him.

4 His appearance as the appearance
of horses; and as horsemen so shall
they run.

5 As the voice of chariots upon the
heads of the mountains they shall leap,
as the voice of a flame of fire devouring
the stubble, as a strong people set in
order for battle.

6 From his 6 peoples shall be
pained: all faces gathered a glow.

7 They shall run as strong men; as
men of war they shall come up upon

Ways; they shall not change their paths.

8 And they shall not thrust a man
his brother ; they shall go a man in his
high way : and in the midst of the j jav-
elin shall they fall, they shall not be
cut in pieces.

9 In the city they shall run up and
down ; on the wall shall they run, into
the houses they shall come up, through
the windows shall they come in asa thief

10 The earth was moved before his
face; the heavens trembled: the sun
and the moon were darkened, and the
stars took away their shining:

11 And Jehovah gave his voice be-
fore the face of his strength: for exceed-
ingly great his camp, and strong he do-
ing his word: for great the day of Je-
hovah, and exceedingly terrible; and
who shall endure it?

12 And also now, says Jehovah, Turn
back even to me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping and
with wailing.

13 And rend your heart and not your
garments, and turn back to Jehovah
your God: for he is merciful and com-
passionate, slow of anger and of much
kindness, and lamenting on account of
the evil.

14 Who shall know he will turn
back, and lamenting and leaving a bless-
ing after him, a gift anda libation to
Jehovah your 'God?

15 Clang ye the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast, call a restraining.

16 Gather the people, consecrate the
convocation, assemble the old men,
gather the children and those sucking
the breasts: the bridegroom shall come
forth from his chamber and the bride
from her nuptial couch.

17 Between the porch and to the al-
tar the priests serving Jehoyah shall
weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Je-
hovah, thy people, and thou wilt not
give thine inheritance to reproach for
the nations to rule over them: where-.
fore shall they say among the peoples,
Where is their God ?

18 And Jehovah will be jealous for
his land, and he will pity for his people.

19 And Jehovah will answer and
say to his people, Behold me sending to

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you the grain and the new wine, and
the new oil; and ye were satisfied with
it: and I will no more give you a re-
proach among the nations.

20 And the northern I will remove
far off from you, and I thrust him
into a land of dryness and desolation,
with his face to the east sea, and his end
to the last sea; and his stink came up,
and his stench shall come up, for he
magnified to do.

21 Thou shalt not fear, O land; re-
joice and be glad, for Jehovah magni-
fied to do.

22 Yeshall not fear, ye beasts of the
field, for the pastures of the desert
sprang forth, for the tree bore its fruit, the
fig tree and the vine gave their strength.

23 Ye sons of Zion rejoice and be
glad in Jehovah your God ; for he gave
to you the early rain for justice, and he
will bring down to you the rain, the
early and latter rain in the first.

24 And the threshing-floors were filled
with grain, and the wine-vats overflow-
ed with new wine and new oil.

25 And I requited to you the years
which the common locust ate, the feeder,
and the deyourer, and the creeping
locust, my great army which I sent
among you.

26 And eating, ye ate and were sat-
isfied, and ye praised the name of Je-
hovah your God who did wonderfully
with you: and my people shall not be
ashamed forever.

27 And ye knew that I am in the
midst, of Israel, and I am Jehovah your
God, and none else: and my people
shall not be ashamed forever.

CHAPTER III.
ND it was after this I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh ; and
your sons and your daughters prophe-
sied, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions.

2 And also upon the servants and
upon the maids in those days I will
pour out my spirit.

3 And I gave wonders in the heay-
ens, and in the earth, blood and fire
and pillars of smoke.

4 The sun shall be turned to dark-

ness, and the moon to blood, before the|

JOEL IL, Iv.

coming of the great and the terrible day
of Jehovah.

5 And it was all who shall call upon
the name of Jehovah shall escape: for
in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall
be an escaping, as said Jehovah; and
among those left whom Jehovah called.

CHAPTER IV.
OR behold, in those days and in
that time when I shall turn back
the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

2 And I gathered all nations, and I
brought them down to the valley of Je-
hoshophat, and I contended with them
there for my people and mine inherit-
ance Israel whom they scattered among
the nations, and they divided the land.

3 And for my people they cast the
lot; and they will give the boy for a
harlot, and they sold the girl for wine;
and they will drink.

4 And also what are ye to me, O
Tyre and Sidon, and all the cireuits of
Philistia? do ye requite to me a recom-
pense? and if ye recompense to me,
swiftly and speedily I will turn back
your recompense upon your head ;

5 For ye took my silver and my gold,
and my delights of good things ye
brought to your temples.

6 And the sons of Judah and the
sons of Jerusalem ye sold to the sons of
the Grecians, in order to remove them
far off from their border.

7 Behold me raising them up from
the place where ye sold them there, and
I turned back your recompense upon
your head :

8 And I sold your sons and your
daughters into the hand of the sons of
Judah, and they sold them to the Sa-
beans toa nation far off: for Jehovah
spake.

9 Call ye this among the nations:
Consecrate war; rouse up the strong
ones, they shall draw near, all the men
of war shall come up.

10 Beat your plough-shares into
swords, and your pruning-knives into
spears: the weak shall say, I am strong.

11 Hasten and come all ye nations
from round about, and be ye gathered
together: there lead down, O Jehovah,
thy strong ones,

AMOS 1.

12 The nations shall be roused and
come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat :
for there I will sit to judge all the na-
tions from round about.

13 Send ye forth the sickle, for the
harvest was ripened: come ye, go down,
for the wine press was filled, the vats
overflowed ; for their evil is great.

14 Multitudes, multitudes im the val-
ley of judgment: for the day of Jeho-
vah is near in tie valley of judgment.

15 The sun and the moon were dark-
ened, and the stars took away their
shining.

16 And Jehovah shall cry out from
Zion, and from Jerusalem he shall give
his voice; and the heavens and the
earth trembled : and Jehovah the refuge
to his people, and the fortress to the
sons of Israel.

17 And ye knew that I am Jehovah

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your God dwelling in Zion my holy
mountain: and Jerusalem was holy,
and strangers shall no more pass
through her.

18 And it was in that day the mount-
ains shall drop new wine, and the hills
shall flow milk, and all the channels of
Judah shall flow waters, and a fountain
shall come forth from the house of Je-
hovah, and it watered the valley of
acacias.

19 Egypt shall be for a desolation,
and Edom shall be for a desert of deso-
lation from violence to the sons of Ju-
dah, because they poured out innocent
blood in their land.

20 And Judah shall dwell forever,
and Jerusalem to generation and gen-
eration.

21 And I cleansed their blood I
cleansed not: and Jehovah dwelt in Zion,

AMOS.

CHAPTER I.
HE words of Amos who was among
the shepherds of Tekoa, which he
saw concerning Israel in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah, in the days of
Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel,
two years before the shaking.

2 And he will say, Jehovah will ery
out from Zion, and from Jerusalem he
will give his voice; and the habitations
of the shepherds mourned, and the head
of Carmel was dried up.

3 Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Damascus, and for four,
I will not turn back for their threshing
Gilead with threshing-sledges of iron.

4 And I sent fire into the house of
Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces
of the son of Hadad.

5 And I broke the bar of Damascus,
and I cut off the inhabitants of the val-
leys of vanity, and him taking hold of
the rod of the house of delight: and
the people of Aram were carried away
captive to a walled place, said Jehovah.

6 Thus said Jehovah: For three

transgressions of Gaza, and for four, 1
will not turn it back, for their carrying
away captive the whole captivity to de-
liver over to Edom:

7 And I sent a fire upon the wails of
Gaza, and it shall devour its palaces.

8 And I cut off the inhabitants of
Ashdod, and him holding the rod from
Ashkelon ; and 1 turned back my hand
against Ekron: and the remnant of the
rovers perished, said the Lord Jehovah.

9 Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I
will not turn it back, for their deliver-
ing over the whole captivity to Edom,
and they remembered not the covenant
of their brethren:

10 And I sent a fire upon the walls
of Tyre and it shall consume her palaces.

11 Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Edom, and for four, I
will not turn it back: for his pursuing
his brother with the sword, and he de-
stroyed his compassions, and his anger
will rend forever, and his wrath was
observed perpetually.

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12 And I sent a fire upon Teman
and it devoured the palaces of Bozrah.

18 Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of the sons of Ammon,
and for four, I will not turn it back:
for their cleaving asunder those con-
ceiving of Gilead to increase their
bound.

14 And 1 kindled a fire in the walls
of Rabbah, and it devoured her palaces
with a loud noise in the day of war,
with a storm in the day of whirlwind:

15 And their king went into captiv-
ity, he and his chiefs together, said Je-
hovah.,

CHAPTER IL.
HUS said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Moab, and for
four, I will not turn it back, for they
burnt the bones of the king of Edom
into lime:

2 And I will send a fire upon Moab
and it devoured the palaces of the cities,
and Moab died with tumult, with a
loud noise and with the voice of the
trumpet:

3 And I cut off the judge from the
midst of her, and I will slay all her
chiefs with him, said Jehovah.

4Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Judah, and for four, I
will not turn it back from him, for their
rejecting the instructions of Jehovah,
and they watched not his laws, and
their lies caused them to err which
their fathers went after them.

5 And I sent 8 fire upon Judah, and
it devoured the palaces of Jerusalem.

6 Thus said Jehovah: For three
transgressions of Israel, and for four, I
will not turn it back, for their selling
the just one for silver and the needy
for shoes;

7 Panting for the dust of the earth
upon the head of the poor, and they
will turn away the way of the humble:
and a man and his father will go to the
same young girl to profane my holy
name:

8 And upon garments taken in pledge
they will turn by every altar, and they
will drink the wine of the amerced in
the house of their God.

> 9 And I destroyed the Amorite from

AMOS IL, 1

their face, whom his height as the
height of the cedars, and he was strong
as the oaks; and I will destroy his fruit
from above and his roots from 16-
neath.

10 And I brought you up from the
land of Egypt, and I will cause you to
come into the desert forty years to pos-
sess the land of the Amorite.

11 And 1 will raise up from your
sons for prophets, and from your young
men for Nazarites. Is it not even this,
ye sons of Israel? says Jehovah.

12 And ye will give the Nazarites
wine to drink; and ye commanded to
the prophets, saying, Ye shall not
prophesy.

18 Behold, I am pressed under you
as a wagon will be pressed being filled
with the sheaf to it.

14 And flight perished from the
swift, and the strong shall not strength-
en his power, and the mighty shall not
save his soul.

15 And he holding the bow shall not
stand; and the swift with his feet shall
not escape: and he riding the horse
shall not save his soul.

16 And he strong of heart among the
mighty shall flee away naked in that
day, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER IIL
EAR this word which Jehovah
spake against you, ye sons of Is-
rael, against all the family which I
brought up from the land of Egypt,
saying,

2 You only did I know from all the
families of the earth: for this I-will re-
view over you all your iniquities.

3 Shall two go together if they met
not by appointment ?

4 Will the lion roar in the forest and
not tearing in pieces for him? will the
young lion give his voice from his cave
if he took nothing?

5 Will the bird fall upon the snare
of the earth and no noose for her?
shall a snare be brought up from the
earth and « taking shall not be taken?

6 Ifthe trumpet shall be struck in
the city and the people not be terrified?
if evil shall be in the city and Jehovah
did not?

AMOS IV.

7 For the Lord Jehovah will not do
a word but he will uncover his secret
to his servants the prophets.

8 The lion roared, who shall not be
afraid? the Lord Jehovah spake, who
shall not prophesy ?

9 Cause to be heard upon the palaces
in Ashdod, and upon the palaces in the
land of Egypt, and say, Be ye gathered
together upon the mountains of Shome-
ron, and see the great tumults in the
midst of her, and the oppressed in the
midst of her.

10 And they knew not to do the
straight, says Jehovah, storing up vio-
lence and oppression in their palaces.

11 For this, thus said the Lord Jeho-
vah: An adversary and round about
the land; and he brought down thy
strength from thee, and thy palaces were
plundered.

12 Thus said Jehovah: As the shep-
herd will deliver from the mouth of the
lion two legs, and part of an ear, thus
shall the sons of Israel be delivered
dwelling in Shomeron in the extremity
of a tribe, or in Damascus under a
roof.

13 Hear ye, and testify in the house
of Jacob, says the Lord Jehovah, God
of armies.

14 For in the day of my reviewing the
transgressions of Israel upon him, and
1 reviewed upon the altars of the house
of God: and the horns of the altar were
broken, and they fell to the earth.

15 And 1 struck the house of autumn
with the house of summer; and the
houses of ivory perished, and the great
houses were taken away, says Jeho-
vah.

CHAPTER IV.
ER ase this word, ye heifers of Ba-
shan, which are upon the moun-
tain of Shomeron, oppressing the poor,
breaking in pieces the needy, say-
ing to their lords, Bring, and we will
drink,

2 The Lord Jehovah sware by his
holiness, that behold, the days coming
upon you and he took you away with
hooks, and your last part with thorns of
the fish.

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breaches, a woman before her; and ye
cast to the fortress, says Jehovah.

4 Come to the house of God and
transgress: at Gilgal multiply to trans-
gress; and bring your sacrifices for the
morning, your tenths for three days:

5 And burn incense from leaven, a -
thanksgiving, and call; cause the free-
will offerings to be heard: for thus ye
loved ye sons of Israel, says the Lord
Jehovah.

6 And also I gave to you cleanness
of teeth in all your cities, and want of
bread in all your places: and ye turned
not back even to me, says Jehovah.

7 And I withheld from you the rain
in yet three months to harvest: and I
caused to rain upon one city, and upon
one city I will not cause to rain: and
one portion shall be rained upon, and
the portion which shall not be rained
upon, it shall dry up.

8 And two, three cities wandered
about to one city to drink water, and
they will not be satisfied: and they
turned not back even to me, says Je-
hovah.

91 struck you with blasting and
with yellowness: the multitudes of your
gardens and your vineyards and your,
fig-trees and your olives the creeping
locust shall eat: and ye turned not
back even to me, says Jehovah.

10 And I sent death among you in
the way of Egypt: and I slew your
young men with the sword, with the
captivity of your horses; and I will
bring up your camps with fire and in
your anger, and ye turned not back
even to me, says Jehovah.

11 I overthrew among you as God
overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah, and
ye shall be as a fire-brand snatched
from the burning: and ye turned not
back even to me, says Jehovah.

12 For this, thus will I do to thee,
O Israel: because that I will do this
to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Is-
180].

18 For behold, he forming the moun- |
tains and creating the wind, and an- '
nouncing to man his meditation, mak-
ing the morning darkness and treading
upon the heights of the earth, Jehovah,
God of armies his name,

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CHAPTER V.
Ϊ EAR ye this word which I lift up
to you, a lamentation, O house of
Israel.

2 The virgin of Israel fell; she shall
not add to rise: she was cast out upon
her land; none raising her up.

3 For thus said the Lord Jehovah:
The city going out a thousand shall
leave un hundred, and going out a hun-
dred shall leave ten to the house of Is-
rael.

4 For thus said Jehovah to the house
of Israel: Seek ye me and live:

5 And ye shall not seek the house of
God, and to Gilgal ye shall not go:
and to the well of the oath ye shall not
pass over: for Gilgal being taken cap-
tive shall be carried away captive, and
the house of God shall be for nothing.

6 Seek ye Jehovah and live, lest he
shall break through the house of Joseph
as fire, and devour, and none quench-
ing to the house of God.

7 Turning judgment to wormwood
and they put down justice in the earth.

8 He made the seven stars and Orion,
and he turned the shadow of death to
the morning, and he darkened the day
to night: calling to the water of the
sea, and he will pour them out upon the
face of the earth: Jehovah his name:

9 Causing desolation to shine forth
upon the strong one and desolation
shall come against the fortress.

10 They hated him setting right in
the gate, and they will abhor the per-
fect word.

11 For this, because of your treading
upon the poor one, and ye will take
away the liftings up of wheat from
him: ye built houses of hewn stone,
and ye shall not dwell in them; ye
planted vineyards of desire and ye shall
not drink their wine,

12 For I knew your many transgres-
sions, and your strong sins: pressing
upon the just, taking a ransom, and
they turned away the needy in the
gate.

18 For this the prudent one shall be
silent in that time, for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good and not evil, so that
ye shall live: and so Jehovah God of
armies shall be with you as ye said.

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15 Hate evil and love good, and set
ye judgment in the gate: perhaps Jeho-
vah God of armies will compassionate
the remnant of Joseph.

16 For this, thus said Jehovah God
of armies, the Lord: In all your broad
places, wailing; and in all the streets
they shall say, Wo! wo! and they
called to the husbandman to mourning,
and wailing to all knowing lamentation.

17 And in all vineyards, wailing:
for I will pass through in the midst of
thee, said Jehovah.

18 Wo! to you longing for the day
of Jehovah ; for what this to you? The
day of Jehovah this is darkness and
not hght.

19 According as a man will flee from
the face of the lion and the bear struck
upon him, and he came,into the house
and leaned his hand upon the wall, and
the serpent bit him.

20 Shall not the day of Jehovah be
darkness and not light? and dark and
no shining to it?

21 1 hated, I rejected your festivals,
and I will not smell in your assemblies.

22 For if ye shall bring up to me
burnt-cfierings, and your gifts, I will
not delight; and I will not [00% upon
the peace-cflerings of your fatlings.

23 Remove frem me the noise of thy
songs; for I will not hear the music of
thy lyres.

24 Judgement shall roll as the waters,
and justice es a torrent of strength.

25 Did ye bring near to me sacrifices
and gifts m the desert forty years, O
house ef Israel?

26 Ye lifted up the tent of your king
and the statue of your images, the star
of your God which he made for you.

27 And I caused you to be carried
away captive farther off than Damas-
cus, said Jehovah, God of armies his
name.

CHAPTER VI.
O! to those living at ease in
Zion, and trusting in the mount-
ain of Shomeron, being distinguished
the chief of the nations, and to them
the house of Israel came.
2 Pass through Calneh, and see; and

go ye from thence to Hamath the great:

AMOS VII

and go down to the wine-press of the
rovers: are they good above these king-
doms? or their bound great above
your bound ?

3 Extending to the evil day, and ye
will bring near the seat of violence ;

4 Lying upon beds of ivory, and
stretching out upon their couches, and
eating the lambs from the flock, and the
calves from the midst of the stall.

5 Prating upon the mouth of the
lyre, as David they invented to them
instruments of music ;

6 Drinking wine in vases, and they
will anoint with the chief of ointments:
and they were not grieved for the break-
ing of Joseph.

7 For this now shall they be carried
away captive with the head of those
carried away captive, and the shouting
of those poured forth was removed.

8 The Lord Jehovah sware by his
soul, says Jehovah God of armies: I
abhor the pride of Jacob and I hated
his palaces: and I delivered up the
city and its fulness.

9 And it was if there shall remain ten
men in one house, and they died.

10 And his friend lifted him up, and
he burning him, and bringing forth the
bones out of the house, and he said to
him by the sides of the house: Yet
with thee? And he said, No more.
And he said, Silence: for not to make
mention of the name of Jehovah.

11 For behold, Jehovah commands,
and he struck the great house with
breaches, and the small house with clefts.

12 Shall horses run upon the rock?
will he plough with oxen? for ye turn-
ed judgment to poison and the fruit of
justice to wormwood.

13 Rejoicing to no word, saying, Did
we not take horns by our strength ?

14 For behold, I raise up against you,
O house of Israel, says Jehovah God
of armies, a nation; and they pressed
you from the entrance of Hamath, even
to the torrent of the ster:le region.

CHAPTER VII.
HUS the Lord Jehovah caused me
to see; and behold, he will form
locusts in the beginning of the coming
up of the latter grass; and behold, the

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latter grass after the mowings of the
king.

2 And it was if he finished to devour
the green herb of the land, and saying,
O Lord Jehovah, forgive now: who
shall raise up Jacob? for he is small.

3 Jehovah lamented for this: It shall
not be, said Jehovah.

4 Thus the Lord Jehovah caused me
to see: and behold, the Lord Jehovah
called to contend with fire, and it will
devour the great deep, and devoured
the portion.

5 And saying, O Lord Jehovah, cease
now: who shall cause Jacob to rise?
for he is small.

6 Jehovah lamented for this: Also
this shall not be, said the Lord Jeho-
ג[‎

7 Thus he caused me to see: and be-
hold, Jehovah stood upon a wall of
lead, and lead in his hand.

8 And Jehovah will say to me, What
seest thou, Amos? And saying, Lead.
And Jehovah will say to me: Behold
me setting lead in the midst of my peo-
ple Israel: I will no more add to pass
by to him.

9 And the heights of Isaak were
made desolate, and the holy places of
Israel shall be laid waste; and I rose
up against the house of Jeroboam with
the sword.

10 And Amaziah priest of the house
of God, will send to Jeroboam, king of
Israel, saymg, Amos conspired against
thee in the midst of the house of Israel:
the land will not be able to endure all
his words.

11 For thus said Amos: Jeroboam
shall die by the sword, and Israel being
taken captive shall be carried away
captive from his land,

12 And Amaziah will say to Amos,
Thou seer, go flee for thyself to the
land of Judah, and eat there bread, and
there shalt thou prophesy.

13 And thou shalt no more add to
prophesy in the house of God, for it is
the king’s holy place, and it is the house
of the kingdom.

14 And Amos will answer and say
to Amaziah, I am no prophet, and I not
the son of a prophet; for I a herdsman,
and gathering figs of the sycamores.

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15 And Jehovah will take me from
after the sheep, and Jehovah will say
to me, Go prophesy to my people Is-
rael.

16 And now hear the word of Jeho-
vah: Thou sayest thou shalt not proph-
esy against Israel, and thou shalt not
drop against the house of Isaak.

17 For this, thus said Jehovah: Thy
wife shall commit fornication in the
city, and thy sons and thy daughters
shall fall by the sword, and thy land
shall be divided by line, and thou shalt
die upon a polluted land: and Israel
being taken captive shall be carried
into captivity from his land.

CHAPTER VIII.
HUS the Lord Jehovah caused me
to see: and behold, a basket of
fruit.

2 And he will say, Amos, what seest
thou? And saying, A basket of fruit.
And Jehovah will say to me: The end
came upon my people Israel; I will no
more add to pass by to him.

3 The songs of the temple wailed in
that day, says the Lord Jehovah;
many a corpse in every place being
cast forth: silence.

4 Hear this, ye, panting after the
needy, to cause the humble of the land
to cease.

5 Saying, When will the month pass
through, and we will sell grain? and
the Sabbath, and we will open wheat
to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge
the shekel, and to make crooked the
balance of deceit?

6 To buy the poor with silver, and
the needy for shoes; and we will sell
the refuse of the grain.

7 Jehovah sware by the pride of Ja-
60, If I will forget forever all their
works,

8 For this shall not the land be
moved, and all dwelling in it, mourn ?
And it came up all of it as a river; and
it was driven out and watered as the
river of Egypt.

9 And it was in that day, says the
Lord Jehovah, I caused the sun to set
at noon, and I darkened the light to the
earth in that day:

10 And turned your festivals into

AMOS VIIL, IX.

mourning, and all your songs to lament-
ation; and I brought up sackcloth up-
on all loins, and upon every head, bald-
ness ; and I set it as the mourning of an
only one, and its last part as a day of
bitterness.

11 Behold, the days coming, says the
Lord Jehoyah, and I sent famine into
the land; not a famine for bread, and
not a thirst for water, but for hearing
the words of Jehovah.

12 And they wandered from sea even
to sea, and from the north and even ta
the sunrising, they shall run up and
down to seek the word of Jehoyah and
they shall not find.

13 In that day the fair virgins shall
faint, and the young men, for thirst.

14 They swearing by the trespass of
Shomeron, and they said, Thy God
lives, O Dan, and the way of the well
of the oath lives, and they fell, and they

shall rise no more.
1 SAW Jehovah standing upon the
altar: and he will say, Strike the
crown, and the thresholds shall tremble :
and dash them in pieces upon the head
of them all; and the last of them I will
slay with the sword: the fleeing to
them shall not flee, and he escaping to

CHAPTER IX.

|them shall not escape.

2 Τῇ they shall break through into
hades, from thence shall my hand take
them; and if they shall go up to the
heavens, from thence 1 will bring them
down.

3 And if they shall hide in the head
of Carmel, from thence will I search and
take them; and if they shall ‘be con-
cealed from before mine eyes in the bot-
tom of the sea, from thence I will com-
mand the serpent, and he bit them.

4 If they shall go into captivity be-
fore the face of their enemies, from
thence I will command the sword and
itslew them: and I set mine eyes upon
them for evil and not for good.

5 And the Lord Jehovah of armies
touching upon the land, and it shall
melt, and all dwelling in it mourned:
and it came up as a river all of it, and
it was overflowed as the river of Egypt.

6 He building his ascents in the heay-

OBADIAH.

ens, and founding his arches upon the
earth ; he calling to the waters of the
sea, and he will pour them forth upon
the face of the earth: Jehovah his name.
' 7 Are ye not as the sons of the Cush-
ites to me, O sons of Israel? says Jeho-
vah. Did 1 not bring up Israel out of
the land of Egypt? and the rovers from
Caphtor, and Aram from Kir?

8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jeho.
vah upon the sinning kingdom, and I
destroyed it from the face of the earth ;
only that destroying, I will not destroy
the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.

9 For behold, I command, and I
caused the house of Israel to move to
and fro among all nations as it will move
to and fro in a sieve, and a stone shall
not fall to the earth.

10 By the sword shall all sinning of
my people die, saying, It shall not draw
near, and the eyil shall not cleave about
us.

11 In that day I will raise up the

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tent of David having fallen, and I
walled in their breaches, and I will raise
up its destructions, and I built it as the
days of old:

12 So that they shall possess the rem-
nant of Edom, and all the nations which
my name was called upon them, says
Jehovah doing this.

13 Behold, the days coming, says Je-
hovah, the ploughing touched upon the
harvesting, and the treading of grapes
upon the drawing of the seed; and the
mountains dropped new wine, and all
the hills shall melt.

14 And I turned back the captivity
of my people Israel, and they built the
cities laid waste, and they inhabited;
and they planted vineyards, and they
drank their wine; and they made gar-
dens and ate their fruit.

15 And I planted them upon their
land, and they shall no more be plucked
up from their land which I gave to
them, said Jehovah thy God.

OBA DAE.

HE vision of Obadiah. Thus said

the Lord Jehovah to Edom: We

heard a report from Jehovah, a messen-

ger was sent among the nations; arise

ye, and we will rise up against her for
war.

2 Behold, I gave thee small among
the nations: thou being greatly des-
pised.

3 The pride of thy heart deceived
thee, dwelling in the refuges of the
rock, the height his seat; he said in
his heart, Who shall bring me down
to the earth?

4 If thou shalt exalt as the eagle, and
set thy nest between the stars, from
thence will I bring thee down, says Je-
hoyah,

Ὁ If thieves came to thee, if those lay-
ing waste by night, (how thou wert des-
troyed!) will not they steal their suffi-
ciency? If the grape gatherers came
to thee will they not leave gleanings?

6 How were they of Esau sought

out!
out.

7 All the men of thy covenant sent
thee even to the bourd: the men of
thy peace deceived thee, they prevailed
against thee ; they set thy bread a snare
under thee: no understanding in him.

8 Was it not in that day, says Jeho-
vah, and I destroyed the wise out of
Edom, and understanding from mount
Esau?

9 And thy strong ones were terrified,
O Teman, so that each shall be cut off
from mount Ksau from slaughter.

10 From this violence of thy brother
Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou
wert cut off forever.

11 In the day of thy standing from
before, in the day of the strangers car-
rying away captive his strength, and
foreigners came into his gate, and wpon
Jerusalem they cast the lot, also thou
as one of them.

12 And thou shalt not look upon thy

His hidden things were sought

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brother in the day of his calamity, and
thou shalt not rejoice to the sons of Ju-
dah in the day of their perishing, and
thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in
the day of straits.

13 Thou shalt not come in to the gate
of my people in the day of their misfor-
tune; also thou shalt not look upon his
evil in the day of his misfortune, and
thou shalt not stretch forth upon his
wealth in the day of his misfortune ;

14 Thou shalt not stand upon the
fork of the roads to cut off those of his
escaping; and thou shalt not deliver up
those remaining of his in the day of
straits.

15 For the day of Jehovah is near
upon all the nations: as thou didst, it
shall be done to thee: thy recompense
shall turn back upon thy head.

16 For as thon didst drink upon my
holy mountain, all the nations shall
drink continually, and they drank and
they swallowed down, and they were
as they not being.

JONAH I.

17 And in mount Zion shall be an
escaping, and there was holiness; and
the house of Jacob shall possess their
possessions.

18 And the house of Jacob was a
fire, and the house of Joseph for a
flame, and the house of Esau for straw ;
and they burned in them, and they de-
voured them; and a survivor shall not
be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah
spake.

19 And they of the south shall pos-
sess mount Esau, and of the low coun-
try, the rovers: and they shall possess
the field of Ephraim, and the field of
Shomeron: and Benjamin, Gilead.

20 And the captivity of this begin-
ning to the sons of Israel, that of the
Canaanites even to Zarephath ; and the
captivity of Jerusalem which is in Se-
pharad shall possess the cities of the
south.

21 And survivors came up into mount
Zion to judge the mount Hsau; and the
kingdom was to Jehovah.

JONAH.

CHAPTER I.
ND the word of Jehovah shall be
to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying,

2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great
city, and call against it; for their evil
came up before me.

3 And Jonah will rise up to flee to
Tarshish from the face of Jehovah, and
he will go down to Joppa; and he will
find a ship going to Tarshish, and he will
give his hire, and he will go down in it
to go with them to Tarshish from the
face of Jehovah.

4 And Jehovah cast down a great
wind upon the sea, and there will be a
great storm upon the sea, and the ship
was thought to be broken.

5 And the seamen will fear, and they
will cry each to his God, and they cast
down the vessels which were in the
ship into the sea to lighten from them.
And Jonah went down to the sides of
the ship, and he will lie down and snore.

6 And the chief sailor will draw near
to him and say to him, What to thee,
thou snoring? Arise, and call to thy
God; perhaps thy God will work for
us and we shall not perish.

7 And they will say each to his
neighbor, Come, and we will cast the
lot, and we shall know for the retribu-
tions of this evil tous. And they will
cast lots, and the lot will fall upon
Jonah.

8 And they will say to him, An-
nounce now to us, on account of whom
is this evil to us? what thy work? and
from whence wilt thou come? what thy
land? and from what people art thou?

9 And he will say to them, I an He-
brew ; and I feared Jehovah God of the
heavens, who made the sea and the dry
land. /

10 And the men will fear a great
fear, and they will say to him, What
this thou didst? For the men knew

JONAH ,זז‎ ΠῚ.

that he fled from the face of Jehovah,
for he announced to them.

11 And they will say to him, What
shall we do to thee and the sea shall
subside from you? For the sea went
and tossed about.

12 And he will say to them, Lift me
up and cast me down to the sea, and
the sea will subside from you: For I
shall know on my account this great
storm is upon you.

13 And the men will break through
to turn back to the dry land, and they
will not be able, for the sea went and
tossed about against them.

14 And they will call to Jehovah,
and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, not now
shall we perish for the soul of this man,
and thou wilt not give upon us inno-
cent blood: for thou Jehovah didst as
thou pleased.

15 And they will lift up Jonah and
cast him down into the sea: and the
sea will stand from its foam.

16 And the men feared Jehovah with
great fear, and they will sacrifice a sac-
rifice to Jehovah, and they will vow
vows.

CHAPTER II.
A ND Jehovah will prepare a great
fish to swallow down Jonah: and
Jonah will be in the bowels of the fish
three days and three nights.

2 And Jonah will pray to Jehovah
his God from the bowels of the fish,

8 And he will say, I called out of
straits to me to Jehovah, and he will
answer me; from the belly of hades I
cried for help, thou heardest my voice.

4 And thou wilt cast me imto the
depth, into the heart of the seas; and
the river will surround me: all thy
breakers and thy waves passed over me.

5 And I said, I was driven from be-
fore thine eyes; yet I shall add to look
to thy holy temple.

6 The waters encompassed me even
to the soul: the deep will surround
me, the sedge was bound to my head.

7 I shall go down to the cuttings off
of the mountains; the earth, her bars
about me forever: and thou wilt bring
up my life from corruption, O Jehovah
my God.

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8 In my soul fainting upon me I re-
membered Jehovah: and my prayers
will come in to thee to thy holy temple.

9 They watching the vanities of false-
hood will forsake their kindness.

10 And I will sacrifice to thee with
the voice of praise; what I vowed I
will requite. Salvation is to Jehovah.

11 And Jehovah will say to the fish,
and he will vomit forth Jonah upon
the dry land.

CHAPTER IIL
ND the word of Jehovah will be
to Jonah the second time, saying,
2 Arise, go to Nineveh the great city,
and call to it the calling which I speak
to thee.

3 And Jonah will rise and go to Nin-
eveh according to the word of Jehovah.
And Nineveh was a great city to God,
the going of three days.

4 And Jonah will begin to go in to
the city the going of one day, and he
will call, and say, Yet forty days and
Nineveh being overthrown.

5 And the men of Nineveh will be-
lieve in God, and they will call a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from great and
even to small.

6 And the word will reach to the
king of Nineveh, and he will rise from
his throne, and he will take away his
wide cloak from off him, and he will
cover with sackcloth, and he will sit
upon ashes.

7 And he will ery out and say in
Nineveh from the edict of the king and
of his great ones, saying, The man and
beast, the herd and flock shall not taste
of anything; they shall not feed and
they shall not drink water.

8 And man and beast shall be coy-
ered with sackcloth, and they shall cry
with strength to Jehovah: and they
shall turn back each from his evil way,
and the violence which is in their
hands.

9 Who shall know God will turn
back and lament, and turning back
from the burning of his anger and we
shall not perish ?

10 And God will see their works that
they turned back from their evil way,
and God will lament for the evil which

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he spake to do to them: and he did it
not.

CHAPTER IV.
ND it will be evil to Jonah, a
great evil, and it will kindle to
him.

2 And he will pray to Jehovah and
say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this
my word while I was upon my land?
For this I anticipated to flee to Tar-
shish, for I knew that thou art merci-
ful and compassionate, slow to anger
and of much kindness, and lamenting
for evil.

8 And now, O Jehovah, take now
my soul from me, for it is good for me
to die rather than for me to live.

4 And Jehovah will say, Didst thou
well for thee to be angry ?

5 And Jonah will go out of the city,
and sit from the east to the city, and he
make to him there a tent, and he will
sit under it in the shadow, even till he
shall see what will be upon the city.

6 And Jehovah God will appoint a
gourd, and it will come up from above
to Jonah to be a shadow over his head

MICAH I.

to deliver to him from his evil. And
Jonah will rejoice over the gourd with
great joy.

7 And God will appoint a worm in
the going vA of the morning for the
morrow, and it will strike the gourd,
and it will dry up.

8 And it will be as the sun rose, and
God will appoint a sultry east wind;
and the sun struck upon the head of
Jonah, and he will faint, and he will
ask his soul to die, and say, It is good
for me to die rather than live.

9 And God will say to Jonah, Was
it well to kindle to thee for the gourd?
And he will say, It was well to kindle
to me, even to death.

10 And Jehovah will say, Thou didst
spare for the gourd, which thou didst
not labor for it, and thou didst not
cause it to grow; it was the youth of a
night, and the son of a night perished.

11 And shall I not spare for Nine-
veh the great city which there is in it
more than one hundred and twenty
thousand men which knew not between
his right hand to his left, and many
cattle?

MICAH.

CHAPTER I.
HE word of Jehovah which was to
Micah the Morasthite, in the days
of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, who saw upon Shomeron and
Jerusalem.

2 Hear, all ye peoples; attend, O
earth, and its fulness, and the Lord Je-
hovah shall be among you for a wit-
ness, Jehovah from his holy temple.

8 For behold, Jehovah will come
forth from his place, and come down
and tread upon the heights of the earth.

4 And the mountains melted under
him, and the valleys shall be cleft as
wax from the face of the fire, as waters
cast down in a descent.

5 For the transgression of Jacob all
this, and for the sins of the house of
Israel. What the transgression of Ja-

cob? [51 notShomeron? And what
the heights of Judah? Are they not
Jerusalem?

6 And I set Shomeron for the rubbish
of the field, for the plantings of a vine-
yard: and I poured down its stones into
the valley, and I will uncover its foun-
dations.

7 And all her carved images shall be
beaten down, and all her gifts shall be
burnt in fire, and all her images I will
set a desolation: for she gathered from
the gift of a harlot, and they shall turn
back even to the gift of a harlot.

8 For this I will lament and wail; I
will go stripped and naked: I will
make wailing as jackals, and mourning
as the daughters of the ostrich.

9 For her blow is incurable, for it
came eyen to Judah; he touched even

MICAH IL, II.

to the gate of my people, even to Jeru-
salem.

10 Ye shall not announce in Gath;
weeping, ye shall not weep: in the
house of dust roll thyself in dust.

11 Pass away for you, thou fair one
inhabiting the nakedness of shame: she
inhabiting the place of flocks shall not
go forth to the wailing of the house of
firm root; he shall take from you his
standing.

12 For she dwelling in bitterness was
anxious for good: but evil came down
from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

13 Make fast the chariot to the steed,
thou inhabitress of the smitten: she the
beginning of sin to the daughter of
Zion: for in thee were found the trans-
gressions of Israel.

14 For this thou shalt give a sending
forth upon the possession of Gath: the
houses of falsehood are for falsehood to
the kings of Israel.

15 Yet I will bring to thee him pos-
sessing, O inhabitress at the head: he
shall come even to Adullam, the glory
of Israel.

16 Make bald, and shave for the sons
of thy delights; 11006886 thy baldness
as the eagle; for they were carried
away captive from thee.

CHAPTER II.
1X7 O to them purposing vanity,

and working evil upon their

beds! In the light of the morning they |

will do it because it is to the strength
of their hand.

2 And they desired fields, and they

took by force; and houses, and they
took away: and they oppressed a man
and his house, and a man and his inher-
itance.

8 For this, thus said Jehovah: Be-
hold me purposing evil against this fam-
ily, which ye shall not remove your
necks from thence; and ye shall not
go loftily: for it is an evil time.

4 In that day a parable shall be lift-
ed up against you, and a wailing of a
wailing was wailed, saying, Being laid
waste, we shall be laid waste: he will
exchange a portion of my people: how
he will remove to me; for turning
away, he will divide our fields.

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5 For this there shall not be to thee
any casting a cord by lot in the conyo-
cation of Jehovah.

6 Ye shall not let fall in drops; they
shall let fali in drops; they shall not
let fall in drops for these; shame shall
not be removed.

7 Causing the house of Jacob to say,
Was the spirit of Jehovah shortened?
if these his doings? shall not my words
do good to a people going straight?

8 Aforetime my people for the ene-
my: he will raise them up from before
the garment; ye will put off the wide
cloak from those passing by with confi-
dence, turning back the war.

9 The women of my people ye will
thrust out from the house of her de-
lights; from her children ye will take
my majesty forever.

10 Arise ye, and go, for this is not
the rest: because it was defiled it will
destroy, and with a sore destruction.

11 If a man going in the spirit and
falsehood, lying, I will drop to thee for
wine and for strong drink; and he was
the dropping of this people.

12 Gathering, O Jacob, I will gather
all of thee; collecting, I will collect
the remnant of Israel; together I will
set them as the sheep of Bozrah, as the
flock in the midst of their pasture they
shall make noise from man.

13 He breaking forth came up before
them: they broke forth and they will
pass through the gate, they will go forth
by it; and their king will pass through
before them and Jehoyah at their head.

CHAPTER IIL
A ND saying, Hear now, ye heads
of Jacob, and ye judges of the
house of Israel: Is it not for you to
know judgment?

2 Hating the good and loving the
evil; plucking off their skin from off
them, and their flesh from off their
bones.

3 And who ate the flesh of my peo-
ple, and they stripped off their skin
from off them; and they brake their
bones in pieces, and separated as for the
pot, and as flesh in the midst of the
kettle.

4 Then shall they ery to Jehovah and

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he will not answer them, and he will
hide his face from them in that time,
as their doings were evil.

5 Thus said Jehovah for the prophets
causing my people to wander, and -bit-
ing with their teeth, and they called,
Peace; and who will not give upon
their mouth and they consecrated war
against him:

6 For this, night to you from a vis-
ion, and darkness to you from divin-
ing; and the sun went down upon the
prophets, and the day was dark upon
them.

7 And they seeing were ashamed,
and they divining were disgraced, and
they covered over their lip, all of them ;
for no answer of God.

8 But I was filled with power, with
the spirit of Jehovah, and judgment
and strength to announce to Jacob his
transgression, and to Israel his sin.

9 Hear now this, ye heads of the
house of Jacob, and judges of the
house of Israel abhorring judgment, and
they will pervert all uprightness.

10 Building Zion with bloods and
Jerusalem with iniquity. :

11 Her heads will judge for a gift,
and her priests will teach for hire, and
her prophets will divine for silver: and
they will lean upon Jehovah, saying,
Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he
will not bring evil upon us.

12 For this, on account of you Zion
shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem
shall be ruins, and the mountain of the
house for the heights of the forest.

CHAPTER IV.
ND it was in the last of the days
the mountain of the house of Je-
hovah will be prepared upon the head
of the mountains, and it was lifted up
above the hills, and peoples flowed
to it.

2 And many nations went and said,
Come, and we will go up to the mount-
ain of Jehovah, and to the house of
the God of Jacob, and he will teach us
from his ways, and we will go in his
paths: from Zion will instruction go
forth, and the word of Jehovah from
Jerusalem.

8 And he judged between many peo-

MICAH IV.

ples, and he admonished to strong na-
tions even to far off; and they beat
their swords into ploughshares and their
spears into pruning-knives: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, and
they shall no more learn war.

4 And they shall sit every man un-
der his vine and under his fig tree, and
none terrifying: for the mouth of Jeho-
vah of armies spake.

5 For all peoples shall go each in the
name of his God, and we will go in the
name of Jehovah our God for ever and
ever.

6 In that day, says Jehovah, I will
assemble her halting, and I will gather
her thrust out, and whom I broke in
pieces.

7 And I set her halting for a rem-
nant, and her far removed, for a strong
nation; and Jehovah reigning over
them in mount Zion from now and even
to forever.

8 And thou, O tower of the flock,
hill of the daughter of Zion, even to
thee shall it come, and the first domin-
ion: came the kingdom to the daugh-
ter of Jerusalem.

9 Now wherefore wilt thou cry out
with an outery? is no king in thee? or
thy counselor perished? for pain laid
hold of thee as she bringing forth.

10 Be in pain and bring forth, O
daughter of Zion, as she bringing forth :
for now shalt thou go forth out of the
city, and dwell in the field, and going
even to Babel; there shalt thou be de-
livered; there Jehovah will redeem
thee from the hand of thine enemies.

11 And now many nations were gath-
ered against thee, saying, She shall be
defiled, and our eyes shall look upon
Zion.

12 And they knew not the purposes
of Jehoyah, and they understood not his
counsel : for he gathered them as sheaves
of the threshing-floor.

18 Arise and thresh, O daughter of
Zion: for I will set thy horn iron, and
thy hoofs of brass: and thou didst crush
many peoples: and I devoted their plun-
der to Jehovah, and their wealth to the
Lord of all the earth.

14 Now thou shalt crowd thyself to-
gether, O daughter of a troop: besieg-

MICAH V., VI.

ing there against us; with a rod they
will strike the judge of Israel upon the
cheek.

CHAPTER V.
ND thou, house of, bread, of Eph-
ratah, for being small among the
thousands of Judah, out of thee shall
come forth to me he being ruler in Is-
rael; and his goings forth from of old
from the days of eternity.

2 For this he will give them up even
till the time she bearing will bring
forth: and the remainder of his breth-
yen shall turn back to the sons of Is-
rael.

8 And he stood and fed in the
strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of
the name of Jehovah his God; and they
shall dwell: for now shall he be magni-
fied to the ends of the earth.

4 And this was peace, for Assur shall
come up into our land: and when he
shall tread in our palaces and we raised
against him seven shepherds, and eight
anoimted men.

5 And they ruled the land of Assur
with the sword, and the land of Nimrod
in its openings: and he delivered from
Assur when he shall come in to our
Jand, and when he shall tread in our
bound.

6 And the remnant of Jacob was in
the midst of many peoples as the dew
from Jehovah, as showers upon the
green herb, which will not wait for man
and will not delay for the sons of man.

7 And the remnant of Jacob was
among the nations in the midst of many
peoples as a lion among the beasts of
the forest, as a young lion among the
flocks of sheep: who, if he passed
through, and he trod down and pulled
in pieces, and none delivering,

8 Thy hand shall be raised up against
thine adversaries, and all thine enemies
shall be cut off.

9 And it was in that day, says Jeho-
γαῖ, and I cut off thy horses from the
midst of thee, and I destroyed thy char-
lots.

10 And I cut off the cities of thy
land, and I battled down all thy for-
tresses :

11 And I cut off sorceries from thy

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hand, and they practicing magic shall
not be to thee.

12 And I cut off thy carved images
and thy statues from the midst of thee;
and thou shalt no more worship the
work of thy hands.

13 And I tore up thine images from
the midst of thee, and I destroyed thy
cities.

14 And I did vengeance in anger and
in wrath with the nations, which they
heard not.

CHAPTER VI.
EAR ye now what Jehovah said:
Arise, contend thou with the
mountains, and the hills shall hear thy
voice.

2 Hear ye mountains the contention
of Jehovah, and ye perpetual founda-
tions of the earth: for a contention to
Jehovah with his people, and he will
dispute with Israel.

5 My people, what did I to thee?
and in what did I weary thee? answer
to me.

4 For I brought thee up from the
land of Egypt, and from the house of
servants I redeemed thee; and I shall
send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and
Miriam.

5 O my people, remember now what
Balak king of Moab counseled, and
what Balaam son of Beor answered him
from the acacias even to Gilgal; in
order to know the justice of Jehovah.

6 With what shall I come before Je-
hovah? I will bow to the high God;
shall I come before him with burnt-
offerings, with calves, the sons of a

ear?

7 Will Jehovah delight in thousands
of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of
oil? shall 1 give my first-born my
transgression? the fruit of my belly,
the sin of my soul?

8 He announced to thee, O man,
what was good; and what did Jehovah
require of thee but to do judgment and
to love merey, and being humbled, to
go with thy God?

9 The voice of Jehovah will call to
the city, and wisdom feared thy name:
hear ye the rod, and who appomted it.

10 Are there yet treasures of injus-

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tice in the house of the unjust, and the
ephah of leanness being cursed ?

11 Shall I make clean with the bal-
ances of injustice, and with the bag of
stones of deceit ?

12 For her rich ones were full of
violence, and her inhabitants spake
falsehood, and their tongue of deceit in
their mouth.

13 And also I made sick, striking
thee, making desolate for thy sins.

14 Thou shalt eat and not be satis-
fied ; and thine emptiness in the midst
of thee; and thou shalt remove and
shalt not deliver; and what thou shalt
save I will give to the sword.

15 Thou shalt sow and thou shalt not
reap; thou shalt tread the olive and
thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil;
and new wine, and thou shalt not drink
wine.

16 The laws of Omri will be observ-
ed, and all the work of the house of
Ahab, and ye will go in their counsels ;
so that I shall give thee for a desola-
tion, and her inhabitants for hissing,
and ye shall bear the reproach of my

people.

CHAPTER VII.
O to me! for I was as the gath-
erings of the fruit harvest, as
the gleanings of the vintage, no cluster
to eat: my soul desired the first ripe
fig.

“2 The merciful one perished from
the earth, and none upright among
men: they all will lie in wait. for bloods ;
they will hunt each his brother with a
net.

3 For doing evil with the hands to
do well, the chief asking, and the judge,
for peace ; and the great one, he spake
the mischief of his soul: and they will
entangle it.

4 Their good as the thorn, the up-
right more than the thorn-hedge: the
day of thy watchings and thy review-
ings came; now shall be their perplex-

5 Ye shall not trust in a companion,
ye shall not confide in a friend: watch
the doors of thy mouth from her lying
in thy bosom.

6 For the son despising the father,

MICAH VII.

the daughter rising up against her
mother, the bride against her mother-
in-law; a man’s enemies the men of his
house.

71 will look about for Jehovah, I
will wait for God my deliverer; my
God will hear me.

8 Thou shalt not rejoice against me,
O mine enemy: if I fell I arose; if I
shall sit in darkness, Jehovah a light to
me.

9 The anger of Jehovah I will bear,
for I smned against him till he shall
maintain my contention, and do my
judgment: he will bring me forth to
the light, I shall look upon his justice.

10 And mine enemy shall see, and
shame shall cover her saying to me,
Where Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes
shall look upon her: now shall she be
for treading down as the mire of the
streets.

11 The day for the building of thy
walls, that day shall the law be remoy-
ed far off.

12 That day he shall come even to
thee from Assur and the fortified cities,
and from the fortress and even to the
river, and from sea to sea, and mount-
ain to mountain.

18 And the land was for a desola-
tion upon its inhabitants from the fruit
of their doings.

14 Feed my people with thy rod,
the sheep of thine inheritance dwelling
by themselves in the forest, in the midst
of Carmel: they shall feed Bashan and
Gilead as the days of old.

15 According to the days of thy com-
ing forth out of the land of Egypt I
will cause him to see wonderful things.

16 The nations shall see and be
ashamed from all their strength: they
shall put the hand upon the mouth,
their ears shall be deaf.

17 They shall lick the dust as the
serpent, as crawlers of the earth they
shall move out of their close places:
for Jehovah our God they shall trem-
ble and they shall fear from thee.

18 Who 15 God as thee, lifting up in-
iquity and passing by transgression to
the remnant of his inheritance? he held
not his anger forever for he delighted
in mercy.

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19 He will turn back, he will com-| 20 Thou wilt give truth to Jacob,
passionate us: he will subdue our ini-|merey to Abraham, which thou didst
quities, and thou wilt cast all their sins}swear to our fathers from the days of

into the depths of the sea.

old.

NAHUM.

CHAPTER I.
ΠΗ lifting up of Nineveh. The
book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.

2 God is jealous and Jehovah aveng-
ing; Jehovah avenging and possessing
wrath ; Jehovah avenging to his adver-
saries, and he keeping for his enemies.

8 Jehovah slow to anger and great of
power, and Jehovah acquitting, will not
acquit his way in the whirlwind and in
the storm, and a cloud the dust of his feet.

4 Rebuking upon the sea, and he
will dry it up, and all the rivers he laid
waste, and Bashan languished, and Car-
mel, and the flower of Lebanon lan-
guished.

5 The mountains shook from him,
and the hills melted, and the earth will
lift up from his face, and the habitable
globe and all dwelling in it.

6 Before the face of his wrath who
shall stand? and who will rise up in
the burning of his anger? his wrath
was poured out as fire, and the rocks
were torn down from him.

7 Jehovah is good for a fortress in
the day of straits; and he knew those
trusting in him.

8 With an inundation passing through
he will make a completion of her place,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

9 What will ye purpose against Jeho-
vah? he made a completion: straits
shall not rise up twice.

10 For even to thorns surrounding
them, and drinking to excess as drunk-
ards, they shall be devoured as straw
fully dried up.

11 From thee shall he come forth
purposing evil against Jehovah, a coun-
selor of Belial.

12 Thus said Jehovah: If peace thus
many, and thus they were shown and

he passed through. And afflicting thee
I will afflict thee no more.

13 And now I will break his rod from
off thee, and I will tear away thy bonds.

14 And Jehovah commanded con-
cerning thee, of thy name no more shall
be sown: from the house of thy God I
will cut off the carved image and the
molten image: I will set thy grave,
for thou wert contemned.

CHAPTER II.

EHOLD upon the mountains the

feet of him announcing good

news, causing peace to be heard. O

Judah, keep thy festivals, complete thy

vows: for Belial shall no more add to

pass through thee: he was completely
cut off.

2 The hammer came up upon thy
face: press upon the fortress, look about
the way, strengthen the loins, make the
power strong greatly.

3 For Jehovah turned back the pride
of Jacob as the pride of Israel: for they
emptying emptied them out, they cor-
rupted their vine-shoots.

4 The shield of the strong ones being
red, the men of strength being clothed
in scarlet: with fire of irons the char-
iots in the day of his preparing, and the
cypresses were macle to tremble.

5 The chariots shall be mad in the
streets, they shall run up and down in
the broad places: their appearance as
flames; as lightnings shall they run.

6 He shall make mention of his chiefs:
they shall be weak in their goings;
they shall hasten to her wall, and the
covering was prepared.

7 The gates of the rivers were open-
ed, and the temple melted away.

8 It was fixed, she was led away cap-
tive, she went up and her maids being

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led as the voice of doves smiting upon
their heart.

9 And Nineveh it is as a pool of water
from the days, and they fleeing, stood :
they stood, and none looking back.

10 They plundered silver, they plun-
dered gold: and no end to her splen-
did equipage; glory from all the ves-
sels of desire.

11 Sne was emptied, and being emp-
tied, and being made empty: and the
heart melted, and a wavering of the
knees, and trembling inall loins, and
the face of them all gathered a glow.

12 Where is the dwelling of the lions
and that pasture for the young lions
where the lion went, the lioness there,
the lion’s whelp, and none terrifying ?

18 The lion tore in pieces the suffi-
ciency of his whelps, and strangling for
his lionesses; and his holes shall be
filled with the prey, and his dens with
that torn in pieces.

14 Behold me against thee, says Je-
hovah of armies; and I burnt her char-
10% in the smoke, and the sword shall
devour thy young lions, and I eut off
thy prey from the land, and the voice of
her messengers shall no more be heard.

CHAPTER 11.
7 O! to the city of bloods: all of
it was filled with falsehood, with
violence; the prey will not withdraw.

2 The voice of the whip and the
voice of the shaking of the wheel, and
the horse moying swiftly, and the char-
10% bounding.

3 The horsemen also lifting up the
flame of the sword, and the lightning
of the spear: and a multitude of
wounded, and the heavy carcass; and
no end to the corpses; they shall stum-
ble upon their dead bodies.

4 From the multitude of the fornica-
tions of the fair harlot, the beauty of
the mistress of sorceries, selling the na-
tions by her fornications, and families
by her sorceries.

5 Behold me against thee, says Jeho-
vah of armies; and I uncovered ΤΥ
skirts upon thy face, and I caused na-
tions to see thy nakedness, and king-
doms thy shame.

6 And I cast abominable things upon

NAHUM IIL

thee, and I disgraced thee, and I set
thee as a sight.

7 And it was all serving thee shall
flee from thee, and say, Nineveh was
laid waste: who shall be moved for
her? from whom shall I seek those con-
soling to thee?

8 Wilt thou be good above No, the
builder dwelling among the rivers, the
waters round about to her, whose
strength the sea, from the sea her wall ?

9 Cush her strength, and Egypt, and
no end; Put and Lubim were among
thy helpers.

10 Also’she being carried away cap-
tive went into captivity: also her young
children shall be dashed in pieces at
the head of every street, and upon her
honored ones they cast the lot, and all
her great ones were bound in chains.

11 And thou shalt be intoxicated,
and thou shalt be hid; thou shalt seek
a fortified place from the enemy.

12 All thy fortresses, fig trees with the
early figs: 1f they shall be shaken, and
they fell into the mouth of him eating.

13 Behold, thy people women in the
midst of thee: the gates of thy land be-
ing opened were opened to thine ene-
mies: a fire devoured thy bars.

14 Draw the water of the siege to
thee, strengthen thy fortresses; go into
clay, tread upon the clay, hold fast from
the brick.

15 There shall the fire devour thee ;
the sword shall cut thee off, it shall de-
vour thee as the feeder: make thee nu-
merous as the feeder, make thee numer-
ous as the locust.

16 Thou didst multiply thy traffies
above the stars of the heavens: the
feeder spread out and it will fly away.

17 Thy devoted ones as the locust,
and thy satraps as the locust of locusts
encamping in the walls in a cold day ;
the sun arose and they fled ‘away, and
where his place he knew not.

18 Thy shepherds slumbered, O king
of Assur: thy chiefs will lie down:
thy people breathed upon the mount-
ains, and none gathering.

19 No healing to thy breaking; thy
blow sickly: all hearing thy report shall
clap the hand upon thee : for upon whom
did not thine evil pass continually ?

HABAKKUK.

CHAPTER I.
tee lifting up which Habbakuk
the prophet saw.

2 How long, O Jehovah, did I cry
for help, and thou wilt not hear? I will
ery to thee violence, and thou wilt not
save.

3 Wherefore wilt thou cause me to
see vanity and cause me to look at la-
bor? and oppression and violence be-
fore me, and there will be contention,
and strife’ will be raised up.

4 For this, the law will be slack, and
judgment will not go forth forever: for
the unjust surrounds the just; for this
perverted judgment will go forth.

5 See ye among the nations, and look,
and wonder; ye shall wonder: for the
working a work in your days ye will
not believe if it shall be recounted.

6 For behold me raising up the Chal-
deans, the nation bitter and hasty, go-
ing upon the wide places of the land to
possess the dwelling not to him.

7 He terrible and dreadful: his judg-
ment and his elevation shall come forth
from himself.

8 And his horses were swift above
panthers, and they were sharp above
the wolves of the evening: and his
horsemen were spread, and his horse-
men shall come from far off; they shall
fly as the eagle hastening to eat.

9 Wholly for violence shall he come:
the host of their faces forwards, and
he shall gather a captivity as the
sand,

10 And he shall scoff at kings, and
princes a derision to him: at every for-
tress he shall deride, and he shall heap
up dust and take it.

11 Then the spirit changed, and he
will pass over, and he transgressed :
this his strength is his God.

12 Art thou not from of old, O Jeho-
vah, my holy God? We shall not die.
O Jehovah, thou didst set him for judg-
ment; and O Rock, thou didst found
him for correction.

13 Σὰ pure of eyes from behold-

ing evil, and wilt not be able to look
upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look
upon the transgressors ? wilt thou be si-
lent in the unjust swallowing the just
above him?

14 And wilt thou make man as the’
fishes of the sea, as the creeping thing
no ruler over him?

15 And he brought up a completion
with the hook, he will drag him in his
net, and he will gather him in his fish-
net: for this he will rejoice and be
glad.

16 For this he will sacrifice to his
net and burn incense to his fish-net ; for
by them his portion fat and his food
growing fat.

17 For this, will he empty his net,
and he will not spare to slay the nations
continually.

CHAPTER II.
WILL stand upon my watch, and
he set me upon the fortress, and I
will watch to see what he will speak in
me, and what I shall turn back upon
my reproof.

2 And Jehovah will answer me and
say, Write the vision, and grave upon
the tablets, so that he shall run reading
in it.

3 For yet the vision for the appoint-
ment, and it shall breathe to the end,
and it shall not lie: if it shall delay,
wait for it; for coming, it will come,
and it shall not delay.

4 Behold, his soul being inflated in
him, was not straight: and the just one
shall live by his faithfulness.

5 And also if a proud man transgress-
ing by wine, and he will not rest; who
enlarged his soul אה‎ hades, and

116 as death, and he will not be satis-

fied, and he will gather to him all
nations, and he will collect to him all
peoples.

6 Shall not these all of them lift up
a parable against him, and an enigma
of an oracle against him, and it shall be
said, Wo! to him multiplying that not

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tohim. How long making heavy upon
him goods taken in pledge?

7 Shall they not rise up suddenly,
biting thee? and they disquieting thee
shall rise up, and thou wert for plunder
to them.
> 8 For thou didst spoil many nations,
all the rest of the peoples shall spoil
thee ; from the bloods of man, and the
violence of the land, of the city, and all
dwelling in it.

, 9 Wo! to him plundering an eyil
ce to his house, to set his nest on
igh, to deliver from the hand of evil.

10 Thou wilt counsel shame to thy
house, cutting off many peoples, and
causing thy soul to sin.

11 For the stone from the wall shall

ery out, and the cross-beam from the
wood shall answer it.
| 12 Wo! to him building a city with
bloods, and preparing a city by ini-
quity.
“18 Behold, is it not from Jehovah of
armies, and the peoples shall labor in
a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples
shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emp-
tiness ?

14 For the earth shall be filled to
know the glory of Jehovah as the wa-
ters shall cover over the sea?

15 Wo! to him giving his neighbor
drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle,
and also to be drunken so as to look
upon their nakedness.

16 Thou wert satisfied with dishonor
rather than honor: drink thou also
and be uncircumcised: the cup of the
right hand of Jehovah shall turn upon
thee, and ignominy upon thy glory.

17 For the violence of Lebanon shall
cover thee, and the destruction of beasts
phall terrify them from the bloods of
man, and the violence of the earth, of
the city, and all dwelling in it.
> 18 What profited the carved image
that he forming it carved it? the molt-
en image and he teaching falsehood,
that the former of his forming trusted
upon it, to make nothings being dumb?
719 Wo! to him saying to the wood,
Awake; and to the dumb stone, Arise,
it shall teach. Being overlaid with
gold and silver, and not any spirit in
its midst,

HABAKKUK IIL.

20 And Jehovah in his holy temple:
be silent all the earth before his face.

CHAPTER IIT.

Λ PRAYER by Habakkuk the

Δ prophet upon songs.

2 Ο Jehovah, I heard thy report, I
was afraid: O Jehovah, preserve alive
thy work in the midst of years, in the
midst of years make known; in anger
thou wilt remember merey.

8 God will come from Teman, and
the Holy One from mount Paran.
Silence. His majesty covered the heay-
ens, and his praise filled the earth.

4 And the brightness will be as the
light; horns to him from his hand;
and he set the hiding of his strength.

5 Before his face shall go the word,
and a flame will go forth at his feet.

6 He stood, and he will measure the
earth: he saw, and he will cause the
nations to tremble, and the mountains
of eternity will be dispersed, the perpet-
ual hills bowed down: the goings ever-
lasting to him.

7 1saw the tents of Cushan under
yanity: the curtains of the land of
strife shall be moved.

8 Was Jehovah angry against the
rivers? if thine anger against the riv-
ers? if thy wrath against the sea? if
thou wilt ride upon thy horses, thy
chariots of salvation ?

9 In nakedness thou shalt raise thy
bow, the oaths of the tribes, he said.
Silence. Thou wilt divide the earth
with rivers.

10 They saw thee, the mountains
shall tremble: the pouring ‘of the wa-
ters passed by: the deep gave his voice,
he lifted up his hands on high.

11 The sun, the moon stood in her
habitation: at the light of thine arrows
they will go, at the shining of the light-
ning of thy spear.

12 In wrath thou wilt march through
the land in anger, thou wilt thresh the
nations. ;

13 Thou wentest forth to save thy
people, to save thy Messiah; thou didst
crush the head from the house of the
unjust, making naked the foundation,
even to the neck. Silence.

14 Thou didst picree with rods the

ΖΕΡΗΆΝΙΑΗ 1.

head of the leader: they will rush on
as a tempest to scatter me their exulta-
tion as to devour the poor in secret.

15 Thou didst tread upon the sea
with thy horses, the heap of many wa-
ters,

16 I heard and my belly will trem-
ble; at the voice my lips quivered:
rottenness will come into my bones, and
I shall tremble under me that I shall rest
at the day of straits: to come up to the
people he will invade him.

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17 If the fig tree shall not blossom,
and no produce in the vines; the work
of the olive failed, and the fields made
not food; and the sheep being cut off
from the fold, and no oxen in the stalls.

18 I will exult in Jehovah, I will re-
joice in the God saving me.

19 Jehovah the Lord my strength,
and he will set my feet as the hinds,
and upon my heights he will cause me
to tread. For the overseer upon my
stringed instruments.

ZHPHANIAH.

CHAPTER I.
HE word of Jehovah which was
to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of
Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hiz-
kiah, in the days of Josiah son of
Amon, king of Judah.

2 Taking away, I will take away all
from off the face of the earth, says Je
hovah.

3 I will take away man and cattle;
I will take away the birds of the heay-
ens, and the fish of the sea, and the
stumbling blocks with the unjust; and
1 cut off man from the face of the earth,
says Jehovah.

4 And I stretched out my hand upon
Judah and upon all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; and I 685 off from this
place the remnant of Baal, with the
name of the obscurations with the
priests ;

5 And those worshiping upon the
roofs to the army of the heavens, and
worshiping, swearing to Jehovah, and
swearing to Malcham ;

6 And those departing from after Je-
hovah, and who sought not Jehovah,
and asked not for him.

7 Be silent from the face of the Lord
Jehovah: for the day of Jehovah is
near, for Jehovah prepared a sacrifice,
he consecrated his called ones.

rifice of Jehovah, and I reviewed upon
the chiefs and upon the sons of the
king, and upon all having put on
strange clothing,

9 And I reviewed upon every one
leaping upon the threshold in that day,
filling their lords’ houses with violence
and deceit.

10 And it was in that day, says Je-
hovah, a voice of acry from the gate
of fishes, and a wailing from the second,
and a great breaking from the hills.

11 Wail, ye inhabitants οἵ Maktesh,
for all the people of Canaan were de-
stroyed ; all lifting up silver were cut
off.

12 And it was in that time, I will
search out Jerusalem with lights, and I
reviewed upon the men curdled upon
their lees, saying in their heart, Jeho-
vah will do good and not evil.

13 And their wealth was for plunder,
and their houses for desolation: and
they built houses, and they inhabited
not; and they planted vineyards, and
they shall not drink their wine.

14 The great day of Jehovah is near,
it is near and hastening greatly, the
voice of the day of Jehovah: the strong
one cried there bitterly.

15 A day of wrath, that day a day
of straits and distress, a day of storm

8 And it was in the day of the sac-|and desolation, a day of darkness and

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thick darkness, a day of cloud and
gloom,

16 A day of the trumpet and loud
noise against the fortified cities, and
against the high pinnacles.

17 And I pressed upon man, and
they went as the blind, because they
sinned against Jehovah: and_ their
blood was poured out as dust and their
bread as dung.

18 Also their silver also their gold
shall not be able to deliver them in the
day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all
the land shall be consumed by the fire
of his jealousy : for he will make a com-
pletion even sudden of all dwelling in
the land.

CHAPTER II.
OLLECT yourselves together and
be ye collected, O nation not
ashamed ;

2 Before the law bring forth, as the
chaff the day passing away before the
burning of the anger of Jehovah shall
not come upon you, before the day of
the anger of Jehovah shall not come
upon you.

3 Seek. Jehovah, all ye humble of
the earth, who did his judgment; seek
justice, seek humility: perhaps ye shall
be covered in the day of the anger of
Jehovah.

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and
Ashkelon for a desolation: they shall
thrust out Ashdod at noon, and Hkron
shall be rooted up.

5 Wo! to the inhabitants of the re-
gion of the sea, the nation of the Che-
‘rethites: the word of Jehovah is upon
you, O Canaan, the land of the rovers,
and I destroyed thee from none inhab-
iting.

6 And the region of the sea was a
‘dwelling, and a cutting off of the shep-
herds and sheepfolds.

7 And the region was for the rem-
nant of the house of Judah; upon them
they shall feed: in the houses of Ashke-
lon they shall 116 down in the evening:
for Jehovah their God shall review
them, and turn back their captivity.

8 I heard the reproach of Moab, and
-the revilings of the sons of Ammon
which they reproached my people, and

ZEPHANIAH IL, III.

Ἐπ Ἐν will magnify against their bor-
er.

9 For this, I live, says Jehovah of
armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall
be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon
as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-
bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even
to forever: the remnant of my people
shall plunder them, and the rest of my
nation shall inherit them.

10 This to them for their pride, for
they reproached and they will magnify
against the people of Jehovah of armies.

11 God being terrible to them, for he
made lean all the gods of the earth;
and they shall worship to him each from
his place, all the isles of the nations.

12 Also ye Cushites, they being
wounded by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand
against the north, and he will destroy
Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a
desolation, a dryness as the desert. | =

14 And the flocks lay down in the
midst ot her, all the beasts of the na-
tions: also the pelican, also the hedge-
hog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice
shall sing in the window; desolation in
the threshold: for the cedar was naked.

15 This the exulting city dwelling
confidently, saying in her heart, I, and
none besides me. How was she for a
desolation, a place of lying down for the
beast! all passing by her shall hiss and
wave his hand.

CHAPTER IIT.
A Vie to the wonderful and op-
pressing city being redeemed.

2 She heard not to the voice; she re-
ceived not instruction; she trusted not
in Jehovah; she drew not. near to her
God.

3 Her chiefs in the midst of her are
roaring lions; her judges evening
wolves; they laid not up for the morn-
ing.

4 Her prophets vain-glorious men 0
treacheries: her priests defiled the holy
place, they violated the law. :

5 Jehovah is just in her midst; he
will not do iniquity: in morning by
morning he will give his judgment to
the light, he was not wanting; and the
evil will not know shame.

HAGGAT I.

6 1 cut off the nations: their pinna-
cles were desolate: I laid waste their
streets from none passing by: their
cities were destroyed from not a man,
from not an inhabitant.

7 1 said, Surely thou wilt fear me,
thou wilt receive instruction; and her
dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I
reviewed over her: but they rose early,
they corrupted all their doings.

8 For this, wait for me, says Jeho-
vah, to the day of my rising up fora
testimony: for my Judgment is to as-
semble the nations for my gathering the
kingdoms to pour upon them my wrath,
allthe burning of mine anger: for in
the. fire of my jealousy all the earth
shall be devoured.

9 For then I will turn to the peoples
a purified lip, for all to call upon the
name of Jehovah, to serve him with one
shoulder.

10 From beyond to the rivers of
Cush my incense, the daughter of my
dispersed shall bring my gifts.

11 In that day shalt thou not be
ashamed for all thy doing which thou
didst transgress against me: for then
will 1 remove from the midst of thee
those exulting in thy pride, and thou
shalt no more add to be elevated in my
holy mountain.

12 And I left in the midst of thee a
humble and weak people, and they
trusted in the name of Jehovah.

13 The remnant of Israel shall not

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do iniquity, and they shall not speak
falsehood: and in their mouth shall not
be found a tongue of deceit: for they
shall feed and he down, and none terri-
fying.

14 Shout for joy, O daughter of Zi-
on; ery with a loud voice, O Israel;
rejoice and exult with all the heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem.

15 Jehovah removed thy judgments,
he turned away thine enemy: the king
of Israel, Jehovah in the midst of thee:
thou shalt no more see evil.

16 In that day he will say to Jerusa-
lem, Thou shalt not fear: O Zion, thy
hands shall not be slack.

17 Jehovah thy God is in the midst
of thee: the strong one will save, he
will rejoice over thee with joy ; he will
be silent in his love, he will exult over
thee with rejoicing.

18 I will assemble those grieved for
the appointment, who were from thee,
the lifting up upon it a reproach.

19 Behold me doing all for sake of
thee in that time: and I saved her halt- -
ing, and her being driven out 1 will
gather; and I set them for a praise and
for a name in every land of their
shame.

20 In that time I will bring you, and
in the time of my gathering you: for I
will give you for a name and for a
praise among all peoples of the earth,
In my turning back your captivity be-
fore your eyes, said Jehovah,

HAGGAT.

CHAPTER I.
EY the second year to Darius. the
king, in the sixth month, in one
day of the month, was the word of Je-
hovah, by the hand of Haggai the
prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua
son of Josedeck the great priest, say-
ing,
3 Thus said Jehovah of armies, say-
ing, This people said the time was not

come, the time of the house of Jehovah
to be built.

3 And the word of Jehovah will be by
the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is the time for you, O ye, to dwell
in your covered houses, and this house
a waste?

5 And now, thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies: Set your hearts upon your ways.

6 Ye sowed much and brought in
little; eating and not being satisfied ;

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ye drank, and not drinking to the full;
putting on clothing, and not being warm
to him; and he hiring out, hires out
for a purse perforated.

7 Thus said Jehovah of armies: Set
your hearts upon your ways.

8 Go up to the mountain and bring
wood, and build the house, and I will
delight in it, and I shall be honored,
said Jehovah.

9 Looking for much, and behold, to
little; and ye brought to the house and
T blew upon it. For what? says Jeho-
vah of armies. Because of mine house
that it was laid waste, and ye run each
to his house.

10 For this the heavens over you
were shut up from dew, and the earth
withheld her produce.

11 And I will call the drought upon
the land, and upon the mountains, and
upon the grain, and upon the new wine
and upon the new oil, and upon what
the earth shall bring forth, and upon
man and upon cattle, and upon all the
labor of the hands.

12 And Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel
will hear, and Joshua son of Josedeck
the great priest, and all the remnant of
the people, to the voice of Jehovah
their God, and to the words of Haggai
the prophet, as Jehovah their God sent
him, and the people will fear from the
face of Jehovah.

13 And Haggai the messenger of Je-
hovah will say in the message of Jeho-
vah to the people, I am with you, says
Jehovah.

14 And Jehovah will raise up the
spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of
Joshua son of Josedeck the great priest,
and the spirit of all the remnant of the
people; and they will come and do the
work in the house of Jehovah of armies
their God.

15 In the twenty and fourth day to
the sixth month in the second year to
Darius the king.

CHAPTER ΤΙ.
N the seventh, in the twentieth and
one to the month, was the word of
Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the
prophet, saying,

HAGGAT II.

2 Say now to Zerubbabel son of She-
altiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua
son of Josedeck the great priest, and to
the remnant of the people, saying,

3 Who being left among you who
saw this house in its first glory? and
how see ye it now? Is it not in your
eyes like it as nothing?

4 And now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
says Jehovah; and be strong, O Joshua,
son of Josedeck the great priest; and
be strong, O all people of the land, says
Jehovah, and do, for 1 am with you,
says Jehovah of armies.

5 The word which I cut out with you
in bringing you forth out of Egypt, and
my spirit stood in the midst of you; ye
shall not fear.

6 For thus said Jehovah of armies;
Yet once it isa little, and I shake the
heavens and the earth and the sea and
the dry land.

7 And I shook all nations, and the
desire of all nations came: and I filled
this house with glory, said Jehovah of
armies,

8 To me the silver and to me the
gold, says Jehovah of armies.

9 Great shall be the glory of this lat-
ter house above the first, said Jehovah
of armies: and in this place I will give
peace, says Jehovah of armies.

10 In the twenty and fourth to the
ninth, in the second year to Darius,
was the word of Jchovah by the hand
of Haggai the prophet, saying,

11 Thus said Jehovah of armies, Ask
now the priests the law, saying,

19 Τῇ aman shall lift up holy flesh
in the wing of his garment and touch
with the wing of his garment upon the
bread and upon pottage, and upon
wine and upon oil, and upon any food,
shall it be made holy ? And the priests
shall answer and say, No.

13 And Haggai will say, If the un-
clean of soul shall touch upon any of
these, shall it be unclean? and the
priests shall answer and say, It shall be
unclean.

14 And Haggai will answer and say,
Thus this people and thus this nation
before me, says Jehovah; and thus all
the work of their hands; and what
they shall bring near there it is unclean.

ZECHARIAH I.

15 And now. 805 now your heart
from this day and upward, before set-
ting stone upon stone in the temple of
Jehovah.

16 Who were ye coming to the heap
of twenty and it was ten? coming to
the wine-vat to draw fifty of the wine-
press, and there was twenty ?

171 struck you with blasting and
with yellowness and with hail in all the
work of your hands; and none with
you to me, says Jehovah.

18 Set now your-heart from this day
and. upward, from the twenty and
fourth day to the ninth, from the day
that the temple of Jehovah was found-
ed, set ye your heart.

19 Is the seed yet in the storehouse ?
and even the vine and the fig tree,
and the pomegranate and the olive

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tree bore. not:
praise. i

20 And the word of Jehovah will be
the second time to Haggai in the twen-
ty and fourth to the month, saying,

21 Say to Zerubbabel, governor of
Judah, saying, I shake the heavens
and the earth. |

22 And I overturned the throne of
kingdoms, and I destroyed the strength
of the kingdoms of the nations; and I
overturned the chariot and those riding
it; and the horses and their horsemen
came down, a man by the sword of his
brother.

23 In that day, says Jehovah of ar:
mies, J will take thee, Ὁ Zerubbabel,
son of Shealtiel, my servant, says Jeho-
vah, and I set thee as a seal; for 1
chose in thee, says Jehovah of armies.

from this day will. 1

ZECHARIAH.

CHAPTER I
N the eighth month, in the second
year to Darius, was the word of Je-
hovah to Zechariah son of Barachiah,
son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

2 Jehovah was angry with our fa-
thers with anger.

3 And thou saidst to them, Thus said
Jehovah of armies: Turn back to me,
says Jehovah of armies, and I will turn
back to you, said Jehovah of armies

4 Ye shall not be as your fathers
which the former prophets called to
them, saying, Thus said Jehovah of ar-
mies: Turn back now from your evil
ways and your evil doings: and they
heard not, and they attended not to me,
says Jehovah.

5 Your fathers, where are they?
and the prophets, shall they live for-
ever?

6 But the words and the laws which
1 commanded my servants the prophets,
did they not reach your fathers? and
they will turn back and say, As Jeho-
vah of armies purposed to do to us ac-
cording to our wavs and according to
our doings, so he did with us.

7 In the twenty and fourth day to
the eleventh month, this the month Sa-
bat, in the second year to Darius, was
the word of Jehovah to Zechariah, son
of Barachiah, son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,

8 Isaw by night, and behold a man
riding upon a red horse, and he stood
beween the myrtles which were תו‎ 8
shady place; and after him red horses,
bay, and white.

9 And saying, What these, my lord?
And the messenger speaking with me,
will say to me, I will cause thee to sce
what these are? !

10 And the man standing between
the myrtles will answer and say, These
which Jehovah sent to go about in the
earth.

11 And they will answer the messen-
ger of Jehovah standing between the
myrtles, and they will say, We walked
about in the earth, and behold, all the
earth sat and rested.

12 And the messenger of Jehovah
will answer and say, O Jehovah of ar-
mies, how long wilt thou not compas-

|sionate Jerusalem and the cities of Ju-

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dah with whom thou wert very angry
this seventy years?

18 And Jehovah will answer the
messenger speaking with me good
words, consoling words.

14 And the messenger speaking with
me, will say to me, Call thou, saying,
Thus said Jehovah of armies; I was
jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with
great jealousy.

15 And I am angry with great anger
against the nations living in quiet: for
I was angry a little and they helped for
evil.

16 For this, thus said Jehovah: I
turned back to Jerusalem with mer-
6108 : my house shall be built in it, says
Jehovah of armies, and a cord shall be
stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

17 Yet call, say, Thus said Jehovah
of armies: My cities shall be spread
abroad for good; and Jehovah yet com-
forted Zion and yet chose Jerusalem.

CHAPTER IL
ND I shall lift wp mine eyes, and

‘A. see, and behold, four horns.

2 And saying to the messenger speak-
ing with me, What these? And he
will say to me, These the horns which
seattered Judah, and Israel, and Jeru-
salem.

3 And Jehovah caused me to see
four artificers.

4 And saying, What came these to
do? And he will say, saying, These
the horns which scattered Judah, so
that a man lifted not up his head: and
these will come to terrify them, to cast
out the horns of the nations lifting up
the horn to the land of Judah to seat-
ter it.

5 1 shall lift wp mine eyes and see,
and behold, a man, and in his hand a
cord of measure.

6 And saying, Whither goest thou?
And he will say to me, To measure Je-
rusalem, to see according to what its
breadth, and according to what its
leneth.

7 And behold, the messenger spealk-
ing with me went forth, and another
messenger went forth to meet him:

8 And he will say to him, Run, speak
to this youth, saying, Jerusalem shall

ZECHARIAH IL, III.

be inhabited an open country from the
multitude of men and cattle in the
midst of her.

9 And I will be to her, says Jeho-
vah, a wall of fire round about, and I
will be for glory in the midst of her.

10 Alas! alas! and flee ye from the
land of the north, says Jehovah: for as
the four winds of the heavens I spread
you abroad, says Jehovah.

11 Alas, O Zion, deliver thyself in-
habiting the daughter of Babel.

12 For thus said Jehovah of armies:
After glory he sent me to the nations
spoiling you: for he touching upon you
touched the gate of his eye.

18 For behold me waving my hand
upon them, and they were a spoil to
their servants: and ye knew that Jeho-
vah of armies sent me.

14 Shout for joy and rejoice, O daugh-
ter of Zion: for behold me coming,
and I dwelt in the midst of thee, says
Jehovah.

15 And many nations joined them-
selves to Jehovah in that day, and they
were to me for a people: and I dwelt
in the midst of thee, and thou knewest
that Jehovah of armies sent me to thee.

16 And Jehovah inherited Judah his
portion upon the holy land, and he yet
chose Jerusalem.

17 Be silent, all flesh, from the face
of Jehovah: for he was raised from the
habitation of his holiness.

CHAPTER III.
ND he will cause me to see Josh-
ua the great priest standing be-
fore the messenger of Jehovah, and the
adversary standing upon his right hand
for his adversary.

2 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, And Jehovah will rebuke in
thee, thou adversary: and Jehovah
having chosen in Jerusalem will rebuke
in thee: is not this a fire-brand snatch-
ed from the fire?

3 And Joshua was clothed in filthy
garments, and he stood before the mes-
senger.

4 And he will answer and say to
them standing before him, saying, Re-
move the filthy garments from off him.
And he will say to him, See, 1 caused

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thine iniquity to pass from thee, and
clothed thee with festive garments.

5 And saying, They shall set a pure
turban upon his head; and they will
set the pure turban upon his head, and
they will put on the garments. And
the messenger of Jehovah stood.

6 And the messenger of Jehovah
will protest to Joshua, saying,

7 Thus said Jehovah of armies: If
thou wilt go in my way, and if thou
shalt watch my watches, and thou also
shalt judge my house, and also thou shalt
watch my enclosure, and I gave to thee
the goings between these standing by.

8 Hear now, O Joshua the great
priest, thou and thy friends sitting be-
fore thee, for they are men of wonder:
for behold me bringing my servant the
Sprout.

9 For behold the stone which I gave be-
fore Joshua; upon one stone seven eyes:
behold me engraving its engraving, says
Jehovah of armies, and I removed the
iniquity of that land in one day.

10 In that day, says Jehovah of ar-
mies, ye shall call each his neighbor
under the vine and under the fig tree.

CHAPTER IV.
ND the messenger speaking with
me will turn back and rouse me
up as aman that will be roused from
his sleep.

2 And he will say to me, What seest
thou? And saying, I saw, and behold,
a candlestick of gold, all of it, and a
bowl upon its head, and its seven lights
upon it, and seven tubes to the seven
lights which were upon its head:

3 And two olive trees upon it, one
from the right of the bowl and one from
its left.

4 And I shall answer and say to the
messenger speaking with me, saying,
What are these, my lord?

5 And the messenger speaking with
me will answer and say to me, Knewest
thou not what these are? And saying,
No, my lord.

6 And he will answer and say to me,
saying, This the word of Jehovah to
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by strength,
not by power, but by my spirit, said
Jehovah of armies.

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7 Who art thou, O great mountain?
before the face of Zerubbabel for a ley-
el region. And he brought forth the
stone of the head, a noise: Grace, grace
to it.

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

9 The hands of Zerubbabel founded
this house, and his hands shall complete
it; and thou knewest that Jehovah of
armies sent me to you.

10 For who despised the day of small
things? and they rejoiced, and they
saw the stone of tin in the hand of Ze-
rubbabel, these seven ; they the eyes of
Jehovah running to and fro in all the
earth.

11 And I shall answer and say to
him, What these two olive trees upon
the right of the candlestick and upon
its left?

12 And I shall answer the second
time, and say to him, What these two
twigs of the olive trees which by the hand
of the two tubes of gold emptying
from them the gold?

13 And he will say to me, saying,
Knewest thou not what these are?
And saying, No, my lord.

14 And he will say, These the two
sons of new oil standing by the Lord of
all the earth.

CHAPTER V.
Λ ND 1 shall turn back and lift up
mine eyes and see, and behold, a
roll flying.

2 And he will say to me, What seest
thou? And saying, I see a roll flying;
its length twenty by the cubit, and its
breadth, ten by the cubit.

3 And he will say to me, This the
curse going forth upon the face of all
the earth: for every one stealing from
thence was empty like it; and every
one swearing from this was empty
like it.

4 I brought it forth, says Jehovah of
armies, and it came into the house of
the thief, and into the house of him
swearing for falsehood in my name:
and it lodged in the midst of his house,
and it finished it and its wood and its
stones.

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me will go forth and say to me, Lift up
now thine eyes and see what this going
forth.

6 And saying, Whatis it? And he
will say to me, This the ephah going
forth. And he will say, This their eye
in all the earth.

7 And behold, a talent of lead was
lifted up: and this one woman sitting
in the midst of the ephah.

8 And he will say, This injustice.
And he will cast her into the midst of
the ephah; and he will cast a stone of
lead upon its mouth.

9 And 1 shall lift up mine eyes and
see, and behold, two women will come
forth, and the wind in their wings; and
to them wings as the wings of the stork ;
and they shall litt up the ephah be-
tween the earth and between the heay-
ens.

10 And saying to the messenger
speaking with me, Whither do they
carry the ephah ?

11 And he will say to me, To build
for ita house in the Jand of Shinar:
and it was prepared, and set there upon
her base.

CHAPTER VI.
ND Τ shall turn back and lift up
mine eyes and see, and behold,
four chariots going forth from between
two mountains; and the mountains,
mountains of brass,

9 ו‎ the first chariot, red horses;
and in the second chariot, black horses ;

3 And in the third chariot, white
horses; and in the fourth chariot,
horses sprinkled with spots, and fleet.

4 And I shall answer and say to the
messenger speaking with me, What are
these, my lord?

5 And the messenger will answer and
say to me, These the four spirits of the
heavens going forth from standing be-
fore the Lord of all the earth.

6 The black horses which are in it,
going forth into the land of the north ;
and the white went forth after them;
and the sprinkled with spots went forth
to the land of the south.

7 And the fleet went forth and they
will seek to go in order to go to and
fro in the earth: and he will say, Go;

ZECHARIAH VL, VIL

go to and fro in the earth. And they
will go to and fro in the earth.

8 And he will ery out with me, and
speak to me, saying, See them going
forth to the land of the north; they
caused my spirit to rest in the land of
the north.

9 And the word of Jehovah will be
to me, saying,

10 Take from the captivity, from
Heldai, from Tobijah, and from Jedai-
ah, which came from Babel, and come
thou in that day and go into the house
of Josiah son of Zephaniah ;

11 And take silver and gold and
make crowns, and set upon the head of
Joshua, son of Josedeck the great priest ;

12 And say to him, saying, Thus
said Jehovah of armies, saying, Behold
the man, The Sprout his name; and
he shall spring forth from his place
and build the temple of Jehovah. |

18 And he shall build the temple of
Jehovah ; and he shall lift wp the maj-
esty, and he sat and ruled upon his
throne: and he was priest upon his
throne: and the counsel of peace shall
be between them two.

14 And the ¢rown shall be to He-
lem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
and to Hen, son of Zephaniah, for a re-
membrance in the temple of Jehovah.

15 And they being far off shall come
and build in the temple of Jehovah;
and ye knew that Jehovah of armies
sent me to you. And it was if hearing,
ye shall hear to the voice of Jehovah
your God.

CHAPTER VIL
ND it will be in the fourth year to
Darius the king, the word of Je-
hovah was to Zechariah in the fourth
to the ninth month, in Chisleu;

2 And he will send to the house of
God, the chief of the treasure, and the
friend of the king, and his men to be-
seech the face of Jehovah.

3 To speak to the priests which were
to the house of Jehovah of armies, and
to the prophets, saying, Should I weep
in the fifth month, separating myself
according as I did. how many the years?

4 And the word of Jehovah of ar-
mies was to me, saying,

ZECHARIAH VIII.

5 Say to all the people of the land,
and to the priests, saying When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and ‘in
the seventh, and this seventy years,
fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

6 And when ye shall eat, and when
ye shall drink, are ye not eating, and
are ye not drinking?”

7 Is it not the words which Jehovah

called by the hand of the former proph-
ets in Jerusalem being inhabited and in
security, and its cities sround about her,
and inhabiting the south and the low
country ?

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Zechariah, saying,

9 Thus said Jehovah of armies, say-
ing, Judge ye the judgment of truth,
and do mercy and compassions each to
his brother.

10 And the widow and the orphan,
the stranger and the poor, ye shall not
oppress ; ‘and ye shall not purpose evil
in your heart a man to his brother.

11 And they will refuse to attend,
and they will give a stubborn shoulder,
and their ears they made heavy from
hearing.

12 And their heart they set a dia-
mond from hearing the instruction and
the words which Jehovah of armies
sent by his spirit by the hand of the
former prophets: and there will be
great wrath from Jehovah of armies.

13 And it will be as he called, and
they heard not; so they shall call, and
1 will not hear, said Jehoyah of ar-
mies :

14 And I will toss them about among
all the nations which they knew not:
and the land was desolate after them
from passing through and from turmng
back: and they shall set the land of de-
sire for a desolation.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND the word of Jehovah of armies
will be, saying,

2 Thus said Jehovah of armies: I
was jealous for Zion with great jeal-
ousy, and with great wrath was I jeal-
ous for her.

8 Thus said Jehovah: I turned back
to Zion, and I dwelt in the midst of Je-
rusalem: and Jerusalem was called,

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The city of truth; and the mountain
of Jehovah of armies, The holy mount-
ain.

4 Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet
shall old men and old women sit in the
broad places of Jerusalem, and a man
his support in his hand from the mul-
titude of days.

6 And the broad places of ie city
shall be filled with boys and girls play-
ing in her broad places.

6 Thus said Jehovah of armies: If
it shall be wonderful in the eyes of the
remnant of this people in these days,
also shall it be wonderful in mine eyes,
says Jehovah of armies.

7 Thus said Jehovah of armies: Be-
hold me saving my people from the
land of the sunrising, and from the land
of the going down of the sun.

8 And I brought them, and they
dwelt in the midst of Jerusalem: and
they were to me for a people, and 1 will
be to them for God, in truth and in jus-
tice.

9 Thus said Jehovah of armies: Your
hands shall be strong, ye hearing in
these days these words from the mouth
of the prophets, which were in the day
the house of Jehovah of armies was
founded for the temple to be built.

10 For before these cays there was
no hire of man, and not any hire of 69%-
tle; and to him going out, and to him
coming in, no peace from the straits:
and I will send all the men each against
his neighbor.

11 And now not as the former days
am I to the remnant of this people, says
Jehovah of armies.

12 For the seed of peace; the vine
shall give her fruit and the earth shall
give her produce, and the heavens shall
give their dew; and I caused the rem-
nant of this people to inherit all these.

13 And it was as ye were a curse in
the nations, O house of Judah, and
house of Israel ; so I will save you, and
ye were a praise: ye shall not fear;
your hands shall be strengthened.

14 For thus said Jehovah of armies ;
As Thad in mind to do evil to you in
your fathers’ provoking me to anger,

said Jehovah of armies, ‘and I lamented
not.

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15 So I turned back; I had in mind
in these days to do good to Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah: ye shall
not fear.

16 These the words which ye shall
do: speak the truth each with his neigh-
bor; truth and the judgment of peace
judge ye in your gates.

17 And ye shall not purpose evil, a
man to his neighbor, in your heart;
and ye shall not love the oath of false-
hood: for all these which I hated, says
Jehovah.

18 And the word of Jehovah of ar-
mies will be to me, saying,

19 Thus said Jehovah of armies: The
fast of the fourth, and the fast of the
fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and
the fast of the tenth, shall be to the
house of Judah for joy and for glad-
ness, and for good appointments; and
love ye truth and peace.

20 Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet
that peoples shall come, and the inhab-
itants of many cities:

21 And the inhabitants of one went
to one, saying, We will go, going to
beseech the face of Jehovah, and to
seek Jehovah of armies: I will go
also.

22 And many peoples and strong na-
tions came to seek Jehovah of armies in
Jerusalem, and to beseech the face of
Jehovah.

23 Thus said Jehovah of armies: In
those days, that ten men shall take
hold from all tongues of the nations,
and they took hold of the wing of a
man a Jew, saying, We will go with
you: for we heard God is with you.

CHAPTER IX.
HE lifting up of the word of Jeho-
vah in the land of Hadrach, and
Damascus its gift: when to Jehovah
the eye of man and all the tribes of Is-
rael.

2 And also Hamath shall be the
bound in it; Tyre and Zidon, for it
was wise exceedingly. ;

3 And Tyre will build for herself a
fortress, se she will heap up silver as
the dust, and gold as the mud of the
streets.

4 Behold, Jehovah will dispossess her,

ZECHARIAH IX.

and he struck her strength in the sea;
and she shall be devoured by fire.

5 Ashkelon shall see and shall fear;
and Gaza, and she shall be greatly
pained, and Ekron; for her confidence
was ashamed; and the king perished
from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be
inhabited.

6 And a foreigner dwelt in Ashdod,
and I cut off the pride of the rovers.

7 And I took away his bloods from
his mouth, and his abominable things
from between his teeth: and being left,
he also to our God, and he was 8 thou-
sand in Judah, and Ekron asa Jebusite.

8 And I encamped at my house a
garrison from him passing by, and from
him turning back: and he driving shall
no more pass through against them : for
now I saw with mine eyes.

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion; make a loud noise, O daughter
of Jerusalem: behold, thy king shall
come to thee: just, and saving; he is
humble and riding upon an ass, and
upon an ass’s colt the son of asses.

10 And I 60% off the chariot from
Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem,
and the bow of war was cut off: and
he spake peace to the nations: and his
dominion from sea even 10 seA, and from
the river even to the end of the earth.

11 Also thou by the blood of thy
covenant I sent forth thy bound ones
from the pit no water in it.

12 Turn back to the fortress, ye cap-
tives of hope: also announcing this day
I will turn back double to thee;

13 For I tread out Judah to me, I
filled the bow with Ephraim, and I
raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy
sons, O Greece, and I set thee as the
sword of the strong one.

14 And Jehovah will be seen upon
them, and his arrow shall go forth as
lightning: and the Lord Jehovah will
strike upon the trumpet, and he went
with tempests of the south.

15 Jehovah of armies shall protect
over them ; and they devoured and sub-
dued with the stones of the sling; and
they drank, they made a noise as from
wine; and they filled as the vase, as the
corners of the altar.

16 And Jehovah their God saved

ZECHARIAH X., XI.

them in that day as the sheep of his
people: for the stones of consecration,
lifting themselves up in his land.

17 For what his good, and what his
beauty! Grain shall cause the young
men to increase, and new wine the vir-

gins.

CHAPTER Χ.
Λ SK ye from Jehovah rain in the
time of the latter rain; Jehovah
made lightnings, and he will give rain
of heavy showers to them, to each the
green herb in the field.

2 For the family gods spake vanity,
and the diviners saw falsehood, and
they will speak dreams of falsehood ;
they will comfort in vain: for this, they
removed as a flock, they were afflicted
for there was no shepherd.

3 Mine anger was kindled against the
shepherds, and I will review upon the
he goats: for Jehovah of armies re-
viewed upon his flock the house of
Judah, as the house of his strength in
the war.

4 From him the chief, from him the
nail, from him the bow of war, from
him came forth every tyrant toge-
ther.

5 And they were as the strong tread-
ing down in the mud of the streets in
the battle: and they waged war, for
Jehovah was with them, and they rid-
ing horses were ashamed.

6 And I strengthened the house of
Judah, and I will save the house of
Joseph, and I turned them back for I
compassionated them, and they were as
if I cast them not off: for 1 am Je-
hovah their God,and I will answer
them.

7 And they were as the strong one
of Ephraim, and their heart rejoiced as
from wine: and their sons shall see,
and rejoice; their heart shall exult in
Jehovah.

81 will hiss for them, and gather
them; for I redeemed them: and they
multiplied as they multiplied.

9 And I will sow them among the
peoples, and in distant places shall they
remember me: and they lived with
their sons, and turned back.

10 And I turned them back from the

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land of Egypt, and from Assur will I
gather them, and to the land of Gilead
and Lebanon will I bring them; and it
shall not be found for them.

11 And he passed through the sea of
straits, and he struck the waves in the
sea, and all the depths of the river
dried up; and the pride of Assur was
brought down, and the rod of Egypt
shall depart.

12 And I strenethened them in Je-
hovah ; and in his name shall they go
about, says Jehovah.

CHAPTER XI.
PEN the doors, O Lebanon, and
fire shall devour among thy ce-
dars.

2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar fell ;
for the powerful ones were destroyed :
wail, ye oaks of Bashan, for the forest
of the vintage went down.

3 A voice of wailing of the shep-
herds, for their greatness was destroyed :
a voice of the roaring of young hons,
for the pride of Jordan was destroyed.

4 Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed
the flock of slaughter ;

5 Which they possessing them will
slaughter them, and they will not be
punished: and they selling them will
say, Blessed be Jehovah; and I shall
be rich: and their shepherds had not
pity upon them.

6 For I will no more have pity upon
the inhabitants of the land, says Jeho-
vah: and behold, the men to be found
each in the hand of his neighbor, and
in the hand of his king: and they beat
the land, and I will not deliver from
their hand.

7 And I will feed the flock of slaugh-
ter for you, and the poor of the sheep:
And I will take to me two rods; to the
one I called Beauty, and to the one, I
called Cords; and I will feed the sheep.

8 And I will conceal three shepherds
in one month; and my soul will be
shortened for them, and also their soul
loathed for me.

9 And saying, I will not feed you:
the dying shall die, and the concealed
shall be concealed; and they being left
i eat each the. flesh of her neigh-

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10 And I will take my rod Beauty,
and I will cut it off, to break my cove-
nant which 1 cut out with all the peo-

les.

11 And it shall be broken in that
day : and the poor of the flock watch-
ing me knew that it was the word of
Jehovah.

12 And saying to them, If good in
your eyes, give ye my hire; and if not,
desist. And they will weigh my hire,
thirty of silver.

13 And Jehovah will say to me, Cast
it to the potter: a splendor of price
which I was prized of them. And I
shall take the thirty of silver and cast
it in the house of Jehovah, to the pot-
ter.

14 And I shall cut off my second
rod, Cords, to break the brotherhood
between Judah and between Israel.

15 And Jehovah will say to me, Yet
take to thee the vessels of a foolish
shepherd.

16 For behold, I raise wp a shepherd
in the land, he shall not review those
being concealed; the youth he shall not
seek, and he shall not heal the broken,
and he shall not nourish the standing
firmly: and he shall eat the flesh of
the fatling, and he shall break their
hoofs.

17 Wo! to the empty shepherd for-
saking the sheep; the sword upon his
arm, and upon his right eye: and his
arm being dried up, shall be dried up,
and his right eye being dim, shall be
dim.

CHAPTER XII.
NEE lifting up of the word of Jeho-
vah for Israel, says Jehovah,
stretching forth the heavens and found-
ing the earth, and forming the spirit of
man in the midst of him.

2 Behold, I set Jerusalem a dish of
reeling to all peoples round about, and
against Judah shall he be in the strait-
ness against Jerusalem.

3 And it was in that day I will set
Jerusalem a stone of burden to all peo-
ples: all loading her, being cut, shall
be cut; and all the nations of the earth
were gathered together against her. =

4 In that day, says Jehovah, I will

ZECHARIAH XII.

strike every horse with astonishment,
and his rider with madness: and upon
the house of Judah I will open mine
eyes, and every horse of the peoples I
will strike with blindness.

5 And the thousands of Judah said
in their heart, The inhabitants of Jeru-
salein strength to me in Jehovah of ar-
mies their God.

6 In that day I will set the thousands
of Judah as a fire-pan of fire among the
woods, and as a torch of fire in a sheaf;
and they devoured upon the right and
upon the left all the peoples round about:
and Jerusalem shall yet dwell in her
place in Jerusalem.

7 And Jehovah saved the tents of
Judah first, so that the glorying of the
house of David shall not be magnified,
and the glorying of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, against Judah.

8 In that day Jehovah shall protect
about the inhabitants of Jerusalem ;
and he being weak among them in that
day was as David; and the house of
David as God, as the messenger of Je-
hovah before them.

9 And it was in that day I will seek
to destroy all the nations coming against
Jerusalem.

10 And I poured out upon the house
of David and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem the spirit of grace and sup-
plications : and they looked to me whom
they pierced, and they mourned for him
as mourning for the only begotten, and
being embittered for him as being em-
bittered for the first-born.

11 In that day the mourning shall
be magnified as the mourning of Ha-
dad-Rimmon in the valley of Megid-
don.

12 And the land mourned, families,
families by themselves; the family of
the house of David by itself, and their
wives by themselves; the family of the
house of giving by itself, and their wives
by themselves.

13 The family of the house of Levi
by itself, and their wives by them-
selves; the family of hearing by itself,
and their wives by themselves.

14 All the families being left, fami-
lies, families, by themselves, and their
wives by themselves.

ZECHARIAH XIIL, XIV.

CHAPTER XIIL
pees that day shall be a fountain open-
ed to the house of David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and
for putting away.

2 And it was in that day, says Jeho-
vah of armies, I will cut off the names
of the images from the land, and they
shall be remembered no more: and also
I will cause the prophets and the un-
clean spirit to pass out of the land.

8 And it was if a man shall yet
prophesy, and his father and his moth-
er who begat him, said to him, Thou
shalt not live, for thou spalest false-
hood in the name of Jehovah: and his
father and his mother begetting him
thrust him through in his prophesying.

4 And it was in that day the proph-
ets shall be ashamed, each of his vision,
in his prophesying; and they shall not
put on a mantle of hair to speak lies:

5 And saying, I am not a prophet; I
a man working the land; for man sold
me from my youth.

6 And saying to him, What these
wounds between thy hands? And he
said, Which I wasstruck in the house
of those loving me.

7 O sword, be raised up against my
shepherd, and against the man of my
fellowship, says Jehovah of armies:
strike the shepherd and the sheep shall
be scattered; and I turned back my
hand upan the little ones.

8 And it was in all the land, says Je-
hoyah, two parts in it shall be cut off,
they shall expire; and the third shall
be left in it

9 And I brought the third through
fire, and I purified them as purifying
silver, and I tried them as trying gold:
he shall call on my name and 1 will
answer him: I said, He is my people;
and he shall say, Jehovah my God.

CHAPTER XIV.
EHOLD, the day to Jehovah com-
ing, and thy spoil was divided in
the midst of thee.

2 And I gathered all the nations
against Jerusalem for war; and the
city was taken, and the houses were
plundered, and the women shall be rav-
ished; and half the city shall go forth

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into captivity, and the people being left
shall not be cut off from the city.

8 And Jehovah went forth and
waged war with these nations as the
day of his warring in the day of en-
counter.

4 And his feet stood in that day up-
on the mount of Olives which is upon
the face of Jerusalem from the east;
and the mount of Olives was cleft asun-
der from its half from the sunrising and
the sea, and a very great valley; and
half of the mountain removed to the
north, and its half to the south.

5 And ye fled to the valley of the
mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach to the side, and
ye fled as ye fled from the face of the
shaking in the days of Uzziah, king of
Judah: and Jehovah my God came,
all the holy ones with thee.

6 And it was in that day the light
shall not be; the splendors shall be
drawn in:

7 And it was one day it shall be
known to Jehovah, not day, and not
night: and it was at the time of even-
ing it shall be light.

8 And it was in that day living wa-
ters went forth from Jerusalem ; half
of them to the former sea, and half of
them to the last sea: in summer and
im autumn shall it be.

9 And Jehovah was for king over
all the earth: in that day Jehovah
shall be one, and his name one.

10 He shall surround all the land as
the desert from the hill to the pome-
eranate south of Jerusalem: and it was
high, and she dwelt in her place from
the gate of Benjamin even to the place
of the first gate, even to the gate of the
corner, and the tower of Hananeel even
to the wine-presses of the king,

11 And they shall dwell in her and
destruction shall be no more; and Je-
rusalem shall be confidently dwelt in.

12 And this shall be the smiting
which Jehovah will smite all the peo-
ples who made war upon Jerusalem ;
and he caused his flesh to pine away,
and he stood upon his feet, and his eyes
shall pine away in their holes, and his
tongue shall pine away in their mouth.

13 And it was in that day there shall -

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be great consternation of Jehovah
among them; and they laid hold each
upon the hand of his neighbor, and his
hand shall come up upon the hand of
his neighbor.

14 And also Judah shall wage war
in Jerusalem; and he gathered the
strength of all the nations round about,
gold and silver and garments to an ex-
ceeding multitude.

15 And thus shall be the smiting of
the horse, the mule, the camel, and the
ass, and all the cattle which shall be in
those camps, as this smiting.

16 And every one being left of all
the nations coming against Jerusalem,
and they went up from year to year to
worship to the king, Jehovah of armies,
to keep a festival, the festival of
booths.

17 And it was who will not come up
of the families of the earth to Jerusa-
lem to worship to the king, Jehovah of

MALACHI I.

armies, and upon them shall not be
rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt shall
not go up, and it not coming, and not
upon them there shall be the smiting
which Jehovah shall smite the nations
which will not come up to keep the
festival, the festival of booths.

19 This shall be the sin of Egypt,
and the sin of all the nations which
will not come up to keep the festival,
the festival of booths.

20 In that day shall be upon the
bells of the horse, Holiness to Jehovah ;
and it was the pots in the house of Je-
hovah as vases before the face of the
altar.

21 And every pot in Jerusalem and
in Judah was holiness to Jehovah of
armies: and all sacrificing came and
took of them, and boiled in them: and
the Canaanite shall be no more in the
house of Jehovah in that day.

MALACHI.

CHAPTER I.
ale ee lifting up the word of Jehovah
to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

21 loved you, said Jehovah. And
ye said, In what didst thou love us?
‘Was not Esau brother to Jacob? says
Jehovah: and loving Jacob.

8 And 1 hated Esau, and I will set
his mountains a desolation, and his in-
heritance for the jackals of the desert.

4 For Edom will say, We were brok-
en down, and we will tum back and
build the wastes; thus said Jehovah of
armies: They shall build and I will
pull down; and calling to them, The
bound of injustice, and, The people
with whom Jehovah was very angry,
even to forever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye
shall say, Jehovah will be magnified
from above to the bound of Israel.

6 A son will honor the father, and
the servant his lord; and if I a father,
where mine honor? and if I their lord,

where my fear? said Jehovah of ar-
mies to you, O priests despising my
name. And ye said, In what did we
despise thy name?

7 Bringing polluted bread upon mine
altar; and ye said, In what did we
pollute thee? In your saying, The
table of Jehovah it was despised.

8 And if ye shall bring near the blind
10 ἃ sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye
shall bring near the Jame and the sick,
is it not evil? bring it near now to thy
governor; will he delight in thee, or
hft up thy face? said Jehovah of ar-
mies.

9 And now, beseech now, the face of
God, and he will be gracious to us: this
was from your hand: will he lift up
from you the faces? says Jehovah of
armies.

10 Who also among you and he wiil
shut the doors ? and ye shall not make
light mine altar gratuitously. Not to
me delight in you, said Jehovah of ar-

MALACHI IL, IIL

mies, and I will not delight in the gift
of your hand.

11 For from the rising of the sun
and even to its going down, great my
name among the nations; and in every
place incense being brought to my
name, and aclean gift: for great my
name among the nations, said Jehovah
of armies.

12 And ye profaning it in your say-
ing, The table of Jehovah it being pol-
luted ; and its fruit, its food was despised.

18 And ye said, Behold, what a
weariness! and ye puffed at it, said Je-
hovah of armies; and ye brought the
spoiled and the lame, and the sick; and
ye brought the gift: shall I accept it
from your hand? said Jehovah.

14 And cursed he deceiving, and
there is in his flock a male, and he vow-
ed and sacrificed a corrupt thing to Je-
hovah: for I am a great king, said Je-
hovah of armies, and my name terrible
among the nations.

CHAPTER II.
ND now to you this command, O
ye priests.

2 1ἴ ye will not hear and if ye will
not set upon your heart to give honor
to my name, said Jehovah of armies,
and I sent a curse upon you, and I
cursed your blessings, and also I cursed
it for your not setting upon the heart.

8 Behold me rebuking the seed to
you, and I scattered dung upon your
faces, the dung of your festivals; and it
lifted you up to it.

4 And ye knew that I sent this com-
mand to you, for my covenant to be
with Levi, said Jehovah of armies.

5 My covenant was with him of life
and peace; and I will give them to him
fearing, and he shall fear me, and from
the face of my name he was terrified.

6 The law of truth was in his mouth,
and iniquity was not found in his lips:
in truth and in uprightness he went with
me, and he turned back many from in-
iquity.

7 For the lips of the priest shall watch
knowledge, and they shall seek the law
from his mouth: for he is the messen-|
ger of Jehovah of armies.

8 And ye departed out of the way;

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ye made many weak by the law; ye
corrupted the covenant of Levi, said
Jehovah of armies.

9 And also I set you despised and
low to all the people, according as ye
watch not my way, and lift up the face
against the law.

10 Is there not one father to us all?
is there not one God creating us?
wherefore shall we deal faithlessly each
against his brother, to profane the cove-
nant of our fathers?

11 Judah dealt faithlessly, and an
abomination was done in Israel and in
Jerusalem ; for Judah profaned the holy
place of Jehovah which he loved, and
married the daughter of a strange god.

12 Jehovah will 605 off to the man
which shall do it, him waking, and him
answering from the tents of Jacob, and
him bringing near a gift to Jehovah of
armies.

13 And this ye will do the second
time, covering with tears the altar of
Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks,
from not any more looking to the gift,
and to take delight from your hand.

14 And ye said, For what? For
that Jehovah testified between thee and
between the wife of thy youth, which
thou didst deal faithlessly against her,
and she thy companion and the wife of
thy covenant.

15 And did he not make one? And
the remainder of the spirit to him.
And why one? Seeking a seed of God.
And ye watched in your spirit, and he
shall not deal faithlessly against the
wife of thy youth.

16 For he hated sending away, says
Jehovah God of Israel: and he covered
violence with his clothing, said Jeho-
vah of armies: and ye watched in your
spirit, and ye shall not deal faithlessly.

17 Ye wearied Jehovah with your
words: and ye said, In what did we
weary? In your saying, Every one
doing evil is good in the eyes of Jeho-
vah, and he delighted in them; or,
Where the God of judgment?

CHAPTER III.

EHOLD me sending my messen-
ger, and he looked upon the wa
before my face: and suddenly Jehova

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whom ye seek shall come to his temple,
and the messenger of the covenant
whom ye delight in: behold him com-
ing, said Jehovah of armies.

2 And who enduring the day of his
coming ? and who standing in his being
seen? for he is as the fire of the eruci-
ble, as the alkali of the fuller.

3 And he sat melting and cleansing
silver: and he cleansed the sons of Le-
vi, and he purified them as gold and as
silver, and they were to Jehovah bring-
ing near the sacrifice in justice.

4 And the sacrifice of Judah and Je-
rusalem was pleasant to Jehovah, as the
days of old and as the former years.

5 And I came near to you for judg-
ment: and I was a swift witness against
those practicing magic, and against
those committing adultery, and against
those swearing to falsehood, and against
those oppressing the hire of the hire-
ling, the widow and the orphan, and
those turning aside the stranger, and
they feared not me, said Jehovah of
armies.

6 For Iam Jehovah, I changed not;
and ye the sons of Jacob were not fin-
ished.

7 For from the days of your fathers
ye departed from my laws, and ye
watched not. Turn back to me and I
will turn back to you, said Jehovah of
armies. And ye said, In what shall we
turn back ?

8 Will man defraud God? For ye
defraud me. And ye said, In what did
we defraud thee? The tenths and the
offerings.

9 Ye are cursed with a curse: and
ye defrauded me, the nation all of it.

10 Bring ye all the tenths to the
house of treasure, and food shall be in
my house, and try me now in this, said
Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to
you the lattices of the heavens, and
empty out to you a blessing, even is it
not a sufficiency.

11 And I rebuked upon the eater for
you, and he shall not corrupt for you
the fruit of the earth; and the vine in
the field shall not be barren to you,
says Jehovah of armies.

12 And all nations pronounced you

MALACHI ,זז‎

happy, for ye shall be a land of delight,
said Jehovah of armies.

13 Your words were strong against
me, said Jehovah. And yesaid, What
did we speak against thee?

14 Ye said, Vanity to serve God:
and what profit that we watched his
watches, and that we went mourning
from the face of Jehovah of armies?

15 And now we pronounce the proud
happy; also they working injustice
were built up; also they tried Jehovah
and they will be delivered.

16 Then they fearing Jehovah spake
each to his neighbor, and Jehovah will
attend and will hear, and write a book
of reminembrance before him for those
fearing Jehovah, and for thinking up-
on his name.

17 And they were to me, said Jeho-
vah of armies, for the day which I make
wealth ; and I spared for them as a
man will spare for the son serving
him.

18 And ye turned back and saw be-
tween the just to the unjust, and be-
tween him serving God and to him sery-
ing him not.

19 For behold, the day coming, burn-
ing as a furnace; and 811 the proud and
all doing injustice were straw: and the
day coming burnt them, said Jehovah
of armies, that it shall not leave to them
root and branch.

20 And to you fearing my name the
sun of justice arose, and healing in his
wings; and ye went forth and spread
as calves of the stall.

21 And ye tread down the unjust;
for they were ashes under the soles of
your feet in the day which I doing, said
Jehovah of armies.

22 Remember ye the law of Moses
my servant, which I commanded him
in Horeb for all Israel, the laws and the
judgments.

23 Behold, I send to you Elijah the
prophet before the coming of the day of
Jehovah, great and terrible :

24 And he turned back the heart of
the fathers to the sons, and the heart of
the sons to the fathers, lest I shall come
and strike the earth with utter destruc-
tion,

BOOK, OF ΠΗ PSALMS.

PSALM 1.
APPY the man who went not in
the counsel of the unjust, and
he stood not in the way of the sinful.
and sat not in the seat of those scoff-
ing.

Ὃ But his delight is in the law of Je-
hoyah, and in his law he will meditate
day and night.

3 And he was as a tree planted by
the streams of water which will give its
fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall
away, and all which he shall do shall
be prospered.

4 Not so the unjust: but as the chaff
which the wind shall drive away.

5 For this, the unjust shall not rise
up in judgment, and the sinful in the
assembly of the just.

6 For Jehovah shall know the way
of the just: but the way of the unjust
shall perish.

PSALM IL
HEREFORE did the nations
rage, and the peoples will med-
itate emptiness ?

2 The kings of the earth will place
themselves, and the princes sat down
together against Jehovah and against
his Messiah.

8 We will tear away his bands, and
we will cast away his cords from us.

4 He dwelling in the heavens shall
laugh: Jehovah shall deride to them.

5 Then shall he speak to them in his
anger, and in his burning shall he ter-
rify them.

6 And I anointed my king over Zion
my holy mountain.

71 will recount for a זוה[‎ of Jeho-
vah: He said to me, Thou my son;
this day I begat thee.

8 Ask of me and I will give. the na-
tions thine inheritance, and thy posses-
sion the extremities of the earth.

9 Thou shalt rule them with a rod of
iron; as a potter's vessel shalt thou
break them in pieces.

10 And now be circumspect, ye
το (0

kings, and be instructed, ye judging
the land.

11 Serve Jehovah with fear, and re-
joice with trembling.

12 Kiss the chosen lest he shall be
angry, and ye perish in the way when
his anger shall kindle asa little. Hap-
py all they putting their trust in him.

PSALM IIL
HANTING of David in his fleeing
from the face of Absalom his son.

2 Jehovah, how they pressing upon
me were multiplied! many rising up
against me.

3 Many saying to my soul, No salva-
tion to him in God. Silence.

4 And thou, Jehovah, a shield about
me: my glory, and lifting up my head.

5 With my voice will I call to Jeho-
vah, and he will answer me from his
holy mountain. Silence.

6 1 lay down and I shall sleep; I
awaked: for Jehovah will uphold me.

71 shall not be afraid of ten thou-
sand of people who sit round about
upon me.

8 Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my
God, for thou didst strike all mine ene-
mies upon the cheek; thou didst brealk
the teeth of the unjust.

9 To Jehovah salvation: upon thy
people thy blessing. Silence.

PSALM IY.
1 the overseer upon the stringed
instruments; chanting of David.

2 In my calling, answer me, Ὁ God
of my justice: in straits thou didst en-
large me; compassionate me and hear
my prayer.

3 Sons of man, how long mine honor
for shame? Ye will love emptiness, ye
will seek falsehood. Silence.

4 And know ye that Jehovah sepa-
rated the kind one to himself: Jehovah
will hear in my calling to him.

5 Be ye disturbed, and ye shall not
sin; say in your heart upon your bed,
and be silent. Silence.

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6 Sacrifice ye the sacrifices of justice,
and trust to Jehovah.

7 Many saying, Who will cause us to
see gool? Lift up upon us the light
of thy face, O Jehovah.

8 Thou gavest gladness in my heart,
from the time their grain and their new
wine increased.

9 In peace together shall I he down,
and I shall sleep: for thou Jehovah
alone wilt cause me to dwell confi-
dently.

PSALM Y.
O the overseer of the pipes; chant-
ing of Dayid.

2 Give ear tomy sayings, Ὁ Jeho-
vah; attend to my cry.

3 Attend to the voice of my supplica-
tion, my King and my God: for to
thee will I pray.

4 0 Jehovah, the morning thou wilt
hear my voice; the morning I will set
in order to thee, and I will look about.

5 For thou not a-God delighting in
injustice: and evil shall not dwell with
thee.

6 The foolish shall not stand before
thine eyes: thou hatedst all working
vanity.

7 Thou shalt destroy those speaking
falsehood: a man of bloods and deceit
Jehovah will abhor.

8 And 1 in the multitude of thy mer-
cy will come into thy house: I will
worship to thy holy temple in thy fear.

9 O Jehovah, guide me into thy jus-
tice, for sake of mine enemies; make
thy way straight before my face.

10 Not steadfast in his mouth; the
midst of them mischiefs; their throat
a graye opened; they will be smooth
with their tongue,

‘11 Punish them, Ὁ God: they shall
fall by their counsels; in the multitude
of their transgressions thrust them down,
for they rebelled against thee.

‘12 And all they putting trust in thee
shall rejoice forever: they shall shout
for joy, and thou wilt cover over them:
and they loving thy name shall exult in
thee.

'13 For thou wilt bless the just, O Je-
hovah: thou wilt surround him with
favor as a shield.

PSALMS.

PSALM VL
O the overseer upon the stringed
instruments upon the octaye, chant-
ing of David.

2 O Jehovah, not in thine anger wilt
thou correct me, and not in thy wrath
wilt thou chastise me.

8 Compassionate me, O Jehovah, for
Tlanguish: heal me, O Jehovah, for my
bones trembled. ;

4 My soul trembled exceedingly:
and thou, O Jehovah, how long?

5 Turn back, O Jchovah, deliver my
soul: save me for sake of thy mercy.

6 For in death none remembering
thee: in hades who shall give thanks
to thee?

7 I was wearied with my sighing; in
all the night I shall make my bed to
swim with my tears; I shall make my
couch to flow.

8 Mine eye fell away from grief; it
grew old among all mine enemies.

9 Depart from me, all ye doing van-
ity, for Jehovah heard the voice of my
weeping.

10 Jchovah heard my supplication ;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.

11 All mine enemies shall be asham-
ed, they shall tremble exceedingly:
they shall turn back, they shall be
ashamed suddenly.

PSALM VII.
ONG of David which he sang to
Jehovah upon the words of Cush,
son of the right hand.

2 O Jehovah my God, in thee 1 put
my trust: save me from all pursuing
me, and deliver me:

3 Lest he shall rend my soul as the
lion, breaking in pieces and none de-
livering.

4 O Jehovah my God, if I did this, if
there is iniquity in my hand;

5 If L rewarded evil him being at
peace with me; (and I will deliver
mine enemy undeserved|y :(

6 The enemy will pursue my soul,
and overtake; and he will tread down
my life to the earth, and he will cause
mine honor to dwell upon the dust.
Silence.

7 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger,
lift up thyself for the wrath of mine en-

PSALMS.

emies: and awake to me the judgment
thou didst command.

8 And the assembly of the people
shall surround thee: and for it turn
back on high.

9 Jehovah shall judge peoples: judge
me, O Jehovah, according to my jus-
tice, and according to mine integrity
upon me.

10 Now shall the evil of the unjust
come to an end; and thou wilt direct
the just one: for the just God tried
hearts and reins.

11 My shield upon God, saving the
upright of heart.

_ 12 God judging the just one, and be-
ing angry in all the days.

13 If he shall not turn back, he will
sharpen his sword; he bent his bow
and he will be prepared. we sy:

14 And he prepared to himself the
instruments of death; he will work his
arrows for those inflaming.

15 Behold, he will bring forth vani-
ty, and he conceived trouble, and he
will bring forth falsehood.

16 He dug a pit, and he will dig it
out, and he will fall into the pit-fall he
will make.

17 His trouble shall turn back upon
his head, and his violence shall come
down upon his crown.

18 I will confess to Jehovah accord
ing to his justice: and I will play on
the harp to the name of Jehovah most

PSALM VIII.
EP the overseer upon the stringed
instrument, chanting of David.

2 O Jehovah our Lord, how mighty
thy name in all the earth! who will set
thy majesty over the heavens.

3 Out of the mouth of children and
sucklings thou hast founded strength on
account of thine enemies, to cause the
enemy and the avenger to cease.

4 For I shall see thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers; the moon and the
stars which thou didst prepare.

5 What is man that thou wilt remem-
ber him? and the son of man that thou
wilt review him?

6 And thou wilt diminish him a lit-
tle more than the messengers, and thou

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wilt surround him with glory and
honor.

7 And thou wilt give him dominion
over the woxks of thy hands; thou didst
put all under his feet :

8 Sheep and oxen, all of them, and
also the cattle of the field;

9 And the birds of the heavens, and
the fish of the sea, passing: through the
paths of the seas.

10 O Jehovah our Lord, how mighty
thy name in all the earth!

PSALM IX.
O the overseer upon the death of
Laban, chanting of David.

2 [ will praise, O Jehovah, with all
my heart; I will recount all thy won-
derful works.

3 I will be glad and rejoice in thee:
I will play on the harp to thy name, O
Most High.

4 In the turning away of mine ene-
mies backward, they shall be weak and
perish from thy face.

5 For thou didst my judgment and
my cause; thou satest upon the throne
judging justice.

6 Thou didst rebuke the nations,
thou didst destroy the unjust one, wip-
ing off their name forever and ever.

7 O enemy! desolations were wholly
finished, and thou didst tear down
cities ; their remembrance perished with
them.

8 And Jehovah shall dwell forever:
he prepared his throne for judgment. |

9 And he will judge the habitable
globe in justice, he will judge peoples in
uprightness.

10 And Jehovah will] be a height for
the oppressed one, a height for times in
straits.

11 And they knowing thy name will
trust in thee, for thou didst not forsake
those seeking thee, O Jehovah.

12 Play on the harp to Jehovah
dwelling in Zion: announce among the
peoples his doings.

13 For he sought out bloods, he re-
membered them: he forgat not the cry
of the humble.

14 Compassionate me, Ὁ Jehovah : see
my affliction from those hating me, thou
lifting me up from the gates of death;

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15 So that I shall recount all thy
praises in the gates of the daughter of
Zion : I will rejoice in thy salvation.

16 The nations sank into the pit they
made: in the net they hid, their foot
was taken by it.

17 And Jehovah was known by the
judgment he did: by the work of his
hands the unjust was snared. Medita-
tion. Silence.

18 The unjust shall be turned away
into hades, all the nations forgetting
God.

19 For the needy shall not be forgot-
ten forever: the hope of the poor shall
not perish forever.

20 Arise, O Jehovah; man shall not
be strengthened: the nations shall be
judged before thee.

21 Put fear to them, O Jehovah: the
nations shall know they are man. Si-

lence.
V UEREFORE, O Jehovah, wilt

thou stand afar off? wilt thou
hide for times in straits?

2 In the pride of the unjust he will
burn the poor: they shall be taken in
the devices that they purposed.

3 For the unjust boasted upon the de-
sire of his soul, and he blessed him
plundering, despising Jehoyah.

4 The unjust according to the height
of his anger, will not seek: God is not
in all his thoughts.

5 His ways will be in pain in all
time; thy judgments high from before
him: all his enemies he will puff at
them.

6 Saying in his heart, I shall not be
moved: to generation and generation
for not in evil.

7 His mouth was filled with cursing
and deceit and violence: under his
tongue, trouble and vanity .

8 Sitting in ambush of the enclosures :
in hiding-places he will slay the inno-
cent: his eyes will be hid to the af-
flicted.

9 He will lie in wait in secret as the

PSALM X.

lion in her den: he will lie in wait to

catch the poor one: he will catch the
poor one in drawing him into his net.
10 And crushing, he will bow down,

PSALMS.

and cast down the afilicted by his strong
ones.

11 Saying in his heart, God forgat:
he hid his face, not seeing forever.

12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up
thine hand: thou wilt not forget the
poor.

13 For what did the unjust one des-
pise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt
not search ?

14 Thou sawest; for thou wilt look
upon trouble and anger, to give with
thine hand : the poor will be left to thee ;
thou wert the helper of the orphan.

15 Break the arm of the unjust and
the evil one: thou wilt seek out his in-
justice; thou wilt not find.

16 Jehovah is King forever and ey-
er: the nations perished from his land.

17 Thou heardest the desire of the
poor, O Jehovah: thou wilt prepare
their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to
attend.

18 To judge the orphan and the de-
jected, that the man of the earth shall
no more add to make afraid.

PSALM XI.
O the overseer; of David. In Je-
hovah I put my trust: how will
ye say to my soul, Wander ye to your
mountain, little bird ?

2 For behold, the unjust will bend
the bow, they prepared their arrow up-
on the cord, they will shoot in dark-
ness the upright of heart.

3 If the pillars shall be pulled down,
what did the just one?

4 Jehovah is in his holy temple ; Je-
hovah, in the heayens his throne: his
eyes will behold, his eyelashes will try
the sons of man.

5 Jehovah will try the just one: and
the unjust and him loving violence, his
soul hated.

6 He will rain upon the unjust,
snares, fire and brimstone, and a wind
of violent heat: the portion of their cup.

7 For Jehovah the just loved justice ;
his face will behold the upright.

PSALM XIL
O the overseer upon the octave,
chanting of David.
2 Save, O Jehovah, for the merciful

PSALMS.

one ceased; for faithfulnesses failed
from the sons of men.

3 They will speak vanity each with
his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart
and a heart will they speak.

4 Jehovah will cut off all smooth
lips, and the tongue speaking great
things:

5 Who said, By our tongues we shall
ae our lips are with us: who is

ord over us?

6 From the oppression of the poor,
from the sighing of the needy, now will
I arise, Jehovah will say; I will set
with salvation, he will puff at him.

7 The sayings of Jehovah are pure
sayings: silver tried im the crucible of
the earth, purified seven times.

8 Thou, O Jehovah, shalt watch
them, keep from this generation for-
ever.

9 The unjust shall walk round about
as the rising of a tempest to the sons of
man.

PSALM XIII.
O the overseer; chanting of Da-
vid.

2 How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou
wholly forget me? how long wilt thou
hide thy face from me?

3 How long shall I put counsels in
my soul, grief in my heart the day?
how long shall mme enemy rise up
against me?

-4 Look upon, answer me, Ὁ Jehovah
my God: enlighten mine eyes, lest I
shall sleep the death ;

5 Lest mine enemy shall say, I pre-
vailed against him; mine adversaries
shall exult when I shall be moved.

6 And I trusted in thy merey; my
heart shall exult in thy salvation. I
will sing to Jehovah for he benefited
me.

PSALM XIV.
O the overseer; of David. The
fool said in his heart, No God.
They were corrupted, they made their
works abominable, none doing good.

2 Jehovah looked down from the
heavens upon the sons of men, to see is
there he understanding, seeking God.

8 All turned away together, they

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were corrupted: none doing good, not
even one.

4 Did not the workers of vanity
know? eating my people they ate
bread ; they called not Jehovah.

5 There they feared a fear: for God
is in the generation of the just one.

6 Ye will shame the counsel of the
poor, for Jehovah is his refuge.

7 Who will give out of Zion the sal-
vation of Israel? in Jehovah bringing
back the captivity of his people, Jacob
shall exult, Israel shall rejoice.

PSALM XV.
HANTING of David. O Jeho-
vah, who shall sojourn in thy
tent? who shall dwell in thy holy
mountain ?

2 He going blameless, and working
justice, and speaking truth in his heart.

3 Slandering not with his toneue, not
doing evil to his neighbor, lifting up
no reproach against his neighbor.

4 In his eyes a reprobate being des-
pised; and those fearing Jehovah, he
will honor. Swearing to the friend,
and he will not change.

5 Not giving his silver for interest,
and gave not presents against the inno-
cent. He doing these things shall not
be moved forever.

PSALM XVI
RITING of David. Watch me,
O God: in thee I put my trust.

2 Thou saidst to Jehovah, Thou my
Lord: my good not upon thee.

3 To the holy ones that are upon the
earth, they and the mighty ones, all my
delight is in them.

4 Their labors shall be multiplied
after they hastened: I will not gather
their libations of blood, and I will not
lift up their names upon my lips.

5 Jehovah the portion of my part
and of my cup: thou didst hold up my
lot.

6 The cords fell to me in sweetness-
es; also the inheritance was bountiful
upon me,

7 I will praise Jehovah who ecounsel-
ed me: also the night my reins in-
structed me.

8 I set Jehovah before me always:

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for from my right hand I shall not be
moved.

9 For this my heart rejoiced, and my
glory shall exult: also my flesh shall
dwell with confidence.

10 For thou wilt not leave my soul
to hades; thou wilt not give thy mer-
ciful ones to see corruption.

11 Thou wilt cause me to know the
way of life: abundance of joys with
thy face; favors in thy right hand for-
ever.

PSALM XVIL.
RAYER of Dayid. Hear justice,
O Jehovah, attend to my outery,
give ear to my prayer, not in lips of de-
ceit.

2 From thy face shall my judgment
co forth; thine eyes will see upright-
nesses.

3 Thou didst try my heart; thou
didst review the night; thou didst re-
fine me, thou wilt find nothing: I pur-
posed, my mouth shall not pass by.

4 For the works of men, by the word
of thy lips I watched the ways of the
violent one.

5 Hold up my being straight in thy
ways, my steps be not moved.

6 1 called thee, for thou wilt answer
me, O God: incline thine ear to me,
hear my sayings.

7 Make thy kindnesses distinguished,
thou saving those putting their trust,
from those rising up against thy right
hand.

8 Watch me as the pupil of the
daughter of the eye: thou wilt hide me
in the shadow of thy wings.

9 From the face of the unjust that
laid me waste, enemies against the soul
will go round about against me.

10 They shut up their fat: their
mouth spake in pride.

11 We went straight, now they sur-
rounded us: their eyes they will set to
incline to the earth ;

12 His likeness as a lion will long for
the prey, and as a young lion dwelling
in secret places.

13 Arise, O Jehovah, anticipate his
face, cast him down: deliver my soul
from the unjust, thy sword.

' 14 From men of thy hand, O Jeho-

PSALMS.

vah, from men of this world their por-
tion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly
with thy hidden things: they will be
filled with sons, they left the remaining
things to their children.

15 I in justice shall see thy face: 1
shall be satisfied in awaking with thine
appearance,

PSALM XVIII.
O the overseer; to the servant of
Jehovah, of David who spake to
Jehovah the words of this sone in the
day Jehovah delivered him from the
hand of all his enemies, and from the
hand of Saul:

2 And he will say, I will love thee,
O Jehovah, my strength.

3 Jehovah is my rock and my fort-
ress, and my deliverer; my God, my
rock, I will put my trust m him; my
shield and the horn of my salvation,
my height.

4 Praising, I will call upon Jehovah,
and I shall be saved from mine enemies.

5 The pains of death surrounded me, ἡ
and the torrents of Belial made me
afraid.

6 The pains of hades surrounded me:
the snares of death anticipated me.

7 In my straits I will call upon Jeho-
vah, and to my God will I ery: he
will hear my voice from his temple, and
my ery will come before him into his
ears.

8 And it will be moved and the earth
will tremble, and the foundations of the
mountains will be moved and they will
shake, for it was kindled to him.

9 A smoke went up in his anger, and
fire from his mouth will consume, and
coals were kindled from it.

10 And he will incline the heavens
and come down: and gloom under his
feet.

11 And he will ride upon a cherub,
and will fly: and he will fly upon the
wings of the wind.

12 He will set darkness his covering ;
his tent round about him darknesses
of waters, thick clouds.

18 From the brightness before him
the clouds passed over, hail and coals
of fire.

14 And Jehovah will thunder in the

PSALMS.

heavens, and tlic Most Tligh will give
his yoice; hail and coals of fire.

15 And he will send his arrows and
seatter them; and he increased light-
nings, and he will discomfit them.

16 And the channels of waters will
be seen, and the foundations of the
habitable globe will be uncovered from
thy rebuke, O Jehovah, from the breath-
ing of the spirit of thine anger.

17 He will send forth from on high,
he will take me, he will draw me out
of many waters.

18 He will deliver me from my strong
enemy, and from them hating me: for
they were strong above me.

19 They will anticipate me in the day
of my calamity, and Jehovah will be a
support to me.

20 And he will bring me forth to a
wide place: he will deliver me, for he
delighted in me.

21 Jehovah will recompense me ac-
cording to my justice, according to the
cleanness of my hands he will turn back
to me.

22 For I watched the ways of Jehovah,
and I acted not wickedly from my God.

23 For all his judgments are before
me, and his Jaws I shall not put away
from me.

24 And I blameless with him, and 1
will watch myself from mine iniquity.

25 And Jehovah will turn back to
me according to my justice, and accord-
ing to the cleanness of my hands before
his eyes.

26 With the kind thou wilt show
thyself kind; and with the blameless
man thou wilt be perfect.

27 With the purified thou wilt be pu-
vified, and with the perverse thou wilt
show thyself perverse.

28 Thou wilt save the humble peo-
ple, and thou wilt humble the eyes of
the lifted up.

29 For thou wilt enlighten my lamp:
Jehovah my God will give light to my
darkness.

30 For by thee I will break down a
troop, and in my God I will leap upon
the wall. /

91 God, blameless his way: the say-
ing of Jehovah being refined: ashield to
all trusting in him.

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82 For who is God besides Jehovah?
or who a rock except our God?

33 God girding me with strength,
and he will give my way blameless.

84 Setting my feet as the hinds, and
he will cause me to stand upon my
heights.

85 Teaching my hands to war, and a
bow of brass was bent by mine arms,

86 Thou wilt give to me the shield
of thy salvation, and thy right hand
will uphold me, and thy clemency will
enlarge me.

37 Thou wilt make broad my steps
under me and my joints did not waver.

88 1 will pursue mine enemies, and 1
will overtake them: and I shall not
turn back till consuming them.

89 1 will smite them through and
through, and they shall not be able to
rise: they shall fall under my feet.

40 Thou wilt gird me with strength
for war: thou wilt bend under me those
rising up against me.

41 Mine enemies thou gavest the
back of the neck to me, and I shall des-
troy those hating me.

42 They will cry and none saving:
to Jehovah, and he answered them not.

43 And I will beat them in pieces as
dust upon the face of the wind: I will
pour them out as the mire of the streets,

44 Thou wilt deliver me from the
contentions of the people; thou wilt set
me for head of the nations: a people I
knew not shall serve me.

45 At the hearing of the ear they
shall hear to me: sons of the stranger
shall feign to me.

46 Sons of the stranger shall fall
away, and they shall tremble from their
enclosings.

47 Jehovah lives; and and praised
be my Rock; and the God of my sal-
vation shall be exalted.

48 God giving vengeance to me, and
he will speak the peoples under me.

49 Delivering me from mine enemies :
from those rising wp thou wilt lift me
up: thou wilt deliver me from the man
of violence.

50 For this I will praise thee among
the nations, O Jehovah, and I will play
on the harp to thy name.

51 Magnifying the salvations of his

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king; and he did merey to his anoint-
ed, ‘and to David and to his seed even
to forever.

PSALM XIX.

O the overseer; chanting of David.

2 The heavens recounting the glo-

ry of God, and the firmament announc-
ing the work of his hands.

3 Day to day will gush out the say-
ing, and night to night will breathe out
knowledge.

4 No saying and no words without
their voice being heard.

5 Their line went forth imto all the
earth, and their words into the ends of
the habitable globe. In them he set a
tent for the sun,

6 And he as a bridegroom coming
forth from his nuptial couch, will re-
0106ך‎ as a strong one to run a way.

7 From the extremity of the heavens
his going forth and his circuits upon
their extremities and no hiding from
his heat.

8 The law of Jehovah is blameless,
turning back the soul; the testimonies
of Jehovah being faithful, making wise
the simple

9 The mandates of Jehovah are
straight, rejoicing the heart: the com-
mand of Jehovah pure, enlightening
the eyes.

10 The fear of Jehovah being pure,
standing forever: the judgments of
Jehovah, truth, they were altogether
just.

11 Being desirable above gold, and
above much pure gold, and being sweet
above honey, and the dropping of
honey-combs.

12 Also thy servant being admon-
ished by them: in watching them much
reward.

13 Who will understand errors? 86-
quit me from hidden things.

14 Also withhold thy servant from
arrogant things; they shall not rule
over me: then shall I be blameless, and
I was acquitted from much transgres-
sion.

15 The saying of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart shall be for ac-
ceptance before thee, O Jehovah, my
rock and my redeemer,

PSALMS.

PSALM XX.
O the overseer; chanting of David,
2 Jehovah will answer ‘thee i in the
day of straits; the name of the God of
Jacob shall exalt thee.

3 He will send thy help from the holy
place,and from Zion he will support thee.

4 He will remember all thy gifts, and
he will make fat thy burnt- offerings.
Silence.

5 He will give to thee according to
thy heart, and fill up all thy counsel.

6 We will rejoice in thy salvation,
and in the name of our God we will
cover over: Jehovah will fill up all our
petitions.

7 Now I knew that Jehovah saved
his Messiah; he will answer him from
his holy heavens by the strength of the
salvation of his right hand.

8 These in chari iots, and these in
horses: and in the name of Jehovah.
our God will we remember.

9 They bowed down and they fell:
and we arose, and we shall stand erect.

10 O Jehovah, save: the king he will
answer us in the day of our calling,

PSALM XXI.

O the overseer; chanting of David.

2 O Jehovah, in thy strength shall

the king rejoice; and in thy salvation
how shall he greatly exult!

3 The desire of his heart thou gavest
to him, and the longing of his lips thou
didst not withhold. Silence.

4 For thou wilt anticipate him with
praises of goodness: thou wilt set a
crown of pure gold to his head.

5 He asked life from thee; thou

gayest to him length of days forever
and ever,

6 Great his glory in thy salvation:
majesty and honor thou wilt set upon
him.

7 For thou wilt set him praises for-
ever: thou wilt make him glad in joy
with thy face.

8 For the king trusted in Jehovah,
and in the merey of the Most High he
shall not be moved.

9 Thy hand shall find for all thine en-
emies: thy right hand shall find those
hating thee.

10 Thou wilt set them as a furnace

PSALMS.

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of fire for the time of thy face: Jeho-]all my bones were sundered; my heart

vah in his anger will swallow them
down, and the fire shall devour them.

11 Their fruit thou wilt destroy from
the earth, and their seed from the sons
of man.

12 For they stretched out evil upon
thee: they purposed a device, they will
not prevail.

13 For thou wilt set them the shoul-
der among thine being left, thou wilt
prepare against their face. ;

14 Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in
thy strength: we will sing and play
thy powers upon the harp.

PSALM XXII
2% the overseer upon the first place
of the dawn; chanting of David.

2 My God, my God, wherefore for-
sookest thou me? far off from my sal-
vation the words of my groaning.

3 My God, I will call in the day, and
thou wilt not answer; and in the night
no silence to me.

4 And thou inhabiting the holy place,
the praises of Israel.

5 In thee our fathers trusted: they
trusted, and thou wilt deliver them.

6 To thee they 01100 and were deliv-
ered: in thee they trusted and were not
ashamed.

7 And Ia worm and not aman; a
reproach of man, and the people des-
pised me. 1 *

8 All seeing me will deride me: the
will gape with the lip, they will shake
the head.

9 He rolled upon Jehovah, he will
deliver him: he will deliver him for he
delighted in him.

10 Thou causing me to break forth
from the womb: causing me to trust up-
on my mother’s breasts.

11 Upon thee was I cast from the
womb: from my mother's belly thou
my God.

12 Thou wilt not remove far from
me, for straits draw near; for none
helping.

18 Many bulls surrounded me: the
strong of Bashan surrounded me.

14 They opened their mouth upon
me, a lion rending and roaring.

15 I was poured out as water, and

was as wax being melted in the midst
of my bowels.

16 My strength was dried up as the
potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to
my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the
dust of death.

17 For dogs surrounded me : the as-
sembly of those being evil moved round
about me: they digged my hands and
my feet.

18 1 shall number all my bones:
they will behold and look upon me.

19 They will divide my garments to
them, and upon my clothing they will
6856 the lot.

20 And thou, O Jehovah, wilt not be
far off: O my strength, hasten to help
me.

21 Deliver my soul from the sword,
my only one from the hand of the dog.

22 Save me from the mouth of the
lion: and thou didst answer me from
the horns of the high.

23 I will recount thy name to my
brethren: in the midst of the convoca-
tion I will praise thee.

24 Ye fearing Jehovah, praise him;
all the seed of Jacob honor him; and
be afraid of him all ye seed of Israel.

25 For he despised not and he ab-
horred not the afflictions of the humble ;
and he hid not his face from him, and
in his erying to him he heard.

26 Of thee my praise in the great con-
vocation: I will complete my yows be-
fore them fearing him.

27 The humble shall eat and be sat-
isfied: they shall praise Jehovah they
seeking him: your heart shall live for-
ever.

28 All the ends of the earth shall re-
member and shall turn back to Jeho-
vah: and all the families of the nations
shall worship before thee.

29 For to Jehovah the kingdom, and
he rules among the nations.

30 All the fat ones of the earth shall
eat and worship before him, and all they
going down to dust shall bow down,
and he preserved not alive his soul.

81 A seed shall serve him; it shall
be numbered to Jehoyah fora genera-
tion,

82 They shall come and announce

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his justice toa people being born, for
he made.

PSALM ΧΧΗ͂Ι.
HANTING of David. Jehovah
my shepherd, and I shall ‘not
want.

2 He will cause me to lie down in
pastures of tender grass: he will lead
me to the water of rest.

3 He will turn back my soul: he} w
will guide me into the tracks of justice
for sake of his name.

4 Also if I shall go into the valley of
the shadow of death, I shall not be
afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy
rod and thy staff they will comfort me.

5 Thou wilt set in order a table be-
fore me in front of mine enemies: thou
madest fat mine head with oil; my eup
being satisfied with drink.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall
peat me all the days of my life: and

dwelt in the house of Jehovah to the
length of days.

PSALM XXIV.
O David chanting. To Jehovah
the earth and its fulness, the hab-
itable globe and they dwelling in it.
2 For he founded it upon the seas,
and upon the rivers he will prepare it.

PSALMS.

PSALM XXV.
O David. To thee, Ὁ Jehovah, 1
will lift up my soul.

2 My God, in thee I trusted, I shall
not be ashamed: mine enemies shall
not exult over me.

3 Also all awaiting thee shall not be
ashamed: they transgressing emptily
shall be ashamed.

4 O Jehovah, cause me to know thy

ways; teach me thy paths.

5 Cause me to tread in thy truth, and
teach me: for thou art God saving me;
on.thee I waited all the day.

6 Remember thy compassions, Ὁ Je-
hovah, and thy mercies; for they are
from forever.

7 The sins of my youth and my
transgressions thou wilt not remember :
according to thy merey remember thou
for me for sake of thy goodness, O Je-
hovah.

8 Good and upright is Jehovah: for
this he will teach the sinning in the
way.

9 He will cause the humble to tread
in judgment, and he will teach the
humble the way.

10 All the paths of Jehovah are mer-
cy and truth to those watching his coy-
enant and his testimonies.

11 For sake of thy name, O Jehovah,

5 Who will go up to the mountain 01 ἀπὲ thou forgavest to mine iniquity ;

Jehovah? and who shall stand in his
holy place?

4 The blameless one of hands and the
clean of heart; who lifted not up his
soul to vanity, and swore not for deceit.

5 He shall receive a praise from Jeho-
vah, and justice from God saving him.

6 This the generation seeking him,
searching out thy face O Jacob. +
lence.

7 Lift up your heads, ye gates, and
be ye lifted up, ye openings of eternity,
and the King of glory shall come in.

8 Who is this King of glory? Je-
hovah strong and mighty, Jehovah
mighty for war.

9 Lift up, ye gates, your heads, and
be lifted up, ye openings of eternity,
and the King of glory shall come in.

for it was much.

-12 Who this man fearing Jehovah?.
he will teach him in the way he shall
choose.

13 His soul shall lodge in good, and
his seed shall inherit the earth.

14 The secret of Jehovah to. them
fearing him; and his covenant he will
cause them to know.

15 Mine eyes are always to Jehovah,
for he will bring forth my feet from the
net.

16 Turn to me and pity me; for 1
alone and afflicted.

17 The straits of my heart were en-
larged : bring me out from my distresses.

18 See mine affliction and my labor,
,and let go to all my sins.

19 See mine enemies, for they were

10 Who is he, this King of glory?|many, and they hated me with the ha-
Jehovah of armies, he is the King of|tred of violence.

glory. Silence.

20 Watch my soul and deliver me:

PSALMS.

T shall not be ashamed, for I put my
trust in thee.

21 Integrity and uprightness shall
watch me; for I waited for thee.

22 Redeem Israel, O God, from all
his straits.

PSALM XXVI.
O David. Judge me, Ὁ Jehovah,
for I went in mine integrity, and
in Jehovah I trusted: I shall not
waver.

2 Prove me, O Jehovah, and try me;
refine my reins and my heart.

3 For thy mercy is before mine eyes,
and I walked about in thy truth,

4 1 sat not with men of vanity, and
Ι will not go in with those lying hid.

5 1 hated the convocation of those
being evil, and with the unjust I will
not sit.

6 I will wash my hands in cleanness,
and I will surround thine altar, O Je-
hoyah:

7 To hear with the voice of praise,
and to recount all thy wonders.

8 O Jehovah, I loved the habitation
of thy house, and the place of the
dwelling of thine honor.

9 Thou wilt not gather my soul with
the sinning, and my [116 with men of
bloods :

10 Which in their hands mischief,
and their right hand filled with gifts.

11 And 1, I will go in mine integri-
ty: redeem me and pity me.

12 My foot stood תג‎ straightness:
in the conyoeations will I praise Jeho-
yah.

PSALM XXVII.
fe David. Jehovah my light and
my saviour; of whom shall I be
afraid? Jehovah the strength of my
life; from whom shall I tremble?

2 In the drawing near of those doing
evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries
and enemies to me,they were weak and
fell.

3 If a camp shall encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear: if war shall
rise up against me, in this I trust.

4 [ asked one from Jehovah, I will
seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah
all the days of my life, to look upon

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the sweetness of Jehovah, and to in-
quire in his temple.

5 For he will hide me in the booth in
the day of evil: he will cover me with
the covering of his tent; he will lift me
up upon a rock.

6 And now he will lift up my head
over mine enemies round about me:
and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices
of rejoicing; I will sing andI will play
on the harp to Jehovah.

7 Hear my voice, O Jehovah: I will
0818, and pity me and answer me.

8 My heart said to thee, Seek ye my
face; thy face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

9 Thou wilt not cover thy face from
me; thou wilt not turn away thy’ ser-
vaut in anger: thou wert my help;
thou wilt not leave me and thou wilt
not forsake me, my God saving me.

10 For my father and my mother for-
sook me, and Jehovah will gather me.

11 Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way,
and Jead me in a path of straitness for
sake of those pressing me.

12 Thou wilt not give me to the soul
of him pressing me, for witnesses of
falsehood rose, up against me, and vio-
lence will blow.

13 Unless I believed to look upon
the goodness of Jehovah in the land of
the lying.

14 Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and
thy heart shall be strengthened: and
wait for Jehovah.

PSALM XXVIII.
O David. To thee, O Jehovah,
will I call, my rock; thou wilt
not be silent from me: lest thou wilt
be silent from me and I was made like
with them going down to the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications
im my erying to thee, in my lifting up
my hands to the oracle of thy holy
place,

3 Thou wilt not draw me with the
unjust, and with those working vanity,
speaking peace with their neighbors,
and evil in their heart.

4 Give to them according to their
work and according to the evil of their
doings, according to the word of their
hands; give to them, turn back to them
their recompense.

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5 For they will not understand for
the doing of Jehovah, and for the work
of his hands; he will destroy them and
he will not build them up.

6 Praised be Jehovah, for he heard
the voice of my supplications.

7 Jehovah my strength and my
shield; in him my heart trusted, and I
was helped: and my heart will exult,
and from my song will I praise him.

8 Jehovah strength to them, and he
the fortress of salvations of his Messiah.

9 Save thy people and bless thine in-
heritance, and feed them and lift them
up even forever.

PSALM XXIX.
HANTING of David. Give to Je-
hovah, ye sons of God, give to Je-
hovah glory and strength.

2 Give to Jehovah the glory of his
name}; worship to Jehovah im the splen-
dors of his holy place.

3 The voice of Jehovah upon the wa-
ters: the God of glory thundered: Je-
hovah upon many waters.

4 The voice of Jehovah in power;
the voice of Jehovah in splendor.

5 The voice of Jehovah broke the
cedars; and Jehovah will break the ce-
dars of Lebanon.

6 And he will cause them to leap as
a calf; Lebanon and Sirion as the son
of buffaloes.

7 The voice of Jehovah cut out the
flames of fire.

8 The voice of Jehovah will cause
the desert to whirl; Jehovah will cause
the desert of holiness to whirl.

9 The voice of Jehovah will cause
the hinds to bring forth, and will un-
cover the forests: and in his temple
every one said, Glory.

10 Jehovah sat upon the inundation :
and Jehovah sat King forever.

11 Jehovah will give strength to his
people; he will bless his people with
peace.

PSALM XXX.
HANTING a song of consecration
of the house of David.
2 I will exalt thee, Ὁ Jehovah, for
thou didst draw me out, and thou didst
not gladden mine enemies to me.

PSALMS.

3 O Jehovah my God, I cried to thee,
and thou wilt heal me.

40 Jehovah, thou broughtest up
my soul from hades: thou didst save
me alive from those going down to the
pit.

5 Play on the harp to Jehovah, ye
his godly ones, and praise at the re-
membrance of his holiness.

6 For a moment in his anger; life in
his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in
the evening, and rejoicing for the morn-
ing.

7 And I said in my security, I shall
not be moved forever.

8 O Jehovah, in thy good will thou
didst cause strength to stand for my
mountain: thou didst cover thy face,
I was in trepidation.

9 Τὸ thee, O Jehovah, will I call,
and to Jehovah will I make supplica-
tion.

10 What the profit in my blood in
my going down to the pit? shall the
dust praise thee ? shall it announce thy
truth ?

11 Hear, O Jehovah, and pity me:
O Jehovah, be a helper to me.

12 Thou didst turn my wailing to
dancing to me: thou didst loose my
sackcloth, and thou wilt gird me with
gladness ;

13 So that glory shall play on the
harp to thee, and shall not be silent.
O Jehovah my God, I will praise thee
forever.

PSALM XXXI.
O the overseer, chanting of David.
2 In thee, O Jehovah, I put my
trust, I shall not be ashamed forever:
in thy justice deliver me.

3 Incline thine ear to me, hastening
to deliver me: be to me for a rock of
strength, for a house of fortresses to
save me.

4 For thou my rock and my fortress ;
and for sake of thy name thou wilt
euide me, and thou wilt protect me.

5 Thou wilt bring me forth from the
net which they concealed for me: for
thou my fortress.

6 Into thy hand I will commit my
spirit: thou didst redeem me, O Jeho-
yah God of truth,

PSALMS.

71 hated those watching vanities of
falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah.

8 I will rejoice and be glad in thy
mercy, for thou sawest mine affliction ;
thou knewest my soul in straits ;

9 And thou didst not shut me up in
the hand of the enemy: thou didst
cause my feet to stand in a broad place.

10 Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits
are to me: mine eye fell away; with
trouble my soul -- my belly.

11 For my life was finished in sor-
row, and my years in sighing: my
strength was weak in mine iniquity,
and my bones fell away.

12 From all mine enemies I was a
reproach, and greatly to my neighbors,
and a fear to those knowing me: they
seeing me without fled from me.

13 1 was forgotten as the dead from
the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

14 For 1 heard the slander of many
sojourning round about: in their sit-
ting together against me they purposed
to take away my soul.

15 And I trusted upon thee, O Jeho-
vah: I said, Thou my God.

16 My times in thy hand: deliver
me from the hand of mine enemies, and
from those pursuing me.

17 Cause thy face to shine upon thy
servant: save me in thy mercy.

18 O Jehovah, I shall not be asham-
ed, for I 081160 upon thee: the unjust
shall be ashamed and they shall be de-
stroyed to hades.

19 The lips of falsehood shall be
mute; speaking boldly in pride and
contempt.

20 How much thy goodness which
thou didst conceal for them fearing
thee; thou didst work for those putting
their trust im thee before the sons of
man.

21 Thou wilt cover them in 6
covering of thy face from the snares of
man: thou wilt conceal them in the
booth from the strife of tongues.

22 Praised be Jehovah, for he made
wonderful his mercy to me in the forti-
fied city.

23 And I said in my hasty flight, I
was cut off from before thine eyes: yet
thou heardest the voice of my supplica-
tions in my crying to thee.

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24 Love Jehovah, all ye his godly
ones: and he watched the faithful and
requiting abundantly the doing of
pride.

25 Be strong, and he will strengthen
your heart, all ye waiting for Jehovah.

PSALM XXXIL
O David, wisdom. Happy the
taking away of transgression, the
covering of sin.

2 Happy the man Jehovah will not
reckon sin to him, and no deceit in his
spirit.

3 11 I was silent, my bones fell away
in my groaning all the day.

4 For day and night thy hand will be
heavy upon me: my moisture was turn-
edinto thedryness ofsummer. Silence.

5 I will make known to thee my sin,
and mine iniquity I hid not. 1810, I
will confess upon my transgression to
Jehovah; and thou didst take away
the iniquity of my sin. Silence.

6 For this all the godly shall pray to
thee for the time of finding: only for
the inundation of many waters they
shall not draw near to him.

7 Thou a covering to me, from straits
thou wilt watch me; thou wilt surround
me with rejoicings of deliverance. Si-
lence.

8 I will make thee wise, and teach
thee in the way which thou shalt go: I
will counsel mine eyes upon thee.

9 Ye shall not be as the horse, as the
mule, not understanding: with bit and
curb to stop his youth, not drawing
near to thee.

10 Many the sorrows to the unjust
one: and he trusting in Jehovah, mercy
shall surround him.

11 Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice,
ye just: and shout for joy, all ye up-
right of heart.

PSALM XXXIII.
ἘΠῚ 0108, ye just, in Jehovah,
praise being suitable for the up-
right.

2 Confess to Jehovah upon the harp:
upon an instrument of ten strings play
ye to him.

3 Sing to him a new song; make
cheerful playing with a loud noise.

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4 For straight the word of Jehovah,
and all his work in faithfulness.

5 He loved justice and judgment:
the earth was filled with the mercy of
Jehovah.

6 By the word of Jehovah the heay-
ens were made, and by the spirit of his
mouth all their army.

7 He heaped up the waters of the
sea as a mound: he gave the depths
into storehouses.

8 All the earth shall fear from Jeho-
vah: and of him shall all dwelling in
the habitable globe be afraid.

9 For he said, and it shall be; he
commanded, and it will stand.

10 Jehoyah made vain the counsel
of the nations: he brought the pur-
poses of the peoples to nought.

11 The counsel of Jehovah shall
stand forever, the purposes of his heart
to generation and generation,

12 Happy the nation to whom Jeho-
vah is his God; the people he chose for
an inheritance to him.

18 Jehovah looked from the heavens ;
he saw all the sons of man.

14 From his prepared dwelling he
viewed all dwelling in the earth.

15 He formed their heart together,
understanding all their works.

16 The king was not saved by much
strength: the strong one will not be de-
livered by much power.

17 The horse was false to salvation,
and he shall not deliver by the multi-
tude of his strength.

18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah upon
those fearing him, upon those hoping
for his mercy ;

19 To deliver their soul from death,
and to save them alive in famine.

20 Our soul waited. for Jehovah: he
our help and our shield.

21 Vor in him our heart shall rejoice,
for in his holy name we trusted.

22 Thy mercy, O Jehoyah, shall be
upon us according as we hoped for
thee.

PSALM XXXIV.
O David in his changing his un-
derstanding before Abimelech ;
and he will drive him out, and he will

go.

PSALMS,

2 I will praise Jehovah in all time:
always his praise in my mouth.

8 In Jehovah my soul shall glory,
the humble shall hear and rejoice.

4 Magnify to Jehovah with me, and
we will exalt his name together.

5 1 sought Jehovah and he answered
me, and from all my fears he delivered
me.

6 They looked to him and were
bright, and their faces shall not be
ashamed.

7 This poor one 681160, and Jehovah
heard, and from all his straits he saved
him.

8 Behold, the messenger of Jehovah
surrounding to those fearing him, and
he will deliver them.

9 Taste ye and see that Jehovah is
good: happy the man who shall put
his trust m him.

10 Fear Jehovah, ye his holy ones;
for no want to those fearing him.

11 The young lions suffered want and
were hungry: and they seeking Jeho-
vah shall not want any good.

12 Come, ye sons, hear to me: I will
teach you the fear of Jehovah.

18 Who the man desiring life, loving
days, to see good?

14 Watch thy tongue from evil; and
thy lips from speaking deceit.

16 Turn away from evil, and do
good; seek peace and pursue it.

16 The eyes of Jehovah upon the
just, and his ears to their eries.

17 The face of Jehovah against those
doing evil, to eut off their remembrance
from the earth.

18 They cried and Jehovah heard, and
he delivered them from all their straits,

19 Jehovah is near to the broken of
heart, and he will save the humble of
spirit.

20 Many the evils of the just one,
and Jehovah will deliver him from all
of them.

21 He watched all his bones: one of
them was not broken.

22 נעגך‎ shall slay the unjust one:
and they hating the just one shall trans-
gress,

23 Jehovah redeems the soul of his
servants: and all trusting in him shall
not transgress.

PSALMS.

PSALM טאאא‎
O David. Contend, O Jehovah,
with them contending with me:
fight with those fighting with me.

2 Take hold of the shield and the
buckler, and stand up for my help.

3 Draw out the spear, and shut up
to the meeting of them pursuing me:
say to my soul, Tam thy salvation.

4 They seeking my soul shall be
ashamed and disgraced: they shall be
drawn back and be ashamed purposing
my evil.

5 They shall be as chaff before the
wind: and the messenger of Jehovah
overthrowing.

6 Their way shall be darkness and
slippery places, and the messenger of
Jehovah pursuing them.

7 For gratuitously they hid for me
the destruction of their net: gratuit-
ously they dug for my soul.

8 Desolation shall come to him not
knowing, and his net which he hid shall
take him: in a he shall fall
in it.

9 And my soul shall rejoice in Jeho-

vah: it shall be glad in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, O Jeho-
vah, who as thee, delivering the poor
from him strong above him, and the
poor and the needy from him stripping
him?

11 Witnesses of wrong will rise up;
they will ask me what [ knew not.

12 They will requite me evil instead
of good, bereaving to my soul.

13 And I, in ‘their being sick, my
clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul
in fasting, and my prayer shall be
turned back upon my bosom.

14 As a friend, as a brother to me: I
went about as mourning a mother: be-
ing darkened, I bowed down.

15 And in my halting they rejoiced,
and they were gathered together: they
smiting were gathered together against
me, and I knew not ; they rent asunder
and ceased not:

16 With profane mocking parasites,
gnashing their teeth against me.

17 O Jehovah, how long wilt thou
see? Turn back | my soul from their de-
struction, my only one from the lions.

181 yal praise thee in the great con-

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vocation: I will celebrate thee among
a strong people.

19 Mine enemies shall not rejoice
over me for falsehood: they hating me
gratuitously shall pinch the eye.

20 For they will not speak peace: and
against the quiet of the land they will
purpose words of deceits.

21 They will widen their mouth up-
on me: they said, Aha! aha! our eye

saw it.

22 Thou sawest, O Jehovah:
wilt not be silent: O Jehovah,
wilt not remove far off from me.

23 Rouse up and awake to judgment,
my God and my Lord, for my conten-
tion.

24 Judge me according to thy jus-
tice, O Jehovah my God, and they shall
not rejoice over me.

25 They shall not say in their heart,
Aha! our soul. They shall not say,
We swallowed him down.

26 They shall be ashamed and they
shall blush together, rejoicing for my
evil: they shall be clothed with shame
and reproach, magnifying against me.

27 Those delighting in my justice
shall rejoice and be glad: they shall
say always, Jehovah shall be magni-
fied: he delighted in the peace of his
servant.

28 My tongue shall speak of 2 jus-
tice, thy praise all the day.

thou
thou

PSALM XXXVI.
O the overseer, to the servant of
Jehovah: to David.

2 A song of transgression to the un-
just one in the midst of my heart, no
fear of God before his eyes.

3 For he made smooth to himself in
his eyes, to find his iniquity to hate.

4 The words of his mouth vanity and
deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to
do good.

5 He will purpose vanity upon his
bed; he will set himself upon a way not
good; he will not reject evil.

6 O Jehovah, thy mercy is in the
heavens; thy faithfulness even to the
clouds.

7 Thy justice as the mountains of
God; thy judgments a great deep: man

and cattle thou wilt sav e, O Jehovah.

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8 How precious thy mercy, O God!
and the sons of man shall put their
trust in the shadow of thy wings.

9 They shall satiate from the fatness
of thy house; and thou shalt give them
to drink the torrent of thy delights.

10 For with thee the fountain of life :
in thy light we shall see light.

11 Draw out thy merey to those
knowing thee, and thy justice to the
upright of heart.

12 The foot of pride shall not come
to me, and the hand of the unjust shall
not move.me.

13 There they working vanity fell:
they were thrust down, and they shall
not be able to rise.

PSALM XXXVIL
O David. Thou shalt not be an-
ery at those doing evil, and thou
shalt not envy those working iniquity.

2 For as grass hastening they shall
be cut down, and as the greenness of
grass they shall fall away.

8 Trust in Jehovah and do good;
dwell in the land and be fed with faith-
fulness.

4 And delight thyself upon Jehovah,
and he shall give to thee the petitions of
thy heart.

5 Roll thy way upon Jehovah, and
trust upon him, and he will work.

6 And he brought forth as the light
thy justice, and thy judgment as the
noon.

7 Be silent to Jehovah and wait for
him: thou shalt not be angry at him
prospering his way, at the man doing
wickednesses.

8 Desist from anger and forsake
wrath: thou shalt not be angry only to
do evil.

9 For they doing evil shall be cut
off: and they waiting for Jehovah they
shall inherit the earth.

10 Yet a little, and no unjust one
thou didst mark upon his place, and he
was not.

11 And the humble shall inherit the
earth, and they delighted themselves
for the multitude of peace.

12 The unjust one meditated against
the just, and gnashed upon him with
his teeth.

PSALMS.

18 Jehovah shall langh at him: for
he saw that his day will come.

14 The unjust let loose the sword,
and they bent their bow; they cast
down the poor and needy, to slaughter
the upright of way.

15 Their sword shall go into their
heart, and their bows shall be broken.

16 A little to the just one is good
more than the wealth of many unjust.

17 For the arms of the unjust shall
be broken, and Jehovah upholds the
just.

18 Jehovah will know the days of
the blameless, and their inheritance
shall be forever.

19 They shall not be ashamed in the
time of evil, and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfied.

20 For the unjust shall perish, and
the enemies of Jehovah as the precious-
ness of lambs: they ended in smoke;
they ended.

21 The unjust one borrowed and he
will not repay: and the just one com-
passionated, and gave.

29 For they praising him shall inher-
it the earth, and they cursing him shall
be cut, off.

23 From Jehovah the steps of a man
were prepared, and he will delight in
his way.

24 If he shall fall he shall not be
prostrated, for Jehovah will uphold his
hand.

25 I was a youth, also I grew old,
and I saw not the just one forsaken and
his seed seeking bread.

26 All the day he compassionates
and lends; and his seed to be blessed.

27 Depart from evil and do good, and
dwell forever.

28 For Jehovah loves judgement, and
he will not forsake his godly ones; for-
ever they were watched, and the seed
of the unjust was cut off.

29 The just shall inherit the earth,
and they shall dwell upon it forever.

30 The mouth of the just one shall
speak wisdom, and his tongue shall
speak judgment.

81 The law of his God is in his heart,
and his goings shall not waver.

82 The unjust watches for the just,
and seeks to kill him,

PSALMS.

83 Jehovah will not leave him in his
hand, and he will not condemn him in
his being judged.

34 Wait for Jehovah and watch his
way, and he will exalt thee to inherit
the earth: in the cutting off the unjust
thou shalt see.

35 1 saw the unjust one making
afraid, and spreading abroad as a green
native tree.

36 And he shall pass away, and be-
hold, he is not: and I shall seek him
and he was not found.

37 Watch the blameless, and see the
upright one, for the latter state to the
man peace.

38 And they transgressing were de-
stroyed together: the latter state of the
unjust was cut off.

99 And the salvation of the just is
from Jehovah: their strength in time of
straits.

40 And Jehovah shall help them,
and he will deliver them: he will de-
liver them from the unjust, and he will
save them, for they trusted in him.

PSALM XXXVIII.
HANTING of David to bring to
- remembrance.

2 O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove
me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not cor-
rect me in thine anger.

3 For thine arrows came down upon
me, and thy hand will press down upon
me.

4 No soundness in my flesh from thy
wrath ; no peace in my bones from the
face of my sins.

5 For mine iniquities passed over my
head: as a heavy lifting up they will
be loaded above me.

6 My stripes became loathsome: they
flowed from the face of my folly.

7 I was moved, I was even greatly
bowed down: all the day I went dark-
ened,

8 For my loins were filled with inflam-
mation, and no soundness in my flesh.

9I was languid and crushed even
greatly: I roared from the groaning of
my heart.

10 O Jehovah, before thee all my de-
ane and my sighing was not hid from
thee, :

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11 My heart moved about rapidly,
my strength forsook me, and the light
of mine eyes also they not with me.

12 My friends and my neighbors
will stand from before my stroke, and
my kindred stood from far off.

13 And they seeking my soul will
lay snares: and they seeking my evil
spake mischief, and they will meditate
deceits all the day,

14 And I, as deaf, shall not hear;
and as dumb, he will not open his
mouth.

15 And I asa man that heard not,
and not in his mouth confutations.

16 For, for thee, Ὁ Jehovah, 1 wait-
ed: thou wilt answer, O Jehovah my
God.

17 For I said, Lest they shall rejoice
over me: in the wavering of my foot
they magnified against me.

18 For I being prepared for halting,
and my pain always before me.

19 For I will announce mine iniqui-
ty; I shall be afraid for my sin.

20 And mine enemies living, they
were strong: and they hating me with
falsehood were multiplied.

21 And they requiting evil for good
will be mine adversaries, for my pursu-
ing good.

22 Thou wilt not forsake me, O Je-
hovah: my God, thou wilt not remove
far off from me.

28 Hasten for my help, O Jehovah,
my salvation.

PSALM XXXIX.
O the overseer, to Jeduthun : chant-
ing of David.

2 1 said, I will watch my way from
sinning with my tongue: 1 will watch
for my mouth with a muzzle while yet
the unjust one is before me.

3 I was dumb with silence, I was si-
lent from good, and my pain was
moved.

4 My heart was hot in the midst of
me; in my heat the fire will burn: I
spake with my tongue.

50 Jehovah, make me to know
mine end, and the measure of my days,
what it is; I shall know how 1 fail.

6 Behold, thou gavest my days a
hand-breadth, and my life as nothing

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before thee: but every man stood all
vanity. Silence.

7 Surely in a shadow a man will go
about: surely they will be disquieted
in vain: he will store up, and he knew
not who shall gather them.

8 And now, what waited I for, O Je-
hovah? my hope it is to thee.

9 Deliver me from all my transgres-
sion: thou wilt not set me a reproach
of the foolish one.

10 I was dumb, I will not open my
mouth; for thou didst.

11 Remove from me thy stroke: I
was finished from the contention of thy
hand. -

12 With corrections for iniquity thou
didst correct man, and thou wilt melt
down as a moth his beauty: surely
every man is vanity. Silence.

13 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and
give ear to my ery; thou wilt not be
silent at my tears, for I a sojourner
with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.

14 Look away from me, and I shall
be cheerful, before I shall go and I not
be.

PSALM XL.
O the overseer: of David chanting.
2 Waiting, I waited for Jehovah,
and he will incline to me, and he will
hear my cry.

3 And he will bring me up from the
pit of destruction, from the clay of
mire, and he will set my feet upon a
rock, preparing my goings.

4 And he will give a new song in
my mouth, praise to our God: many
shall see and fear, and they shall trust
in Jehovah.

5 Happy the man who set Jehovah
his trust, and turned not to the arro-
gant, and those turning aside to false-
hoo.

6 Many the wonders thou didst, O
Jehovah my God, and thy purposes to
us: none shall set in order to thee: I
will announce and speak, they were nu-
merous above number.

7 Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not
delight in; the ears thou didst pierce
to me: burnt-offering and sin thou
didst not ask.

8 Then I said, Behold, I came: in

PSALMS.

the volume of the book it was written
concerning me.

9 To do thine acceptance, O my God,
I delighted ; and thy law in the midst
of my bowels.

10 I announced good news, justice in
the great convocation: behold, my lips
I will not shut up, O Jehovah, thou
knewest.

111 hid not thy justice within my
heart; I said thy faithfulness and thy
salvation: I hid not thy merey and thy
truth to the great convocation.

12 Thou wilt not, O Jehovah, shut
up thy compassions from me: thy mer-
ΟΥ̓ and thy truth shall always guard me.

13 For evils even not being num-
bered encompassed about me: mine in-
quities overtook me, and I was not able
to see; they were numerous above the
hairs of my head, and my heart for-
sook me.

14 Be gracious, O Jehovah, to deliver
me: hasten, O Jehovah, to help me.

15 They shall be ashamed and blush
together seeking my soul to take it
away; they shall be turned back, and
they delighting in my evil shall be
ashamed.

16 They shall be made desolate for
the reward of their shame, they saying
to me, Aha! aha!

17 All they seeking thee shall rejoice
and be glad in thee: they loving thy
salvation shall say, Jehovah shall be
magnified.

18 And I am poor and needy, Jeho-
vah will think upon me: thou my help
and my deliverer; thou will not delay,
O my God.

PSALM ΧΙ].
O the overseer: chanting of David.
2 Happy he attending to the
weak one: in the day of evil Jehovah
will deliver him.

3 Jehovah will watch him and pre-
serve him alive; he shall be happy up-
on the earth, and thou wilt not give
him to the soul of his enemies.

4 Jehovah will support him upon a
bed of sickness: thou turnedst all his
bed in his sickness.

5 1 said, O Jehovah, pity me, heal
my soul, for I sinned against thee.

PSALMS.

6 Mine enemies will say evil to me:
When shall he die, and his name perish ?

7 And if he came to see, he will
speak vanity: his heart will gather
vanity to him; he will go forth with-
out; he will speak.

8 Together, all hating me, will whis-
per against me: against me they will
purpose evil to me.

9 A word of Belial will press upon
him: and when he lay down, he will
not add to rise up.

10 Also the man of my peace whom
Τ trusted in him, eating my bread, mag-
nified the heel against me.

11 And thou, O Jehovah, pity me
and raise me up, and I will requite to
them.

12 By this I knew that thou didst
delight in me, for mine enemy will not
shout over me.

18 And I, in mine integrity thou
didst support me, and thou wilt set me
before thy face forever.

14 Praised be Jehovah God of Israel,
from forever and even to forever.
Amen and Amen.

PSALM XLIL
O the overseer instructing for the
sons of Korah.

‘2 As the stag will long for the chan-
nels of waters, thus will my soul long
for thee, O God.

8 My soul thirsted for God, for the
living God: when shall I come and see
the face of God?

4 My tears were to me bread day and
night, in saying to me all the days,
Where is thy God?

5 These I shall remember, and I shall
pour out my soul in me: for I shall
pass through into the booth, 1 shall go
softly with them even to the house of
God, with the voice of joy and confes-
sion, of the multitude keeping a festival.

6 Why wilt thou be bowed down, O
my soul? and be disturbed upon me?
Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise
him for the salvation of his face.

7 O my God, my soul will be bowed
down upon me: for this I will remem-
ber from the land of Jordan and the
Hermonites, from the mountain of
smallness

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8 Deep calling to deep at the voice of
thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy
waves passed over me.

9 The day Jehovah will command
his merey, and in the night the song
with me; the prayer to the God of my
life.

10 I will say to God my rock, Where-
fore didst thou forget me? wherefore
darkened shall I go for the oppression
of the enemy ?

11 With a breaking of my bones
mine enemies reproached me, in their
saying all the day, Where their God?

12 Why wilt thou be bowed down,
O my soul? and why wilt thou be dis-
turbed upon me? .Hope upon God,
for yet shall I praise him, the salvation
of my face and my God.

PSALM XLIII.
UDGE me, O God, and contend my
contention from a nation not god-
ly: from the man of deceit and iniqui-
ty thou wilt deliver me.

2 For thou the God of my strength:
why didst thou reject me? wherefore
darkened shall I go about for the op-
pression of the enemy ?

3 Send forth thy light and thy truth ;
they shall lead me, they shall bring me
to thy holy mountain and to thy tents.

4 I will come to the altar of God, to
God the gladness of my joy: and I will
praise thee upon the harp, O God, my
God.

5 Why wilt thou be bowed down, O
my soul? and why wilt thou be dis-
turbed upon me? hope upon God, for
yet shall I praise him, the salvation of
my face, and my God.

PSALM XLIV.
O the overseer for the sons of Ko-
rah: of instruction.

2 O God, with our ears we heard;
our fathers recounted to us the worl
thou didst in their days, in days of
old.

3 Thou didst with thy hand drive
out the nations and thou wilt plant
them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the
people, and thou wilt send them forth.

4 For by their sword they possessed
not the land, and their arm saved them

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not: for thy right hand and thine arm,
and the light of thy face, for thou didst
delight in them.

5 Thou art he my King, O God:
command the salvation of Jacob.

6 In thee we will thrust our enemies :
in thy name we will tread down those
rising up against us.

7 For 1 will not trust in my bow, and
my sword will not serve me.

8 For thou savedst us from our ene-
mies, and those hating us thou didst
make ashamed.

9 In God we praised all the day, and
thy name we will celebrate forever.
Silence.

10 But thou didst reject, and thou
wilt shame us, and not go forth with
our armies.

11 Thou wilt turn us back from the
enemy: and those hating us spoiled for
themselves.

12 Thou wilt give us as sheep for
food, and thou didst scatter us among
the nations.

13 Thou wilt sell thy people without
riches, and thou didst not increase by
their price.

14 Thou wilt set us a reproach to our
neighbors, and a derision and scorn to
them round about us.

15 Thou wilt set us a parable among
the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.

16 All the day my shame before me,
and the confusion of my face covered
me,

17 From the 70100 of him reproach-
ing and reviling, from the face of the
enemy and avenger.

18 All this came to us, and we did
not forget thee, and we led not in thy
covenant.

19 Our heart drew not back, and
thou wilt not incline our going from
thy path ;

20 For thou didst crush us in the
place of jackals, and thou wilt cover
over us with the shadow of death.

21 Tf we forgat the name of our God,
and stretched out our hands toa strange
god:

22 Will not God search this out?
for he knew the secrets of the heart.

28 For, for thee we were killed all

PSALMS.

the day; we were reckoned as sheep of
the slaughter.

24 Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O
Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject
forever.

25 Why wilt thou hide thy face?
wilt thou forget our affliction and our
oppression ?

26 For our soul was bowed down to
the dust: our belly was glued to the
earth.

27 Arise a help for us, and redeem
us for sake of thy merey.

PSALM XLV.
O the overseer over the lilies, for
the sons of Korah, instruction: a
song of the beloved.

2 My heart boiled over a good word :
I say my works to the king: my tongue
the pen of one writing promptly.

3 Thou wert very beautiful above
the sons of man: grace was poured
forth by thy lips: for this God praised
thee forever. |

4 Gird thy sword upon the thigh, thou
strong one in thy majesty and thine
honor.

5 And in thy splendor prosper thou
riding upon the word of truth and hu-
mility, of justice; and thy right hand
shall teach thee wonderfully.

6 Thine arrows being sharpened peo-
ples shall fall under thee as the heart
of the king’s enemies.

7 Thy throne, O God, forever and
ever: ἃ Τοῦ of straightness the rod of
thy kingdom.

8 Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt
hate injustice: for this, God thy God
anointed thee with the oil of joy above
thy companions.

9 Myrrh and aloes, cassia, all thy
garments, from the temples of ivory, by
which they gladdened thee.

10 King’s daughters among thy beau-
tiful ones: the queen stood at thy right
hand, in gold of Ophir.

11 Hear, O daughter, and see, and
incline thine ear, and forget thy people
and thy father’s house ;

12 And the king shall desire for him-
self thy beauty, for he is thy Lord;
and worship thou to him.

13 And the daughter of the rock

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PSALMS.

with a gift; and the rich of the people
shall supplicate thy face.

14 All glory the king's, daughter, in
front: her clothing textures of gold.

15 With variegation she shall be
brought to the King; the virgins after
her, her companions, being brought to
thee.

16 They shall be brought with glad-
ness and joy: they shall come into the
temple of the king.

17 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy
sons; thou shalt set them for chiefs in
all the earth.

18 I will cause thy name to be re-
membered in every generation and gen-
eration: for this the peoples shall
praise thee forever and ever.

PSALM XLVL
O the overseer for the sons of Ko-
rah, with the female voice: a
song.

2 O God, to us refuge and strength,
helping greatly, being found in straits.

8 For this we will not fear in the
changing of the earth, and in the moy-
ing of the mountains into the heart of
the seas. :

4 Its waters will roar, they will foam ;
the mountains will tremble in its pride.
Silence.

5 A river, its streams will gladden
the city of God, the holy place of the
tents of the Most High.

6 God is in her midst, she shall not
be moved: God will help her at the
face of morning.

7 Nations raged, kingdoms were
moved: he gave with his voice, the
earth will melt.

8 Jehovah of armies is with us, the
God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.

9 Come, behold the works of Jeho-
vah, what desolations he set in the
earth.

10 Causing wars to cease even to the
end of the earth; he will break the
bow, and he cut off the spear, and he
will burn the cars in fire.

11 Desist, and know that I am God:

.- I will be exalted in the nations, I will

be exalted in the earth.
12 Jehovah of armies is with us; the
God of Jacob aheight for us, Silence.

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PSALM זא‎

O the overseer, to the son of Ko-
rah: chanting.

2 All peoples ye shall clap the hand ;
shout to God with the voice of rejoic-
ing.

8 For Jehovah the Most High is ter-
rible; a great King over all the earth.

4 He will speak the peoples under
us, and the nations under our feet.

5 He will choose for us our inherit-
ance, the excellency of Jacob whom he
loved. Silence.

6 God went up with a shout, Jeho-
vah with the voice of a trumpet.

7 Play on the harp to God, play on
the harp to our King; play on the harp.

8 For God is King of all the earth:
play on the harp from understanding.

9 God reigned over the nations; God
sat upon his holy throne.

10 The nobles of the peoples were
gathered together, the people of the God
of Abraham: for to God the shields of
the earth: he was lifted up greatly.

PSALM XLVIIL
SONG of chanting to the sons of
Korah.

2 Great is Jehovah, and greatly
praised in the city of our God, in his
holy mountain.

3 Fair of elevation, the joy of all the
earth, is mount Zion, the sides of the
north, the city of the great King.

4 God being known in her fortresses
for a height.

5 For behold, the kings met together,
they passed by together.

6 They saw, so they were astonished ;
they trembled, they took flight.

7 Trembling seized them there, pain
as of her bringing forth.

8 With an east wind thou wilt break

the ships of Tarshish.
“9. As we heard, so we saw in the city
of Jehovah of armies, in the city of our
God: God will prepare it even forever.
Silence,

10 We thought, O God, of thy mer-
cy in the midst of thy temple.

11 According to thy name, O God,
so thy praise upon the ends of the
earth: thy right hand being full of jus-
tice.

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19 Mount Zion shall rejoice, the
daughters of Judah shall be glad for
sake of thy judgments.

13 Surround ye Zion, and go round
about her: recount her towers.

14 Set your hearts to her fortifica-
tion; divide up her palaces, so that ye
shall recount to the later generation.

15 For this God is our God forever
and ever: he will guide us to death.

PSALM XLIX.
O the overseer, to the sons of Ko-
rah: chanting.

2 Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear,
all ye inhabitants of the world:

3 Also ye sons of Adam, also ye sons
of man together, ye rich and needy.

4 My mouth shall speak wisdom,
and the meditation of my heart under-
standing,

5 I will incline mine ear to a para-
ble: I will open my enigma upon the
harp.

6 Wherefore shall I fear in the days
of evil, the iniquity of my heel shall
surround me.

7 They trusting upon their wealth,
and they will glory in the multitude of
their riches.

8 A man redeeming shall not redeem
the brother, he shall not give to God
his ransom :

9 (And the redemption of their soul
is precious, and it ceased forever :)

10 And he shall yet live forever, he
shall not see destruction.

11 For he shall see the wise shall die:
together the fool and the stupid one
shall perish, and they left their wealth
to others.

12 The midst of them their houses
forever, their dwellings to generation
and generation; they called in their
names upon their lands.

13 And man shall not abide in hon-
or, being like as the beasts they per-
ished,

14 This their way folly to them: and
those after them will delight in their
mouth. Silence.

15 As sheep they were laid in hades ;
death shall rule over them, and the up-
right shall come down upon them in the
morning; and their rock for falling

PSALMS.

0 in hades from a dwelling to
nun,

16 But God will redeem my soul
from the hand of hades, for he will re-
ceive me. Silence.

17 Thou shalt not fear when a man
shall be enriched, and when the honor
of his house shall be increased ;

18 For not in his dying shall he take
anything: his honor shall not go down
after him.

19 For in his living he will praise his
soul, (and he will praise thee for thou
wilt do good to thyself,)

20 It shall go even to the generation
of his fathers; even forever they shall
not see light.

21 Man in honor shall not under-
stand; being like as the beasts, they
perished.

PSALM L.
HANTING to Asaph. The God
of gods, Jehovah spake, and he
will call the earth from the rising of the
sun even to its going down.

2 Out of Zion the perfection of beau-
ty, God shone forth.

3 Our God shall come, and he will
not be silent: a fire shall consume be-
fore him, and it stormed greatly round
about him.

4 He will call to the heavens from
above, and to the earth to judge his
people.

5 Gather ye my godly ones to me,
they cutting out my covenant upon 580-
rifice.

6 And the heavens shall announce
his justice: for God himself the judge.
Silence.

7 Hear ye, my people, and I will
speak; O Israel, and I will testify
against thee: I am God thy God.

8 Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove
thee and for thy burnt-offerings, being
always before me.

9 I will not take a bullock from thy
house, from thy fold, he goats.

10 For to me all the beasts of the for-
est, the cattle upon a thousand mount-
ains.

11 I knew all the birds of the mount-
ains and the moving things of the field
with me.

PSALMS.

12 If I shall hunger I shall not say
to thee; for to me the habitable globe,
and its fulness.

13 Shall I eat the flesh of the strong
ones, and shall I drink the blood of
goats?

14 Sacrifice. to God thanksgiving,
and repay thy vows to the Most High:

15 And call upon me in the day of
straits: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt honor me.

16 And to the unjust one God said,
What to thee to recount my law, and
thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy
mouth ?

17 And thou hatedst instruction, and
thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

18 If thou sawest a thief, and thou
wilt run with him, and thy portion with
those committing adultery.

19 Thou sentest thy mouth into evil,
and thy tongue will contrive deceit.

20 Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak
against thy brother; against the son of
thy mother thou wilt give a stumbling-
block. i

21 These things thou didst and I was
silent; thou thoughtest, being, I shall
be like to thee: I will reprove thee,
and I will set itin order before thine
eyes.

22 Understand now this, ye forget-
ting God, lest I shall rend and none de-
livering.

23 He sacrificing praise shall honor
me, and he setting the way I will cause
him to look upon the salvation of God.

PSALM LI.
O the overseer: chanting to David ;
2 In the coming to him of Na-
than the prophet, when he went in to
Bathsheba.

3 Compassionate me, O God, accord-
ing to thy mercy: according to’ the
multitude of thy compassions wipe
away my transgressions.

4 Multiply to wash me from mine in-
iquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

5 For I shall know my transgression,
and my sin is always before me.

6 Against thee, thee alone, did I sin,
and I did eyil in thine eyes: so that
thou wilt be justified in thy speaking,
and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.

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7 Behold, I was born in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.

8 Behold, thou didst delight in truth
in the reins, and in hidden things thou
wilt cause me to know wisdom.

9 Thou wilt purify me with hyssop,
and I shall be clean: thou wilt wash
me and I shall be white above snow.

10 Thou wilt cause me to hear joy
and gladness; the bones thou didst
break shall rejoice.

11 Hide thy face from my sin, and
wipe away all mine iniquities.

12 Create for me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst.

13 Thou wilt not cast me away from
thy face, and thou wilt not take thy
holy spirit from me.

14 Turn back to me the joy of thy
salvation, and thy willing spirit shall
uphold me.

15 1 will teach those transgressing,
thy ways, and those sinning shall turn
back to thee.

16 Deliver me from bloods, O God
the God of my salvation: my tongue
shall rejoice in thy justice.

17 O Jehovah, thou wilt open my
lips, and my mouth shall announce thy
praise.

18 For thou wilt not delight in sacri-
fice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in
burnt-offering.

19 The sacrifices of God a spirit-be-
ing broken: a heart being broken and
crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

20 Do Zion good in thy good will:
thou wilt build the walls of Jerusalem.

21 Then wilt thou delight in sacri-
fices of justice, m burnt-offering and
whole burnt-offering: then they will
bring up bullocks upon thine altar.

PSALM LIL
O the overseer instruction to Da-
vid:

2 In the coming of Doeg the Edom-
ite to Saul, and he will say to him, Da-
vid came to the house of Ahimelech.

3 Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou
strong one? the mercy of God is all the
day.

+ Thy tongue will purpose mischief
as a razor being sharpened, working
deceit.

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5 Thou lovedst evil above good;
falsehood more than speaking justice.
Silence.

6 Thou lovedst all words of destruc-
tion, a tongue of deceit.

7 Also God will break thee down
forever; he will take thee and sweep
thee away from the tent, and root thee
up from the land of the living. Si-
lence.

8 And the just shall see and fear,
and langh at him.

9 Behold, the man will not set God
his strength, and he will trust in the
multitude of his riches; he will be
strengthened in his mischief.

10 And [am as a green olive tree
in the house of God: I trusted in the
mercy of God forever and ever.

11 I will praise thee forever, for thou

didst: and I will wait for thy name, for’

it is good before thy godly ones.

PSALM LIL.
ae the overseer upon the stringed
instrument: imstruction to David.

2 The fool said in his heart, No God.
They were corrupted; they made ini-
quity abominable: none doing good.

3 God from the heayens looked forth
upon the sons of man to see if there is
he understanding, seeking God.

4 They all drew back: together they
were corrupt; none doing good, not
even one.

5 Did not those transgressing know
any thing? eating up my people, they
ate bread: they called not upon God.

6 They feared a:fear; there was no
fear: for God scattered the bones of
him making narrow: thou didst make
ashamed, for God rejected them.

7 Who will give from Zion the sal-
vation of Israel? In God turning back
the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

PSALM LIV.
O the overseer upon the stringed
instrument, instruction to David:
2 In the going of the Ziphims, and
they will say to Saul, Is not David hid-
ing with us?

3 O God, in thy name save me, and

in thy strength thou wilt judge me.

PSALMS.

4 O God, hear my prayer: give ear
to the sayings of my mouth.

5 For strangers rose up against me,
and the powerful sought out my soul:
they set not God before them. Silence.

6 Behold, God a help to me: Jeho-
vah with those upholding my soul.

7 He will turn back the evil to those
ee me; in thy truth cut them
off.

8 In willingness I will sacrifice to
thee: I will praise thy name, O Jeho-
vah, for it is good.

9 For from all straits he delivered me,
and mine eyes looked upon my enemies.

PSALM LV.
oe the overseer upon the stringed
instrument, instruction to David.

2 Give ear Ὁ God, to my prayer;
thou wilt not hide thyself from my sup-
plication.

9 Attend to me and answer me; I
shall flow downand make a noise in
my complaint.

4 From the voice of the enemy, from
the face of the oppression of the unjust
one: for they will bring down vanity
upon me, for in anger they will lie in
wait for me.

5 My heart will be pained within me,
and the terrors of death fell wpon me.

6 Fear and trembling will come upon
me, and horror will cover me.

7 And saying, Who wil give me
the wing-feather as a dove? I will fly
away and settle down.

8 Behold, I will move far off; flee-
ing away I will lodge in the desert.
Silence.

9 I will hasten escape to me from the

rushing wind, from the storm.

10 Swallow up, O Jehovah, divide
their tongue: for I saw violence and
strife in the city.

11 Day and night they will surround
it upon its walls: and vanity and trou-
ble in her midst.

12 Mischief in her midst: oppression
and deceit will not depart from her wide
place.

13 For not the enemy will reproach
me, and I will bear: not he hating me
magnified against me; and I will hide
from him,

PSALMS.

14 And thou a man according to my
estimation, my friend and my acquaint-
ance.

15 Who together made sweet the in-
tercourse, we will go into the house of
God with the multitude.

16 Death shall lay waste upon them ;
they shall go down living to hades, for
evils in their sojournings in the midst
of them.

17 I will call upon God, and Jeho-
vah will save me:

18 Evening and morning and noon 1
will meditate and make a noise, and he
will hear my voice.

19 He redeemed my soul in peace
from the encounter against me: for
with many they were with me.

20 God will hear and he will humble
them, and he dwelt of old. Silence.
With whom no changes to them and
they feared not God.

21 He stretched forth his hand in his
recompenses : he profaned his covenant.

22 They were divided from the wrath
of his mouth, and his heart drew near:
his words were soft above oil, and they
drawn swords.

23 Cast thy giving upon Jehovah
and he will sustain thee: he will not
give forever a wavering to the just one.

24 And thou, O God, wilt bring them
down to the well of destruction: men
of bloods and deceit shall not halve
’ their days; and I will trust in thee.

PSALM LVI.
O the overseer for the silent dove
of those far off: to David, a poem
in the rovers taking him in Gath.

2 Compassionate me, O God, for man
panted after me; warring all the day,
he will press me.

3 Mine enemies panted after me all
the day: for many warring against me
proudly.

4 The day
trust to thee.

5 In God I will praise his word, in
God I trusted; I will not fear what
flesh shall do to me.

6 All the day they will grieve my
words: against me all their purposes
for evil.

7 They will sojourn, they will hide,

I shall be afraid I will

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they will watch my heels as they wait-
ed for my soul.

8 For nothing is deliverance to them ?
In anger bring down the peoples, O
God.

9 Thou didst recount my wander-
ings: set thou my tears in thy bottle:
are they not in thy book ?

10 Then wili mine enemies turn back
im the day I shall call: this I knew,
that God is for me.

11 In God I will praise the word: in
Jehovah 1 will praise the word.

12 In God I trusted, I will not fear
what man shall do to me.

13 Upon me, O God, thy vows: I
will repay praises to thee.

14 For thou deliveredst my soul from
death: are not my feet from falling, to
go about before God in the light of the
living ?

PSALM LVILI.
O the overseer, Thou wilt not de-
> Stroy, to David a poem in his flee-
ing from the face of Saul in the cave.

2 Compassionate me, O God, com-
passionate me: for in thee my soul put
trust, and in the shadow of thy wines 1
will put my trust till calamity shall
pass by.

3 I will 6811 to God the Most High;
to God he completed for me.

4 He will send from the heavens and
he will save me; he rebuked him pant-
ing after me. Silence. God will send
forth his merey and his truth.

5 My soul is in the midst of lions: I
shall lie down with the flaming, the
sons of man, their teeth spears and ar-
rows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

6 Be exalted above the heavens, O
God ; above all the earth thy glory.

7 They prepared a net for my steps;
my soul was bent down: they dug a
pit before me, they fell into the midst
of it. Silence.

8 My heart was prepared, O God, my
heart was prepared: I will sing and
play on the harp.

9 Awake, my glory ; awake, lyre and
harp: I shall awake early.

10 1 will praise thee, O Jehovah,
amnong the peoples: I will play on the
harp to thee among the nations.

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11 For great even to the heavens thy
merey, and even to the clouds, thy
truth.

19 Be thou exalted over the heav-
ens, O God: over all the earth, thy

glory.

PSALM LVIIL
aire the overseer, Thou wilt not de-
stroy ; to David a poem.

2 Will ye indeed speak dumb justice ?
will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?

3 Also in heart ye will work evil;
the earth ye will roll the violence of
your hands,

4 The unjust turned aside from the
belly: they went astray from the
Sone: 0 falsehood.

5 Wrath to them according to the
likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the
deaf adder will stop its ear ;

6 Which will not hear to the voice of
enchanters, charming with enchant-
ments from wisdom,

7 God destroyed their teeth in their
mouth : Jehovah broke down the young
lions’ orinders.

8 They shall melt away as water
shall go about to them: he will bend
his arrow, they shall be as cut off.

9 As a snail shall melt away he shall
go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.

10 Before your pots shall perceive
the thorn, as living, as in wrath, he will
sweep him away.

11 The just one shall rejoice as see-
ing vengeance: he shall wash his foot-
steps in the blood of the unjust one.

12 And man shall say, Truly, fruit
to the just one: truly there is a God
judging in the earth.

PSALM LIX.
O the overseer, Thou wilt not de-
stroy, to David a poem; in Saul
sending, and they will watch the house
to kill him.

2 Deliver me from mine enemies, O
God: thou wilt set me on high from
those rising up against me.

3 Deliver me from those working
vanity, and saye me from men of
bloods.

4 For behold, they lay in wait for
my soul: the strong will gather against

PSALMS.

me; not my transgression and not my
sin, 'O Jehovah.

5 Not iniquity, they will run and
they will prepare: be aroused to meet
me, and see.

6 And thou Jehovah God of armies,
God of Israel, awake to review all the

nations: thou wilt not compassionate
all covering iniquity. Silence.

7 They ‘will turn back at evening:
they will make a noise asa dog, and
they will surround the city.

8 Behold, they will gush ont with
their mouth: swords in their lips: for
who heard ?

9 And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh
at them; thou wilt deride at all the na-
tions.

10 His strength for thee will I watch:
for God my height.

11 My God, his mercy shall antici-
pate me: God shall cause me to look
upon mine enemies.

12 Thou wilt not kill them lest my
people shall forget: cause them to wan-
der to and fro by thy strength, and
bring them down, O Jehovah, our
shield.

13 The sin of their mouth the word
of their lips, and they shall be taken in
their pride: and from cursing and from
falsehood they will recount.

14 Finish in wrath, finish, and they
not be: and they knew that God ruled
in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Si-
lence.

15 They shall turn back at evening ;
they shall make a noise as a dog, and
they will surround the city.

16 They shall wander to and fro to
eat, though they shall not be satisfied ;
and they. will pass the night.

17 And 1 will sing thy strength; and
Τ will rejoice at morning for thy mercy ;
for they wert a height to me, and a ref-
uge in the day of straits to me.

18 My help, to thee I will play on
the harp, for God my height, the God
of my mercy.

PSALM LX.
i ἂν, the overseer upon the lily of
song: poem to David to teach ;
2 In the setting on fire Aram of the
two rivers, and Aram of the station;

PSALMS.

and Joab will turn back and strike Edom
in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.

8 O God, thou didst cast us off, thou
didst break us down, thou wert angry ;
wilt thou turn back to us?

4 Thou didst shake the earth; thou
didst rend it: heal its breakings, for it
is depressed.

5 Thou didst cause thy people to see
a hard thing: thou didst give us to
drink the wine of reeling.

6 Thou gavest a signal to those fear-
ing thee, to flee from the face of the
bow. Silence.

7 So that thy beloved ones shall be
delivered, save with thy right hand
and answer us.

8 God spake in his holy place; I will
rejoice, I will divide the shoulder, and
I will measure the valley of booths.

9 Gilead to me, and Manasseh to me;
and Ephraim the strength of my head ;
Judah my judge.

10 Moab the pot of my washing;
over Edom 1 will cast out my shoe:
for me, Philistia shouted for joy.

11 Who will bring me to the city of
fortification? who guided me even to
Edom ?

12 Wilt not thou, O God? thou didst
cast us off, and wilt thou not go forth,
O God, with our armies?

13 Give to us help from straits, for
vain the salvation of man.

14 In God we will do strength and
he will tread down our adversaries.

PSALM LXI.
O the overseer upon the stringed
instrument; to David.

2 Hear, O God, my wailing; attend
to my prayer.

3 From the end of the earth I will
call to thee, in the fainting of my heart:
thou wilt lead me into the rock it will
be lifted up above me.

4 For thou wert a refuge to me, a
tower of strength from the face of the
enemy.

5 I will dwell in thy tent forever: I
will put my trust in the covering of thy
wings. Silence.

6 For thou, O God, heardest to my
vows: thou gavest the inheritance to
those fearing thy name,

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7 Thou wilt add days to the days of
the king: his years as generation and
generation.

8 He shall dwell before God forever:
mercy and truth a portion shall guard
him.

9 Thus will I play on the harp to thy
name forever, to repay me my vows day
by day.

PSALM LXII.
O the overseer, to Jeduthun : chant-
ing to David.

2 Surely my soul was silent to God:
from him my salvation.

3 Surely he my rock and my salva-
tion, my height; I shall not be greatly
moved.

4 How long will ye set upon a man?
ye will kill all of you: asa wall in-
clining, a wall thrust down.

5 Surely they counseled to thrust
down his lifting up: they will delight
in falsehood: with their mouth they
will praise, and in their inward parts
they will curse. Silence.

6 Only, my soul be thou silent to
God; for from him my hope.

7 Surely he my rock and my salva-
tion: my height; I shall not be
moved.

8 Upon God my salvation and my
glory: the rock of my strength, my
refuge in God.

9 Trust in him in all time; ye peo-
ple, pour out your heart before him:
God is a refuge for us. Silence.

10 Surely the sons of man vanity, the
sons of man falsehood: to be brought
up into the balances, they together of
vanity.

11 Ye shall not trust in oppression,
ye shall not become vain in plunder: if
wealth shall increase ye shall not set
the heart.

12 Once God spake; twice I heard
this; that strength is to God.

13 And to thee, O Jehovah, mercy :
for thou wilt recompense to each ac-
cording to his work.

PSALM LXIIL
HANTING to David in his being

in the desert of Judah.
20 God thou art my God; I will

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seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee,
my flesh longed for thee in a land of
dryness, and thirsty without water.

3 Thus in the holy place I saw thee,
to see thy strength and thy glory.

4 For thy merey was good more than
life; my lips shall praise thee.

5 So I will bless thee in my life: in
thy name will I lift up my hands.

6 As milk and fatness my soul shall
be satisfied; and with rejoicing lips
shall my mouth praise.

7 When I remembered thee upon my
bed in the watches, I will meditate up-
on thee.

8 For thou wert a help to me, and in
the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice.

9 My soul adhered after thee: thy
right hand held fast upon me.

10 They will seek my soul for de-
struction, they shall go into the lower
parts of the earth.

11 They shall deliver to the hands of
the sword; they shall be a portion of
foxes.

12 And the king shall rejoice in
God; all swearing in him shall glory:
for the mouth of those speaking false-
hood shall be stopped.

PSALM LXIV.
O the overseer; chanting to David.
2 Hear, O God, my voice in my
complaint: thou wilt guard my life from
the fear of the enemy.

8 Thou wilt cover me from the con-
sultation of evil ones; from the crowd
of the workers of vanity :

4 Who sharpened as a sword their
tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter
word :

5 To shoot down the blameless one
in secret things: suddenly they will
shoot, and they will not be afraid.

6 They will strengthen to themselves
an evil word: they will recount to hide
snares; they said, Who shall see them ?

7 They will search out iniquities ;
they completed a search searched ont:
and a man drew near, and a deep heart.

8 God shall be exalted; their blows
were the arrow of the simple.

9 And they will cause their tongue
to falter upon themselves: all looking
upon them shall be moved.

PSALMS.

10 And all men shall fear, and they
shall announce the work of God: and
they shall look at his doing.

11 The just one shall rejoice in Jeho-
vah, and he put his trust in him; and
all the upright of heart shall glory.

PSALM LXV.
O the overseer; chanting to David
a song.

2 Praise being silent to thee, Ὁ God
in Zion: and to thee shall the vow be
repaid.

8 Hear thou prayer: even to thee
shall all flesh come.

4 The words of iniquities were strong
above me: our transgressions thou wilt
cover them.

5 Happy him thou wilt choose, and
thou wilt draw near; he shall dwell in
thy enclosures: we shall be satisfied in
the good of thy house; holy is thy tem-

le.

6 Wonderful things in justice thou
wilt answer us, O God saving us, the
trust of all the ends of the earth, and
those being far off upon the sea:

7 Preparing the mountains in his
strength ; being girded with might :

8 Restraining the tumult of the seas,
the tumult of their waves, and the
multitude of the nations.

9 And they shall be afraid, those
dwelling in the ends, from thy signs:
the goings forth of the morning and
evening thou wilt cause to rejoice.

10 Thou reviewedst the earth, and
thou wilt water it: thou wilt greatly
enrich it; the stream of God being full
of waters: thou wilt prepare their
grain, forso thou wilt prepare it.

11 Thou givest its furrows to drink
to the full: thou wilt cause its incisions
to flow down in showers: thou wilt
bless its springing up.

12 Thou crownest the year of thy
goodness, and thy tracks shall drop fat-
ness.

13 The pastures of the desert shall
drop, and the hills shall 06 girded with

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oy.

Ἢ The פטתזה[‎ of the sheep were
clothed, and the valleys shall be cover-
ed with corn; they shall shout for joy,
they shall also sing.

PSALMS.

PSALM LXVI.

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away my prayer, and his merey from

O the overseer; a song of chanting. | me.

Shout ye for joy to God, all the
earth :

2 Play ye on the harp, the glory of
his name: set the glory of his praise.

8 Say to God, How terrible thy
works! in the multitude of thy strength
thine enemies shall 116 to thee.

4 All the earth shall worship to thee,
and they shall play on the harp to
thee; they shall play on the harp to
thy name. Silence.

5 Come and see ye the works of
God: terrible the doing ypon the sons
of man.

6 He turned the sea into dry land:
they will pass through the river on
foot: there we shall rejoice in him.

7 Ruling by his strength forever; his
eyes will look about upon the nations:
they turning away shall not lift up for
themselves. Silence.

8 Ye peoples bless our God, and
cause the voice of his praise to be heard.

9 He set our soul in life, and he gave
not our feet to waver.

10 For thou didst try us, O God,
thou didst prove us as purifying of sil-
ver.

11 Thou broughtest us into the net;
thou didst set a heavy burden upon our
loins.

12 Thou didst cause men to ride up-
on our head; we went through fire and
through water: and thou wilt bring us
forth to abundance. .

13 I will go into thine house with
burnt-offerings: I will repay to thee
my vows,

14 Which my lips opened and my
mouth spake in straits to me.

15 I will bring up to thee burnt-of-
ferings of marrows with ineense of rams ;
I will do oxen with he goats. Silence.

16 Come, hear, and I will recount,
all ye fearing God, what he did for my
soul.

17 1 called to him with my mouth,
and he was lifted up under my tongue.

18 If I saw vanity in my heart, Jeho-
vah will not hear.

19 Surely God heard; he attended
upon the voice of my prayer.

20 Praised be God who turned not

PSALM LXVII.
O the overseer upon the stringed
instrument: chanting of the song.
.2 God will compassionate us and
bless us; his face will enlighten us.
Silence.

8 To know thy way in the earth, thy
salvation among all the nations.

4 The peoples shall praise thee, 0
God; the peoples shall praise thee, all
of them.

5 The nations shall be glad and re-
joice, for thou wilt judge peoples in up-
rightness, and thou wilt pity the na-
tions upon earth. Silence.

6 Peoples shall praise thee, O God;
peoples shall praise thee, all of them.

7 The earth gave her produce; God
our God shall bless us.

8 God shall bless us, and all the ends
of the earth shall fear him.

PSALM LXVIIL
O the overseer; to David chanting
of a song.

2 God will rise; his enemies shall be
seattered, and they hating him shall flee
from his face.

3 As smoke being dispersed thou
wilt disperse: as wax melting from the
face of fire, the unjust shall perish
from the face of God.

4 And the just’shall be glad; they
shall rejoice before God, and they shall
rejoice with gladness.

5 Sing ye to God; play on the harp
to his name: raise him up to ride in the
evenings, in Jah his name, and rejoice
before him.

6 A father of orphans and a judge of
widows, God in his holy habitation.

7 God setting the only ones in the
house, bringing forth the bound into
prosperities, but those turning away
dwelt ina dry land.

8 O God, m thy going forth before
thy people, in thy stepping in the des-
ert. Silence.

9 The earth shook, also the heavens
dropped from the face of God, this Sinai
from the face of God, the God of Israel.

10 Thou wilt scatter a rain of abund-

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ance, O God, to thine inheritance, and
being weary thou didst make it firm.

1 Thy living ones dwelt in it: thou
wilt prepare in thy goodness for the
poor, O God.

12 Jehovah will give the word: to
those announcing good news a great
army.

18 Kings of armies will flee away,
they will flee away, and she resting in
the house will divide the spoil.

14 If ye shal! lie down within the
stalls, the wings of the dove being cov-
ered with silver, and her wing feathers
with yellowness of gold.

15 In the Almighty scattering kings
in it, it shall be snow white גוג‎ Salmon.

16 The mountain of God the mount-
ain of Bashan; the mountain of height
the mountain of Bashan.

17 Wherefore will ye lie in wait, ye
mountains of heights? the mountain
God desired to dwell in it: also Jeho-
vah will dwell forever.

18 The chariot of God twice ten
thousand thousands upon thousands:
Jehovah among them, Sinai in the holy
place.

19 Thou didst go up to height, thou
didst take captive captivity: thou didst
receive gifts in man, also those turning
away, for Jehovah God to dwell.

20 Praised be Jehovah; day by day
the God of our salvation will lift up to
us. Silence.

21 The God to us a God for salva-
tions; and to Jehovah the Lord the
goings forth to death.

22 Also God will crush the head of
his enemies, the crown of him going
about in his faults,

23 Jehovah said, I will turn back
from Bashan; I will turn back from
the depths of the sea:

24 So that thy foot shall shake in
blood, the tongue of thy dogs from the
enemies of him.

25 They saw thy goings, O God; the
goings of my God, my King, in the holy
place. ‘
26 The chiefs went before, they play-
ing on instruments, after; in the midst,
girls beating the tabret.

27 Praise ye God in the assemblies,
Jehovah from the fountain of Israel.

PSALMS.

28 Then little Benjamin in a deep
sleep, the chiefs of Judah their throng,
the chiefs of Zebulon, the chiefs of
Naphtali.

29 Thy God commanded thy
strength: strengthen, O God, this thou
didst for us.

30 From thy temple at Jerusalem
kings shall bring a gift to thee.

81 Rebuke the beasts of the reed, the
assembly of the strong ones, with the
heifers of the peoples, prostrating them-
selves with pieces of silver: scatter the
peoples, they will delight in wars.

32 The rich shall come out of Eeypt;
Cush shall cause its hand to run to
God.

83 Ye kingdoms of the earth, sing to
God; play on the harp to Jehovah.
Silence.

84 To him riding upon the heavens
of heavens of old, behold, he will give
in his voice a voice of strength.

85 Ye shall give strength to God:
upon Israel is his majesty, and his
strength in the clouds.

36 0 God, being wonderful in thy
holy things: the God of Israel, he gave
strength and powers to the people.
Praised be God.

PSALM LXIX.
O the overseer upon the lilies; to
David.

2 Save me, O God, for the waters
came even to the soul.

3 1 sank im mire of depth, and no
standing: I came into depths of waters
and the floods overwhelmed me.

41 was wearied in my calling, my
throat was dried up: mine eyes “failed
waiting for my God.

5 Those hating me were many above.
the hairs of my head: mine enemies de-
stroying me by falsehood were strong:
then I will turn back what I plucked
not away.

6 O God, thou knewest for my folly,
and my faults were not hid from thee.

7 They waiting for thee shall not be
ashamed for me: O Lord Jehovah of
armies, they shall not be disgraced for
me, seeking thee, O God of Israel.

8 Because for thee I bare reproach:
shame covered my face.

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9 I was polluted to my brethren, and
a stranger to my mother’s sons.

10 For thé zeal of thy house de-
voured me, and the reproaches of those
reproaching thee fell upon me.

11 And 1 will weep with fasting of
my soul, and it will be for reproaches
to me.

12 And I will give my clothing sack-
cloth, and I for a parable to them.

13 They sitting im the gate will
speak against me, and 1 was but the
music of stringed instruments, of strong
drink.

14 And I, my prayer is to thee, O
Jehovah, a time of acceptance: O God,
in the multitude of thy mercy answer
me, in the truth of thy salvation.

15 Deliver me from the mire and I
shall not smk: I shall be delivered
from those hating me, and from the
depths of waters.

16 The streams of water shall not
overflow me, and the depth shall not
swallow me down, and the well shall
not close upon me her mouth.

17 Answer me, O Jehovah, for good
is thy merey: according to the multi-
tude of thy compassions turn to me.

18 And thou wilt not hide thy face
from thy servant; for straits are to me:
hasten to answer me.

19 Draw near to my soul, redeem
it: ransom me on account of mine ene-
mies.

20 Thou knewest my reproach and
my shame, and my disgrace: all mine
adversaries are before thee.

21 Reproach broke my heart, and I
shall be ill at ease: and 1 shall hope for
comforting, and none; and for those
consoling, and I found not.

22 And they will give my food poi-
son, and for my thirst they will give
me vinegar to drink.

28 Their table shall be before them
for a snare, for a retribution, for a cause
of ruin.

24 Their eyes shall be darkened from
seeing, and cause their loins to waver
always.

25 Pour out upon them thy wrath,
and the burning of thine anger shall
overtake them,

26 8 fortress shall 60 6

and in their tents there shall none be
dwelling.

27 For whom thou didst strike they
pursued; and they will relate to the
pain of thy wounded.

28°Thou wilt give iniquity to their
iniquity, and they shall not come into
thy justice.

29 They shall be wiped off from the
book of the lying, and with the just
they shall not be written.

30 And Lam poor and dejected: and
thy salvation, O God, shall set me up
on high.

311 will praise the name of God
with a song, and I will magnify -him
with praise.

32 And it shall be good to Jehovah
above an ox, a bullock shooting out
horns and hoofs.

83 The poor saw, they shall be glad:
and seeking Jehovah your heart shall
live.

34 For Jehovah heard to the needy,
and he despised not his bound.

55 The heavens shall praise him, and
the earth, the sea, and every creeping
thing in it. /

86 For God will save Zion, and he
will build: the cities of Judah, and they
shall dwell there and inherit it.

37 And the seed of his servants shall
inherit it, and they loving his name
shall dwell in it.

PSALM LXX.
O the overseer: to David, to bring
to remembrance.

2 O God, to deliver me; O Jehovah
hasten to help me.

3 They seeking my soul shall be con-
fused and ashamed: they shall be turn-
ed away behind; and they desiring my
evils, shall be ashamed.

4 They shall be turned back for a re-
ward of their shame, saying, Aha!
Aha!

5 All seeking thee shall rejoice and
be glad in thee, and they shall say al-
ways, God shall be magnified; they
loving thy salvation.

6 And I am poor and needy: O
God, hasten to me, my help and my de-
liverer; thou, O Jehovah, wilt not
delay.

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PSALM LXXL
N thee, Ὁ Jehovah, I put my trust ;
Τ shall not be ashamed forever.

2 In thy justice thou wilt deliver me,
and let me escape: incline to me thine
ear and save me. ּ

3 Be thou to me for a rock of refuge
to come always: thou didst command
to save me, for thou my rock and my
fortress,

4 My God, deliver me from the hand
of the unjust one, from the hand of him
transgressing, and the violent one.

5 For thou my hope, O Lord Jeho-
vah: my trust from my youth.

6 Upon thee was I supported from
the womb : from the bowels of my moth-
er thou didst separate me: im thee my
praise always.

7 I was asa wonder to many: and
thou my refuge of strength.

8 My mouth shall be filled with thy
praise, thy magnificence all the day.

9 Thou wilt not cast me off to the
time of old age; as my strength fails
thou wilt not forsake me.

10 For mine enemies said to me, and
they watching my soul took counsel to-
gether,

11 Saying, God forsook him: pursue
him and take him, for none delivering.

12 O God, thou wilt not be far off
from me: my God, hasten for my
help.

13 They lying in wait for my soul
shall be ashamed; they shall be fin-
ished ; they seeking my evil shall be coy-
ered with reproach and shame.

14 And I will always hope, and I add-
ed upon all thy praise.

15 My mouth shall recount thy jus-
tice, all the day thy salvation, for I
knew not numbers.

16 I will go in the strength of the
Lord Jehovah: I will keep in remem-
brance thy justice, thine alone.

17 O God, thou didst teach me from
my youth: and even to this will I an-
nounce thy wonders,

18 And also even to old age and
grayness, O God, thou wilt not forsake
me; till I shall announce thine arm to
the generation, thy strength to every
one who shall come.

19 And thy justice, Ὁ God, even to

PSALMS.

height, who didst great things: O God,
who like thee?

20 Who didst cause us to see great
straits and evils; thou wilt turn back,
thou wilt preserve us alive, and from
the depths of the earth thou wilt turn
back, thou wilt bring us up.

21 Thou wilt increase my greatness,
thou wilt surround me, thou wilt com-
fort me.

22 Also I will praise thee with the
instrument of the harp; thy truth, O
God, I will play on the harp, to thee,
O Thou, ות‎ One of Israel.

23 My lips shall rejoice when I shall
play on the harp to thee, and my soul
which thou redeemedst.

24 Alsomy tongue all the day shall
celebrate thy justice: for they were
confused, for they seeking my evil were
ashamed.

PSALM LXXIL
O Solomon. O God, thou wilt
give thy judgments to the king,

and thy justice to the king’s son.

2 He shall judge thy people in jus-
tice, and thy poor in judgment.

5 The mountains shall lift up peace
to the people, and the hills in justice.

4 He shall judge the poor of the peo-
ple, and save to the sons of the needy,
and he will break: in pieces him oppress-
ing.

5 And they shall fear thee with the
sun and before the moon, generation
of generations.

6 He shall come down as rain upon
a fleece, as showers of pouring rain up-
on the earth.

7 The just one shall break forth in
his days, and a multitude of peace even
till no moon.

8 And he shall rule from sea even to
sea, and from the river even to the ends
of the earth.

9 Inhabitants of the desert shall bow
before him, and his enemies shall liek
the dust.

10 The kings of Tarshish and the isl-
ands shall turn back a gift, the kings of
Sheba and Seba shall bring a present.

11 And all kings shall worship to
him: all nations shall serve him.

12 For we will deliver the needy

PSALMS.

from the powerful one, and the poor
and no helper to him.

18 He will spare for the poor and
the needy, and he will save the souls of
the needy.

14 From oppression and from -10ץ‎
lence he will redeem their soul, and
their blood shall be precious in his
eyes.

15 And he shall live, and there shall
be given to him from the gold of She-
ba: and there shall always be suppli-
cations for him; all the day shall they
praise him.

16 There shall be diffusion of grain
in the earth upon the head of the mount-
ains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon,
and they shall blossom from the city as
the grass of the earth.

17 His name shall be forever: his
name shall flourish before the sun: and
they shall be praised in him: all na-
tions shall pronounce him happy.

18 Praised be Jehovah God, the God
of Israel, doing wonders himself alone.

19 And praised be the name of his
glory forever; and his glory shall fill
all the earth. Amen and Amen.

20 The prayers of David son of Jesse
were completed.

PSALM LXXIII.
HANTING to Asaph. Surely
God is good to Israel, to the clean
of heart. .

2 And I, my feet nearly turned aside ;
my going was almost poured out.

8 For I was envious at the foolish;
I shall see the peace of the unjust.

4 For not the pains to their death,
and their body fat.

5 They are not in the trouble of men,
and with man they shall not be struck.

6 For this, pride surrounded them
as a neck-chain; the dress of violence
will cover to them.

7 Their eye will come forth from fat:
they passed over the imaginations of
the heart.

8 They will mock and speak in evil
of oppression: they will speak from
elevation.

9 They set their mouth against the
heavens, and their tongue will go in
the earth.

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10 For this, his people will turn back
here: and full water shall be sucked
out to them.

11 And they said, How did God
know? and is there knowledge in the
Most, High?

12 Behold, these the unjust, and they
being secure of the world increased
riches.

13 Surely in vain I cleansed my
heart, and I will wash my hands in
cleanness.

14 And I am struck all the day, and
my reproofs for the mornings.

15 If I said, I will recount thus; be-
hold, I transgressed against the genera-
tion of thy sons.

16 And I shall think to know this, it
is labor in mine eyes.

17 Till I shall come to the holy place
of God I shall not understand for their
latter state.

18 Surely in slippery places thou
wilt set them, to cast them down into
rus.

19 How they were for desolation!
as in a moment they perished; they
were finished from sudden destruc-
tion.

20 Asa dream of him awaking, O
Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt despise
their image.

21 For my heart will be embittered,
and my loins were hard.

22 And I stupid, and I shall not
know, and I was a beast with thee.

23 And I always with thee: thou
didst hold by my right hand.

24 In thy counsel thou wilt guide
me, and after, thou wilt receive me with
glory.

25 Who to me in the heavens? and
from thee I desired nothing in the
earth.

26 My flesh failed and my heart: the
rock of my heart and my portion is
God forever.

27 For behold, they being far off
from thee shall perish: thou didst lay
waste all committing fornication from
thee.

28 And I drawing near to God, it is
good for me: I put in the Lord Jeho-
vah my refuge, to recount all thy
works,

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PSALM LXXIV.
NDERSTANDING to Asaph.
Wherefore, O God, didst thou re-
ject forever? will thine anger smoke
against the sheep of thy feeding?

2 Remember thine assembly thou
didst purchase of old; thou didst re-
deem the rod of thine inheritance; this
mount Zion thou didst dwell in it.

3 Lift up thy steps to desolations
forever; all the evil of the enemy in
the holy place.

4 Thine enemies roared in the midst
of thine appointment; they set their
signs, signs.

5 It will be known according to bring-
ing the axes upwards upon the thicket
of wood.

6 And now with axes and hammers
they will beat her engravings.

7 They cast thy holy place into fire,
to the earth they defiled the tent of thy
name.

8 They said in their heart, We will
rage against them together: they burnt
up all the appointments of God in the
earth.

9 We saw not our signs, no more a
prophet: and not with us will it be
known how long.

10 How long, O God, shall the enemy
reproach? Shall the enemy despise thy
name forever ?

11 Wherefore wilt thou turn back thy
hand, and thy right hand? from the
midst of thy bosom completely.

12 And God my king of old working
salvations in the midst of the earth.

13 Thou didst cleave the sea in thy
streneth: thou didst break the heads of
the dragons upon the waters.

14 Thou didst break the heads of the
sea monster, thou wilt give him for
food to the people, to the inhabitants of
the desert.

15 Thou didst cleave asunder the
fountain and the torrent: thou driedst
up the rivers of strength.

16 To thee the day, also to thee the
night: thou didst prepare the light and
the sun.

17 Thou didst set all the bounds of
the earth: summer and autumn thou
didst form them.

18 Remember this, the enemy re-

PSALMS.

proached Jehovah, and the foolish peo-
ple despised thy name.

19 Thou wilt not give the soul of thy
turtle-dove to the beast: the life of thy
poor thou wilt not forget forever.

20 Look to thy covenant: for the
dark places of the earth were filled with
habitations of violence.

21 The poor one shall not turn back
ashamed: the humble and the needy
shall וכך‎ 8186 thy name.

22 Arise, Ὁ God, contend thy con-
tention: remember thy reproach from
the foolish all the day.

23 Thou wilt not forget the voice of
thine adversaries: the pride of them
rising up against thee going up always.

PSALM LXXYV.
O the overseer, Thou wilt not des-
troy: chanting to Asaph a song.

2 We confessed to thee, O God, we
confessed: and thy name is near, thy
wonders recounted.

3 For I will take the appointment, I
will judge uprightnesses.

4 The earth and all dwelling in it
being melted: I made even its pillars.
Silence.

5 I said to the foolish, Ye shall not
be foolish; and to the unjust, Ye shall
not lift up the horn:

6 Ye shall not lift up your horn to
elevation: ye will speak with an impu-
dent neck.

7 For not from the going forth and
from the west, and not from the desert
the lifting up.

8 For God is judge: he will humble
this, and this he will lift up.

9 For a cup in the hand of Jehovah,
and the wine red, being full of mixed
wine; and he will pour out from this:
but its lees all the unjust of the earth
shall suck out, they shall drink.

10 And I will announce forever ; I will
play on the harp to the God of Jacob.

11 And all the horns of the unjust
will I cut off; the horns of the just one
shall be exalted.

PSALM LXXVI.
O the overseer upon the stringed
instrument: chanting to Asaph a
song.

PSALMS.

2 Τὴ Judah was God known: great
his name in Israel.

3 And his booth shall be in peace,
and his dwelling in Zion.

4 There he broke the lightnings of the
bow, the shield and the sword, and war.
Silence.

5 Thou art light, being magnified
from the mountains of fresh foliage.

6 The mighty of heart were spoiled,
they slumbered their sleep: and all the
men of strength found not their hands.

7 From thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,
the chariot and the horse lay in a deep
sleep.

8 Thou art feared, thou: and who
shall stand before thee from the time
of thine anger?

9 From the heavens thou didst cause
judgement to be heard; the earth feared
and rested.

10 In God’s rising up to judgment, to
save all the poor of the earth. Silence.

11 For the wrath of man shall praise
thee: the remainder of wrath thou wilt
gird up.

12 Vow, ye, and repay to Jehovah
your God: all being round about him
shall bring a gift for fear.

13 He will cut off the spirit of lead-
ers, being terrible to the kings of the
earth.

PSALM LXXVIL
O the overseer for Jeduthun: to
Asaph a chanting.

2 My voice to God, and I will ery with
my voice to God, and he gave ear to me.

3 In the day of my straits I sought
Jehovah: my hand was stretched out
at night, and it will not be slack: my
soul refused to be comforted.

+ 1 will remember God and I shall be
disauieted: I shall be depressed and
my spirit will languish. Silence.

5 Thou didst hold mine eyes watch-
ing: 1 was moved, and I will not speak.

ὁ 1 reckoned the days of old, the
everlasting years.

7 I will remember my stringed instru-
ments in the night: I shall meditate
with my heart, and my spirit will search

out.
8 Will Jehovah reject forever? and

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9 Did his mercy fail forever? his
word come to an end to generation and
generation ?

10 Did God forget to compassionate ?
or in anger did he gather his compas-
sions? Silence.

11 And saying, This has made me
sick: the years of the right hand of the
Most High.

12 I will remember the works of Jah:
for I will remember the ancient time of
thy wonder.

13 And I meditated in all thy work,
and 1 will think upon all thy doings.

14 Ὁ God, thy way is in the holy
place: what God great as God ?

15 Thou the God doing wonder:
thou didst make known thy strength
among the peoples.

16 Thou didst redeem with the arm
thy people the sons of Jacob and Jo-
seph. Silence.

17 The waters saw thee, O God, the
waters saw thee; they will tremble,
also the depths will be moved.

18 The clouds poured out waters:
the clouds gave a voice: also thine ar-
rows will go about.

19 The voice of thy thunder in the
wheel: the lightnings lightened the
habitable globe: the earth moved and it
will shake.

20 In the sea thy way, and thy paths
im many waters, and thy heels were
not known.

21 Thou didst guide thy people as
sheep by the hand of Moses and
Aaron.

PSALM LXXVIIL

NSTRUCTION to Asaph. Give

ear, O my people, to my law: in-
cline your ears to the sayings of my
mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable :
I will utter enigmas from ancient time:

3 Which we heard ‘and we shall
know them, and our fathers recounted
to us.

4 It was not hid from their sons, toa
ater generation recounting the praises
of Jehovah and his strength, and his
wonders which he did.

5 For he raised up a testimony in Ja-

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commanded our fathers to make them
known to their sons:

6 So that a later generation shall
know; sons shall be born, they shall
rise up and recount to their sons.

7 And they shall set their hope in
God, and they shall not forget the
works of God, and they shall watch his
commands,

8 And they shall not be as their fa-
thers, a generation turning away and
bitter, a generation it prepared not its
heart, and its spirit was not firm with
God.

9 The sons of Ephraim bending, lift-
ing up the bow, turned in the day of
the encounter.

10 They watched not the covenant of
God, and in his law they refused to go;

11 And they will forget his works
and his wonders which he caused them
to see.

12 Before their fathers he did a won-
der in the land of Egypt, the field of
loading.

13 He rent the sea and he will cause
them to pass through; and he will
cause the waters to stand as a heap.

14 And he will guide them in a cloud
the day, and all the night in a light of
fire.

15 He will rend the rocks in the des-
ert, and give drink as the great abyss.

16 And he will bring forth flowings
from the rock, and bring down waters
as rivers.

17 And they will yet add to sin
against him to embitter the Most High
in a dry land.

18 And they will tempt God in their
heart to ask food for their soul.

19 And they will speak against God ;
they said, Will God be able to arrange
a table in the desert?

20 Behold, he struck the rock and
waters will flow, and torrents will pour
out; will he bé able also to give bread ?
or will he prepare flesh for his people ?

21 For this Jehovah heard and he
will overflow, and a fire was kindled in
Jacob, and also anger came up upon
Israel.

22 For they believed not in God, and
they trusted not in his salvation.

23 And he commanded the clouds

PSALMS.

from above, and he opened the doors
of the heavens.

24 And he will rain upon them man-
na to eat, and he gave the grain of the
heavens to them.

25 Man ate the bread of the strong:
he sent to them provision to fulness.

26 He will cause the east wind to go
forth in the heavens, and by his
strength he will lead the south wind.

27 And he will rain flesh upon them
as the dust, birds of feather as the sand
of the seas.

28 And it shall fall in the midst of
his camp, round about to his habita-
tions.

29 And they shall eat and be well
filled: and he will bring to them their
desire.

30 They turned not away from their
desire, yet their food in their mouth.

31 And the anger of God came up
upon them, and he will slay among
their fat ones and he bowed down the
chosen of Israel.

32 In all this they yet sinned, and
they believed not in his wonders.

83 And he will finish their days in
vanity, and their years in terror.

84 When he slew them and they
sought him, and they turned back and
sought for God.

30 And they will remember that God
is their Rock, and God the Most High
redeemed them.

36 And they will deceive with their
mouth, and with their tongue they will
lie to him.

387 And their heart was not right
with him, and they were not firm in
his covenant.

88 And he being compassionate will
cover iniquity, and he will not destroy :
and he multiplied to turn back his an-
ger, and he will 0% rouse up all his
wrath.

39 And he will remember that they
are flesh ; a spirit going and not turn-
ing back.

40 How often they will embitter him
in the desert! they will grieve him in
the waste.

41 And they will turn back and
tempt God, and they broke in upon the
Holy One of Israel.

PSALMS.

42 They remembered not his hand
the day which he redeemed them from
the enemy ;

43 How he set in Egypt his signs,
and his wonders in the field of load-

ing.

44 And he tumed to blood their riv-
ers, and their flowings they shall not
drink.

45 He will send forth among them
the gad-fly, and they shall devour them ;
and frogs, and they shall destroy them.

46 And he will give their produce to
the devourer, and their labor to the lo-
cust. :

47 He will kill their vine with hail,
and their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He will deliver their cattle to the
hail, and their possessions to the flames.

49 He will send upon them the burn-
ing of his anger, outpouring and wrath,
and straits, sending evil messengers.

50 He will prepare a beaten path for
his anger; he spared not their soul
from death, and their life he delivered
to the word;

51 And he will strike all the first-
born in Egypt; the first-fruits of their
toils in the tents of Ham:

52 He will remove his people as
sheep, and he will lead them as a flock
in the desert.

53 And he will guide them securely
and they feared not: and the sea cover-
ed their enemies.

54 And he will bring them to the
bound of his holy place, this mountain
his right hand purchased.

55 And he will cast out the nations
from their face, and he will divide them
by lot in the measure of inheritance,
and he will cause the tribes of Israel to
dwell in their tents.

56 And they will tempt and embit-
ter God the Most High, and they
watched not his testimonies.

57 And they will draw back, and
they will transgress as their fathers:
they were turned as a bow of deceit.

58 And they will make him angry
with their heights, and they will pro-
voke him to jealousy with their carved
images.

59 God heard and he will overflow,
and he will greatly contemn in Israel.

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60 And he east off the tent of Shi-
loh, the tent he pitched among man.

61 And he will give his strength to
captivity, and his beauty into the hand
of the enemy.

62 And he will deliver his people to
the sword, and he overflowed upon his
inheritance.

68 The fire devoured his young men,
and his virgins wailed not.

64 His priests fell by the sword, and
his widows wept not.

65 And Jehovah will awake as he
sleeping, as the strong one shouting
from wine.

66 And he will strike his enemies be-
hind: he gave to them reproach for-
ever.

67 And he will reject in the tent of
Joseph, and he chose not in the tribe of
Kphraim.

68 And he will choose the tribe of
Judah, mount Zion which he loved.

69 And he will build his holy place
as of buffaloes, as the earth he founded
it forever.

70 And he will choose in Dayid his
servant, and he will take him from the
folds of sheep.

71 From those bringing up to care
for Jacob his people and for Israel his
inheritance.

72 And he will feed them according
to the integrity of his heart, and he will
guide them in the understandings of his
hands.

PSALM LXXIX.
HANTING to Asaph. O God,
the nations came into thine in-
heritance ; they defiled thy holy tem-
ple; they set Jerusalem for ruins.

2 They gave the corpses of thy serv-
ants food to the birds of the heavens,
the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts
of the earth.

3 They poured out their blood as
water round about Jerusalem; and
none burying.

4 We were a reproach to our neigh-
bors, a derision and scorn to those being
round about us.

5 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou
be angry forever? shall thy jealousy
burn as fire?

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6 Pour out thy wrath upon the na-
tions which knew thee not, and upon
the kingdoms which called not upon
thy name.

7 For devouring Jacob and they laid
waste his dwelling.

8 Thou wilt not remember against us
former iniquities: thy compassions
shall quickly anticipate us, for we were
greatly weal.

9 Help us, O God; save us, for the
word of the glory of thy name: and
deliver us, and cover our sins for sake
of thy name.

10 Wherefore shall the nations say,
Where is their God? He will make
known among the nations before our
eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy
servants being poured out.

11 The mourning of the bound shall
come before thee; according to the
greatness of thine arm let the sons of
death remain ;

12 And turn back to our neighbors
seven fold to their bosom their reproach
which they reproached thee, Ὁ Jeho-
vah,

13 And we are thy people and the
sheep of thy pasture: we will confess
to thee forever: to generation and gen-
eration we will recount thy praise.

PSALM LXXX.
O the overseer for the lilies of the
testimonies ; to Asaph a chanting.

20 thou feeding Israel, give ear,
guiding Joseph as sheep; thou dwell-
ing in the cherubs, shine forth.

ὃ Before Epraim and Benjamin and
Manasseh raise up thy strength, and
come to save for us.

4 O God, turn us back and cause thy
face to shine, and we shall be saved.

5 O Jehovah, God of armies, how
long didst thou smoke against the
prayer of thy people?

6 Thou gavest them to eat the bread
of tears, and thou wilt give them to
drink in tears by measure.

7 Thou wilt set us a strife to our
neighbors, and our enemies will deride
to themselves.

8 O God of armies, turn us back and
cause thy face to shine, and we shall be
saved.

PSALMS.

9 Thou wilt remove a vine from
Egypt: thou wilt cast out the nations
and thou wilt plant it.

10 Thou didst set in order before it,
and thou wilt cause its roots to take
root and the earth will be filled.

11 Its shadow covered the mount-
ains, and its branches the cedars of
God.

12 Thou wilt send forth her boughs
even to the sea, and her suckers to the
river.

13 Wherefore didst thou break down
her walls, and all passing by the way
plucked her?

14 The swine from the forest will lay
it waste, and the moying thing of the
field will feed upon it.

15 O God of armies, turn back now:
look from the heavens and see, and. re-
view this vine;

16 And the plant which thy right
hand planted, and upon the son thou
macest strong for thee.

17 Burning it in fire, cutting it down;
from the rebuke of thy face they shall
perish.

18 Thy hand shall be upon the man
of thy right hand, upon the son of man
thou madest strong for thee.

19 And we will not draw back from
thee: thou wilt cause us to live, and we
will call upon thy name.

20 O Jehovah, God of armies turn us
back; cause thy face to shine, and we
shall be saved.

PSALM LXXXL
O the overseer upon the stringed
instrument; to Asaph.

2 Rejoice ye in God our strength:
shout to the God of Jacob.

8 Lift up music, and ye shall give
the drum, the pleasant harp, with the
lyre.

- Strike ye the trumpet in the new
moon, in the full moon, for the day of
our festival.

5 For it is a law to Israel, a judgment
to the God of Jacob.

6 He set him a testimony in Joseph
in his going forth upon the land
of Egypt: I shall hear a lip 1 knew
not.

7 Iremoyed his shoulder from the

PSALMS.

burden: his hands shall pass by from
the basket.

8 Thou calledst in straits, and I will
deliver thee; I will answer thee in the
hiding place of thunder. I will prove
thee at the water of strife. Silence.

9 Hear, O my people, and I will tes-
tify in thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hear
to me;

10 A strange god shall not be in thee ;
and thou shalt not worship to a strange
god.

7 11 1am Jehovah thy God bringing
thee up from the land of Egypt: make
broad thy mouth and I will fill it.

12 And my people heard not to my
voice; and Israel was not inclined to
me.

13 And I will send him forth in the
hardnesses of their heart: they shall go
in their counsels,

14 Would that my people heard to
me! Israel shall go in my ways.

15 Shortly I shall humble their ene-
mies, and against their adversaries I
will turn back my hand.

16 They hating Jehovah shall lie to
him: and their time shall be forever.

17 And he shall cause them to eat
from the fat of wheat, and from the
rock with honey will I satisfy thee.

PSALM LXXXIL
HANTING to Asaph. God stood
in the assembly of God; he will
judge in the midst of gods.

2 How long will ye judge wicked-
ness, and ye will lift up the faces of the
unjust? Silence.

5 Judge ye the poor one, and the or-
phan: do justice to the humble one
and the poor one.

4 Deliver the poor and needy one:
take away out of the hand of the un-
just.

5 They will not know, they will not
understand: they will go about in
darkness: all the foundations of the
earth will be moved.

6 I said, Ye are gods; and the sons
of the Most High all of you.

7 But as man shall ye die, and as one
of the chiefs shall ye fall.

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for
thou shalt inherit in all nations.

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PSALM LXXXIIL
SONG of chanting to Asaph.

2 O God, not stillness to thee:
thou wilt not be silent, and thou wilt
not rest, O God.

8 For behold, thine enemies will be
clamorous; and they hating thee lifted
up the head.

4 Against thy people they will make
crafty consultation, and they will coun-
sel against thy hidden ones.

5 They said, Come, and we will cut
them off from a nation; and the name
of Israel shall no more be remembered.

6 For they counseled together with
the heart: they will cut out a covenant
against thee:

7 The tents of Edom and the Ishma-
elites, Moab and the Hagarites.

8 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;
the rovers with the inhabitants of Tyre ;

9 Also Assur was joined with them:
they were an arm to the sons of Lot.
Silence.

10 Do to them as Midian, as Sisera,
as Jabin, at the torrent Kison:

11 They were destroyed at the fount-
ain of the dwelling: they were dung to
the earth.

12 Set them their nobles as Oreb, and
as Zeeb: and as Zebah and as Zalmun-
na, all their princes:

13 Who said, We will inherit for us
the dwellings of God.

14 O my God, set them as a wheel;
as straw before the wind.

15 As fire will burn the forest, and
as the flame will cause the mountains
to burn.

16 So wilt thou pursue them with
thy tempest, and thou wilt terrify them
with thy whirlwind.

17 Fill their face with contempt, and
they shall seek thy name, O Jehovah.

18 They shall be ashamed and terri-
fied, even to forever; and they shall be
put to shame and perish.

19 And they shall know that thou,
thy name Jehovah alone, the Most
Tigh over all the earth.

PSALM LXXXIV.
NO the overseer upon the stringed
ἢ instrument: to the sons of Korah,
a chanting.

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2 Mow beloved are thy tents, O Je-
hovah of armies!

3 My soul longed after, and also fail-
ed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my
heart and my flesh will rejoice for the
living God.

4 Also the sparrow found a house,
and the swallow a nest for herself where
she put her young brood, thine altars,
O Jenovah of armies, my King and my
God.

5 Happy they dwelling in thy house ;
they shall yet praise thee. Silence.

6 Happy the man strength to him in
thee; the raised ways in their heart;

7 Passing through in the valley of
Baca they will set it a fountain; also
the early rain will cover the ponds.

8 They will go from strength to
strength, being seen in Zion to God.

9 O Jehovah God of armies, hear my
prayer: give ear, Ὁ God of Jacob. ₪
lence.

10 See, O God our shield, and behold
the face of thy Messiah.

11 For good a day in thine enclos-
ures above a thousand.. I chose to
wait on the threshold in the house of
my God, rather than to dwell in the
tents of injustice.

12 For Jehovah God a sun and
shield: Jehovah will give grace and
glory; he will not withhold good to
those going uprightly.

13 O Jehovah of armies, happy the

man trusting in thee.

PSALM: LXXXY.

XO the overseer: to the sons of Ko-

rah a chanting,

20 Jehovah, thou didst delight in
thy land: thou didst turn back the
captivity of Jacob.

3 Thou didst lift up the iniquity
of thy people, thou didst cover all their
sin. Silence.

4 Thou didst take away all thy
wrath: thou didst turn back the burn-
ing of thine anger.

5 Turn us back, O God of our salva-
tion, and annul thine anger with us.

6 Wilt thou be angry with us forey-
er? wilt thou draw out thine anger to
generation and generation ?

7 Wilt thou not turn back? wilt

PSALMS.

thou give us life? and thy people shall
rejoice in thee.

8 Cause us, O Jehovah, to see thy
mercy, and thou wilt give to us thy sal-
vation. ,

9 I will hear what God Jehovah shall
speak: for he will speak peace to his
people, and to his godly ones: and they
shall not turn back to folly.

10 Surely his salvation is near to
those fearing him, for glory to dwell in
his land.

11 Merey and truth met together;
justice and peace kissed.

12 Truth will spring up from the
earth, and justice looked forth from the
heavens.

13 Also Jehovah will give good, and
our land shall give her produce.

14 Justice shall go before him, and
shall set to the way of his steps.

PSALM LXXXVI.
PRAYER to David. Incline, O
Jehovah, thine ear: answer me,

for I am poor and needy.

2 Watch my soul, for I am godly:
save thy servant, thou my God, trust-
mg in thee,

3 Compassionate me, O Jehovah, for
to thee I will eall all the day.

4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for
to thee, O Jehovah, will I lift up my
soul,

5 For thon, O Jehovah, art good and
forgiving, and great of mercy to all
calling to thee.

6 Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer,
and attend upon the voice of my sup-
plications,

7 In the day of my straits I will call
thee, for thou wilt answer me.

8 None like to thee among the gods,
O Jehovah, and none according to thy
works.

9 All the nations which thou madest
shall come and worship before thee, Ὁ
Jehovah, and they shall do honor to
thy name.

10 For great art thou, and doing
wonders: thou God alone.

11 Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way;
I will go in thy truth: unite my heart
to fear thy name.

12 I will praise thee, O Jehovah, my

PSALMS.

God, with all my heart, and I will hon-
or thy name forever.

13 For thy mercy is great upon me,
and thou didst deliver my soul from
hades below.

14 O God, the proud rose up against
me, and the assemblies of the terrible
sought my soul; and they set not thee
before them.

15 And thou, O Jehovah, art a God
compassionate and merciful, and slow
to anger and great of mercy and truth.

16 Turn to me and pity me; thou
wilt give thy strength to thy servant, and
save to the son of thy maid-servant.

17 Make with me a sign for good, and
they hating me shall see and be asham-
ed: for thou, Jehovah, didst help me
and comfort me.

PSALM LXXXVII.
O the sons of Korah chanting a
song. His foundations are in the
mountains of holiness.

2 Jehovah loved the gates of Zion
above all the tents of Jacob.

8 Honored things being spoken in
thee, O city of God. Silence.

4 I will make mention of Rahab and
Babel to those knowing me: behoid
the rovers, and Tyre, with Cush; this
was born there.

5 And to Zion a man will say, And
a man was born in her: and he the
Most High shall prepare her.

6 Jehovah shall recount in writing up
the peoples, This was born there. Silence.

7 The chiefs according to them be-
ginning: all my fountains in thee.

PSALM LXXXVIIL
SONG of chanting to the sons of
Korah to the overseer upon the
lute, for affliction of instruction, for He-
man the Ezrahite.

2 O Jehovah, God of my salvation,
the day have I cried in the night before
thee.

3 My prayer shall come before thee:
incline thine ear to my wailing;

4 For my soul was filled with evils,
and my life touched upon hades.

5 I was reckoned with those going
down to the pit: I was as a man of no
strength :

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6 Free among the dead, as they
wounded lying down in the grave,
whom thou no more didst remember
them, and they were cut off by thy hand.

7 Thou didst set me in the pit be-
neath, in darknesses, in the shades.

8 Thy wrath lay upon me, and thou
didst afflict with all thy breakers. Si-
lence.

9 Thou didst remove far from me
mine acquaintance; thou didst set me
an abomination to them: I was shut up,
and 1 shall not go forth.

10 Mine eye languished from afilie-
tion: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all
the day, I stretched my hands to thee.

11 Wilt thou do wonder to the dead ἢ
if the shades shall arise, shall they
praise thee? Silence.

12 Shall thy merey be recounted in
the grave, thy faithfulness in destruc-
tion ?

13 Shall thy wonder be known in
darkness, and thy justice in a land of
oblivion ?

14 And to thee, O Jehovah, I cried,
and in the morning shall my prayer an-
ticipate thee.

15 Wherefore, O Jehovah, wilt thou
cast off my soul? wilt thou lide thy
face from me?

161 am poor and expiring from
youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be
perplexed.

17 Upon me thy burnings passed
over; thy terrors made me silent.

18 They surrounded me as water all
the day; they folded round about me
together.

19 Thou didst remove far from me
lover and friend, mine acquaintance
into darkness.

PSALM LXXXIX.
F instruction to Ethan the Ezra-
hite.

2 The mercies of Jehovah forever
will I sing: to generation and genera-
tion will I make known thy faithful-
ness with my mouth.

3 For I said, Mercy shall be built up
forever: the heavens, thy faithfulness
shall be prepared in them.

41 cut out a covenant to my chosen,
I sware to David my seryant,

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5 Even to forever I will prepare thy
seed, and I built up to generation and
generation thy throne. Silence.

6 And the heavens shall confess thy
wonders, O Jehovah, also thy faithful-
ness in the convocation of the holy ones.

7 For who in the cloud shall be com-
pared to Jehovah? shall he be likened
to Jehovah among the sons of God?

8 God being greatly terrible in the
council of the holy ones, and to be
feared by all round about him.

9 O Jehovah, God of armies, who as
thee, Jah, strong? and thy faithfulness
round about thee?

10 Thou ruling over the lifting up of
the sea: in the lifting up of its waves
thou wilt soothe them.

11 Thou didst break Rahab in pieces
as the wounded one; with the arm of
thy strength thou didst scatter thine
enemies.

12 To thee the heavens, also to thee
the earth: the habitable globe and its
fulness thou didst found them.

13 The north and the south thou
didst create them: Tabor and Hermon
shall rejoice in thy name.

14 To thee an arm with strength:
thou wilt strengthen thy hand, and
thou wilt lift up thy right hand.

15 Justice and judgment the prepar-
ing of thy throne: mercy and truth
shall anticipate thy face.

16 Happy the people knowing the
shout of joy: O Jehovah, they shall go
in the light of thy face.

17 In thy name they shall rejoice all
the day, and in thy justice they shall be
exalted.

18 For thou the beauty of their
stength, and in thine acceptance our
horn shall be exalted.

19 For to Jehovah our shield, and to
the Holy One of Israel our King.

20 Then thou spakest in a vision to
thy godly one, and thou wilt say, I put
help upon the mighty one; I exalted
the chosen one from the people.

211 found David my servant; with
my holy oil I anointed him:

22 Which my hand shall be prepar-
ed with him: also shall mine arm
strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall not impose upon

PSALMS.

him, and the son of iniquity shall not
afflict him.

24 And I beat down his adversaries
from his face, and I will smite those
hating him.

25 And my faithfulness and my mer-
ey with him, and in my name shall his
horn be exalted.

26 And I set his hand in the sea, and
his right hand in the rivers.

27 He shall call me, Thou my father,
my God, and the Rock of my salva-
tion.

28 Also I will give him the first-
born, the highest to the kings of the
earth.

29 Forever will I watch my mercy to
him, and my covenant was firm to him.

801 set his seed forever, and his
throne as the days of the heavens.

31 If his sons shall forsake my law,
and not go in my judgments ;

32 If they shall profane my laws and
watch not my commands ;

33 And I reviewed their transgres-
sion with the rod, and their iniquity
with blows.

84 And my mercy I will not rend
from him, and I will not lie in my
faithfulness.

35 I will not profane my covenant,
and I will not change the going forth
of my lips.

80 Once did I swear in my holy
place if I shall lie to David.

37 His seed shall be forever and his
throne as the sun before me.

38 As the moon it shall be prepared
forever, and a faithful witness in the
cloud. Silence.

89 And thou didst cast off, and thou
wilt reject; thou didst overflow with
thy Messiah.

40 Thou didst reject the covenant of
thy servant: thou didst profane to the
earth his consecration.

41 Thou didst break down all his
walls; thou didst set his fortifications a
ruin.

42 All those passing over the way
plundered him: he was a reproach to
his neighbors :

43 Thou didst raise up the right hand
of his adversaries; thou didst cause all
his enemies to rejoice.

PSALMS.

44 Also thou wilt turn back the edge
of his sword, and thou caused him not
to rise up in war.

45 Thou didst cause to cease from
his cleansing, and his throne thou didst
cast it down to the earth.

46 Thou didst shorten the days of
his youth: thou didst cover over him
with shame. Silence.

47 How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou
hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath
burn as fire?

48 Remember me what is life : where-
fore in vain didst thou create all the
sons of man?

_ 49 What man shall live and not see
death? Shall he deliver his soul from
the hand of hades? Silence.

50 Where thy former mercies, O Je-
hovah, thou didst sware to Dayid in thy
faithfulness ?

51 Remember; O Jehovah, the re-
proach of thy servants; I lifted up in
my bosom all the multitudes of peoples ;

52 Which thine enemies reproached,
O Jehovah; which they reproached the
heels of thy Messiah.

58 Blessed be Jehovah forever. Amen
and Amen.

PSALM XC.
RAY ER to Moses the man of God.
O Jehovah, thou wert a refuge to
us in generation and generation.

2 Before the mountains were born,
and the earth shall be begun, and the
habitable globe, and from forever even
to forever, thou art God.

8 Thou wilt turn man even to crush-
ing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye
sons of man.

4 For a thousand years in thine eyes
as the day of yesterday, for it shall pass
away, and watches in the night.

5 Thou didst overwhelm them; in
sleep shall they be; in the morning as
the grass will pass away.

6 In the morning it will flourish, and
it will pass away at evening; it will be
cut off and will dry up.

7 For we were finished in thine an-
ger, and in thy wrath we were terrified.

8 Thou didst set our iniquities before
thee, our hidden things before the hight
of thy face,

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9 For all our days turned away in
thy wrath: we finished our years as a
meditition. ,

10 The days of our years, in them
seventy years; and if in strengths,
eighty years, and their pride labor and
vanity ; for being soon cut off and we
shall fly away.

11 Who shall know the strength of
thine anger? and according to thy fear,
thy wrath.

12 To number our days so make
known, and we shall bring the heart to
wisdom.

13 Turn back, O Jehovah, how long?
and have pity upon thy servants.

14 Satisfy us in the morning with
thy mercy, and we shall rejoice and be
glad in all our days.

15 We rejoiced according to the days
thou didst humble us, the years we saw
evil.

16 Cause thy works to be seen to
thy servants, and thine honor for their
sons.

17 And the sweetness of Jehovah
our God shall be upon us: and the
work of our hands prepare thou it upon
us; and the work of our hands prepare
thou it.

PSALM XCI.
E dwelling in the covering of the
Most High, in the shadow of the
Almighty shall he lodge.

2 Saying to Jehovah, My refuge and
my fortress: my God, I will trust in
thee.

3 For he will deliver thee from the
snare of the fowler, from the word of
ruin,

4 He will cover thee with his wing
feathers, and under his wings thou
shalt trust: his truth a shield and
buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid from ter-
ror the night; from the arrow that will
fly the day ;

6 From the word that shall go in
darkness: from the cutting off that
shall lay waste the noon-day.

7 A thousand shall fall from thy side,
and ten thousand from thy right hand ;
and to thee it shall not reach.

8 Only with thine eyes thou shalt

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look and thou shalt see the retribution
of the unjust.

9 For thou, O Jehovah, my trust;
thou didst set the Most High thy refuge.

10 Evil shall not approach to thee,
and a blow shall not come near in thy
tent.

11 For he will command his messen-
gers for thee, to watch thee in all thy
ways.

12 Upon the hands shall they lift
thee up, lest thou shalt strike thy foot
against a stone.

13 Upon the lion and the asp, shalt
thou tread: thou shalt tread down the
young lion and the dragon.

14 For he delighted in me and I will
deliver him: I will exalt him, for he
knew my name.

15 He shall call me and J will an-
swer him: J am with him in straits; I
will deliver him and honor him.

16 With length of days will I satisly
him, and I will cause him to look upon
my salvation.

PSALM XCII.
HANTING a song to the day of
the Sabbath.

2 It is good to confess to Jehovah, to
play on the harp to thy name, O Most
High.

3 To announce in the morning thy
mercy, and thy faithfulness in the night.

4 Upon a ten stringed instrument,
and upon the lyre; with the murmurs
upon the harp.

5 For thou didst gladden me, O Je-
hoyah, by thy work: I wiil rejoice in
the works of thy hands,

6 How great were thy works, O Je-
hovah! thy thoughts were very deep.

7 A brutish man shall not know, and
a fool shall not understand this.

8 In the putting forth of the unjust
as grass, and all working iniquity shall
flourish; to destroy them even to for-
ever:

9 And thou being high, O Jehovah,
forever.

10 For behold, thine enemies, O Jeho-
vah, for behold, thine enemies shall per-
ish; all working iniquity shall be dis-
persed.

11 My horn shall be lifted up as a

PSALMS,

buplce I was poured over with fresh
oil.

12 And mine eye shall look upon
mine enemies: in the risings up of the
unjust against me, mine ears shall hear.

13 The just one shall flourish as the
palm tree: he shall become great as
the cedar in Lebanon.

14 Those being planted in the house
of Jehovah, shall flourish in the enclos-
ures of our God.

15 They shall yet sprout in old age ;
they shall be fat and green.

16 To announce that Jehovah is up-
right: my rock and no iniquity in him.

PSALM XCIII.
eae reigned, he put on maj-
esty: Jehovah put on strength, he
girded himself: also the habitable globe
shall be prepared, it shall not be moved.

2 Thy throne was prepared from
then: thou art from forever.

3 The rivers lifted up, O Jehovah,
the rivers lifted up their voice, the riv-
ers Shall lift up their roarings.

4 Jehovah on high is great above the
voices of many waters, the mighty
breakers of the sea.

5 Thy testimonies were very firm:
holiness was becoming to thy house, O
Jehovah, to length of days.

PSALM XCIV.
GOD of vengeance, O Jchovah
God of vengeance, shine forth.

2 Be thou lifted up judging the earth :
turn back retribution upon the proud.

3 How long shall the unjust, O Je-
hovah, how long shall the unjust ex-
ult?

4 They will utter, they will speak
impudently ; all they working iniquity
will boast themselves.

5 They will break in pieces thy peo-
ple, O Jehovah, and they will afflict
thine inheritance.

6 The widow and the stranger they
will slay, and they will kill the orphan.

7 And they will say Jah will not see,
and the God of Jacob will not under-
stand,

8 Understand, ye brutish among the
people: and ye foolish, when will ye
understand ?

PSALMS.

9 He planting the ear, shall he not

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5 For to him the sea, and he made

hear? if he formed the eye, shall he not}it: and his hands formed the dry land.

see?

10 He chastising the nations, shall
he not do justice? he teaching man
knowledge.

11 Jehovah knew tlhe thoughts of
man that they are vanity. Ἷ

19 Happy the man whom thou shalt
chastise, O Jah: and thou wilt teach
him from thy laws.

13 To give rest to him from the days
of evil, till the pit shall be dug for the
unjust.

14 For Jehovah will not cast off his
people, and he will not forsake his in-
heritance.

15 For judgment shall turn back
even to justice: and after it all the up-
right of heart.

16 Who shall rise up for me against
those doing evil? who shall stand for
me against those working iniquity ?

17 Unless Jehovah helped for me
my soul almost dwelt silently.

18 If I said; My foot wavered ; thy
mercy, Ὁ) Jehovah, upheld me.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts
in my midst thy consolations will de-
light my soul.

20 Shall the throne of mischief 6
joined together with thee forming labor
upon the law ?

21 They shall break in upon the soul
of the just one, and they shall condemn
innocent. blood.

22 And Jehovah shall be fora height
to me, and my God for the rock of my
refuge.

23 And he will turn back upon them
their iniquity, and in their evil he will
cut them off; Jehovah our God will
cut them off.

PSALM XCY.
OME, we will rejoice to Jehovah :
we will shout to the Roek saving us.
2 We will anticipate his, face with
confession, with musie we will shout to
him.
3 For Jehovah is the great God, and
a great King over all gods,
4 For in his hand the recesses of the
earth, and the heights of the mountains
to him.

6 Come, we will worship and bow
down before Jehovah: he made us.

7 For he is our God, and we the people
of his feeding and the sheep of his hand.
This day if ye will, hear to his voice.

8 Ye shall not harden your heart as
the strife, as the day of trial in the des-
ert:

9 When your fathers tempted me, they
proved me; also they saw my works.

10 Forty years I shall loathe to the
generation, and saying, A people they
wandering in heart, and they knew not
my ways:

11 For I sware in mine anger if they
shall come in to my rest.

PSALM XCVI.

ING ye to Jehovah a new song;

sing ye to Jehovah all the earth.
2Simg ye to Jehovah, praise his
name; announce glad tidings; from

day to day, his salvation.

3 Recount his glory among the na-

tions, his wonders among all peoples.
4 For great is Jehovah, and being
greatly praised: he is terrible above all

ods.

5 For all the gods of the peoples are
nothings: and Jehovah made the heay-
ens:

6 Majesty and honor are before him ;
strength and beauty in his holy place.

7 Give to Jehovah, ye families of the
peoples, give to Jehovah glory and
strength.

8 Give to Jehovah the glory of his
name: lift ye up a gift and come to his
enclosures.

9 Worship ye to Jehovah in the or-
naments of holiness: tremble ye from
his face, all the earth. —

10 Say ye among the nations, Jeho-
vah reigned: also the habitable globe
shall be prepared, it shall not be moved:
he will judge the peoples in upright-
ness,

11 The heavens shall be glad, and
the earth shall rejoice: the sea shall be
moved, and its fulness.

12 The field shall exult and all that
is in it: then shall all the trees of the
forest rejoice.

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13 Before the face of Jehovah; for
he came, for he came to judge the
earth: he will judge the habitable
globe in justice, and the peoples in his
faithfulness.

PSALM א‎
EHOVAH reigned, the earth shall
exult: the many islands shall be
glad.

2 A cloud and darkness round about
him: justice and judgment the prepar-
ing of his throne.

3 Fire shall go before him, and shall
burn up bis enemies round about.

4 His lightnings lightened the habit-
able globe; the earth saw and it will
tremble.

5 The mountains melted as wax from
before the face of Jehovah, from before
the face of the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens announced his justice,
and all péoples saw his glory.

7 All serving a carved thing shall be
ashamed, they boasting themselves in
nothings; worship to him, all ye Gods.

8 Zion heard and she will be glad,
and the daughters of Judah shall rejoice
for sake of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

9 For thou, Jehovah, art most high
over all the earth: thou wert exalted
greatly above all gods.

10 Hate evil, ye loving Jehovah: he
watched the souls of his godly ones;
he will deliver them from the hand of
the unjust.

11-Light was sown for the just one,
and gladness for the upright of heart.

12 Be glad ye just, in Jehovah, and
a him at the remembrance of his

oliness.

PSALM XCVIIL
HANTING. Sing ye to Jehovah
a new song, for he did wonders:
his right hand saved for him, and his
holy arm.

2 Jehovah made known his salva-
tion: to the eyes of the nations he un-
covered his justice.

8 He remembered his mercy and his
faithfulness to the house of Israel: all
the ends of the earth saw the salvation
of our God.

4 Shout ye to Jehovah, all the earth:

PSALMS.

break forth into joy and rejoice, and
play on the harp.

5 Play to Jehovah on the harp, on
the harp and the voice of music.

6 With trumpets and the voice of
the horn, shout ye before the King, Je-
hovah, |

7 The sea shall be moved and its ful-
ness; the habitable globe and they
dwelling in it.

8 The rivers shall clap the hand: the
mountains shall rejoice together

9 Before Jehovah; for he came to
judge the earth: he will judge the hab-
itable globe in justice, and the peoples
in upnightness.

PSALM XCIX.
EHOVAH reigned, the peoples
shall be moved: he dwelling in the
cherubs; the earth shall quake.

2 Jehovah is great in Zion, and he
was raised up over all peoples.

3 They shall praise thy great and
terrible name: he is holy,

4 And the king’s strength loved judg-
ment ; thou didst prepare uprightnesses,
thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob.

5 Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and
worship at the footstool of his feet; he
is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among his priests,
and Samuel among those calling upon
his name; calling to Jehovah and he
will answer them.

7 Ina pillar of cloud he will speak
to them: they watched his testimonies,
and the law he gave them.

8 O Jehovah our God, thou didst an-
swer them; thou wert God lifting up
to them, and taking vengeance for all
their doings.

9 Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and
worship at his holy mountain; for Je-
hovah our God is holy.

PSALM C.
HANTING for praise. Shout ye
to Jehovah, all the earth.

2 Serve ye Jehovah with gladness:
come before him with rejoicing.
3 Know ye that Jehovah he is God:
he made us and not we his people and

the sheep of his feeding.
4 Come ye into his gates with con-

PSALMS.

fession, his enclosures with praise: con-
fess ye to him, praise his name.

5 For Jehovah is good; his mercy
forever and his faithfulness to genera-
tion and generation.

PSALM CI.
O David a chanting. Mercy and
judgment will I sing to thee, O Je-
hovah: I will play on the harp.

21 will be prudent in a blameless
way. When wilt thou come to me?
T will go about in integrity of heart in
the midst of my house.

8 I will not set a word of Belial be-
fore mine eyes: I hated him doing
transgressions ; he shall not cleave to me.

4 A heart of oppression shall depart
from me: I shall not know evil.

5 Slandering his neighbor in secret,
him will I cut off: him being lofty of
eyes and broad of heart, with him I
will not eat.

6 Mine eyes are upon the faithful of
the earth, to dwell with me: he walk-
ing in a blameless way, he shall serve
me.

7 He doing deceit shall not dwell in
the midst of my house: he siete
falsehoods shall not be prepared before
mine eyes.

8 For the mornings I will destroy all
the unjust of the land; to cut off from
the city of Jehovah all doing iniquity.

PSALM CII.

RAYER for the poor when he

shall languish, and before Jehovah
shall pour out his complaint.

2 Ο Jehovah, hear my prayer, and
my ery shall come to thee.

3 Thou wilt not hide thy face from
me in the day of straits to me; incline
thine ear to me: in the day I shall call,
speedily answer me.

4 For my days were finished in
smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

5 My heart was struck and dried up
as grass, that I forgat eating my bread.

6 From the voice of my groaning my
bone did cleave to my flesh.

7 I was like to the pelican of the des-
ert: I was as the owl of the dry places.

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sparrow being alone upon the roof.

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9 All the day mine enemies reproach-
ed me, they praising me sware against
me.

10 For I ate ashes as bread, and I
mingled my drink with weeping.

11 From the face of thine anger and
thy wrath: for thou didst lift me up
and thou wilt cast me down.

12 My days declining as a shadow,
and 1 shall be dried up as grass.

18 And thou, O Jehovah, wilt re-
main forever; and thy remembrance
to generation and generation.

14 Thou wilt anse, thou wilt compas-
sionate Zion: for the time to compas-
sionate her for the appointment came.

15 For thy servants delighted in her
stones, and they will compassionate her
dust.

16 And the nations shall fear the
name of Jehovah: and all the kings of
the earth thy glory.

17 For Jehovah built Zion, he was
seen in his glory.

18 He ה‎ the prayer of the
helpless, and he despised not their
prayer.

19 This shall be written for a later
generation: and a people created shall
praise Jah.

20 For he looked forth from the
height of his holy place; from the
heavens Jehovah looked upon the earth ;

21'To hear the groaning of the
bound ; to loose the sons of death.

22 To recount in Zion the name of
Jehovah, and his praise in Jerusalem.

23 In the gathering of the peoples to-
gether, and the kingdoms to serve Je-
hovah.

24 He answered in the way of his
strength: he shortened my days.

25 Saying, O my God, thou wilt not
take me away in the half of my days:
thy years in generations of generations.

26 Before time thou didst found the
earth, and the heavens the work of thy
hands.

27 They shall perish and thou shalt
stand,

28 And all they shall fall away asa
garment; as clothing thou shalt change
them, and they shall be changed.

29 And thou the same, and thy years

_Jshall not finish

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80 The sons of thy servants 1
abide, and their seed shall be prepared
before thee.

PSALM ΟΠ.
O David. Praise Jehovah, O my
soul, and all within me, his holy
name.

2 Praise Jehovah, O my soul, and
thou wilt not forget all his acts.

3 Forgiving to all thine iniquity,
healing to all thy diseases,

4 Redeeming thy life from corrup-
tion, crowning thee with merey and
compassions.

5 Satisfying even to thee with good ;
thy youth shall be renewed as the eagle.

6 ה‎ did justices and judgments
to all being oppressed.

7 He will make known his ways to
Moses, his doings to the sons of Israel.

8 Jehovah being compassionate and
merciful, slow to anger and great of
mercy.

9 He will not contend forever; he
will not keep forever.

10 He did not to us according to our
.sins, and he did not recompense upon
us according to our iniquities.

11 For as the height of the heavens
above the earth, his mercy prevailed
upon those fearing him.

12 As far off as the sunrisings from
the west, he removed far from us our
transgressions.

13 As a father compassionating over
his sons, Jehovah compassionated those
fearing him.

14 For he knew our formation; he
remembered that we are dust.

15 Man, his days as grass: as the
blossom of the field, thus he will flour-
ish.

16 For the wind passed over upon it
and it is not; and its place shall know
it no more. ו‎

17 And the mercy of Jehoyah is from
forever even to forever upon those fear-
ing him, and his justice to sons’ sons.

18 To those watching his covenant,
and to those remembering his charges
to do them.

19 Jehovah prepared his throne in
the heavens; and his kingdom ruled
over all.

PSALMS.

20. Praise Jehovah, ye his messen-
gers mighty of strength, doing his word,
to hear the voice of his word.

21 Praise Jehovah, all ye his armies;
his servants doing his will.

22 Praise Jehovah all ye his works
in all places of his dominions: praise
Jehovah, O my soul.

PSALM CIV.
RAISE Jehovah, O my soul. O
Jehovah my God thou wert great
exceedingly ; thou didst put on strength
and honor:

2 Being covered with light as a gar-
ment: stretching forth the heavens as a
curtain:

3 Framing his upper chambers in the
waters: setting the clouds his chariot:
going upon the wings of the wind.

4 Making his messengers spirits; his .
servants a fire of flame:

5 Founding the earth upon her bases,
she shall not be moved forever and
ever.

6 The deep thou coveredst it as a
garment: the waters will stand upon
the mountains.

7 From thy rebuke they shall flee;
from the voice of thy thunder they
shall be terrified.

8 They shall go up the mountains;
they shall go down into the valleys to
the place: this thou didst found for
them.

9 Thou didst set a bound they shall
not pass over; they shall not turn back
to cover the earth.

10 Sending forth fountains into the
valleys, they will go between the mount-
ains.

11 They shall water all the beasts of
the field: the wild asses shall break
their thirst.

12 Upon them the birds of the
heavens shall dwell, from between their
boughs they shall give a voice.

13 Watering the mountains from his
upper chambers: with the fruit of thy
work shall the earth be filled.

14 Causing grass to spring up for the
eattle, and the green herb for the ser-
vice of man, to bring forth bread from
the earth :

15 And wine will gladden the heart

PSALMS.

of man, to cause the face to shine from
oil, and bread will support the heart of
man.

16 And the trees of Jehovah shall be
satisfied ; the cedars of Lebanon which
he planted ;

17 Where there the sparrows will
nest: the stork, the cypresses her house.

18 The high mountains for the wild
goats; the rocks a refuge for the conies.

19 He made the moon for the ap-
pointments: the sun knew his going
down.

20 Thou didst set darkness and it
will be night: in it all the beasts of the
forest shall creep. \

21 The young lions roaring for prey,
and to seek from God their food.

22 The sun shall rise, they will be
gathered together, and in their dens
they will lie down.

23 Man will go forth to his work, and
to his labor even to evening.

24 How thy works were multiplied,
O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest
them all: the earth was filled with thy
possessions.

25 This great and broad sea, hands
there of the creeping thing, and no
number of the beasts, small with great.

26 There the ships will go: the sea
monster thou didst form to play in it.

27 They will all wait for thee to give
their food in its time.

28 Thou wilt give to them, they will
gather up: thou wilt open thy hand,
they will be filled with good.

29 Thou wilt hide thy face, they will
tremble: thou wilt take away their
spirit, they shall expire and turn back
to dust.

30 Thou wilt send forth thy spirit,
they will be created: thou wilt renew
the face of the earth.

31 The glory of Jehovah shall be for-
ever: Jehovah shall rejoice in his works.

82 Looking upon the earth and it
will tremble: he will touch up the
mountains and they will smoke.

98 I will sing to Jehovah in my -ץג[‎
ing: I will play on the harp to my God
in my enduring,

34 My meditating upon him shall be
sweet: I will rejoice in Jehovah.

35 Sinners shall be finished from the

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earth, and the unjust no more. Praise
Jehovah, O my soul.

PSALM CV.
ONFESS to Jehovah, call upon
his name: make ye known his do-
ings among the peoples.

2 Sing ye to him and play on the
harp to him: discourse ye upon all his
wonders.

3 Boast ye in his holy name: the
heart of those seeking Jehovah shall
rejoice.

4 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength:
seek his face always.

5 Remember his wonders which he
did; his signs and the judgments of his
mouth.

6 The seed of Abraham his servant,
the sons of Jacob his chosen.

7 116 is Jehovah our God: his judg-
ments are in all the earth.

8 He remembered his covenant for-
ever, the word he commanded to a
thousand generations.

9 Which he cut out with Abraham,
and his oath to Isaak.

10 And-he will set it for a law to
Jacob, to Israel an eternal covenant:

11 Saying, To thee will give the Jand
of Canaan, the line of your inherit-
ance:

12 In their being men of number, as
few and strangers in it.

13 And they will go about from na-
tion to nation, from the kingdom to
another people ;

14 He permitted not a man to op-
press them, and for them he will re-
prove kings.

15 Ye shallnot touch upon my Mes-
siah, and ye shall not do evil to my
prophets.

16 And he will call a famine upon
the land: he broke all the support of
bread.

17 He sent a man before them, Jo-
seph, for a servant was he sold:

18 They humbled his 1605 with the
fetter: his soul came into iron:

19 Even to the time his word came:
the sayings of Jehovah pug him.

20 The king sent and he will bring
him down; the ruler of. the peoples,
and he will 10086 him.

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21 He set him lord to his house, and
ruler over all his possessions :

22 To bind his chiefs in his soul, and
to make his old men wise.

23 And Israel will come into Egypt,
and Jacob sojourned in the land of
Ham.

24 And he will make his people
fruitful greatly, and he will strengthen
him above his enemies.

25 He turned their heart to hate his
people, to act deceitfully with his sery-
ants.

26 116 sent Moses his servant; Aaron
whom he chose in him.

27 They set the words of his signs
among them, and wonders in the land
of Ham.

28 116 sent darkness, and he will
darken; and they embittered not his
words.

29 116 turned their waters to blood,
and he will slay their fish.

30 Their Jand abounded with frogs
in the chambers of their kings.

31 He said, and the gad-fly will come,
and gnats in all their bounds.

32 He gave their rain hail, a fire of
flames in their Jand.

83 And he will strike their vine and
their fig trees, and he will break the
tree of their bound.

84 He said, and the locust will come
and the feeder, and no number.

35 And it will devour all the grass
of their land, and it will devour all the
fruit of their earth,

36 And he will strike every first-born
in their land, the first-fruits to all their
strength.

37 And he will bring them forth with
silver and gold, and none being weak

, גב‎ their tribes.

38 Egypt was glad in their going
forth, for their fear fell upon them.

39 He spread a cloud for covering,
and fire to lighten the night.

40 Asking, and he will bring the
quail, and he will fill them with the
bread of the heavens.

41 He opened the rock and the wa-
ters will flow; they went in dry places
a river.

42 For he remembered his holy word
with Abraham his servant.

PSALMS.

43 And he will bring forth his peopie
in joy, his chosen in rejoicing.

44 And he will give to them the
lands of the nations, and they will in-
herit the labor of the people ;

45 So that they shall watch his laws,
and his instructions they shall observe.
Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CVI.
YRAISE Jah. Confess to Jehovah,
for he is good, for his mercy is for-
ever.

2 Who shall speak the powers of
Jehovah? will he cause all his praises
to be heard?

3 Happy they watching judgment,
doing justice in all time.

4 Remember us, O Jehovah: thy peo-
ple with acceptance: review us with
thy salvation ;

5 To see the goodness of thy chosen
ones, to be glad in the gladness of thy
nation, to boast with thine inheritance.

6 We sinned with our fathers, we
acted perversely, we did evil.

7 Our fathers considered not thy
wonders in Egypt; they remembered
not the multitude of thy mercies; they
embittered at the sea, the sea of sedge ;

8 And he will save them for sake of
his name, to make known his powers.

9 And he will rebuke in the sea of
sedge, and it will be dried up: and he
will lead them in the depths as the
desert.

10 And he will save them from the
hand of him hating, and he will re-
deem them from the hand of the enemy.

11 And the waters will cover their
enemies: one of them was not left.

19 And they will believe םג‎ his
words, they will sing his praise.

13 They hastened; they forgat his
works; they waited not for his counsel.

14 And they will desire a desire in
the desert, and they will tempt God in
the waste.

15 And he will give to them their
asking; and he will send leanness into
their soul.

16 And they will be jealous against
Moses in the camp, against Aaron the
holy of Jehovah.

17 The earth will open and will swal-

PSALMS.

low down Dathan, and will cover the
assembly of Abiram.

18 And a fire will be kindled in their
assembly ; the flame will burn up the
unjust.

19 They will make acalf in Horeb,
and they will worship to the molten
image.

20 And they will change their glory
into the likeness of an ox eating grass.

21 They forgat God saving them,
doing great things in Keypt.

22 Wonders in the land of Ham, ter-
rible things in the sea of sedge.

23 And he will say to destroy them
unless Moses his chosen stood in the
breaking before him to turn away his
wrath from destroying.

24 And they will despise in the land
of desire; they trusted not to his word:

25 And they will murmur in their
tents; they heard not to the voice of
Jehovah.

26 And he will lift up his hand
against them: he will cause them to
fall in the desert:

_ 27 And to cause their seed to fall
among the nations, and to scatter them
in the lands.

28 And they will be bound to Baal-
peor, and they will eat the sacrifices of
the dead.

29 And they will irritate in their
doings, and the blow will break upon
them.

30 And Phinehas will stand and in-
tercede, and the blow will be re-
strained.

_ 81 And it will be reckoned to him
for justice to generation and generation,
even to forever.

32 And they will anger him at the
water of strife, and it will be evil to Mo-
ses on account of them:

33 For they embittered his spirit, and
he talked idly with his lips.

34 They did not destroy the peoples
which Jehovah said to them.

35 And they will mingle with the
nations, and they will learn their works.

36 And they will serve their images,
and they will be for a snare to them.

37 And they will sacrifice their sons
and their daughters to lords.

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blood, the blood of their sons and their
daughters which they sacrificed to the
images of Canaan: and the land will be
polluted with bloods.

39 And they will be defiled with
their works: and they will commit for-
nication in their doings.

40 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against his people, and he will
abhor his inheritance.

41 And he will give them into the
hand of the nations; and they hating
them shall rule over them.

42 And ‘their enemies will press
them, and they shall be humbled under
their hand.

43 Many times he will deliver them,
and they will embitter with their coun-
sel, and they will be brought low in
their iniquity.

44 And he will look upon straits to
them in his hearing their wailing.

45 And he will remember his cove-
nant to them, and he will console ac-
cording to the multitude of his mercy.

46 And he will give them for com-
passions before all those carrying them
away captive.

47 Save us, O Jehovah our God, and
gather us from the nations to confess
to thy holy name, to boast in thy
praise.

48 Blessed be Jehovah the God of
Israel from forever and even to for-
ever: and all the people saying, Amen.
Praise ye Jah.

PSALM COVILI.
ONFESS ye to Jehovah, for he is
good, his mercy is forever.

2 They being redeemed of Jehovah
shall say, Which he redeemed them
from the hand of the enemy.

3 And he gathered them from the
lands, from the sunrisings and from the
west, from the north and from the sea.

4 They will wander in the desert in
a waste; the way of a city of dwelling
they found not. ὃ

5 Hungering, also thirsting, their soul
will faint in them. .

6 And they will ery to Jehovah in
straits to them, and he will deliver
them from their. distresses.

7 And he will cause them to tread

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in a straight way, to go to a city of
dwelling.

8 They shall confess to Jehovah his
mercy, and his wonders to the sons of
man.

9 For he satisfied the thirsty soul, and
the hungering soul he filled with good.

10 They sitting in darkness and in the
shadow of death, being bound with af-
fliction and iron;

11 For they embittered the sayings of
God, and they despised the counsel of
the Most High:

12 And he will humble their heart
with labor; they were weak, and none
helping.

13 And they will ery to God in
straits to them; he will save them from
their distresses.

14 He will bring them forth from
darkness and the shadow of death, and
he will burst their bands.

15 They shall confess to Jehovah his
mercy, and his wonders to the sons of
man.

16 For he broke the brazen doors,
and cut off the bars of iron.

17 Being turned away from the way
of their transgression, they will be hum-
bled from their iniquities.

18 Their soul will abhor all food, and
they will draw near to the gates of
death.

19 And they will ery to Jehovah in
straits to them; he will save them from
their distresses.

20 He will send his word and heal
them, and he will deliver them from
their destructions.

21 They shall confess to Jehovah his
mercy, and his wonders to the sons of
man.

22 And they shall sacrifice sacrifices
of praise, and they shall recount his
works with rejoicing.

23 They shall go down to the sea in
ships, doing work in many waters.

24 They saw the works of Jehovah,
and his wonders in the deep.

25 And he will say, and he will
cause the spirit of storm to stand up,
and its waves will rise up.

26 They will go up to the heavens,
they will go down to the depths: their
soul will be melted with evil.

PSALMS.

27 They will reel and stagger as he
intoxicated, and all their wisdom will
be swallowed down.

28 And they will ery to Jehovah in
straits to them, and he will bring them
forth from their distresses,

29 He will set the storm for a calm,
and their waves will be still.

30 And they will be glad that they
will subside, and he will guide them to
the harbor of their desire.

31 They shall confess to Jehovah his
mercy, and his wonders to the sons of
man.

32 And they shall exalt him in the
convocation of the people, and they shall
praise him in the seat of the old men.

33 He will set rivers to a desert, and
the findings of waters to thirst ;

84 A land of fruit to saltness, for the
evil of those dwelling in it.

85 He will set a desert for pools of
water, and a land of dryness for find-
ings of water.

36 And there will he cause the hun-
gering to dwell, and they shall prepare
a city of dwelling; |

87 And they shall sow fields and
plant vineyards, and they will make
fruits of produce.

88 And he will bless them, and they
shall multiply greatly, and he will not
diminish their cattle.

39 And they will be diminished and
brought low from oppression, evil and

ief.

40 He poured out contempt upon the
nobles, and he will cause them to wan-
der in a waste of not a way.

41 He will set up the needy on high
from affliction, and he will set families
as a flock,

42 The upright shall see arid be glad,
and all iniquity shall shut her mouth,

43 Who the wise and will watch
these, and they shall understand the
mercies of Jehovah.

PSALM CVIII.
ONG of chanting to David.
2 My heart being prepared, 0
God, I will sing and play on the harp,
also mine honor. i
3 Awake, lyre and harp; I will
awake early. \ 8

PSALMS.

41 will praise thee among the peo-
ΕΣ of Jehovah, and I will play on the

arp in the nations.

5 For great above the heavens thy
mercy, and even to the clouds thy truth.

6 Be thou exalted above the heavens,
O God: and over all the earth, thy
glory ;

7 So that thy beloved ones shall be
delivered: save with thy right hand,
and answer us.

8 God spake in his holy place ; I will
exult, I will divide Shechem, and I will
measure the valley of tents.

9 To me Gilead; to me Manasseh ;
and Ephraim, the fortress of my head,
and Judah my judge.

10 Moab the pot of my washing; up-
on Edom I will cast my shoe; over
Philistia will I shout for joy.

11 Who will bring me to the city of
fortification? who guide me even to
Edom ?

12 Will not God?- Thou didst cast
us off, and wilt thou not go forth, O
God, with our armies?

13 Give to us help from straits: and
vain the salvation of man.

14 In God we shall do strength, and
he will tread down our enemies.

PSALM CIX.
O the overseer, to David a chant-
ing. O God of my praise, thou
wilt not be silent;

2 For the mouth of the unjust, and
the mouth of deceit opened against me ;
they spake with me the tongue of false-
hood.

3 And with words of hatred they sur-
rounded me, and they will war with me
gratuitously.

4 For my love they will oppose me:
and I for prayer.

5 And they will set against me evil
instead of good, and hatred for my
love.

6 Appoint over him the unjust one,
and the adversary shall stand at his
right hand. /

7 In his being judged he shall come
forth condemned : and his prayer shall
be for sin.

8 His days shall be few; his charge
another shall take.

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9 His sons shall be orphans, and his
wife a widow. :
10 And shaking his sonsshall wander
about, and they asked and sought from
their desolations.

11 The creditor shall lay snares for
all which is to him, and strangers shall
plunder his labor.

12 There shall not be to him any
drawing out mercy, and there shall not
be any compassionating to his or:
phans.

18 His descendants shall be for cutting
off; in the later generation their name
shall be wiped off.

14 The iniquity of his fathers will be
in remembrance to Jehovah, and the
sins of his mother shall not be wiped

off.

15 They shall be before Jehovah al-
ways, and their remembrance shall be
eut off from the earth.

16 Because he remembered not to do
mercy, and he will pursue the poor and
needy man to slay the dejected of
heart.

17 And he will love cursing, and it
shall come to him: and he delighted
not in praise, and it shall be far from
him.

18 And he will put on cursing as his
garment, and it shall come into his
midst as water, and as oil into his
bones.

19 It shall be to him as the garment
shall cover him, and for a girdle it shall
gird him always.

20 This the doing of those lying in
wait for me from Jehovah, and those
speaking evil against my soul.

21 And thou Jehovah my Lord do
with me for sake of thy name: for good
thy merey, deliver thou me.

22 For poor and needy am I, and my
heart wounded in my midst.

23 As the shadow according to its
declining I was gone: I was shaken off
as the locust.

24 My knees were weak from fast-
my flesh failed from fatness.

25 And I was a reproach to them:
they will see me and they will shake
the head.

26 Help me, Ὁ Jehovah my God:
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27 And they shall know that this is
thy hand; thou, O Jehovah, didst it.

28 They will curse and thou wilt
bless: they arose and they shall be
ashamed; and thy servant shall be
glad.

29 They lying in wait for me shall
put on shame, and they shall be covered
with their shame as an upper garment.

80 I will praise Jehovah greatly with
my mouth; and in the midst of many
will I praise him.

81 For he will stand at the right
hand of the needy to save his soul from
the judges.

PSALM CX.
O David a chanting. Jehovah
spake to my Lord, Sit thou at my
right hand and I will set thine enemies
the stool to thy feet.

2 The rod of thy strength will Jeho-
vah send out of Zion: rule thou in the
midst of thine enemies.

5 Thy people were willing in the day
of thy strength, im the splendors of ho-
liness from the womb of the dawn: to
thee the dew of thy childhood.

4 Jehovah sware and he will not la-
ment, Thou a priest forever according
to the manner of Melchizedeck.

5 Jehovah upon thy right hand crush-
ed kings in the day of his anger.

6 He shall judge in the nations; he
filled with dead bodies: he crushed the
head over much land.

7 He shall drink from the torrent in
the way: for this he shall lift up the
head.

PSALM CXL
RAISE ye Jah. I will praise Je-
hovah with all the heart, in the
consultation of the upright, and the as-
sembly.

2 Great the works of Jehovah, sought
out to all their desires.

3 Strength and honor his work, and
his justice stands forever.

4 He made remembrance to his won-
ders. Jehovah merciful and compas-
sionate.

5 He gave prey to those fearing him :
he will remember forever his cove-
nant.

PSALMS.

6 The power of his work, he an-
nounced to his people, to give them the
inheritance of the nations,

7 The works of his hands are truth
and judgment; faithful are all his
charges ;

8 Being sustained even to forever,
being done in truth and uprightness,

9 He sent deliverance to his people:
he commanded his covenant forever:
holy and terrible his name.

10 The beginning of wisdom is the
fear of Jehovah: a good understanding
to all doing them: his praise stands for-
ever.

PSALM CXII.
RAISE ye Jah. Happy the man
fearing Jehovah, delighting great-
ly in his commands.

2 His seed shall be great in the earth :
the generation of the upright shall be
praised.

3 Wealth and riches in his house,
and his justice stands forever.

4 Light arose in darkness to the up-
right: merciful and compassionate and
just.

5 A good man, being merciful and
lending: he will hold up his words in
judgment ;

6 For he shall not be moved forever :
the just one shall be for eternal remem-
brance.

7 He shall not fear an evil report:
his heart being prepared to trust in Je-
hovah.

8 His heart being sustained, he will
not fear even till he shall look upon his
enemies.

9 He scattered, he gave to the needy ;
his justice stands forever; his horn
shall be exalted in glory.

10 The unjust one shall see and be
angry; he shall gnash his teeth and he
melted away: the desire of the unjust
shall perish.

PSALM CXIII.
RAISE ye Jah. Praise, ye ser-
vants of Jehovah, praise ye the
name of Jehovah.
9 6גי‎ name of Jehovah shall be
praised from time and even forever.
3 From the rising of the sun even to

PSALMS.

its going down, the name of Jehovah is
praised.

4 Jehovah is high above all nations,
his glory above the heavens.

5 Who as Jehovah our God, lifting
himself up to dwell ?

6 To see those being humbled in the
heavens and in the earth ?

7 Raising up the poor from the dust,
he will lift up the needy from the dung-
hill.

8 To sit with the nobles, with the
nobles of his people.

9 Causing the sterile woman to dwell
in the house, a mother of sons being

glad. Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CXIV.
N Israel's going forth out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people
speaking a foreign tongue ;

2 Judah was for his holy place, Israel
his dominion.

3 The sea saw and it will flee: Jor-
dan will turn away back.

4 The mountains leaped as rams, the
hills as the sons of the flock.

5 What to thee, O sea, that thou wilt
flee? O Jordan, thou wilt turn away
back?

6 O mountains, ye will leap as rams?
O hills, as sons of the flock ?

7 From the face of Jehovah tremble
thou earth; from the face of the God
of Jacob; .

8 He turning the rock a pool of
water, the flint to fountains of waters.

PSALM CXV.
OT to us, O Jehovah, not to us,
but to thy name thou wilt give
glory, for thy mercy, for thy truth.

2 Wherefore shall the nations say,
Where now their God?

8 And our God is in the heavens; he
did all that he delighted in.

4 Their images are silver and gold,
the work of man’s hands.

5 A mouth to them, and they shall
not speak: eyes to them, and they will
not see:

6 Ears to them, and they shall not
hear: a nose to them, and they shall
not smell :

7 Their hands, and they will not

feel: their feet, and they shall not go:
they shall not murmur in their throat.

8 They making them shall be as
they ; all that trusted in them.

9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah: he js
their help and their shield.

10 0 house of Aaron, trust ye in
Jehovah: he their help and_ their
shield.

11 Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Je-
hovah: he their help and their shield.

12 Jehovah remembered us: he will
bless, he will bless the house of Israel ;
he will bless the house of Aaron.

13 He will bless those fearing Jeho-
vah, the small with the great.

14 Jehovah will add to you, to you
and to your sons.

15 Ye being blessed to Jehovah,
making the heavens and the earth.

16 The heavens of heavens to Jeho-
yah, and he gave the earth to the sons
of man.

17 The dead shall not praise Jah, and
all going down to silence.

18 And we will bless Jah from time
and even forever. Praise ye Jah,

PSALM CXVI.
LOVED, for Jehovah will hear the
voice of my supplication.

2 For he inclined his ear to me, and
in my days I will call.

3 The pains of death surrounded me,
and the distresses of hades found me: I
shall find straits and affliction.

4 And upon the name of Jehovah
will I call; now, O Jehovah, deliver my
soul.

5 Jehovah is merciful and just, and
our God compassionates.

6 Jehovah watching the simple: I
was brought low, and he will save for
me.

7 Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest ;

for Jehovah benefited to thee.

8 For thou deliveredst my soul from
death, mine eyes from tears, my feet
from a fall.

9 I will go about before Jehovah in
the lands of the living.

10 I believed, for I will speak: I was
greatly humbled.

11 1 said in my alarm, Every man a
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12 What shall I turn back to Jeho-
vah for all his benefits to me?

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation,
and upon the name of Jehoyah will 1
call.

14 I will repay my vows to Jehovah
before now to all his people.

15 Precious in the eyes of Jehovah
the death to his godly ones.

16 Now, O Jehovah, for I am thy
servant; I thy servant, the son of thy
maid-servant: thou didst loose to my
bonds.

17 To thee will 1 sacrifice a sacrifice
of praise, and 1 will call upon the name
of Jehovah.

before now to all his people,

19 In the enclosures to the house of
Jehovah, in the midst of thee, O Jeru-
salem. Praise ye Jah,

PSALM CXVIL.

RAISE Jehovah all ye nations;
laud him, all ye peoples.

2 For his mercy was strengthened
upon us, and the truth of Jehovah is
forever. Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CXVIII.
ONFESS ye to Jehovah, for he is
good, for his mercy is forever.
2 Now shall Israel say that his merey
is forever.
3 The house of Aaron shall now say
that his mercy is forever.
4 They fearing Jehovah shall now
say that his merey is forever.
5 Out of distress I called upon Jah:
Jah answered me in an enlarging.
6 Jehovah for me, I will not fear
what man shall do to me.
7 Jehovah for me in my help, and I
shall look upon those hating me.
8 Good to trust in Jehovah rather
than to trust in man.
9 Good to trust in Jehovah rather
than to trust in nobles.
10 All nations surrounded me: in the
name of Jehovah but I will cut them off.
11 They surrounded me; also they
surrounded me: in the name of Jeho-
vah but I will cut them off.
12 They surrounded me as_ bees;
they were quenched as the fire of

PSALMS.

thorns: in the name of Jehovah for I
will destroy them.

13 Being thrust, I was thrust down
to fall, and Jehovah helped me.

14 Jah my strength and music, and
he will be to me for salvation.

15 A 70106 of rejoicing and salvation
in the tents of the just: the right hand
of Jehovah did strength.

16 The right hand of Jehovah was
exalted: the right hand of Jehovah did
strength.

17 I shall not die, for I shall live and
Τ shall recount the works of Jah.

18 Jah correcting, corrected me, and

| he gave me not to death.
18 My vows to Jehovah I will repay,

19 Open to me, ye gates of justice: I
will go into them, I will praise Jah.

20 This the gate to Jehovah, the just
shall go into it.

21 1 will praise thee, for thou didst
answer me, and thou wilt be to me for
salvation.

22 The stone the builders refused
will be for the head of the corner.

23 This was from Jehovah; he was
wonderful in our eyes.

24 This the day Jehovah made, we
will rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Now, O Jehovah, save now: now
O Jehovah, give now success.

26 Blessed he coming in the name of
Jehovah: we blessed you from the
house of Jehovah.

27 God is Jehovah, and he will shine
to us: make ye fast the festival with
interweavings, even to the horns of the
altar.

28 Thou my God, and I will praise
thee: my God, I will exalt thee.

29 Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is
good; for his mercy is forever.

PSALM CXIX. -
TJ עשי ה‎ the blameless of way, they
going in the law of Jehovah.

2 Happy they watching his testimo-
nies; they shall seek him with all the
heart.

3 Also they worked not iniquity:
they went in his ways.
4 Thou didst command thy charges

|to be watched greatly.

5 Would that my ways were direct-
ed to watch thy laws! ἶ

PSALMS.

6 Then I shall not be ashamed in
my looking to all thy commands.

7 [ will praise thee in uprightness of
heart in my learning the judgments of
thy justice.

811 will watch thy laws: thou wilt
not forsake me even wholly.

9 In what shall a youth cleanse his
way? To watch according to thy word.

10 With all my heart 1 sought thee,
thou wilt not cause me to wander from
thy commands.

11 In my heart I hid thy sayings, so
that I shall not sin to thee.

12 Blessed be thou, O Jehovah:
teach me thy laws.

13 With my lips I recounted all the

judgments of thy mouth.

14 In the way of thy testimonies I
rejoiced as by all riches.

15 In thy charges I will meditate,
and I will look upon thy ways.

16 In thy laws I will delight:
not forget thy word.

17 Benefit to thy servant, I shall live
and watch thy word.

18 Uncover mine eyes and I shall
behold the wonders from thy laws.

19 I am a stranger in the earth, thou
wilt not hide thy commands from me.

I will

20 My soul was crushed for the de-

sire to thy judgments in all time.

21 Thou didst rebuke the proud
being cursed, those wandering from thy
commands.

22 Roll off from me reproach and
contempt, for I watched thy testimo-
nies.

23 Also the chiefs sat, they spake
against me: thy servant will meditate
in thy laws.

24 Also thy testimonies my delight,
the men of my counsel.

25 My soul did cleave to the dust:
make me alive according to thy word.

26 I recounted my ways and thou
wilt answer me: teach me thy laws.

27 Cause me to understand the way
of thy charges, and I will meditate in
thy wonders.

28 My soul dropped in grief: con
firm me according to thy word.

29 The way of falsehood remove
thou from me, and with thy laws com-
passionate me.

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30 I chose the way of truth: I place
thy judgments.

311 adhered to thy testimonies: O
Jehovah, thou wilt not make me
ashamed.

89 1 will run the way of thy com-

mands, for thou wilt enlarge my heart.

88 Teach me, O 1 ehovah, the way of
thy laws, and I will watch it forever.

34 Cause me to understand and 1
will guard thy instructions; and I will
watch it with all the heart.

35 Cause me to tread in the beaten
path of thy commands, for I delighted
in it.

36 Incline my heart to thy testimo-
nies and not to plunder.

87 Cause mine eyes to pass from see-
img vanity ; make me live in thy way.

88 Set thy sayings to thy servant
that is for thy fear.

39 Cause my reproach to pass away
which I feared: for thy judgments are

ood.

40 Behold, I desired for thy charges:
make me alive in thy justice.

41 And thy mercy shall come to me,
O Jehovah, thy salvation according to
thy saying.

42 And I will answer him reproach;
ing me a word, for I trusted in thy
word.

43 And thou wilt not take away
from my mouth the word of truth even
wholly : for I hoped for thy judgments.

44 And I will watch thy law always,
forever and ever.

45 And I will go about in an enlarg-
ing: for I sought thy charges.

46 And I will speak in thy testi-
monies before kings, and I shall not be
ashamed.

47 I will delight myself in thy com-
mands which I loved.

48 And I will lift up my hands to
thy commands which I loved, and I
will meditate in thy laws.

49 Remember the word to thy ser-
vant upon which thou didst cause me
to hope.

50 This my comfort in mine afflic-
tion, for thy word made me alive.

51 The proud derided me even great-
ly: I declined not from thy law.

52 Iremembered thy judgments from

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forever, O Jehovah, and I shall be com-
forted.

58 Violent heat seized me from the
unjust forsaking thy law.

54 Thy laws were musics to me in the
house of my sojourning.

55 I remembered thy name in the
night, O Jehovah, and 1 will watch thy
law.

56 This shall be to me, for I watched
thy charges.

57 My portion, O Jehovah: I said to
watch thy words.

58 I waited for thy face with all the
heart: compassionate me according to
thy word.

59 I reckoned my ways, and I will
turn back my feet to thy testimonies.

60 1 hastened and delayed not to
watch thy commands.

61 The cords of the unjust passed
over me: I forgat not thy law.

62 The middle of the night I will
arise to confess to thee for the judg-
ments of thy justice.

63 I am a companion to all who will
fear thee, and to those watching thy
charges.

64 Thy mercy, O Jehovah, filled the
earth: teach me thy laws.

65 Thou didst goodness with thy
servant, O Jehovah, according to thy
word.

66 Teach me good taste and knowl-
edge, for I believed in thy commands.

67 Before I shall be humbled I go
astray: and now I watched thy word.

68 Thou art good, and doing good;
teach me thy laws.

69 The proud devised falsehood
against me: I will watch thy charges
with all the heart.

70 Their heart was fat as fatness; I
delighted in thy law.

71 Good for me that thou didst hum-
ble me, so that I shall learn thy laws.

72 Good for me the law of thy
mouth above thousands of gold and sil-
ver.

73 Thy hands made me and _ they
will prepare me: cause me to under-
stand and 1 will learn thy commands.

74 They fearing thee shall see me and
be glad; for I hoped for thy word.

_ 75 I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judg-

PSALMS.

ments are justice, and in truth thou
didst humble me.

76 Now shall thy mercy be to com-
fort me, according to thy word to thy
servant.

77 Thy compassions shall come to me
and I shall live, for thy law is my de-
light.

78 The prond shall be ashamed, for
they acted perversely to me without
cause: I will meditate in thy charges,

79 They fearing thee shall turn back
to me, and they shall know thy testi-
monies.

80 My heart shall be blameless in thy
laws, so that I shall not be ashamed.

81 My soul failed for thy salvation:
I hoped for thy word.

82 Mine eyes failed for thy word,
saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

83 I was as a bottle in smoke; I for-
got not thy laws.

84 How many the days of thy serv-
ant? when wilt thou do judgment upon
them pursuing me?

85 The proud dug pits for me which
is not according to thy law.

86 All thy commands are faithful-
ness; they pursued me without cause ;
help thou me.

87 They almost finished me upon
earth, and I forsook not thy charges.

88 According to thy mercy make me
live, and I will watch the testimonies
of thy mouth. .

89 Forever, O Jehovah, thy word was
set in the heavens.

90 To generation and generation thy
faithfulness: thou didst prepare the
earth and it will stand.

91 They stood according to thy judg-
ments this day, for all are thy serv-
ants.

92 Unless thy law was my delight I
perished in mine affliction.

93 Forever will I not forget thy
charges, for in them thou didst make
me live.

941 am to thee; save me; for I
sought thy charges.

95 The unjust waited for me to de-
stroy me: 1 shall understand thy testi-
monies.

96 I saw the end to all perfection: |
thy command is exceeding broad,

PSALMS.

685

97 How I loved thy law! all the day] cease, all the unjust of the earth: for

it is my meditation.

98 Above mine enemies thou wilt
make me wise from thy commands, for
it is forever to me.

99 Above all those teaching me 1 un-
derstood, for thy testimonies a medita-
tion to me.

100 I shall understand above the old
men, for I watched thy charges.

101 I withheld my feet from every
evil way, so that I watch thy word.

102 I departed not from thy judg-
ments, for thou didst teach me.

103 How smooth were thy words to
my palate! more than honey to my
mouth !

104 From thy charges I shall under-
stand: for this I hated every way of
falsehood.

105 Thy word a lamp to my feet,
and a light to my beaten path.

106 I sware, and I will cease to stand,
to watch the judgments of thy justice.

107 1 was humbled even greatly: O
Jehovah, cause me to live actording to
thy word.

108 Accept now the voluntaries of
my mouth, O Jehovah, and teach me
thy judgments.

109 My soul is in my hand always,
and I forgot not thy law.

110 The unjust one gave a snare for
me, and I wandered not from thy
charges.

111 I inherited thy testimonies for-
ever: for they are the joy of my heart.

119 I inclined my heart to do thy
laws forever to the end.

113 I hated dividings, and I loved
thy law.

114 Thou my hiding and my shield:
1 hoped for thy word.

115 Depart from me, ye doing evil,
and I will watch the commands of my
God.

116 Uphold me according to thy
word, and I shall live: and thou wilt
not make me ashamed of my hope.

117 Support me and I shall be saved :
and I shall look upon thy laws always.

118 Thou didst make light of all go-
ing astray from thy laws, for their de-
ceit is falsehood.

119 The dross thou didst cause to

this I loved thy testimonies.

120 My flesh stood erect from thy
fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.

121 I did judgment and justice: thou
wilt not leave me to those oppressing me.

122 Be surety for thy servant for
good: the proud shall not oppress me.

123 Mine eyes failed for thy salva-
tion, and for the word of thy justice.

124 Do with thy servant according
to thy mercy, and teach me thy laws.

125 I am thy servant; cause me to
understand, and I shall know thy tes-
monies.

126 The time to work to Jehovah:
they let go thy law.

127 For this I loved thy commands
above gold, and above fine gold.

128 For this I made straight all thy
charges, all: I hated every way of
falsehood.

129 Thy testimonies are wonderful :
for this my soul watched them.

130 The entrance of thy words will
enlighten; causing the simple to under-
stand.

131 I opened wide my mouth, and I
shall pant: for I longed for thy com-
mands.

132 Look upon me and compassion-
ate me according to the judgment to
those loving thy name.

133 Prepare my steps in thy word,
and all iniquity shall not rule over me.

184 Redeem me from the oppression
of man, and I will watch thy charges.

185 Cause thy face to shine upon thy
servant, and teach me thy laws.

136 Mine eyes will bring down
streams of waters because they will not
watch thy laws.

137 Just art thou, O Jehovah, and
upright thy judgments.

138 Thou didst command justice thy
testimonies, and faithfulness exceed-
ingly.

139 My jealousy cut me off; for
mine enemies forgat thy words.

140 Thy word is refined greatly, and
thy servant loved it.

141 I am small and despised: I did
not forget thy charges.

142 Thy justice is justice forever,
and thy law the truth.

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145 Straits and distress found me:
thy commands my delight.

144 Justice is thy testimonies for-
ever: cause me to understand and I
shall live.

145 I called with all my heart: an-
swer me, O Jehovah: I will watch thy
laws.

146 I called to thee: save me, and I
will watch thy testimonies.

147 1 anticipatpd the dawn, and I
will ery: I hoped for thy words.

148 Mine eyes anticipated the watches
to meditate in thy word.

149 Hear my voice according to thy
mercy: O Jehovah, cause me to live
according to thy judgment,

150 They drew near pursuing mis-
chief: they removed far off from thy
law.

151 Thou art near, O Jehovah; and
all thy commands are truth.

152 Of old I knew from thy testimo-
nies, for thou didst found them forever.

153 See mine affliction, and deliver
me: for I forgat not thy law.

154 Contend my contention and re-
deem me: cause me to live for thy
word.

155 Salvation is far off from the un-
just, for they sought not thy laws.

156 Great thy compassions, O Jeho-
vah: cause me to live according to thy
judgments.

157 Many are they pursuing me and
pressing me: I declined not from thy
testimonies,

158 I saw those transgressing, and I
shall loathe, for they watched not thy
word.

159 See that I loved thy charges, O
Jehovah, make me live according to
thy mercy.

160 The beginning of thy word is
truth: and forever all thy just judg-
ment.

161 Chiefs pursued me gratuitous-
ly: and my heart was afraid from thy
words.

162 1 rejoice at thy word as he find-
ing much spoil.

163 I hated falsehood, and I will ab-
hor it: 1 loved thy law.

164 Seven times in the day I praised
thee, for the judgments of thy justice.

PSALMS.

165 Much peace to those loving thy
law, and no stumbling-block to them.

166 I hoped for thy salvation, O Je-
hovah, and I did thy commands.

167 My soul watched thy testimo-
nies, and loved them greatly.

168 I watched thy charges, and thy
testimonies: for all my ways are before
thee.

169 My cry shall draw near before
thee, O Jehovah: cause me to under-
stand according to thy word.

170 My supplication shall come be-
fore thee: deliver me according to thy
word.

171 My lips shall seek praise, for
thou wilt teach me thy laws.

172 My tongue shall strike up thy
word, for all thy commands are jus-
tice.

178 Thy hand shall be to help me,
for I chose thy charges.

174 I longed for thy salvation, O Je-
hovah, and thy law is my delight.

175 My soul shall live and praise
thee; and thy judgments shall help
me.

176 I wandered as a lost sheep ; seek
thy servant, for I forgat not thy com-
mands.

PSALM .אא‎
ONG of ascensions. I called to Je-
hovyah in straits to me, and he will
answer me.

2 Ο Jehovah, deliver my soul from
lips of falsehood, from a tongue of de-
ceit.

3 What shall be given to thee? and
what shall be added to thee, thou
tongue of deceit ?

4 Arrows of the strong one sharpened
with burning coals of broom.

5 Wo! to me that I sojourned in
Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke
dar.

6 My soul dwelt much upon it with
him hating peace. |

71 peace: and when I shall speak,
they for war.

PSALM CXXI.
ONG of ascensions. I will lift up
mine eyes to the mountains from
whence shall come my help.

PSALMS.

2 My help from Jehovah; he made
the heavens and the earth.

3 He will not give to move thy foot:
he watching thee will not slumber.

4 Behold, he watching. Israel will
not slumber and he will not sleep.

5 Jehovah watching thee: Jehovah
thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 By day the sun shall not burn
thee, and the moon in the night.

7 Jehovah shall watch thee from all
evil: he shall watch thy soul.

8 Jehovah shall watch thy going
out and thy coming in, from time and
even forever.

PSALM CXXII
ONG of ascensions to David. I

( was glad in their saying to me,
We will go to the house of Jehovah.

2 Our feet were standing in the gates
of Jeursalem.

3 Jerusalem was built as a city, join-
ed to it together. . ;

4 There the tribes went up, the tribes

of Jah, the testimonies to Israel, to con-| |

fess to the name of Jehovah.

5 For there sat thrones for judgment
to the house of David.

6 Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem:
they loving thee shall be at rest.

7 Peace shall be in thy fortification,
peace in thy palaces.

8 For sake of my brethren and my
friends, I will now speak, Peace upon
thee.

9 For sake of the house of Jeho-
vah our God I will seek out good for
thee.

PSALM CXXIIL

ieee of ascensions. ΤῸ thee dwell-

ing in the heavens I lifted up mine
eyes.
2 Behold; as the eyes of servants to
the hand of their lords, as the eyes of a
maid to the hand οὗ her mistress, so
our eyes are to Jehovah our God, even
till he compassionate us.

3 Compassionate us, O Jehovah, com-
passionate us: for we were much filled
with contempt. .

4 Much was our soul filled with it, a
derision of those living at ease the con-
tempt of the proud.

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PSALM CXXIV.
See of ascensions to David. Un-
less Jehovah was to us, now shall
Israel say,

2 Unless Jehovah was to usin the
rising up of man against us,

3 Then they swallowed us down liv-
ing, in the kindling of their anger
against us:

4 Then the waters overflowed us,
the torrent passed over our soul :

5 Then the swelling waters passed
over our soul.

6 Blessed be Jehovah, who gaye us
not a prey to their teeth.

7 Our soul as a sparrow was deliver-
ed from the snare of the fowlers: the
snare was broken and we were deliver-
ed.

8 Our help is in the name of Jeho-
vah; he made the heavens and the
earth.

PSALM CXXV.
ONG of ascensions. They trusting
in Jehovah are as mount Zion; it
shall not be moved ; remaining forever.

2 Jerusalem, the mountains are round
about to her; and Jehovah is round
about to his people from now and eyen
to forever.

3 For the rod of the unjust one shall
not rest upon the lot of the just; so
that the just shall not stretch forth
their hand in iniquity.

4 Do good, O Jehovah, to the good
and to the upright in their hearts.

5 And those turning to their winding
ways, Jehovah will cause them to go
with those working iniquity: peace
upon Israel.

PSALM CXXVI.
ONG of ascensions. In Jehovah
turning back the returning of Zion,
we were as those dreaming.

2 Then our mouth will be filled with
laughter, and our tongue with rejoic-
ing: then shall they say among the
nations, Jehovah magnified to do with
those.

3 Jehovah magnified to do with us}
we were made glad.

4 Jehovah turned back our captivity,
as torrents in the south.

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5 They sowing in tears shall reap in
rejoicing.

6 He going, shall go; and weeping
he lifted up the drawing of the seed:
coming, he shall come with joy, lifting
up his sheaves.

PSALM CXXVII.
ONG of ascensions to Solomon. Τῇ
Jehovah shall not build the house,
they building it, in it labored in vain.
If Jehovah shall not watch the city, he
watching, watched in yain.

2 In vain for you rising early to
arise from after sitting ; eating the bread
of toils: so will he give to his beloved
sleep.

8 Behold, sons are the inheritance of
Jehovah: the reward of the fruit of
the womb.

4 As arrows in the hand of the strong
one, so are sons of youth.

5 Happy the man who filled his
quiver from them: they shall not be
ashamed when they shall speak with
their enemies in the gate.

PSALM CXXVIIL
ONG of ascensions Happy every
one fearing Jehovah; going in his
ways.

2 For thou shalt eat the labor of thy
hands: happy thou, and well to thee.

3 Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in
the sides of thy house: thy sons as
plants of olives round about thy
table.

4 Behold, that thus shall the man be
praised fearing Jehovah.

5 Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion:
and look thou upon the good of Jeru-
salem all the days of thy life.

6 And see thou the sons to thy sons:
peace upon Israel.

PSALM CXXIX.
ONG of ascensions. Much they
pressed me from my youth, shall
Israel now say:

2 Much they pressed me from my
youth: also they shall not prevail
against me.

3 They ploughing, ploughed upon
my back: they made long to their fur-
TOWS.

PSALMS.

4 Jehovah the just cut the entang-
lings of the unjust.

5 They shall be ashamed and draw
back all hating Zion,

6 They shall be as the grass of the
roofs drying up before it was drawn
out:

7 He harvesting filled not his hand;
and he heaping together, not his arm.

8 And they passing by, said not, The
praise of Jehovah to you: we praised
you in the name of Jehovah.

PSALM א‎
ONG of ascensions. From the
depths I called thee, O Jehovah.

2 O Jehovah, hear to my voice: thine
ears shall be attentive to the voice of
my supplication.

3 If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch in-
iquities, Ὁ Jehovah, who shall stand?

4 For with thee, forgiveness; so that
thou shalt be feared.

5 I waited for Jehovah, my soul
waited, and I hoped for his word.

6 My soul for Jehovah more than
they watching for the morning: they
watching for the morning.

7 Israel hoped for Jehovah: for with
Jehovah is mercy and great deliver-
ance.

8 And he will redeem Israel from all
his iniquities.

PSALM ΟΧΧΧΙ.
ONG of ascensions to David. 0
Jehovah, my heart was not lifted
up, and mine eyes were not exalted,
and I went not in great things and in
wonders above me.

2 If I did not place and rest my soul
asa child weaned of his mother: my
soul as a weaned child.

3 Israel shall hope for Jehovah from
now and even to forever.

: PSALM CXXXII.
ONG of ascensions. Remember, O
Jehovah, for Dayid with all his
affliction.
2 Who sware to Jehovah; he vowed
to the mighty one of Jacob:
3 If I shall go into the tent of my
house, if I shall go up upon the bed of
my couch ;

PSALMS.

4 Tf ך‎ shall give sleep to mine eyes,
slumber to mine eye-lashes,

5 Even till I shall find a place for
Jehovah, dwellings for the mighty one
of Jacob.

6 Behold, we heard it in Ephratah :
we found it in the fields of the forest.

7 We will come in to his dwellings:
we will worship at the footstool of his
feet.

8 Arise, O Jehovah, to thy rest;
thou, and the ark of thy strength.

9 Thy priests shall put on justice,
and thy godly ones shall rejoice.

10 For sake of David thy servant
thou wilt not turn away the face of thy
Messiah.

11 Jehovah sware the truth to Da-
vid; he will not turn back from it:
from the fruit.of thy belly I will set
upon the throne to thee.

12 If thy sons shall watch my cove-
nant and my testimonies, these I shall
teach them ; also their sons even to for-
ever shall sit upon the throne to thee
forever.

18 For Jehovah chose in Zion; for
he desired it for a dwelling to him-
self.

14 This my rest even forever: here
I will dwell, for I desired it.

15 Blessmg, I will bless her pro-
vision: I will fill her needy with bread.

16 And 1 will put upon her priests
salvation, and her godly ones shall re-
joice a rejoicing.

17 There will I cause the horn to
David to spring up: I prepared a lamp
for my Messiah.

18 1 will put shame upon his ene-
mies, and upon him shall his diadem
flourish.

PSALM CXXXIII.
ONG of ascensions to David. Be-
hold, how good and how pleasant
the dwelling of brethren even together.
2 As good oil upon the head, going
down upon the beard, the beard of Aa.
ron: coming down upon the mouth of
his garments: ἣν
3 As the dew of Hermon coming
down upon the mountains of Zion: for
there Jehovah commanded the blessing,
life even forever.

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PSALM CXXXIV.
ONG of ascensions. Behold, praise
ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Je-
hovah, standing in the house of Jeho-
vah,‘in the nights.
2 Lift up your hand to the holy place,
and praise ye Jehovah.
3 Jehovah shall bless thee out of
Zion: he made the heavens and the
earth.

PSALM טאאא‎
RAISE ye Jah. Praise ye the
name of Jehovah ; praise, ye serv-
ants of Jehovah,

2 Standing in the house of Jehovah,
in the enclosures of the house of our
God.

ὃ Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is
good: play on the harp to his name,
for it is pleasant.

4 For Jah chose to himself Jacob ;
Israel for his property.

5 For I knew that great is Jehovah,
and our Lord above all gods.

6 All which Jehovah delighted in he
did, in the heavens and in the earth, in
the seas and all the depths.

7 Causing the liftings up to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he made
lightnings for the ram; bringing forth
the wind from his treasures.
| 8 He struck the first-born of Egypt,
from man even to cattle.

9 He sent signs and wonders into the
midst of thee, Ὁ Egypt, upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his servants.

10 He struck many nations, and slew
strong kings;

11 To Sthon, king of the Amorites,
and to Og, king of Bashan, and to all
the kings of Canaan :

12 And he gave their land an inher-
itance, an inheritance to Israel his peo-

le.

13 O Jehovah, thy name is forever ;
O Jehovah, thy remembrance to gener-
ation and generation.

14 For Jehovah will judge his peo-
ple, and he will have compassion upon
his servants.

15 The images of the nation are sil-
ver and gold, the work of man’s
hands.

16 A mouth to them, and they shall

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not speak ; eyes to them, and they shall
not see;

17 Kars to them, and they shall not
hear; also there is no spirit in their
mouth,

18 They making them shall be as
they : every one who trusted in them.

19 O house of Israel, bless ye Jeho-
vah: O house of Aaron, praise ye Je-
hovah :

20 O house of Levi, praise ye Jehovah :
ye fearing Jehovah, praise Jehovah.

21 Blessed be Jehovah from Zion,
dwelling in Jerusalem. Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CXXXVI.
‘eels ye to Jehovah, for he is
good: for his mercy is forever.

2 Confess to the God of gods: for his
mercy is forever.

3 Confess to the Lord of lords: for
his mercy is forever.

4 To him alone making great won-
ders: for his mercy is forever.

5 To him making the heavens in un-
derstanding : for his mercy is forever.

6 To him spreading the earth upon
the sea: for his mercy is forever.

7 To him making great lights: for
his mercy is forever.

8 The sun for the rulings in the day:
for his mercy is forever.

9 The moon and the stars for rulings
in the night: for his mercy is forever.

10 To him striking Egypt in their
first-born: for his mercy is forever.

11 And he will bring forth Israel
from the midst of them: for his mercy
is forever.

12 With a hand of strength, and with
an arm stretched out: for his mercy is
forever.

13 To him dividing the sea of sedge
into parts: for his mercy is forever.

14 And he caused Israel to pass
through in its midst: for his mercy is
forever.

15 And he shook off Pharaoh and his
strength into the sea of sedge: for his
mercy is forever.

16 To him causing his people to go
into the desert: for his mercy is for-
ever.

17 To him striking great kings: for
his merey is forever.

PSALMS.

18 And he will slay mighty kings:
for his mercy is forever.
19 To Sihon, king of the Amorites:
for his mercy is forever. ὶ
20 To Og, king of Bashan: for his
mercy is forever.

21 And he gave their land for an in-
heritance: for his mercy is forever.

22 An inheritance to Israel his ser-
vant: for his mercy is forever.

23 He remembered for us our low-
ness: for his mercy is forever.

24 And he will redeem us from our
enemies : for his mercy is forever.

25 He gave bread to all flesh: for
his mercy is forever.

26 Confess ye to the God of the heay-
ens: for his mercy is forever.

PSALM CXXXVIL
Y the rivers of Babel, there we sat
down: also we wept in our re-
membering Zion.

2 Upon the willows in her midst, we
hung our harps ;

3 For there they carrying us away
captive asked us the words of a song;
and they heaping us up gladness; Sing
to us from the song of Zion.

4 How shall we sing the song of Je-
hovah upon the land of a stranger ?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my
right hand shall be forgotten.

6 My tongue shall cleave. to my
palate, if I remember thee not; if I
bring not up Jerusalem upon the head
of my joy.

7 Remember, O Jehovah, for the sons
of Edom, the day of Jerusalem ; they
saying, Make bare, make bare, even to
the foundations in her.

8 O daughter of Babel laying waste ;
happy he recompensing to thee thy
retribution thou didst to us!

9 Happy he taking hold and dashing
in pieces thy children against the rock.

PSALM CXXXVIII.
O David. I will praise thee with:
all my heart: before God I will
play to thee on the harp.

2 I will worship to thy holy temple,
and I will praise thy name for thy mer-
ey and for thy truth: for thou didst
magnify thy word over all thy name.

PSALMS.

3 In the day I called, and thou wilt
answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with
strength in my soul.

4 All the kings of the earth shall
praise thee, O Jehovah, for they heard
the sayings of thy mouth.

5 And they shall sing in the ways of
Jehovah: for great the glory of Je-
hovah.

6 If Jehovah is high, and he will
see the humble one: and the lofty one
he will know from far off.

7 If I shall go in the midst of straits,
thou wilt make me alive: against the
anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch
forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall
save me.

8 Jehovah will complete for me: O
Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou
wilt not let go the works of thy hands.

PSALM CXXXIX.
O the overseer, to David a chant-
ing. OJehovah thou didst search
me, and thou wilt know.

2 Thou knewest my sitting and m
rising; thou didst understand for my
thoughts from far off.

8 Thou didst sift my way and my
lying down, and thou knewest all my
ways.

4 For not a word in my tongue, be-
hold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it.

5 Thou didst press me behind and
before, and thou wilt place thine hand
upon me.

6 Knowledge being wonderful from
me; being high, I shall not be able
for it.

7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit ?
and whither from thy face shall I flee?

8 Τῇ 1 shall ascend to the heavens,
thou art there: and shall I bend down
to hades, behold thee.

9 Shall 1 lift up the wings of the
dawn? shall I dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea?

10 Also there thy hand will guide
me, and thy right hand will hold me.

11 And saying, surely the darkness
shall fall upon me; and the night
shone about me.

12 Also darkness shall not darken
from thee; and the night shall shine as
the day: as the darkness, so the light.

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13 For thou didst possess my reins:
thou wilt’ cover me in my mother’s
womb.

14 I will praise thee ; for 1 was won-
derfully distinguished: thy works are
wonders, and my soul knew greatly.

15 My bones were not hid from thee,
when I was made in secret. I was va-
riegated in the lower parts of the earth.

16 Thine eyes saw my substance un-
formed; and upon thy book all of
them shall be written; the days they
were formed, and not one in them.

17 And to me how were thy thoughts
precious, O God! how were their heads
strong !

18 I will count them ; they shall be
multiplied above the sand of the sea: I
awoke, and I am yet with thee.

19 Surely thou wilt kill the unjust
one, Ὁ God: and ye men of bloods, de-
part from me.

20 For they will say to thee for mis-
chief; thine enemies were lifted up for
vanity.

21 Shall I not hate those hating thee,
O Jehovah? and I shall loathe against
those rising up against thee.

22 1 hated them with completeness
of hatred: they were to me for ene-
mies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart: try me and know my thoughts:

24 And see if the way of pain is in
me, and guide me in the eternal way.

PSALM CXL.
O the overseer, chanting to Dayid.
2 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from
the evil man: wilt thou guard me from
the man of violences :

8 Who reckoned eyils in the heart;
all the day they will gather together
wars.

4 They sharpened their tongue asa
serpent; the poison of asps under their
lips. Silence.

5 Watch me, O Jehovah, from the
hands of the unjust one; trom the man
of violences wilt thou guard me; who
purposed to overthrow my steps.

6 The proud hid a snare for me, and
cords; they spread a net at the hand
of the way; they set snares for 100. Si-
lence.

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71 said to Jehovah, Thou my God:
give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my
supplication.

8 O Jehovah my Lord, the strength
of my salvation, thou didst cover for
my head in the day of weapons.

9 Thou wilt not give, O Jehovah, the
desires of the unjust one: thou wilt
not bring forth his device ; they will be
lifted up. Silence.

10 The head of those surrounding
me, the labor of their lips shall cover
them.

11 Burning coals shall be shaken up-
on them; he shall cast them into fire,
into whirlpools; they shall not rise up.

12 A man of tongue shall not be pre-
pared in the earth: a man of violence,
evil shall hunt him to melt down the
coverings.

13 Knowing that Jehovah will do
judgment to the poor one, judgment to
the needy.

14 But the just shall confess to thy
name: the upright shall dwell with thy
face.

PSALM CXLI.
HANTING to David. O Jeho-
vah, I called to thee; hasten to
me; give ear to my voice in my calling
to thee.

2 My prayer shall be prepared incense
before thee; the lifting up my hands the
gift of the evening.

ὃ Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my
mouth ; guard over the door of my lips.

4 Thou wilt not incline my heart to
an evil word, to work works in injust-
ice with men doing iniquity: and 1
will not eat upon their dainties.

5 The just one shall smite me; a
mercy: and he shall admonish me, an
oil of the head it shall not decorate my
head: for yet my prayer in their evils.
6 Their judges were cast down
against the hands of the rock, and they
heard my words, for they were sweet.

7 As he cutting up and cleaving
asunder in the earth, our bones were
scattered at the mouth of hades.

8 For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord,
are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust;
thou wilt not make my. soul naked.

9 Watch me from the hands of the

PSALMS.

snare they will lay for me, and the
snares of those working iniquity.

10 The unjust shall fall into their
nets together, till I shall pass by.

PSALM CXLIT.
F the understanding to David; a
prayer in his being in the cave.

2 With my voice I will ery to Jeho-
vah; with my voice I will entreat to
Jehovah.

3 I will pour out before him my com-
plaint ; I will announce my straits be-
fore him.

4 Τῇ my spirit languishing upon me,
and thou knewest my beaten paths. In
the way which I shall go they hid a
snare for me.

5 Looking upon the right hand, and
seeing, and none caring for me: flight-
perished from me ; none sought for my
soul.

6 I cried to thee, O Jehovah: I said,
Thou my refuge, my portion in the
land of the living.

7 Attend to my ery, for I languished
greatly : deliver me from those pursu-
ing me, for they were strengthened
above me.

8 Bring forth my soul out of prison
to praise thy name: the just shall sur-
round upon me; for thou wilt benefit
to me,

PSALM CXLIII.
HANTING to David. O Jeho-
vah, hear my prayer, give ear to
my supplication: in thy faithfulness
answer me; in thy justice.

2 And thou wilt not come into judg-
ment with thy servant, for all living
shall not be justified before thee.

3 For the enemy pursued my soul;
he crushed to the earth my hfe; he
caused me to dwell in darknesses, as the
dead of old.

4 And my spirit will languish upon
me, and my heart will be desolate with-
in me.

5 I remembered the days of old and
I meditated in all thy work, and I will
meditate upon the work of thy hands.

6 1 spread out my hands to thee:
my soul as a weary land for thee. Si-
lence.

PSALMS.

7 Quickly answer me, O Jehovah:

‘my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy

face from me: I was made like those
going down to the pit.

8 Cause me to hear thy mercy in the
morning; for in thee I trusted: cause
me to know the way that 1 shall go;
for to thee I lifted up my soul.

9 Deliver me from mine enemies, O
Jehovah: to thee I covered myself.

10 Teach me to do thine acceptance,
for thou art my God: thy spirit is
good; thou wilt guide me into a land
of uprightness.

11 For sake of thy name, O Jehovah,
thou wilt make me live: in thy justice
thou wilt bring forth my soul out of
straits.

12 And in thy mercy thou wilt cut
off mine enemies, and thou destroyedst
all those pressing my soul: for I am
thy servant.

PSALM CXLIV.
O Dayid. Blessed be Jehovah my
rock, teaching my hands for the
encounter, my fingers for war ;

2 My mercy and my fortress, my
height and delivering for me; my
shield, and in him I put my trust;
treading down peoples under me.

8 0 Jehovah, what is man and thou
wilt know him? the son of man, and
thou wilt reckon him?

4 Man was likened to vanity: his
days as a shadow passing away.

5 O Jehovah, incline thy heavens,
and thou wilt come down: touch upon
the mountains and they shall smoke.

6 Send forth the lightning, and thou
wilt scatter them: send thine arrows,
and thou wilt destroy them.

7 Send thy hands from height ; snatch
me away, and deliver me from many
waters, from the hand of the sons of the
stranger ;

8 Whom their mouth spake vanity,
and their right hand a right hand of
falsehood.

9 O God, a new song will I sing to
thee ; with an instrument of ten strings,
I will play on the harp to thee.

10 Giving salvation to kings: snatch
ing away Dayid his servant from the
evil sword.

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11 Snatch me away and deliver me
from the hand of the sons of the stran-
ger, whom their mouth spake vanity,
and their right hand a right hand of
falsehood :

12 That our sons as plants growing
great in their youth, our daughters as
corners variegated, the likeness of a
temple:

19 Our garners being filled, bringing
forth from sort to sort; our sheep
bringing forth thousands, ten thousands
in our streets :

14 Our oxen bearing no breaking,
and no coming forth, and no complain-
ing in our broad places.

15 Happy the people thus and thus
ip a happy the people Jehovah his

od.

PSALM CXLV.
RAISE to David. I will exalt
thee my God, the King, and I
will praise thy name forever and ever.

2 In all the day I will praise thee,
and I will praise thy name forever and
ever.

3 Great is Jehovah, and being great-
ly praised; and to his greatness no
search.

4 Generation to generation shall
praise thy works, and they shall an-
nounce thy powers.

5 1 will speak the splendor of the
honor of thy majesty, and the words
of thy wonders. .

6 And they shall tell the strength of
thy terrible things, and I will recount
thy greatnesses.

7 They shall pour forth the remem-
brance of the multitude of thy good-
ness, and they shall shout forth thy
justice.

8 Jehovah is compassionate and mer-
ciful; slow to anger, and great of
mercy.

9 Jehovah is good to all, and his
mercies over all his works. ,

10 All thy works shall praise thee,
O Jehovah, and thy godly ones shall
praise thee.

11 They shall tell the glory of thy
kingdom, and they shall speak of thy
strength ;

12 To make known to the sons of

man his powers, and the glory of
majesty of his kingdom.

13 Thy kingdom a kingdom of all
times, and thy dominion in every gen-
eration and generation.

14 Jehovah upholds to all falling,
and raises up for all bowed down.

15 The eyes of all hope for thee, and
thou givest to them their food in its time.

16 Opening thy hand and filling the
desire to all living.

17 Jehovah is just in all his ways,
and merciful in all his works.

18 Jehovah is near to all calling up-
on him, to all who shall call upon him
in truth.

19 He will do the desire of them
fearing him, and he will hear then ery
and he will save them.

20 Jehovah watches all loving him,
and all the unjust he will destroy.

21 My mouth shall speak the praise
of Jehovah, and all flesh shall bless his
holy name forever and ever,

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PSALM CXLVI.
RAISE ye Jah. Praise Jehovah,
O my soul.

2 I will praise Jehovah in my life; I
will play on the harp to my God in my
continuing.

3 Ye shall not trust in nobles: in the
son of man, to him no salvation.

4 His spirit shall go forth, he shall
turn back to his earth; in that day his
thoughts perished. *

5 Happy is he the God of Jacob for
his help, his hope upon Jehovah his
God:

6 He made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and all that is in them: he
watched the truth forever.

7 He did judgment for the oppressed ;
he gave bread to the hungering: Jeho-
vah loosed those being bound.

8 Jehovah opened the eyes of the
blind: Jehovah raised those being
bowed down: Jehovah loved the just.

9 Jehovah watched the strangers ; he
will restore the orphan and the widow,
and he will overturn the way of the
unjust.

10 Jehovah shall reign forever, thy
God, O Zion, to generation and genera-
tion. Praise ye Jah,

PSALMS.

PSALM CXLVII.
eee ye Jah: for it is good to
play on the harp to our God; for
it is pleasant: praise is becoming.

2 Jehovah builds Jerusalem: he will
collect together the outcasts of Israel.

3 Healing to the broken of heart, and
binding up their pains.

4 Counting the number to the stars,
he will call names to all of them.

5 Great our Lord, and great of power :
to his understanding no number.

6 Jehovah setting up again the poor,
and humbling the unjust even to the
earth.

7 Strike up to Jehovah with praise;
play upon the harp to our God:

8 Covering the heavens with clouds,
preparing rain for the earth, causing
the grass to spring up on the moun-
tains.

9 Giving to the cattle its food, to the
sons of the ravens which call.

10 He will not delight in the strength
of the horse: he will not be pleased in
the legs of a man.

11 Jehovah being delighted in those
fearing him, in those hoping for his
mercy.

12 Praise Jehovah,
praise thy God, O Zion.

13 For he strengthened the bars of
thy gates; he blessed thy sons within
thee.

14 Setting thy bound peace, he will
fill thee with the fat of the wheat.

15 Sending his word upon the earth,
even till his word shall run quickly.

16 Giving snow as wool: he will
seatter the hoar frost as ashes.

17 Casting his ice as morsels: before
his cold who shall stand?

18 He will send his word and melt
them: his wind shall blow, the waters
will flow. Ἷ

19 Announcing his word to Jacob,
his laws and judgments to Israel.

20 He did not thus to every nation :
and judgments they knew them not.
Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CXLVIII.
5 > ye Jah. Praise ye Jeho-
vah from the heavens: praise him

in the heights.

O Jerusalem ;

PSALMS.

2 Praise ye him all his messengers:
praise ye him all his armies.

3 Praise ye him, sun and moon:
praise ye him all the stars of light.

4 Praise ye him, the heavens of
heavens, and the waters aboye the
heavens.

5 They shall praise the name of Je-
hovah, for he commanded and they
were created.

6 And he will cause them to stand
even to forever: he gave a law and it
shall not pass away.

7 Praise Jehovah frem the earth, ye
dragons and all depths:

8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor: the
spirit of storm doing his word:

9 Mountains and all hills; the tree
of fruit and all cedars:

10 The beast and all cattle ; the creep-
ing thing, and the bird of wing:

11 Kings 01 the earth, and all peo-
ples; chiefs and all judges of the
earth :

12 Young men and also virgins; old
men with the youths:

13 They shall praise the name of Je-
hovah: for his name alone is exalted ;
his majesty over the earth and the

- heavens.

14 And he will lift up the horn to
his people, praise to all his godly ones;
to the sons of Israel a people drawing
near to him. Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CXLIX.
RAISE ye Jah. Sing to Jehovah
a new song, his praise in the con-
vocation of his godly ones.
2 Israel shall rejoice in him making

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him: the sons of Zion shall exult in
their king.

3 They shall praise his name in the
dance, and they shall play to him upon
the drum and harp.

4 For Jehovah delighted in his peo-
ple: he will adorn the humble in salva-
tion.

5 The godly ones shall triumph in
glory: they shall rejoice upon their
beds.

6 The liftings up of God in their
throat, and a sword of two mouths in
their hand ;

7 To do vengeance upon the nations,
chastisements upon the peoples.

8 To bind their kings in fetters, and
their honorable ones in fetters of iron;

9 To do upon them the judgment
written: this honor to all his godly
ones. Praise ye Jah.

PSALM CL.
RAISE ye Jah. Praise ye God
in his holy place: praise him in
the firmament of his power.

2 Praise ye him in his powers: praise
him according to the multitude of his
greatness.

3 Praise ye him with the clangor of
the trumpet: praise him with the lyre
and the harp.

4 Praise him with the drum and the
dance: praise ye him with strings and
the pipe.

5 Praise ye him with ringing instru-
ments of hearing: praise him with ring-
ing instruments of loud noise.

6 All breath shall praise Jah. Praise
ye Jah.

PROVERBS.

CHAPTER I.
ROVEBRBS of Solomon, son of Da-
vid, king of Israel ;

2 To know wisdom and instruction ;
to discern the words of understanding ;

3 To receive the instruction of wis-
dom, justice and judgment, and up-
rightness ;

4 To give craftiness to the simple,
and to the youth, knowledge and med-
itation.

5 The wise one will hear and he will
add learning: and he understanding,
shall obtain guidance:

6 To understand a proverb, and an
enigma: the words of the wise and
their parables.

7 The fear of Jehovah is the begin-
ning of knowledge: the foolish despised
wisdom and instruction.

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy
father, and thou shalt not reject the law
of thy mother:

9 For they a garland of grace to thy
head, and necklaces for thy throat.

10 My son, if they sinning. shall en-
tice thee, thou shalt not go in.

11 If they shall say, Go with us, we
will lie in wait for blood, we will hide
for the innocent gratuitously ;

12 We will swallow them down liv-
ing, as hades, and whole, as they going
down to the pit:

13 We shall find precious riches, we
will fill our houses with spoil:

14 Wilt thou cast thy lot in the
midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

15 My son, thou shalt not go in the
way with them; withhold thy foot from
their beaten paths:

16 For their feet will run to evil, and
they will hasten to pour out blood:

17 For gratuitously the net was
spread in the eyes of all possessing a
wing.

18 And they will lie in wait for their
blood; they will hide for their souls.

19 So the ways of every one plunder-
ing plunder; he will take the soul of
those possessing it.

20 Wisdom will cry without; in the
broad places she will give her voice:

21 She will call in the head of sound,
in the entrances of the gates: in the
city she will say her words:

22 How long, ye simple, will ye love
simplicity? and. mockers delight to
mock for them, and the foolish hate
knowledge?

23 Ye shall turn back at my reproofs:
behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you,
I will make known my words to you.

24 Because I called and ye will re-
fuse; I stretched forth my hands, and
none attending ;

25 And ye will reject all my coun-
sels, and ye desired not my reproofs:

26 Also I will laugh at your ruin: 1
will deride in the coming of your terror ;

27 In your terror coming as a de-
stroying tempest, and your ruin shall
come as a whirlwind; in the coming
upon you of straits and distress.

28 Then they shall eall upon me,
and I will not answer; they shall seek
me, and shall not find me;

29 For that they hated knowledge,
and chose not the fear of Jehovah:

30 They desired not for my counsels:
and derided all my reproofs.

31 And they shall eat from the fruit
of their way, and be filled with their
purposes.

32 For the turning away of the sim-
ple shall slay them, and the error of the
foolish shall destroy them.

33 And he hearing to me shall dwell
in confidence, and being quiet from fear
of evil.

CHAPTER II.
Y son, if thou wilt receive my
words, and wilt hide my com-
mands with thee;

2 To attend to wisdom thou wilt in-
cline thine ear, thy heart to understand-
ing ;
3 For if thou will call to understand-
ing, wilt give thy voice to understand-

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4 Tf thou wilt seek her as silver, and
dig for her as hidden treasure ;

5 Then shalt thou understand the
fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the
knowledge of God.

6 For Jehovah will give wisdom:
from his mouth knowledge and under-
standing.

7 He treasured up deliverance for the
upright: a shield to those going in up-
rightness :

8 ΤῸ guard the paths of judgment,
and he will watch the way of his godly
ones.

9 Then thou shalt understand justice | e

and judgment and uprightness; every
good track.

10 For wisdom shall come into thy
heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant
to thy soul.

11 Meditation shall watch over thee,
understanding shall guard thee:

12 To deliver thee from the evil way,
from the man speaking deceit ;

13 Those forsaking the paths of
straightness to go in the ways of dark-
פס‎ ;

14 Those rejoicing to do evil will ex-
ult in the deceit of evil;

15 Whose paths are perverted, and
in their tracks are bent aside:

16 To deliver thee from the strange
woman, from the stranger making
smooth her sayings ;

17 Forsaking the friend of her youth,
and forgetting the covenant of her God.

18 For her house sunk down to
death, and her tracks to the shades.

19 All going in it shall not turn
back, and they shall not overtake the
paths of life.

20 So that thou shalt go in the way
of the good, and thou shalt watch the
paths of the just.

21 For the upright shall dwell in the
land, and the blameless shall remain
in 1.

22 And the unjust shall be cut off
from the land, and they transgressing
shall be wiped off from it.

CHAPTER III.
Y son, thou shalt not forget
my law, and thy heart shall
guard my commands:

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2 For length of days and years of
life, and peace they shall add to thee.

3 Mercy and truth shall not forsake
thee: bind them upon thy throat; write
them upon the tablet of thy heart:

4 And find grace and good under-
standing in the eyes of God and man.

5 Trust to Jehovah with all thy
heart: and thou shalt not lean to thine
understanding.

6 In all thy ways know him, and he
will make straight thy paths.

7 Thou shalt not be wise in thine
eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from
vil.

8 It shall be healing to thy sinews,
and moistening to thy bones.

9 Honor Jehovah from thy sub-
stance, and from the first-fruits of all
thy produce.

10 And thy storehouses shall be fill-
ed with abundance, and thy wine-vats
shall break forth with new wine.

11 My son, thou shalt not reject the
instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt
not loathe upon his reproofs :

12 For whom Jehovah shall love he
will rebuke, as a father the son he will
delight in.

13 Happy the man finding wisdom;
and the man shall bring forth under-
standing.

14 For good her gain above the gain
of silver, and her increase above gold.

15 She is precious above red corals:
and all thy delights shall not be equal
with her.

16 Length of days in her right hand ;
in her left, riches and honor.

17 Her ways the ways of pleasant-
ness, and all her beaten paths, peace.

18 She is a tree of life to all holding
upon her: and happy he holding her
fast.

19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the
earth ; he prepared the heavens by un-
derstanding.

20 By his knowledge the depths
were rent, and the clouds will drop
dew.

21 My son, they shall not depart
from thine eyes: keep counsel and
meditation :

22 And they shall be life to thy soul,
and grace to thy throat.

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23 Then shalt thou go thy way con-
fidently, and thy foot shall not stum-
ble.

24 If thou shalt lie down thou shalt
not be afraid: and thou lest down and
thy sleep shall be sweet.

25 Thou shalt not be afraid from
sudden terror, and from the destruction
of the unjust when it shall come.

26 For Jehovah shall be in thy con-
fidence, and he watched thy foot from
being taken.

27 Thou shalt not withhold good
from those possessing it, in its being to
the power of thy hand to do. .

28 Thou shalt not say to thy neigh-
bor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow
I will give; and there is with thee.

29 Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon
thy neighbor, and he dwelling confi-
dently with thee.

30 Thou shalt not contend with man
to no purpose, if he did thee no evil.

91 Thou shalt not envy against a
man of violence, and thou shalt choose

in ail his ways.

32 For the perverse is an abomina-
tion of Jehovah: and his intercourse
with the upright.

88 The curse of Jehovah is in the
house of the unjust one: and he will
bless the dwelling of the just.

34 But he will deride to those derid-
ing: and he will give grace to the
humble.

35 The wise shall inherit glory, and
the foolish exalt dishonor.

CHAPTER ץז‎
EAR, ye sons, the instruction of
a father, and attend to know un-
derstanding.

2 For I gave to you good instruction ;
ye shall not forsake my law.

3 For I was son to my father ; tender
and only before the face of my mother.

4 And he taught me, and he will say
to me, Thy heart shall hold fast my
words: watch my commands and
live.

5 Obtain wisdom, obtain understand-
ing: thou shalt not forget, and thou
shalt not decline from the words of my
mouth.

6 Thou shalt not forsake her, and

PROVERBS IV.

she will watch thee: love her, and she
will guard thee.

7 Wisdom the beginning; obtain
wisdom, and with all thine acquisition,
obtain understanding.

8 Lift her up and she shall exalt
thee: she will honor thee when thou
shalt embrace her.

9 She will give to thy head a garland
of grace: a crown of glory she will de-
liver thee.

10 Hear, my son, and receive my
words, and the years of life shall be
multiplied to thee.

11 In the way of wisdom I taught
thee; I caused thee to tread in the
tracks of uprightness.

12 In thy going, thy steps shall not
be pressed ; and if thou shalt run thou
shalt not be weak.

13 Lay hold upon instruction, thou
shalt not let go: guard her for she is
thy life.

14 In the path of the unjust thou shalt
not go, and thou shalt not advance in
the way of the wicked.

15 Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it;
turn aside from it and pass by.

16 For they slept not, if they shall
not do evil; and their sleep was taken
away, if they shall not cause to falter.

17 For they ate the bread of injus-
tice, and they will drink the wine of
violences :

18 The path of the just as the light
shining, going and shining even to the
day prepared.

19 The way of the unjust as dark-
ness: they shall not know in what they
shall stumble.

20 My son, attend to my word; in-
cline thine ear to my sayings.

21 They shall not turn aside from
thine eyes; watch them in the midst of
thy heart.

22 For they are life to those finding
them, and healing to all their flesh.

23 Guard thy heart with all watch-
ing, for from it the goings forth of life.

24 Turn away from thee perverseness
of mouth, and frowardness of lips 16-
move far off from thee.

25 Thine eyes shall look straight be-
1076, and thine eyelashes shall be right
before thee.

PROVERBS V., VI.

26 Make level the track of thy feet,
and all thy ways shall be prepared.

27 Thou shalt not decline to the right
and the left: turn away thy foot from
evil.

CHAPTER V.
Y son, attend to my wisdom ; in-
cline thine ear to understanding :

2 "ΠῸ watch meditation, and thy lips
shall guard knowledge.

3 For the lips of the strange woman
will drop droppings of the honey-
comb, and her palate is smooth above
oil :

4 And her latter state being bitter as
wormwood ; sharp as a two-mouthed
sword.

5 Her feet go down to death; her
steps will hold fast to hades.

6 Lest thou shalt make level the path
of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt
not know.

7 And now, ye sons, hear to me, and
ye shall not depart from the words of
my mouth.

8 Remove far off from her thy way,
and thou shalt not draw near to the
door of her house :

9 Lest thou shalt give thy strength
to others, and thy years to the cruel :

10 Lest strangers shall be filled with
thy strength, and thy labors in the
house of strangers ;

11 And thou didst lament in thy lat-
ter state, in the consuming of thy flesh
and thy fulness,

12 And thou saidst, How did I hate
instruction, and my heart despise re-
proofs !

13 And I heard not to the voice of
him teaching me, and I inclined not
mine ear to him instructing me.

14 As I was almost in all evil in the
midst of the convocation and the as-
sembly.

15 Drink water from thy pit, and
flowings from the midst of thy well.

16 Thy fountains shall be dispersed
without; in the broad places streams of
waters.

17 They shall be to thee alone, and
not strangers with thee.

18 Thy fountain shall be blessed:
and rejoice from the wile of thy youth.

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19 The hind of loves and the wild
goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate
thee in all time; thou shalt always
wander in her loves.

20 And wherefore, my son, wilt thou
wander with a strange woman, and em-
brace the bosom of a stranger?

21 For before the eyes of Jehovah
are the ways of man, and he makes
level all his tracks.

22 His imiquities shall take the un-
just one, and with the cords of his sins
shall he be held fast.

23 He shall die in not being instruct-
ed, and he shall wander in the multi-
tude of his folly.

CHAPTER VI.
Y son, if thou becamest surety
for thy friend, thou didst strike
thy hands for a stranger ; /

2 Thou wert snared with the sayings
of thy mouth, thou wert taken with the
sayings of thy mouth.

3 Do this now, my son, and deliver
thyself when thou camest into the hand
of thy friend; go humble thyself and
enlarge thy friend.

4 Thou shalt not give sleep to thine
eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.

5 Deliver thyself as the roe from the
hand, and as the bird from the hand of
the fowler.

6 Go to the ant, thou slothful one;
see her ways, and be wise:

7 Which no leader to her, scribe and
ruler ;

8 She will prepare in summer her
bread, gathering her food in harvest.

9 How long, O slothful one, wilt thou
lie down? when wilt thou rise from thy
sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a
little folding of the hands to 116 down:

11 And thy poverty came as he go-
ing, and thy want as a man of the
shield.

12 A man of Belial, a man of iniqui-
ty, goes with perverseness of mouth.

13 Pinching the eyes, speaking with
the feet, teaching with his fingers ;

14 Perverseness in his heart, fabricat-
ing evil in all time, he will send forth
strifes.

15 For this, his destruction shall

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come suddenly; in a moment he shall
be broken, and none healing.

16 These six Jehovah hated, and
seven an abomination of his soul;

17 Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of
falsehood, and hands shedding innocent
blood,

18 A heart fabricating purposes of
iniquity ; feet being quick to run to evil,

19 A witness of falsehood, breathing
out lies, and sending strife between
brethren,

20 My son, watch the commands of
thy father, and thou shalt not reject
the laws of thy mother:

21 Tie them always upon thy heart ;
bind them upon thy throat.

22 In thy going about it shall lead
thee; in thy lying down it shall watch
over thee; and awaking, it shall speak
to thee.

23 For the command is a lamp, and
the law a light; and the way of life the
reproof of instruction:

24 To watch thee from the woman of
evil, from the smoothness of the strange
tongue.

25 Thou shalt not desire her beauty
in thy heart, and she shall not take
thee with her eyelashes.

26 For by a woman a harlot, even to
a round of bread: and a man’s wife
will hunt the precious soul.

27 A man taking fire in his bosom,
shall his garments not be burnt?

28 If a man shall go upon burning
coals shall his feet not be burnt ?

29 So he going in to his neighbor's
wife; all touching upon her shall not
be innocent.

80 They will not despise a thief if he
shall steal to fill up his soul; for he
will be hungry.

81 And being found he shall recom-
pense seven fold; he shall give all the
substance of his house.

82 He committing adultery with a
woman lacked a heart: destroying his
soul he will do it. ,

33 A blow and contempt shall he
find; and his reproach shall not be
wiped away.

34 For jealousy is the wrath of man,
and he will not spare in the day of ven-
geance.

PROVERBS VIL

35 He will not lift up the face of any
ransom, and he will not be willing if
thou shalt increase the reward.

CHAPTER VIL.
Y son, watch my words, and thou
shalt hide my commands with
thee.

2 Watch my commands, and live;
and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, and
write them upon the tablet of thine
heart.

4 Say to wisdom, Thou my sister;
and thou shalt call knowledge to under-
standing :

5 To watch thyself from the strange
woman, from the stranger making
smooth her sayings.

6 For in the window of my house I
looked forth through my lattice,

7 And I shall see among the simple,
I shall perceive among the sons a youth
wanting heart,

8 Passing in the street near her cor-
ner; and he will step the way of her
house,

9 In the twilight, in the evening of
the day, in the middle of the night, in
the thick darkness :

10 And behold, a woman to his
meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hid-
den of heart.

11 She being noisy and perverse;
her feet will not dwell in her house:

12 One time without, one time in the
broad ways; and she will le in wait
near every corner.

18 She laid hold upon him and kissed
to him; she strengthened her face, and
she will say to him,

14 Sacrifices of peace upon me: to-
day I repaid my vows,

15 For this, 1 shall come forth to thy
meeting, to seek thy face, and 1 shall
find thee. :

16 With adornings I spread my bed,
variegated with thread of Egypt.

17 1 sprinkled my bed with myrrh
and aloes and cinnamon.

18 Come, we will be satisfied with
loves till the morning: we will rejoice
ourselves with loves.

19 For the man not in the house, he
went in a way far off.

PROVERBS VIII.

20 He took a bundle of silver in his
hand; he will come to his house the
day of the full moon.

21 With much of her talking she
caused him to turn aside; with the
smoothness of her lips she will thrust
him away.

22 He went after her suddenly as
the ox will go to the slaughter, and as
the fetter for the correction of the
foolish.

23 Till an arrow shall cleave his
liver; asa bird hastening to the snare,
and not knowing that it is for his soul.

24 And now, ye sons, hear to me,
and attend to the sayings of my mouth.

25 And thy heart shall not deviate
to her ways; thou shalt not wander in
her beaten paths.

26 For she cast down many wounded,
and the strong all being slain by her.

27 Her house the ways to hades, go-
ing down to the chambers of death.

CHAPTER VIII.
HALL not wisdom 6811, and under-
standing give her voice?

2 She stood upon the head of the
heights, upon the way of the house of
the beaten paths.

3 At the hand of the gates, at the
mouth of the city from the coming in of
the doors she will cry:

4 Τὸ you, ye men, I shall call, and
my voice is to the sons of man.

5 Understand craftiness, ye simple:
and ye foolish, understand the heart.

6 Hear ye, for I will speak dear
things; and the openings of my lips
uprightnesses.

7 For my palate shall meditate the
truth, and evil is the abomination of
my lips.

8 In justice are all the sayings of my
mouth; nothing in them crooked and
perverse.

9 All of them straight to him under-
standing, and right to those finding
knowledge.

10 Receive my instruction and not
silver; and knowledge above tried gold.

11 For wisdom is good above pearls,
and all delights shall not be made equal
with her.

12 I wisdom dwelt with prudence,

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and I shall find the knowledge of

machinations.

13 The fear of Jehovah hates evil:
pride and haughtiness, and the evil way,
and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

14 To me counsel and wisdom: I am
understanding; to me is strength.

15 By me kings shall reign, and
princes shall decree justice.

16 By me chiefs shall have dominion,
and nobles; all judging the earth.

17 I loved those loving me : and they
seeking me shall find me.

18 Riches and honor are with me;
splendid riches and justice.

19 My fruit is good above gold, and
above pure gold; and my gain above
tried silver.

20 1 shall go in the way of justice,
in the midst of the beaten paths of
judgment :

21 To cause those loving me to in-
herit existence: and I will fill their
treasures.

22 Jehovah set me up the beginning
of his way, before his works from
ancient time.

23 From forever I was knit together,
from the beginning, from the first of the
earth.

24 In no depths was I begun; in no
fountains abundant in waters.

25 Before the mountains were’ set-
tled ; before the hills I had a beginning:

26 Yet he made not the earth and
the fields, and the head of the clods of
the habitable globe.

27 In his preparing the heavens I
was there: in his inscribing a circle up-
on the face of the deep:

28 In his making firm the clouds
from above: in his strengthening the
fountains of the deep:

29 In his setting his law to the sea,
and the waters shall not pass by his
mouth; in his making firm the founda-
tions of the earth:

30 And I shall be near him the
builder, and I shall be a delight of day,
day, smiling before him in all time ;

31 Smiling in the habitable globe of
his earth; and my delight with the
sons of man.

32 And now ye sons, hear to me:
and the happy shall watch my ways.

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88 Hear ye instructions, and be wise,
and ye shall not reject it.

84 Happy the man hearing to me, to
watch at my doors day, day; to watch
the door posts of my entrances.

35 For he finding me, the finding of
life, and he shall bring forth acceptance
from Jehovah.

36 And he sinning against me did
violence to his soul: all hating me
loved death.

CHAPTER IX.
ISDOM built her house, she
hewed out her seven pillars:

2 She slaughtered her slaughter ; she
mingled her wine; also she prepared
her table.

8 She sent forth her girls: she will
call upon the wings of the heights of
the city,

4 Who the simple, he shall turn aside
here: he wanting heart, she said to
him,

5 Come ye, eat of my bread, and
drink ye of the wine I mingled.

6 Forsake ye the foolish, and live ;
and go straight in the way of under-
standing.

7 He instructing him mocking re-
ceived to himself dishonor: and he re-
proving to the unjust one, his blemish.

8 Thou shalt not reprove him mock-
ing, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to
the wise one and he will love thee.

9 Thou shalt give to the wise one and
he will be more wise: make known to
the just one and he will add receiving.

10 The beginning of wisdom is the
fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of
the holy ones is understanding.

11 For in me thy days shall be mul-
tiplied, and years of life shall be added
to thee.

12 If thou wert wise, thou wert wise
for thyself: and thou mockedst, thou
alone shalt suffer.

18 A woman of folly being noisy,
simple, and she knew not anything.

14 And sitting at the door of her
house, upon the throne of the heights
of the city,

15 To call to those passing the way,
making straight their paths : !

16 Who is simple, he shall turn aside

PROVERBS IX, א‎

here: and he wanting heart, and she
said to him,
17 Stolen waters will be sweet, and
the bread of secrets shall be pleasant.
18 And he knew not that there the
shades; her called ones in the depths
of hades.

CHAPTER X.
ROVERBS of Solomon. <A wise
son will gladden a father: and
a son of the foolish will grieve his
mother.

2 Treasures of injustice shall not
profit, and justice shall deliver from
death.

3 Jehovah will not cause the soul of
the just one to hunger: and he will
thrust away the desire of the unjust.

4 A slothful hand makes poverty,
and the hand of the active will make
rich.

5 He gathering in summer, is a pru-
dent son: he lying in deep sleep in
harvest, a son causing shame.

6 Blessings upon the head of the just
one: and violence shall cover the mouth
of the unjust.

7 The memory of the just one for
blessing: and the name of the wicked
shall be rotten.

8 The wise of heart will receive com-
mands: and the foolish of lips shall
fall.

9 He going in integrity shall go con-
fidently: and he perverting his ways
shall be known.

10 He pinching the eye shall give
pain: and the foolish of lips shall fall.

11 A fountain of life the mouth of
the just one: and violence shall cover
the mouth of the unjust.

12 Hatred will excite strifes: and
love will cover over all transgressions.
' 18 In the lips of him understanding,
wisdom shall be found: and a rod for
the back of him wanting heart.

14 The wise shall hide knowledge:
and the mouth of the foolish drew near
destruction.

15 The wealth of the rich his strong
city : the destruction of the poor their
poverty.

16 The labors of the just one, to life:
the increase of the unjust to sin.

PROVERBS ΧΙ.

17 The path to life is watching in-
struction: and he forsaking reproof
goes astray.

18 He covering hatred with lips of
falsehood, and he bringing forth slan-
der, is foolish.

19 In the multitude of words trans-
gression shall not cease: and he with-
holding his lips is prudent.

20 The tongue of the just is choice
silver: the heart of the unjust is as little.

21 The lips of the just one shall feed
many: and fools in wanting heart, shall
die.

22 The blessing of Jehovah it will
make rich, and it will not add pain
with it.

28 As laughter to the foolish one, to
do mischief: and wisdom is to the man
of understanding.

24 The fear of the unjust one it shall
come to him: and the desire of the just
shall be given.

25 As the whirlwind passing away
the unjust one is not: and the just one
a foundation forever.

26 As vinegar to the teeth and as
smoke to the eyes, so is the slothful one
to those sending him.

27 The fear of Jehovah will add days,
and the years of the unjust shall be di-
minished.

28 The hope of the just is gladness:
and the expectation of the unjust shall
perish.

29 The way of Jehovah is a fortress
to the upright one: and destruction to
those doing iniquity.

30 The just one shall not be moved
forever: and the unjust shall not in-
habit the earth.

31 The mouth of the just one shall
germinate wisdom: and the tongue of
perverseness shall be cut off.

32 The lips of the just one shall
know acceptance: and the mouth of
the unjust, perverseness.

CHAPTER XI.
ALANCKS of deceit, an abomina-
tion of Jehovah: and a whole
stone his delight.
2 Pride coming, and dishonor will
come: and wisdom with the humble.
8 The integrity of the upright shall

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euide them: and the perverseness of
transgressors shall destroy them.

4 Wealth will not profit in the day
of wrath, and justice will deliver from
death. ᾿

5 The justice of the blameless shall
make straight his way, and in his injus-
tice the unjust shall fall.

6 The justice of the upright shall de-
liver them, and transgressors shall be
taken in their mischief.

7 In the death of an unjust man ex-
pectation shall perish: and the hope of
the vain shall perish.

8 The just one was delivered from
straits, and the unjust will come in his
stead.

9 With the mouth the profane will
destroy his neighbor: and by knowl-
edge, shall the just one be delivered.

10 In the good of the just the city
will exult: and in the perishing of the
unjust it rejoiced.

11 By the blessing of the upright the
city shall be exalted: and by the mouth
of the unjust it shall be overthrown.

12 He wanting heart despised for his
neighbor: and a man of understanding
will be silent.

13 He going about tale-bearing re-
veals a secret: and he being faithful of
spirit hides the word.

14 In no guidance the people will
fall: and salvation in a multitude of
counseling.

15 The evil one shall become evil,
for he became surety for a stranger:
and he hating those striking hands
being secure.

16 A woman
honor, and the
riches.

17 The man of mercy benefited his
soul: and the cruel troubled his flesh.

18 The unjust one did a work of
falsehood: and the seed of justice the
reward of truth.

19 So justice to life, and he pursuing
evil, to his death.

20 The perverse of heart are an
abomination of Jehovah, and the blame-
less of way his delight.

21 Hand to hand, the evil one shall
not be unpunished: and the seed of
the just were delivered.

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powerful will obtain

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22 A ring of gold in the nose of a
swine, a fair woman and she departed
from discernment.

23 The desire of the just is only
good: the expectation of the unjust,
wrath.

24 There is scattering and yet add-
ing; and the withholding more than
right, only to want.

25 The soul of blessing shall be
made fat: also he watering, shall him-
self drink to the full.

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26 He withholding grain, the people

shall curse him: and blessing upon the
head of him selling.

: 27 He seeking good shall strive after
acceptance: and he seeking evil, it
shall come to him.

28 He trusting in his riches himself
shall fall: and the just shall flourish as
the fohage.

29 He troubling his house shall in-
herit wind: and the foolish is servant
to tlie wise of heart.

80 The fruit of the just a tree of life ;
and he taking souls is wise.

31 Behold, the just shall be requited
in the earth: much more the unjust one
and the sinning.

CHAPTER ΧΙ].
He loving instruction loved know!]-
edge: and he hating reproof, is
stupid.

2 The good shall obtain acceptance
from Jehovah: and the man of mis-
chief he will condemn.

3 A man shall not be prepared by
injustice: and the root of the just shall
not be moved.

4 A woman of strength is a crown to
her husband: and she causing shame,
as rottenness in his bones.

5 The purposes of the just are judg-
ment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit.

6 The words of the unjust are the
lying in wait of blood: and the mouth
of the upright shall deliver them.

7 The unjust are overthrown, and
they are not: and the house of the
just shall stand.

8 According to the mouth of under-
standing a man shall be praised: and
he being perverse of heart shall be for
contempt.

PROVERBS XII.

9 He is good being despised, and a
servant to him above him, honoring
himself, and wanting bread.

10 The just one shall know the soul
of his eattle: and the compassions of
the unjust are cruel.

11 He working his earth shall be
filled with bread: and he pursuing
vain things wanted heart.

12 The unjust one desired the net of
the evil: and the root of the just will

ve.

18 In the transgression of the lips is
the snare of evil: and the just one shall
come forth out of straits,

14 From the fruit of the mouth a
man shall be satisfied with good: and
the reward of the hands of a man shall
be good to him.

15 The way of the foolish is right
in his eyes: and the wise one heard to
counsel.

16 The foolish one in the day shall
make known his anger: but the pru-
dent one covered dishonor.

17 He breathing out faithfulness will
announce justice: and a witness of
falsehoods, deceit.

18 There is he talking idly as tbe
piercings of the sword: and the tongue
of the wise is healing.

19 The lip of truth shall be prepared
forever: and the tongue of falsehood
while I shall wink.

20 Deceit in the heart of those deyis-
ing evil: and joy to those counseling
peace.

21 No iniquity shall approach to the
just one: and the unjust were filled
with evil.

22 Lips of falsehood an abomination
of Jehovah: and they doing faithful-
ness his delight.

23 A prudent man covered knowl-
edge: and the heart of the foolish will
meet folly.

24 The hand of the active shall give
dominion: and of the slothful one
shall be for tribute.

25 Fear in the heart of a man will
bow it down: and a good word will
gladden it.

26 The just excelled above his neigh-
bor : and the way of the unjust shall
lead them astray.

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27 The slothful one shall not ensnare|into evil: and a messenger of faithful-

his hunting: and the substance of the
active man is precious.

28 In the way of justice is life; and
the way of its beaten path not death.

CHAPTER XIIL
WISE son the instruction of a
father: and he mocking heard

not reproof.

2 From the fruit of a man’s mouth
he shall eat good: and the soul of the
transgressing, violence.

3 He guarding his mouth, watched
his soul: he opening wide his lips, de-
struction to him.

4 The soul of the slothful one desir-
ing, and nothing: and the soul of the
active shall be made fat.

5 The just one will hate the word of
falsehood: and the unjust one will be
loathsome and be put to shame.

6 Justice will guard the blameless
of way: and injustice shall overthrow
the sinning.

7 There is he making himself rich,
and not anything: making himself
poor, and much wealth.

8 The expiating of a man’s soul is his
riches: and the poor will not hear
rebuke.

9 The light of the just shall rejoice :
and the lamp of the unjust shall be
quenched.

10 Only by pride contention will be
given: but with those being advised,
wisdom.

11 Wealth from vanity shall be
diminished: and he gathering with the
hand, shall increase.

12 Hope being forgotten afflicts the
heart: and desire coming, a tree of life.

13 He despising to the word it shall
be perverse to him: and he fearing the
command shall be requited.

14 The law of the wise one a fountain
of life, to depart from the snares of
death.

15 Good understanding shall give
grace: and the way of the transgressing
15 perpetuity. :

16 Every prudent one will do in
knowledge: and the foolish one will
spread folly.

iy we unjust messenger shall fall

ness is healing.

18 Instruction dismisses poverty and
shame: and he watching reproof shall
be honored.

19 The desire coming to pass, will be
sweet to the soul: and an abomination
to the foolish to depart from eyil.

20 He going with the wise, and he is
wise: and the companion of the foolish
shall become evil.

21 Evil shall pursue the sinning: and
good shall requite the just.

22 The good shall cause his sons’
sons to inherit: and the wealth of him
sinning was treasured up for the just.

23 Much food to the fallow ground
of the poor: and in no judgment there
is destroying.

24 He withholding his rod hates his
son: and he loving him, sought corree-
tion for him.

25 The just one ate to fill his soul:
and the belly of the unjust shall want.

CHAPTER XIV.
HE wise woman built her house:
but the foolish will pull it down
with her hands.

2 He going in his uprightness will
fear Jehovah: and he perverted in his
ways, despised him.

3 In the mouth of the foolish one a
rod of pride: and the lips of the wise
shall watch them.

4 Τὰ no oxen the stall clean, and
much increase in the strength of the
ox.
5 A witness of faithfulnesses will not
lie: and a witness of falsehood will
breathe out lies.

6 He mocking sought wisdom, and
none: and knowledge being easy to him
understanding.

7 Go from before to the foolish man
and thou knewest not the lips of knowl-
edge,

8 The wisdom of the prudent is to
understand his way: and the folly of
the foolish is deceit.

9 The foolish will mock at guilt: and
between the upright acceptance.

= 10 The heart will know the bitter-
ness of its soul, and in its joys the
stranger shall not mingle.

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11 The house of the unjust shall 6 | 60 him making him: and he honoring

destroyed: and the tent of the upright
shall flourish.

12 There is a way straight before
man, and its latter state the ways of
death.

13 Also in laughter the heart shall
have pain, and its latter state of joy,
grief.

14 He drawing back the heart shall
be filled from his ways: and a good
man from above him.

15 The simple will believe to every
word : and the prudent will understand
to his going.

16 The wise one feared and departed
from evil: and the foolish overflowing,
and being confident.

17 He reaping anger will do folly:
and a man of mischiefs will be hated.

18 The simple inherit folly : and the
prudent shall be surrounded with
knowledge.

19 The evil bowed before the good,
and the unjust at the gates of the just
one.

20 Also the poor shall be hated by
his neighbor: and many loving the rich
one.

21 He despising to his neighbor, sins:
and he compassionating the poor, he is
happy. /

22 Shall they not go astray, seeking
evil? and mercy, and truth to those
seeking good.

23 In all labor will be profit: and
the word of the lips only to want.

24 The crown of the wise is their
riches: the folly of the foolish, folly.

25 A witness of truth delivers souls:
and deceit will breathe out lies.

26 In the fear of Jehovah the trust
of strength, and to his sons a refuge.

27 The fear of Jehovah a fountain of
life, to depart from the snares of death.

28 In a multitude of people the king’s
decoration: and in the cessation of the
people the destruction of the prince.

29 The slow to anger of much under-
standing: and the short of spirit exalts
folly.

30 A heart of healing, the life of the
flesh: and jealousy the rottenness of
the bones.

81 He oppressing the poor reproach-

him compassionated the needy.

82 The unjust one shall be driven
away in his evil: and the just one
trusted in his death.

88 In the heart of him understanding,
wisdom shall rest: and in the midst of
fools it shall be made known.

84 Justice will exalt a nation: and
sin a reproach to nations.

35 The acceptance of the king toa
servant of understanding: תה‎ his
wrath shall be to him causing shame.

CHAPTER ΧΥ.
\ SOFT answer will turn away
wrath, and a word of pain will
bring up anger. :

2 The tongue of the wise will make
knowledge good: and the mouth of the
foolish will gush forth folly.

3 In every place are the eyes of Je-
hovah observing closely the evil and
the good.

4 The healing of the tongue the tree
of life: and perverseness in it a break-
ing in the spirit.

5 The foolish will deride his father’s
instruction: and he watching reproof
will be crafty.

6 The house of the just much treas-
ure: and in the increase of the unjust
the being troubled.

7 The lips of the wise will disperse
knowledge: and the heart of the foolish
not so.

8 The sacrifice of the unjust an abom-
ination of Jehovah: and the prayer of
the upright his acceptance.

9 The way of the unjust an abomina-
tion of Jehovah: and he will love him
pursuing justice.

10 Correction is evil to him forsaking
the way: he hating reproof shall die.

11 Hades and destruction are before
Jehovah: much more the hearts of the
sons of man.

12 He mocking will not love him re-
proving him: to the wise he will not go.

13 A heart of joy will do the face
good: and by pains of heart the spirit
was dejected.

14 The heart of him understanding
will seek knowledge: and the face of
the foolish will feed folly.

PROVERBS XVI.

15 All the days of the afflicted are
evil: and the good of heart drinking
always.

16 Good is little with the fear of Je-
hovah more than much treasure and
confusion with it.

17 Good a ration of herbs and love
there, above an ox of the stall and ha-
tred with it.

18 A man of wrath will excite strife :
and he slow to anger will appease con-
tention.

19 The way of the slothful as the
cutting of the thorn: and the path of
the upright was raised up.

20 A wise son will gladden the fa-
ther: and the foolish man despised his
mother.

21 Folly is joy to him wanting heart:
and the man of understanding will
make straight to go.

22 The frustrating purposes with no
counsel, but in the multitude of coun-
selors it shall be set up.

23 Joy to the man in the answer of
his mouth: and a word in its time how

ood !

24 The path of life is above to the
understanding one, to depart from
hades below.

25 The house of the proud will Je-
hovah sweep away, and he will set up
the bound of the widow.

26 The purposes of evil an abomina-
tion of Jehovah: and the pure speak-
ing of pleasantness.

27 He plundering plunder troubled
his house; and he hating gifts shall
live.

28 The heart of the just one shall
meditate to answer: and the mouth of
the unjust shall gush out evil.

29 Jehovah is far off from the unjust:
and he will hear the prayer of the just.

30 From the light of the eyes the
heart will rejoice: and a good report
will fatten the bones.

31 The ear hearing the reproof of life
shall lodge in the midst of the wise.

32 He driving away instruction de-
spised his soul: and he hearing reproof
obtained a heart.

33 The fear of Jehovah the instruc-
tion Of wisdom; and before honor hu-

milit

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CHAPTER XVI.
1: man the dispositions of the heart,
and the answer of the tongue
from Jehovah.

2 All the ways of man are clean in
his eyes, and Jehovah tried the spirits.

3 Roll to Jehovah thy works, and
thy purposes shall be established.

4 Jehovah made all to his purpose,
and also the unjust for the day of evil.

5 Every one lifted up of heart an
abomination to Jehovah: and hand to
hand, shall not be unpunished.

6 By mercy and truth iniquity shall
be expiated: and in the fear of.Jeho-
vah a departing from evil.

7 The ways of a man being accepted
of Jehovah also he will make his ene-
mies friends with him.

8 Good a little with justice above
abundance of increase with no judg-
ment.

9 The heart of man will pvrpose his
ways, and Jehovah will prepare his
steps.

10 Divining upon the lips of the
king: his mouth will not transgress in
judgment.

11 Weighing and balances of judg-
ment are to Jehovah, and his work all
the stones of the bag.

12 An abomination of kings to do
injustice: for in justice shall the throne
be prepared.

13 Lips of justice the acceptance of
kings; and he will love the word of
the upright.

14 The king’s wrath, messengers of
death: and a wise man shall expiate it.

15 In the light of the king’s face is
life, and his acceptance as the cloud of
the latter rain.

16 The obtaining of wisdom how
good above gold! and the obtaining of
understanding to be chosen above sil-
ver.

17 The highway of the upright is to
depart from evil: to watch his ways
the guarding of his soul.

18 Pride before a breaking, and a
spirit lifted up before a fall.

19 Good the cast down of spirit with
the humble more than to divide the
spoil with the proud.

20 He understanding in the word

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shall find good: and he trusting in Je-
hovah, he being happy.

21 He understanding shall call to the
wise of heart: and sweetness of lips
shall add knowledge.

22'The understanding of him pos-
sessing it is a fountain of life: and the
instruction of the foolish is folly.

23 The heart of the wise shall attend
to his mouth, and he shall add knowl-
edge to his lips.

24 Words of pleasantness an honey-
comb, sweet to the soul, and healing to
the bones.

25 There is a way straight before a
man, and its latter state the ways of

> death.

26 The soul of him laboring, labored
for himself; for his mouth urged upon
him.

27 A man of Belial dug up evil, and
upon his hips as a burning fire.

28 A man of perverseness shall send
forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates
friends.

29 A man of violence will seduce his
neighbor, and he caused him to go in a
way not good.

80 Closing his eyes to purpose per-
verseness : biting his lips he completed
evil.

31 Old age a crown of glorying,
shall be found in the way of justice.

32 He slow to anger is good above
the strong; and he ruling over his
spirit above him taking a city.

88 In the bosom he shall cast the lot ;
and from Jehovah all his judgment.

CHAPTER XVII.
OOD a dry morsel and peace with

Ἃ it, above a house full of sacrifices
of contention.

2 An understanding servant shall
rule a son causing shame, and shall di-
vide the inheritance in the midst of the
brethren.

3 The crucible for silver and the fur-
nace for gold: and Jehovah tries
hearts.

4 He doing evil attends upon lips of
vanity ; he lying feeds upon a tongue
of mischief.

5 He mocking to the poor one re-
proached him making him: and he re-

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joicing at misfortune shall not be un-
punished.

6 The crown of old men, sons’ sons:
and the glory of sons their fathers,

7 The lip of excellence is not becom-
ing to the foolish one: much less the
lip of falsehood to the noble one.

8 The gift a stone of grace in the
eyes of him possessing it: to all which
it shall turn it shall prosper.

9 He covering transgression seeks
love; and he perverting in the word,
separates a friend.

10 A reproof will take hold upon
him understanding more than a hun-
dred blows the foolish.

11 An evil one will seek only con-
tradiction: and a cruel messenger shall
be sent against him.

12 A bereaved bear meeting with a
man, and not a fool in his folly.

13 He turning back evil instead of
good, evil shall not move from his house.

14 The causing water to break forth
is the begining of strife: cast off con-
tention before being irritated.

15 He justifying the unjust one and
he condemning the just one, is an
abomination to Jehovah, also they two.

16 Wherefore this a price in the hand
of the foolish one to obtain wisdom, and
no heart ?

17 A friend loves in all time, and a
brother shall be born for straits.

18 A man wanting heart will strike
the hand, pledging a pledge before his
friend.

19 He loving transgression loves con-
tention: he lifting up his gate seeks
breaking.

20 The perverse of heart shall not
find good: and he turning about with
his tongue shall fall into eyil.

21 The foolish one was born for sor-
row to himself, and the father of the
foolish one shall not rejoice.

22 A joyful heart shall make good
healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry
up the bones.

23 The unjust one will take a gift
from the bosom to turn aside the paths
of judgment.

24 Wisdom is with the face of him
understanding, and the eyes of the fool-
ish one are in the ends of the earth.

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25 A foolisk son a grief to his father,
and bitterness to her bringing him
forth.

26 Also punishing to the just one is
not good, to strike nobles for uprightness.

27 He withholding his words will
‘shew knowledge: a man 01 understand-
ing is a cool spirit.

28 Also the foolish one being silent
shall be thought wise: and he shutting
his lips, understanding.

CHAPTER XVIII.
E separating himself will seek ac-
cording to desire ; he will be irri-
tated with every purpose.

2 The foolish one will not delight in
understanding, but in the disclosings of
his heart.

3 In the coming of the unjust also
came contempt, and with dishonor, re-
proach.

4 Deep waters are the words of man’s
mouth, the fountain of wisdom a gush-}c
ing stream.

5 To lift up the face of the unjust
one is not good; to turn aside the just
one in judgment.

6 The lips of the foolish one will
come into contention, and his mouth
will call for blows.

7 The mouth of the foolish is destruc-
tion to him, and his lips the snare of
his soul.

8 The words of the tale-bearer as
dainty morsels, and they will go down
to the chambers of the belly.

9 Also he being slothful 4 in his work,
he the brother of the master of destruc-
tion.

10 The name of Jehovah a tower of
strength: into it the just one shall run
and be exalted.

11 The rich one’s wealth his strong
city, and as a-wall lifted ἈΠ) in his im-
agination.

“12 Before a breaking a man’s heart
will be lifted up, and before honor,
humility.

13 He turning back the word before
he shall hear it, is folly and shame to
him.

14 The spirit of man will sustain his
disease; and a dejected spirit who shall
lift up ?

15 The heart of him understanding
will obtain knowledge: and the ear of
the wise will seek knowledge.

16 The gift of a man will enlarge to
him, and shall conduct him before the
great.

17 The first one justin his cause;
his neighbor will come and search him.

18 The lot will cause contentions to
cease, and will separate between the

strong.

19 A brother falling away, above a
city of strength ; and strifes as the bars
of a fortress.

20 From the fruit of a man’s mouth
his belly shall be filled; and he shall
be filled with the increase of his lips.

21 Death and life in the hand of the
tongue: and they loving it shall eat its
fruit.

22 He finding a wife found good, and
shall obtain acceptance from Jehovah.

23 The poor one will speak supph-

cations; and the rich one will answer
with vehemence.

24 A man of friends for making
friendship: and there is love attaching
more than a brother.

CHAPTER XIX.
OOD the poor one going in his in-
tegrity above the perverse of lips,
and he foolish.

2 Also the soul without knowledge is
not good, and he hastening with his
feet, sins.

3 The folly of man will subvert his

way: and. his heart will be angry
against Jehoyah.

4 Wealth will add many friends; and
the poor one will be separated from his
neighbor.

5 A witness of falsehoods shall not
be unpunished, and he breathing out
hes shall not escape.

6 Many will wait for the face of the
prince, and every one the friend to the

man giving.

7 All the brethren of the poor hated
him: how much more his friends re-
moved far from him? pursuing words
they are not.

8 He obtaining a heart loved his
soul: he watched “understanding to find
good.

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9 A witness of falsehoods shall not
be unpunished, and he breathing out
lies shall perish.

10 Delight is not becoming to the
foolish one; much less for a servant to
rule over chiefs.

11 The understanding of man will
defer his anger: and his glory to pass
over transgression.

12 The king’s wrath growling as the
young lion, and his acceptance as dew
upon the grass.

18 A foolish son a calamity to his
father: and the strifes of a woman a
dropping thrust out.

14 A house and wealth the inherit-
ance of fathers: and an understanding
wife from Jehovah,

15 Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and
the soul of sloth shall hunger.

16 He watching the command watches
his soul: he despising his ways shall
die.

17 He pitying the poor lends to Je-
hoyah, and he will recompense to him
his act.

18 Correct thy son when there is
hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for
his sighing.

19 The stern in wrath lifted up a fine:
for if thou shalt deliver and thou shalt
yet add.

20 Hear counsel and receive instruc-
tion, so that thou shalt be wise in thy
latter state.

21 Many purposes ina man’s heart;
and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall
stand.

22 The desire of man his mercy: and
the poor good above the man of false-
hood.

23 The fear of Jehovah is to life: and
he being filled shall lodge satisfied; he
shall not be reviewed for evil.

24 The slothful one -hiding his hand
in the dish, also he will not turn it
back to his mouth.

25 Thou shalt strike him mocking,
and the simple will be crafty: and re-
prove to him understanding, and he
will understand knowledge.

26 He oppressing the father and put-
ting the mother to flight, is a son caus-
ing shame and causing disgrace.

27 Cease, my son, to hear instruc-

PROVERBS .אא‎

tions for errmg from the words of
knowledge. :

28 A witness of Belial shall mock
judgment: and the mouth of the un-
just will swallow down iniquity.

29 Judgment was prepared for those
mocking, and blows for the back of the ’
foolish.

CHAPTER XX.
INE is mocking, strong drink is
noisy: and every one going

astray by it will not be wise.

2 The terror of the king growling as
the young lion: he overflowing against
him sinned against his soul.

5 Honor to a man ceasing from strife:
and every foolish one will be irri-
tated.

4 The slothful one reproaching will
not work: he shall ask in harvest, and
nothing.

5 Deep waters are counsel in the
heart of man; and a man of under-
standing will draw it out.

6 The multitude of man will call each
his mercy: and a man of faithfulness
who shall find?

7 The just one going about in his in-
tegrity: his sons happy after him.

8 The king shall sit upon the throne
of judgment scattering with his eyes all
evil.

9 Whoshall say, I cleansed my heart;
I was pure from my sin?

10 A stone and stone, an ephah and
ephah, an abomination of Jehovah, also
they two.

11 Also a youth shall be known by
his doings, if pure and straight his work.

12 The hearing ear and the seeing
eye, Jehovah made, also them two.

13 Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou
shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine
eyes, being filled with bread.

14 Evil, evil, he buying will say:
and departing to him, and then he will
boast.

15 There is gold and a multitude of
pearls: and a precious vessel the lips
of knowledge.

16 Take his garment that became
surety for a stranger: and bind him by
a pledge for strange women.

17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a

PROVERBS ΧΧΙ.

man; and afterward his mouth shall be
filled with gravel.

18 The purpose shall be prepared, by
counsel, and with guidance make war.

19 He revealing a secret going about
tale-bearing: and thou shalt not inter-
mingle with him embracing his lips.

20 He cursing his father and his
mother, his lamp shall go out in the
midst of darkness.

21 An inheritance greedily gotten in
the beginning ; and its latter state shall
not be blessed.

22 Thou shalt not say, I will requite
evil; wait for Jehovah, he will save to
thee.

23 An abomination of Jehovah stone
and stone; and the balance of deceit is
not good.

24 From Jehovah man’s steps; and
how shall man understand his way ?

25 The snare of man _ swaliowing
down the holy thing, after the vows
for seeking.

26 A wise king scatters the unjust,
and he will turn back a wheel over
them.

27 The light of Jehovah is the breath
of man, searching all the chambers of
. the belly.
> _ 28 Mercy and truth shall guard the

king: and his throne he upheld in
mercy.

29 The glory of young men their
strength: and the ornament of old men
gray hair.

80 The joining of a wound will
cleanse against evil: and blows the
chambers of the belly.

CHAPTER XXL
TREAMS of waters the heart of the
king, in the hand of Jehovah:
upon all which he shall delight in he
will turn it.
2 Every way of a man right in his
eyes: and Jehovah will prepare hearts.
3 To do justice and judgment was
chosen by Jehovah above gold.
4 Lifting up the eyes and enlarging
the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.
5 The purposes of the active only to
abundance; and every one hastening
only to want.
6 The making treasures by the

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tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered
from those seeking death.

7 The violence of the unjust shall
sweep them away, for they refuse to do
judgment.

8 The way of man is crooked and
strange: and the pure his work is right.

9 Good to dwell upon the corner of
the roof rather than with a woman of
strifes and a house of community.

10 The soul of the unjust one desired
evil: his neighbor shall not be compas-
sionated in his eyes. .

11 In punishing him mocking, the
simple shall become wise: and in in-
struction to the wise one he will take
knowledge.

12 The just one being circumspect
for the house of the unjust one: over-
throwing the unjust for evil.

13 He stopping his ear from the ery
of the poor one also himself shall call
and shall not be answered.

14 Giving in secret will subdue an-
ger: and a gift in the bosom, strong
wrath.

15 Joy to the just one to do judg-
ment: and destruction to those working
iniquity.

16 A man wandering from the way
of understanding shall rest in the con-
vocation of the shades.

17 A man of poverty loving joy: he
loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

18 The unjust one a ransom for the
just one, and he transgressing, instead
of the upright.

19 Good to dwell in the land of the
desert rather than with a woman of con-
tentions and anger.

20 A treasure desired, and oil in the
house of the wise one; and the foolish
man will swallow it down. |

21 He pursuing justice and mercy
shall find life, justice and honor.

22 The wise one ascended the city of
the strong, and he will bring down the
strength of its confidence.

23 He watching his mouth and his
tongue watches his soul from straits.

24 Proud, arrogant, mocking, is his
name doing in the wrath of pride.

25 The desire of the slothful shall
kill him, for his hands refused to work.

26 He longed a longing all the day:

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and the just one shall give and not keep
back.

27 The sacrifice of the unjust is an
abomination, for also he will bring it in
mischief.

28 A witness of lies shall perish:
and a man hearing, shall speak clearly.

29 An unjust man strengthened with
his face: and the upright he will pre-
pare his ways.

30 No wisdom and no understanding,
and no counsel against Jehovah.

81 The horse is prepared for the day
of war and salvation is to Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXII.
NAME to be chosen rather than
much riches, and good grace ra-
ther than gold.

2 'The rich and poor one met togeth-
er: Jehovah made them all.

3 The crafty saw evil, and he will
hide, and the simple passed on and
were punished.

4 The end of humility the fear of Je-
hovah, riches and honor and life.

5 Thorns, snares, in the way of the
perverse one: he watching his soul
shall be far from them.

6 Straiten to a youth upon the mouth
of his way, also when he shall grow
old he will not depart from it.

7 The rich one will rule over the
poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the
man lending.

8 He sowing iniquity shall reap van-
ity, and the rod of his wrath shall be
finished.

9 The good eye it shall be blessed,
for he gave from his bread to the poor.

10 Cast out him mocking, and strife
shall go out, and contention shall cease
and dishonor.

11 He loving pureness of heart the
grace of his lips, the king is his friend.

12 The eyes of Jehovah guarded
knowledge, and he will overthrow the
words of him transgressing.

18 The slothful one said, A lion
without; I shall be slain in the midst
of the broad places.

14 The mouth of the strange woman
a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah
shall fall there.

15 Folly being bound in the heart of

PROVERBS XXII, XXIII.

a youth; the rod of correction shall re-
move it far off from him.

16 He oppressing the poor one to in-
crease for himself, he gave to the rich ;
also to want.

17 Incline thine ear and hear the
words of the wise, and thou shalt set
thy heart to my knowledge.

18 For pleasant things if thou shalt
watch them in thy belly; they shall be
prepared together for thy lips.

19 For thy trust to be in Jehovah, I
caused thee to know to-day, thee also.

20 Did I not write to thee three days
ago in counsels and knowledge?

21 To cause thee to know the truth
of the words of truth ; to turn back the
words of truth to those sending thee?

22 Thou shalt not strip the poor be-
08186 he is poor: and thou shalt not
crush the humble in the gate:

23 For Jehovah will contend their
contention, and rob the soul to those
robbing them.

24 Thou shalt not be companion of
the possessor of anger, and with the
man of wrath thou shalt not go:

25 Lest thou shalt learn his ways and
take a snare to thy soul.

26 Thou shalt not be with those
striking the hand with those pledging
for debts.

27 If not to thee to requite, why
shall he take thy bed from under thee ?

28 Thou shalt not remove the old
bound which thy fathers made.

29 Sawest thou a man apt in his
works? Before kings shall he stand;
he shall not stand before the dark ones.

CHAPTER XXIII.
F thou shalt sit to eat with a ruler,
understanding, thou shalt under-
stand what is before thee.

2 And put a knife to thy swallow if
thou the possessor of a soul.

ὃ Thou shalt not long for his dainties :
and it is the bread of hes.

4 Thou shalt not labor to become
rich : cease from thy wisdom.

5 Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly
upon it and it 15 not? for making, it
will make to it wings; as an eagle and
it flew to the heavens.

6 Thou shalt not eat the bread of an

PROVERBS XXIV.

evil eye, and ye shall not long for its
dainties :

7 Like him estimating evil in his
soul, so is he: Eat and drink, he will
say to thee; and his heart not with thee.

8 Thy morsel which thou didst eat
thou shalt vomit forth and destroy thy
pleasant words.

9 In the ears of the foolish thou shalt
not speak, for he will despise for the
understanding of thy words.

10 Thou shalt not remove the old
bound; and into the field of the or-
phans thou shalt not come:

11 For he redeeming them, he is
strong; he will contend their conten-
tion with thee.

12 Bring thy heart to instruction,
and thine ears to the words of knowl-
edge.

13 Thou shalt not withhold instruc-
tion from youth: if thou shalt strike
him with a rod he shall not die.

14 Thou shalt strike him with the
rod, and thou shalt deliver his soul from
hades.

15 My son, if thy heart be wise, my
heart shall rejoice, even mine.

16 And my reins shall exult im the
speaking of thy lips uprightnesses.

17 Thy heart shall not envy against
those sinning: but be in the fear of Je-
hovah all the day.

18 But there is a latter state, and
thine expectation shall not be cut off.

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
and guide thy heart right in the way.

20 Thou shalt not be with those
drinking wine to excess, and with
squanderers of flesh to them :

21 For the drunkard and the squan-
derer shall be dispossessed: and slum-
ber shall clothe with rags.

22 Hear to thy father that begat
thee, and thou shalt not despise thy
mother when growing old.

23 Buy the truth, and thou shalt not
sell wisdom and instruction and under-
standing.

24 The father of the just one rejoic-
ing, shall rejoice: he shall beget a wise
one and shall rejoice in him.

25 Thy father shall rejoice, and thy
mother, and she begetting thee shall
exult.

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26 My son, thou shalt give thy heart
to me, and thine eyes shall delight in
my way.

27 For a harlot is a deep ditch ; and
a strong woman a narrow well.

28 She also will lie in wait as for
prey, and she will add those transgress-
ing among men.

29 To whom wo? to whom want? to
whom strife? to whom complaint? to
whom wounds gratuitously ? to whom
dark flashings of the eyes?

30 To those remaining at the wine;
to those going to seek mixed wine.

31 Thou shalt not look upon wine
when it shall be red, when it shall
give its eye in the cup, it will go about
in uprightnesses.

32 Its latter state it will bite as a
serpent, and sting as a viper.

33 Thine eyes shall see strange
women, and thy heart shall speak per-
verseness.

34 And thou wert as he lying down
in the heart of the sea, and as he lying
down upon the head of the mast.

35 They struck me, I was not pain-
ed; they beat me, I knew not: when
shall I awake? I will add, I will yet
seek it.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ve cen shalt not envy against men
of evil, thou shalt not desire to
be with them.

2 For their heart will meditate de-
struction, and their lips will speak la-
bor.

3 By wisdom a house will be built,
and it will be prepared by understand-
ing:

‘4 And by knowledge shall the cham-
bers be filled with all precious and
pleasant riches.

5 A wise man is in strength, and a
man of knowledge strengthens power.

6 For by guidance thou shalt make
to thee war, and in the multitude of
counselors salvation.

7 High things to the foolish is wis-
dom: in the gate he will not open his
mouth.

8 He purposing to do evil for him-
self shall be called the master of mis-
chief.

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9 The purpose of folly is sin, and he
mocking, an abomination to man.

10 Wilt thou be discouraged in the
day of straits thy strength is narrow.

11 If thou shalt refrain. to deliver
those being brought to death, and
those going to be slain;

12 It thou shalt say, Behold, we
knew not this; will not he trying hearts,
understand? and he guarding thy soul,
knew? and he turned back to man ac-
cording to his work.

13 My son, eat honey, for it is good ;
and the dropping of honey being sweet
to thy palate.

14 So the knowledge of wisdom to
thy soul if thou shalt find: and there
is a latter state and thine expectation
shall not be cut off.

15 Thou shalt not lay wait, O wicked
one, against the dwelling of the just
one; thou shalt not destroy his resting
place:

16 For the just one shall fall seven
times, and rise: and the unjust shall be
weak in evil.

17 In the fallimg of thine enemies
thou shalt not rejoice, and in his stum-
bling thy heart shall not exult:

18 Lest Jehovah shall see and it be
evil in his eyes, and he turn back from
him his anger.

19 Thou shalt not be angry against
the evil; thou shalt not envy against
the unjust:

20 For there shall be no latter state
to the evil one: the light of the unjust
shall be extinguished.

21 My son, fear thou Jehovah and
the king: thou shalt not imtermingle
with those changing:

22 For suddenly shall their calamity
rise, and who shall make known the
misfortune of them two?

23 Also these to the wise. To look
upon the face in judgment is not good.

24 He saying to the unjust, Thou art
just; peoples shall curse him, and na-
tions shall curse him:

25 And it shall be pleasant to those
reproving, and a blessing of good shall
come upon them.

26 He shall kiss the lips turning back
right words,

27 Prepare thy work without, and

PROVERBS ΧΧΥ.

make it ready for thee in the field after-
wards; and build thy house.

28 Thou shalt not be a witness gra-
tuitously against thy neighbor, and de-
ceive not with thy lips.

29 Thou shalt not say, According to
what he did to me, thus will Ido to
him: I will turn back to the man ac-
cording to his work.

80 1 passed upon the field of the
slothful man, and upon the vineyard of
the man wanting heart ;

81 And behold, it came up all of it
with thorns; brambles covered its face,
and the wall of its stones was over-
thrown.

82 And I shall see and set my heart:
1 looked, I took instruction.

33 A little sleep, a- little slumber, a
little foldmg of the hands to he down:

54 And thy poverty came going
about, and thy want as a man of shield.

CHAPTER XXV.
LSO these the proverbs of Solo-
mon which the men of Hezelaah
king of Judah transcribed.

2 The glory of God to conceal the
word: and the glory of kings to search
the word.

3 The heavens for height, and the
earth for depth, and the heart of kings
not searched out.

4 Take ye away the dross from the
silver, and a vessel shall come forth for
the goldsmith.

5 Take ye away the unjust one from
before the king, and his throne shall be
prepared in justice.

6 Thou shalt not show thyself proud
before the king, and thou shalt not
stand in the place of the great.

7 For good to say to thee, Come up
hither, rather than humbling thyself
before the noble whom thine eye saw.

8 Thou shalt not go forth hastily to
strive, lest what thou shalt do in its lat-
ter state in thy neighbor putting thee
to shame.

9 Contend thy contention with thy
neighbor; and thou shalt not reveal
the secret of another:

10 Lest he hearing shall reproach
thee, and thine infamy shall not turn
away.

PROVERBS ΧΧΥ͂Ι.

11 Apples of gold in images of silver
is the word spoken upon its wheels.

12 An earring of gold and a neck-
lace of gold, the wise one reproving
upon the hearing ear.

18 As the cold of snow in the day of
harvest a faithful messenger to those
sending him: he shall restore the soul
of his lord.

14 Clouds and wind and not rain, a
man boasting in a gift of falsehood.

15 In slowness to anger shall the
prince be persuaded, and the soft tongue
shall break the bones.

16 Thou didst find honey; eat thy
sufficiency, lest thou shalt be satiated,
and thou vomit it forth.

17 Make rare thy foot from thy
neighbor’s house, lest he shall be sati-
ated with thee, and hate thee.

18 A mallet and a sword and an arrow
sharpened, the man answering against
his neighbor testimony of falsehood.

19 A bad tooth and a wavering foot,
the confidence of the faithless one in the
day of straits.

20 He removing a covering in the day
of cold, and vinegar upon nitre, and he
singing in songs to an evil heart.

21 If thine enemy hunger, give him
bread to eat; and if he thirst, give him
water to drink :

22 For thou tookest up coals of fire
upon his head, and Jehovah will rec-
ompense to thee.

23 The north wind will set free the
rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.

24 Good to dwell upon a corner of
the roof rather than with a woman of
strifes and a house of community.

25 Cold waters to the faintmg soul,
and a good message from a land far off.

26 A fountain trampled down, and a
fountain corrupted, the just one turned
aside before the unjust one.

27 To eat much honey is not good:
and to seek out their honor, not honor.

28 A city being broken down, and
not a wall, a man who restrains not to
his spirit.

CHAPTER XXVI.
S snow in summer and as rain in
harvest, so honor not becoming
to the foolish one.

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2 As the sparrow for wandering, as
the swallow for flying, so the curse shall
not come in vain.

3 A whip for the horse, the curb for
the ass, and the rod for the back of the
foolish.

4 Thou shalt not answer the foolish
according to his folly lest thou shalt be
like to him.

5 Answer the foolish according to his
folly lest he shall be wise in his own
eyes.

6 He drank violence, cutting off the
feet, sending words by the hand of the
foolish one.

7 The legs of the lame were weak,
and a parable in the mouth of the fool-
ish.

8 As a bundle ‘of stones in a heap of

rstones, so he giving honor to the fool-

ish one.

9 A thorn going up into the hand of
a drunkard, a parable in the mouth of
the foolish.

10 The great one piercing all, and he
hired the foolish one, and those passing
by.

11 Asa dog turned back upon his
vomit, the foolish one repeated in his
folly.

12 Sawest thou a man wise in his
eyes? hope is for the foolish one more
than for him.

13 The slothful one said, A lion in
the way; a lion between the broad
places.

14 A door will turn upon its hinge,
and the slothful upon his bed.

15 The slothful one hid his hand in
the dish ; he was weary to turn it back
to his mouth.

16 The slothful one is wise in his eyes
more than seven turning back a rea-
son.

17 Laying hold upon the ears of a
dog, he passing by overflowing upon
strife not to him.

18 As a madman casting fiery darts,
arrows and death,

19 So the man deceiving his neighbor
and saying, Am I not sporting?

20 In the ceasing of wood, fire will
go out: and in not being a tale-bearer,
strife will subside.

21 As charcoal to burning coals and

woods to fire, and a man of strifes to
kindle strife. ,

29 The words of a tale-bearer as
dainty morsels, and they will go down
to the chambers of the belly.

23 Silver dross covering over a pot-
sherd, burning lips and an evil heart.

24 He hating will be known by his
lips, and he will set deceit in his midst ;

28 When his voice will compassion-
ate, thou shalt not believe him, for seven
abominations in his heart.

26 Hatred will be covered by deceit,
his evil will be revealed in the convo-
cation.

27 He digging a pit shell fall into it:
and he rolling a stone it shall turn back
upon him.

28 A tongue of falsehood will hate its
crushing, and a smooth mouth will
make an overthrow.

CHAPTER XXVIL
HOU shalt not boast upon the day
of the morrow, for thou shalt not
know what a day shall bring forth.

2 A stranger shall praise thee, and not
thy mouth ; astranger, and not thy lips.

3 A stone is heavy and sand a bur-
den, and the wrath of the foolish one
heavy more than they two.

4 Wrath is cruelty, and anger an
overflowing; and who shall stand be-
fore jealousy ?

5 Naked rebuke is good above secret
love.

6 Faithful the wounds of a friend;
and abundant the kisses of an enemy.

7 The full soul will tread down the
honey droppings, and to the hungry soul
all bitter is sweet.

8 As the bird wandering from her
nest, 80 18 a man wandering from his

lace.

9 Oil and incense will rejoice the
heart: and the sweetness from his
friend from the counsel of the soul.

10 Thy friend and thy father’s friend
thou shalt not forsake; and thou shalt
not go to thy brother’s house in the
day of thy calamity: good he dwelling
near, more than a brother far off.

11 My son, be wise and gladden my
heart, and I will turn back word to him
reproaching me.

PROVERBS XXVIL, XXVIII

12 The prudent one saw the evil, he
hid himself; the simple passed and
were punished.

13 Take his garment pledging a
stranger, and bind him by a pledge for
a strange woman.

14 He blessing his friend with a great
voice, rising early in the morning, a
curse shall be reckoned to him.

15 A dropping thrust forth in the day
of rain and a woman of strifes were
alike.

16 He hiding her, hid the wind, and
he shall call the oil of his right hand.

17 Iron will sharpen upon iron ; and a
man will sharpen the face of his friend.

18 He guarding the fig tree shall eat
its fruit: and he watching his lord shall
be honored. ,

19 As in water, face to face, so the
heart of man to man.

20 Hades and destruction shall not
be satisfied ; and the eyes of man shall
not be satisfied.

21 The crucible for silver, and the
furnace for gold, and a man to the
mouth praising him,

22 If thou shalt pound the foolish in
a mortar in the midst of the grain with
a pestle, thou shalt not remove from
him his folly.

23 Knowing, thou shalt know the
face of thy flock; set thy heart to thy
herds.

24 For not strength forever, and not
consecration to generation and genera-
tion.

25 The grass was uncovered and the
young herbage was seen, and the green
plants of the mountains were gathered.

26 Lambs for thy clothing, and the
he goats the price of the field.

27 And enough of goats’ milk for
thy bread, and for the bread of thy
house, and the life of thy girls.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
es unjust fled and none pursuing,
and the just shall be confident as
the young hon.

2 In the transgression of a land many
its chiefs: and by a man understanding
to know, the place shall be extended.

8 A poor man oppressing the poor, a
sweeping rain and no bread.

PROVERBS XXIX.

4 They forsaking the law will praise

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22 A man of evil eye hasted for

the unjust: and they watching the law, | riches, and knew not that want shall

shall contend with them.

5 Men of evil shall not understand
judgment: and they seeking Jehovah
shall understand all.

6 Good the poor one going in his in-
tegrity above him perverting the ways,
and he the rich.

7 He watching the law a son under-
standing: and the companion of squan-
derers will shame his father.

8 He increasing by interest and usu-
ry, he shall gather 15 for him compas-
slonating the poor.

9 He turning away his ear from hear-
ing the law, also his prayer is an abomi-
nation.

10 He causing the upright to wander
in an evil way, into his pit shall he fall:
and the good shall inherit complete
things.

11 The rich man is wise in his eyes,
and the poor one understanding shall
search him out.

12 In the rejoicing of the just, much
glory: in the rising up of the unjust,
man will hide himself.

18 He covering his transgression shall
not prosper: but he confessing and for-
saking, shall be eompassionated.

14 Happy the man fearimg always:
and he hardening his heart shall fall
into evil.

15 A roaring lion and a greedy bear
τῷ unjust one ruling over a poor peo-

6
1 16 A prince wanting understanding
and great in oppressions: he hating
gain shall lengthen the days.

17 He terrifying violence upon the
blood of a soul shall flee even to the
pit; none shall hold fast upon him.

18 He going uprightly shall be saved ;
and he being violent in the ways shall
fall at once.

19 He working his land shall be fill-
ed with bread: and he pursuing the
vain shall be filled with poverty.

20 A man of faithfulness multiplied
blessings: and he hasting to be rich
shall not be innocent.

21 To look upon faces is not good:
and for a morsel of bread the man will
transgress,

come upon him.

238 He reproving a man, afterwards
shall find favor more than he smooth-
ing the tongue.

24 He stripping his father and his
mother, and saying, No transgression ;
is companion to a man destroying,

25 He enlarging the soul shall excite
strife: and he trusting upon Jehovah
shall be made fat.

26 He trusting in his heart is foolish:
and he going in wisdom shall be deliy-
ered.

27 He giving to the poor wants not:
and he hiding his eyes increased curses.

28 In the rising up of the unjust,
man shall hide: and in their perishing,
the just shall increase.

CHAPTER XXIX.
MAN of reproofs hardening the -
neck, shall be suddenly broken,
and no healing.

2 In the increasing of the just the
people will rejoice: and in the rul-
ing of the unjust one, the people will
groan.

3 A man loving wisdom will gladden
his father: and he feeding harlots shall
destroy riches.

4 A king in judgment shall establish
the land: and a man of presents shall
overthrow it.

5 A man making smooth against his
neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

6 In the transgression of an evil man
is a snare: and the just one shall re-
joice and be glad.

7 The just one knew the judgement
of the poor: the unjust one will not
understand knowledge.

8 Men of derision will kindle up a
city: and the wise will turn away
anger.

9 A wise man contending with a
foolish man, and raging and laughing,
and no rest.

10 Men of bloods will hate the up-
right one: and the upright will seelx
his soul.

11 The foolish one will bring forth
all his spirit: and the wise one will re-
strain it back.

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12 A ruler listening to the word of

falsehood, all serving him are unjust.

13 The poor one and the man of op-
pressions met together: Jehovah en-
lightening the eyes of them both.

14 The king judging the poor in
truth, his throne shall be established
for a testimony.

15 The rod and reproofs will give
wisdom: and the youth being left
shames his mother.

16 In increasing the unjust, trans-
gression will increase: and the just
shall look upon their fall.

17 Correct thy son and he shall cause
thee to rest, and he shall give delight to
thy soul.

18 In no vision the people shall be
unruly : and he watching the law, hap-
py is he.

19 A servant will not be corrected by
words: for he will understand and not
answer.

20 Thou sawest a man hasty in his
words: hope to the foolish one more
than to him.

21 He bringing up his servant deli-
eately from youth, and his latter state
will be a child.

22 A man of anger will excite strife,
and the possessor of wrath increased
transgression.

23 A man’s pride shall bring him
low: and honor shall uphold him hum-
ble of spirit.

24 He dividing with a thief, hates
his soul: he shall hear cursing and
shall not announce.

25 The fear of man will give a snare:
and he trusting in Jehovah shall be
exalted.

26 Many are seeking the face of the
ruler, and from Jehovah a man’s judg-
ment.

27 A man of iniquity is an abomina-
tion of the just; and the upright of
way, an abomination of the unjust one.

CHAPTER .אאא‎
HE words of Agur, son οἵ Jakeh :
the lifting up: the declaration of
the man to Ithiel; to Ithiel and Ueal:
2 For I am brutish more than man,
and not the understanding of a man
to me,

PROVERBS XXX.

31 learnt not wisdom, and [ shall
not know the knowledge of the holy.

4 Who went up to the heavens, and
came down? who gathered the wind in
his fists? who bound the waters in a
garment ? who set up all the ends of
the earth ? what his name and what his
son’s name, if thou shalt know ?

5 All the word of God is purified:
he a shield to those trusting in him.

6 Thou shalt not add to his words
lest he reprove in thee, and thou wert
false.

7 Two things I asked from thee,
thou wilt not withhold from me before
1 shall die:

8 Vanity and the word of falsehood
remove far from me; thou wilt not give
to me poverty and riches; feed me with
bread of my allowance :

9 Lest I shall be filled and I spake
lies, and said, Who is Jehovah? and
lest I shall be dispossessed and I stole,
and I laid hold upon the name of God.

10 Thou shalt not slander the ser-
vant to his lord lest he shall curse thee,
and thou wert guilty.

11 A generation will curse its father,
and will not bless its mother.

12 A generation pure in its eyes, and
not washed from its finding.

18 A generation, how its eyes were
raised up! and its eyelashes will be lift-
ed up.

14 A generation, its teeth swords,
and its biter’s teeth, knives, to devour
the poor from the land, and the needy
from man.

15 To the leech two daughters: Give,
give. Behold, three shall not satisfied ;
four shall not say, Wealth :

16 Hades ; and the closed womb; the
earth not filled with water; and fire
said not, Wealth.

17 The eye shall mock to his father,
and despise to obey the mother, the ra-
vens of the valley shall bore it out. and
the sons of the eagle shall eat it.

18 They three were wonderful above
me; and four, I knew them not:

19 The way of the eagle in the heay-
ens; the way of the serpent upon the
rock; the way of the ship in the heart
of the sea; and the way of a man with
a maid,

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20 So the way of a woman commit-|is prescribed, and change the judgment
ting adultery; eating and wiping her] of all the sons of affliction.

mouth, and saying, 1 transgressed not.

21 For three the earth was moved,
and for four, which it shall not be able
to lift up:

22 Fora servant when he shall reign ;
and the foolish one when he shall be
filled with bread ;

23 For a hated woman when she
shall be married ; and a maid when she
shall inherit to her mistress.

24 They four the small of the earth,
and they are wise, being made wise :

25 The ants a people not strong, and
they will prepare their bread in the sum-
mer ;

26 The rabbits a people not strong,
and they will set their house in the
rock ;

27 To the locust no king, and it will
₪0 forth divided all of them;

28 The lizard will take hold with
their hands, and it is in the temples of
the king.

29 They three making good the step,
and four, making good to go:

30 The lion strong among cattle, and
he will not turn back from the face
of all;

31 One girded in loins, or a he goat;
and a king, no rising up with him.

32 If thou wert foolish in lifting up
thyself, and if thou purposed, the hand
to the mouth.

33 For the pressure of milk will
bring forth cheese, and the pressure of
the nose will bring forth blood: and
the pressure of wrath will bring forth
contention.

CHAPTER 1.
HE words of Lemuel the king, the
lifting up which his mother will
instruct him.

2 What, my son? and what the son
of my womb? and what the son of my
vows?

3 Thou shalt not give thy strength
to women, and thy ways to the destroy-
ing of kings.

4 Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for
kings to drink wine, and for princes the
desire of strong drink:

5 Lest he shall drink and forget what

6 Ye shall give strong drink to him
perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul.

7 He shall drink and forget his pov-
erty, and shall no more remember his
toil.

8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, for
the judgment of all the sons of the sur-
viving.

9 Open thy mouth; judge justly,
and contend for the poor and needy.

10 Who shall find a woman of vir-
tue? for her price is far above pearls.

11 The heart of her husband trusted
in her, and he shall not want spoil.

12 She rewarded him good and not
evil all the days of her life.

18 She sought wool and flax, and
she will work in delight with her hands.

14 She was as the ships of the mer-
chant; from far off she will bring her
bread.

15 She will rise while yet night, and
she will give food to her house, and a
portion to her girls.

16 She purposed a field, and he will
take it: from the fruit of her hands
she planted a vineyard.

17 She girded her loins with strength,
and she will strengthen her arms.

18 She tasted that her traffic is good :
her light will not go out by night.

19 She sent forth her hands upon the
spindle, and her hands take hold of the
whirl.

20 She spread forth her hands to the
poor, and sent forth her hands to the
needy.

21 She will not fear for her house
from snow, for all her house put on
double.

22 She made for herself coverings ;
byssus and purple her clothing.

23 Her husband was known in the
gates, in his sitting with the old men
of the land.

24 She made the under garment, and
she will sell; and she gave a girdle to
the Canaanite.

25 Strength and ornament her cloth-
ing; and she will laugh to the last day.

26 She opened her mouth in wisdom,
and the law of mercy upon her tongue.

27 She viewed the goings of her

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house, and the bread of sloth she will
not eat.

JOB 1.

30 Fayor a falsehood, and beauty
vanity: a woman fearing Jehoyah, she

28 Her sons rose up and they will|shall be praised.

call her happy; her husband, and he
will praise her.

81 Ye shall give her from the fruit
of her hands, and her works shall praise.

29 Many daughters did virtue, and|her in the gates.

thou wentest up over all of them.

JOB.

CHAPTER 1.
MAN was in the land of Uz,
Job his name; and that man
was blameless and upright, and fearing
God, and departing from evil.

2 And seven sons and three daugh-
ters will be born to him.

8 And his possession will be seven
thousand sheep, and three thousand
camels, and five hundred pair of oxen,
and five hundred she asses, and service
exceedingly much; and that man shall
be great above all the sons of the east.

4 And his sons went and made a
drinking in the house, a man his day ;
and they sent and called for their three
sisters to eat and drink with them.

5 And it will be that the days of
drinking went round, and Job will send
and consecrate them, and he rose early
in the morning and brought up burnt-
offerings for the number of them all:
for Job said, Perhaps my sons sinned,
and blessed God in their hearts. Thus
did Job all the days.

6 And the day will be and the sons
of God will come to stand before God,
and also the adversary will come in the
midst of them.

7 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, From whence wilt thou come?
And the adversary will answer Jeho-
vah, and say, From running to and fro
in the earth, and from walking about

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8 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, Didst thou set thy heart to my
servant Job? for none like him in the
earth ; a man blameless and upright,
fearing God and departing from evil.

9 And the adversary will answer Je-
hovah and say, Did Job fear God gra-
tuitously ?

10 Didst thou not hedge about him
and about his house, and about all that
is to him from round about? Thou
didst bless the work of his hands, and
his possession spread abroad in the
earth.

11 But send forth now thy hand and
touch upon all which is to him, if he
will not bless thee upon thy face.

12 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, Behold, all that is to him in
thy hand: only upon him thou shalt
not send forth thy hand. And the ad-
versary will go forth from the face of
Jehoyah.

13 And the day will be and his sons
and daughters will be eating and drink-
ing wine in the house of their brother,
the first-born :

14 And a messenger came to Job,
and he will say, The oxen were plough-
ing, and the she asses were feeding up-
on their hands, -

15 And Sheba will fall and take
them; they struck the young men by
the mouth of the sword; and only I
shall escape, I alone, to announce to
thee.

16 This one yet speaking, and this
came, and he will say, The fire of God
fell from the heavens, and it will burn
upon the sheep and upon the young
men, and it will devour them; and I
shall escape, only I alone, to announce
to thee.

17 This one yet speaking, and this
came, and he will say, The Chaldeans

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set three heads, and they invaded upon
the camels, and they will take them,
and they struck the young men with
the mouth of the sword; and I shall
escape, only I alone, to announce to
thee.

18 This yet speaking, and this came,
and he will say, Thy sons and thy
daughters were eating מה‎ drinking
wine in the house of their brother, the
first-born :

19 And behold, a great wind came
from beyond the desert, and it will
touch upon the four corners of the
house, and fall upon the young men,
and they will die; and I shall escape,
I only, to announce to thee.

20 And Job will rise and rend his
covering, and shave his head, and fall
to the earth and worship.

21 And he will say, Naked I came
forth from my mother's womb, and
naked shall I turn back there: Jeho-
vah gave, and Jehovah took away ; the
name of Jehovah shall be blessed.

22 In all this Job sinned not, and
gave not folly to God.

CHAPTER IT.
ND the day will be and the sons
of God will come to stand before
Jehovah, and the adversary also will
come in the midst of them to stand be-
fore Jehovah.

2 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, From whence wilt thou come?
And the adversary will answer to Je-
hovah and say, From running to and
fro in the earth, and from walking
about in it.

3 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, Didst thou set thy heart to my
servant Job, that none like him in the
earth, a man blameless and upright,
fearing God and departing from evil?
And yet he holding fast upon his integ-
rity, and thou wilt stimulate me to de-
stroy him without cause.

4 And the adversary will answer Je-
hovah and say, Skin for skin, and all
which is to a man he will give for his
soul. -

5 But send forth now thy hand and
touch upon his bone and upon his flesh,
if he will not bless thee to thy face.

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6 And Jehovah will say to the ad-
versary, Behold him in thy hand, but
watch his soul.

7 And the adversary will go forth
from the face of Jehovah, and he will
strike Job with an evil burning sore,
from the sole of his foot even to his
crown.

8 And he will take to him ἃ pot-
sherd to scrape himself with it, and he
will sit in the midst of the ashes.

9 And his wife will say to him, Yet
thou art holding fast upon thine integ-
rity : praise God and die.

10 And he will say to her, Accord-
ing to the word of one of the foolish
women thou wilt speak. Shall we also
receive good from God, and shall we
not receive evil? In all this Job sin-
ned not with his lips.

11 And the three friends of Job will
hear all this evil coming upon him, and
they will come, a man from his place:
Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the
Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite:
and they will appoint to come together
to deplore for him, and to comfort
him.

12 And they will lift up their eyes
from far off, and they knew him not,
and they will lift up their voice and
weep ; and they will rend each his coy-
ering, and they will sprinkle dust upon
their heads to the heavens.

13 And they sat with him upon the
earth seven days and seven nights, and
none spake a word to him: for they saw
that grief was great exceedingly.

CHAPTER III.
FTER this Job opened his mouth,
and he will curse his day.

2 Job will answer and say,

8 The day shall perish I shall bring
forth in it, and the night said, A male
was conceived.

4 That day shall be darkness; God
shall not search it out from above, and
the light shall not shine upon it.

5 Darkness shall pollute it, and the
shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell
upon it; the obscurations of day shall
terrify it. ‘

6 That night darkness shall take it;
it shall not be joined upon the days af

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the year; it shall not come into the
number of months.

7 Behold, that night shall be hard;
no rejoicing shall be in it.

8 They eursing the day shall curse
it, they being ready to rouse up the sea
monster.

9 The stars of its twilight shall be
dark; it shall wait for light, and none;
and it shall not look upon the eyelashes
of the dawn.

10 Because it shut not up the doors
of my belly; and shall it hide the la-
bor of mine eyes?

11 Wherefore shall I not die from
the womb? and 1 came forth from the
belly, and I shall expire.

12 Why did the knees anticipate me?
and wherefore the breasts that I shall
suck ?

13 For now I lay down and I shall
rest; I slept: then there will be rest
to me.

14 With kings and counselors of the
earth building the wastes for them-
selves ;

15 Or with chiefs, gold to them, fill-
ing their houses with silver:

16 Or as a hidden abortion I shall not
be; as children they saw not light.

17 There the unjust ceased to be an-
gry, and the weary in strength shall
rest.

18 They being bound, rested together ;
they heard not the voice of the task-
master. :

19 The little and the great, he is
there; and the servant being free from
his Jord.

20 Wherefore shall hght. be given to
him toiling, and life to the bitter, of
soul ?

21 Waiting for death, and it is not;
and they will dig more than for hidden
treasures ;

22 Rejoicing with joy when they find
the grave ;

.23 To a man whose way was hid,
and God will hedge about him?

24 For my sighing will come before
my bread, and my groanings shall be
poured out as waters.

25 For I feared a fear, and it will
come upon me, and what 1 was afraid
of will come to me.

JOB IV.

26 I was not secure, and I rested not,
and I was not quiet; and trouble will
come.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Eliphaz the Temanite will
answer and say,

2 Trying the word to thee shalt thou
be weary? who shall be able to with-
hold in speaking? :

3 Behold, thou didst instruct nrany,
and thou wilt strengthen the weak
hands.

4 Thy words will raise up the weak,
and thou wilt strengthen the bent knees.

5 But now it shall come to thee and
thou wilt be wearied; it will touch
even to thee, and thou wilt tremble.

6 Is not thy fear, thy confidence, thy
hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

7 Remember now, who perished, he
being innocent? and where were the
upright cut off?

8 According to what I saw, they
ploughing iniquity and sowing labor
shall reap it. :

9 By the breath of God: they shall
perish, and from the spirit of his anger
they shall be finished.

10 The roaring of the lion, and the
voice of the lion, and the teeth of the
young lions were broken.

11 The lion perished from failure of
rey, and the sons of the lioness shall
e scattered.

12 And a word shall be brought to
me by stealth, and mine ear will take a
transient sound from it.

13 In thoughts from visions of the
night, in the falling of deep sleep upon
men, ]

14 Fear met me, and trembling, and
caused the multitude of my bones to
tremble.

15 And the spirit will glide before
my face; the hair 0] my flesh will stand
erect :

16 It will stand, and I shall not ree-
ognize its appearance: a form before
mine eyes; I shall hear stillness and a
voice :

17 Shall a man be just above God?
If a man shall be pure above him mak-
ing him?

18 Behold, in his servants he will not

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trust, and upon his messengers he will
set folly :

19 Also those dwelling in houses of
clay which their foundation in 6
dust, being crushed before the moth.

20 From morning to evening they
will be struck; from not setting to su-
perintend they will perish.

21 Did not their remainder in them
remove? They will die, and not in
wisdom.

CHAPTER V.
ALL now, if there is answering
thee; and to whom from the holy
ones wilt thou turn?

2 For to the foolish, and anger will
slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.

3 I saw the foolish one taking 5%
and suddenly I shall curse his habita-
tion.

4 His sons shall be far from salvation,
and they shall be crushed in the gate,
and none delivering.

5 Which his harvest the hungry one
will devour, and not from thorns shall
they take it, and destruction gaped after
their substance.

6 For toil will not come forth from
the dust, and labor will not spring up
from the earth ;

7 For man shall be born to labor as
the sons of the flame will lift wp to fly.

8 But I will seek to God, and to God
set my cause:

9 He did great things, and no search-
ing; and wonders even no number:

10 He gave rain upon the face of the
earth, and sent waters upon the out
places :

11 To raise up the humbled to height ;
and those mourning were exalted to
salvation.

12 Bringing to nought the purposes
of the crafty, and their hand shall not
do an undertaking.

13 He took the wise in their crafti-
néss, and the counsel of the perverse
was headlong.

14 The days they will meet darkness,
Ta pal will grope in the noon day as
night.

ὅδ And he saved the needy from the
sword, from their mouth and from the
hand of the strong one.

16 And hope will be to the poor one,
and iniquity contracted her mouth.

17 Behold, happy the man God shall
rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject
the correction of the Almighty :

18 For he will cause pain, and he
will bind up: -he will smite and his
hands will heal.

19 In six straits he will deliver thee,
and in seven, evil shall not touch upon
thee.

20 In famine he redeemed thee from
death, and in war from the hands of
the sword.

21 In the scourge of the tongue thou
shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be
afraid of desolation when it shall come.

22 At desolation and at hunger thou
shalt laugh, and from the beasts of the
earth thou shalt not fear.

28 For with the stones of the field
they covenant, and the beast of the
field was at peace with thee.

24 And thou knewest that thy tent
is peace, and thou reviewedst thy
dwelling, and thou shalt not sin.

25 And thou knewest the multitude
of thy seed, and thine offspring as the
grass of the earth.

26 Thou shalt come in old age to thy
grave, as the ascending of a heap of
sheaves in its time.

27 Behold this, we searched it out,
so it is: hear it, and know thou for thy-
self.

CHAPTER VL

\ ND Job will answer and say,

21 would weighing, my anger
shall be ‘weighed, and my falls shall be
lifted up in the balances together.

3 For now it will be heavy above the
sand of the seas: for this my words
were rash.

4 For the arrows of the Almighty
are with me, which their anger drank
up my spirit: the terrors of God will
be prepared for me.

5 Shall the wild ass bray at grass?
if the ox will low over his provender?

6 Shall that unseasoned be eaten
without salt? if there is taste in pur-
slain slime?

7 My soul refused to touch thesé as
the loathsomeness of my bread.

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JOB

8 Who will give my asking shall
come? and will God give my expecta-
tion ?

9 And God will, and he will crush
me; will he let his hand remain, and
will he cut me off ?

10 And it will yet be my consola-
tion, and I shall exult in pain: he will
not spare; for I hid not the words of
of the Holy One.

11 For what my strength that I shall
wait? and what my end, that I shall
prolong my soul?

19 If my strength the strength of
stones? if my flesh of brass?

13 And if not my help in me? and
deliverance fled from me?

14 To him melting, mercy from his
friend; and he will forsake the fear of
the Almighty.

15 My brethren dealt faithlessly as a
torrent; as a channel of torrents they
shall pass away ;

16 Being darkened because of ice,
upon them the snow will be hid:

17 In the time they will flow off they
became extinct: in its heat they were
extinguished from their place.

18 The paths of their way will turn
aside ; they will go up into desolation
and perish.

19 Behold the paths of Tema; the
goings of Sheba, wait ye for them.

20 They were ashamed for trusting ;
they came even to it, they will be put
to shame.

21 For now ye were not: ye shall
see the terror and be afraid.

22 For did I say, Give to me? and
from your strength make ye a present
for me?

23 And deliver me from the hand of
the enemy? and from the hand of the
strong ye shall redeem me?

24 Teach ye me, and I will be silent:
and what I erred in, cause me to under-
stand.

25 How forcible were words of up-
rightness! and what will reproving
from you prove?

26 Will ye purpose to reprove words,
and for the spirit of the words of him
despairing ?

27 But ye will cause the orphans to
fall, and ye will dig for your friend.

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28 And now be content, look upon
me ; and before your face if I shall ke.

29 Turn ye back now, it shall not be
iniquity ; and turn back yet, my justice
18 1n it.

30 Is there iniquity in my tongue?
if'my palate shall not understand cal-
amities.

CHAPTER VII.
15 there not warfare to man upon the
earth, and his days as the days of a
hireling ?

2 As the servant will gape for the
shadow, and as the hireling will wait
for his work:

3 So was I caused to possess to me
months of vanity, and nights of toil
were allotted to me.

4 If I lay down, and I said, When
shall I arise, and the evening be meas-
ured? And I was filled with tossings
even to the twilight.

5 And my flesh was clothed with
worms, and a clod of dust; my skin
was contracted and melted away.

6 My days were swift above a weay-
er’s shuttle, and will finish with no
more of hope.

7 Remember that my life is wind:
amine eyes shall not turn back to see
good.

8 The eye of him seeing me shall not
look after me: thine eyes are upon me,
and I am not.

9 The cloud will end and will go
away: thus he shall go down to hades
and shall not come up.

10 He shall turn back no more to his
house, and his place shall know him no
more.

11 Also I will not restrain my
mouth; I will speak in the straitness
of my spirit; I will complain in the
bitterness of my soul.

12 Am I the sea, or a dragon, that
thou wilt set a watch over me?

13 For I said, My bed shall comfort
me; my couch shall lift up in my com-
plaint ;

14 And thou didst terrify me with
dreams, and thou wilt make me afraid
with visions:

15 And my soul will choose stran-
gling; death rather than my bones.

JOB VIII, IX.

16 1 melted away; I shall not live
forever: desist from me, for my days
are vanity.

17 What is man that thou wilt mag-
nify him? and that thou wilt set thy
heart to him?

18 And thou wilt review him for the
mornings, and thou wilt try him for the
moments.

19 How long wilt thou not look away
from me? wilt thou not desist from me
even to my swallowing down my spittle ?

20 1 sinned; what shall I do to thee,
guarding men? wherefore didst: thou
set me for an assault to thee, and I shall
be upon myself for a burden?

21 And why wilt thou not lift up my
transgression and pass over mine imi-
quity? for now I shall lie down to the
dust ; and thou soughtest me and I was
not.

CHAPTER VIII.

]
ND Bildad the Shuhite will an-

swer and say,

2 How long wilt thou speak these
things? and the great spirit of the
words of thy mouth?

3 Will God pervert judgment? and
if the Almighty will pervert justice ?

4 If thy sons sinned to him, and he
will send them away by the hand of
their transgression ;

5 If thou shalt seek to God, if thou
shalt make supplication to him ;

6 If thou wert pure and upright, for
now he will awake for thee and requite
the habitation of thy justice.

7 And thy beginning was small, and
thy latter state shall increase greatly.

8 For ask now to the first generation,
and prepare to seek their fathers :

9 (For yesterday are we and we shall
not know, for our days upon earth are
a shadow: )

10 Shall they not teach thee, and say
to thee, and bring forth words from
their heart ?

11 Shall the bulrush lift itself up
without a marsh? shall the marsh grass
grow without water?

12 While yet in its greenness it shall
not break off, and it will dry up before
all grass.

13 So the paths of all forgetting God:

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and the hope of the profane one shall
perish.

14 Which his hope shall be cut off,
and the spider’s house his trust.

15 He shall lean upon his house and
it shall not stand: he shall hold fast
upon it, and it shall not rise up.

16 It was moist before the sun, and its
sprout will come forth upon his garden.

17 His roots were entwined upon a
heap, he shall see a house of stones.

18 If he should swallow him down
from his place, and it lied upon it: I
saw thee not.

19 Behold, this the rejoicing of his
way, and from the dust shall they cause
another to grow.

20 Behold, God will not reject the
blameless one, and he will not take hold
upon the hand of those doing evil :

21 Till he shall fill thy mouth with
laughing, and thy lips with shouts of
oy.

Bo They hating thee shall put on
shame; and the tent of the unjust shall
not be.

CHAPTER IX.
ND Job will answer and say,
2 I knew that so the truth: and
how shall man be just with God?

3 If he shall desire to contend with
him, he shall not answer him one from
a thousand.

4 Wise of heart and strong of power:
who was hard before him and shall be
requited ?

5 Removing the mountains and they
knew not: who overturned them in his
anger ;

6 Moving the earth from her place,
and her pillars will tremble ;

7 Saying to the sun, and it shall not
rise; and for the stars he will seal them
up;

8 He alone spread out the heavens,
and he trod upon the heights of the sea.

9 He made Ash-Chesil and Cimah,
and the chambers of the south ;

10 He did great things even not
searched out; and wonders even no
number.

11 Behold, he will pass by me, and I
shall not see: and he will glide on and
I shall not understand for him.

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12 Behold, he will catch and who
shall turn him? and who shall say to
him, What wilt thou do?

18 God will not turn back his anger,
the helpers of pride bowed down under
him.

14 How much less shall I answer
him, shall IT choose my words with him?

15 Whom, if I was just, I shall not
answer; I will make supplication to my
judge.

16 If I 681160 and he will answer me,
I shall not believe that he will give ear
to my voice.

17 Who will assail me with tempest,
and he multiplied my wounds without
cause.

18 He will not give me to draw in my
spirit, for he will fill me with bitterness.

19 If for strength, behold him strong :
if for judgment, who shall arraign me?

20 If I shall be just, my mouth shall
condemn me: I am blameless, and he
will declare me perverse.

21 I am blameless, I shall not know
my soul: I shall despise my life.

22 It is one: for this, 1 said, The
blameless one and the unjust one he
finishes.

23 If the scourge shall fall suddenly,
he will deride at the trial of the imno-
cent.

24 The earth was given into the hand
of the unjust one: he will cover the
faces of her judges; if not now, who
is it?

25 My days were swift above a run-
ner: they fled, they saw not good.

26 They glided along with the ships
of desire: as the eagle will pounce
upon food.

27 If my saying, I will forget my
complaint, I will let go my face, and I
will be cheerful :

281 was afraid of all my pains, I
knew that thou wilt not acquit me.

29 Shall I do evil, wherefore this shall
ך‎ labor in vain?

30 If I washed myself in snow-water,
and cleansed my hands clean ;

31 Then thou wilt immerse me in the
ditch, and my garments abhorred me.

82 For not a man 88 1; 1 shall an-
swer him, we shall come together in
judgment.

JOB X.

33 There is not between us a reprov-
er; he will put his hand upon us two,

34 He will take away his rod from
me, and his truth shall not make me
afraid.

35 I will speak, and I shall not fear
him; but not so am I with myself.

CHAPTER X.
\ [ Y soul was weary in my life; I

shall 16806 upon me my com-‏ ו
plaint; I shall speak in the bitterness‏
of my soul.‏

2 Saying to God, Thou wilt not -ת00‎
demn me; make known to me for what
thou wilt contend with me.

8 Is it good to thee that thou wilt
oppress, that thou wilt despise the la-
bor of thy hands, and thou didst shine
upon the counsels of the unjust ?

4 Were eyes of flesh to thee? or wilt ἡ
thou see as man saw ?

5 Are thy days as man’s days? or
thy years as the days of man?

6 That thou wilt seek for mine
iniquity, and wilt search out for my
sins ?

7 Upon thy knowledge that I will
not do evil; and none delivering from
thy hand.

8 Thy hands formed me, and they
will work me together round about ; and
thou wilt swallow me down.

9 Remember now, thou didst make
me as day; and thou wilt turn me back
to dust.

10 Wilt thou not weigh me out as
milk, and coagulate me as cheese?

11 Thou wilt clothe me with skin and
flesh, and thou wilt hedge me with
bones and sinews.

12 Thou didst with me life and mer-
ey, and thy reyiewing watched my
spirit.

13 And these thou didst hide in thy
heart: I knew that this is with thee.

14 If I sinned, and thou didst watch
me, and thou wilt not acquit me from
mine iniquity.

15 If I did evil, wo to me; and was
I just, I shall not lift up my head, be-
ing filled with dishonor; and sce thou
mine affliction ;

16 And shall it be lifted up? Thou
wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt

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turn back, thou wilt show thyself won-
derful upon me.

17 Thou wilt renew thy testimonies
before me, and thou wilt increase thy
wrath upon me; changes and war with

me.

18 And wherefore didst thou bring
me forth from the belly? I shall ex-
pire, and eye shall not see me.

19 I shall be as I was not; I shall
be brought from the womb to the
grave.

20 Is it not my days few? He will
cease; he will turn from me, and 1
shall be cheerful a little,

21 Before I shall go and turn back
to the land of darkness and the shadow
of death ;

22 A land of darkness, as thick dark-
ness; of the shadow of death, and not
orders, and the brightness, פה‎ thick
darkness.

CHAPTER XI.
ND Zophar the Naamathite will
answer and say,

2 Shall not the multitude of words
be answered? and shall a man of lips
be justified ?

8 Shall thy empty talks cause men
to be silent? and wilt thou deride and
none making ashamed ?

4 And thou wilt say, My instruction
is pure, and [ was clean in thine eyes.

5 And who will give God speaking,
and he will open his lips with thee ?

6 And he shall announce to thee hid-
den things of wisdom, for they are the
double for understanding. And know
thou that God will set to thee from
thine iniquity.

7 Searching shalt thou find God?
Shalt thou find the Almighty even to
completeness ?

8 The heavens being high, what wilt
thou do? Hades being deep, what wilt
thou know?

9 Its measure long above the earth,
and broad above the sea.

10 If he shall pass on; and shut up,
and gather together, who shall turn
him back.

11 For he knew men of vanity, and
he will see iniquity; and will he not
understand ?

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12 And man being empty will be
without heart: and man.will be born a
wild ass’s colt.

13 If thou preparedst thy heart, and
didst spread thy hands towards him ;

14 If iniquity in thy hand, remove it
far off, and wickedness shall not dwell
in thy tents.

15 For then thou shalt lift up thy
face from spot; and thou wert firm,
and thou shalt not fear:

16 For thou shalt forget toil, thou
shalt remember as waters they passed
away.

17 And life shall rise above the noon-
day: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt
be as the morning.

18 And thou didst trust, for there is
hope; and thou didst search out; thou
shalt lie down confidently.

19 And thou shalt lie down and none
terrifying; and many waited for thy
face.

20 And the eyes of the unjust shall
be consumed, and flight shall perish
from them, and their hope a breathing
out of the soul.

CHAPTER XII.
ND Job will answer and say,
2 Verily that ye are the people,
and shall wisdom die with you?

3 Also to me a heart like you; I fall
not more than you: and with whom
not like these ?

4 I shall be he laughing at his neigh-
bor, calling to God, and he will answer
him: the just blameless one being
laughed at.

5 To misfortune is contempt to the
thoughts of him at ease, being prepared
for the waverings of the foot.

6 The tents to those oppressing will
be secure, and confidence to those pro-
voking God to anger: whom God will
bring into his hand.

7 But ask now the beasts and they
shall teach thee; and the birds of the
heavens, and they shall announce to
thee :

8 Or speak to the earth and it shall
teach thee; and the fishes of the sea
shall recount to thee.

9 Who knew not in all these that the
hand of God did this ?

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10 Which in his hand the soul of all
living, and the spirit of all the flesh of
man.

11 Shall not the ear try words? and
the palate shall taste food to it?

12 With old men is wisdom, and
length of days, understanding.

13 With him wisdom and strength,
to him counsel and understanding.

14 Behold, he will pull down and it
shall not be built up: he will shut up
against man and it shall not be opened.

15 Behold, he will hold back upon
the waters, and they will dry up: and
he will send them forth and they will
overturn the earth,

16 With him strength and purpose:
to him the one led astray and him lead-
ing astray.

17 Leading away counselors stripped
off, and he will make foolish the judges.

18 He loosed the bonds of kings, and
he will gird upon their loins a girdle.

19 Leading away priests stripped off,
and he will overthrow the mighty.

20 Remoying the lip to the faithful,
and he will take discernment of old men.

21 Proving contempt upon nobles,
and he slackened the girdle of the
strong.

22 Revealing deep things from dark-
ness, and he will bring to hght the shad-
ow of death,

23 Making great to the nations, and
he will destroy them: he spread out to
the nations, and he will guide them.

24 Taking away the heart of the
heads of the people of the earth, and he
will cause them to wander in a waste,
not a way.

25 They will feel darkness and not
light, and he will cause them to wander
as one intoxicated.

CHAPTER XIIT.
Be all mine eye saw, and
mine ear heard, and it will under-

stand for it.

2 According to your knowledge I
knew also: I fall not more than you,

ὃ But I will speak to the Almighty ;
I shall delight to plead before God.

4 And on the contrary, ye deyise
falsehood; physicians all of you for
nothing.

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5 Who will give silence? Ye shall

‘be silent, and it shall be to you for wis-

dom.

6 Hear now my proof, and attend to
the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will ye speak wickedness for God ?
and will ye speak deceit to him?

8 Will ye accept his face? will ye
contend for God?

9 Is it good that he shall search you
out? or as he mocking against a man,
will ye mock against him?

10 Reproying, he will reprove you if
in secret ye lift up faces.

11 Shall not his majesty make you
afraid? and his terror fall upon you?

12 Your remembrances being likened
to ashes, your backs to backs of clay.

13 Be silent from me and I will speak
what shall pass upon me.

14 For what shall I lift up my flesh
in my teeth, and shall I put my soul in
my hand?

15 If he shall slay me shall I not
hope? only I will prove my ways to
his face.

16 Also he is to me for salvation: for
a profane one shall not come before
him.

17 Hearing, hear ye my words, and
my declaration in your ears.

18 Behold now I set im order judg-
ment; I knew that I shall be justified.

19 Who is he will contend with me?
for now shall I be silent and expire.

20 Only two things thou wilt not do
with me; then I shall not hide from
thy face.

21 Remove thy hand far from me,
and thy terror shall not make me
afraid.

22 And call and I will answer, and
T shall speak, and turn thou to me.

23 How many iniquities and sins to
me? make known to me my transgres-
sion and my sin,

24 Why wilt thou hide thy face, and
reckon me for an enemy to thee?

25 Wilt thou terrify the scattered
leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry
straw ?

26 For thou wilt write bitter things
against me, and thou wilt give me to
inherit the iniquities of my youth,

27 And thou wilt set my feet in the

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stocks, and thou wilt watch all my
paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of
my feet.

28 And he as rottenness will fall
away; as a garment the moth ate it.

CHAPTER XIV.
AN being born of woman is short
of days and full of disquiet.

2 And as a flower he will come forth,
and will be cut down: and he will flee
as a shadow, and shall not stand.

3 Also upon this one didst thou open
thine eyes? and wilt thou bring me
into judgment with thee?

4 For who shall give aclean thing
from an unclean? Not one.

5 If his days are determined, the
number of his months with thee; thou
madest his limit ; he shall not pass over.

6 Look away from him and he shall
cease, till he shall delight as an hireling
in his day.

7 For there is hope for a tree if it
shall be cut down, and it shall yet re-
vive, and its suckers shall not cease.

8 If its root shall grow old in the
earth, and its trunk shall die in the dust ;

9 From the smell of water it will
break forth, and make foliage as a plant.

10 And man will die and be weak:
and man will expire, and where is he ?

11 The waters departed from the sea,
and the river will be wasted and dried

up;

Pip And man lay down and he will
not rise: till the heavens be no more
they shall not awake and rise from their
sleep.

13 Who will give thou wilt hide me
in hades? wilt thou cover me till the
turning away of thine anger? wilt thou
set for me a limit, and wilt thou remem-
ber me?

14 If a man die, shallhe live? All
the days of my warfare I will wait till
the coming of my change.

15 Thou shalt call and I will answer
thee: thou wilt long for the work of
thy hands,

16 For now thou wilt count my steps:
wilt thou not watch over my sin?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a
purse, and thou wilt patch upon mine
iniquity.

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18 And yet the mountain falling
shall decay, and the rock shall be re-
moved from its place.

19 The waters rubbed the stones:
thou wilt overflow the flowings of the
dust of the earth; and thou didst de-
stroy the hope of man. *

20 Thou wilt overpower him forever,
and he will go away: changing his
face, thou wilt send him away.

21 His sons will be honored and he
knew not: they will be brought low,
and he will not understand for them.

22 But his flesh upon him shall have
pain, and his soul upon him shall
mourn.

CHAPTER XV.
ND Eliphaz the Temanite will an-
swer and say,

2 Shall a wise one answer knowledge
of wind, and fill his belly with the east
wind?

3 Reproving with words he shall not
profit, and speeches will be of no use in
them.

4 Also thou wilt bring to nought,
fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation
before God.

5 For thy mouth will accustom itself
to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose
the tongue of the crafty.

6 Thy mouth will condemn thee, and
not I: and thy lips will testify against
thee.

7 Shalt thou be the first man born?
and hadst thou a beginning before the
hills?

8 Shalt thou hear in the consultation
of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom
to thyself?

9 What knewest thou and we shall
not know? wilt thou understand and it
not be with us?

10 Also the gray headed and old
man with us, great of days above thy
fathers.

11 Is it small with thee the consola-
tions of God? and a word covered with
thee?

12 Why shall thy heart take thee?
and why shall thine eyes wink?

13 That thou wilt turn thy spirit
against God, and thou broughtest words
from thy mouth?

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14 What is man that he will be
clean? and that he will be just, being
born of woman ?

15 Behold, in his holy ones he will
not trust; and the heavens were not
clean in his eyes.

16 How much more abominable and
corrupt is man drinking imiquity as
water |

17 I will show thee, hear 10 me; and
that I saw I will recount ;

18 Which the wise ones will an-
nounce, and he hid it not from their
fathers.

19 To them alone the earth was
given, and a stranger passed not in the
midst of them.

20 All the days the unjust one him-
self being pained, and numbering the
years they were hidden to him terrify-
ing.

21 The voice of fears in his ears: in
peace he destroying shall come upon
him.

22 He will not believe to turn back
from darkness, and he was waited for
by the sword.

23 He wandered about for bread,
where he knew that the day of dark-
ness was ready at his hand.

24 Straitness and distress shall terri-
fy him; they shall overpower him as a
king ready for war.

25 For he stretched forth his hand
against God, and he will strengthen
himself against the Almighty.

26 He will run against him upon the
neck, upon the thicknesses of his
shields:

27 For he covered his face with his
fat, and he will make fatness upon the
flank.

28 And he will dwell in cities cut off,
the houses shall not be inhabited by
them, which were ready for heaps.

29 He shall not be rich, and his
wealth shall not rise up; their posses-
sion shall not extend upon the earth.

30 He shall not depart from dark-
ness; the flame shall dry up his suck-
ers, and by the breath of his mouth
shall he depart.

31 He being deceived shall not trust
in vanity: for vanity shall be his com-
pensation.

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32 Before his day it shall be complet:
ed, and his branch was not green.

33 He will shake off as a vine his
unripe grapes, and he will cast his
flower as the olive.

34 For the assembly of the profane
is hard, and fire consumed the tents of
the gift.

85 He conceiving trouble and he
bringing forth vanity, and their belly
shall prepare deceit.

CHAPTER XVI.

Λ ND Job will answer and say,

21 heard many like these:
comforters of vexation ye all. :

3 Was there an end to words of
wind? or what will provoke thee that
thou wilt answer?

4 Also I will speak as you: if itis
your soul instead of my soul, I will
join together with words against you,
and shake my head against you upon it.

5 1 will strengthen you with my
mouth, the moving of my lips shall
hold back.

6 If I shall speak, my pain will not
be held back, and shall I cease, what
will go from me?

7 But now he made me weary: thou
hast made desolate all mine assembly.

8 Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to
be for a testimony, and my leanness
will rise up in me; it will answer
against my face.

9 He rent im his anger, and he will
lie in wait for me, gnashing upon me
with his teeth ; mine enemy will sharp-
en his eyes against me.

10 They gaped upon me with their
mouth ; with reproach they struck upon
my cheek; they will fill out together
against me.

11 God will shut me up to the evil
one, and he will cast me into the hands
of the unjust.

12 I was secure, and he will break
me in pieces: and he seized upon my
neck and he will disperse me, and he
will set me up to him for a mark:

13 His multitudes will surround up-
on me, he will cleave my reins asunder,
and not spare; he will pour my gall
upon the earth.

14 He will break me, breaking upon

JOB XVII, XVIII.

the face of breaking; he will run upon
me as the strong one.

15 I sewed together sackcloth upon
my skin, and I thrust my horn into the
dust.

16 My face became red from weep-
ing, and upon my eye-lashes the shad-
ow of death;

17 Not for violence in my hands:
and my prayer is clean.

18 O earth, thou wilt not cover my
blood; and shall there not be place for
my cry?

19 Also now, behold, my witness in
the heavens, and my testimony in the
heichts.

20 My friends mocking me: to God
mine eye wept.

21 Shall he judge for a man with
God? and the son of man for his
neighbor ?

22 When years of number shall come,
and the way I shall go 1 shall not turn
back.

CHAPTER XVII.
\ | Y spirit being destroyed my days
me

were extinct ; the graves are for

2 Τῇ not mockings with me? and
shall not mine eye lodge in their bitter-
ness ?

3 Set up now, pledge me with thee:
who is he will strike for my hand?

4 For thou didst hide their heart
from understanding; for this thou wilt
not exalt them.

5 He will commence evils for a posi-
tion, and the eyes of his sons shall be
consumed.

6 He set me for a parable of the peo-
ples, and I shall be one spit upon to
the face.

7 And mine eye shall be weak from
vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow
all of them.

8 The upright shall be astonished up-
on this, and the innocent shall arouse
himself against the profane.

9 And the just shall hold on his way,
and the clean one of hands shall add
strength, .

10 But ye all shall turn back, and
come ye. now, and I shall not finda
wise one among you.

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11 My days passed away, my pur-
poses were broken; the possessions of
my heart.

12 They will set the night for day:
the light beimg near from the face of
darkness.

13 If I shall wait, hades 18 my house:
in darkness I spread my bed.

14 1 called to the pit: Grave, thou
my father: and to the worm, My moth-
er, and my sister.

15 And where now my hope? and
my hope who shall regard it?

16 They shall go down to the bars of
hades if together we shall go down to
the dust.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND Bildad the Shuhite will an-
swer and say,

2 How long will ye set an end to
words? Ye shall understand, and after-
wards we will speak.

3 Wherefore were we reckoned as
cattle, and were unclean in your eyes?

4 He rent his soul in his anger:
shall the earth be forsaken for thee?
and shall the rock be removed from its
place?

5 Also the light of the unjust shall
be extinguished, and the flame of his
fire shall not shine.

6 The light was darkened in his tent,
and his lamp shall be extinguished for
him,

7 The steps of his strength shall be
straightened, and his counsel shall cast
him down.

8 For he was cast into a net by his
feet, and he will go about upon lattice-
work, '

9 A snare shall lay hold upon the
heel, the noose shal] hold fast upon him.

10 His gin being hid in the earth,
and his snare upon the beaten path.

11 Terrors made him afraid round
about, and scattered him to his feet.

12 His strength shall be hunger, and
destruction being prepared at his side.

13 It shall devour the bars of his
skin: the first-born of death shall de-
vour his bars.

14 His confidence shall be plucked
out from his tent, and it shall drive him
to the king of terrors.

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15 It shall dwell in his tent, from not
to him: brimstone shall be scattered
upon his dwelling.

16 From underneath, his roots shall
be dried up, and from above, his har-
vest shall be cut off.

17 His remembrance shall perish
from the earth, and not a name to him
upon a face without.

18 They shall drive him out of light
into darkness, and they shall exclude
him from the habitable globe.

19 No offspring to him, and no pro-
geny among his people, and not a sur-
vivor in his dwellings.

20 Others were astonished at his day,
and the ancient took hold on shudder-

ing.
21 Also these the dwellings of evil,
and this the place of him not knowing

God.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND Job will answer and say,
2 How long will ye, grieve my
soul, and crush me with words?

8 These ten times ye will reproach
me: ye will not be ashamed, ye will in-
jure me,

4 If indeed I erred my error will
lodge with me.

5 If indeed ye will magnify your-
selves against me, and prove against
me my reproach :

6 Know ye now that God subverted
me, and he folded his net about me.

7 Behold, I shall ery violence, and
shall I not be answered: I shall cry
for help, and no judgment.

8 He walled up my path and I shall
not pass; and he will set darkness upon
my beaten paths.

9 And he put off from me my honor,
and he removed the crown of my head.

10 He will lay me waste round about,
and I shall go: and he will remove my
hope as a tree.

11 And he will kindle his anger
against me, and he will reckon me to
him as his enemy.

12 His troops shall come together
and raise up their way against me, and
they will encamp round about to my
tent.

18 He removed my brethren far

JOB XIX., .אא‎

from me, and mine acquaintance truly
turned aside from me.

14 My kindred ceased, and they ac-
quainted with me forgot me.

15 They sojourning in my house, and
my maids, will reckon me for a stran-
ger: I was a foreigner in their eyes.

16 I called to my servant and he will
not answer; I shall entreat him with
my mouth.

17 My spirit was loathsome to my
wife, and I entreated to the sons of my
belly.

18 Also children rejected me; I shall
arise, and they will speak against me.

19 All the men of my intimacy will
abhor me, and those I loved were
turned against me.

20 My bone 6108760 to my skin and
to my flesh, and I shall escape with the
skin of my teeth.

21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends,
for the hand of God touched upon me.

22 Why will ye pursue me as God,
and will ye not be satisfied from my
flesh ?

23 Who will give now, and my words
shall be written? who will give and
they shall be delineated in a book?

24 They shall be cut in the rock with
a style of iron and lead, forever.

25 And I knew he redeeming me
lived, and at last he shall rise up upon
the dust:

26 And after they destroyed my skin,
this, and from my flesh I shall see God :

27 Which I shall see for myself, and
mine eyes beheld, and not a stranger:
my reins were finished in my bosom.

28 For ye shall say, Why shall we
pursue after him and the root of the
word was found in me?

29 And fear ye to yourselves, from
the face of the sword? for wrath the
iniquities of the sword, so that ye shall
know there is judgment.

CHAPTER XX.
Λ ND Zophar the 1 התנפה‎ 0106 will
\ answer and say,

2 For this my thoughts will turn
back, and because of my haste in me.
3 I shall hear the instruction-of m
shame, and the spirit of my understand-

ing will cause me to answer.

JOB

4 Thou knewest this from everlast-
ing when man was set upon the earth:

5 For the rejoicing of the unjust
drawing near, and the gladness of the
profane even for a moment.

6 If his elevation shall go up to the
heavens, and his head shall reach to the
cloud ;

7 As his dung he shall perish for-
ever: they seeing him shall say, Where
is he?

8 As a dream he shall fly away, and
they shall not find him: and he shall
flee away as the vision of the night.

9 The eye scanned him and shall not
add; and his place shall no more look
after him.

10 The weak shall break his sons,
and his hands shall turn back his
wealth.

11 His bones were full of his youth,
and shall lie down with him in the
dust.

12 If evil shall be sweet in his mouth
he will cover it under his tongue;

13 He will spare over it, and forsake
it not, and keep it back in the midst of
his palate :

14 His bread in his bowels was turn-
ed, the gall of asps in his midst.

15 He swallowed down riches, and
he shall vomit it up, and God shall

> drive it out of his belly.

16 He shall suck the poison of asps:
the viper’s tongue shall kill him.

17 He shall not look upon the
streams, the rivers, the torrents of hon-
ey and curdled milk.

18 Turning back the labor, and he
shall not swallow down: according to
the substance of his exchange and he
shall not exult.

19 For he oppressed, forsaking the
poor; he stripped the house and he
will not build it up.

20 For he knew not tranquillity in
his belly, m his desire he shall not es-
cape.

21 Nothing was left to his food; for
this his good shall not be stable.

22 In the fulness of his abundance it
shall be pressed to him: every labor-
ing hand shall come to him.

23 He will be for filling his belly,
he will send upon him the burning of

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his anger, and will rain upon him in his
eating.

24 He shall flee from the weapon of
iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him.

25 Being drawn it will come forth
from the body; and the lightning will
go from his bile, and terrors upon him.

26 All darkness hid for his secret
places: a fire not blown upon shall
devour him; and the remaining one
shall do evil upon his tent.

27 The heavens shall uncover his in-
iquity, and the earth an adversary
against him.

28 The increase of his house shall be
rolled off; they were poured out in the
day of his anger.

29 This the portion of an unjust man ;
and the lot of his command from God.

CHAPTER 1
ND Job will answer and say,
2 Hearing, hear ye my speech,
and this shall be your consolations.

3 Suffer me and I will speak; and
after my word ye will mock.

4 1, is my complaint to man? and
then wherefore shall not my spirit be
shortened ?

5 Look to me and be astonished, and
put the hand upon the mouth.

6 And when I remembered and
trembled, and horror took hold of my
flesh.

7 Wherefore shall the unjust live?
They grew old, also they were strong
in power.

8 Their seed was established before
their face with them, and their offspring
before their eyes.

9 Their houses peace from fear, and
the rod of God not upon them.

10 His ox passed over and will not
be cast away : his heifer will escape and
will not be barren.

11 They will send forth their chil-
dren as a flock, and their children will
leap.

12 They will lift up with the drum
and harp, and they will rejoice at the
voice of the pipe.

13 Their days glided on in good, and
in a moment they will lay hold of
hades.

14 And they will say to God, Depart

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from us; and we desired riot the know]-
edge of thy ways.

15 What the Almighty that we shall
serve him? and what shall we be prof-
ited if we shail supphiecate to him?

16 Behold, their good not in their
hand: the counsel of the unjust was
far from me, ἢ

17 How often the light of the unjust
shall be extinguished, and their de-
struction will comé upon them. He
will distribute pains in his anger.

18 They shall be as straw before the
wind, and as chaff the storm stole it
away.

19 God will lay up his iniquity for
his sons: he will requite to him and he
shall know.

20 His eyes shall 866 his destruction,
and he shall drink from the wrath of
the Almighty.

21 For what his delight in his hofse
after him, and the number of / his
months were divided out?

22 Shall he teach knowledge to God ?
and he will judge those lifted up.

23 This shall die in the strength of
his fulness, altogether tranquil and at
rest.

24 His sides were filled with fat, and
the marrow of his bones will be moist-
ened.

25 And this will die in the soul of
bitterness, and will not eat in good.

26 They will lie down together upon
the dust, and the worm shall cover
over them.

27 Behold, I knew your -purposes,
and the deyices ye will shake: off
against me.

28 For ye will say, Where the house
of the noble one; and where the tent
of the dwellings of the unjust?

29 Did ye not ask them passing οὐ δὲ
the way? and shall ye not know their
signs ?

30 For the evil one will be spared
for the day of destruction; they shall
be led away to the day of wraths.

81 Who shall announce his way upon
his face? and who shall requite to him
that he did?

32 And he shall be led away to
the graves, and shall watch over the
tomb,

JOB XXII.

33 And the clods of the valley were
sweet to him, and every man shall draw
after him, and before him no number.

84 And how will ye comfort me in
vain, and your answers remained
treachery ?

CHAPTER XXII.
ND Eliphaz the Temanite will an-
swer and say,

2 Shall a man profit to God as he
understanding shall profit for himself?

3 Did it please to the Almighty that
thou wilt be just? and if gain if thou
wilt perfect thy ways?

4 Will he reprove thee from thy
fear? Will he go with thee into judg-
ment ?

5 Is not thine evil much? and no
end to thine iniquities ?

6 For thou wilt take a pledge of thy
brethren in yain, and the garments of
the naked thou wilt strip off.

7 Thou wilt not give to the weary
one water to drink, and from the hun:
gry one thou wilt withhold bread.

8 And the man of arm, to him the
earth; and the lifted up of face dwelt
in it.

9 Thou didst send away widows
empty, and the arms of the orphans
will be broken.

10 For this, snares are round about
thee, and sudden fear will terrify thee ;

11 Or darkness thou wilt not see;
arid abundance of waters shall cover
thee

12 Is not God high in the heavens?
arid’ see the head cf the stars for they
were lifted up.

13 And thou saidst, How shall God
know? Shall he judge in the cloud of
darkness ?

14 Clouds a covering to him, and he
will not see; and he will go about the
circle of the heavens.

15 Wilt thou watch the path of old
which men of iniquity trod ?

16 Who were laid hold of, and no
time a river will pour out their founda-
tion?

17 They saying to God, Depart from
us: and what shall the Almighty do
for them?

18 And he filled their houses with

JOB XXIIL, XXIV.

good: and the counsel of the unjust
was far from me.

19 The just shall see and shall be
glad: and the innocent shall deride at
them.

20 If our adversaries were not de-
stroyed, and their remnant the fire shall
devour.

21 Be acquainted now with him, and
be safe: by them shall good come to thee.

22 Take now the law from his mouth,
and set his words in thy heart.

23 If thou wilt turn back even to the
Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou
shalt remove iniquity far off from thy
tent.

24 Place thou gold upon the dust,
and the precious ore of the torrents of
Ophir.

25 And the Almighty was thy gold
and silver of labors to thee.

26 For then upon the Almighty shalt
thou delight thyself, and thou shalt lift
up thy face to God.

27 And thou shalt pray to him, and
he will hear thee, and thou shalt repay
thy vows.

28 And thou shalt decide the word,
and it shall be set up to thee: and the
light shone upon thy ways.

29 For they were humbled, and thou
wilt say, A lifting up; and he will save
him depressed of eyes.

30 He will deliver the island of the
innocent: and it was delivered by the
pureness of thine hands.

CHAPTER זא‎
Λ ND Job will answer and say,
2 Also to-day is my complaint
bitter: my hand heavy over my groan-

ing.

3 Who will give, I knew to find him:
I will come even to his place.

41 will arrange judgment before
him, and I will fill the mouth with

roofs.

5 I-shall know the words he will an-
swer me, and 1 shall understand what
he will say to me.

6 Will he contend with me in great
power? No; but he will put in me.

7 There the upright one disputed
with him; and I shall be delivered for-
eyer from my judge,

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8 Behold, I shall go before, and he is
not; and behind, I shall not understand
for him.

9 The 166 hand in his working, and
I shall not behold: he will cover him-
self on the right hand, and I shall not
see.

10 For he knew the way with me:
he tried me; I shall come forth as gold.

11 My foot laid hold upon his go-
ing, I watched his way and not softly.

12 From the command of his. lips
and I will not waver; from his law I
hid the words of his mouth.

18 And he is in one, and who shall
turn him back? and his soul desired,
and he will do.

14 For he will finish my appointing:
and many such with him.

15 For this I shall tremble from his
face: I shall consider, and 1 shall be
afraid of him.

16 God relaxed my heart, and the
Almighty caused me to tremble.

17 For I was not cut off from the
face of darkness, and he covered mis-
fortune from my face.

CHAPTER XXIV.
HEREFORE were not times
hidden from the Almighty?
and they knowing him saw not his
days.

2 They will remove the bound; they
will strip off the flock, and they will
feed.

3 They will lead away the ass of the
orphans, and they will take for pledge,
the widow’s ox.

4 They will turn the needy from the
way: the poor of the earth hid them-
selves together. ,

5 Behold, wild asses in the desert
will go forth in their work, seeking for
prey: the sterile region bread for him,
and for the young.

6 In the field they will harvest his
meslin, and they will glean the vintage
of the unjust one:

7 They will cause the naked to lodge
without clothing, and no coyering in
the cold.

8 They will be wet from the pouring
rains of the mountains, and they em-
braced the rock from no shelter.

9 They will strip the orphan from
the breast, and take a pledge for the
poor.

10 They caused the naked to go
without clothing, and from the hungry
they took away the sheaf;

11 Between their walls they will press
out oil; they trod their wine-presses,
and they will thirst.

12 From the city men will groan,
and the soul of the wounded will ery
out: and God will not set folly.

13 They were among the rebels of
light; they knew not his ways, and
they dwelt not in his beaten paths.

14 The murderer will rise by light;
he will kill the poor and needy; and
in the nght he will be as a thief.

15 And the eye of the adulterer
watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall
not perceive me: and secretly he will
set the face.

16 To break through houses in dark-
ness in the day they shut up for them-
selves: they knew not light.

17 For the morning altogether to
them the shadow of death: if it shall
be known, the terrors of the shadow of
death.

18 He is swift upon the face of the
waters; their portion will be cursed in
the earth: he will not see the way of
the vineyards.

19 Dryness, also heat, will strip the
snow waters: hades him sinning.

20 The womb shall forget him; the
worm sucked him; he shall be no more
remembered: and iniquity shall be
broken as a tree.

21 He did evil to the barren; she
will not bear: and he will not do good
to the widow.

22 And he drew the mighty in his
power: he will rise up and none shall
be sure in living.

23 It will he given to him for confi-
8606, and he will rest upon: and his
eyes upon their ways.

24 They were lifted up a little while,
and they are not, and they were brought
low; as all they will be drawn togeth-
er, and as the head of an ear of grain
they shall be cut off.

25 And if not now, who will cause
me to lie, and set my words for nought ?

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CHAPTER XXV.
ND Bildad the Shuhite will an-
swer and say,

2 Dominion and fear with him; he
made peace in his heights.

3 Is there a number to his troops?
and upon whom shall not his light
arise ?

4 And how shall man be justified
with God? and how shall he born of
woman be clean?

5 Behold even to the moon, and it
shall not shine; and the stars were not
clean in his eyes.

6 How much less man, a worm; and
the son of man, a worm.

CHAPTER XXVI
ND Job will answer and say,

2 How didst thou help to him
of no strength? didst thou save the arm
of no strength?

3 How didst thou counsel to him of
no wisdom? and didst thou make
known help for abundance ?

4 And with whom didst thou an-
nounce words? and whose breath came
forth from thee?

5 The shades shall tremble from un-
der the waters, and their inhabitants.

6 Hades is naked before him, and no
covering to destruction.

7 He stretched out the north upon
emptiness, he hung up the earth upon
nothing.

8 He bound up the waters in his
clouds, and the cloud was not rent un-
der them.

9 Holding fast the face of the throne,
he spread his cloud upon it.

10 He marked out with a compass
the law upon the face of the waters,
even till the end of light with dark-
ness.

11 The pillars of the heavens shall
be shaken, and be astonished from his
reproof.

12 By his power he caused the sea to
tremble; by his understanding he
smote through pride.

18 By his spirit he polished the
heavens; his hand pierced the flat ser-

pent.
14 Behold these the ends of his ways ;
how transient a sound of the word was

JOB XXVIL, XXVIII.

heard in him! and the thunder of his
might who shall understand ?

CHAPTER XXVIL

ND Job will add to take up his’

parable, and say,

2God lives, he removed my judg-
ment; and the Almighty embittered
my soul;

3 For all the while my breath is in
me, and the spirit of God in my nose ;

4 If my lips shall speak iniquity, and
my tongue if it shall murmur deceit.

5 Far be it to me if I shall justify
you: till I expire I will not remove my
integrity from me.

6 My justice I held fast, and I will
not let it go: my heart shall not re-
proach from my days.

7 Mine enemy shall be as the unjust
one, and he rising up against me, as the
evil one.

8 For what the hope of the profane
one if he shall plunder? for God shall
draw out his soul.

9 Will God hear his ery when straits
shall come upon him?

10 If he will delight himself upon
the Almighty ? will he call upon God
in all time ?

11 I will teach you by the hand of
God: what is with the Almighty I will
not hide.

12 Behold, all ye yourselves saw ;
and wherefore this, will ye breathe out
vanity ?

18 This the portion of an unjust man
with God, and the inheritance of the
terrible they shall take from the Al-
mighty.

14 If his sons shall be multiplied, for
then the sword: and his offspring shall
not be satisfied with bread.

15 His surviving one shall be buried
in death, and his widows shall not weep.

16 If he shall heap up silver as the
dust, and prepare clothing as clay ;

17 He shall prepare, and the just
shail put on, and the innocent shall di-
vide the silver.

18 He built his house as the moth,
and as a booth he watching made.

19 The rich one shall lie down, and
he shall not be gathered: he opened
his eyes, and he is not.

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20 Terrors shall hedge him about as
waters, the night a tempest stole him
away.

21 The east wind shall lift him up,
and he shall go: and it shall sweep him
away in storm from his place.

22 For he shall cast upon him and
not spare: fleeing, he will flee from his
hand. 1

23 It shall be clapped upon him with
their hands, and it shall be hissed upon
him from his place.

CHAPTER XXVIIL
OR there is a going forth for silver,
and a place for gold they will pu-
rify it.

2 Iron shall be taken from the dust,
and stone will pour out brass.

8 He set an end to darkness, and he
searched out for all completeness: the
stone of darkness and the shadow of
death.

4 The torrent broke out from the so-
journer; being forgotten of the foot,
they were weak, they wandered from
men.

5 The earth, from it will come forth
bread, and under it was turned as fire.

6 Its stones the place of the sapphire,
and dust gold to it.

7 A beaten path the birds knew not,
and the vulture’s eye scanned it ποῦ:

8 The sons of pride trod it not, and
the lion passed not by upen it.

9 He stretched forth his hand upon
the flint; he overturned the mountains
from the roots.

10 He 0₪% rivers in the rocks, and
his eye saw every precious thing.

11 He bound the rivers from weep;
ing, and he will bring forth the hidden
thing to light.

12 And from whence shall wisdom
be found? and where this place of un-
derstanding ?

13 And man knew not its estimation,
and it shall not be found in the land of
the living.

14 The depth said, It is not in me:
and the sea said, Not with me.

15 Shut up gold shall not be given
for it, and silver shall not be weighed
its price.

16 It shall not be weighed with gold

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of Ophir, with the precious onyx, and
the sapphire.

17 Gold and crystal shall not com-
pare with it, and its exchange, vessels
of pure gold.

18 High things, and crystal, shall
not be remembered: and the drawing
out of wisdom above pearls.

19 The topaz of Cush shall not com-
pare with it; with pure gold it shall
not be weighed.

20 And from whence shall wisdom
come? and where this place of under-
standing ?

21 And being hid from the eyes of
all living, and covered from the birds
of the heavens.

22 Destruction and death said, We
heard its report with our ears :

23 God understood its way, and he
knew its place.

24 For he will look to the ends of
the earth, he will see under all the
heavens ;

25 To make the weight for the wind ;
and he weighed the waters by measure.

26 In his making a law for the rain,
and a way for the lightning of the
yoices.

27 Then he saw, and he will recount
it; he prepared it, and also he searched
it out.

28 And he will say to man, Behold,
the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom ; and
to depart from evil is understanding.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND Job will add to lift up his
parable, and say,

2 Who will give me as the months
of old, as the days God will watch me?

3 In his causing his light to shine
upon my head, before his light I shall
go through darkness ;

4 As I was in the days of my ripe-
ness, in the intercourse of God upon my
tent;

5 In the Almighty being yet with
me, my youths round about me;

6 In washing my goings with butter,
and the rock will pour out with me
streams of oil ;

7 In my going forth to the gate upon
the city, in the street I shall prepare
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JOB X Xin oaxee

8 The young men saw me and hid
themselves, ‘and the old men rose up
and stood.

9 Chiefs held back in words, and
they will put the hand to the mouth,

10 The voice the leaders hid, and
their tongue was joined to their palate.

11 If the ear heard, and it will pro-
nounce me happy; and the eye saw,
and it will testify to me:

12 For I shall deliver the poor cry-
ing,’ and the orphan, and none helping
to him,

13 The praise of him perishing will
come upon me, and I shall cause the
heart of the widow to rejoice.

14 I put on justice and it will clothe
me: my judgment as an upper garment
and a turban.

15 Eyes was I to the blind one, and
feet to the lame 88 1. | -

16 I was a father to the needy, and
the contention I knew not I shall search
it out.

17 And I shall break the biter’s teeth
of the evil one, and I shall cast the
prey from his teeth.

18 And saying, I shall expire with my
nest, I shall multiply days as the sand.

19 My root opened to the waters, and
the dew will lodge upon my foliage.

20 My glory new with me, and my
bow will be changed in my hand.

21 To me they heard, and they wait-
ed, and they will be silent for them at
my counsel.

22 After my words they will not re-
peat, and my speech will drop upon
them.

23 And they waited for me as the
rain, and they opened wide their mouth
for the latter rain.

241 shall laugh at them, they will
not believe; and the light of my face
they will not cast down.

25 1 shall choose their way, and I
shall sit the head, and I shall dwell as
king in the troop, as he shall comfort
those mourning.

CHAPTER XXX.
A ND now the younger than I
laughed upon me, which I reject-
ed their fathers to set with the dogs of
my flock,

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2 Also the strength of their hands] with the strength of thy hand thou wilt

wherefore to me?
perished.

3 In want and in hunger, barren,
gnawing the dry land, yesternight des-
olation and burning.

4 Plucking off sea purslain upon the
shrub, the root of broom their bread.

5 They shall be driven forth from the
midst, they.shall ery after them as a
thief ;

6 To dwell in the horror of the val-
leys, holes of the dust, and the rocks.

7 Between the shrubs they will bray ;
they will be poured out under the thorn
bush.

8 The sons of the foolish one, also
the sons of no name: they were beaten
from the land.

9 And now I was their song, and I
to them for a by-word.
> 10 They abhorred me, they removed
far from me, and withheld not spittle
from my face.

11 Because he loosed his cord and he
will afflict me, and they cast off the bri-
dle from before me.

12 Upon the right the brood will rise
up; they cast away my feet, and they
will cast up the paths of their destruc-
tion against me.

13 They tore up my beaten path,
they helped for my fall, no help to
them.

14 They will come as a wide breach
under a destroying tempest, they rolled
themselves.

15 Terror turned upon me, it will
pursue my willingness as the wind, and
my salvation passed away as a cloud.

16 And now my soul shall be pour-
ed out upon me; and the days of af-
fliction will hold me fast.

17 The night my bones pierced from
above me, and my gnawers will not lie
down.

18 By the multitude of power my
clothing will be disguised: it will gird
me about as the mouth of my coat.

19 He cast me to the clay; I shall
become like as dust and ashes.

20 1 shall ery to thee and thou wilt
not answer me: 1 stood up and thou
wilt not attend to me.

21 Thou wilt turn to be cruel to me:

Upon them old age

lie in wait for me.

22 Thou wilt lift me up to the wind;
thou wilt cause me to ride, and thou
wilt melt to me counsel.

23 For I knew thou wilt turn me
back to death, and the house appointed
to all living.

24 But prayer is nothing; he will
send forth the hand, if in his calamity
to them a cry for help.

25 If 1 wept not for him being hard
of day: my soul was grieved for the
needy.

26 For I hoped for good and evil
will come: and 1 shall wait for light
and darkness will come.

27 My bowels boiled, and were not
silent: the days of affliction anticipat-
ed me.

28 I went darkened without warmth :
I rose up, I shall ery in the convoca-
tion.

29 I was a brother to jackals, and a
companion to the daughters of the os-
trich.

30 My skin was black from above
me, and my bones burnt from heat.

31 And my harp will be for mourn-
ing, and my pipe for the voice of those
weeping.

CHAPTER XXXI.
CUT out a covenant for mine eyes;
and why shall I show myself atten-
tive to a virgin?

2 And what the portion of God from
above? and the inheritance of the Al-
mighty from the heights?

3 Is not destruction to the evil one?
and strangeness to those working ini-
quity ?

4 Will he not see my way, and num-
ber all my steps?

5 If I went with vanity, and my foot
will haste upon deceit ;

6 He shall weigh me in balances of
justice, and God will know mine integ-
rity.

7 If my going will incline from the
way, and my heart went after mine
eyes, and a blemish did cleave upon
my hands.

8 I will sow and another shall eat;
and my offspring shall be rooted up.

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JOB XXXII.

9 If my heart was seduced by wo-|of him hating me, and 1 exulted when

man, and 1 laid wait at the door of my
neighbor ;

10 My wife shall grind for another,
and others shall bow down upon her.

11 For this is crime, and this is ini-
quity for the judges.

12 For it is a fire; it will devour
even to destruction, and will root out
upon all mine increase.

13 If I shall despise the judgment of
my servant and my maid in their con-
tending with me;

14 And what shall 1 do when God
shall rise wp? And when he shall re-
view, what shall I turn back to him?

15 Did not he making me in the
womb, make him? And he will pre-
pare us in one belly.

16 If I shall withhold from the de-
sire of the poor, and cause the eyes of
the widow to fail ;

17 And eating my morsel alone, and
the orphan ate not from it;

18 (For from my youth he grew up
to me as a father, and I shall guide her
from my mother's womb כ‎

19 If I shall see one perishing from
not being clothed, and no covering to
the necdy ; :

20 If his loins did not praise me, and
he will be warmed from the fleece of my
sheep:

21 If I lifted up my hand against the
orphan when I shall see my heip in the
gate:

22 My shoulder shall fall from its
shoulder-blade, and mine arm shall be
broken from the bone.

23 For the destruction of God is a
terror to me, and from his lifting up I
shall not prevail.

24 If I set gold my hope, and said to
gold, My trust;

25 If I shall rejoice because of the
multitude of my riches, and because my
hand found much;

26 11 1 shall see the light when it shall
shine, and the moon going in splendor ;

27 And my heart will be seduced in
secret, and my hand shall kiss to my
mouth:

28 Also this an iniquity for the
judges: for I lied to God from above.

29 If I shall rejoice in the destruction

evil found him:

80 And I gave not my palate to sin
to ask in cursing his soul.

31 If the men of my tent said not,
Who will give from his flesh? We
shall not be satisfied.

82 The stranger shall not lodge with-
out: I shall open my doors to the tray-
eler.

33 If 1 covered my transgression as

man, to hide mine imiquity תג‎ my bo-
som :
34 If I shall fear a great multitude;
and the contempt of families terrify me;
and I wili be silent and not go out of
my door.

80 Who will give to me hearing to
me? Behold, my sign the Almighty
will answer me, and the man contend-
ing with me wrote a book.

36 If not, I shall lift it wp upon my
shoulder, I will bind it a crown to me.

37 The number of my steps 1 shall
announce to him: as a leader I shall
draw near to him.

38 Τῇ my land shall ery against me,
and its furrows shall weep together ;

39 If 1 ate its strength without silver,
and caused its possessors to expire :

40 The thorn shall come forth in-
stead of wheat, and the weed instead of
barley. The words of Job were com-
pleted.

CHAPTER XXXII.
ND these three men will cease
from answering Job, for he is
just in his eyes.

2 And the anger of Elihu will kin-
dle, son of Barachel the Buzite, from
the family of Ram: against Job was
his anger kindled, for his justifying his
soul above God.

3 And against his three friends was
his anger kindled, because they found
not an answer, and they will condemn
Job.

4 And Elihu waited for Job in words,
for they were old for days above him.

5 And Elihu will see that not an an-
swer in the mouth of the three men,
and his anger will kindle.

6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the
Buzite will answer and say, I few for

JOB XXXIIL

days, and ye old men; for this I was
afraid, and I shall fear showing you my
knowledge.

71 said, days shall speak, and multi-
tude of years shall make known wis-
dom.

8 But it is a spirit in man, and the
breath of the Almighty will cause them
to understand.

9 Not the many will be wise: and
old men understand judgment.

10 For this, I said, Hear to me; I
also will show my knewledge.

11 Behold, I waited for your words,
giving ear even to your understandings
while ye will search out words.

12 And 1 will show myself attentive
even to you, and behold, none from you
confuting to Job, answering his words.

13 Lest ye shall say, We found wis-
dom: God will thrust him, not man.

14 And he arranged not words
against me: and I will not turn back
to him with your words.

15 They were confounded ; they an-
swered no more: they removed words
from themselves.

16 And I waited, (for they will not
speak, for they stood, they answered no
more ;)

17 1 also will answer my part, I also
will show my knowledge.

18 For I was filled with words, the
spirit of my belly pressed upon me.

19 Behold, my belly as wine it will
not open; it will break open as new
wine skins.

20 I will speak, and it will breathe to
me: 1 will open my lips and answer.

21 Not now shall I lift up the face of
man, and 1 shall not flatter to man.

22 For I knew not, shall I flatter ;
for a little while, he making me will
take me away.

CHAPTER XXXIII.
ND yet hear now, O Job, my
speech, and give ear to all my
words.

2 Behold, now, I opened my mouth,
my tongue spake in my palate.

3 My sayings the uprightness of my
heart, and my lips spake knowledge
purely.

4 The spirit of God made me, and

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the breath of the Almighty will cause
me to live.

5 If thou shalt be able to turn back
to me, set in order before me, stand
forth.

6 Behold, I am according to thy
mouth for God: from clay was I also
broken off.

7 Behold, my terror shall not make
thee afraid, and my hand shall not be
heavy upon thee.

8 Surely thou spakest in mine ear,
and I will hear the voice of thy words.

91am clean without transgression ;
I am fair, and no iniquity to me.

10 Behold, he will find enmity
against me, and he will reckon me for
an enemy to him.

11 He will set my feet in the stocks,
he will watch all my paths.

12 Behold, this thou wert not just:
I will answer thee, for God will be great
above man.

13 Wherefore didst thou ecntend
against him? for he will not answer all
his words.

14 For God will speak at once, and
at a second time, and he shall not re-
gard it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the
night, in the falling of deep sleep upon
men, in slumbers upon the bed ;

16 Then he will uncover the ear of
men, and will seal in their instruction,

17 To remove man from working,
and he will hide pride from man.

18 He will keep back his soul from
the pit, and his life from passing away
by the spear.

19 And he was chastened with pain
upon his bed, and the multitude of his
bones perpetually.

20 His life loathed bread, and his
soul food of desire.

21 His flesh will consume away from
seeing, and they saw not the nakedness
of his bones.

22 And his soul will draw near to
the pit, and his life to the dead.

23 If there is a messenger upon him,
an interpreter, one from a thousand, to
announce to man his uprightness :

24 And he will compassionate him
and say, Deliver him from going down
to the pit: I found an expiation.

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25 His flesh revived above a youth:
he shall turn back to the days of his
childhood.

26 He shall pray to God and he shall
receive him into favor: and he shall
see his face with rejoicing, and he will
turn back to man his justice.

27 He will look upon men, and he
shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the
right, and it was not fitting to me;

28 Redeem my soul from passing in-
to the pit, and my life shall look upon
light.

“29 Behold, all these God will work
twice, thrice, with man,

80 To turn back his soul from the pit,
to enlighten with the light of the living.

31 Attend, O Job, hear to me: be si-
lent and I will speak.

82 If there be words, turn back to
me: speak, for I desired to justify thee.

33 11 not, hear thou to me: be silent,
and I shall teach thee wisdom.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Λ ND Elihu will answer and say,

2 Hear, ye wise, my words; and
ye knowing, give ear to me.

3 For the ear will try words, and the
palate will taste of food.

4 We will choose to us judgment:
we shall know between ourselyes what
is good.

5 For Job said, I was just: and God
removed my judgment.

6 Shall I speak falsehood against my
judgment? mine arrow was desperate
without transgression.

7 What man as Job he will drink
scoffing as water ?

8 Going for company with those
working iniquity, and to go with men
of injustice ?

9 For he said, It will not profit a man
in delighting himself with God.

10 For this, ye men of heart, hear to
me: far be it to God from doing evil;
and the Almighty from iniquity.

11 For the work of man shall he rec-
ompense to him, and a man shall find
himself according to his way.

12 Also surely God will not do evil,
and the Almighty will not pervert judg-
ment.

18 Who committed to him the earth ?

JOB XXXIV.

and athe set up the habitable globe all
ot it

14 If he will set his heart to him, he
will gather his spirit and his breath to
him ;

15 All flesh shall expire together, and
man shall turn back to dust.

16 If now understanding, hear this:
give ear to the voice of my words.

17 Also shall he hating judgment,
rule? and if thou wilt condemn the
just mighty one?

18 Saying to the king, Wickedness ;
(Belial) to nobles, Injustice.

19 Who accepted not the face of
chiefs, and looked not upon the rich
one before the poor: for his hand made
all of them.

20 In a moment shall they die, and
the middle of the night shall the people
be moved and pass away: and the
mighty shall be removed with not a
hand.

21 For his eyes are upon the ways of
man, and he will see all his steps.

22 Not darkness and not the shadow
of death for those working iniquity to
hide there,

23 For he will not yet set upon man
to go to God in judgment.

24 He shall break in pieces the
mighty, not searching out, and he will
set others in their stead.

25 For this he will know their work,
and he turned the night, and they will
be crushed.

26 He struck them for the unjust in
the place of those seeing ;

27 Who therefore turned away from
after him, and they consider not all his
ways,

28 To cause the ery of the poor one
to come to him, and he will hear the
ery of the humble.

29 And he will give quiet, and who
shall disturb? and he will hide the face,
and who shall look upon him? and
against a nation and against man wholly :

80 From the reigning of the profane
man from the people being snared.

31 For he said to God, I was lifted
up, I will pervert no more.

32 Besides I shall see thou wilt teach
₪ bo me: if I did iniquity, I will not
add.

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33 Is it with thee? he wil! requite it,
if thou didst refuse, if thou shalt choose,

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spealx.

34 Men of heart will say to me, and
a wise man heard to me.

35 Job will speak not with knowl-
edge, and his word not with understand-
ing.

6 My father, Job shall be tried even
to the end, for turning back with men
of iniquity.

87 He will add rebellion to his sin;
he will clap between us, and he will
multiply his words to God.

CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Elihu will answer and say,

2 Didst thou reckon this for
judgment thou saidst, My justice is
above God?

8 For thou wilt say, What shall it
profit to thee? what shall I profit from
my sin?

4 I will turn back words to thee, and
thy companions with thee.

5 Look upon the heavens and see;
behold the clouds, they were high above
thee.

6 If thou sinnedst, what wilt thou do
against him? and thy transgressions
were multiplied, what wilt thou do to
him ?

7 If thou wert just, what wilt thou
give to him? or what shall he take
from thy hand?

8 Thy injustice to a man as thou:
and thy justice to the son of man.

9 From the multitude of oppressions
they will ery out: they will cry out
from the arm of the many.

10 And not saying, Where is God
making me? he gave songs in the night.

11 And who teacheth us from the
cattle of the earth, and he will make
us wise above the birds of the heavens?

12 Then they will ery, and he will
not answer from the face of the pride
of the evil.

13 Also God will not hear vanity,

; and the Almighty will not look

upon it.

14 Also if thou shalt say thou wilt
not see him, judgment is before him,
and thou shalt wait for him,

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15 And now that it is not, he review-
ed his anger, and he knew not in great
transgression.

16 And Job will open his mouth in
vain; he will bind together words
without knowledge.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Λ ND Elibu will add and say,

2 Wait for me a little, and I
will show thee, for yet words for God.

3 I will lft up my knowledge from
far off, and to him making me, I will
give justice.

4 For truly my words are not false-
hood: the perfect of knowledge with
thee.

5 Behold, God is mighty, and he will
not despise: mighty in strength of
heart.

6 He will not save alive the unjust
one, and he will give the judgment of
the poor.

7 He will not take off his eyes from
the just: and with kings upon the
throne, and he will seat them for glory,
and they shall be exalted.

8 And they being bound in fetters
shall be taken in the cords of afflic-
tion.

9 And he will announce to them
their work, and their transgressions, for
they will be strong.

10 And he will uncover their ear for
instruction, and he will say that they
shall turn back from iniquity.

11 If they will hear and will serve
him, they shall finish their days in
good, and their years in delights.

12 And if they will not hear, they
shall pass away by the spear, and they
shall expire without knowledge.

18 And the profane of heart shall
set up anger: they will not cry if he
bound them.

14 Their soul will die in youth, and
their life among the consecrated.

15 He will deliver the poor one in
his affliction, and he will uncover their
ear in oppression.

16 And also he moved thee from the
mouth of the enemy to a broad, not.
straight place; and thy table came:
down full of fatness.

17 And thou didst fill up the judg-

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ment of the unjust one; judgment and
right shall hold together.

18 Because of wrath, lest he shall re-
move thee with smiting, and a multi-
tude of covering shall not turn thee
away.

19 Will he value thy riches? not
gold and all the powers of thy strength.

20 Thou shalt not pant after the
night, for taking up peoples in their
place.

21 Watch thyself; thou shalt not
turn to iniquity: for upon this thou
didst choose rather than affliction.

22 Behold, God will exalt by his
power: who teaches like him?

28 Who charged upon him his way?
and who said, Thou didst iniquity ?

24 Remember that thou shalt magni-
fy his work which men beheld.

26 Every man looked upon it; man
shall see from far off,

26 Behold, God is great, and we
shall not know the number of his years,
and it was not searched out.

27 For he will withhold the drops of
water: they will pour out rain for its
vapor.

28 Which the clouds will shake out;
* they will drop an abundance upon
man.

29 Also if he shall understand the
spreadings of the cloud, the noise of his
booth.

30 Behold, he spread upon it his
light, and he covered the roots of the
sea.

31 For by them he will judge the
peoples; he will give food to abun-
dance.

32 With the hands he covered the
light; and he commanded concerning
it with a mark.

33 His thunder will announce con-
cerning him, and the flock also con-
cerning the going up.

CHAPTER XXXVIL.
LSO-at this my heart shall trem-
ble, and it will leap from its
place.

2 Hearing, hear ye, to the noise of
his voice, and the growling going out
from his mouth.

3 He will let it go free under all

JOB XXXVILI.

the heavens, and his light upon the
wings of the earth.

4 After him a voice shall roar; he
will thunder with the voice of his maj-
esty: and he will not leave them be-
hind when his voice shall be heard.

5 God will thunder with his voice of
wonder, doing great things, and we
shall not know.

6 For he will say to the snow, Be it
on earth; and to the shower of rain,
and to the shower of the rains of his
strength.

7 He will seal in the hand of every
man, for all men to know his work.

8 And the beast shall go into the
covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.

9 From the chamber shall come
forth the whirlwind, and cold from the
scatterings.

10 From the breath of God ice will
be given, and the breadth of the waters
in being straitened.

11 Also by watering he will cast
down the cloud: he will scatter the
cloud of his light:

12 Being turned by his guidance to
their doing all that he commanded
them upon the face of the habitable
globe ot the earth,

18 If for the rod, if for his land, if
for mercy, it shall find him.

14 Give ear to this, O Job: stand
and consider the wonders of God.

15 Shalt thou know in God’s setting
upon them, and he caused the light of
his cloud to shine?

16 Shalt thou know upon the pois-
ings of the cloud, the wonders of the
complete of knowledges?

17 That thy garments are warm in
quieting the earth from the south?

18 Wilt thou spread out with him to
the clouds, strong as the sight of a
melted mass ?

19 Make known to us what we shall
say to him; we shall not set in order
from the face of darkness.

20 Shall it be recounted to him that
I shall speak? If a man spake, then
shall he be swallowed down.

21 And now they saw not the bright
light that is in the clouds: and the
wind passed over and it will cleanse
them.

JOB XXXVIIL

22 From the north, gold shall come:
upon God terrible majesty.

23 The Almighty we found not:
great of power and judgment, and much
justice, he will not afflict.

24 For this, men shall fear him: he
will not see all the wise of heart.

CHAPTER XXXVIIL
ND Jehovah will answer Job from
the whirlwind, and he will say,

2 Who this darkening counsel in
words without knowledge?

8 Gird now thy loins as a man; and
Τ will ask thee, and make thou known
to me.

4 Where wert thou in my founding
the earth? Announce, if thou knewest
understanding.

5 Who set its measures, if thou shalt
know? or who stretched the line up-
on it?

6 Upon what were its bases impress-
ed? or who placed its corner-stone ?

7 In the rejoicing together of the
stars of morning, and all the sons of
God will shout for joy?

8 And he will hedge in the sea with
doors in its breaking forth, going forth
from the womb.

9 In my making the cloud its gar-
ment, and darkness its bandage :

10 And 1 shall break upon it my
law, and I shall set bars and doors;

11 And saying, Even to this shalt
thou come, and thou shalt not add:
and here in the pride of thy waves,
stand thou.

12 In thy days didst thou command
the morning? and didst thou make
the dawning know its place?

13 To take hold upon the wings of
the earth, and the unjust shall be sha-
ken out of it?

14 It shall be turned as clay to the
seal; and they shall stand as clothing.

15 And their light shall be withheld
from the unjust, and the high arm shall
be broken.

16 Didst thou go even to the fount-
ains of the sea? and didst thou go
about in searching the depth ?

17 Were the gates of death uncov-
eted to thee? and shalt thou see the
gates of the shadow of death?

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18 Wilt thou consider even to the
breadth of the earth? Announce if
thou knewest all of it.

19 Where the way light shall dwell?
and darkness, where its place ?

20 That thou shalt take it to its
bound, and that thou shalt understand
the beaten paths of its house?

21 Knewest thou? for shalt thou
then be born, and the number of thy
days great ?

22 Didst thou come into the treasures
of snow? and shalt thou see the treas-
ures of hail,

23 Which I kept back for the time
of straits, for the day of encounter and
war ל‎

24 Where that way the light will di-
vide, it will scatter the east wind upon
the earth ?

25 Who divided a channel for the
overflowing, and a way for the light-
ning of the voices?

26 To cause it to rain upon the earth,
not a man; the wilderness not a man
in it?

27 To satisfy the desolation and burn-
ing, and to cause the springing up of
the finding of the tender grass?

28 Is there a father to the rain? or
who begat the reservoirs of the dew?

29 From whose womb came forth the
ice? and the hoar frost of the heavens,
who brought it forth ?

30 The waters shall be hid as a stone,
and the face of the depth will be
taken.

51 Wilt thou bind the bands of the
cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of
Orion?

89 Wilt thou bring forth the twelve
signs in its time? and the great bear
and his sons, wilt thou guide them?

33 Knewest thou the laws of the
heavens? or wilt thou set up its domin-
ion in the earth?

34 Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the
cloud, and abundance of waters shall
cover thee? /

35 Shalt thou send lightnings, and
shall they go and shall they say to thee,
Behold us?

36 Who put wisdom in the reins? or
who gave understanding to the mind?

37 Who shall number the clouds in

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wisdom ? and who shall cause the bot-
tles of heaven to lie down?

38 In the pouring out of the dust
into a melted mass, and the clods will
adhere.

39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the
lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of
the young lions ?

40 For they will sink down in the
dwellings; they will dwell in the thick-
et to lie in wait.

41 Who will prepare for the raven
his food? for his young will ery to
God; they will wander without food.

CHAPTER XXXIX.
NEWEST thou the time of the
bringing forth of the wild goats
of the rock? and wilt thou watch the
bearing of the hinds?

2 Wilt thou number the months they
shall fill up? and didst thou know the
time of their bringing forth ?

3 They will bow, they will bring
forth their children, they will cast forth
their pains.

4 Their sons willbe fat, they will in-
crease with grain; they will go forth
and not turn back to them.

5 Who sent the wild ass free? and
who opened the bonds of the wild
ass?

6 To whom did I set the desert his
house, and the salt land his dwellings?

7 He will laugh at the multitude of
the city ; he will not hear the noise of
him driving.

8 The searching out of the mount-
ains his pasture, and he will seek after
every green thing.

9 Will the buffalo be willing to serve
thee, or will he lodge by thy stall ?

10 Wilt thou bind the buffalo in the
furrow with cords, or will he harrow the
valleys after thee?

11 Wilt thou trust in him because
great his strength? and wilt thou leave
to him thy labor?

12 Wilt thou believe in him that he
will turn back thy seed and gather to
thy threshing-floor?

18 The wings of ostriches exulted;
and the wing-feather of the stork and
the pinion.

14 For she will leave her eggs to the

JOB XXXIX., XL.

earth, and she will warm them in the
dust ;

15 And she will forget that the foot
will press it, and the beast of the field
will crush it.

16 She made hard to her sons as not
to her: her labor in vain without fear ;

17 For God caused her to forget wis-
dom, and he divided not to her in un-
derstanding.

18 For the time she will lash herself
up upon height, she will laugh at the
horse and at his rider.

19 Wilt thou give strength to the
horse? wilt thou clothe his neck with
thunder ?

20 Wilt thou cause him to tremble
as the locust? the glory of his snorting
is terror.

21 They will dig in the valley, and
he will rejoice in strength: he will go
forth to the meeting of the weapon.

22 He will laugh at fear, and he will
not be dismayed ; and he will not tum
back from the face of the sword,

23 The quiver will give forth a whiz-
zing against him, the flame of the spear
and the javelin.

24 With leaping and rage he will
swallow the earth; and he will not be-
lieve that it is the voice of the tr umpet.

25 He will say according to the mul-
titude of the trumpet, Aha! and’ he
will smell the battle from far off, the
thunder of the chiefs, and the war ery.

26 From thy understanding will the
hawk mount upwards? will it stretch
its wings to the south ?

27 11 at thy mouth the eagle will lift
itself up, and ifit will raise up its nest ἡ

28 She will dwell in the rock, and
she will lodge upon the cliff of the
rock and the fortress.

29 From thence it sought food; far
off shall its eyes behold.

80 Her young shall suck up the
blood: and where the wounded, there
is she.

CHAPTER זא‎
ND Jehovah will answer Job, and
Ἃ he will say,
2 Shall he contending with the Al-
mighty, instruct? he reproving God
shall answer it.

JOB 1

8 And Job will answer Jehovah, and

say,

7 Behold, I was vile; what shall I
turn back to thee? I put my hand to
my mouth.

5 Once I spake, and I will not an-
swer: and twice, and I will not add.

6 And Jehovah will answer Job from
the whirlwind, and he will say,

7 Gird up now thy loins as a man; I
will ask thee, and do thou make known
tome. ἢ

8 Wilt thou also annul my judg-
ment? wilt thou condemn me so that
thou shalt be just?

9 And if an arm to thee as God? and
with thy voice wilt thou thunder as
he?

10 Deck thyself now with majesty
and grandeur, and thou shalt put on or-
nament and splendor.

11 Scatter the overflowings of thine
anger, and see every proud one and
bring him low.

12 See every proud one, and humble
him ; and crush the unjust in their place.

13 Hide them in the dust together,
and bind their faces in hiding.

14 And also 1 will confess to thee
that thy right hand shall save for thee.

15 Behold now, the great beast which
I made with thee; he will eat grass as
an OX.

16 Behold now, his strength in his
loins, and his power in the sinews of
his belly.

17 He will bend his tail as a cedar;
the sinews of his thighs will be woven
together.

18 His bones tubes of brass; his
bones as a hammered bar of iron.

19 He the chief of the ways of God:
he making him, his sword will reach.

20 For the mountains shall lift up
produce for him, and all the beasts of
the field shall play there.

21 He will lie down under the shades,
in the covering of the reed and marsh.

22 The shades shall cover him with
their shadow; the willows of the tor-
rent shall surround him.

23 Behold, he will oppress a river,
and he will not spring up: he will trust
that Jordan shall burst forth into his
mouth.

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24 He will take it with his eyes: his
nose will pierce through snares.

25 Wilt thou draw out the crocodile
with a hook? and with a cord wilt thou
press down his tongue?

26 Wilt thou put a rope in his nose?
and wilt thou hollow out his jaw with
a thorn?

27 Will he multiply supplications to
thee? will he speak soft things to thee?

28 Will he cut out a covenant with
thee ? wilt thou take him for a servant
forever ?

29 Wilt thou play with him as a
bird? and wilt thou bind him for thy
maidens ?

30 Shall companions give a feast upon
him? shall they divide him between
the Canaanites ?

51 Wilt thou fill his skin with point-
ed weapons? and his head with fish
spears ?

82 Put thy hand upon him; remem-
ber the battle, thou shalt not add.

CHAPTER ΧΙ].
EHOLD, his hope was false: shall
he not be cast down at his sight?

2 None fierce that he will rouse him
up: and who is he will stand before
me?

5 Who anticipated me, and 1 will
recompense? under all the heavens it
is to me.

4 J will not be silent for him, and
the word of powers and the beauty of
is preparation.

5 Who uncovered the face of his
clothing? who shall come with his
double bridle?

6 Who opened the doors of his face ?
his teeth a terror round about:

7 Pride of strong shields shut up with
a seal of straitness.

8 One shall touch upon another, and
the wind shall not come between
them.

9 They will adhere each in his broth-
erhood, they will hold together, and
they will not be separated.

10 His sneezings a light will shine,
and his eyes as the eyelashes of the
dawning of day.

11 From his mouth flaming torches
shall go forth; sparks of fire will escape.

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19 From his nostrils smoke will come
forth as a blown pot, and a caldron.

13 His soul will kindle coals, and a
flame will go forth from his mouth.

14 In his neck will lodge strength,
and terror will leap before him.

15 The flaps of his flesh adhered : it
will press upon him; it will not be
moved.

16 His heart will press as a stone;
and it will press as the under millstone.

17 His lifting up, the mighty will be
stirred up: from breaking they shall
purify themselves.

18 The sword reaching him, shall not
be raised up: the spear, the dart, and
the coat of mail.

19 He will reckon iron for straw, and
brass for wood of rottenness.

20 The son of the bow shall not cause
him to flee: sling-stones were turned to
him for stubble.

21 The bludgeon was reckoned to
him for stubble: and he will laugh at
the shaking of the javelin.

22 Sharpnesses of the potsherd under
him: he will spread a trench upon the
mire.

23 He will cause the deep to boil as
a pet: he will set the sea as ointment.

24 He will cause a beaten path to
shine after him: the deep will be reck-
oned to be hoary.

25 None upon the dust being like
him; he made him without fear.

26 He will see every thing high: he
is king over all the sons of pride.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
ND Job will answer Jehovah, and
«ΕΔ he will say,

2 I knew that thou wilt be able to
do all, and counsel shall not be restrain-
ed from thee.

3 Who this hiding counsel without
knowledge? for this, I announced, and
T shall not understand ; wonders above
me, and I shall not know.

4 Hear, now, and I will speak: I
will ask thee and make thou known to
me.

5 By the hearing of the ear I heard
of thee: and now mine eyes saw thee:

6 For this, I shall melt away, and I
lamented in dust and ashes.

JOB XLII.

7 And it will be after Jehovah spake
these words to Job, and Jehoyah will
say to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine an-
ger was kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye spake not
the right before me as my servant Job.

8 And now take to you seven bul-
locks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and bring up a burnt-
offering for yourselves; and my ser-
vant Job shall pray for you: for his
face I will accept, so as not to do with
you for folly, for ye spake not to me
the right as my servant Job.

9 And Eliphaz the Temanite, and
Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naa-
mathite, will go, and they will do ae-
cording as God Jehovah spake: and
Jehovah will accept the face of Job.

10 And Jehovah turned back the
captivity of Job in his praying for hrs
friends: and Jehovah pee all which
was to Job, to the double.

11 And there will come to him all
his brethren and all his sisters, and all
knowing him before; and they will eat
bread with him in his house: and they
will deplore for him, and they will
comfort him upon all the evil which
Jehovah brought upon him: and they
will give to him each one weight, and
each one ring of gold.

12 And Jehovah blessed the Iatter
state of Job more than his beginning:
and there will be to him fourteen thou-
sand sheep, and six thousand camels,
and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a
thousand she-asses.

13 And there will be to him seven
sons and three daughters.

14 And he will call the name of the
one, Jemima; and the name of the
second, Kezia; and the name of the
third, Keren-Happuch.

15 And women were not found fair
as the daughters of Job, in all the land:
and their father will give to them an
inheritance in the midst of their breth-
ren.

16 And Job will live after this a
hundred and forty years, and he will
see his sons, and his sons’ sons, four
generations.

17 And Job will die, old and full of
days.

SONG OF SOLOMON.

CHAPTER I.
HE song of songs which is to Solo-
mon.

2 He shall kiss me from the kisses of
his mouth: for thy good breasts are
above wine.

3 To the odor of thy good ointments
thy name shall be poured forth an oint-
ment; for this, the maidens Joved thee.

4 Draw me, we will run after thee:
the king brought me to his chambers:
we will exult and rejoice in thee, we
will remember thy breasts above wine:
the upright loved thee.

5 I am black and beautiful, O daugh-
ters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Ke-
dar, as the curtains of Solomon.

6 Thou shalt not see me, 1 am black ;
the sun searched me: my mother’s sons
were angry with me; they set me to
watch the vineyards; my vineyard I
watched not for me.

7 Announce to me, thou whom my
soul loved, where thou wilt feed, where
thou wilt lie down at noon: wherefore
shall I be as he covered by the herds of
thy companions,

8 If thou shalt not know for thyself,
O fair one among women, come forth
for thyself at the heels of the flock, and
feed thy kids by the shepherds’ tents.

9 To my mares in Pharaoh’s chariots
I likened thee, Ὁ my neighbor.

10 Thy cheeks were beautiful with
with rows, thy neck with strings of
pearls.

11 We will make for thee rows of.

gold, with marks of silver.

12 The king yet in his divan, my
spikenard gave its odor.

13 A bundle of myrrh my beloved
to me; he shall lodge between my
breasts.

14 A cluster of cypressmy beloved
to me in the vineyards of the kids’
fountain.

15 Behold thee fair, my friend ; behold
thee beautiful; thine eyesare doves’.

16 Behold thee beautiful, my beloy-
ed, also pleasant; also our bed is green.

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17 The walls of our houses cedars,
our carved ceilings, cypresses.

CHAPTER 1.

AM the flower of the plain, the lly

of the valleys.

2 As the lily between thorns, so is
my friend between the daughters.

3 As the apple among the trees of
the forest, so my beloved between the
sons. In his shadow I delighted, and
I sat down, and his fruit was sweet to
my palate.

4 He brought me to the house of
wine, and his banner over me was love.

5 Sustain me with cakes, and refresh
me with apples, for I am pierced of
love.

6 His left hand is under my head,
and his right shall embrace me.

7 Ladjured you, O daughters of Je-
rusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of
the field, if ye shall awake and if ye
shall arouse love till he shall desire.

8 The voice of my beloved! behold
him coming leaping upon the mount-
ains, springing upon the hills.

9 My beloved is like to the roe or to
the fawn of the hinds: behold him
standing behind our wall looking forth
from the windows, glancing from the
lattices.

10 My beloved answered and said to
me, Rise up for thyself, my friend, my
beautiful one, and go for thyself.

11 For behold, the winter passed
away, the rain glided away; it went
for itself.

12 The flowers were seen in the earth ;
the time of pruning came, and the voice
of the turtle-dove was heard in our land.

13 The fig tree ripened its unripe
figs, and the vines are in blossom; they
gave an odor. Rise up, my friend, my
beautiful one, and go for thyself.

14 My dove in the refuges of the
rock, in the hiding of the steep mount-
ain: cause me to see thy form, cause
me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is
sweet and thy form becoming.

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15 Seize for us the foxes, the little
foxes destroying the vineyards:
our vineyards are in blossom.

16 My beloved to me, and I to him:
he feeding among the lilies.

17 Until the day shall breathe and
the shadows fled away, turn, thou, it
being likened to thee, my beloved, to
the roe, or to the fawn of the hind upon
the mountains of section.

CHAPTER III.
PON my bed in the night I sought
him whom my soul loved: 1
sought him, and I found him not.

21 will arise now, and I will go
round about in the city; in the streets,
and in the broad places I will seek him
whom my soul 100760. I sought him,
and I found him not.

8 They watching going about in the
city, found me: Saw ye him that my
soul loved?

4 Asa little I passed from them till
I found him my soul loved: I held
him fast, and 1 shall not let him go till
I brought him into my mother’s house,
and to the chamber of her conceiving
me.

5 Tadjured you, O daughters of Je-
rusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds
of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye
shall arouse love till he shall desire.

6 Who is this coming up from the
desert as columns of smoke of burning
incense, of myrrh and frankincense
from all the powder of the trader.

7 Behold his bed of Solomon: sixty
strong ones round about it from the
strong ones of Israel.

8 All of them holding the sword,
being trained to war: each his sword
upon his thigh from terror in the
night.

9 King Solomon made for himself a
litter from the woods of Lebanon.

10 Its pillars he made silver, its sup-
port gold, its seat reddish purple, its
midst tesselated with love from the
daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go forth, ye daughters of Zion,
and look upon king Solomon; upon
the crown his mother crowned to him
in the day of his espousals, and in the
day of the gladness of his heart.

SOLOMON’S SONG III, IV.

CHAPTER IV.

and ee er thee beautiful, my friend,

behold thee beautiful; thine eyes
doves’ from behind to thy veil: thy hair
as a herd of goats which lay down from
mount Gilead.

2 Thy teeth as a herd of the shorn
which came up from the washing; all
of them bearing twins, and none barren
among them.

3 As a scarlet thread thy lips, and
thy speech becoming: as a piece of
pomegranate, thy temples from behind
thy veil.

4 As the tower of David thy neck,
built for the weapons; a thousand
shields hung upon it, all shields of the
powerful.

5 Thy two breasts as two fawns,
twins of the roe deer feeding among the
lilies.

6 Till the day shall breathe, and the
shadows fled away, I will go for myself
to the mountain of myrrh, and to the
hill of Lebanon.

7 All of thee beautiful, my friend,
and no blemish in thee.

8 Thou shalt come with me from Leb-
anon, O bride, with me from Lebanon:
thou shalt go round about from the
head of faith, from the head of Shenir
and Hermon, from the dwellings of
lions, from the mountains of panthers.

9 Thou didst rob me of the heart, my
sister, O bride; thou didst rob me of
the heart with one of thine eyes, with
one necklace of thy neck.

10 How beautiful were thy breasts,
my sister, O bride! how good were thy
breasts above wine, and the odor of
thine ointments above all spices.

11 Thy lips will drop honey drop-
pings, O. bride: honey and milk under
thy tongue, and the odor of thy gar-
ments as the odor of Lebanon.

12 A garden shut up, my sister, 0
bride; a reservoir shut up, a fountain
sealed.

18 Thy sendings forth a park of pome-
granates, with most: precious fruits, cy-
presses with spikenards,

14 Spikenard and saffron; the reed
and cinnamon, with all the woods of
Lebanon; myrrh and aloes, with all
the heads of spices,

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15 A fountain of gardens, a well of liy-
ing waters and flowings from Lebanon.
16 Awake, O north wind; and come,
thou south, blow upon my garden; its
spices shall flow out. My beloved shall
come to his garden, and he shall eat

his most precious fruits.

1 CAME to my garden, my sister, O
spouse: I gathered my myrrh with

my spices; I ate my droppings with

my honey; 1 drank my wine with my

milk: Eat, O friends; drink ye, and

drink to the full, O beloved ones.

21 slept and my heart waked: the
voice of my beloved knocks at the door ;
Open to me, my sister, my friend, my
dove, my perfect one: my head was
filled with dew, my locks with the
drops of the night.

3 I put off my tunic, and how shall
IT put it on? I washed my feet; how
shall I defile them?

4 My beloved sent his hand from the
hole, and my bowels were disquieted
for him.

5 I arose to open to my beloved, and
my hands dropped myrrh, and my fin-
gers, myrrh overflowing upon the hands
of the bolt.

6 I opened to my beloved, and my
beloved turned about, he passed away :
my soul went forth in his speaking: I
sought and 1 found him not; I called
him and he answered me not.

7 They watching going round about
in the city, found me; they struck me,
they wounded me: they watching the
wall took away my veil from me.

8 I adjured you, O daughters of Jeru-
salem, if ye shall find my beloved, what
ye shall announce to him: 1 am pierced
by love.

9 What is thy beloved above the be-
loved, O beautiful one among women ?
What thy beloved above the beloved,
that thou didst thus adjure us?

10 My beloved is white and ruddy,
bearing the standard of ten thousand.

11 His head purified gold, his locks
waving branches, black as a raven.

12 His eyes as doves upon channels
of waters washed with milk, sitting up-
on fulness.

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18 His cheeks as beds of spices, tow-
ers of aromatic herbs: his lips lilies,
dropping overflowing myrrh.

14 His hands rings of ₪010 completed
in Tarshish: his bowels wrought ivory
covered over with sapphires.

15 His legs pillars of white marble,
founded upon bases of pure gold: his
aspect as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

16 His palate, sweetness: he is all
loveliness. This my beloved, and this
my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

CHAPTER VI.
HERE went thy beloved, O
beautiful one among women?
where turned away thy beloved, and
we will seek him with thee.

2 My beloved went down to his gar-
den, to the beds of spices, to feed in the
gardens, and to gather lilies.

3 I to my beloved, and my beloved
to me: he feeding among the lilies.

4 Thou art beautiful my friend, as
delight ; becoming as Jerusalem, a ter-
ror as those being furnished with ban-
ners.

5 Turn away thine eyes from before
me; they enlarged me: thy hairasa herd
of goats which lay down from Gilead.

6 Thy teeth as a herd of sheep which
went up from the washing, all of them
bearing twins, and none barren among
them.

7 Asa piece of pomegranate thy tem-
ples from behind thy veil.

8 They are sixty queens, and eighty
concubines, and maidens no number.

9 She is one, my dove, my perfect
one; she is one to her mother, she is
the chosen to her bearing her. The
daughters saw her and pronounced her
happy ; the queens and the concubines,
and they will praise her.

10 Who this looking forth as the
morning, beautiful as the moon, clear
as the sun, a terror as those being fur-
nished with banners?

11 I went down into the garden of
nuts to look upon the greens of the val-
ley, to see whether the vine was fruit-
ful, whether the pomegranates blos-
somed.

12 I knew not my soul set me the
chariots of my willing people.

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CHAPTER VII.
URN back, turn back, thou Shu-
lamite; turn back, turn back, and
we will look upon thee. What will ye
see in the Shulamite? As the stringed
instrument of the camps.

2 How beautiful were thy steps with
shoes, O daughter of a noble! the cir-
cuits of thy thighs a necklace, the work
of the hands of an artist.

3 Thy navel a bowl of roundness, it
will not want mixed wine; thy belly a
heap of wheat enclosed with lilies.

4 Thy two breasts as two fawns,
twins of the roe-deer.

5 Thy neck as a tower of ivory;
thine eyes pools in Heshbon, by the
gate of the daughter of many: thy
nose as the tower of Lebanon viewing
the face of Damascus.

6 Thy head upon thee as Carmel,
and the locks of thy head as purple;
the King being bound in curls.

7 How beautiful and how pleasant
thou wert, O love, in delights !

8 This thy height was like to a
palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters.

9 I said, I will go up upon the palm
tree, I will hold fast upon its branches :
and now thy breasts shall be as clusters
of the vine, and the odor of thy nose as
apples.

10 And thy palate as good wine go-
mg to my beloved for uprightness,
causing the lips of the sleeping to flow
softly.

11 I to my beloved, and upon me his
desire.

12 Come, my beloved, we will go
forth to the field; we will lodge in the
villages.

13 We will rise early to the vine-
yards; we will see if the vine was
fruitful, the vine blossoms opened, the
pomegranates blossomed: there will I
give my beloved to thee.

14 The mandrakes gave an odor, and
upon our entrances all precious things,
new also old, my beloved, I laid up for
thee.

CHAPTER VIII.
\ 7 HO will give thee asa brother
to me, sucking the breasts of

my mother? I shall find thee without,

SOLOMON’S SONG VIL, VIL

I shall kiss thee; also they shall not
despise me.

2 I will lead thee, I will bring thee
to the house of my mother; thou wilt
teach me: I will give thee to drink
from spiced wine from the new wine
of my pomegranate.

3 His left hand under my head, and
his right shall embrace me.

41 adjured you, Ὁ daugh’e’s of
Jerusalem, why will ye awake, and
why will ye rouse love till he shall de-
sire? }

5 Who this coming up from the des-
ert, leaning herself upon her belov-
ed? Under the apple tree I aroused
thee: there thy mother brought thee
forth: there she bearing thee, brought
forth .

6 Set me as aseal upon thy heart,
as a seal upon thine arm: for love was
strong as death; jealousy hard as
hades: its flames, flames of fire, flames
of Jehovah.

7 Many waters shall not be able to
quench love, and rivers shall not over-
whelm it: if a man shall give all the
riches of his house for love, despising,
they shall be despised for him.

8 A little sister to us, and no breasts
to her: what shall we do for our sis-
ter in the day it shall be spoken for
her?

9 If she be a wall, we will build upon
her a fortress of silver: and if she is a
door we will bind upon her a tablet of
cedar.

101 ama wall, and my breasts as
towers: then was I in his eyes as find-
ing peace.

11 A vineyard was to Solomon in
the place of a multitude; he gave the
vineyards to those watching; each
shall bring in its fruit a thousand of
silver.

12 My vineyard to me before me: a
thousand to thee, O Solomon, and two
hundred to those watching its fruit.

18 Thou sitting in the gardens, the
companions attending to thy voice:
cause thou me to hear,

14 Flee, my beloved, and be it liken-
ed to thee to the roe or to the fawn
of the hinds upon the mountains of
spices.

BOOK OF RUTH.

CHAPTER I.

ND it will be in the days of the

judging of the judges, and there

will be a famine in the land. And a

man from the house of bread of Judah

will go to sojourn in the field of Moab,
he and his wife and his two sons.

2 And the name of the man Elime-
lech, and the name of his wife, Naomi,
and the name of his two sons, Mahlon
and Chilion, Ephrathites from the house
of bread of Judah. And they will
come to the field of Moab and be there.

3 And Klimelech will die, the hus-
band of Naomi; and she will be left,
and her two sons.

4 And they will take to them wives
from the Moabitesses; the name-of the
one, Orpah, and the name of the second,
Ruth: and they will dwell there about
ten years.

5 And Mahlon and Chilion, also they
two, will die; and the woman will be
left of her two children and of her hus-
band.

6 And she will arise and her daugh-
ters-in-law, and she will turn back from
the field of Moab: for she heard in the
field of Moab that Jehovah reviewed
‘his people to give bread to them.

7 And she will go forth from the
place where she was there, and her two
daughters-in-law with her; and they
will go in the way to turn back to the
land of Judah.

8 And Naomi will say to her two
daughters-in-law, Go, turn back each to
the house of her mother: Jehovah will
do mercy with you according as ye did
with the dead, and with me.

9 Jehovah will give to you, and find
ye rest, each in the house of her hus-
band. And she will kiss to them, and
they will lift up their voice and weep.

10 And they will say to her, But
ἯΙ thee we will turn back to thy peo-

6
4 11 And Naomi will say, Turn back,
my daughters: wherefore will ye go
“with me? are yet to me sons in my

bowels, and they were to you for hus-
bands?

12 Turn back, my daughters, there-
fore; for I grew old from being for a
husband. If I said, There is. hope to
me, also I was this night to a husband,
and also I bare sons;

13 Will ye wait for them till they
shall grow? Will ye remain shut up
for them not to be fora husband? Nay,
my daughters, for it is bitter to me
greatly for you, that the hand of Jeho-
vah will go forth against me.

14 And they will lift up their voice
and weep yet. And Orpah will kiss to
her mother-in law; and Ruth adhered
to her.

15 And she will say, Behold, thy sis-
ter-in-law turned back to her people,
and to her gods: turn thou back: after
thy sister-in-law.

16 And Ruth will say, Thou shalt
not urge upon me to forsake thee, to
turn back from after thee: for where
thou shalt go, I will go; and where
thou shalt lodge, I will lodge: thy peo-
ple my people, and thy God my God:

17 Where thou shalt die, I will die,
and there will I be buried: thus will
Jehovah do to me, and thus will he
add, for death shall separate between
me and between thee.

18 And she will see that she strength-
ening herself to go with her, and she
will cease to 8086 to her.

19 And they two will go till they

came to the house of bread. And it
will be as they came to the house of
bread, and all the city will be moved
at them, and they will say, Is this Na-
omi?
_ 20 And she will say to them, Ye shall
not call to me Naomi; 6811 to me, Ma-
ra: for the Almighty made bitter to
me greatly.

211 went away full, and Jehovah
turned me back empty; wherefore will
ye call to me Naomi, and Jehovah
humbled me, and the Almighty did
evil to me?

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22 And Naomi will turn back, and
Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law,
with her, turned back from the field of
Moab: and they came to the house of
bread in the beginning of the harvest
of barley.

CHAPTER IL.
Λ ND to Naomi an acquaintance to
her husband, a strong man of
wealth, from the family of Klimelech ;
and his name Boaz.

2 And Ruth the Moabitess will say
to Naomi, I will now go to the field,
and I will gather among the ears after
whom I shall find favor in his eyes.
And she will say to her, Go, my daugh-
ter.

3 And she will go, and come and
gather in the field after the reapers;
and she will happen from chance upon a
part of the field to Boaz, who was from
the family of Elimelech.

4 And behold, Boaz came from the
house of bread, and he will say to the
reapers, Jehovah be with you. And
they will say to him, Jehovah will
bless thee.

5 And Boaz will say to his young
man set over the reapers, To whom this
maiden ?

6 And the young man set over the
reapers will answer and say, The Mo-
abitess maiden; she turned back with
Naomi from the field of Moab.

7 And she will say, I will gather
now; and I collected among the
sheaves after the reapers: and she will
stand from that time of the morning,
and even to this time of her sitting in
the house a little.

8 And Boaz will say to Ruth, Heard-
est thou not, my daughter? Thou
shalt not go to gather in another field,
and also thou shalt not pass away from
this; and here thou shalt adhere wit
my maidens:

9 Thine eyes upon the field which
they shall reap, and thou wentest after
them: did I not command the young
men not to touch thee? And being
thirsty and go thou to the vessels and
drink from what the young men shall
draw.

10 And she will fall upon her face

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and worship to the earth, and she will
say to him, Wherefore did I find favor
in thine eyes, and thou didst recognize
me, and I a stranger?

11 And Boaz will answer and say to
her, Announcing, it was announced to
me all that thou didst with thy mother-
in-law after the death of thy husband:
and thou wilt leave thy father and thy
mother, and the land of thy birth, and
thou wilt come to a people thou knew-
est not yesterday the third day.

12 Jehovah will recompense thy
work, and thy reward shall be com-
plete from Jehovah God of Israel, be-
cause thou camest to trust under his
wings.

13 And she will say, Shall I find fa-
vor in thine eyes, my lord? For thou
didst comfort me, and that thou spakest
to the heart of thy servant, and shall 1
not be as one of thy servants?

14 And Boaz will say to her, At the
time of eating draw near hither and eat
from the bread, and dip thy morsel in
the vinegar. And she will sit by side
of the reapers: and he will lay hold of
the parched grain for her, and she will
eat and be satisfied, and will leave.

15 And she will rise up to gather,
and Boaz commanded his young men,
saying, Also she shall gather between
the sheaves, and ye shall not shame
her:

16 And also draw ye out for her
from the sheaves and leave, and she
gathering ; and ye shall not rebuke her.

17 And she will gather in the field
till the evening, and she will beat out
what she gathered, and it will be about
an ephah of barley.

18 And she will lift up and come to
the city: and her mother-in-law will
see what she gathered: and she will
bring forth and give to her what she
left from her being filled.

19 And her mother-in-law will say to
her, Where didst thou gather this day ?
and where didst thou work? he recog-
nizing thee shall be blessed. And she
will announce to her mother-in-law
whom she worked with him, and she
will say, The name of the man whom I
worked with him this day, is Boaz.

20 And Naomi will say to her

RUTH IL, Iv.

dauchter-in-law, Blessed be he to Jeho-
vah, who let not go his mercy with the
living and with the dead. Naomi said
to her, The man is near to us, he is
blood relative.

21 And Ruth the Moabitess will say,
Also that he said to me, With the
young men which are to me thou shalt
adhere till they finished all the harvest
which is to me.

22 And Naomi will say to Ruth her
daughter-in-law, Good, my daughter,
that thou shalt go with his maidens,
and they shall not light upon thee in
another field.

23 And she will adhere to the maid-
ens of Boaz, to gather even to the end
of the harvest of barley and the harvest
of wheat; and she will dwell with her
mother-in-law.

CHAPTER III. .
ND Naomi her mother-in-law will
say to her, My daughter, shall I
not seek rest for thee, that it shall be
well to thee?

2 And now is not Boaz from our ac-
quaintance of whom thou wert with his
maidens? Behold him winnowing the
threshing-floor of barley this night.

3 And wash thou and anoint thyself,
and put thy garments upon thee, and go
down to the threshing-floor: thou shalt
not make thyself known to the man
till his finishing to eat and to drink.

4 And it will be in his lying down,
and know thou the place where he
shall lie down there, and go in and un-
cover from his feet, and lie down; and
he will announce to thee what thou
shalt do.

5 And she will say to her, All that
thou shalt say to me, I will do.

6 And she will go down to the
threshing-floor, and she will do accord-
ing to all that her mother-in-law com-
manded her.

7 And Boaz will eat and drink, and
his heart will be done good to; and he
will go to lie down upon the end of the
heap: and she will come secretly and
she will uncover from his feet, and lie
down.

8 And it will be in the middle of the
night, and the man will be terrified:

and he will turn and behold a woman
lying from his feet.

9 And he will say, Who art thou?
And she will say, 1 am Ruth thy ser-
vant: and spread thy wing over thy
servant, for thou a blood relation.

10 And he will say, Blessed thou to
Jehovah, my daughter: thou didst
make good thy mercy at the last more
than the beginning, so that thou went-
est not after the young men, if poor and
if rich.

11 And now, my daughter, thou
shalt not fear; all which thou shalt say,
I will do to thee: for all the gate of my
people will know that thou art a wo-
man of power.

12 And now that truly if I a blood
relation: and also there is a blood rela-
tion nearer than I.

13 Lodge this night, and it being in
the morning, if he will redeem thee,
good; he shall redeem: and if he de-
sire not to redeem thee, and I redeemed
thee, Jehovah lives: lie down till morn-
ing.

‘14 And she will lie down from his
feet till morning: and she will rise be-
fore a man shall recognize his neighbor.
And he will say, It shall not be known
that the woman came to the threshing-
floor.

15 And he will say, Bring me the
upper garment which is upon thee, and
hold fast upon it. And she will hold
fast upon it, and he will measure six of
barley, and he will place upon her:
and he will go to the city.

16 And she will come to her mother-
in-law, and she will say, Who art thou,
my daughter? And she will announce
to her all that the man did to her.

17 And she will say, These six of
barley he gave to me; for he said,
Thou shalt not go empty to thy moth-
er-in-law.

18 And she will say, Sit, my daugh-
ter, till thou shalt know how the word
will fall: for the man will not rest till
he finished the word this day.

CHAPTER IV.
A ND Boaz went up to the gate and
sat there: and behold, the blood
relation whom Boaz spake of, passing

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by; and he will say, Turn aside, sit
down here; thou such a one. And he
will turn aside, and sit down.

2 And he will take ten men from the
old men of the city, and he will say,
Sit ye down here. And they will sit
down.

3 And he will say to the blood rela.
tive, The portion of the field which was
to our brother Elimelech, Naomi turn-
ing back from the field of Moab, sells:

4 And 1 said, I will reveal to thine
ear, saying, Buy before the inhabitants,
and before the old men of my people.
If thou wilt redeem, redeem: and if
thou wilt not redeem, announce to me,
and I shall know: for none besides thee
to. redeem; and I after thee; and he
will say, I will redeem.

5 And Boaz will say, In the day of
thy buying the field from the hand of
Naomi, and from Ruth the Moabitess,
the wife of the dead, thou boughtest it
to raise up the name of the dead upon
his inheritance.

6 And the near relative will say, I
shall not be able to redeem for me, lest
Τ shall destroy my inheritance: redeem
to thyself; thou the near relative: for I
shall not be able to redeem.

7 And this before in Israel upon re
demption and upon exchange, to set up
all the word; a man drew off his shoe
and gave to his neighbor: and this the
precept in Israel.

8 And the blood relative will say to
Boaz, Buy for thee. And he will draw
off Is shoe.

9 And Boaz will say to the old men
and all the people, Ye are witnesses
this day that I bought all which was
to Elimelech, and “all which was to
Chilion and Mahlon, from the hand of
Naomi. :

10 And also Ruth the Moabitess, the
wife of Mahlon, I bought. to me for a
wife, to raise up the name of the dead
upon his inheritance; and the name of

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the dead shall not be cut off from his
brethren and from the gate of his place:
ye are witnesses this day.

11 And all the Boonie which are in
the gate will say, and the old men, Wit-
nesses. Jehovah will give the woman
coming into thy house as Rachel and as
Leah, “which they two built up the
house of Israel: and make thou power
in Ephratah, and call a name in the
house of bread.

12 And thy house shall be as the
house of Pharez which Tamar bare to
Judah, from the seed which Jehovah
shall give to thee from this maiden.

13 And Boaz will take Ruth, and
she will be to him for a wife: and he
will come in to her, and Jehovah will
give to her conception, and she will
bring forth a son.

14 And the women will say to Nao-
mi, Blessed be Jehovah who caused not
to cease to thee a blood relation this
day; and his name shall be called in
Israel.

15 And being to thee for the turning
back the soul, and to nourish thy gray
hairs: for thy daughter-in-law who
loved thee brought him forth; for she
is good to thee above seven sons.

16 And Naomi will take the child
and put him in her bosom, and she will
be to him for nurse.

17 And the neighbors will call to
him a name, saying, A son was barn to
Naomi; and they will call his name
Obed: he the father of Jesse, the father
of David. é

18 And these the generations of Pha-
rez: Pharez begat Hezron,

19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram
begat Aminadab,

20 And Aminadab begat Nashon,
and Nashon begat Salmon,

21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Bo-
az begat Obed,

22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse
begat David.

LAMENTATIONS.

CHAPTER I.
HS sat the city alone being many
in people! she was as a widow:
being many among the nations, being a
leader in the provinces, she became for
tribute.

2 Weeping, she will weep in 6
night, and her tears upon her cheeks:
no comfort to her from all loving her :
all her friends dealt faithlessly with her,
they were to her for enemies.

8 Judah was carried away captive
from affliction, and from the greatness
of her serving: she dwelt in the nations,
she found no rest: all pursuing her
overtook her between straitnesses.

4 The ways of Zion mourn from none
coming to the appointment: all her
gates being desolated: her priests
groaning, her virgins grieved, and it is
bitterness to her.

5 Her adversaries were for head, her
enemies were secure; for Jehovah af-
flicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions: her children went into
captivity before the face of him pressing.

6 From the daughter of Zion all her
decoration went forth: her chiefs were
as rams; they found not feed, and they
went without strength before him pur-
suing.

7 Jerusalem remembered the days of
her affliction and her wanderings, all her
delights which were from the days of
old in the falling of her people into the
hand of the enemy, and none helping
for her: the adversaries saw her; they
laughed at her calamities.

8 Jerusalem sinned a sin; for this
she was for a removing: all honoring
her despised her, for they saw her na-
kedness: also she sighed, and she will
turn away behind.

9 Her uncleanness is in her train;
she remembered not her latter state;
and she will come down wonderfully :
none comforting for her. See, O Jeho-
vah, my affliction: for the enemy mag-
nified.

10 The adversary spread out his hand

upon all her delights, for she saw the
nations came in to her holy place, which
thou didst command they shall not
come in to the convocation to thee.

11 All her people sighing, seeking
bread ; they gave from their delights
for food to turn back the soul: see, O
Jehovah, and regard; for I was des-
pised.

12 Nothing to you, all ye pass;

ing by the way? Behold, and see if
there is pain as my pain, which was
done to me with which Jehovah afflict-
ed in the day of the burning of his an-
ger.
“18 From height he sent fire into my
bones, and it brought them down: he
spread a net for my feet, he turned me
away behind: he gave me desolation,
being sad all the day.

14 The yoke of my transgressions
was bound by his hand: they will be
woven together, they came up upon my
neck: he caused my strength to fail,
Jehovah gave me into the hands; 1
shall not be able to rise up.

15 Jehovah contemned all my mighty
ones in my midst: he called an appoint-
ment upon me to break my chosen ones:
Jehovah trod the wine-press to the vir-
gin, the daughter of Judah.

16. For these 1 weep; mine eye, mine
eye will go down with water, for he
comforting turning back my soul, re-
moved far off from me: my sons were
desolations, for the enemy prevailed.

17 Zion spread forth her hands, none
comforting for her: Jehovah com-
manded for Jacob, his adversaries round
about him: Jerusalem was for unclean-
ness within them.

18 Jehovah he is just; for I embit-
tered his mouth: hear now, all ye peo-
ples, and see my pain: my virgins and
my chosen ones went into captivity.

19 I called to those loving me, they de-
ceived me: my priests and my old men
expired in the city, for they sought
food for them, and they will turn back
their souls,

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20 See, O Jehovah; for straits to
me: my bowels were in a ferment ; my
heart turned in my midst; for embit-
tering, I embittered: without, the sword
bereaved ; in the house, as death.

21 Hear, ye, for I groan: none com-
forting for me: all mime enemies heard
my evils: they rejoiced that thou didst :
thou broughtest the day thou didst call,
and they shall be like me.

22 All their evil shall come before
thee; and do evil to them according as
thou didst evil to me for all my trans-
gressions: for many my groanings, and
my heart being sad.

CHAPTER 1
OW will Jehovah in his anger
cover the daughter of Zion! he
cast down from the heavens to the earth
the beauty of Israel, and he remember-
ed not the footstool of his feet in the
day of his anger.

2 Jehovah swallowed up, not pity-
ing, all the seats of Jacob: he pulled
down in his wrath the fortresses of the
daughter of Judah; he caused to touch
to the earth: he defiled the kingdom
and her chiefs.

3 He cut off in the burning of anger
all the horn of Israel: he turned back
his right hand from the face of the en-
emy, and he will consume against Ja-
cob as a fire of flame devouring round
about.

4 He bent his bow as an enemy: he
set his nght hand as an adversary, and
he will slay all the delights of the eye
in the tent of the daughter of Zion: he
poured his wrath as fire.

5 Jehovah was as an enemy: he
swallowed up Israel, he swallowed up
all her fortresses: he destroyed his for-
tifications, and he will multiply in the
daughter of Judah sorrow and sighing.

6 And he will tear away as a garden
his dwelling: he destroyed his appoint-
ment: Jehovah caused to forget the ap-
pointment in Zion, and the Sabbath,
and he will despise in the wrath of his
anger the king and the priest.

7 Jehovah rejected his altar, he ab-
horred his holy place, he shut up in the
hand of the enemy the walls of με cas-
tles; they gave a voice in the house of

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Jehovah, as the day of the appoint-
ment.

8 Jehovah purposed to destroy the
walls of the daughter of Zion: he
stretched out a line, he turned not back
his hand from swallowing down: and
the entrenchment will mourn, and the
wall; together: they languished.

9 Her gates sank into the earth; he
destroyed and broke her bars: her king
and her chiefs among the nations: no
law: also her prophets found not a vis-
ion from Jehovah.

10 They sat upon the earth; the old
men of the daughter of Zion were si-
lent; they brought up the dust upon
their head: they girded on sackcloth:
the virgins of Jerusalem brought down
their head to the earth.

11 Mine eyes failed with tears, my
bowels were in a ferment, my liver was
poured out to the earth, upon the
breaking of the daughter of my people ;
in the fainting of the child and suck-
ling in the wide places of the city.

12 To their mothers will they say,
Where the grain and wine? in their
languishing as the wounded in the
broad places of the city, in the pouring
out of their soul into their mothers’ bo-
som.

13 What shall I testify for thee?
What shall I liken to thee, O daughter
of Jerusalem? What shall I compare
to thee, and comfort thee, O virgin
daughter of Zion? for great as the sea
thy breaking: who shall heal for thee?

14 Thy prophets saw for thee vanity
and a foolish thing, and they uncovered
not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy
captivity ; and they will see for thee
burdens of falsehood and seductions.

15 All passing by the way clapped
their hands at thee; they hissed, and
they will nod their head at the daugh-
ter of Jerusalem: This the city, they
will say; the complete splendor of joy
to all the earth.

16 All thine enemies opened wide
their mouth upon thee: they hissed
and they will gnash the teeth : they said,
We swallowed down: surely this the
day we longed for; we found; wesaw.

17 Jehovah did what he purposed;
he completed his word which he com-

LAMENTATIONS 1.

manded in days of old: he pulled down
and he pitied not: and he will gladden
the enemy over thee; he lifted up the
horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried to Jehovah, O
wall of the daughter of Zion, cause
tears to go down as a torrent day and
night: thou shalt give no remission to
thyself; the daughter of thine eye shall
not be silent.

19 Arise, cry aloud in the night: at
the head of the watches pour out thy
heart as water before the face of Jeho-
vah: lift up thy hands to him for the
soul of thy young children fainting with
hunger in the head of all the streets.

20 See, O Jehovah, and look to whom
thou didst accomplish this. Shall the
women eat their fruit, the children borne
upon the hands? shall the priest and
the prophet. be slain in the holy place
of Jehovah?

21 The youth and old man lay down
upon the earth of the streets; my vir-
gins and my young men fell by the
sword; thou didst slay in the day of
thine anger; thou didst slay, thou didst
not pity.

22 Thou wilt call as the day of ap-
pointment my sojourning from round
about, and in the day of the anger of
Jehovah there was no escaping and sur-
viving: those I bore upon my hands

and brought up, the enemy finished.
4 THE man seeing affliction by the
rod of his wrath.

2 He led me and he brought darkness
and not light.

3 Surely he will turn back against
me; he will turn his hand all the day.

4 He wasted away my flesh and my
skin; he broke my bones. .

5 He built against me, and he will
surround with poison and distress.

6 He caused me to dwell in dark-
nesses as the dead of old.

7 He walled about me and 1 shall not
go forth: he loaded my brass.

8 Also when I shall exclaim and cry
out, he stopped my prayer.

9 He walled up my ways with hewn
stones, he made crooked my beaten
paths,

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10 He is to me a bear lying in wait,
a lion in secret places.

11 He turned aside my ways and he
will tear me in pieces: he set me a des-
olation.

12 He bent his bow, he will set me
up as a mark for the arrow.

18 He brought the sons of his quiv-
er into my reins.

14 I was a derision to all my people;
their song all the day.

15 He filled me with bitternesses, he
gave me wormwood to drink.

16 He will break my teeth with gray-
el stones, he covered me with ashes.

17 Thou wilt cast off my soul from
peace: I forgat good.

18 And saying, My glory perished,
and my hope from Jehovah:

19 Remembering my affliction and
my bitterness, the wormwood and the
poison.

20 Remembering, my soul will re-
member, and will be bowed down upon
me.

21 I will turn this back to my heart;
for this I shall hope.

22 The mercies of Jehovah are that
we were not consumed, for his compas-
sions were not finished.

23 New for the mornings: great thy
faithfulness.

24 Jehovah my portion, said my soul ;
for this I will hope toward him.

25 Good Jehovah to those waiting
for him, to the soul that will seek him.

26 Good, and he shall wait and stand
still for the salvation of Jehovah.

27 Good for a man that he shall lift
up the yoke in his youth.

28 He will sit alone and be silent, for
he laid upon him.

29 He will give his mouth in the
dust, if perhaps there is hope.

30 He will give the cheek to him strik-
ing him : he will be filled with reproach,

31 For Jehovah will not cast off for-
ever:

32 For if he afflicted, and he com-
passionated according to the multitude
of his mercy.

88 For he afflicted not from his heart
and grieved the sons of men,

34 To crush under his feet all the
bound of the earth,

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85 To turn aside the judgment of a
man before the face of the Most High.

86 To pervert a man in his conten-
tion Jehovah saw not.

37 Who this saying, And it shall be
Jehovah 0 not?

38 From the mouth of the Most High
shall not come forth evil and good.

39 Why shall a living man murmur?
a man for his sin?

40 We will search out our ways, and
examine and turn back even to Jeho-
vah.

41 We will lift up our hearts upon
the hands to God in the heavens.

42 We transgressed and _ resisted:
thou forgavest not.

43 Thou didst cover with anger, and
thou wilt pursue us: thou didst slay,
thou didst not pity.

44 Thou didst cover over thyself
with a cloud from a prayer passing
through.

45 Thou didst set us the offscouring
and despising in the midst of peoples.

46 All our enemies opened their
mouth against us.

47 Fear and a snare were to us, des-
olation and breaking.

48 Mine eye will bring down streams
of water for the breaking of the daugh-
ter of iny people.

49 Mine eye flowed and it will not
be silent, from no intermission,

50 Till Jehovah shall look forth and
see from the heavens.

51 Mine eye will glean for my soul
for all the daughters of my city.

52 Hunting, they hunted me as a
bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.

58 They cut off my life in the pit,
and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters were spread over my head ;
1 said 1 was cut off.

55 I called thy name, O Jehovah, in
the pit underneath.

56 Thou heardest my voice: thou
wilt not hide thine ear at my breath-
ing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day I
shall call thee: thou saidst, Thou shalt
not fear.

58 Thou didst contend, O Jehovah,
the contentions of my soul; thou didst
redeem my life.

LAMENTATIONS IV. .

59 Thou sawest, O Jehovah, my bow-
ing down: judge thou my judgment.

60 Thou sawest all their vengeance,
all their purposes against me.

61 Thou heardest their reproach, O
Jehovah, all their purposes against me.

62 The lips of those rising up, and
their devices against me all the day.

63 Their sitting and their rising, look
thou: I their song.

64 Thou wilt turn back to them a
retribution, O Jehovah, according to
the work of their hands,

65 Thou wilt give to them a covering
of heart, thy curse to them.

66 Thou wilt pursue in thine anger,
and thou wilt destroy them from under
the heavens, O Jehovah.

CHAPTER IV.
OW will the gold become dim!
the good gold will be changed :
the stones of the holy place shall be
poured out in the head of all the strects,

2 The precious sons of Zion being
hfted up with fine gold, how they were
reckoned for earthen vessels, the work
of the hands of the potter.

8 Also the dragons draw out the
breast, they suckled their sucklings:
the daughter of my people violent as
the ostriches in the desert.

4 The tongue of the suckling ad-
hered to his palate in thirst: the young
children asked for bread, none break-
ing bread to them.

5 They eating for dainties were des-
olate in the streets: they trusting upon
scarlet embraced dung hills.

6 For the iniquity of the daughter of
my people will be great above the sin
of Sodom being overthrown as in a mo-
ment, and no hands waited for her.

7 Her consecrated ones were pure
above snow, they were white above
milk, they were red of body above
pearls, their figure’ sapphire :

8 Their form dark above blackness;
they were not known in the streets:
their skin adhered to their bones; it
was dried up, it was as wood.

9 Those wounded by the sword were
good above those wounded by famine:
these will flow away, being thrust
through from the produce of the field.

LAMENTATIONS יצ‎

10 The hands of compassionate wo-
men boiled their children: they were
for food to them in the breaking of the
daughter of my people.

11 Jehovah finished his wrath; he
poured out the burning of his anger,
and he kindled a fire in Zion, and it
will deyour her foundations.

12 The kings of the earth believed
not, and all those dwelling in the hab-
itable globe, that the enemy will come
in to the gates of Jerusalem.

13 From the sins of her prophets the
iniquities of her priests shedding the
blood of the just in her midst,

14 The blind were shaken in the
streets, they were stained with blood,
so that they shall not be able to touch
upon their garments.

15 Remove the unclean one, call to
them; remove, remove, ye shall not
touch: for they were laid waste; they
were shaken, say ye, among the na-
tions: they shall not add to sojourn.

16 The face of Jehovah their por-
tion; he will not add to look upon
them: they accepted not the face of
the priests, they compassionated not the
old men.

17 Continuing, yet our eyes will fail,
for our help in vain: in our watching
we watched for a nation it will not
save us.

18 They hunted our steps from go-
ing in our broad places: our end drew
near, our days were completed ; for our
end came.

19 They pursuing us were swift
above the eagle of the heavens: they
burned after us upon the mountains,
they laid wait for us in the desert.

20 The spirit of our nostrils, the
Messiah of Jehovah was taken in their
pits, of whom we said, Under his shad-
ow we shall live among the nations.

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter
of Edom, dwelling in the land of Uz;
also upon thee shall the קמס‎ pass:
thou shalt be drunken, and make thy-
self naked.

22 Thine iniquity was finished, O
daughter of Zion; he will not add to
carry thee into exile: reviewing thine
iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he un-
covered upon thy sins,

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CHAPTER V.
EMEMBER, O Jehovah, what
was to us: look and see our re-
proach.

2 Our inheritance was turned to
strangers, our houses to foreigners.

3 We were orphans, no father; our-
mothers as widows.

4 We drank our water for silver;
our wood will come for a price.

5 Upon our necks were we pursued :
we labored and no rest to us.

6 We gave the hand to Egypt, to
Assur, to be filled with bread.

7 Our fathers sinned, they are not;
we bore their iniquities.

8 Servants ruled over us: none de-
livering from their hand.

9 With our souls we shall bring our
bread from the face of the sword of the
desert.

10 Our skin was scorched as a fur-
nace from the face of the violent heat
of famine.

11 They humbled the women in
Zion; the virgins in the cities of Ju-
dah.

12 Chiefs were hung by their hand:
the faces of old men were not honored.

13 They took away the chosen ones
to grind, and the young men were weak
in the wood.

14 Old men ceased from the gate, the
chosen ones from thew stringed instru-
ments,

15 The joy of our heart ceased; our
dance was turned to mourning.

16 The crown of our head fell: wo!
now to us, for we sinned.

17 For this our heart was languid ;
for this our eyes were darkened.

18 For mount Zion was laid waste,
the foxes went upon it.

19 Thou, O Jehovah, shalt dwell for-
ever; thy throne to generation and
generation.

20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us for-
ever? wilt thou forsake us to length of
days?

21 Turn us back, O Jehovah, to thee,
and we shall be turned; renew our
days as of old.

22 But rejecting, thou didst reject
us; thou wert angry against us even
greatly.

ECCLESIASTEHS.

CHAPTER I.
ו‎ words of the preacher, son of
David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, said the preach-
er; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

3 What the profit to a man in all
the labor he will labor under the sun?

4 A generation went. away, and a
generation came: and the earth stood
forever.

5 The sun arose and the sun went
down, and panted after its place which
it arose there.

6 Going to the south and turning
round about to the north, it turned
round about; the wind turned round
about, going, and the wind turned back
upon its circuits.

7 All the torrents going into the sea,
and the sea not full: to the place the tor-
rents going, there they turn back to go.

8 All words becoming weary ; man
shall not be able to speak: the eye shall
not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall
not be filled from hearing.

9 What was, that shall be; and what
was done, that shall be done: and not
anything new under the sun.

10 Is there a word will be said, See,
this is new? This was already to a
long time which was before us.

11 No remembrance to former things ;
and also to the latter things that shall
be; to them shall be no remembrance
with them which shall be for the latter
state. :

12 1 the preacher was king over Is-
rael in Jerusalem.

13 And 1 gave my heart to seek and
to search out in wisdom concerning all
which was done under the heavens:
this evil business God gave to the sons
of man to be occupied in it.

14 I saw all the works they did un-
der the sun; and behold, all vanity and
striving of the spirit.

15 The crooked thing shall not be
able to be made straight: and the defi-
ciency shall not be able to be num-
bered.

101 spake with my heart, saying,
Behold, I was magnified, and added
wisdom over all that were before me at
Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of
wisdom and knowledge.

17 And I will give my heart to know
wisdom, and the knowledge of praise
and understanding: I knew this also it
is the striving of the spirit.

18 For in abundance of wisdom,
abundance of trouble: and he adding
knowledge will increase pain.

CHAPTER II.
SAID in my heart, Go now, I
will prove thee with gladness, and
look thou upon good: and behold, this
also vanity.

2 To laughter I said, It is mad: and
to gladness, What did this?

3 I examined in my heart to draw
my flesh with wine, and my heart led
in wisdom ; and to lay hold upon folly
till that I shall see what this good to
the sons of man which they will do un-
der the heavens the number of the days
of their life.

4 I magnified my work; I builded
to me houses; I planted to me -6מנץ‎
yards :

5 I made to me gardens and pleasure
grounds, and I planted in them a tree
of all fruit.

6 I made to me pools of waters to
water from them the forest, causing
trees to spring forth,

7 I obtained servants and maids, and
sons of the house were tome; also ob-
taining cattle, and many sheep were to
me more than all that were before me
in Jerusalem,

8 I gathered to me also silver and
gold, and the wealth of kings, and the
provinces: I made to me men singing
and women singing, and the delights of
the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.

9 And I was magnified and increased
more than all being before me in Jeru-
salem: alsomy wisdom stood to me.

10 And all that mine eyes asked I

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kept not back from them, and I with-
held not my heart from all gladness ; for
my heart rejoiced from all my labor:
and this was my portion from all my
labor.

11 And I looked upon all my works
my hands made, and upon the labor I
labored to do, and behold, all vanity
and striving of the spirit, and no profit
under the sun.

12 And I turned to see wisdom, mad-
ness, and folly: for what the man that
shall come after the king? with those
things they did already.

13 And I saw there is profit to wis-
dom more than to folly, as the excel-
lence of the light above darkness.

14 The wise, his eyes in his head ;
and the foolish one goes in darkness:
and I knew, I also, that one event will
meet with them all.

15 And 1 said in my heart, As the
event of the foolish one, also I, it will
meet me; and wherefore then was I
more wise? And I spake in my heart,
This is also yanity.

16 For no remembrance for the wise
with the foolish one forever, since in
the days coming, all being forgotten.
And how will the wise die? with the
foolish one.

17 And 1 hated life, for evil to me
the work done under the sun: for all
vanity and striving of the spirit.

18 And I hated all my labor I labor-
ing under the sun: leaving it to the
man who shall come after me.

19 And who shall know whether he
shall be wise or foolish ? And he shall
have dominion over all my labor which
I labored, and was wise under the sun.
Also this is vanity.

20 And I turned about to let my
heart despair for all the labor I labored
under the sun.

21 For there is man his labor in wis-
dom, and in knowledge and in success ;
and to man not laboring in it he shall
give his portion, Also this is vanity
and much evil.

22 For what was to man in all his la-
bor, and in the striving of his heart, he
labored under the sun

23 For all his days pains, and vexa-
tion, his labor; also in the night his

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heart rested not. Also this it is van-
ity.
1 Not good in man he shall eat and
drink and cause his soul to see good in
his labor. Also this I saw that it is
from the hand of God.

25 For who shall eat, and who shall
hasten forth above me?

26 For to a man good before his face,
he gave wisdom and knowledge and
gladness: and to him sinning, he gave
labor, to gather and to heap up, to give
to the good one before the face of God.
Also this is yanity and the striving of
the spirit.

CHAPTER IIL
ae. all a season, and a time to every
inclination under the heavens:

2 A time to be born, and a time to
die ; a time to plant, and a time to pluck
up the planting:

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal;
atime to break down, and a time to
build :

4 A time to weep, and a time to
laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to
dance:

5 A time to cast away stones, and a
time to collect stones; a time to em-
brace, and a time to be far from em-
bracing :

6 A time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to watch, and a time to cast
away :

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to be silent, and a time to speak:

8 A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace:

9 What the excellence of him work-
ing in what he labored ?

10 I saw the labor which God gave
to the sons of man to be humbled in it.

11 He made everything beautiful in
his time: also he gave hidden time in
their heart, so that man shall not find
the work which God did from the be-
ginning, and even to the end.

12 I knew that no good is in them,
but to rejoice and to do good in his life.

13 And also every man shall eat and
drink, and see the good in all his labor ;
it is the gift of God.

141 knew that all which God will
do it shall be forever: to it not-to be

added, and from it not to be taken
away: and God doing they shall be
afraid from his face.

15 What was, it is already ; and what
to be, was already; and God will seek
him being driven away.

16 And yet I saw under the sun the
place of judgment, there the unjust one ;
and the place of the just one, there the
unjust one.

17 I said in my heart, The just one
and the unjust one, God will judge:
for a time for every inclination and for
every work there.

18 I said in my heart concerning the
speeches of the sons of man, for God to
separate them, and for them to see that
they are cattle to themselves.

19 For the event of the sons of man,
and the event of the cattle, one event
to them: as this, so dies this; and the
breath of one to all; and the preémi-
nence of man not above the cattle: for
all is vanity.

20 All go to one place; all were from
dust, and all turned back to dust.

21 Who shall know the spirit of the
sons of man? it ascending to above,
and the spirit of cattle, 10 going down-
wards to the earth.

22 And I saw that no good more
than that man shall rejoice in his
works; for this is his portion: for who
shall bring him to look upon what
shall be after him?

CHAPTER IV.

ND I tured back, and I shall see
all the oppressions which are do-
ing under the sun: and behold, the
tears of the oppressed, and none com-
forting to them; and from the hand of
those oppressing them was power, and

none comforting to them.

2 And I praise the dead already
dead more than the living they yet liv-
ing.
8 And good above them two which
were not yet, which saw not the evil
work which was done under the sun.

4 And I saw all the labor and all
the success of the work, for this the
jealousy of a man from his neighbor,
Also this is vanity and striving of
spirit.

ECCLESIASTES IV., V.

5 The foolish one folded his hands
together, and ate his flesh.

6 Good a hand filled with rest, above
two hands full of labor and striving of
spirit.

7 And I turned back, and I shall see
vanity under the sun.

8 There is one, and not a second;
also a son and brother not to him: and
no end to all his labor; also his eye
shall not be satisfied with riches: and
for whom do I labor and diminish my
soul from good? Also this is vanity,
and it is an evil labor.

9 Two are good above one, because
there is to them a good reward in their
labor.

10 For if they shall fall, the one will
raise up his companion: and wo to
him, the one that shall fall, and not a
second to raise him up.

11 Also if two shall lie down, and
heat to them: and to the one it shall
not be warm.

12 And if one shall become strong
against him, two shall stand before
him; and a three-fold thread shall not
be quickly broken.

13 Good a poor and wise child above
an old and foolish king, who knew not
more to receive instruction.

14 For from the house of those turn-
ing away he came forth to reign; for
also he being born in his kingdom be-
came poor.

15 I saw all the living goimg under
the sun, with the second child which
shall stand in his stead.

16 No end to all the people, to all
which were before them: also the last
ones shall not rejoice in him. For also
this is vanity and striving of the spirit.

17 Watch thy feet when thou shalt
go to the house of God, and draw near
to hear, rather than give the sacrifice of
the foolish, for they not knowing the
doing of eyil.

CHAPTER V.
HOU shalt not hasten with thy
mouth, and thy heart shall not
be quick to bring forth a word to the
face of God: for God is in the heavens,
and thou upon the earth: for this thy
words shall be few.

ECCLESIASTES VI.

2 For the dream came in the multi-
tude of labor; and the voice of the
foolish one in the multitude of words.

8 When thou shalt vow a vow to
God, thou shalt not delay to repay it;
for there is no desire in the foolish: re-
pay what thou shalt vow.

4 Good that thou shalt not vow rath-
er than thou shalt vow and not requite.

5 Thou shalt not give thy mouth to
cause thy flesh to sin; and thou shalt
not say to the face of the messenger
that it is an error: wherefore shall God
be angry at thy voice, and destroy the
work of thy hands?

6 For in the multitude of dreams,
and vanities, and many words: but
fear thou God.

7 If thou shalt see the oppression of
the poor one, and the spoiling of judg-
ment and justice in a province, thou
shalt not wonder at the inclination: for
the high one above the high one is
watching, and the high ones over them.

8 And the profit of the earth in all:
it is the king being served to the field.

9 He loving silver shall not be satis-
fied with silver; and whoever loved
not the increase with the multitude.
Also this is vanity.

10 In the multitude of good they
were multiphed eating it: and what the
success to its possessors but seeing with
his eyes? .

11 The sleep of the servant is sweet,
if little, or if much he shall eat: and
the satiety to the rich not permitting to
him to sleep.

12 There is an evil making sick I saw
under the sun: riches watched to its
owners for their evil.

13 And those riches shall perish by
evil labor: and he begetting a son, and
not anything in his hand.

14 According as he came forth from
his mother’s womb, naked he shall turn
back to go as he came, and he shall
not take away anything in his labor
that shall go in his hand.

15 And also this an evil making sick,
wholly as he came so shall he go: and
what to him he shall labor for the wind ?

16 Also all his days in darkness shall
he eat, and much vexation and his sick-
ness and his anger,

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17 Behold, what I saw: good, which
is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to
see good in all his labor that he will la-
bor under the sun the number of the
days of his life, which God gave to
him ; for this his portion.

18 Also every man which God gave
to him wealth and riches, and permitted
him to eat from it, and to lift up his
portion, and to rejoice in his labor ; this
the gift of God himself.

19 For he shall not much remember
the days of his life; for God humbles
him in the gladness of his heart.

CHAPTER VI.
\HERE is evil which 1 saw under
the sun, and it is much upon
man:

2 A man which God will giveto him
wealth and riches and honor, and want-
ing not to his soul from all which he
shall desire, and God will not permit
him to eat from it, for a man, a stran-
ger shall eat it. This is vanity and it
is an eyil disease.

3 If aman shall beget a hundred, and
live many years, and a multitude shall
be the days of his years, and his soul
shall not be satisfied from good, and
also there was no burial to him; 1 said,
Good above him an abortion.

4 For in vanity he came, and in dark-
ness he will go away, and his name
shall be covered with darkness.

5 Also he saw not the sun, and he
knew not rest to this above this.

6 And although he lived a thousand
years twice, and he saw not good. Did
not all go to one place?

7 All the labor of man for his mouth,
and also the soul shall not be filled.

8 For what will remain to the wise
one more than the foolish one? what to
the poor that shall know to go before
the living?

9 Good the sight of the eyes above
the going of the soul. Also this is van-
ity and striving of spirit.

10 What was, its name was called
already, and it was known that it is
man: and he shall not be able to con-
tend with the powerful above him.

11 For there is many words increas-
ing vanity, what shall remain to man?

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12 For who shall know what is good
for man in life, the number of the days
of the life of his vanity, and he wil
make them as a shadow? for who shall
announce to man what shall be after
him under the sun?

CHAPTER זנ‎
GOOD name is above good oil,
and the day of death above the
day of birth.

2 Good to go to the house of mourn-
ing rather than to go to the house of
drinking, in that it is the end of every
man ; and he living shall give to his heart.

3 Good is grief above laughter: for
in the illness of the face the heart shall
be good.

4 The heart of the wise is in the
house of mourning; and the heart of
the foolish in the house of gladness.

5 Good to hear the reproof of the
wise one, above aman hearing the song
of the foolish :

6 For as the voice of thorns under
the pot, so the laughter of the foolish
one. Also this is vanity.

7 For oppression will make foolish
the wise one; and a gift will destroy
the heart.

8 Good the last of a word above its
beginning: good slowness of spirit
above pride of spirit.

9 Thou shalt not be hastened in thy
spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest
in the bosom of fools.

10 Thou shalt not say, Why was it
the former days were good above these ?
for thou didst not ask from wisdom
concerning this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inherit-
ance: and a remainder to those seeing
the sun.

12 For in the shadow, wisdom; in
the shadow, silver: and the excellence
of knowledge is wisdom shall preserve
alive those possessing it.

13 See the work of God: for who
shall be able to make straight what he
made it crooked ?

14 In the day of good, be in good;
and in the day of eyil, see thou: also
God made this over against this, to the
end that man shall not find anything
after him.

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15 1 saw all in the days of my vani-
ty: there is a just one perishing in his
justice, and there is an unjust one, be-
ing prolonged in his evil.

16 Thou shalt not be greatly just;
and thou shait not be exceedingly wise:
wherefore wilt thou be made deso-
late ?

17 Thou shalt not be greatly wicked,
and thou shalt not be foolish: where-
fore wilt thou die not in thy time?

18 Good that thou shalt hold fast wp-
on this; also from this thou shalt not
lead away thy hand: for he fearing
God shall come forth with all of them.

19 Wisdom shall strengthen to the
wise one more than ten haying power
which were in the city.

20 For ποῦ ἃ just man in the earth,
who shall do good and not sin.

21 Also to all the words that shall
be spoken thon shalt not give thy heart,
that thou shalt not hear thy servant
cursing thee.

22 For also many times thy heart
knew that thou didst also curse others.

23 All this I proved by wisdcm: 1
said I will be wise, and it was removed
far off from me.

24 What was far off, and the depth,
deep, who shall find it?

25 I went round about, I and my
heart, to know, and to examine, and to
search out wisdom and understanding,
and to know the injustice of folly, and
the folly of wickedness:

26 And I find bitter above death the
woman that her heart it is snares and
nets, her hands are bonds: the good
one before God shall escape from her,
and he sinning shall be taken by her.

27 See, this I found, said the preach-
er: one to one to find understanding ;

28 Which yet my soul sought, and I
found not; one man from a thousand I
found; and a woman in all these I
found not.

29 Only see, this I found, that God
made man upright; and they sought
out many purposes.

CHAPTER VIII.
HO as the wise one? and who
will know the interpretation of
the word? The wisdom of man shall

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enlighten his face, and the hard of face
shall be hated.

2 I am to watch the king’s mouth by
reason of the oath of God.

3 Thou shalt not hasten going from
his face: thou shalt not stand by the
word of evil; for he shall do all that he
will desire.

4 Wheresoever the word of a king,
it is powerful: and who shall say to
him, What wilt thou do?

5 He watching the command knew
no evil word: and time and judgment
the wise one will know.

6 To every inclination there is time
and judgment; for man’s evil is great
upon him.

7 For he will not know what shall
be: for as it shall be who shall an-
nounce to him ?

8 No man having power in spirit to
restrain the spirit: and no power in the
day of death: and no sending forth in
war; and injustice shall not deliver its
possessors.

9 All this I saw, and giving my
heart to every work which was done
under the sun: a time which man had
power over man for evil to him.

10 And so then I saw the unjust
buried, and they came and they will
go from the holy place, and they will
be forgotten in the city where they did
thus: also this 18 vanity.

11 Because a decree was not done
quickly upon an eyil work, for this the
heart of the sons of man was filled in
them to do evil.

12 Whoever sinned, doing evil a
hundred, and it. being prolonged to
him, for also I know that it will be
good to those fearing God, who shall
be afraid from his face.

13 And it shall not be good to the
unjust one; he shall not lengthen the
days as a shadow, for he feared not
from before the face of God.

14 There is vanity which was done
upon the earth; that there is the just
which it comes upon them according
to the work of the unjust: and there is
the unjust, it comes upon them accord-
ing to the work of the just. I said,
Also this is vanity.

15 And I praised joy, because there

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is no good to man under the sun but to
eat and to drink, and to rejoice: for
this shall lodge with him in his labor
the days of his life which God gave to
him under the sun.

16 According as I gave my heart to
know wisdom, and to see the labor that
was done upon the earth: for also in
the day and in the night he saw not
sleep with his eyes.

17 And I saw all the work of God,
that no man shall be able to find out
the work that was done under the sun:
in whatsoever a man shall labor to seek
out, and he shall not find: and also if
the wise one shall say to know, he
shall not be able to find.

CHAPTER IX.
OR all this I gave to my heart,
and to examine all this, that the
just and the wise and their works are in
the hand of God: also love, also hatred,
no man shall know of all before them.

2 All according to all: one event to
the just one and to the unjust one; to
the good one and to the clean one, and
to the unclean one; to him sacrificing
and to him not sacrificing: as the good
one, so the sinning one; he swearing,
as he who shall fear an oath.

5 This an evil in all being done un-
der the sun, thus one event is to all:
and also the heart of the sons of man
being full of evil, and folly in their
heart in their living, and after it to
their deaths.

4 For whoever shall choose to all
the living there is hope: for to a living
dog it is good above a dead lion.

5 For the living know they shall
die: and the dead know not any thing,
and no more to them a reward; for
their remembrance was forgotten.

6 Also their love, also their hatred,
also their envy perished already ; and
no more portion to them forever in all
which was done under the sun.

7 Go eat in joy thy bread, and drink
thy wine in a good heart; for already
God was satisfied with thy works.

8 In all time thy garments shall be
white; and ointment shall not be want-
ing upon thy head.

9 See life with the wife which thou

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didst love all the days of the life of thy
vanity which he gave to thee under the
sun, all the days of thy vanity: for
this thy portion in life, and in thy la-
bor which thou laborest under the
sun.

10 All which thy hand shall find to
do, with thy strength, do thou; for no
work and understanding and knowl-
edge and wisdom, in hades where thou
goest there.

11 I turned back, and saw under the
sun that not to the fleet the race, and
the war not to the strong, and also not
to the wise, bread; and also not to the
understanding ones, riches; and also
not to the knowing, favor; for time
and chance will light upon all of
them.

12 For also man knew not his time :
as the fishes being laid hold of in an
evil net, and as the birds laid hold of
in the snare, as they, the sons of men
being snared for an evil time, as it will
fall upon them suddenly.

18 Also:this I saw, the wisdom un-
der the sun, and it was great to me:

14 A little city, and men in it few;
anda great king came against it, and
surrounded it, and built against it
great entrenchments:

15 And a poor wise man was found
in it, and he delivered the city by his
wisdom ; and not a man remembered
that poor man.

16 And 1 said, Wisdom is good
above strength: and the wisdom of the
poor one was despised, and his words
not heard.

17 The words of the wise being heard
in quiet more than the ery of him rul-
ing among the foolish.

18 Wisdom is good above the instru-
ments of encounter: and one sinning
will destroy much good.

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LIES of death will cause the oil of
the perfume to stink, it will fer-
ment: the preciousness of wisdom above
the honor of the least folly.

2 The heart of the wise one to his
right, and the heart of the foolish one
to his left.

8 And also as the foolish one went

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in the way, his heart was wanting, and
he said to all, It is folly.

4 If the spirit of him ruling shall go
up against thee, thou shalt not leave
thy place ; for quietness will put down
great sins.

5 There is an evil I saw under the
sun as an error going forth from before
him having power:

6 Folly was given to great heights,
and the rich were set in lowness.

71 saw servants upon horses, and
chiefs going as servants upon the earth.

8 He cheging a ditch shall fall into
it; he breaking down a wall, a serpent
shall bite him. |

9 He remoying stones, shall suffer
pain by them; and he cleaving woods
asunder shall be endangered by them.

10 If the iron became dull and he
polished not the face, and he will
strengthen the forces: and wisdom will
make preéminence to prosper.

11 Τῇ aserpent will bite without mag-
ic; and no preéminence to 1116 possessor
of the tongue.

12 The words of the wise one’s mouth,
grace; and the lips of the foolish one
shall swallow him down.

18 The beginning of the words of his
mouth, folly: and the latter state of his
mouth the folly of evil.

14 And the foolish one will multiply
words : man shall not know what shall
be; and what shall be after him, who
shall announce to him ?

15 The labor of the foolish will weary
them, because he knew not to ₪0 to
the city.

16 Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a
youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the
morning.

17 Happy thou, O land: thy king
the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall
eat in time, in strength and not in
drinking.

18 By sloth the frame work will
pine away; and by the letting down of
the hands, the house will drop.

19 For laughter they make bread,
and wine will “gladden the. living: and
silver will answer with. all.

20.Thow shalt not curse the king in
thy consciousness, andiin: thy bed- cham-
ber thou shalt not curse the rich one:

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for the bird of the heavens will bring
the voice, and the possessor of wings
shall announce the word.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
END forth thy bread upon the face
of the waters, for in a multitude of
days thou shalt find it.

2 Thou shalt give a portion to seven,
and also to eight; for thou shalt not
know what shall be evil upon the
earth.

3 If the clouds shall be filled with
rain, they shall pour out upon the earth :
and if the tree shall fall in the south or
in the north, the place the tree shall
fall, there it shall be.

4 He watching the wind shall not
sow; and he looking in the clouds,
shall not reap.

5 As thou wilt not know what the
way of the spirit, as the bones in the
womb of her being filled, so thou shalt
not know the work of God who will
make all.

6 In the morning sow thy seed, and
at evening thou shalt not let thy hand
rest: for thou shalt not know whether
this shall be right, this or that, or if
they two as one being good.

7 And the light is sweet, and good
to the eyes to see the sun:

8 If man shall live many years, in
them all shall he rejoice; and he shall
remember the days of darkness, for
they will be many. All coming is van-
ity.

/ Rejoice, O young man, in thy vouth;
and thy heart shall do thee good in the
days of thy youth, and go in the ways
of thy heart, and in the sight of thine
eyes: and know thou, that for all these
God will bring thee into judgment.

10 And put away anger from thy
heart, and cause evil to pass away from
thy flesh: for childhood and youth are
vanity.

CHAPTER XII.
ND remember him creating thee
in the days of thy youth, till even
when the days of evil shall not come,
and the years draw near in which
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thou shalt say, Not to me delight in
them ;

2 Till when the sun shall not be dark-
ened, and the light, and the moon, and
the stars, and the clouds turned not
back after the rain:

5 In the day those watching the
house shall tremble, and the strong men
bent themselves, and tbe grinders ceas-
ed for they were few, and they looking
through the lattice were darkened,

4 And the doors were shut in the
street, in the lowness of the voice of the
grinding, and he shall rise up at the
voice of the bird, and all the daughters
of the song shall bow down;

5 Also from height they shall be
afraid, and being dismayed in the way,
and the almond tree shall be despised,
and the locust shall become a burden,
and the caperberry shall fail: for man
shall go to his eternal house, and they
mourning, went about in the street:

6 Till when the cord of silver shall
be removed far off, and the bow] of gold
be broken, and the bucket shall be
broken at the fountain, and the wheel
broken at the cistern.

7 And the dust shall turn back to
the earth as it was, and the spirit shall
turn back to God who gave it. \

8 Vanity of vanities, said the preach-
er; all is vanity.

9 And besides, the preacher was wise ;
he yet taught the people knowledge;
and he gave ear, and sought out, setting
in order many parables.

10 The preacher sought to find words
of delight : and that written was straight,
words of truth.

11 The words of the wise are as
goads, and as nails planted of the mas-
ters of the gatherings; they were given
from one shepherd.

12 And besides, from these, my son,
beware: of making many books, no
end ; and much study wearies the flesh.

13 We will hear the end of all the
word: Fear thou God, and watch his
commands: for this is all man.

14 For God will bring every work
into Judgment, with every thing hidden,
whether good, and whether evil.

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CHAPTER 1.
ND it will be in the days of Ahas-
uerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned
from India and even to Cush; seven
and twenty and one hundred provin-
ces:

2 In those days, when king Ahasue-
rus sat upon the throne of his kingdom,
which was in Shushan the fortress,

8 In the third year to his reign he
made a drinking to all his chiefs and
his servants; the power of Persia and
Media, the nobles and chiefs of the
provinces before him:

4 In his causing to see the riches of
the glory of his kingdom, and the hon-
or of his great splendor many days,
eighty and one hundred days.

5 And in these days being completed
the king made to all the people being
found in Shushan the fortress, a drink-
ing to the great and even to the small,
seven days, in the enclosure of the gar-
den of the king’s house ;

6 Splendid fine white linen, and ce-
rulean purple, made fast with cords of
byssus and purple, upon rings of silver
and pillars of marble: couches of gold
and silver upon a tesselated pavement
of marble, and marble and pearl and
spotted marble.

7 And giving drink in vessels of
gold, and vessels different from vessels,
and wine of the kingdom, an abun-
dance, according to the hand of the king,

8 Giving to drink according to the
edict; none compelling, for thus the
king appointed to all the multitude of
his house to do according to the desire
of man and man,

9 Also Vashti the queen made a
drinking to the women of the house of
the kingdom which was to king Ahas-
uerus.

10 In the seventh day, as the heart
of the king being good with wine, he
said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,
Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Car-
cas, the seven eunuchs serying the face
of king Ahasuerns,

11 To bring Vashti the queen before
the king with the crown of the king-
dom, to cause the people and the chiefs
to see her beauty: for she was good of
appearance,

12 And the queen Vashti will refuse
to come in at the word of the king
which was by the hand of the eunuchs:
and the king will be angry greatly, and
his wrath burnt in him.

13 And the king will say to the wise
knowing the times, (for thus spake the
king before all knowing the edict and
judgment :

14 And there drew near to him Car-
shena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Me-
res, Marsena, Memucan, seven chiefs of
Persia and Media, seeing the face of the
king, sitting the first in the kingdom ;)

15 According to the edict what to do
against the queen Vashti, for that she
did not the word of the king Ahasue-
rus by the hand of the eunuchs ?

16 And Memucan will say before the
king, Not against the king alone did
Vashti the queen do evil, but against
all the chiefs and against all the peo-
ples that are in all the provinces of the
king Ahasuerus.

17 For the word of the queen will
go forth to 811 the women to cause their
husbands to be despised in their eyes,
in their saying, The king Ahasuerus
said to bring in Vashti the queen be-
fore him, and she came not.

18 And this day shall the chief la-
dies of Persia and Media say, which
heard the word of the queen to all the
chiefs of the king, and according to
contempt and reproach.

19 If good to the king, the word of
the kingdom shall go forth from before
him, and it shall be written in the edict
of the Persians and Medes, and it shall
not pass away, that Vashti shall not
come before the king Ahasuerus; and
the king shall give her kingdom to her
companion good above her.

20 And the decree of the king which
he shall make being heard in all his

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kingdom, (for it is great,) and all the
women shall give honor to their hus-
bands, to the great and even to the
small.

21 And the word will be good in the
eyes of the king and the chiefs; and
the king will do according to the word
of Memucan.

22 And he will send letters to all
the provinces of the king, to provinces
and provinces, according to its writing,
and to people and people, according to
their tongue, for every man to be rul-
ing in his house; and being spoken ac-
cording to the tongue of his people.

CHAPTER II.
FTER these words, as the wrath
of the king Ahasuerus was quiet,
he remembered Vashti, and what she
did, and what was decided against her.

2 And the king’s young men will
say, those serving him, They shall seek
for the king, maidens, virgins good of
appearance :

3 And the king shall appoint over-
seers in all the provinces of his king-
dom, and they shall gather together all
the maidens, virgins, good of appear-
ance, to Shushan the fortress, to the
house of the women, to the hand of
Hegai, the king’s eunuch, watching the
women; giving their purifications :

4 And the maiden who shall be
good in the eyes of the king shall reign
instead of Vashti. And the word will
be good in the eyes of the king; and
he will do so.

5 A man, a Jew, was in Shushan the
fortress, and his name, Mordecai, son of
Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a man,
a Benjamite ;

6 Who was carried captive from Je-
rusalem with the captivity which was
carried into exile with Jeconiah, king
of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babel carried into exile.

7 And he will be nourishing Hadas-
sah (this 18 Esther) his uncle’s daugh-
ter: for not to her, father and mother,
and the maiden beautiful of form and
good of aspect; and in the death of
her father and her mother, Mordecai
took her to him for a daughter.

8 And it will be in hearing the word

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of the king and his edict, and in the
gathering together of the many maid-
ens to Shushan the fortress, to the hand
of Hegai, and Hsther will be taken to
the house of the king to the hand of
Hegai watching the women.

9 And the maiden will be good in
his eyes, and she will receive mercy be-
fore him; and he will hasten her puri-
fications, and to give her portion to her,
and to give to her seven chosen maid-
ens from the house of the king: and
he will change her and her maidens
for good to the house of the women.

10 Esther announced not her people
and her birth: for Mordecai command-
ed to her that she shall not announce.

11 And in every day and day, Mor-
decai going about before the enclosure
of the house of the women, to know
the peace of Esther, and what will be
done with her.

12 And in the coming of the order
of maiden and maiden to come in to
the king Ahasuerus, from the end of |
there being to her, according to edict,
of women twelve months (for so shall
be completed the days of their purifica-
tions, six months with oil of myrrh, and
six months with spices, and with the
purifications of the women ;)

13 And thus came the maiden to the
King; all which she shall say shall be
given to her, to come with her from
the house of the women even to the
house of the king.

14 In the evening she came, and in
the morning she turned back to the
second house of the women, to the
hand of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch
watching the concubines: she will no
more come to the king except the king
delighted in her, and she was called by
name.

15 And in the coming of the turn of
Esther the daughter of Abihail, uncle
of Mordecai, which he took to him for
a daughter, to goin to the king, she
sought not a word except what Hegai
the king’s eunuch watching the women,
shall say. And Esther will be taking
up favor in the eyes of all seeing her.

16 And Hsther will be taken to the
king Ahasuerus, to the house of his
kingdom, in the tenth month, this the

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month Tebeth, in the seventh year to
his kingdom.

17 And the king will love Esther
above all the women, and she will re-
ceive favor and mercy before him above
all the virgins; and he will set the
‘erown of the kingdom upon her head,
and he will cause her to reign instead
of Vashti.

18 And the king will make a great
drinking to all his chiefs and his ser-
vants; Hsther’s drinking; and he made
rest to the provinces, and he will give
a lifting up according to the hand of
the king.

19 And in the gathering together the
virgins the second time, and Mordecai
sat in the gate of the king.

20 And Esther not announcing her
kindred and her people, as Mordecai
commanded to her: and Esther did the
saying of Mordecai as when she was in
bringing up with him.

21 In those days, and Mordecai sat
in the gate of the king, Bigthan was
angry, and Teresh, two eunuchs of the
king watching the threshold; and they
will seek to stretch forth the hand
against the king Ahasuerus.

22 And the word will be known to
Mordecai, and he will announce to
Esther the queen; and Ksther will tell
to the king in the name of Mordecai.

23 And the word will be sought out
and found, and they two will be hung
upon a tree: and it will be written in
the book of the words of the days be-
fore the king,

CHAPTER III.
FTER these words the king Ahas-

Ἃ uerus magnified Haman, son of
Hammedatha the Agagite; and he will
lift him up and set his seat above all
the chiefs that were with him.

2 And all the king’s servants which
were in the king’s gate were bowing
and worshiping to Haman; for thus the
king commanded for him. And Mor-
decai will not bow, and he will not
worship.

3 And the king’s servants that were
in the king’s gate will say to Mordecai,
Wherefore dost thou pass by the king’s
command ?

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4 And it will be in their saying to
him day and day, and he will not hear
to them, and they will announce to
Haman to see whether the words of
Mordecai will stand: for he announced
to them that he was a Jew.

5 And Haman will see that Morde-
cai bowed not, and not worshiping to
him, and Haman will be filled with
wrath.

6 And it will be despised in his eyes
to stretch forth the hand against Mor-
decai alone; for they announced to
him the people of Mordecai: and Ha-
man will seek to destroy all the Jews
which are in all the kingdom of Ahas-
uerus, the people of Mordecai.

7 In the first month (this the month
Nisan,) in the twelfth year to the king
Ahasuerus, he cast Pur (this is the lot)
before Haman from day to day, and
from month to month, this the twelfth
the month Adar.

8 And Haman will say to king
Ahasuerus, There is one people scat-
tered and dispersed hetween the peo-
ples in all the provinces of thy king-
dom; and their laws different from all
people; they not doing the laws of the
king: and it not being suitable to the
king to suffer them.

9 If good to the king, it shall be
written to destroy them: and I will
weigh ten thousand talents of silver to
the hands of those doing the work, to
bring to the king’s treasures.

10 And the king will remove the
signet ring from his hand, and will
give it to Haman the son of Hammeda-
tha, the Agagite, to press the Jews.

11 And the king will say to Haman,
The silver is given to thee, and the
people, to do with them as is good in
thine eyes.

12 And the king’s scribes will be
ealled in the first month, in the thir-
teenth day in it, and it will be written
according to all that Haman command-
ed to the king’s satraps and to the pre-
fects, which were over province and
province, and to the chiefs of people
and people of province and province,
according to its writing, and people
and people according to their tongue;
in the name of king Ahasuerus it was

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written, and sealed with the king’s sig-
net ring.

18 And the letters were sent by the
hand of the runners to all the king’s
provinces, to cut off, to kill and to de-
stroy, all the Jews, from the youth and
even to the old man, the little ones and
women, in one day, in the thirteenth to
the twelfth month, (this the month
Adar) and their spoil for plunder.

14 A copy of the writing to be given
an edict in every province and proy-
ince, being manifested to all peoples to
be ready for that day.

15 And they running went forth,
being impelled by the word of the king,
and the edict was given in Shushan the
fortress. And the king and Haman
sat down to drink; and the city Shu-
shan was disquieted.

CHAPTER IV.
ND Mordecai knew all that was
done, and Mordecai will rend his
garments, and put on sackcloth and
ashes, and he will go forth into the
city, and he will cry out a great and
bitter ery ;

2 And he will come even before the
king’s gate: for none to come into the
king’s gate in putting on sackcloth.

3 And in every province and prov-
ince the place where the word of the
king and his edict coming, great mourn-
ing to the Jews, and fasting and weep-
ing and wailing; sackcloth and ashes
will be spread to many. ,

4 And Esther's maidens will go in,
and her eunuchs, and they will an-
nounce to her: and the queen will be
greatly grieved ; and she will send gar-
ments to clothe Mordecai and to put
away his sackcloth from off him: and
he received not.

5 And Esther will call to Hatach
from the king’s eunuchs, whom he
caused to stand before her, and she will
give him a charge to Mordecai, to know
what this, and for what this.

6 And Hatach went forth to Morde-
cai to the broad place of the city, which
was before the king’s gate.

7 And Mordecai will announce to
him all which befell him, and the expo-
sition of the silver which Haman said

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to weigh to the king’s treasures for the
Jews to destroy them.

8 And the copy of the writing of the
edict which was given in Shushan to
destroy them, he gave to him to cause
Esther to see, and to announce to her,
and to charge upon her to go in to the
king to implore mercy, and to seek from
before him for her people.

9 And Hatach will go in and an-
nounce to Esther the words of Mordecai.

10 And Esther will say to Hatach,
and will give hima charge to Mordecai ;

11 All the king's servants, and the
people of the king’s provinces, knowing
that every man and woman who shall
go into the king to the inner enclosure,
who shall not be called, one edict of
his to put to death only which the king
shall stretch out to him the sceptre
of gold, and he lived: and I was not
called to go in to the king this thirty
days.

12 And they will announce to Mor-
decai, Esther's words.

18 And Mordecai will tell to turn
back to Esther, Thou wilt not imagine
in thy soul to escape in the house of the
king more than all the Jews.

14 For if being silent, thou shalt be
silent in this time, breath and deliver-
ance shall stand up to the Jews from
another place; and thou and thy fa-
ther’s house shall be destroyed: and -
who shall know if fora time like this
thou camest to the kingdom ?

15 And Esther will tell to turn back
to Mordecai:

16 Go collect together all the Jews
being found in Shushan, and fast ye for
me, and ye shall not eat and ye shall
not drink three days, night and day;
also 1 and my maidens will fast thus;
and in this I will go in to the king,
which is not according to the edict ; and
according to that I perished, I perished.

17 And Mordecai will pass by, and
will do according to all that Esther
charged upon him.

CHAPTER יצ‎
ND it will be in the third day,
Esther will put on dominion, and
she will stand in the enclosure of the
king’s house, the interior before the

king’s house: and the king will sit
upon the throne of his kingdom, in the
house of the kingdom, before the door
of the house.

2 And it will be when the king saw
Ksther the queen standing in the en-
closure, she received favor in his eyes:
and the king will stretch out to Esther
the sceptre of gold which is in his
hand: and Esther will draw near and
touch upon the head of the sceptre.

8 And the king will say to her,
What to thee, Esther the queen? what
thy seeking? even to the half of the
kingdom and. it shall be given to thee.

4 And Ksther will say, If good to
the king, will the king come, and Ha-
man, this day, to the drinking which
1 made for him?

5 And the king will say, Hasten ye
Haman to do the word of Esther. And
the king will ₪0 im, and Haman, to the
drinking which Esther made.

6 And the king will say to Esther
at the drinking of wine, What thy ask-
ing? and it shall be given to thee: and
what thy seeking? even to the half of
the kingdom it shall be done.

7 And Esther will answer and say,
My asking and my seeking:

8 If I found favor in the eyes of the
king, and if good to the king to give

-my asking and to do my seeking, the
king shall come and Haman to the
drinking that I shall make for them,
and to-morrow I will do as the king
said.

9 And Haman went forth in that
day being glad and good of heart: and
when Haman saw Mordecai in the
king’s gate, and he rose not up and
moved not himself for him, and Ha-
man will be filled with wrath against
Mordecai.

10 And Haman will contain him-
self, and will go in to his house; and
he will send and cause his friends to
come, and Zeresh his wife.

11 And Haman will recount to them
the glory of his riches, and the multi-
tude of his sons, and all how the king
magnified him, and how he lifted him
up over the chiefs and servants of the
king.

12 And Haman will say also, Esther

ESTHER VI.

the queen caused none to come in with
the king to the drinking which she
made but me; and also to-morrow I
am called to her with the king.

13 And all this was not an equiva-
lent to me in all the time which I see
Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king’s
gate.

14 And Zeresh his wife will say to
him, and all his friends, Make ye a tree
high fifty cubits, and in the morning
say thou to the king, and they shall
hang Mordecai upon it: and go thou in
with the king to the drinking, being
glad. And the word will be good be-
fore Haman; and he will make the
tree.

CHAPTER VI.
N that night the king’s sleep fled
away, and he will say to bring in
the book of memorials of the words of
the days; and they will be read before
the king.

2 And it will be found written that
Mordecai announced concerning Big-
thana and Teresh, the king’s two eu-
nuchs watching the threshold, who
sought to stretch forth the hand upon
the king Ahasuerus.

3 And the king will say, What honor
was done and greatness to Mordecai for
this? And the young men of the king
serving him will say, Not a word was
done with him.

4 And the king will say, Who is in
the enclosure* And Haman came to
the enclosure of the king’s house the ex-
terior, to say to the king to hang Mor-
decai upon the tree which he prepared
for him.

5 And the king’s young men will say
to him, Behold, Haman standing in the
enclosure. And the king will say, He
shall come in.

6 And Haman will come in. And
the king will say to him, What to be
done for the man whom the king de-
lighted in his honor? And Haman
will say in his heart, To whom will the
king delight to do honor more abun-
dantly than me? ἡ

7 And Haman will say to the king,
The man whom the king delighted in
his honor,

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8 They shall bring in the clothing of
the kingdom which the king was
clothed in, it and the horse which the
king rode upon him, and the crown of
the kingdom which was given upon his
head :

9 And giving the clothing and the
horse to the hand of a man of the chiefs
of the king, the nobles; and clothe the
man which the king delighted in his
honor, and cause him to ride upon the
horse in the broad place of the city, and
eall before him, Thus shall it be done
to the man whom the king delighted
in his honor.

10 And the king will say to Haman,
Hasten; take the clothing and the
horse according as thou spakest, and do
thus to Mordecai the Jew, sitting in the
king’s gate: not a word shall fall from
all which thou spakest.

11 And Haman will take the cloth-
ing and the horse, and he will clothe
Mordecai, and cause him to ride in the
broad place of the city, and he will call
before him, Thus shall it be done to the
man whom the king delighted in his
honor.

12 And Mordecai will turn back to
> the king’s gate. And Haman hastened
to his house, and the head covered.

13 And Haman will recount to Ze-

resh his wife, and to all his friends, all.

which befell him. And his wise men and
Zeresh his wife will say to him, If Mor-
decai be from the seed of the Jews
which thou didst begin to fall before
him, thou shalt not prevail against him ;
for falling, thou shalt fall before him.

14 They yet speaking with him, and
the king’s eunuchs drew near, and they
will hasten to bring Haman to the
drinking which 19560 made.

CHAPTER VIL
ND the king will goin and Ha-
man to drink with Hsther the
ueen,

2 And the king will say to Esther
also in the second day at the drinking
of wine, What thy asking, queen Ks-
ther? and it shall be given to thee:
and what thy wcaking | even to the
half of the kingdom and it shall be
done.

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3 And Esther the queen will answer
and say, If I found grace in thine eyes,
O king, and if good to. the king, my
soul shall be given to me in my asking,
and my people in my seeking:

4 For we were sold, I and my peo-
ple, to cut off, to kill and to destroy.
And if for servants and for maids we
were sold, I was silent, but the enemy
made not even for the loss of the king.

5 And the king Ahasuerus will say,
and he will say to Esther the queen,
Who is he, and where is he, whom his
heart filled him to do thus?

6 And Esther will say, The man, the
adversary and enemy, this evil Haman.
And Haman was terrified from before
the king and the queen.

7 And the king rose up in his wrath
from the drinking of wine, to the gar-
den of the palace: and Haman _ stood
up to seek out for his soul from Esther
the queen; for he saw that evil was
completed for him from the king,

8 And the king turned back from the
garden of the palace to the house of the
drinking of wine; and Haman fell up-
on the bed which Esther was upon it.
And the king will say, Also is he to
force the queen with me in the house ?
The word went forth from the king’s
mouth, and they covered Haman’s
face.

9 And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs,
will say before the king, Also behold
the tree which Haman made for Mor-
decai who spake good for the king,
standing in Haman’s house, high fifty
cubits: And the king will say, Ye shall
hang him upon it.

10 And they will hang Haman upon
the tree that he prepared for Mordecai.
And the wrath of the king subsided.

CHAPTER VIII.
7: that day the king Ahasuerus gave
to Esther the queen, the house of
Haman the Jews’ enemy. And Mor-
deeai came before the king; for Esther
announced what he was to her.

2 And the king will remove his sig-
net ring which he caused to pass from
Haman, and he will give it to Morde-
cai. And Esther will set Mordecai
over the house of Haman.

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8 And Esther will add and she will
speak before the king, and she will fall
before his feet and weep, and make
supplication to him to cause the eyil of
Haman the Agagite to pass away, and
his purpose that he purposed against
the Jews.

4 And the king will stretch out to
Esther the scepter of gold: and Esther
will rise and stand before the king,

5 And she will say, If good to the
king, and if I found fayor before him,
and the word be right before the king,
and I good in his eyes, it shall be writ-
ten to turn back the writings, the pur-
poses of Haman son of Hammedatha
the Agagite, that he wrote to destroy
the Jews that were in all the king’s
provinces :

6 For how shall I be able and I
looked upon the evil which shall be
found with my people? And how shall
I be able and 1 looked upon the destruc-
tion of my kindred ?

7 And the king Ahasuerus will say
to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai
the Jew, The house of Haman I gave
to Esther, and they hung him upon the
tree because he stretched forth his hand
against the Jews.

8 And write ye for the Jews as is
good in your eyes, in the king’s name,
and seal it with the king’s signet ring:
for the writing which was written in
the king’s name, and sealed with the
king's signet ring, none to turn back.

9 And the king's scribes will be call-
ed in that time in the third month,
(this the month Sivan) in the three and
twentieth in it; and it will be written
according to all that Mordecai com-
manded, to the Jews, and to the satraps,
and the prefects, and the chiefs of the
provinces which are from India and
even to Cush, seven and twenty and a
hundred provinces, province and proy-
ince according to its writing, and _peo-
ple and people according to their tongue,
and to the Jews according to their writ-
ing, and according to their tongue.

10 And he will write in the name of
the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the
king’s signet ring; and he will send let-
ters by the hand of runners on horses rid-
ing the courser, the mules, sons of mares :

11 Which the king gave to the Jews
which were in every city and city to
gather together, and to stand for their
soul, to cut off, and to kill and to de-
stroy all the power of the people and
province pressing upon them, little ones
and women, and their spoil for booty,

12 In one day in all the provinces of
king Ahasuerus, in the thirteenth to
the twelfth month, this the month Adar.

13 The copy of the writing to be
given an edict in every province and
province, revealed to all the peoples,
and for the Jews to be ready for this
day to avenge themselves of their ene-
mies.

14 The runners riding the courser,
the mules, went forth, being hastened
and impelled by the word of the king.
And the edict was given in Shushan
the fortress.

15 And Mordecai went forth from
before the king in clothing of the king-
dom, cerulean purple, and white, and a
great crown of gold, and a wide robe of
byssus and gees and the city Shu-
shan shouted and was glad:

16 There was to the Jews light and
gladness and joy and honor.

17 And in every province and prov-
ince, and in every city and city, the
place where the word of the king and
his edict coming, gladness and joy to
the Jews, a drinking and a good day.
And many peoples of the Jand becom-
ing Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell
upon them.

CHAPTER IX.

ND in the twelfth month (this the

month Adar) in the thirteenth
day in it, when the word of the king
drew near, and his edict to do in the
day that the enemies of the Jews ex-
pected to have power over them, (and
it was turned that these Jews will have
power over those hating them :)

‘2 The Jews were gathered together
in their cities in all the provinces of
the king Ahasuerus, to stretch forth the
hand upon those seeking their evil:
and aman stood not before them, for
their fear fell upon all the peoples.

3 And all the chiefs of the provinces,
and the satraps, and the prefects, and

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ESTHER IX.

those doing the work that was for the
kang, were lifting up with the Jews;
for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them:

4 For great was Mordecai in the
house of the king, and his fame went
into all the provinces: for the man
Mordecai went and was magnified.

5 And the Jews will strike against
all their enemies with the blow of the
sword, and killing and destruction ;
and they will do according to their de-
sire upon those hating them.

6 And in Shushan the fortress the
Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
men.

7 Parshandatha and Dalphon, and
Aspatha,

8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Ari-
datha,

9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and
Aridai, and Vajezatha,

10 The ten sons of Haman son of
Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, they
slew; and upon the prey they stretched
not out their hand.

11 In that day came the number of
those slain in Shushan the fortress be-
fore the king.

12 And the king will say to Esther
the queen, In Shushan the fortress the
Jews slew and destroyed five hundred
inen, and the ten sons of Haman: in the
rest of the king’s provinces what did
they? and what thy asking? and it
shall be given to thee: and what more
thy seeking? and it shall be done.

13 And Esther will say, If good to
the king, it shall be given also to-mor-
row to the Jews that are in Shusan to
do according to the edict of the day,
and they shall hang Haman’s ten sons
upon the tree.

14 And the king will say to do this.
And the edict will be given in Shushan ;
and they hung the ten sons of Haman.

15 For the Jews that were in Shu-
shan will gather together also in the
fourteenth day to the month Adar, and
they will kill in Shushan three hundred
men; and upon the prey they sent not
the hand.

16 And the rest of the Jews which
were in the king's provinces gathered
together and stood for their soul, and
rested from their enemies, and slew

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among their enemies five and seventy
thousand; and upon the prey they sent
not their hand.

17 In the thirteenth day to the month
Adar, and resting in the fourteenth in
it, and making it a day of drinking and
gladness

18 And the Jews that were in Shu-
shan were assembled in the thirteenth in
it, and in the fourteenth in it; and rest-
ing in the fifteenth in it, and making it
a day of drinking and gladness.

19 For this the Jews of the villages
and in cities of the open country mak-
ing the fourteenth day to the month
Adar, gladness and drinking, and a
good day, and sending portions a man
to his neighbor.

20 And Mordecai will write these
words, and send letters to all the Jews
that were in all the king Ahasuerus’s
provinces, near and far off,

21 To set up to them to be doing the
fourteenth day to the month Adar, and
the fifteenth day in it, in every year
and year,

22 As the days which the Jews rest-
ed in them from their enemies, and the
month that was turned to them from
grief to gladness, and from mourning to
a good day, to make them days of drink-
ing and gladness, and sending portions
a man to his neighbor, and gifts to the
needy.

23 And the Jews admitting what
they began to do, and what Mordecai
wrote to them.

24 For Haman son of Hammedatha
the Agagite, oppressing all the Jews,
purposed against the Jews to destroy
them, and he cast Pur (this the lot) to
discomfit them and to destroy them;

25 And in her coming before the
king, he said by letter he will turn back
his purpose of eyil that he purposed
against the Jews upon his head: and
they hung him and his sons upon the
tree.

26 For this they called to these days
Purim, for the name of Pur. For this
upon all the words of this epistle, and
what they saw upon this, and what
came to them,

27 The Jews set up and admitted
upon them, and upon their seed, and

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upon all joining themselves to them,
and they shall not pass by to be doing
these two days according to their writ-
ing, and according to their time in every
year and year;

28 And these days beng remembered
and done in every generation and gen-
eration, family and family, province and
province, city and city; and these days
of the lots shall not pass by from the
midst of the Jews, and their remem-
brance shall not be ended from their
seed.

29 And Hsther the queen, the daugh-
ter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew,
will write with all power to set up the
epistle of Purim, this second.

80 And he will send the letter to all
the Jews, to the seventy and twenty
and a hundred provinces of the king-
dom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and
truth,

31 To set up these days of Purim in

DANIEL TI. ;

their times, as Mordecai the Jew set up
to them, and Esther the queen, and as
they set up for their souls and for their
seed, the words of fastings and their ery.

32 And the saying of Hsther set up
these words of Purim; and it was writ-
ten in the book.

CHAPTER X.
ND the king Ahasuerus will set
1 \ up a tribute upon the land, and
the isles of the sea.

2 And all the work of his power and
his strength, and the exposition of the
greatness of Mordecai which the king
magnified him, are they not written
upon the book of the words of the days
to the kings of Media and Persia?

3 For Mordecai the Jew was second
to the king Ahasuerus, and great to the
Jews, and acceptable to the multitude
of his brethren, seeking good for his peo-
ple, and speaking peace to all his seed.

TH BOOK OR ΒΕ:

CHAPTER 1.
Τ᾽ the third year to the kingdom of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, came
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel to Je-
rusalem, and he will press it.

2 And Jehovah will give Jehoiakim
king of Judah into his hand, and from
the number of vessels of the house of
God: and he will bring them to the
land of Shinar the house of his god;
and he brought the vessels into the
treasure-house of his god.

8 And the king will say to Ashpe-
naz the leader of his eunuchs to bring
from the sons of Israel and from the
seed royal, and from the nobles;

4 Children whom not any blemish in
them, and good of aspect, and under-
standing in al] wisdom, and knowing
knowledge, and understanding intelli-
gence, and to whom power in them to
stand in the king’s temple, and to teach
them the writmg and tongue of the
Chaldees.

5 And the king will allot to them
the word of a day in its day from the
king's dainties and from the wine of his
drinking: and to nourish them three
years, and from the end of three years
they shall stand before the king.

6 And there will be among them
from the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hana-
niah, Mishael, and Azariah :

7 And the chief of the eunuchs will
set names to them: to David, Belteshaz-
zar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and
to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah,
Abed-Nego.

8 And Daniel will set up upon his
heart that he will not be defiled with
the dainties of the king, and with the
wine of his drinking: and he will seek
from the chief of the eunuchs that he
shall not defile himself.

9 And God will give Daniel to merey
and compassions before the chiefs of
the eunuchs.

10 And the chief of the eunuchs will

DANIEL IL

say to Daniel, I fear my lord the king,
who allotted your food and your drink :
for wherefore shall he see your faces
gloomy above the children as of your
age? and make my head guilty to the
ling.

‘11 And Daniel will say to Melzar,
whom the chief of the eunuchs ap-
pointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Misha-
el, and Azariah,

12 Prove now thy servants, ten days ;
and they shall give to us from seed
herbs, and we will eat, and water, and
we will drink.

18 And our aspects shall be seen be-
fore thee, and the aspect of the chil-
dren eating the king’s dainties: and ac-
cording to what thou shalt see, do with
thy servants.

14 And he will hear to them for this
word, and he will try them ten days.

15 And from the end of ten days
their aspect was seen good and fat of
flesh above all the children eating of
the king’s dainties.

16 And Melzar will be taking away
their dainties, and the wine of their
drinking, and he gave to them seed
herbs.

17 And these four children, God gave
to them knowledge and understanding
in all writing and wisdom: and Daniel
understood in every vision and dreams.

18 And from the end of the days
when the king said to bring them in,
and the chief of the eunuchs will bring
them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

19 And the king will speak with
them: and there was not found from
all of them as Daniel, Hananiah, Mish-
ael, and Azariah: and they will stand
before the king.

20 And every word of the wisdom of
understanding which the king sought
from them, and he will find them ten
hands over all the sacred scribes, the
enchanters which were in all his king-
dom.

21 And Daniel will be even to one
year to Cyrus the king.

CHAPTER II.
ND in the second year to the
kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, Ne-
buchadnezzar dreamed dreams, and his

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spirit will be moved, and his sleep was
broken upon him.

2 And the king will say to call to
the sacred scribes, and to the enchant-
ers, and to the sorcerers, and to the
Chaldeans, to announce to the king his
dreams. And they will come and stand
before the king.

3 And the king will say to them, I
dreamed a dream, and my spirit will be
moved to know the dream.

4 And the Chaldeans will speak to
the king Syriac: O king, live forever:
say to thy servants the dream, and we
will show the interpretation.

5 The king answered and said to the
Chaldeans, The word went out from
me: if ye will not make known to me
the dream and its interpretation, ye
shall be made pieces, and your houses
shall be set dung-hills.

6 And if ye shall show the dream
and its interpretation, ye shall receive
from before me a gift and present, and
great honor: therefore show me the
dream and its interpretation.

7 They answered a second time, and
said, The king will say to his servants
the dream, and we will show its inter-
pretation.

8 And the king answered and said,
Certainly I know that ye buy the time,
for which cause that ye saw that the
word went out from me.

9 Enough if ye will not make
known to me the dream, this one edict
for you; and ye divided out the word
of falsehood and this corruption to sa
before me, till that the time shall
change: therefore say to me the dream
and I shall know that ye will show me
its interpretation.

10 The Chaldeans answered before
the king, and said, There is not a man
upon the dry land that shall be able to
show the king’s word: for which cause
that every king, leader, and ruler, asked
not a word like this to any sacred
scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean.

11 And the word the king asked will
be made rare, and there is not another
that will show it before the king ex-
cept the gods that their dwelling is not
with flesh.

12 For this cause the king was in

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dignant and greatly angry, and he|up before the king, and I will show the
spake to destroy to all the wise of Ba-| interpretation to the king.

bel.

13 And the edict went forth and the
wise men being killed; and they sought
Daniel and his associates to be killed.

14 At that time Daniel turned back
counsel and reason to Arioch, leader of
the king’s executioners, that went forth
to kill to the wise of Babel:

15 He answered and said to Arioch
the king’s ruler, For what the severe
edict from before the king? Then
Arioch made known the word to Dan-
1

16 And Daniel went up and sought
from the king that he will give time
for it, and to show to the king the in-
terpretation.

17 Then Daniel departed to his
house, and made known the word to

Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah his
companions :
18 And for seeking compassions

from before the God of the heavens
conceming this secret: that Daniel and
his companions shall not be destroyed
with the rest of the wise of Babel.

19 Then to Daniel in a vision of the
night was the secret uncovered. Then
Daniel praised to the God of the heavy-
ens.

20 Daniel answered and said, For
this the name of God being praised
from forever and even to forever: for
wisdom and strength are to him:

21 And he changes the times and
the seasons; removing kings and set-
ting up kings; giving wisdom to the
wise and knowledge to those knowing
understanding.

22 He uncovered deep and hidden
things: he knew what in darkness, and
light lodged with him,

23 For thee, O God of my fathers, I
praise and laud that thou gavest me
wisdom and strength, and now didst
make known to me what we sought
from thee: for thou didst make known
to us the king’s word.

24 For this cause Daniel went up to
Arioch whom the king allotted to de-
stroy the wise of Babel: he went and
said thus to him: For the wise of Ba-
bel thou shalt not destroy: bring me

25 Then with haste Arioch brought
up for Daniel before the king, and said
thus to him, That I found a man from
the sons of the captivity of Judah that
will make known to the king the inter-
pretation.

26 The king answered and said to
Daniel, his name Belteshazzar, Is it to
thee to be able to make known to me
the dream that I saw, and its interpre-
tation ?

27 Daniel answered before the king,
and said, The secret that the king ask.
ed, not the wise men, the enchanters,
the sacred scribes, the ‘diviners, shall be
able to show to the king;

28 But there is a God in the heavens
revealing secrets, and he made known
to king Nebuchadnezzar what to be in
the latter days. ‘Thy dream, and the
visions of thy head upon thy bed, it is
thus:

29 Thou, O king, thy thoughts upon
thy bed went up what to be after this:
and he revealing secrets made known
to thee what to be.

80 And 1 not for wisdom that is in
me more than all living is this secret
revealed to me, but for the reason that
they shall make known the interpre-
tation to the king, and thou shalt
know the thoughts of thy heart.

31 Thou, Of king, wert seeing, and
behold, one great image. This image
vast, and its brightness excellent; it
stood before thee, and its aspect terri-
ble.

32 This image, its head of good gold,
the breasts and arms of silver, and the
bowels and thighs of brass:

33 The legs of iron, the feet part of
iron, and part of burnt clay.

84 Thou wert seeing even till a stone
was cut out not with hands, and strik-
ing against the image upon the feet of
iron and burnt clay, and breaking them
in pieces.

85 At that time were beaten small at
once, the iron, the burnt clay, the brass,
the silver and the gold, and they were
as the chaff of the threshing-floor of
summer; and the wind lifted them up
and all place was not found for them:

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and the stone striking against the im-
age was for a great rock, and filled all
the earth.

86 This the dream, and we will tell
its interpretation before the king.

37 Thou, O king, a king of kings:
for the God of the heavens gave to thee
a kingdom strong and powerful, and
splendid.

88 And in all that the sons of men
dwelt, the beasts of the open field and
the birds of the heavens he gave into
thine hand, and gave thee power over
them all. Thou this head of gold.

89 And after thee shall arise another
kinedom lower than thee, and another
third kingdom of brass, that shall have
power over all the earth.

40 And the fourth kingdom shall be
strong as iron, because that iron beats
small, and makes thin all: and as iron
breaks all these, it shall beat small and
break.

41 And that thou sawest the feet and
toes, part of burnt clay of the potter,
and part of iron, the kingdom shall be
divided; and from the firmness of iron
to be in it, for which cause that thou
sawest iron mingled with earthen-ware.

42 And the toes of the feet, part of
iron, and part of burnt clay, from the
‘end of the kingdom shall be strong, and
part shall be cut asunder. ,

43 That thou sawest the iron min-
gled with the earthen-ware, mingling
for themselves with the seed of men:
and not cleaving to them this with this,
% as iron not mingling with burnt
clay.

44 And in their days that they are
kings, the God of the heavens shall set
up a kingdom that shall not be des-
troyed forever: and its kingdom shall
be left to another people; it shall beat
small and destroy all these kingdoms,
and this shall stand forever.

45 Because that thou sawest that the
stone being cut from the rock not with
hands, and it beat small the iron, the
brass, the burnt clay, the silver and the
gold: the great God made known to
the king what to be after this: and the
dream certain, and its interpretation
faithful.

46 At that time king Nebuchadnez-

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zar fell upon his face and prostrated
himself to Daniel, and said to pour out
a gift and sweet odors to him.

47 And the king answered to Daniel,
and said, Ofa truth that your God he is
God of gods, and Lord of kings, and re-
vealing secrets, that thou wert able to
reveal this secret.

48 Then the king multiplied to Dan-
iel, and gave to him many a great gift,
and gave him power over all the prov-
ince of Babel, and chief of the prefects
over all the wise of Babel.

49 And Daniel sought from the king,
and he appointed out over the business
of the province of Babel 1o Shadrach, -
Meshach and Abed-Nego: and Daniel
in the gate of the king.

CHAPTER III.
EBUCHADNEZZAR the king
made an image of gold; its height
sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits:
he set it up in the valley of Dura, in
the province of Babel.

2 And Nebuchadnezzar the king
sent to gather together to the satraps,
the prefects, and the governors, the
chief judges, the treasurers, those skilled
in law, the lawyers, and all the rulers
of the proyinees, to the drinking to the
dedication of the image that Nebuchad-
nezzar the king set up.

3 At that time there being gathered
together the satraps, the prefects and
the governors, the chief judges, the
treasurers, those skilled in law, the law-
yers and all the rulers of the provinces,
to the dedication of the image that Neb-
uchadnezzar the king set up; and
standing before the image that Nebu-
chadnezzar set up.

4 And a herald called with strength,
To you they say, Ὁ peoples, nations,
and tongues,

5 In the time ye shall hear the voice
of the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre,
the psaltery, the bagpipe, and all sorts
of music, ye shall fall and prostrate
yourselves to the image of gold that
Nebuchadnezzar the king set up.

6 And whoever shall not fall and
prostrate himself in the same moment,
he shall be cast into a furnace of flam-
ing fire,

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7 For this cause in that time that all
peoples heard the voice of the horn,
the pipe, the harp, the lyre, the psaltery,
and all sorts of music, all peoples, na-
tions, and tongues, fell prostrating them-
selves to the image of gold that Nebu-
chadnezzar the king set up.

8 For this cause, at that time men of
the Chaldeans drew near and ate up the
Jews piece-meal.

9 They answered and said to Nebu-
chadnezzar the king, O king, live for-
ever.

10 Thou, O king, didst set an edict,
that every man that shall hear the
voice of the horn, the pipe, the harp,
the lyre, the psaltery and the bagpipe,
and all sorts of music, shall fall and
prostrate himself to the image of gold :

11 And whoever shall not fall and
prostrate himself shall be cast into the
midst of a furnace of flaming fire.

12 There are men, Jews, that thou
didst appoint over the business of the
province of Babel, Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-Nego; these men set not an
account to thee, Ὁ king: they served
not to thy gods; and to the image of
gold that thou didst set up they pros-
trated themselves not.

18 At that time Nebuchadnezzar in
anger and wrath, said to bring Shad-
rach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then
they brought these men before the king.

14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and
said to them, Is it on purpose, O Shad-
rach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, ye not
serving to my gods, and to the image
of gold that 1 set up, ye not prostrating
yourselves ?

15 Now if ye being prepared that in
the time that ye shall hear the voice of
the horn, the pipe, the harp, the lyre,
the psaltery, and the bagpipe, and all
sorts of music, ye shall fall and _pros-
trate yourselves to the image that I
made; and if ye shall not prostrate
yourselyes in the same moment, ye
shall be cast into the midst of the fur-
nace of flaming fire; and who that God
that shall deliver you from my hands?

16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Ne-
go answered, and saying to the king, O
Nebuchadnezzar, we need not to turn
back to thee upon this word.

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17 ΤΆ it is, our God whom we served
will be able to deliver us from the fur-
nace of flaming fire, and from thy hand,
O king, he will deliver us.

18 And if not, it shall be made
known to thee, O king, that to thy gods
we serve not, and to the image of gold
that thou didst set up we will not pros-
trate ourselves.

19 In that time Nebuchadnezzar
being filled with wrath, and the form
of the visage was changed to him
against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
Nego: he answered and said to heat to
the furnace one seven times above that
it was seen to be heated.

20 To the strong, the strong of
strength that were in his army, he said
to bind to Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-Nego, to cast into the furnace of
flaming fire.

21 Then these men were bound in
their wide trowsers, their tunics, and
their mantles, and their clothing, and
were cast into the midst of the furnace
of flaming fire.

22 For this cause, as the word of the
king being severe, and the furnace ex-
ceedingly heated, these men that took
up to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
Nego, the flame of fire killed them.

23 And these three men, Shadrach, -
Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell into
the midst of the furnace of flaming fire,
bound.

24 At that time Nebuchadnezzar the
king was grieved, and rose up in haste;
he answered and said _ to the counselors,
Did we not cast three men into the
midst of the fire, bound? They an-
swering and saying to the king, True,
O king.

25 He answered and said, Lo, I see
four men loose going about in the midst
of the fire, and there is no hurt in
them: and the aspect of the fourth hke
to the Son of God.

26 At that time Nebuchadnezzar
drew near’ to the door of the furnace of
flaming fire; he answered and _ said,
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego,
ye servants of God most high, go forth,
and come. Then came forth Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego, from 6
midst of the fire.

DANIEL IV.

27 And there being gathered together
the satraps, the prefects, and governors,
and the king’s counselors, looking upon
these men that upon their bodies the
fire had no power, and a hair of their
head was not singed, and their wide
trowsers were not changed, and the
smell of fire passed not upon them.

28 Nebuchadnezzar answered and
said, Blessed be their God of Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent his
messenger and delivered for his servants
that trusted upon him, and they chang-
ed the king’s word, and gave their bo-
dies that they will not serve and pros-
trate themselves to any god, except to
their God.

29 And an edict being set from me,
That every people, nation and tongue,
that shall say an error against their
God, of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
Nego, shall be made pieces, and his
house shall be set a dung-hill, because
that there is no other God that shall be
able to deliver according to this.

30-Then the king caused to Shad-
rach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to pros-
per in the province of Babel.

81 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all
peoples, nations and tongues, that dwell
in all the earth, your peace shall be-
come great.

32 The signs and wonders that the
most high God made with me, it was
pleasant before me to show.

83 His signs, how many! and his
wonders, how mighty! his kingdom, an
eternal kingdom, and his dominion with
generation and generation.

CHAPTER IV.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR was secure
in my house, and green in my tem-
le:

21 saw a dream, and it will terrify
me; and the conceptions upon my bed,
and the visions of my head, will cause
me to tremble.

3 And an edict being set from me to
bring up before me to all the wise of
Babel, that they shall make known to
me the interpretation of the dream.

4 At that time the sacred scribes, the
enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the di-
viners, coming in: and I told the dream

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before them : and its interpretation they
making not known to me.

5 And eyen at last Daniel came up
before me, whose name Belteshazzar,
according to the name of my god, and
the spirit of the holy gods in him: and
before him I told the dream:

6 O Belteshazzar, leader of the sacred
scribes, for I knew that the spirit of the
holy gods is in thee, and my secret
pressed not upon thee; the visions of
my dream that I saw, and its interpre-
tation, say thou.

7 And the visions of my head upon
my bed ; I was seeing, and lo, a tree in the
midst of the earth, and its height great.

8 And the tree increased and was
strong, and its height will reach to the
heavens, and its sight to the end of all
the earth:

9 Its foliage beautiful, and its fruit
great, and food for all in it: and the
beasts of the open field will be shaded
under it, the birds of the heavens will
dwell in its boughs, and all flesh will
be nourished from it.

10 I was seeing in the visions of my
head upon my bed, and lo, a watcher
and holy one came down from the
heavens ;

11 He 681160 with strength, and thus
he said, Hew down the tree, and cut
off its branches, shake off its foliage
and scatter its fruit: the beasts shall
flee from under it, and the birds from
its branches.

12 But leave the stump of its roots
in the earth, and with a band of iron
and brass, in the tender grass of the
open ficld; and in the dew of the heay-
ens it shall be wet, and its portion with
the beasts in the green, herb of the
earth.

13 Its heart shall be changed from
man, and the heart of a beast shall be
given to it; and seven times shall pass
over him.

14 The word by the decree of the
watchers, and the saying of the holy
ones is the question: for the reason
that the living shall know that the
Most High rules in the kingdom of
men, and to whom that he will, he
will give it, and he will raise up over
it the. low of men.

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15 This dream, I king Nebuchadnez-
zar saw. And thou Belteshazzar, tell
the interpretation, because that all the
wise of my kingdom not being able to
make known to me the interpretation :
and thou art able, for the spirit of the
holy gods is in thee.

16 Then Daniel, his name Belteshaz-
zar, was astonished for one moment,
and his thoughts terrified him. The
king answered and said, Belteshazzar,
the dream and its interpretation shall
not terrify thee. Belteshazzar answer-
ed and said, My lord, the dream to
those hating thee, and its interpreta-
tion to thine enemies.

17 The tree that thou sawest that in-
creased and was strong, and its height
will reach to the heavens, and its sight
to all the earth,

18 And its foliage beautiful, and its
fruit great, and food for all in it; un-
der it the beast of the open field will
dwell, and in its branches the birds of
the heavens will dwell:

19 It is thou, O king, who increased
and wert strong: and thy greatness in-
creased and reached to the heavens,
and thy dominion to the end of the
earth.

20 And that the king saw a watcher
and a holy one came down from the
heavens, and said, Hew down the tree
and destroy it; but leave the stump of
its roots in the earth, and with a band
of iron and brass in the tender grass of
the open field; and with the dew of
the heavens it shall be wet, and with
the beasts of the open field its portion,
even till seven times shall pass over
him ;

21 This the interpretation, O king,
and this the decree of the Most High,
that came upon my lord the king:

22 And for thee driving from men,
and with the beasts of the open field to
be thy dwelling, and they shall feed to
thee grass as oxen, and wetting to thee
from the dew of the heavens, and seven
times shall pass over thee till that thou
shalt know that the Most High rules in
the kingdom of men, and to whom
that he will, he will give it

23 And that they said to leave the
stump of the roots of the tree; thy

DANIEL IV.

kingdom being sure to thee, from when
thou shalt know that the heavens rule.

24 Wherefore, O king, my counsel
shall be pleasant to thee, and break off
thy sins by justice, and thine iniqui-
ties in compassionating the poor; if it
shall be a lengthening to thy peace.

25 All came upon Nebuchadnezzar
the king.

26 At the end of twelve months in
the temple of the kingdom of Babel, he
was going about.

27 The king answered and said, Is
not this great Babel, that I built it for
the house of the kingdom by the
strength of my power, and for the hon-
or of my majesty ?

28 Yet the word in the king’s mouth,
a voice from the heavens fell to thee,
being said, O Nebuchadnezzar the
king, the kingdom passed away from
thee:

.29 And from men driving thee out,
and with beasts of the open neld thy
dwelling: and they shall feed to thee
the grass as oxen, and seven times shall
pass over thee till that thou shalt know
that the Most High rules in the king-
dom of men, and to whom he will, he
will give it.

30 In the same moment the word
was added upon Nebuchadnezzar: and
he was driven out from men, and he
shall eat the green herb as oxen, and
from the dew of the heavens his body
shall be wet till that his hair was in-
creased as eagles’, and his nails as
birds’.

31 And at the end of the days, I
Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes to
the heavens, and my knowledge will
turn back to me, and I praised to the
Most High, and to him living forever, I
praised and honored, whose dominion
an eternal dominion, and his kingdom
with generation and generation.

82 And all the generations of the
earth being reckoned as nothing: and
doing according to his station in the
army of the heavens, and the genera-
tions of the earth: and there is none
that shall strike upon his hand, and say
to him, What didst thou?

33 In that time my knowledge will
turn back to me: and for the honor of

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my kingdom, my splendor and my
brightness’ will return to me; and my
counselors and my nobles will seel to
me; and I was established over my
kingdom, and excellent greatness was
added to me.

34 Now I Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and exalt and honor to the king of the
heavens, that all his works are truth,
and his paths judgment: and that they
going about in pride, he being able to
bring low.

CHAPTER V.
ELSHAZZAR the king made
ereat food for a thousand of his

nobles, and before the thousand he
drank wine.

2 Belshazzar said, in tasting the wine,.

to bring in for the vessels of gold and
silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father
brought forth from the temple that was
in Jerusalem; and in them the king
and his nobles, his wives and _ his con-
cubines, will drink.

8 At that time they brought the ves-
sels of gold that were brought forth
from the temple of the house of God
which was in Jerusalem; and in them
they drank, the king and his nobles,
his wives and his concubines.

4 They drank wine, and praised to
the gods of gold and silver, brass, iron,
wood and stone.

5 In the same moment went forth
fingers of a man’s hand and wrote be-
fore the candlestick upon the lime of the
wall of the temple of the king: and the
king saw the palm of the hand that
wrote.

6 The kine’s brightnesses changing,
and his thoughts will terrify him, and
the knots of his loins breaking forth,
and his knees knocked this upon that.

7 The king ealled with strength to
bring up the enchanters, the Chaldeans
and the diviners. The king answered
and said to the wise of Babel, Whatever
man that shall read this writing, and
will show to me its interpretation, shall
be clothed with purple, and a necklace
of gold upon his neck, and shall rule
the third in the kingdom.

8 Then came in all the king’s wise
ones: and they were not able to read

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the writing, and to make known the in-
terpretation to the king.

9 Then king Belshazzar being greatly
terrified, and his brightnesses being
changed upon him, and his nobles being
perplexed.

10 The queen, on account of the
king’s words and his nobles’, came in
to the house of drinking: the queen an-
swered and said, O king, live forever:
thy thought shall not terrify thee, and
thy brightnesses shall not be changed :

11 There is a man in thy kingdom
that the spirit of the holy gods in him;
and in the days of thy father, his light
and his understanding and wisdom ac-
cording to the wisdom of the gods was
found in him; and king Nebuchadnez-
zar thy father, the king thy father, set
him up leader of the sacred scribes, the
enchanters, the Chaldeans, the diviners:

12 Because that an excellent spirit
and knowledge, and his understanding
interpreting dreams, and showing of
enigmas, and solving knotty questions,
was found in him, in Daniel whom the
king set his name Belteshazzar: now
Daniel shall be called, and he will show
the interpretation.

13 At that time Daniel came in be-
fore the king. The king answered and
said to Daniel, Is it thou, Daniel, which
is from the sons of the captivity of Ju-
dah, whom the king my father brought
from Judah ?

14 1 heard concerning thee that the
spirit of the gods is in thee, and his
hght and his understanding and excel-
lent wisdom was found in thee.

15 And now the wise ones, the en-
chanters, were brought in before me
that they shall read this writing, and to
make known to me its interpretation:
and they were not able to show the in-
terpretation of the word :

16 And I heard concerning thee,
that thou wilt be able to interpret in-
terpretations, and solve knotty ques-
tions: now if thou shalt be able to read
the writing, and to make known to me
its interpretation, thou shalt be clothed
in purple, and a necklace of gold upon
thy neck, and thou shalt rule the third
in the kingdom.

17 At that time Daniel answered and

said before the king, Thy gifts to be to
thyself, and give thy presents to an-
other; but I will read the writing to
the king, and make known to him the
interpretation.

18 Thou, O king, God most high
gave a kingdom and greatness and hon.
or and splendor to Nebuchadnezzar thy
father :

19 And from the greatness that he
gaye to him, all peoples, nations and
tongues, were trembling and fearing
from before him: whom he was wil-
ling he killed ; and whom he was wil-
ling, he was saving alive; and whom
he was willing, he was setting up; and
whom he willed he was humbling.

20 And when his heart was lifted up,
and his spirit was strong for pride, he
was brought down from the throne of
his kingdom, and they took away his
honor from him.

21 And he was driven from the sons
of men, and his heart was made level
with the beasts, and with wild asses his
dwelling: they will feed him with the
green herb as oxen, and from the dew of
the heavens his body will be wet ; till that
he knew that God the Most High ruled
in the kingdom of men, and to whom
he will, he will set up over it.

22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar,
didst not humble thy heart because
that thou knewest all this;

23 And against the Lord of the heay-
ens thou didst lift up thyself; and for
the vessels of his house they brought
before thee, and thou and thy nobles,
and thy wives, and thy concubines,
drinking wine in them; and to the gods
of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood,
and stone, who see not, and hear not,
and know not, thou didst praise: and
to the God whom thy breath in his
hand, and all thy ways to him, thou
didst not honor.

24 At that time from before him was
sent the palm of the hand, and this
writing written.

25 And this the writing that. was
written: MENKE, MENK, TEKEL and
PHARSIN.

26 This the interpretation of the
word: Mene; God numbered thy king-
dom and completed it.

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27 Tekel; Thou shalt be weighed in
the balances and be found wanting.

28 Pharsin; Thy kingdom was di-
vided, and it shall be given to the Medes
and to Persia.

29 At that time Belshazzar said, and
they clothed Daniel with purple, and a
necklace of gold upon his neck, and
they cried out concerning him, for him
to rule the third in the kingdom.

30 In that night Belshazzar king of
the Chaldeans was killed.

CHAPTER VI.
ND Darius the Median received
the kingdom, as the son of two
and sixty years.

2 It pleased before Darius and he set
up over the kingdom a hundred and
twenty satraps, whom to be over all the
kingdom ;

3 And over these three presidents;
of whom Daniel was one: that to them
the satraps giving to them account, and
the king not for him detriment.

4 Then this Daniel excelling above
the presidents and satraps because that
an excellent spirit was in him; and the
king doing to.set him up over all the
kingdom.

5 Then the presidents and satraps
were seeking to find a pretext against
Daniel from the part of the kingdom;
and they will not be able to find any
pretext and corruption, because that he
was faithful, and any error and corrup-
tion was not found upon him.

6 Then these men saying that, We
shall not find against this Daniel any
pretext except we shall find against
him in the law of his God.

7 Then these presidents and satraps
ran. together with tumult to the king,
and saying thus to him, O Darius the
king, live thou forever.

8 All the presidents of the kingdom,
the prefects and satraps, and counselors
and governors, will counsel together to
set up a statute of the kingdom, and to
make strong an interdict that whoever
shall seek a request from any God and
man even to thirty days, except from
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the
den of lions.

9 Now, O king, wilt thou set up the

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interdict, and sign the writing, that not to
be changed according to the law of Media
and Persia, which shall not pass away.

10 For this cause, king Darius signed
the writing and the interdict.

11 And Daniel as soon as he knew that
the writing was signed, went up into
his house; and the windows being
opened to him in his upper chambers
before Jerusalem, three times in the day
he kneeled upon his knees, and pray-
ing and praising before his God, for the
cause that he did from before this.

12 Then these men ran together with
tumult and found Daniel seeking and
making supplication before his God.

18 At that time they drew near, and
saying before the king concerning the
interdict of the king, Didst thou not
sign an interdict that every man that
shall seek from any God and man even
for thirty days, except from thee, O
king, shall be cast into the den of h-
ons? The king answered and _ said,
The word is certain, according to the
law of Media and Persia, that shall not
pass away.

14 At that time they answered, and
saying before the king, That Daniel
that is from the sons of the captivity of
Judah set not up an account to thee, Ὁ
king, and to the interdict that thou
didst sign; and three times in the day
he sought his requests.

15 Then the king as soon as he
heard the word, was greatly displeased
with himself, and upon Daniel he set
the heart to set him free: and even to
the going down of the sun he was ex-
erting himself to deliver him.

16 At that time these men ran to-
gether with tumult to the king, and
saying to the king, Know, O king, that
the law to Media and Persia is, that ev-
ery interdict and statute that the king
shall set up is not to be changed.

17 At that time the king said, and
they brought Daniel and cast into the
den of the lions; the king answered
and said to Daniel, Thy God whom
thou servest to him continually, he will
set thee free.

18 And one stone was brought and
set upon the mouth of the den, and the
king sealed it with his signet ring, and

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with the signet ring of his nobles, that
the will shall not be changed upon
Daniel.

19 Then the king departed to his
temple and passed the night fasting:
and he brought not his concubines be-
fore him, and his sleep fled fron? him.

20 At that time the king will rise in
the dawn in the morning, and in haste
he departed to the lion’s den.

21 And in his drawing near to the
den he cried to Daniel with a strong
voice, the king answered and said to
Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living
God, thy God whom thou servest to
him continually, is he able to set thee
free from the lion’s den?

22 Then Daniel said to the king, O
king, live forever.

23 My God sent his messenger and
shut the mouth of the lions, and they
hurt me not, for the cause that inno-
cence was found to me; and also be-
fore thee, O king, I did no hurt

24 At that time the king rejoiced
greatly for him, and to Daniel he said
to be taken up from the den. And
Daniel was taken up from the den, and
any hurt was not found upon him, for
he trusted in his God.

25 And the king said, and they
brought these men that ate up Daniel
piece meal, and cast into the lion’s den,
them, their sons, and their wives; and
they not down to the bottom of the
den even till the lions had power oyer
them, and they broke all their bones in
pieces.

26 At that time Darius the king
wrote all peoples, nations and tongues,
that are dwelling in all the earth, Your
peace shall be great.

27 From before me a decree was set
forth that in every dominion of my
kingdom to be trembling and fearing
from before the God of Daniel: for he
is the living God, and standing forever,
and his kingdom that shall not be des-
troyed, and his dominion even to the
end.

28 Setting free and delivering, and
working signs and wonders in the heav-
ens and upon the earth, that set free to
Daniel from the hand of the lions.

29 And this Daniel was prospered in

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the kingdom of Darius, and in the king-
dom of Cyrus the Persian.

CHAPTER VIL.
N one year to Belshazzar the king
of Babel, Daniel saw a dream and
visiofis of his head upon his bed: at
that time he wrote the dream, telling
the head of the words.

2 Daniel answered and said, I was
seeing in my vision by night, and lo,
the four winds of the heayens rushing
forth to the great sea.

3 And four great beasts went up
from the sea, different this from this.

4 The first as a lion, and the wings
of an eagle toit; I was seeing even
till its wings were plucked, and it was
lifted up from the earth, and upon its
feet it was caused to stand asa man,
and a man’s heart was given to it.

5 And lo, another beast, a second be-
ing like to a bear; and it rose up to
one side, and three ribs in its mouth
between its teeth: and saying to it
thus, Arise, eat much flesh.

6 After this I was seeing, and lo,
another, as a panther, and to it four
wings of a bird upon its back, and four
heads to the beast; and dominion was
given to it.

7 After this I was seeing in the
visions of the night, and lo, a fourth
beast, fearful, and strong and powerful
exceedingly ; and great teeth of iron to
it, eating and beating small, and tread-
ing down the remainder with its feet:
and it being different from all the beasts
that were before it; and ten horns to it.

8 I was considering upon the horns,
and lo, another little horn went up
among them, and three from the first
horns were plucked up from before it:
and lo, eyes as the eyes of a man in this
horn, and a mouth speaking great
things.

9 I was seeing even till thrones were
cast down, and the Ancient of days sat,
his garment white as snow, and the
hair of his head as pure wool: his
throne a flame of fire, his wheels a
burning fire.

10 A river of fire flowed and went
out from before him: thousands of
thousands will wait upon him, and

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myriads of myriads will stand before
him: the tribunal sat, and the books
were opened,

11 I was seeing at that time from the
voice of the great words that the horn
was speaking: I was seeing even till
that the beast was killed and its body
destroyed, and it was given to the burn-
ing fire.

12 And the rest of the beasts they
took away their power: and length in life
was given to them fora season and time.

13 I was seeing in the visions of the
night, and 10, with the clouds of the
heavens as the Son of man he came,
and turning even to the Ancient of
days; and they brought him near be-
fore him,

14 And to him was given dominion,
power and honor, and a kingdom; and
all peoples and nations and tongues
shall serye to him: his power an eter-
nal power that shall not pass away, and
his kingdom which shall not be de-
stroyed.

15 I Daniel was grieved in the midst
of the sheath, and the visions of my
heart will terrify me.

16 I drew near to one of those stand-
ing by, and I sought from him the
truth concerning all this: and he said
to me, and he will cause me to know
the interpretation of the words.

17 Those great beasts that they are
four, four kings they shall rise up from
the earth. /

18 And the holy ones of the Most
High shall take the kingdom and shall
possess the kingdom even to forever,
and even to forever of forever.

19 Then I willed to speak the truth
concerning the fourth beast that was
different from all of them, exceedingly
fearful, its teeth of iron and its hoofs of
brass; eating, beating small, and tread-
ing down the remainder with its feet ;

20 And concerning the ten horns
that were upon its head, and the other
that went up, and three fell from before
it; and this horn and eyes to it, and a
mouth speaking great things, and its
sight great above its companions.

21 I was seeing, and this horn made
an encounter with the holy ones, and
prevailed against them ;

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22 Even till that the Ancient of days
came, and the judgment was given to
the holy ones of the Most High; and
the time extending and the holy ones
possessed the kingdom,

23 Thus he said, The fourth beast
shall be the fourth kingdom in the
earth, that shall be different from all
kingdoms, and shall eat up all the earth,
and shall tread it down and beat it
small.

24 And the ten horns from this
kingdom, ten kings shall arise: and
“another shall rise after them; and he
shall be different from the first, and he
shall humble three kings.

25 And he shall speak words against
the Most High, and he shall vex the
holy ones of the Most High, and he
will hope to change times and law: and
they shall be given into his hand even
toa time and times, and the dividing
of time.

26 And the tribunal sat, and they
shall take away his power to cut off
and to destroy even to the end.

27 And the kingdom and the power,
and the greatness of the kingdom under
all the heavens was given to the people
of the holy ones of the Most High; his
kingdom an eternal kingdom, and all
powers shall serve to him, and shall
hear.

28 Even to this the end of the word.
I Daniel, my thoughts will greatly ter-
rify me, and my brightness will be
changed upon me: and I kept the word
in my heart.

CHAPTER VIII.
N the third year to the kingdom of
Belshazzar the king a vision was
seen to me, I Daniel, after that being
seen to me in the beginning.

2 And I shall see im a vision; and it
will be in my seeing, and I in Shushan
the fortress, in Elam the province ; and
I shall see in a vision, and I was by the
stream of strength.

3 And 1 shall lift up mine eyes, and
T shall see, and behold, one ram stood
before the stream, and horns to him:
and the horns high; and the one high
above the second, and the high came up
at the last.

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4 And I saw the ram pushing the
sea, and north and south; and all the
beasts will not stand before him, and
none delivering from his hand; and
he did according to his will, and in-
creased.

5 And I was considering, and behold,
a he goat of the goats came from the
west upon the face of all the earth, and
not touching upon the earth: and the
he goat a horn of vision between his
eyes.

6 And he will come even to the ram
possessing the horns, which I saw stand-
ing before the stream, and he will run
against him in the wrath of his power.

7 And I saw him coming near to the
ram, and he will be exasperated against
him, and he will strike the ram and
break his two horns: and there will be
no power in the ram to stand before
him, and he will cast him to the earth,
and will tread upon him: and there
was none delivering for the ram out of
his hand.

8 And the he goat of the goats in-
creased even greatly: and in his being
strong the great horn was broken ; and
there will come up the vision of four
underneath it to the four winds of the
heavens.

9 And from one of them came forth
one horn of a little thing, and it will be
great exceedingly to the south to the
sunrisings, and to the glories.

10 And it will be great even to the
army of the heavens; and it will cast
to the earth from the army, and from
the stars, and it will tread them down.

11 And even to the chief of the ar-
my was he magnified, and from him
the continuance was lifted up, and the
foundation of his holy place was cast
down.

12 And an army will be given upon
the continuance by transgression, and
it will cast down truth to the earth;
and it did and it succeeded.

13 And I shall hear one holy one
speaking, and one holy one will say to
a certain one, speaking, How long the
vision of the continuance, and the trans-
gression laying waste, to be? and the
holy place and the army being trodden
down?

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14 And he will say to me, Even to
evening morning, two thousand and
three hundred ; and the holy place was
justified.

15 And it will be in my seeing, I
Daniel, the vision, and I shall seek its
understanding, and behold, there stood
before me as the sight of a man.

16 And I shall hear man’s voice be-
tween Ulai, and he will call and say,
Man of God, cause to this to understand
the sight.

17 And he will come near my stand-
ing: and in his coming I was afraid,
and I shall fall upon my face; and he
will say to me, Understand, O son of
man: for at the time of the end, the
vision.

18 And in his speaking with me I
lay in a deep sleep upon my face upon
the earth: and he will touch upon me
and will cause me to stand upon my
standing.

19 And he will say, Behold me mak-
ing known to thee what shall be in the
last part of the wrath: for at the ap-
pointment, the end.

20 The ram which thou sawest pos-
sessing horns, the kings of Media and
Persia.

21 And the hairy he goat, the king
of Grecia: and the great horn which is
between his eyes, he the first king.

22 And that being broken, and four
will stand up underneath it, four king-
doms from the nation shall stand up,
and not in his power.

23 And in the latter state of their
kingdom as those transgressing being
completed, a king strong of face and
understanding enigmas, shall stand up.

24 And strong his power, and not in
his power: and he shall destroy won-
derfully, and he prospered, and did,
and he destroyed the strong ones and
the holy people.

25 And by his intelligence and he
caused deceit to prosper in his hand ;
and he shall magnify in his heart, and
in security he shall destroy many: and
against the Chief of chiefs he shall
stand; and without hand shall he be
broken.

26 And the sight of the evening and
the morning which was said, it is truth:

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and shut thou up the vision; for, for
many days.

27 And I Daniel was, and was sick
days; and I shall rise and do the works
of the king; and I shall be astonished
at the sight, and none understanding.

CHAPTER IX.
N one year to Darius son of Ahasu-
erus, from the seed of Media who
reigned over the kingdom of the Chal-
deans.

2 In one year to the kingdom, I Dan-
iel understood by books the number of
years which the word of Jehovah was
to Jeremiah the prophet, to fill up for
the desolations of Jerusalem seventy
years.

3 And I will give my face to Jeho-
vah God to seek prayer and supplica-
tions, with fasting and sackcloth and
ashes :

4 And I will pray to Jehovah my
God, and I will confess and say, Ah,
Jehovah, the great and dreadful God,
watching the covenant and the mercy
to those loving him, and to those watch-
ing his commands :

5 We sinned, and we did iniquity,
and were evil, and rebelled, and depart-
ing from thy commands and from thy
judgments.

6 And we heard not to thy servants
the prophets who spake in thy name to
our kings and our chiefs and our fa-
thers, and to all the people of the earth.

7 To thee, O Jehovah, justice, and to
us shame of face, as this day to the
men of Judah, and to those dwelling in
Jerusalem, and to all Israel being near
and being far off, in all the lands where
thou didst thrust them there in their
transgression which they transgressed
against thee.

8 O Jehovah, to us shame of face, to
our kings, to our chiefs, and to our fa-
thers, that we sinned against thee.

9 To Jehovah our God compassions
and forgivenesses, for we rebelled against
him.

10 We heard not to the voice of Je-
hovah our God to go in his laws which
he gave before us in the hand of his
servants the prophets.

11 And all Israel passed by thy laws,

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and departing not to hear to thy voice ;
and the curse will be poured upon us,
and the oath which was written in the
law of Moses the servant of God, for we
sinned against him.

12 And he will set up his words
which he spake against us, and against
our judges who judged us to bring
against us a great evil: which was not
done under all the heavens according to
what was done in Jerusalem.

13 As that written in the law of Mo-
ses all this evil came upon us, and we
supplicated not the face of Jehovah our
God to turn back from our iniquities
and to understand in thy truth.

14 And Jehovah will watch for evil,
and will bring it upon us: for Jehovah
our God is just upon all his works
which he did: and we heard not to his
voice.

15 And now, O Jehovah our God,
who brought thy people out of the land
of Egypt with a strong hand, and thou
wilt make to thee a name as this day ;
we sinned, we did eyil.

16 O Jehovah, according to all thy
justice, now shall thine anger be turned
back, and thy wrath from thy city Je-
rusalem, thy. holy mountain: for our
sins and for the iniquities of our fa-
thers, Jerusalem and thy people for a
reproach to all those round about us.

17 And now, O our God, hear to the
prayer of thy gervant, and his suppli-
cations, and cause thy face to shine
upon thy desolated holy place, for sake
of Jehovah. |

18 Incline, O my God, thine ear, and
hear; open thine eyes, and see our des-
olations, and the city which thy name
was called upon it: for not for our jus-
tice do we cause our supplications to
fall before thee, but for thy many com-
passions.

19 O Jehovah hear; O Jehovah for-
give; O Jehovah, attend and do; thou
wilt not delay for thy sake, O my God:
for thy name was called upon thy city
and upon thy people,

20 And I yet speaking and praying
and confessing my sins, and the sins of
my people Israel, and causing my sup-

lication to fall before Jehovah my God
or the holy mountain of my God ;

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21 And I yet speaking in prayer, and
the man Gabriel, whom I saw in the
vision in the beginning, being wearied
with weariness, touched upon me about
the time of the evening gift.

22 And he will cause to understand,
and will speak with me, and say, O
Daniel, now came I forth to teach thee
understanding,

23 In the beginning of thy supplica-
tions the word came forth, and I came
to announce; for thou art desires: and
understand thou in the word, and con-
sider in the sight.

24 Seventy seventy were divided
upon thy people and upon thy holy
city, to close the transgression, and to
seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity,
and to bring in eternal justice, and to
seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the holy of holies.

25 And thou shalt know and under-
stand, from the going forth of the word
to turn back and to build Jerusalem
even to Messiah the leader, seventy
weeks, and sixty and two weeks: and
the street shall turn back and be built,
and the ditch, in the trouble of the
times.

26 And after sixty and two weeks,
Messiah shall be cut off, and not for
him: and the people of the leader com-
ing shall destroy the city and the holy
place ; and its end with an overflowing,
and even to the end of the war desola-
tions were determined.

27 And he made strong the covenant
to many one week: and half the week
he shall cause the sacrifice and ₪116 to
cease, and upon the wing of abomina-
tions laying waste, even to the comple-
tion, and that determined shall be
poured upon the desolation.

CHAPTER X.
רך‎ the third year to Cyrus king of
Persia the word was revealed to
Daniel, whom his name was called Bel-
teshazzar; and the word truth, and the
warfare great: and he understood the
word, and understanding to him in the
sight.
2 And in these days I Daniel was
mourning three weeks of days.
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flesh and wine came not into my mouth,
and anointing, I did not anoint myself
even to the filling up of three weeks of
days.

4 And in the twenty and fourth day
to the first month, and I was upon the
hand of the great river, this is Hidde-
kel ;

5 And I shall lift up mine eyes and
see, and behold, one man being clothed
with linen garments, and his loins being
girded with gold of Uphaz:

6 And his body as topaz, and his
face as the sight of lightning, and his
eyes as flames of fire, and his arms and
his feet as the eye of polished brass,
and the voice of his words as the voice
of a multitude.

7 And I saw, I Daniel alone, the
sight: and the men that were with me
saw not the sight, but a great trembling
fell upon them, and they will flee in
hiding themselves.

8 And I was left alone, and I shall
see this great sight, and strength was
not left in me: and my honor was turn-
ed upon me into destruction, and I re-
tained not strength.

9 And I shall hear the voice of his
words: and in my hearing the voice of
his words, and I was lying in a deep
sleep upon my face, and my face to the
earth.

10 And behold, a hand touched upon
me, and it will move me upon my
knees, and the palms of my hands.

11 And he will say to me, O Daniel,
aman of desires, understand thou in
the words which I speak to thee, and
stand upon thy standing: for now was
I sent to thee. And in his speaking
with me this word I stood trembling.

12 And he will say to me, Thou
shalt not fear, Daniel: for from the first
day that thou gavest thy heart to un-
derstand, and to humble thyself before
thy God, thy words were heard, and I
came for thy words,

18 And the chief of the kingdom of
Persia stood against me twenty and one
days: and behold, Michael, one of the
first chiefs, came to help me; and I was
left there near the kings of Persia.

14 And I came to cause thee to un-
derstand what shall happen to thy peo-

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ple in the last of the days: for yet the
vision for days.

15 And in his speaking with me ac-
cording to these words I gave my face
to the earth, and I was dumb.

16 And behold, as the likeness of the
sons of man touched upon my lips:
and I shall open my mouth and speak
and say to him standing before me, O
my lord, by the sight my straights were
turned upon me, and I retained not
strength.

17 And how shall this servant of my
lord be able to speak with this my lord?
and I, from this time no strength will
stand in me, and breath was not left in
me.

18 And there will add and will touch
upon me as the sight of man, and he
will strengthen me.

19 And he will say, Thou shalt not
fear, O man of desires: peace to thee ;
be strong, and be strong. And in his
speaking with me I was strengthened,
and saying, My lord shall speak; for
thou didst strengthen me.

20 And he will say, Knewest thou
wherefore I came to thee? and now I
will turn back to war with the chief of
Persia: and I shall go forth, and be-
hold, the chief of Grecia coming.

21 But I will announce to thee that
recorded in the writing of truth: and
not one strengthening himself with me
upon these things but Michael your
chief.

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Ἃ the Mede, standing to make firm
and to strengthen for him.

2 And now I will announce the truth
to thee. Behold, yet three kings stand-
ing up to Persia; and the fourth shall
be rich of great riches above all: and
in his becoming strong in his riches he
shall rouse up all against the kingdoms
of Grecia.

8 And a strong king stood up, and
he ruled from much dominion, and he
did according to his will.

4 And in his standing up his king-
dom shall be broken, and shall be di-
vided to the four winds of the heavens;
and not to his Jatter state, and not ac-

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cording to his dominion which he ruled:
for his kingdom shall be plucked up,
and for others from besides these.

5 And the king of the south shall be
strong, and from his chiefs; and 6
shall be strong above him, and he ruled
from much dominion.

6 And at the end of years they shall
join themselves together, and the daugh-
ter of the king of the south shall come to
the king of the north to make straight-
nesses: and she shall not retain the
power of the arm, and he shall not
stand, and his arm: and she shall be
given up, and those bringing her, and
he begetting her, and he strengthening
her in the times.

7 And there stood up from the shoot
of her roots as he, and he shall come to
the strength, and he shall come into the
fortress of the king of the north, and
he did against them, and was strong:

8 And also their gods with their
molten images, with the vessels of their
desire of silver and gold he shall bring
in captivity to Egypt; and he shall
stand years above the king of the north.

9 And the king of the south came
into his kingdom, and turned back, to
his land.

10 And his sons shall gather them-
selves together, and they collected a
multitude of many forces: and he com-
ing, came and overflowed, and passed
through: and he will turn back, and
they shall gather themselves together
eyen to his fortress.

11 And the king of the south shall
be exasperated, and shall come forth
and war with him, with the king of the
north: and he caused a great multitude
to stand, and the multitude was given
into his hand.

12 And taking away the multitude
his heart shall be lifted up; and he
cast down myriads, and he shall not be
strengthened.

13 And the king of the north turned
back and caused a great multitude to
stand above the former, and at the end
of times, years, coming he shall come
with great strength and with much
property.

14 And in these times many shall

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and the sons of the violent of thy peo-
ple shall be lifted up to cause the vision
to stand; and they were weak.

15 And the king of the north shall
come and shall pour out a mound, and
take the city of fortifications: and the
arms of the south shall not stand, and
the people of his choices, and no
strength to stand.

16 And he coming against him will
do according to his will, and none
standing before his face: and he shall
stand in the land of glory, and it was
finished in his hand.

17 And he shall set up his face to
come with the power of all his kingdom,
and the upright with him; and he did:
and he will give to him the daughter
of women, to corrupt her: and she
shall not stand, and shall not be for
him,

18 And he will turn back his face to
the isles and take many: and a leader
caused his reproach to cease to him;
081008 his reproach shall turn back to
him.

19 And he shall turn back his face
to the fortress of his land: and he was
weak and he fell, and he shall not be
found.

20 And there stood up upon his
place he causing a task-master to pass
through the glory of his kingdom: and
in some days he shall be broken, and
not in anger and not in war.

21 And there stood up upon his
place he being despised ; and they gave
not upon him the strength of the king-
dom: and he came in tranquillity, and
he took the kingdom by flatteries.

22 And with the arms of an over-
flowing they shall overflow from his
face, and they shall be broken; and
also the leader of the covenant.

23 And from being joined to him he
shall do deceit: and he came up and
was strong with a small nation.

24 And in security and in fatnesses
of the province shall he come; and he
did what his fathers did not, and the
fathers of his fathers; the prey and
spoil and property shall he scatter to
them: and against the fortifications he
shall reckon his purposes, and even to

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25 And his strength shall rouse up
and his heart against the king of the
south with great force; and the king of
the south shall be stirred up to war
with a great and strong force, even ex-
ceedingly ; and he shall not stand, for
they shall reckon purposes against
him.

26 And they eating his dainties shall
break him, and his foree shall overflow :
and many fell wounded.

27 And they two kings, their’ heart
for doing evil, and at one table they
will speak falsehood; and it shall not
prosper: for yet the end at the appoint-
ment.

28 And he shall turn back to his
land with great property; and his
heart against the holy covenant; and
he did, and turned back to his land.

29 At the appointment he shall turn
back, and come into the south; and it
shall not be as the first, and as the
last.

30 And the inhabitants of the desert,
the Chittims came against him: and he
was dejected, and he turned back, and
was angry against the holy covenant:
and he did, and turned back; and he
shall understand for those forsaking the
holy covenant.

81 And seed from him shall stand
up, and they profaned the holy place of
strength, and they removed the contin-
uance, and they gave the abomination
laying waste.

32 And those condemning the cove-
nant shall pollute by smooth things:
and the people knowing their God shall
be strong and do.

83 And those understanding of the
people shall cause to understand to
many: and they were weak by the
sword, and by flame, and by captivity,
and by plunder, days.

84 And in their being weak they
shall be helped with a little help: and
many were joined to them by flatteries.

85 And from those understanding
shall be weak to try upon them to sep-
arate, to become white even to the time
of the end: for yet at the appointment.

86 And the king did according to
his will; and he shall exalt himself and
magnify himself over every god; and

DANIEL XII.

against the God of gods he shall speak
wonderful things, and he prospered
even till anger was finished: for that
being determined was done.

37 And concerning the God of his
fathers he shall not understand, and
concerning the desire of women, and
concerning every god he shall not un-
derstand: for he shall magnify himself
over all.

88 And to the God of fortresses he
shall do honor upon his place: and to
a god which his fathers knew not he
shall do honor with gold and with sil-
ver, and with precious stone, and with
desires.

39 And he did to the strong fortifi-
cations with a strange god whom he re-
cognized, he shall multiply honor: and
he caused them to rule over many, and
he will divide the land for a price.

40 And in the time of the end the
king of the south shall wage war with
him: and the king of the north shall
rush on like a tempest against him, with
chariot and with horsemen, and with
many. ships; and he came into the
lands, and overflowed and _ passed
through.

41 And he came into the land of
glory, and many shall be weak: and
these shall escape from his hand, Kdom
and Moab, and the first of the sons of
Ammon.

42 And he shall send forth his hand
upon the lands, and the land of Keypt
shall not be for escaping.

43 And he ruled over the hidden
things of gold and silver, and over all
the desires of Egypt: and the Lybians
and Cushites in his steps.

44 And reports from the sunrising
and from the north shall terrify him:
and he shall go forth in great wrath to
destroy, and to exterminate many.

45 And he shall plant the tent of his
palace between the seas to the moun-
tain of glory of holiness: and he came
even to his end, and none helping to
him.

CHAPTER XII.
ND in that time Michael the
great chief shall stand up, he
standing for the sons of thy people:

EZRA 1.

and it was a time of straits that was not
from there being a nation, even to that
time: and in that time thy people shall
escape, every one being found written
in the book.

2 And many sleeping in the earth of
dust shall awake, these to eternal life,
and these to reproach and eternal ab-
horrence.

3 And those understanding shall
shine as the brightness of the firma-
ment; and those justifying many, as
the stars forever and ever.

4 And thou, O Daniel, shut up the
words, and seal the book, even to the
time of the end: many shall run
through and knowledge shall be multi-
plied.

5 And I Daniel saw, and behold, two
others standing, one hence upon the
lip of the river, and one thence upon
the lip of the river.

6 And he will say to the man clothed
with linen garments which was above
to the waters of the river, Till when
the end of the wonders ?

7 And I shall hear the man clothed
with linen garments, who was above to

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the waters of the river, and he will lift
up his right hand and his left to the
heavens, and swear by him living for-
ever, that for an appointment of ap-
pointments and a half; in the scatter-
ing of the hand of the holy people be-
ing finished, all these shall be finished.

8 And I heard, and I shall not un-
derstand: and saying, O my lord, what
the last 01 these things ?

9 And he will say, Go, Daniel: for
the words being shut up and sealed
even to the time of the end.

10 And many shall be separated and
become white, and be tried; and the
unjust did evil: and all the unjust
shall. not understand; and the intelli-
gent shall understand.

11 And from the time of removing
the continuance, and to give the abom-
ination laying waste, a thousand two
hundred and ninety days.

12 Happy he waiting, and he shall
reach to the thousand three hundred
and thirty and five days.

13 And go thou to the end: and
thou shalt rest and stand upon thy lot
to the end of the days.

EZRA.

CHAPTER 1.

N one year to Cyrus the king of
Persia, to complete the word of Je-
hovah from the mouth of Jeremiah,
Jehovah roused up the spirit of Cyrus
king of Persia, and he will cause a
voice to pass through in all his king-

dom, and also in writing, saying,

2 Thus said Cyrus king of Persia,
All the kingdoms of the earth Jehovah
gave to me, the God of the heavens;
and he charged upon me to build for
him a house in Jerusalem which is in
Judah.

3 Who among you from all his peo-
ple? His God shall be with him, and
he shall go up to Jerusalem which is in
Judah, and he shall build the house of
Jehovah God of Israel, (he is the God
which is in Jerusalem.

4 And every one being left in all the
places where he sojourned there, the
men of his place shall lift him up with
silver and with gold, and with substance,
and with 696116, with a voluntary gift
to the house of God which is in Jerusa-
lem.

5 And there will rise up the heads to
the fathers to Judah and Benjamin, and
the priests and the Levites to all God
roused up his spirit, to go up to build
the house of Jehovah which is in Jeru-
salem,

6 And all those round about them
strengthened upon their hands with
vessels of silver, with gold, with sub-
stance, and with cattle, and most pre-
cious things, besides all being willingly

( | given.

7 And the king Cyrus brought forth

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the vessels of the house of Jehovah,
which Nebuchadnezzar brought forth
from Jerusalem; and he will give them
into the house of his God.

8 And Cyrus king of Persia will
bring them forth by the hand of Mith-
redath the treasurer, and he will number
them to Sheshbazzar, prince to Judah.

9 And these their number: thirty
basins of gold, a thousand basins of sil
ver, nine and twenty slaughter knives,

10 Thirty goblets of gold, four hund-
red and ten goblets of silver, being dif-
ferent, a thousand other vessels.

11 All the vessels to the gold and to
the silver, five thousand and four hund-

red, Sheshbazzar brought up all-with |

the bringing up of the captivity from
Babel to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER IL.
ND these the sons of the province
coming up from the captivity of
the exiles which Nebuchadnezzar car-
ried into exile to Babel; and they will
turn back to Jerusalem and Judah, a
man to his city ;

2 Who came with Zerubbabel : Josh-
ua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mor-
decai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum,
Baanah. The number of men of the
people of Israel.

3 The sons of Parosh, two thousand
one hundred seventy and two.

4The sons of Shephatiah, three
hundred seventy and two.

5 The sons of Arah, seven hundred
five and seventy.

6 The sons of Pahath-Moab, to the
sons of Joshua of Joab, two thousand
eight hundred and twelve.

7 The sons of Elam, a thousand two
hundred fifty and four.

8 The sons of Zattu, nine hundred
and forty and five.

9 The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred
and sixty.

10 The sons of Bani, six hundred
forty and two.

11 The sons of Bebai, six hundred
twenty and three.

12 The sons of Azgad, a thousand
two hundred twenty and two.

13 The sons of Adonikam, six hund-
red sixty and six.

EZRA IL.

14 The sons of Bigvai, two thousand
fifty and six.

15 The sons of Adin, four hundred
fifty and four.

16 The sons of Ater to Hezekiah,
ninety and eight.

17 The sons of Bezai, three hundred
twenty and three.

18 The sons of Jorah, a hundred and
and twelve.

19 The sons of Hashum, two hund-
red twenty and three.

0 20 The sons of Gibbar, ninety and
ve.

21 The sons of the house of bread, a
hundred twenty and three.

22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

23 The men of Anathoth, a hundred
twenty and eight.

24 The sons of Azmayeth, forty and
two.

25 The sons of Kirjath-Arim, Cheph-
iroth and Beeroth, seven hundred and
forty and three.

26 The sons of Ramah and Gaba, six
hundred twenty and one.

27 The men of Michmas, a hundred
twenty and two.

28 The men of the house of God and
Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

29 The sons of Nebo, fifty and two.

30 The sons of Magbish, a hundred
fifty and six.

81 The sons of the other’ Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and four.

82 The sons of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.

88 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty and five.

84 The sons of Jericho, three hund-
red forty and five.

85 The sons of Senaah, three thous-
and and six hundred and thirty.

86 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah
to the house of Joshua, nine hundred
seventy and three. ᾿

37 The sons of Immer, a thousand
fifty and two. | ;

88 The sons of Pashur, a thousand
two hundred forty and seven.

39 The sons of Harim, a thousand
and seventeen.

40 The Levites: the sons of Joshua
and Kadmiel, to the sons 01 Hodaviah,
seventy and four.

EZRA III.

41 Those singing: the sons of Asaph,
a hundred twenty and eight.

42 The sons of the gates: the sons of
Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of
Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons
of Hatita, the sons of Shobi, all, a hund-
red thirty and nine.

43 The Nethinims: the sons of Ziha,
the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tab-
baoth,

44 The sons of Keros, the sons of
Siaha, the sons of Padon,

45 The sons of Lebanah, the sons of
Hagabah, the sons of Akkub,

46 The sons of Hagab, the sons of
Shalmi, the sons of Hanan,

47 The sons of Giddel, the sons of
Gahar, the sons of Reaiah,

48 The sons of Rezin, the sons of
Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam,

49 The sons of Uzza, the sons of
‘Paseah, the sons 01 Besai,

50 The sons of Asnah, the sons of
Mehunim, the sons of Nephusim,

51 The sons of Bakbuk, the sons of
Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,

52 The sons of Bazluth, the sons of
Mehida, the sons of Harsha,

53 The sons of Barkos, the sons of
Sisera, the sons of Thamah,

54 The sons of Neziah, the sons of
Hatipha.

55 The sons of Solomon’s servants:
the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth,
the sons of Peruda,

56 The sons of Jaalah, the sons of
Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

57 The sons of Shephatiah, the sons
of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Ze-
baim, the sons of Ami.

58 All the Nethinims, the sons of
Solomon’s servants, three hundred nine-
ty and two.

59 And these going up from Tel-Me-
Jah, Tel-Harsa, Cherub, Addan, Im-
mer: and they were not able to an-
nounce their father’s house, and their
seed, if they were from Israel.

60 The sons of Delaiah, the sons of
Tobiah, the sons 01 Nekoda, six hund-
red fifty and two.

61 From the sons of the priests: the
sons of Habiah, the sons of Koz, the
sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from
the daughters of Barzillai the Gil-

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eadite, and he will be called by their
name.

62 These sought their writing of
those being enrolled, and they found
not: and they will be polluted from the
priesthood.

63 And the Tirshatha will say to
them, that they shall not eat from the
holy of holies till there stood up a
priest for Lights and Truth.

64 All the convocation as one, four
myriads two thousand three hundred
and sixty,

65 Besides their servants and their
maids, these seven thousand three hund-
red thirty and seven: and to them
singing men and singing women, two
hundred.

66 Their horses seven hundred thirty
and six ; their mules, two hundred forty
and five ;

67 Their camels, four hundred thirty
and five; the asses, six thousand seyen
hundred and twenty.

68 And from the heads of the fathers
in their coming to the house of Jehovah
which is in Jerusalem, gave willingly to
the house of God to cause it to stand
upon its foundation:

69 According to their power they
gaye to the treasure of the work of gold
six myriads and a thousand darics, and
of silver, five thousand portions, and of
priests’ tunics, a hundred.

70 And the priests dwelt, and the
Leyites, and from the people, and those
singing, and those opening the gates,
and the Nethinims, in their cities, and
all Israel in their cities.

CHAPTER IIL
ND the seventh month will draw
near, and the sons of Israel in
the cities, and the people will gather
together as one man to Jerusalem.

2 And Joshua the son of Josedek,
and his brethren the priests, and Zerub-
babel son of Shealtiel, and his brethren,
and they will build the altar of the God
of Israel, to bring up upon it burnt-of-
ferings as written in the law of Moses
the man of God.

8 And they will prepare the altar
upon its foundations ; for in the terror
upon them from the people of the lands:

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and they will bring up burnt-offerings
upon it to Jehovah, burnt-offerings for
morning and for evening.

4 And they will do the festival of
tents as written, and the burnt-offerings
of a day in a day, in number according
to judgment, the word of a day im its
day.

5 And after this the burnt-offerings
of continuance, and for the new moons,
and for all the appointments of Jeho-
vah being consecrated, and for all giv-
ing willingly a voluntary gift to Jeho-
vah.

6 From one day to the seventh
month they began to bring up the
burnt-offerings to Jehovah. And the
temple of Jehovah was not founded.

7 And they will give silver to those
hewing, and to those graying, and food
and drink and oil to the Zidonians,
and the Tyrians, to bring cedar woods
from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa ac-
cording to the permit of Cyrus king of
Persia to them.

8 And in the second year to their
coming to the house of God at Jerusa-
lem, in the second month, began Zerub-
babel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son
of Josedek, and the remainder of their
brethren the priests, and the Levites,
and all those coming from the captivity
to Jerusalem; and they will cause the
Levites to stand up, from the son of
twenty years and above, to superintend
over the works of the house of Jeho-
vah.

9 And Joshua will stand, his sons
and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons,
the sons of Judah, as one, to superin-
tend over the doing of the work in the
house of God: the sons of Henadad
their sons, and their brethren the Le-
vites.

10 And those building will lay the
foundation of the temple of Jehovah,
and they will cause the priests to stand,
being clothed, with trumpets, and the
Levites sons of Asaph, with cymbals,
to praise Jehovah according to the
hands of David king of Israel.

11 And they will answer in praising
and in confessing to Jehovah, for he is
good, for his mercy forever upon Israel.
And all the people shouted a great

EZRA IV.

shout in praising to Jehovah, for the.
foundation of the house of Jehovah.

12 And many of the priests and the
Levites and heads of the fathers, old
men, who saw the first house in this
house being founded before their eyes,
weeping with a great voice; and many
with a shout in gladness to the lifting
up the voice.

13 And the people not recognizing
the voice of the shout of gladness from
the voice of the weeping of the people ;
for the people shouting a great shout,
and the voice was heard even to far
off.

CHAPTER IV.
ND the adversaries of Judah and

Ἃ Benjamin will hear that the sons
of the captivity were building the tem-
ple to Jehovah God of Israel ;

2 And they will come near to Zerub-
babel, and to the heads of the fathers,
and they will say to them, We will
build with you: for like you we will
seek for your God: for we sacrifice not
from the days of Esa-Haddon king of
Assur bringing us up hither.

3 And to them Zerubbabel will say,
and Joshua, and the rest of the heads
of the fathers to Israel, Not to you and
to us to build a house to our God; for
we together will build to Jehovah God
of Israel, as the king Cyrus king of
Persia commanded us.

4 And the people of the land will be
slackening the hands of the people of
Judah, and terrifying them in build-
ing,

And counselors being hired against
them to annul their counsel all the days
of Cyrus king of Persia, and even to
the kingdom of Darius king of Persia.

6 And in the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
in the beginning of his kingdom, they
wrote an accusation against the inhab-
itants of Judah and Jerusalem.

7 And in the days of Arthasatha,
wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel,
and the rest of his colleagues, to Ar-
thasatha, king of Persia; and the writ-
ing of the letter being written in Syri-
ae, and being interpreted in Syriac.

8 Rehum, lord of judgment, and
Shimshai, the scribe, wrote one epistle

EZRA יצ‎

against Jerusalem to Arthasatha the
king, thus:

9 Then Rehum lord of judment, and
Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of
their colleagues, the Danites and the
Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the
Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babel-
ites, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, the
Elamites,

10 And the rest of the nations that
the great and honored Asnapper carried
into exile, and he caused them to dwell
in the cities of Shomeron, and the rest
beyond the river, and thus.

11 This the copy of the epistle that
they sent to him to Arthasatha the
king; thy servants the men beyond the
river, and thus.

12 To be known to the king that the
Jews who went up from with thee to
us, came to Jerusalem, building the
perverse and bad city, and they com-
pleted its wall, and they will repair its
foundations.

13 Now to be known to the king
that if this city shall be built and the
walls be completed, tribute, excise, and
toll, they will not give, and in the end
it will endamage the kings.

14 Now for the cause that we were
salted with the salt of the temple, and
not being fit to us to see the king's
nakedness, for this we sent and made
known to the king;

15 That it shall be sought in the
book of the records of thy fathers: and
thou wilt find in the book of the re-
cords, and thou wilt know that this city
a city perverse and endamaging kings
and provinces, and working rebellion
in the midst of it from days forever:
for this, this city was laid waste.

16 We making known to the king
that if this city shall be built, and its
walls be completed, for this cause a
שה‎ beyond the river shall not be to
thee.

17 And the king sent word to Re-
hum, lord of judgment, and to Shim-
shai the scribe, and the rest of their col-
leagues who dwelt in Shomeron, and
the rest beyond the river, Peace and as
now.

18 The epistle that ye sent to us be-
ing read distinctly before me.

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19 And a decree being set from me,
and they sought and found that this
city from days forever lifting itself up
against kings, and perverseness and re-
bellion being made in it.

20 And strong kings were over Je-
rusalem, and ruling over all beyond
the river: and tribute, excise, and, toll,
being given to them.

21 Now set up a decree to cause these
men to cease, and this city shall not be
built till a decree shall be set up from me.

22 And be ye warned from doing
wrong upon this: wherefore shall harm
overtake to endamage the kings?

23 Then after the copy of the epis-
tle of Arthasatha the king being read
before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe,
and their colleagues, they went away to
Jerusalem to the Jews, and caused them
to cease by arm and strength.

24 At that time ceased the work of
the house of God which is in Jeru-
salem. And it was ceasing even till
two years to the kingdom of Darius
king of Persia.

CHAPTER V.
\ ND the prophets, Haggai the
prophet, and Zechariah son of
Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were
in Judah and in Jerusalem in the name
of the God of Israel, to them.

2 At that time rose up Zerubbabel
son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jo-
sedek, and began to build the house of
God that is in Jerusalem: and with
them the prophets of God upholding to
them.

8 In that time came to them Tatnai,
prefect beyond the river, and Shethar-
Bozni and their colleagues, and thus
they said to them, Who set up to you
a decree to build this house, and to
complete this wall?

4 Then thus said we to them, What
are they the names of the men that
build this building?

5 And the eye of their God was upon
the captivity of the Jews, and they
caused them not to cease till the ac-
count went to Darius: and then they
will return a letter concerning this.

6 The copy of the epistle that Tat-
nai, prefect beyond the river, sent, and

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Shethar-Bozni and his colleagues, the
Apharsachites, that were beyond the
river to Darius the king:

7 They sent an epistle to him, thus
it was written in the midst of it: To
Darius the king, all peace.

8 ΠῸ be known to the king that we
went to the Judah province, to the
house of the great God; and it was
building with stone of rolling, and wood
being set up in the walls; and this
work being diligently done, and pros-
pering in their hands.

9 Then we asked these old men, thus
we said to them, Who set to you a de-
cree to build this house and to complete
this wall?

10 And also we asked their names
for them to make known to thee that
we shall write the name of the men that
were among their heads.

11 And thus they returned us word,
saying, We are the servants of the God
of the heavens and the earth, and build
the house that was built of old these
many years, and a great king to Israel
built and completed.

12 Therefore after our fathers pro-
voked to the God of the heavens to be
angry, he gave them.into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, the
Chaldean, and he destroyed this house,
and the people he carried away in ex-
ile to Babel.

13 But m one year to Cyrus the king
of Babel, Cyrus the king set up a de-
eree to build this house of God.

14 And also the vessels of the house
of God of gold and of silver, that Neb-
uchadnezzar brought forth from the
temple that is in Jerusalem, and brought
them to the temple of Babel, Cyrus the
king brought them forth from the tem-
ple of Babel, and they were given to
Sheshbazzar his name that he set up
prefect ;

15 And he said to him, Lift up these
vessels, go bring them into the temple
that is in Jerusalem, and the house of
God shall be built upon its place.

16 Then this Sheshbazzar came, he
set the foundations of the house of God
that is in Jerusalem: and from that
time even till now, being built and not
finished.

EZRA VI.

17 And now if good to the king he
shall seek in the house of the king's
treasure there that is in Babel, if it be
that from Cyrus the king a decree was
set up to build this house of God in Je-
rusalem, and the king will send the
will to us concerning this.

CHAPTER VI.
T that time Darius the king set up
a decree, and they searched in
the house of books, the treasures being
deposited there in Babel.

2 And there was found in Achme-
tha in the fortress that in the Median
province, one roll, and thus a record
was written in its midst.

3 In one year to Cyrus the king, Cy-
rus the king set a decree of the house
of God in Jerusalem, The house shall
be built, the place that they sacrificed
sacrifices, and its foundations being
erected ; its height sixty cubits, and its
breadth sixty cubits ;

4 And three layers of stone of mag-
nitude: and a layer of new wood: and
the outgoing shall be given from the
kine’s house :

5 And also the vessels of the house
of God of gold and of silver that Nebu-
chadnezzar brought forth from the tem-
ple that is in Jerusalem, and brought
to Babel, shall be restored, and shall
₪0 to the temple that is in Jerusalem,
to its place, and be taken into the house
of God.

6 Now Tatnai prefect beyond the
river, Shethar-Bozni, and their col-
leagues the Apharsachites that are be-
yond the river, be ye far off from
thence :

7 Leave to the works of this house of
God: the prefect of the Jews and the
old men of the Jews, they shall build
this house of God upon its place.

8 And from me a decree was set up
for that which ye shall do with the old
men of these Jews for building this
house of God: and the king’s riches,
that of the tribute beyond the river,
expenses shall be speedily given to these

men, not to be made to cease.

9 And whatever being necessary, and
the young of cattle and rams and
lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of

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the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil,
according to the saying of the priests
that are in Jerusalem, to be given to
them day by day, not resting:

10 That therefore bringing near sweet
odors to the God of the heavens, pray-
ing for the life of the king and his sons.

11 And from me a decree was set up
that every man that shall change this
word, wood shall be pulled down from
his house, and being raised up he shall
be fastened upon it; and his house
shall be made a dung-hill for this.

12 And God who shall cause his
name to dwell there shall cast down
every king and people that shall send
forth his hand to change, to destroy
this house of God that is in Jerusalem.
I Darius set up a decree; it shall be
done speedily.

13 Then Tatnai, prefect beyond the
river Shethar-Boznai, and three col-
leagues, because of that Darius the king
sent, thus they did speedily.

14 And the old men of the Jews
built and prospered in the prophesy of
Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son
of Iddo. And built and completed ac-
cording to the decree of the God of Is-
rael, and from the decree of Cyrus and
Darius, and Arthasatha king of Persia.

15 And this house was finished even
to the third day to the month Adar,
which was the sixth year to the king-
dom of Darius the king.

16 And the sons of Israel, the priests
and the Levites and the rest of the sons
of the exile, made the consecration of
this house of God in gladness.

17 And they brought near to the
consecration of this house of God a
hundred oxen, two hundred rams, four
‘hundred lambs; and he goats of the
goats for sin, for all Israel twelve, for
the number of the tribes of Israel.

18 And they set up the priests in
their division, and the Levites in their
classes, for the work of God which is in
Jerusalem ; according to the writing of
the book of Moses.

19 And the sons of the exile will do
the passover in the fourteenth to the
first month.

20 For the priests and Leyites were

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fied; and they will slaughter the pass-
over for all the sons of the exile, and
for their brethren the priests, and for
themselves.

21 And the sons of Israel will eat;
those turning back from exile and every
one being separated from the unclean-
ness of the nations of the earth to them,
to seek for Jehovah the God of Israel;

22 And they will do the festival of
the unleavened seven days in gladness;
for Jehovah gladdened them, and turn-
ed the heart of the king of Assur to
them, to strengthen their hands in the
work of the house of God, the God of
Israel.

CHAPTER VIL
ND after these words in the king-
dom of Arthasatha king of Per-
sia, Ezra son of Seraiah, son of Azariah,
son of Hilkiah,

2 Son of Shallum, son of Zadok,
son of Ahitub,

3 Son of Amariah, son of Azariah,
son of Meraioth, |

4 מס‎ οἱ Zerahiah, son of 1122 son —
of Bukki,

5 Son of Abishua, son of Phinehas,
son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the head
priest :

6 This Ezra went up from Babel;
and hea seribe skilled in the law of Mo-
ses which Jehovah God of Israel gave:
and the king will give to him according
to the hand of Jehovah upon him all
his seeking.

7 And there will go up from the sons
of Israel, and from the priests and the
Leyites, and those singing, and they
watching the gates, and the Nethinims,
to Jerusalem, in the seventh year to
Arthasatha the king.

8 And he will come to Jerusalem in
the fifth month, this the seventh year
| 10 the king.

9 For in one to the first month he
laid the foundation of going up from
Babel, and in one to the fifth month he
came to Jerusalem, according to the
good hand of his God upon him.

10 For Ezra prepared his heart to
seek the law of Jehovah, and to do,
and to teach in Israel the law and judg-

purified as one, all of them being puri-| ment,
1

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11 And this the copy of the epistle
which king Arthasatha gave to Ezra
the priest, the scribe, the scribe of the
words of the commands of Jehovah and
of his laws upon Israel.

12 Arthasatha, king of kings, To
Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of
the God of the heavens, being perfect-
ed, and thus.

13 A decree was set from me that
all being willing in my kingdom, from
the people of Israel and his priests and
Levites, to go to Jerusalem, shall go
with thee.

14 For the cause that being sent from
before the king and the seven counsel-
ors to seek concerning Judah and for
Jerusalem, by the law of thy God that
is in thy hand;

15 And to bring the silver and the
gold that the king and his counselors
gave willingly to the God of Israel,
whom his dwelling in Jerusalem.

16 And all the silver and gold that
thou shalt find in all the province of
Babel, with the voluntary gifts of the
people and the priests giving willingly
to the house of their God that is in Je-
rusalem :

17 For this cause speedily shalt thou
buy with this silver, oxen, rams, lambs,
with their gifts and their libations, and
thou shalt bring them near upon the
altar of the house of your God that is
in Jerusalem.

18 And whatever to thee and to thy
brethren shall be good to do with the
rest of the silver and gold; according
to the will of your God ye shall do.

19 And the vessels that are given to
thee for the service of the house of thy
God, restore before the God of Jerusa-
lem.

20 And the rest being necessary for
the house of thy God, that shall fall to
thee to give thou shalt give from the
house of the king’s treasure.

91 And from me, I Arthasatha the
king, a decree was set up to all the
treasurers that are beyond the river,
that all which Hzra the priest, the seribe
of the law of the God of the heavens,
shall ask of you, shall be done speedily,

22, Even to a hundred talents of sil-
ver, and even to a hundred cors of

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wheat, and even to a hundred baths of
wine, and even toa hundred baths of
oil, and salt that was not written.

23 All that from the decree of the
God of the heavens shall be done dili-
gently for the house of the God of the
heavens: for why to be wrath upon the
kingdom of the king and his sons?

24 And making known to you that
all the priests and Levites, the players,
the porters, the Nethinims, and those
serving this house of God, tribute, ex-
cise and toll, not being permitted to be
lifted up upon them.

25 And thou Ezra, according to the
wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand,
appoint judges and tribunals to be
judging for all the people that are be-
yond the river, to all knowing the laws
of thy God; and those not knowing ye
shall cause to know.

26 And all not to be doing the laws
of thy God, and the laws of the king,
judgment to be done speedily upon
him, if whether to death or to rooting
him out, or to impose fines and for
bonds.

27 Praised be Jehovah the God of
our fathers who gave according to this
in the king’s heart, to adorn the house
of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem: |

28 And extended mercy upon me
before the king and his counselors, and
to all the king’s mighty chiefs. And I
was strengthened according to the hand
of Jehovah my God upon me, and I
shall gather together from Israel the
heads to go up with me.

CHAPTER VIII
ND these the heads of their fathers,
and the register of them going up
with me in the kingdom of Arthasatha
from Babel.

2 From the sons 01 Phinehas, Ger-
shom: from the sons of Ithamar, Dan-
iel: from the sons of David, Hattush.

8 From the sons of Shecaniah, from
the sons of Parosh, Zechariah: and
with him were enrolled to the males a
hundred and fifty.

4 From the sons of Pahath-Moab:
Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with
him two hundred males.

5 From the sons of Shecaniah: the

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son of 1828210 and with him three
hundred males.

6 And from the sons of Adin: Ebed,
son of Jonathan, and with him fifty
males.

7 And from the sons of Elam: Je-
shaiah the son of Athaliah, and with
him seventy males.

8 And from the sons of Shephatiah :
Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with
him eighty males.

9 From the sons of Joab: Obadiah
son of Jehiel, and with him two hun-
dred and eighteen males.

10 And from the sons of Shelomith :
son of Josiphiah, and with him a hun-
dred and sixty males.

11 And from the sons of Bebai:
Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him
twenty and eight males.

12 And from the sons of Azgad; Jo-
hanan son of Hakkatan, and with him
a hundred and ten males.

13 And from the last sons of Adoni-
kam, and these their names, Eliphalet,
Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them six-
ty males.

14 And from the sons of Bigvai:
Uthi and Zabbud, and with them sey-
enty males.

15 And I shall gather them together

to the river going to Ahava, and there
we shall encamp three days: and I
shall look upon the people and upon
the priests, and from the sons of Leyi I
found not these.
_ 16 And 1 shall send for Eleazar, for
Ariel, for Shemaiah and for Elnathan,
and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for
Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Me-
shullam, the heads; and for Joiarib, and
for Elnathan, they understanding.

17 And I shall bring them forth to
Iddo the head, with the silver of the
place, and I shall set words in their
mouth to speak to Iddo, his brethren
the Nethinims, with the silver of the
place, to bring to us those serving to
the house of our God.

18 And they will bring to us accord-
ing to the good hand of our God upon
us ἃ man of understanding from the
sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Isra-
el; and Sherebiah, and his sons and
his brethren, eighteen,

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19 And Hashabiah, and with him
Jeshaiah, from the sons of Merari, his
brethren and their sons, twenty ;

20 And from the Nethinims David
gave, and the chiefs, for the service of
the Levites, two hundred and twenty
Nethinims: all of them were specified
by names.

21 And I shall call a fast there, upon
the river Ahava, to humble ourselves
before our God, to seek from him a
straight way for us and for our little
ones, and for all our substance.

22 For I was ashamed to ask from
the king strength and horsemen to help
us from the enemy in the way: for we
said to the king, saying, The hand of
our God upon all seeking him for good ;
and his strength and his anger against
all forsaking him.

23 And we will fast and seek of our
God concerning this; and he will be
entreated for us.

24 And I shall separate from the
chiefs of the priests twelve to Sherebi-
ah, Hashabiah, and with them ten from
their brethren ;

25 And I shall weigh to them the sil-
ver and the gold, and the vessels of the
oblation of the house of God, that the
king and his counselors and _ his chiefs
and all Israel being found had lifted up.

26 And 1 shall weigh to their hand
the silver, six hundred and fifty tal-
ents, and vessels of silver to a hundred
talents; gold, a hundred talents;

27 And twenty goblets of gold to a
thousand darics; and different vessels
of good shining brass, desirable as
gold.

28 And saying to them, Ye are holy
to Jehovah, and the vessels are holy;
and the silver and the gold a voluntary
gift to Jehovah the God of -your fa-
thers.

29 Watch and guard till ye shall
weigh before the chiefs of the priests
and the Levites, and the chiefs of the
fathers to Israel in Jerusalem in the
cells of the house of Jehovah.

30 And the priests and the Levites
received the weight of the silver and
the gold, and the vessels, to bring to
Jerusalem to the house of God.

31 And we removed from the river

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Ahava in the twelfth to the first month,

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1 sat astonished till the sacrifice of the

to go to Jerusalem: and the hand οὗ evening.

our God was upon us and he will de-
liver us from the hand of the enemy,
and of him lying in wait upon the
way.

32 And we shall come to Jerusalem,
and shall dwell there three days.

33 And in the fourth day we shall
weigh the silver and the gold and the
vessels in the house of our God, by the
hand of Meremoth son of Uriah the
priest; and with him Hleazar son of
Phinehas ; and with them Jozabad son
of Joshua, and Noadiah son of Binnui,
Levites ;

34 In number, in weight to all: and
all the weight shall be written in that
time.

35 They coming from the captivity,
the sons of the exile, brought near
burnt-offerings to the God of Israel,
twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety
and six rams, seventy and seven he
lambs, the he goats of the sin, twelve:
all the burnt-offering to Jehovah,

86 And they will give the king's
laws to the king’s satraps and prefects
beyond the river: and they lifted up
the people and the house of God.

CHAPTER IX.

Λ ND in these things being finished,
the chiefs came near to me, say-
ing, The people of Israel and the priests
and the Levites were not separated
from the people of the lands according
to their abominations, to the Canaanite,
the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite,
the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyp-

tian and the Amorite.

2 For they took from their daugh-
ters to themselves and to their sons:
and the’ holy seed mingled themselves
with the people of the lands: and the
hand of the chiefs and the prophets was
the first in this transgression.

3 And in my hearing this word I
rent my garment and my robe, and 1
shall pluck off from the hair of my
head ‘and my beard, and I shall sit
down, being astonished.

4 And to me all will assemble, trem-
bling at the word of the God of Israel
for the transgression of the exile; and

5 And at the sacrifice of the eyening
Trose up from my humbling; and in my
rending my garment and my robe and
Τ shall bend upon my knees and spread
forth my hands to Jehovah my God.

6 And saying, My God, I was asham-
ed and disgraced to lift up my face, O
my God, to thee: for our iniquities
were multiplied over the head, and our
guilt was magnified even to the heavens.

7 From the days of our fathers we
are in a great trespass even to this day ;
and in our iniquities we were given,
we, our kings, our priests, into the
hand of the kings of the lands, to the
sword, to captivity and to plunder, and
to shame of face as this day.

8 And now for a little moment grace
was from Jehovah our God to leave to
us an escaping, and to give to us a nail
in his holy place, for our God to en-
lighten our eyes and to give us a little
preservation of our life in our servitude.

9 For we are servants; and in our
servitude God forsook us not, and he
extended to us mercy before the kings
of Persia, to give to us the preservation
of life to set up the house of our God,
and to cause its desolations to stand
and to give to us a wall in Judah and
in Jerusalem.

10 And now what shall we say, O
our God, after this? for we forsook thy
commands,

11 Which thou didst command by
the hand of thy servants the prophets,
saying, The land which ye are coming
in to inherit it being a land of unclean-
ness in the uncleanness of the people of
the lands in their abominations which
filled it from mouth to mouth in their
pollution.

12 And now ye shall not give your
daughters to their sons, and ye shall
not take their daughters to your sons,
and ye shall not seek their peace and
their good even forever, so that ye shall
be strong and eat the good of the land,
and cause to your sons to inherit even
forever.

18 And after all coming upon us for
our evil deeds, and in our great guilt,
for thou our God didst withhold below

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our iniquities, and didst give to us an
escaping according to this.

14 Shall we turn back to break thy
commands and to contract marriage
with the people of these abominations?
Wilt thou not be angry with us even to
finishing, for not a remaining and es-
caping,

15 0 Jehovah God of Israel, thou
art just: for we remained an escaping
as this day: behold us before thee in
our guilts; for not to stand before thee
for this.

CHAPTER X.

ND. as Ezra prayed, and as he
confessed, weeping and casting
himself down before the house of God,
there were gathered to him from Israel
a very great convocation of men and
women and children: for the people

wept a great weeping.

2 And Sheecaniah son of Jehiel, from
the sons of Elam, will answer and say
to Ezra, We transgressed against our
God, and we were dwelling with strange
wives from the people of the land: and
now there is hope to Israel concerning
this.

3 And now we will cut out a cove-
nant to our God to bring forth all the
wives, and those: being born of them
upon the counsel of my lord, and of those
trembling at the command of our God;
and according to the law it shall be done.

4 Arise; for to thee the word, and
we with thee: be strong and do.

5 And Ezra will rise and cause the
chiefs to swear, the priests, the Levites,
and all Israel, to do according to this
word. And they will swear.

6 And Ezra will rise up from before
the house of God, and will go the cham-
ber of Johanan son of Eliashib: and he
will go there, he ate not bread and
drank not water: for he was mourning
for the transgression of the exiles.

7 And they caused a voice to pass
through Judah and Jerusalem to all the
sons of the exile to gather together at
Jerusalem ;

8 And every one who shall not come
in three days according to the counsel
of the chiefs and the old men, all his
substance shall be devoted, and he

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shall be separated from the convocation
of the exile.

9 And all the men of Judah and Ben-
jamin will gather together at Jerusalem
in three days. It was the ninth month,
in the twentieth in the month, and all
the people will sit in the broad place
of the house of God, trembling for the
word, and from the heavy showers.

10 And Ezra the priest will rise up
and say to them, Ye transgressed, and
ye will dwell with strange wives to add
upon the guilt of Israel.

11 And now yeshall give praise to Je-
hovah the God of your fathers, and do
acceptance : and separate from the people
of the land and from the strange wives.

12 And all the convocation will an-
swer and say, with a great voice, So to
do according to thy words to us.

13 But the people many, and a time
of heavy showers, and no power to stand
without, and the work not for one day,
and not for two: for we many trans-
gressing in this word.

14 And our chiefs to all the convo-
cation shall stand now, and all who in
our cities dwelt with strange wives,
shall come at the appointed times, and.
with them the old men of city and city,
and its judges, until the turning back
the burning of the anger of our God
from us even for this word.

15 But Jonathan son of Asahel and
Jahaziah, son of Tikvah, stood upon
this: and Meshullam and Sabbethai
the Levite helped them.

16 And thus the sons of the exile
will do. And they will be separated,
Ezra the priest, men, heads of the fa-
thers, for the house of their fathers, and
allof them by names, and they will sit
down in one day to the tenth month to
seek out the word.

17 And they will finish with all the
men dwelling with strange wives, even
to one day to the first month.

18 And there will be found from the
sons of the priest who dwelt with
strange wives: from the sons of Joshua
son of Josedek and his brethren : Maase-
iah andEleazar, and Jarib and Gedaliah.

19 And they will give their hand to
bring forth their wives; and being
guilty, aram of the flock for their guilt

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20 And from the sons of Immer:
Hanani and Zebadiah.

21 And from the sons of Harim: Ma-
aselah and Elijah and Shemaiah and
Jehiel, and Uzziah,

22 And from the sons of Pashur:
Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nathaniel,
Jozabad, and Elasah.

23 And from the Levites: Jozahad,
and Shimei, and Kelaiah (this is Keli-
ta) Pethahiah, Judah and Hleazar.

24 And from those singing: Hlia-
shib: and from the gates: Shallum and
Telem and Uri.

25 And from Israel: from the sons
of Parosh: Ramiah and Jeziah, and
Malchiah and Miamin and Eleazar and
Malchiah and Benaiah.

26 And from the sonsof Klam: Mat-
taniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Ab-
di, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

27 And from the sons of Zattu: Eli-
oenai, Hliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth,
and Zabad and <Aziza.

28 And from the sons of Bebai: Je-
hohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.

29 And from the sons of Bani: Me-
shullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub,
and Sheal, and Ramoth.

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30 And from the sons of Pahath-Mo-
ab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maas-
eiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui,
and Manasseh.

31 And the sons of Harim: Eleazar,
Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.

33 From the sons of Hashum: Mat-
tenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphalet, Jer-
emai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

34 From the sons of Bani: Maadai,
Amram and Uel,

35 Benaiah, Bedeiah,Chelluh,

36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,

38 And Bani, and Binnui, and Shi-
mei,

39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and
Adaiah,

40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shema-
riah,

42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

43 From the sons of Nebo: Jehiel,
Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and
Joel, Benaiah.

44 All these took strange wives: and
there is from them wives, and sons will
be produced.

THE BOOK OF

NEHEMIAH.

CHAPTER 1.
HE words of Nehemiah son of
Hachaliah. And it will be in the
month Chisleu, the twentieth year, and
I was in Shushan the fortress ;

2 And Hanani one of my brethren
will come, he and men from Judah;
and I shall ask them concerning the
Jews of the escaping which were left
from the captivity, and concerning Je-
rusalem.

3 And they will say to me, They be-
ing left which were left of the captivity
there in the province, in great evil and
in reproach: and the walls of Jerusa-
lem being broken down, and its gates
were burnt with fire.

4 And it will be in my hearing these
words, I sat down, and I shall weep
and mourn days; and I fasted and
prayed before the God of the heavens,

5 And saying, Now O Jehovah, God
of the heavens, the great and terrible
God watching the covenant and mercy
to those loving him, and to those watch-
ing his commands:

6 Will now thine ear be attentive
and thine eye opened to hear to the
prayer of thy servant which I pray be-
fore thee this day, day and night, for
the sons of Israel thy servants, and
confess for the sins of the sons of Israel
which we sinned against thee? and I
and the house of my father sinned.

NEHEMIAH II.

7 Being perverse, we were perverse
against thee, and we watched not the
commands and the laws and the judg-
ments which thou didst command
Moses thy servant.

8 Remember now the word that thou
didst. command Moses thy servant, say-
ing, Ye will transgress; I will scatter
you among the nations:

9 And did ye turn back to me and
watch my commands and do them; if
there shall be a thrusting forth of you
into the extremity of the heavens, from
thence will 1 gather them and bring
them to the place which I chose for my
name to dwell there.

10 And these thy servants and thy
people whom thou didst redeem in thy
great power and by thy strong hand.

11 Now, O Lord, now will thine ear
be attending to the prayer of thy serv-
ant, and to the prayer of thy servants,
desiring to fear thy name? and pros-
per now to thy servant this day: and
wilt thou give him for compassions be-
fore this man? And I was giving
drink to the king.

CHAPTER II.
ND it will be in the month Nisan,
in the twentieth year to Arthasa-
tha the king, wine before him: and I
shall lift up the wine and give to the
king. And I was not sad before him.

2 And the king will say to me,
Wherefore thy face sad, and thou not
being sick? This nothing but sadness
of heart. And I shall be very greatly
afraid.

8 And saying to the king, O king,
thou wilt live forever: wherefore shall
not my face be sad when the city of
the house of my father’s sepulchres was
laid waste, and its gates consumed with
fire?

4 And the king will say to me, For
what this thou seekest? And I shall
pray to the God of the heavens.

5 And saying to the king, If good to
the king, and if thy servant shall be
good before thee, that thou wilt send
me to Judah to the city of my fathers’
sepulchres, and I will build it.

6 And the king will say to me (the
consort will sit near him) How long

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shall be thy journey? and when wilt
thou turn back? And it will be good
before the king, and he will send me;
and I shall give to him a time.

7 And saying to the king, If good to
the king letters shall be given to me to
the prefects beyond the river, that they
shall cause me to pass over till I shall
come to Judah.

8 And a letter to Asaph watching
the pleasure-grounds to the king, who
shall give to me woods to frame the
gates of the fortress that is to the house,
and for the walls of the city, and for
the house which I shall come into it.
And the king will give to me according
to the good hand of my God upon me.

9 And I shall come to the prefects
beyond the river, and I shall give to
them the letter of the king. And the
king will send with me chiefs of strength
and horsemen.

10 And Sanballat the Horonite will
hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Am-
monite, and it will be evil to them a great
evil that a man came to seek good for
the sons of Israei.

11 And I shall come to Jerusalem,
and I shall be there three days.

12 And I shall rise in the night, I
and a few men with me; and 1 an-
nounced not toman what my God gave
into my heart to do at Jerusalem: and
no beast with me but the beast that I
rode upon it.

13 And I shall go forth by the gate
of the valley by night, and before the
second fountain, and to the gate of the
dung-hill, and I shall be watching the
walls of Jerusalem that they being bro-
ken, and its gates were consumed with
fire.

14 And I shall pass over to the gate
of the fountain and pool of the king:
and not a place for the beast under me
to pass.

15 And I shall be going up by the
torrent in the night, and I shall be
watching the walls, and I shall turn
back and come into the gate of the val-
ley; and I shall turn back.

16 And the prefects knew not
whither I went anc what I was doing;
and to the Jews and to the priests and
to the nobles and to the prefects, and to

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the rest doing the work, even thus I
announced not.

17 And saying to them, Ye seeing
the evil which we are in it, how Jeru-
salem lay waste, and her gates were
burnt with fire: come ye, and we will
build the walls of Jerusalem, and we
shall be no more a reproach.

18 And I shall announce to them the
hand of my God that it was good upon
me; and also the king’s words who
said to me. And they will say, We
will rise up and build. And they will
strengthen their hands for good.

19 And Sanballat the Horonite will
hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Am-
monite, and Geshem the Arabian, and
they will mock to us and despise us,
and say, What this word that ye do?
are ye bearing rule against the king?

20 And I shall turn back word to
them, and say to them, The God of the
heavens, he will prosper for us; and we
his servants will rise up and build: and
to you no portion and right and re-
membrance in Jerusalem.

CHAPTER III.

Λ ND Ehiashib the great priest will

Δ rise up and his brethren the
priests, and they will build the sheep
gate; they consecrated it, and they will
set up its doors, and even to the tower
of Meah they consecrated, and even to
the tower of Hananeel.

2 And upon his hand the men of
Jericho built. And upon his hand Zae-
eur son of Imri, built.

8 And the gate of fishes the sons of
Hassenaah built; they framed and they
will set up its doors, its bolts and its
bars.

4 And at their hand held fast Mere-
moth, son of Urijah, son of Koz. And
upon their hand Meshullam son of Ber-
echiah, son of Meshezabeel. And upon
their hand held fast Zadok son of
Baana.

5 And upon their hand held fast the
Tekoites ; and their nobles brought not
their neck into the work of their Lord.

6 And the old gate held fast Jehoida
son of Paseah, and Meshullam son of
Besodeiah ; they framed and set up its
doors, its bolts and its bars.

NEHEMIAH III.

7 And upon their hand held fast Me-
latiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the
Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and
Mizpeh to the throne of the prefect be-
yond the river.

8 Upon his hand held fast Uzziel
son of Harhaiah of the goldsmiths.
And upon his hand held fast Hananiah
son of the perfumers; and they will
leave Jerusalem even to the broad wall.

9 And upon their hand held fast Ra-
phia, son of Hur, chief of half the cir-
euit of Jerusalem.

10 And upon their hand held fast
Jedaiah son of Harumaph, and before
his house, and upon his hand, held fast
Hattush son of Hashabniah.

11 The second measure held fast
Malchiah, son of Harim, and Hashub,
son of Pahath-Moab, and the tower of
the furnaces.

12 And upon his hand held fast Shal-
lum son of Halohesh, chief of half the
circuit of Jerusalem, he and his daugh-
ters.

18 And the gate of the valley held
fast Hanun and the inhabitants of Za-
noah; they built it, and they will set
up its doors its bolts and its bars, and a
thousand cubits in the wall even to the
gate of the dung-hill.

14 And the gate of the dung-hill held
fast Malchiah the son of Rechab, chief
of the circuit of the house of the vine-
yard; he will build it, and set up its
doors, its bolts and its bars.

15 And the gate of the fountain Shal-
lum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the cir-
euit of Mizpeh, held fast; he will build
it and cover it, and set it up, its doors,
its bolts, and its bars, and the walls of
the pool of Shiloh by the king’s garden,
and even to the steps going down from
the city of David.

16 After him held fast Nehemiah son
of Azbuk, chief of half the circuit of
the house of the rock, even to the front
of the sepulchres of David, and even to
the pool being made, and even to the
house of the strong ones.

17 After him held fast the Levites.
Rehum, son of Bani. Upon his hand
held fast Hashabiah chief of half the
circuit of Keilah to his circuit.

18 After him held fast their brethren,

NEHEMIAH IV.

Bavai son of Henadad, chief of half the
circuit of Keilah.

19 And upon his hand held fast Ezer
son of Jushua, chief of Mizpeh, the sec-
ond measure from before the going up
of the weapons of the corner.

20 And after him Barach son of
Zabbai, being ardent, held fast the sec-
ond measure from the-corner even to
the entrance of the house of Eliashib
the great priest.

21 After him held fast Meremoth son
ot Urijah son of Koz the second meas-
ure from the entrance of the house of
Hliashib to the end of the house of Eh-
ashib.

22 And after him held fast the priests,
the men of the circuit.

23 After him held fast Benjamin and
Hashub, before their house. After him
held fast Azariah son of Maaseiah son
of Ananiah, near his house.

24 After him held fast Binnui, son
of Henadad the second measure, from
the house of Azariah even to the cor-
ner, even to the turning.

25 Palal son of Uzai from before the
corner, and from the tower coming forth
from the king’s house, the highest
which was to the enclosure of the pris-
on. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh.

26 And the Nethinims were dwell-
ing in Ophel even to the front of the
gate of waters to the sunrising, and the
tower coming forth.

27 After him held fast the Tekoites
the second measure, from before the
great tower coming forth and even to
the walls of Ophel.

28 From above the gate of horses
held fast the priests, a man to the front
of his house.

29 After him held fast Zadok son of
Immer, before his house. And after
him held fast Shemaiah son of Sheca-
niah, watching the gate of the sunris-
ing.

30 After him held fast Hananiah son
of Shelemiah, and Hanun, sixth son of
Zalaph, the second measure. After
him held fast Meshullam son of Bere-
chiah before his cell.

31 After him held fast Malchiah son
of the goldsmith, even to the house of
the Nethinims, and the merchants be-

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fore the gate of the review, and even to
the going up of the turning.

32 And between the going up of the
turning to the sheep gate, held fast the
goldsmiths and the merchants.

88 And it will be that when Sanbal-
lat heard that we are building the wall,
and it will kindle to him, and he will
be greatly angry, and he will mock
against the Jews.

34 And he will say before his breth-
ren and. the strength of Shomeron, and
he will say, What are the feeble Jews
doing? will they leave to themselves?
will they sacrifice? will they finish ina
day? will they give life to the stones
of the heaps of dust, and they being
burnt?

85 And Tobiah the Ammonite near
him, and he will say, Also that they
are building, if a fox shall go up, and
he brake their walls of stones.

36 Hear, O our God; for we were
despised : and turn back their reproach
upon their head, and wilt thou give
them for plunder in the land of captiy-
ity ?

"37 And thou wilt not cover over
their iniquity, and their sin shall not be
wiped away before thee: for they pro-
voked before the builders.

88 And we shall build the wall; and
all the wall will be completed even to
its half: and a heart will be to the peo-
ple to work.

CHAPTER IV.
ND it will be that when Sanbal-

τ Jat heard, and Tobiah, and the
Arabians and the Ammonites, and the.
Ashdodites, that healing ascended to
the walls of Jerusalem, that the breach-
es began to be stopped, and it kindled
to them greatly ;

2 And they will conspire all of them
together to come to war against Jeru-
salem, and to do damage to it.

3 And we will pray to our God, and
we shall set up a watch against them
day and night, from before them.

4 And Judah will say, The strength
of the bearer was weak, and the dust
much; and we shall not be able to
build upon the wall.

5 And our adversaries will say, They.

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shall not know, and they shall not see,
till that we shall come to their midst
and kill them, and cause the work to
cease.

6 And it will be that when the Jews
dwelling near them came, and they will
say to us ten times, From all places
which ye shall turn back to us.

7 And 1 shall set from underneath to
the place from behind to the wall upon
the dry places, and I shall set the peo-
ple to the families with their swords,
their spears and their bows.

8 And I shall see, and I shall rise up
and say to the nobles and to the pre-
fects and to the rest of the people, Ye
shall not be afraid from their face: re-
member Jehovah great and terrible;
and war for yourselves, your sons and
your daughters, your wives and your
houses.

9 And it will be that when our ene-
mies heard that it was known to us, and
God will disperse their counsel, and we
shall tum back all of us to the wall,
each to his work.

10 And it will be from that day the
half of my young men doing in the
work, and half 01 them holding fast and
the spears, the shields, and the bows,
and the coats of mail; and the chiefs
behind every house of Judah.

11 They building upon the wall, and
they bearing in the burden, they load-
ing with one of his hands doing in the
work, and one holding fast the wea-
pon. \

19 And the builders, a man ו[‎
sword being girded upon his loins, and
building. And he striking upon the
trumpet near me.

13 And saying to the nobles and to
the prefects and to the rest of the peo-
ple, The work much and broad, and we
being scattered upon the wall, far off
a man from his brother.

14 In the: place which ye shall hear
the voice of the trumpet there ye shall
gather together to us; our God shall
war for us.

15 And we doing in the work: and
half of them holding fast upon the
spears from the ascending of the dawn
even till the coming forth of the
stars.

NEHEMIAH Υ.

16 Also in that time I said to the
people, A man and his youth shall
lodge in the midst of Jerusalem ; and
they were watching for us in the night,
and work in the day.

17 And not land my brethren and
my young men, and the men of the
watch which were after me, we not put-
ting off our garments; a man his wea-
pon for water.

CHAPTER V.

(sabe a cry of the people and their
£\ wives will be great against their
brethren the Jews.

2 And there is which saying, Our
sons and our daughters, we being many :
and we will take grain and we will eat.
and live.

8 And there are those saying, Our
fields and our vineyards and our houses
we pledge, and we will take grain in
the famine.

4 And there are those saying, We
borrowed silver for the king’s tribute,
our fields and our vineyards.

5 And now according to the flesh of
our brethren, our flesh ; as their sons,
our sons: and behold, we subdue our
sons and our daughters for servants,
and there is from our daughters being
subdued: and not to the strength of
our hand and our fields and our vine-
yards to others.

6 And it will kindle to me greatly as
I heard their ery and these words.

7 And my heart will take counsel to
me, and I shall contend with the nobles
and the prefects, and say to them, Ye
impose a debt each upon his brother.
And 1 shall give a great convocation
against them.

8 And saying to them, We bought
off our brethren the Jews, beine sold
to the nations; according to the suffi-
ciency in us and also will ye sell your
brethren? and were they sold to us?
And they will be silent, and they found
not a word.

9 And it will be said, Not good the
word which ye do: will ye not go in
the fear of our God from the reproach
of the nations our enemies?

10 And also J, my brethren and my
young men exacting upon them silver

NEHEMIAH VL

and grain: we will leave off now this
debt.

11 Turn back now to them accord-
ing to this day, their fields, their vine-
yards, their olive trees, and their
houses, and the hundredth of the
silver and the grain, the new wine
and the new oil which ye impose upon
them.

12 And they will say, We will turn
back, and we will not seek from them ;
thus will we do as thou sayest. And
I shall call the priests and shall cause
them to swear to do according to this
word.

18 Also I shook out my arm, and
said, Thus. God will shake out every
man who will not raise up this word,
from his house and from his labor; so
shall he be shaken out and emptied.
And all the convocation will say,
Amen, and praise Jehovah. And the
people did according to this word.

14 Also from the day which it was
commanded me to be their prefect in
the land of Judah, from the twentieth
year and even to the thirty and second
year to Arthasatha the king, twelve
years I and my brethren ate not the
bread of the prefect.

15 And the former prefects that were
before me made heavy upon the peo-

16, and they will take from them in
א‎ and wine, the last silver for-
ty shekels; also their young men
ruled over the people: and I 4
not thus from the face of the fear of
God.

16 And also I held fast upon the
work of this wall, and we bought not a
field: and all my young men being
gathered there for the work.

17 And the Jews and prefects a hun-
dred and fifty men, and they coming
to us from the nations that were round
about us, to my table.

18 And what was done for one day,
one ox, six choice sheep; and birds
were done for me, and within ten days
with every wine for abundance: and
with this, the bread of the prefect I
sought not, for the servitude was heavy
upon this people.

19 Remember to me, my God, for
good, all that I did for this people.

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CHAPTER VI.

ND it will be as it was heard by

Sanballat and Tobiah, and by

Geshem the Arabian, and by the rest

of our enemies, that I built the wall

and a breach was not left in it; also

even to this time I set not up the doors
in the gates ;

2 And Sanballat sent to me and Ge-
shem, saying, Come, and we will pass
over together in the villages in the yal-
ley of Ono. And they reckoned to do
evil to me.

3 And I shall send messengers to
them, saying, I do a great work, and I
shall not be able to come down: where-
fore shall the work cease when I shall
desist and come down to you?

4 And they will send to me accord-
ing to this word four times; and I
shall turn them back according to this
word.

5 And Sanballat will send his young
man to me according to this word the
fifth time, and a letter opened in his
hand;

6 Being written in it, It was heard in
the nations, and Geshem said, Thou
and the Jews are reckoning to rebel:
for this thou buildest the wall, and
thou to be to them for king according
to these words.

7 And also thou didst set up proph-
ets to call upon thee in Jerusalem, say-
ing, A king in Judah: and now it will
be heard by the king according to these
words: and now come and we will
counsel together.

8 And I shall send to him saying, It
was not according to these words which
thou sayest, for from thy heart thou
feignest them.

9 For all of them causing us to be
afraid, saying, their hands shall be
slackened from the work, and it shall
not be done. And now strengthen my
hand.

10 And I came to the house of She-
maiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabeel,
and he was shut up; and he will say,
We will pass over to the house of God
into the midst of the temple, and we
will shut the doors of the temple: for
they are coming to kill thee; and by
night coming to kill thee.

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11 And saying, Shall a man like me
flee? and who asI that shall go into
the temple and live? I will not go in.

12 And I shall know, and behold,
not God sent him; for he spake the
prophecy agaist me: and Tobiah and
Sanballat hired him.

13 So that he was hired that I shall
be afraid and do thus, and sin, and it
was to them for an evil name, so that
they shall reproach me.

14 Remember, O my God, to Tobiah
and to Sanballat, according to these his
works, and also to Noadiah the proph-
etess, and to the rest of the prophets
who were causing me to fear.

15 And the wall will be completed
in the twenty and fifth to Elul, to fifty
and two days.

16 And it will be as all our enemies
heard, and all the nations that were
round about us saw, and they will fall
greatly in their own eyes: and they
knew that from God was done this
work.

17 Also in these days the nobles of
Judah were multiplying their letters
going to Tobiah, and those to Tobiah
came to them.

18 For many in Judah being married
by oath to him, for he was son-in-law
to Shechaniah son of Arah; and Joha-
nan his son tool the daughter of Me-
shullam, son of Berechiah.

19 Also his good things were said be-
fore me, and my words were brought
forth to him. Tobiah sent letters to
cause me to fear.

CHAPTER VIL
ND it will be as the wall was

A. built, and I shall set up the doors,
and the gate-keepers, and those singing,
and the Levites will be appointed.

2 And 1 shall command Hanani my
brother, and Hananiah chief of the fort-
ress, over Jerusalem, for he is as a man
of truth, and fearing God above many.

8 And it will be said to them, The
gates of Jerusalem shall not be opened
till the sun being hot; and till they
standing by shall shut the doors and
fasten: and setting up watches of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, a man in his
watch, and a man before his house.

NEHEMIAH VEL.

4 And the city broad of hands, and
great: and the people few in its midst,
and the houses not built.

5 And my God will give to my heart,
and I shall gather together the nobles
and the prefects and the people, to be
enrolled: and I shall find the writing
of the register of those coming up
among the first, and I shall find written
as it.

6 These the sons of the province
coming up from the captivity of the
exile which Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babel carried into exile; and they will
turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah,
a man. to his eity ;

7 Those coming with Zerubbabel,
Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah;
Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispe-
reth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The
number of the men of the people of Is-
rael :

8 The sons of Parosh, two thousand
one hundred and seventy and. two.

9 'The sons of Shephatiah, three hund-
red seventy and two.

10 The sons of Arah, six hundred
fifty and two.

11 The sons of Pahath-Moab to the
sons of Joshua and Joab, two thousand
and eight hundred and eighteen.

12 The sons of Elam, a thousand
two hundred fifty and four.

18 The sons of Zattu, eight hundred
forty and five.

14 The sons of Zaccai, seven hund-
red and sixty.

15 The sons of Binnui, six hundred
forty and eight.

16 The sons of Bebai, six hundred
twenty and eight,

17 The sons of Azgad, two thousand
three hundred twenty and two.

18 The sons of Adonilam, six hund-
red sixty and seven.

19 The sons of Bigvai, two thousand
sixty and séven.

20 The sons of Adin, six hundred
fifty and five.

21 The sons of Ater to Hezekiah,
ninety and eight.

22 The sons of Hashum, three hund-
red twenty and eight.

23 The sons of Bezai, three lundred
twenty and four,

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94 The sons of Hariph, a hundred
and twelve.

25 The sons of Gibeon, ninety and five.

26 The men of the house of bread
and Netophah, a hundred eighty and
eight.

27 The men of Anathoth, a hundred
twenty and eight.

28 The men of the house strong as
death, forty and two.

29 The men of the city of forests,
Chephirah and Beeroth, seven hundred
forty and three.

30 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six
hundred twenty and one.

31 The men of Michmas, a hundred
and twenty and two. -

32 The men of the house of God and
Ai, a hundred twenty and three.

33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty
and two.

84 The sons of the other Elam, a
thousand two hundred fifty and four.

85 The sons of Harim, three hundred
and twenty.

36 The sons of Jericho, three hund-
red forty and five.

87 The sons 01 Lod, Hadid, and Ono,
seven hundred twenty and one.

88 The sons of Senaah, three thou-
sand nine hundred and thirty.

89 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah
for the house of Joshua, nine hundred
seventy and three.

40 The sons of Immer, a thousand
fifty and two.

41 The sons of Pashur, a thousand
two hundred forty and seven.

42 The sons of Harim, a thousand
and seventeen.

43 The Levites: the sons of Joshua
to Kadmiel, to the sons to Hodevah,
seventy and four.

44 Those singing: the sons of Asaph,
a hundred forty and eight.

45 The gate keepers: the sons of
Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of
Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons
of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, a hund-
red thirty and eight. .

46 The Nethinims: the sons 01 Ziba,
the sons of Hasupha, the sons of 'Tab-
baoth,

47 The sons of Keros, the sons of
Sia, the sons of Padon,

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48 The sons of Lebana, the sons of
Hagaba, the sons of Shalmi.

49 The sons of Hanan, the sons of
Giddel, the sons of Gahar,

50 The sons of Reaiah, the sons of
Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,

51 The sons of Gazzam, the sons of
Uzza, the sons of Paseah,

52 The sons of Bezai, the sons of
Meunim, the sons of Nephishesim,

58 The sons of Bakbuk, the sons of
Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,

54 The sons of Bazlith, the sons of
Mehida, the sons of Harsha,

55 The sons of Barkos, the sons of
Sisera, the sons of Thamah,

56 The sons of Neziah, the sons of
Hatipha,

57 The sons of Solomon’s servant's:
the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth,
the sons of Perida,

58 The sons of Jaala, the sons of
Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

59 The sons of Shephatiah, the sons of
Hattil, the sons of Pochereth of Zebaim,
the sons of Amon.

60 All the Nethinims, and the sons
of Solomon’s servants, three hundred
ninety and two.

61 And these gomg up from Tel-
Mela, Tel-Harsha, Cherub, Addon, and
Immer: and they could not announce
their father's house, and their seed, if
they were from Israel.

62 The sons of Delaiah, the sons of
Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, six hund-
red forty and two.

63 And from the priests: the sons of
Habaiah, the sons of Koz, the sons of
Barzillai, who took from the daughters
of Barzillai the 6111080116 8 wife, and he
will be called for their name.

64 These sought thei writing of
those being enrolled, and it was not
found: and they will be defiled from
the priesthood.

65 And the Tirshatha will say to them
that they shall not eat from the holy of
holies till a priest stood up for Lights
and Truth.

66 All the convocation as one’ four
myriads two thousand three hundred
and sixty.

67 Besides their servants and their
maids, these seven thousand three

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hundred thirty and seven: and to them
men singing and women singing, two
hundred and forty and five:

68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty
and six: their mules two hundred forty
and five:

69 The camels four hundred thirty
and five: and the asses, six thousand
seven hundred and twenty.

70 And from the sum of heads of the
fathers they gave for the work. The
Tirshatha gave to the treasure gold a
thousand drachmas, fifty vases, thirty
and five hundred priests’ tunics.

71 And from the chiefs of the fathers
they gave to the treasure of the work,
gold, two myriads of drachmas, and
silver, two thousand two hundred por-
tions.

72 And what the rest of the people
gave was gold, two myriads of drach-
mas, and silver, two thousand portions,
and priests’ tunics, sixty and seven.

73 And there dwelt the priests and
the Levites and the gate-keepers, and
those singing, and from the people and
the Nethinims, and all Israel in their
cities; and the seventh month will
draw near, and the sons of Israel in
their cities.

CHAPTER VIII.

Λ ND all the people will gather to-

gether as one man to the broad

place that was before the gate of the

waters ; and they will say to Ezra the

seribe to bring the book of the law of

Moses which Jehovah commanded Is-
rael.

2 And Ezra the priest will bring the
> law before the convocation, from man
and even to woman, and all understand-
ing to hear in one day to the seventh
month.

3 And he will read in it before the
broad place which is before the gate of
the waters, from the light even to the
half of the day, before the men and
the women, and those understanding ;
and the ears of all the people will be to
the book of the law.

4 And Kzra the scribe will stand up-
ona tower of wood which they made
for the word; and near him will stand
Mattathiah and Shema, and Anaiah,

NEHEMIAH VIII.

and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah,
upon his right hand; and his left, Pe-
daiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and
Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah,
Meshullam.

5 And Ezra will open the book be-
fore the eyes of all the people; for he
was above all the people; and when
he opened it all the people stood :

6 And Ezra will praise Jehovah the
great God: and all the people will an-
swer, Amen, Amen, in lifting up their
hands: and they will bow down and
worship to Jehovah, with faces to the
earth.

7 And Joshua, and Bani, and Shere-
biah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hod-
ijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Joza-
bad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites,
causing the people to understand to the
law: and the people upon their stand-
מ‎

8 And they will read in the book in
the law of God accurately, and he set
up the understanding, and they will
cause to understand the reading.

9 And Nehemiah, (he the Tirshatha)
will say, and Ezra the priest the scribe,
and the Leyites causing the people to
understand, To all the people this day
is holy to Jehovah your God ; ye shall
not mourn, and ye shall not weep. For
all the people weeping in their hearing
to the words of the law.

10 And he will say to them, Go ye;
eat fatnesses, and drink sweetnesses,
and send portions to him for whom
nothing was prepared: for the day is
holy to our Lord: and ye shall not
grieve, for the joy of Jehovah this is
your strength.

11 And the Leyites silencing to all
the people, saying, Silence ; for the day
is holy ; and ye shall not, grieve.

12 And all the people will go to eat
and to drink, and to send portions, and
to make great gladness, for they under-
stood the words that were made known
to them.

13 And in the.second day were gath-
ered together the heads of the fathers
to all the people, the priests, the Levites,
to Ezra the scribe, and to understand
to the words of the law.

14 And they will find written in the

NEHEMIAH IX

law which Jehovah commanded by the
hand of Moses, that the sons of Israel
dwelt in booths in the festival in the
seventh month.

15 And that they will cause to hear
and will cause a voice to pass over in
all their cities, and in Jerusalem, say-
ing, Go ye forth to the mountain and
bring leaves of olive, and leaves of the
tree of oil, and leaves of myrtle, and
leaves of palms, and leaves of the tree
interwoven, to make booths according
to the writing.

16 And the people will go forth, and
will bring and make for themselves
booths, each upon his roof, and in their
enclosures, and in the enclosures of the
house of God, and in the broad place of
the gate of the waters and in the broad
place of the gate of Hphraim.

17 And all the convocation of those
turning back from the captivity will
make booths, and they will dwell in
booths; for from the days of Joshua
son of Nun, the sons of Israel did not
thus even to this day. And there will
be great gladness exceedingly.

18 And he will read in the book of
the law of God day by day, from the
first day even to the last day. And
they will do a festival seven days; and
in the eighth day a restraint according
to judgment.

CHAPTER IX.
ND in the twenty and fourth day
to this month, the sons of Israel
were gathered together with fasting and
with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

2 And the seed of Israel will be sep-
arated from all the sons of the stranger,
and they will stand and confess over
their sins, and the iniquities of their
fathers.

3 And they will rise up upon their
standing and read in the book of the
law of Jehovah their God, the fourth of
the day; and a fourth confessing and
worshiping to Jehovah their God.

4 And there will rise up upon the
ascent of the Levites, Joshua and the
sons of Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bani,
Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani; and they
will cry with a great voice to Jehovah
their God. :

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5 And the Levites, Joshua and Kad-
miel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah,
Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, will
say, Rise up, praise Jehovah your God
from forever even to forever: and they
shall praise the name of thy glory, ex-
alting over all blessing and praise. ~

6 Thou thyself, O Jehovah, thou
alone, didst make the heavens, the
heavens of heavens, with all their army,
the earth and all that is upon it, the
seas and all that 18 תו‎ them, and thou
makest alive all of them: and the
army of the heavens worshiping to
thee.

7 Thou thyself Jehovah the God
who chose in Abram, and thou brought-
est him from Ur of the Chaldees, and
didst set his name Abraham.

8 And thou didst find his heart faith-
ful before thee, and thou didst cut out
a covenant with him to give the land
of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Am-
orites, the Perezzites, the Jebusites, and
the Girgashites, to give to his seed:
and thou wilt set up thy words, forthou >
art just:

9 And thou wilt see the humbling of
our fathers in Hgypt, and thou heardest
their cry upon the sea of sedge:

10 And thou wilt give signs and
wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all
his servants, and upon all the people of
his land: for thou knewest that they
acted proudly against them. And
thou wilt make to thee a name as this
day.

11 And thou didst cleave asunder
the sea before them, and they will pass
over in the midst of the sea upon dry
land; and those pursuing them thou
didst cast into the depths as a stone
into the strong waters.

12 And in a pillar of cloud thou
didst guide them by day, and in a pil-
lar of fire by might, to enlighten the
way to them that they shall go in it.

18 And upon mount Sinai thou
camest down, and speaking with them
from the heavens, and thou wilt give
to them right judgments, and laws of
truth, good laws and commands:

14 And thou didst make known to
them thy holy Sabbath, and commands,
and ordinances, and law; thou didst

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charge to them by the hand of Moses
thy servant:

15 And bread from the heavens thou
gavest to them for their hunger, and
water from the rock thou broughtest
forth to them for their thirst; and thou
wilt say to them to go in and to inherit
the land which thou didst lift up thy
hand to give to them.

16 And they and our fathers acted
proudly, and they will harden their
neck, and will not hear to thy com-
mands,

17 And they will refuse to hear, and
they will not remember thy wonders
which thou didst with them; and they
will harden their necks, and they will
give a head to turn back to their servi-
tude in their perverseness: and thou a
God of forgivenesses, merciful and com-
passionate, slow to anger and great of
mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.

18 Also when they made to them a
molten calf, and they will say, This thy
God which brought thee up from
Egypt; and they will make great re-
proaches ;

19 And thou in thy many compas-
sions forsookest them not in the desert:
not removing the pillar of cloud from
above them in the day to guide them
in the way; and the pillar of fire in
the night, to enlighten to them, and the
way that they shall go in it.

20 And thy good spirit thou gavest
to instruct them, and thy manna thou
didst not withhold from their mouth,
and water gavest thou to them for
their thirst.

21 And forty years thou didst nour-
ish them in the desert; they wanted
not; their garments fell not away, and
their feet swelled not.

22 And thou wilt give to them king-
doms and nations, and thou wilt divide
them to the extremity: and they will
inherit the land of Sihon, and the land
of the king of Heshbon, and the land
of Og, king of Bashan.

23 And their sons thou didst multi-
ply as the stars of the heavens, and
thou wilt bring them to the land which
thou saidst to their fathers to come in
to possess.

24 And their sons will come in and

NEHEMIAH IX.

possess the land, and thou wilt subdue
before them the inhabitants of the land,
the Canaanites, and thou wilt give them
into their hand, and all their kings, and
the nations of the land, to do them ac-
cording to their will.

25 And they will take inaccessible
cities, and a fat land, and: they will im-
herit houses full of all good, and wells
hewed out, vineyards and olive trees,
and the tree of food for abundance:
and they will eat and be filled, and be
fat, and will live delicately in thy great
goodness.

26 And they will be perverse, and
they will rebel against thee, and they
will cast thy law behind their back,
and they killed thy prophets who tes-
tified against them to turn them back
to thee, and they will make great re-
proaches.

27 And thou wilt give them into the
hand of their adversaries, and they will
press upon them: and in the time of
their straits they will ery to thee, and
thou wilt hear from the heavens; and
according to thy many compassions
thou wilt give to them saviours, and
they will save them from the hand of
their adversaries.

28 And when rest to them they will
turn back to do evil before thee: and
thou wilt leave them in the hand of
their enemies, and they will come down
upon them: and they will turn back
and ery to thee, and thou from the
heavens wilt hear, and wilt deliver
them according to thy compassions,
many times.

29 And thou wilt testify against
them to turn them back to thy law:
and they acted proudly and heard not
to thy commands, and in thy judgments
they sinned in them; (which a man
shall do and he lived in them) and they
will give a shoulder turning: aside, and
they hardened their neck and heard
not.

30 And thou wilt protraet over them
many years, and thou wilt testify against
them by thy spirit in the hand of thy
prophets: and they gave not ear, and
thou wilt give them into the hand of
the people of the lands.

31 And in thy many compassions

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NEHEMIAH X.

thou madest them not a finishing, and
thou didst not forsake them; for thou
a God merciful and compassionate.

89 And now our God, the great the
mighty, and the terrible God, watching
the covenant and the mercy, it shall
not be little before thee all the distress
which found us, to our kings, to our
chiefs, to our priests, and to our proph-
ets, and to our fathers, and to all thy
people from the days of the kings of
Assur even to this day.

33 And thou art just for all brought
upon us; for thou didst the truth and
we were evil:

34 And our kings, our chiefs, our
priests and our fathers, they did not thy
law, and they attended not to thy com-
mands and thy testimonies which thou
didst testify against them.

35 And they in their kingdom, and
in thy great goodness which thou gavest
to them, and in the broad and fat land
which thou gavest before them, served
not thee, and turned not back from
their evil works.

86 Behold, we this day are servants,
and the land which thou gavest to our
fathers to eat its fruit and its goodness,
behold, we are servants upon it:

87 And its produce being much for
the kings whom thou gavest over us in
our sins: and ruling over our bodies
and upon our cattle according to their
will, and we in great straits.

CHAPTER .א‎
ND for all this we cut out faith-
fulness, and write; and upon the
sealing, our chiefs, our Levites, and our
priests.

2 And upon the sealings, Nehemiah
the Tirshatha, son of Hachaliah, and
Zidkijah,

8 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

4 Pashur, Amariah, Malchiah,

5 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

6 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

7 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

8 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

9 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these
the priests.

10 And the Levites: and Joshua son
of Azaniah, Binnui from the sons of
Henadad, Kadmiel,

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11 And their brethren, Shebaniah,
Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

12 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

18 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

14 Hodijah, the sons of Beninu.

15 The heads of the people: Parosh,
Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

16 The sons of Azgad, Bebai,

17 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

18 Ater, Hizkiah, Azzur,

19 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

20 Hariph, Anathoth, Nobi,

21 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

22 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

23 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

24 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,

25 Halohesh, Pileha, Shobek,

26 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

27 Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

28 Malluch, Harim, Baanah,

29 And the rest of the people, the
priests, the Levites, the gate-keepers,
those singing, the Nethinims, and all
being separated from the people of the
lands to the law of God, their wives,
their sons, and thei daughters, all
knowing understanding ;

30 Holding upon their brethren, their
mighty ones, and coming into a curse,
and into an oath, to go in the law of
God which was given by tne hand of
Moses the servant of God, and to watch
and to do all the command of Jehovah
our Lord, and his judgments and his
ordinances ;

31 And that we will not give our
daughters to the people of the land, and
we will not take their daughters to our
sons:

32 And the people of the land bring-
ing wares and all grain in the day of
the Sabbath to sell, we will not take
from them in the Sabbath and in
the holy day: and we will leave the
seventh year, and the debt of every
hand. }

88 And we set up commands for
us to give for us the third of the shekel
im the year for the service of the house
of our God.

34 For the bread of the arrangement
and the gift of continuance, and for the
burnt-offering of continuance of the
Sabbaths, the new moons, for the ap-
pointments and for the holies, and for

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the sins, to expiate for Israel and all
the work of the house of our God.

85 And we cast the lots for the obla-
tion of the woods, of the priests, the
Levites and the people, to bring to the
house of our God, for the house of our
fathers at the times appointed year by
year, to burn upon the altar of Jeho-
vah our God, as written in the law:

86 And to bring the first-fruits of our
land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of
the tree year by year, to the house of
Jehovah :

87 And the first-born of our sons,
-and.of our cattle, as written in the law;
cand the first-born of our herds and our
(flocks, to bring to the house of our God,
to the priests serving in the house of
our God.

88 And the first-fruits of our groats
and our oblations, and the fruits of
every tree, new wine and new oil we
shall bring to the priests to the cells of
the house of our God; and the tenth of
our lands to the Levites, and these Le-
vites giving tenths in all the cities of our
work.

89 And the priest the son of Aaron
being with the Levites in the tenth of
the Levites: nd the Levites shall
bring up the tenth of the tenth to the
house of our God to the cells to the
house of the treasure.

40 For to the cells shall the sons of
Israel and the sons of Levi bring the
oblations of the grain, of the new wine
and the new oil, and there the vessels
of the holy place, and the priests serv-
ing, and the gate-keepers and_ those
singing: and we. will not forsake the
house of our God.

CHAPTER XI.
ND the chiefs of the people dwelt
in Jerusalem: and the rest of the
people cast lots to bring one from ten
to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city,
and nine hands in the cities.

2 And the people will praise to all
the men volunteering to dwell in Jeru-
salem,

3 And these the heads of the prov-
ince that dwelt in Jerusalem: and in
the cities of Judah they dwelt, each in
his possession in their cities of Israel,

NEWEMIAH ΧΙ.

the priests and the Levites, and the
Nethinims, and the sons of Solomon’s
servants.

4 And in Jerusalern dwelt from the
sons of Judah, and from the sons of
Benjamin, from the sons of Judah:
Athaiah son of Uzziel, son of Zechariah,
son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son
of Mahaleel, from the sons of Perez;

5 And Maaseiah son of Baruch, son
of Col-Hozeth, son of Hazaiah, son of
Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechari-
ah, son of Shiloni.

6 All the sons of Perez dwelling in
Jerusalem, four hundred sixty and
eight, men of strength.

7 And these the sons of Benjamin :
Sallu, son of Meshullam, son of Joed,
son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of
Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jesaiah.

8 And after him Gebai, Sallai, nine
hundred twenty and eight.

9 And Joel son of Zichri, reviewing
over them: and Judah son of Senuah,
second oyer the city.

10 Of the priests: Jedaiah son of Jo-
iarib, Jachin.

11 Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of
Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Mera-
ioth, son of Ahitub, before the house
of God.

12 And their brethren doing the
work to the house, eight hundred twen-
ty and two: and Adaiah son of Jero-
ham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son
of Zechariah, son of Pashur, son of
Malchiah,

13 And his brethren chiefs to the
fathers, two hundred forty and two:
and Amashai son of Azareel, son of
Ahazai, son of Meshillemoth, son of
Immer,

14 And their brethren men _ of
strength, a hundred twenty and eight:
and he reviewing over them Zabdiel,
son of the great ones:

15 And from the Levites: Shemaiah
son of Hashub, son of Azrikam, son of
Hashabiah, son of Bunni;

16 And Sabbethai and Jozabad over
the exterior work to.the house of God,
from the heads of the Levites.

17 And Mattaniah son of Micha, son
of Zabdi, son of Asaph, head of the be-
ginning of Judah for prayer: and Bak-

NEHEMIAH ΧΙ.

bukiah the second from his brethren,
and Abda, son of Shammua, son of
Galal, son of Jeduthan.

18 All the Levites in the holy city,
two hundred eighty and four.

19 And the gate-keepers, Akkub,
Talmon, and their brethren watching
in the gates, a hundred seventy and two.

20 And the rest of Israel, the priests,
the Levites in all the cities of Judah,
each in his inheritance.

21 And the Nethinims dwelling in
Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa over the
Nethinims. .

22 And he reviewing the Levites in
Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of
Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of
Miche. From the sons of Asaph, those
singing before the work of the house of
God.

23 For the king’s command concern-
ing them a surety for those singing the
word of a day in its day.

24 And Pethahiah son of Mesheza-
beel, from the sons of Zerah son of Ju-
dah, at the hand of the king for every
word to the people.

25 And for the villages with their
field, from the sons of Judah dwelt in
Kirjath-Arba, and its buildings, and in
Dibon and its buildings, and in Jekab-
zeel, and its villages,

26 And in Joshua, and in Moladah,
and in the house of escape,

27 And in fox village, and in the
the well of the oath, and in its villages,

28 And in Ziklag, and in Mekonah,
and its buildings,

29 And in the pomegranate fountain,
and in Zorah, and in the heights,

80 Zanoah, Adullam, and their vil-
lages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah
and its buildings. And they will dwell
from the well of the oath even to the
valley of Hinnom.

31 And the sons of Benjamin from
Geba, Michmash and Aija, and the
house of God and its buildings,

32 Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

84 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,

86 Lod and Ono, the valley of arti-
ficers.

36 And from the Levites divisions of
Judah to Benjamin.

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CHAPTER XIL
Λ ND these the priests and the Le-
vites who went up with Zerubba-
bel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua: Sera-
iah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abiah,

5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah.
These the heads of the priests and their
brethren in the days of Joshua.

8 And the Levites: Joshua, Binnui,
Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah,
over the choirs, he and his brethren.

9 And Bakbukiah and Unni their
brethren, over against them in the
watches.

10 And Joshua begat Joiakim, and
Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Hhashib
begat Joiada,

11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and
Jonathan begat Jaddua.

12 And in the days of Joiakim were
priests, heads of the fathers: to Sera-
18, Meraiah; to Jeremiah, Hananiah ;

13 To Ezra, Meshullam ; to Amariah,
Jehohan ;

14 To Melicu, Jonathan; to Sheba-
miah, Joseph ;

15 To Harim, Adna; to Meraioth,
Helkai ;

16 To Iddo, Zechariah; to Ginne-
thon, Meshullam ;

17 To Abiah, Zichri; to Miniamin,
to Moadiah, Piltai;

18 To Bilgah, Shammua; to Shema-
jah, Jehonathan ;

19 And to Joiarib, Mattenai; to Jed-
aiah, Uzzi;

20 To Sallai, Kallai; to Amok, Eber ;

21 To Hilkiah, Hashabiah; to Jeda-
iah, Nathaneel.

22 The Levites in the days of Elia-
shib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua,
being wriften heads of the fathers: and
the priests for the kingdom of Darius
the Persian.

23 And the sons of Levi, the chiefs
of the fathers, being written upon the
book of the words of the days, and
even to the days of Johanan son of
Eliashib.

24 And the heads of the Levites:

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Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Joshua son
of Kadmiel, and their brethren over
against them, to praise, to confess in
the command of David the man of
God watching over against watching.

25 Mattamiah and Bakbukiah, Oba-
diah, Meshullam, T'ialmon, Akkub,
watching the gates the watch of the
stores of the gates.

26 These were in the days of Joiakim
son of Joshua, son of Jozadak, and in
the days of Nehemiah the prefect, and
of Hzra the priest, the scribe.

27 And in the consecration of the
wall of Jerusalem they sought the Le-
vites out of all their places, to bring
them to Jerusalem to do the consecra-
tion and gladness, and with praises and
with song of cymbals, lyres, and with
harps.

28 And the sons of those singing will
gather together, and from the circuit
round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of Netophathi ;

29 And from the house of Gilgal and
from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth :
for those singing built for themselves
villages round about Jerusalem.

30 And the priests and the Levites
will be purified, and they will purify
the people and the gates and the
wall.

81 And 1 shall bring up the chiefs of
Judah from above the wall, and I shall
cause to stand two great choirs, and to
go about to the right hand above to the
wall to the gate of the dung-hill:

82 And Hoshaiah went after them,
and half the chiefs of Judah,

83 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshul-
lam,

34 Judah and Benjamin, and She-
maiah and Jeremiah,

85 And from the sons of the priests
with trumpets: Zechariah son of Jona-
than, son of Shemaiah the son of Mat-
taniah, son of Michaiah, son of Zaccur,
son of Asaph:

36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and
Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nathan-
eel, and Judah, Hanani, with instru-
ments of song of David the man of God,
and Ezra the scribe before them.

37 And at the gate of the fountain,
and before them, they went up upon the

NEHEMIAH XII.

steps of the city of David in the going
up to the wall from above to the house
of David, and even to the gate of wa-
ters of the sunrising.

88 And the second praised going
about to the front, and I after it, and
half the people above to the wall, above
to the tower of the furnaces and even
to the broad wall;

89 And from above to the gate of
Ephraim, and over the old gate, and
over the gate of fishes, and the tower of
Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, and
even to the sheep gate: and they stood
in the gate of the prison.

40 And the two choirs will stand in
the house of God, and I, and half of the
prefects with me:

41 And the priests: Eliakim, Maas-
eiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai,
Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets ;

42 And Maaseiah and Eleazar and
Uzzi and Jehonathan and Malechijah
and Klam and Hzer and those singing
will cause to hear, and Jezrahiah, re-
viewing,

43 And they will sacrifice in that
day great sacrifices, and they will re-
joice, for God caused them to rejoice
with great gladness: and also the
women and the children rejoiced, and
the gladness of Jerusalem will be heard
even to far off.

44 And in that day they will appoint
men over the cells to the treasures for
the oblations for the first-fruits and for
the tenths to collect into them to the
fields of the cities the portions of the
law to the priests and to the Levites:
for the gladness of Judah over the
priests and over the Levites standing.

45 And they will watch the watches
of their God, and the watches of the
purification, and those singing, and the
gate-keepers, according to the command
of David, and of Solomon his son.

46 For in the days of David and
Asaph from of old the head of those
singing, and the song of praise and con-
fessions to God.

47 And all Israel in the days of Zer-
ubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah
giving portions of the singers and the
gate-keepers, the word of a day in its
day: and consecrating to the Levites;

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and the Leyites consecrating to the sons
of Aaron.

CHAPTER XII
Τὴ that day was read in the book of
Moses in the ears of the people ; and
it was found written in it that there
shall not come in an Ammonite and a
Moabite to the convocation of God,
even to forever ;

2 For they anticipated not the sons
of Israel with bread and with water,
and he will hire Balaam against him to
curse him: and God will turn the curse
to blessing.

3 And it will be in their hearing the
law, and they will separate all the mix-
ture from Israel.

4 And before this, Eliashib the priest
being given over the cells of the house
of our God, being near to Tobiah:

5 And he will make for him a great
cell, and there before them were given
the ‘aifts, the frankincense and the ves-
sels, “and the tenth of the grain of the
new wine and the new oil; (the com-
mand of the Levites, and those singing,
and the gate-keepers,) and the oblations
of the priests.

6 And in all this I was not in Jeru-
salem: for in the thirty and second
year to Arthasatha king of Babel, I
came to the king, and at the end of
days I asked for myself from the king:

7 And I shall come to Jerusalem,
and I shall understand upon the evil
which Eliashib did for Tobiah to pre-
pare for him a cell in the enclosures of
the house of God.

8 And it will be greatly evil to me:
and I shall cast forth all the vessels of the
house of Tobiah without from the cell.

9 And saying, and they will purify
the cells: and I shall turn back there
the vessels of the house of God, with
the gift and the frankincense.

10 And I shall know that the por-
tions of the Levites were not given: and
they will flee a man to his field, the Le-
vites and those singing, doing the work.

11 And I shall contend with the pre-
fects, and say, Wherefore was the house
of God forsaken? And I shall gather
them together, and cause them to stand
upon their standing,

12 And all Judah brought the tenth
of the grain and the new wine and the
new oil to the treasuries.

13 And I made treasurers over the
treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and

Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah from the
Levites: and upon their hand Hanan
son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah: for
they were reckoned faithful; and upon
them to divide out to their brethren.

14 Remember to me, O my God, con-
cerning this, and thou wilt not wipe
out my kindness which I did in the
house of my God, and in its watches.

15 In those days I saw in Judah

those treading the wine-presses in the

Sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves,
and loading upon the asses; and also
wine, grapes, and figs, and every bur-
den, and bringing into Jerusalem in the
day of the Sabbath: and I shall testify
in the day of their selling prov ision.

16 And the Tyrians sat in it, bring-
ing in fish and every selling, and sell:
ing in the Sabbath to the sons of Ju-
dah, and in Jerusalem.

17 And 1 shall contend with the no-
bles of Judah, and say to them, What
this evil word that ye are doing, and
profaning the day of the Sabbath ?

18 Did not your fathers thus, and our >
God will bring all this evil upon us, and
upon this city? and ye are adding burn-
ing upon Israel to profane the Sabbath.

19 And it will be as the gates of Je-
rusalem were darkened before the Sab-
bath, and saying, and the doors shall
be shut, and saying that they shall not
open them till’after the Sabbath: and
from my young men I caused to stand
ut the gates; a burden shall not be
brought in in the day of the Sabbath.

20 And the merchants and those sell-
ing every selling will lodge from with-
out to Jerusalem once and twice.

21 And I shall testify against them,
and say to them, Wherefore are ye
lodging before the ‘wall? if ye shall do
it a second time I will stretch forth
the hand against you. From that time
they came not upon the Sabbath.

22 And saying to the Levites that
they shall be purifying, and coming
watching the gates to consecrate the
day of the Sabbath. | Also this remem-

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ber for me, O my God, and spare upon me
according to the multitude of thy mercy.

23 Also in those days I saw Jews
who caused to dwell women, Ashdod-
ites, Ammonites, Moabites :

24 And their sons half speaking the
Ashdod dialect, and they not knowing
tospeak the Judean dialect, and accord-
ing to the tongue of people and people.

25 And I shall contend with them,
and I shall curse them and I shall
strike of them men, and I shall make
them bald, and cause them to swear by
God, If ye shall give your daughters to
their sons, and if ye shall lift up from
their daughters to your sons and to
yourselves.

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel
sin concerning these? and in many na-
tions was there not a king lke him,
and he was loved by his God, and God
will give him king over all Israel: also

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him did women strangers cause to
sin.
27 And to you shall we hear to do
all this great evil to transgress against
our God to cause strange women to
dwell.

28 And from the sons of Joiada, son
of Kliashib the great priest, was son-in-
law to Sanballat the Horonite: and I
shall cause him to flee from me.

29 Remember to them, O my God,
for the pollutions of the priesthood,
and the covenant of the priesthood, and
of the Levites.

80 And I cleansed them from every
stranger, and I shall set up watches to
the priests and to the Levites, a man in
his work.

81 And for the bringing near the
woods in the times appointed, and for
the first-fruits. Remember to me, Ὁ
my God for good.

THE FIRST BOOK OF

CHRONICLES.

CHAPTER I.
DAM, Seth, Enosh,
2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,

5 Henoch, Methusaleh, Lamech,

4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and
Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tu-
bal, and Meshech and Tiras.

6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashche-
naz and Riphath, and Togarmah.

7 The sons of Javan: Elishah, and
Tarshish, Chittim and Dodanim.

8 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Miz-
raim, Put, and Canaan.

9 The sons of Cush: Seba, and
Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and
Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah :
Sheba and Dedan.

10 And Cush begat Nimrod. He be-
gan to be strong in the earth.

11 And Mizraim begat Ludim and
ל‎ and Lehabim, and Naphtu-

im,
12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim,

(which came forth from them the Philis-
teim) and Caphtorim.

13 And Canaan begat Zidon, his first-
born, and Heth,

14 And the Jesubite, and the
rite, and Girgashite,

15 And the Hivite, and the Archite,
and the Sinite,

16 And the Arvadite, and the Zem-
arite, and the Hamathite,

17 The sons of Shem: Elam, and
Ashur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and
Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether,
and Meshech,

18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah and
Shelah begat Eber.

19 And to Eber being born two sons:
the name of the one Peleg, for in his
days was the earth divided: and the
name of the brother Joktan.

20 And Joktan began Almodad, and
Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Je-

‘Amo-

rah.
21 Hadoram, and Uzal and Diklah,

I. CHRONICLES II.

22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and She-

ba,

23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jo-
bab. All these sons 01 Joktan.

24 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

25 Kber, Peleg, Reu.

26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

27 Abram: he is Abraham,

28 Thesons of Abraham: Isaak, and
Ishmael.

29 These their generations: Ishmael,
Nebaioth; and Kedar, and 1
and Mibsam,

30 Mishmah, and Dumah, Massa, Ha-
dad, and Tema,

31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
These the sons of Ishmael.

82 And the sons of Keturah, Abra-
ham’s concubine: she brought forth
Ziumran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and
Midian, and Ishbak and Shuah. And
the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and De-
dan.

88 And the sons of Midian: Ephah,
and Epher and Henoch, and Abidah,
and Eldaah: All these the sons of Ke-
turah.

34 And Abraham will beget Isaak.
The sons of Isaak: Esau and Israel.

- 35 The sons of Esau: Kliphaz, Reu-
, el, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and
Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and
Timna, and Amalek.

37 The sons of Reuel:
rah, Shammah, Mizzah,

38 And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and
Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Di-
shon, and 1320 and Dishan,

89 And the sons of Lotan: Hori,
and Homam: and the sister of Lotan,
Timna.

40 And the sons of Shobal : Alian and
Manahath, and 19081, Shephi, and Onam.
And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and
Anah.

41 The sons of Anah: Dishon and
the sons of Dishon: Hamram and Esh-
ban, and Ithran and Cheran.

42 I'he sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and
, Zavan and Jakan. The sons of Di-
shan: Uz and Aran.

43 And these the kings which reign-
ed in the land of Edom before a king
reigned for the sons of Israel: Bela the

Nahath, Ze-

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son of Beor:
Dinhabah.

44 And Bela will die, and Jobab son
of Zerah of Bograh will reign in his
stead.

45 And Jobab will die, and Husham
from the land of the Temanites will
reign in his stead.

46 And Husham will die, and Ha-
dad son of Bedad will reign in his
stead: he struck Midian in the field of
Moab: and the name of his city, Avith.

47 And Hadad will die, and Sam-
lah of Mazrekah will reign in his stead.

48 And Samlah will die, and Saul
from Rehoboth of the river will reign
in his stead.

49 And Saul will die, and Baal Ha-
nan son of Achbor will reign in his
stead.

50 And Baal-Hanan will die, and
Hadad will reign in his stead: and the
name of his city Pai; and the name οὗ
his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of
Matred, daughter of Mezahab.

51 And Hadad will die. And the
chiefs of Edom will be chief Timna,
chief Aliah, chief Jetheth.

52 Chief Aholibamah,
chief Pinon,

58 Chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief
Mibzar,

54 Chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These
the chiefs of Edom.

CHAPTER II.
HESE the sons of Israel: Reu-
ben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Is-
sachar, and Zebulon,

2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naph-
tali, Gad and Asher.

3 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan,
and Shelah: three were born to him
from the daughter of Shua the Cana-
anitess. And Er the first-born of Ju-
dah will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah ;
and he will slay him.

4 And Tamar his daughter-in law
will bring forth to him Pharez and Ze-
rah. All the sons of Judah, five.

5 The sons of Pharez: Hezron and
Hamul.

6 And the sons 01 Zerah: Zimri, and
Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Da-
ra: all of them, five.

and the name of his city

chief Elah,

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7 And the sons of Carmi: Achar,
troubling Israel, who transgressed in
the devoted thing.

8 And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.

9 And the sons of Hezron, which
were borntohim: Jerahmeel, and Ram,
and Chelubai.

10 And Ram begat Aminadab: and
Aminadab begat Nashon, prince of the
sons of Judah;

11 And Nashon begat Salma, and
Salma begat Boaz,

12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed
begat Jesse.

18 And Jesse begat his first-born
Eliab, and Abinidab the second, and
Shimma the third,

14 Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the
fifth,

15 Ozem the sixth, David the sev-
enth ;

16 And their sisters, Zeruiah and
Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah:
Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and
the father of Amasa, Jether an Ish-
maelite.

18 And Caleb son of Hezron begat
of Azubah the wife, and of Jerioth:
and these her sons: Jesher and Shobab
and Ardon.

19 And Azubah will die, and Caleb
will take to him Ephrath, and she will
bear to him Hur.

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri be-
gat Bezaleel.

21 And afterward Hezron came in to
the daughter of Machir father of Gil-
ead; and he took her, and he the son
of sixty years; and she will bear to
him Segub.

22 And Segub begat Jair; and there
will be to him twenty and three cities
in the land of Gilead.

23 And he will take Geshur and
Aram, with the villages of Jair from
them, with Kenath and its daughters
sixty cities. All these the sons of
Machir the father of Gilead.

24 And after the death of Hezron in
‘Caleb-Ephratah, and Hezron’s wife
Abiah, and she bear to him Ashur the
father of Tekoa.

25 And the sons of Jerahmeel, the
first-born of Hezron will be the first-

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born, Ram, and Bunah, and Oren and
Ozem, Ahijah.

26 And another wife will be to Je-
rahmeel, and her name Atarah; she
the mother of Onam.

27 And the sons of Ram the first-
born of Jerahmeel, will be Maaz, and
Jamin, and Eker.

28 And the sons of Onam will be
Shammai and Jada. And the sons of
Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

29 And the name of Abishur's wife,
Abihail; and she will bear to him Ah-
ban and Molid.

80 And the sons of Nadab: Seled
and Appaim: and Seled will die, not
sons to him.

81 And the sons of Appaim: Ishi.
And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And
the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

82 And the sons of Jada the brother
of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan: and
Jether will die without sons.

88 And the sons of Jonathan: Pe-
leth and Zaza. These were the sons of
Jerahmeel.

84 And there will be no sons to She-
shan, but daughters. And to Sheshan
a servant, an Eeyptian, and his name
Jarha.

35 And Sheshan will give his daugh-
ter to Jarha his servant for a wife; and
she will bear to him Attai.

36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Na-
than begat Zabad, i

87 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and
EKphlal begat Obed,

98 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu
begat Azariah,

39 And Azariah begat Helez, and
Helez begat Hleasah,

40 And Eleasah begat Sisimai, and
Sisimai begat Shallum,

41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah,
and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

42 And the sons of Caleb, Jerahme-
el’s brother, Mesha his first-born, he the
father of Ziph; and the sons of Mare-
shah the father of Hebron.

43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah
and Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema.

44 And Shema begat Raham the
father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat
Shammai.

45 And the son of Shammai, Maon:

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and Maon the father of the house of the
rock.

46 And Ephah, Caleb’s concubine,
bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and
Haran begat Gazez

47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem
and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet,
and Ephah, and Shaaph.

48 Caleb’s concubine, Maachah, bare
Sheber and Tirhanah.

49 And she will bear Shaaph the
father of Madmannah, Sheva the father
of Machbenah, and the father of Gi-
bea: and the daughter of Caleb, Ach-
sah.

50 These were the sons of Caleb the
son of Hur, the first-born of Ephratah ;
Shobal the father of the city of forests,

51 Salma father of the house of
bread, Hareph the father of the house
of the well.

52 And to Shobal the father of the
city of forests will be sons: Haroeh,
half of the Manahethites.

58 And the families of the city of
forests; the Ithrites, and the Puhites,
and the Shumathites, and the Mishra-
ites: from these came the Zareathites
and the Eshtaulites.

54 The sons of Salma: the house of
bread, and the Netophathites, A taroth,
the house of Joab, and half the Mana-
hethites, the Zorites.

55 And the families of the scribes
dwelling at Jabez: the Tirathites. the
Shimeathites, the Shuchathites. These
the Kenites coming from Hemath, the
father of the house of the chariot.

CHAPTER IIL
ND these were the sons of David
which were born to him in He-
bron: the first-born Amnon to Ahin-
oam the Jezreelitess; the second, Dan-
iel to Abigail the Carmelitess:

2 The third to Absalom son of Ma-
achah daughter of T'almai king of Ge-
shur: the fourth Adonijah son of Hag-
ith:

3 The fifth, Shephatiah to Abital :
the sixth, Ithrean to Eglah his wife.

4 Six were born to him in Hebron;
and he will reign there seven years and
six months: and thirty and three years
he reigned in Jerusalem.

5 And these were born to him in Je-
rusalem: Shimea and Shobab, and Na-
than and Solomon; four to Bathshua
the daughter of Ammiel:

6 And Ibhar and Elishama and Eli-
phalet,

7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Jap-
hia.

8 And Hlishama and Eliada, and
Hliphalet, nine.

9 All the sons of David, besides the
sons of the concubines, and Tamar
their sister.

10 And the son of Solomon, Rehobo-
am, Abiah his son, Asa his son, Je-
hoshaphat, his son,

11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son,
Joash his son,

12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son,
Jotbam his son,

13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son,
Manasseh his son,

14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.

15 And the sons of Josiah the first-
born, Johanan; the second Jehoiakim ;
the third Zedekiah; the fourth Shal-
lum.

16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Je-
coniah his son, Zedekiah his son.

17 And the sons of Jeconiah: Assir,
Shealtiel his son,

18 Malchiram and Pedaiah, and She-
nazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Neda-
biah.

19 The sons of Pedaiah, Zerubbabel
and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubba-
bel: Meshullam and Hannaniah, and
Shelomith their sister :

20 And Hashubah and Ohel, and
Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jusab-Hesed,
five.

21 And the sons of Hananiah: Pel-
atiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Repha-
iah, the sons of Arnon, the sons of
Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

22 And the sons of Shecaniah: She-
maiah: and the sons of Shemaiah:
Hattush and Igal, and Bariah, and Ne-
ariah, and Shaphat; six.

23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioe-
nai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam.

24 And the sons of 11106081, Hodaiah,
and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub,
and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani;
seven.

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CHAPTER IV.
HE sons of Judah: Pharez, Hez-
ron and Carmi, and Hur, and Sho-
bal.

2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal be-
gat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai
and Lahad. These the families of the
Zorathites.

8 And these of the father of Etam:
Jezreel and Ishma, and Idbash: and
the name of their sister, Hazelelponi:

4 And Penuel the father of Gedor,
and Ezer the father of Hushah. These
the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephra-
tah, the father of the house of bread.

5 And to Ashur the father of Tekoa,
were two wives, Helah and Naarah.

6 And Naarah will bear to him
Ahuzzamand Hepher, and Temeni, and
Hahashtari. These the sons of Naraah.

7 And the sons of Helah, Zereth,
Jezoar, and Ethnan.

8 And Coz begat Anub and Zobebah,
and the families of Aharhel son of Ha-
rum.

9 And Jabez was honorable above
his brethren: and his mother called his
name Jabez, saying, For I bare with

ain.

10 And Jabez will call to God of
Israel, saying, If blessing, thou wilt
bless me and enlarge my bound, and
thine hand were with me, and didst me
from evil, so as not to afflict me! And
God will bring what he asked.

11 And Chelub the brother of Shuah
begat Mehir, he the father of Eshton.

12 And Eshton begat the house of
healing, and Paseah and Tehinnah the
father of the city of enchantment.
These are the men of Rechab.

18 And the sons 0] Kenaz: Othniel
and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel :
Hathath.

14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah:
and Seraiah begat Joab the father of
the valley of workmen; for they were
artificers.

15 And the sons of Caleb son of Je-
phunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam: and
the sons of Elah: Kenaz.

16 And the sons 01 Jehalaleel: Ziph,
and Ziphah, Tiria and Asareel.

17 And the sons of Ezra, Jether and
Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she

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will conceive Miriam and Shammai,
and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

18 And his wife Jeludijah bear Je-
red the father of Gedor, and Heber the
father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the fa-
ther of Zanoah. And these the sons of
Bithiah, daughter of Pharaoh, whom
Mered took.

19 And the sons of the woman Ho-
diah the sister of Naham, the father of
Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa, the
Maachathite.

20 And the sons of Shimon, Ammon
and Rinnah, son of Hanan, and Tilon.
And the sons of Ishi, Zoheth and the
son of Zoheth.

21 The sons cf Shelah son of Judah,
Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah,
fathers of Mareshah, and the families of
the house of the working of the byssus
to the house. 01 Ashbea, -

22 And Jokim, and the men of Cho-
zeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who pos-
sessed to Moab, and dwelling to them.
And ancient words.

23 These the potters, and they dwell-
ing with plants and in the enclosure :
with the king in his work they dwelt
there.

24 The sons of Simeon, Nemuel and
Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Saul:

25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his
son, Mishma his son.

26 And the sons of Mishma: Ham-
uel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his
son.

27 And to Shimei, sixteen sons and
six daughters: and to his brethren not
many sons, and all their families did
not multiply even to the sons of Ju-
dah.

28 And they dwelt at the well of the
oath, and the birth and enclosure of
the fox.

29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and
at Tolad,

30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah,
and at Ziklag,

31 And at the house of Chariots, and
at the enclosure of horses, and at the
house of my creation, and at the gates.
These their cities even to king David.

32 And their villages Etam and Ain,
Rimmon and Tochen, and Ashan; five
cities.

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88 And all their villages which were
round about these cities even to Baal.
These their habitations and their en-
rolling for them.

34 Meshobab and Jamlech, and Jo-
shah, the son of Amaziah,

85 And Joel, and Jehu son of Josi-
biah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,

36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and
Jehoshaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and
Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

87 And Ziza son of Shiphi, son of
Alon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son
of Shemaiah.

38 These coming by names, princes in
their families: and the house of their
fathers broke forth to a multitude.

89 And they will come to the entrance
of Gedor, even to the sunrising of the
valley to seek pasture for their sheep.

40 And they will find fat pasture
and good, and the Jand wide of hands
and resting and quiet; for from Ham
dwelling there before.

41 And these being written by names,
will come in the days of Hezekiah king
of Judah, and they will strike their
tents and their dwellings those being
found there, and they will exterminate
them even to this day, and they will
dwell instead of them, for pasture there
for their sheep.

42 And from them from the sons of
Simeon, went to mount Seir, five hun-
dred men, and Pelatiah, and Neariah,
and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, sons of Ishi,
for their heads.

43 And they will strike the rest of
the escaping to Amalek, and they will
dwell there even to this day.

CHAPTER יצ‎

ND the sons of Reuben the first-
t\ born of Israel, (for he the first-
born ; and in his defiling his father’s
bed, the birth-right was given to
the sons of Joseph the son of Israel;
and not to be enrolled for the birth-
right.

2 For Judah was strong over his
brethren, and for a leader from him;
and the birthright to Joseph :)

3 The sons of Reuben, the first-born
of Israel, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron
and Carmi,

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4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his
son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal
his son,

6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-Pi-
leser king of Assur carried into exile:
he the prince to the Reubenites.

7 And his brethren according to their
families, (in the enrolling to their gene-
rations) the chief Jeiel and Zechariah,

8 And Bela son of Azaz, son of She-
ma son of Joel, he will dwell in Aroer,
and even to Nebo, and Baal-Meon :

9 And to the sunrising he dwelt even
to the coming from the desert from the
river Phrath : for their cattle -vere mul-
tiphed in the land of Gilead.

10 And in the days of Saul they
made war with the Hagarites, and they
will fall by their hand: and they dwelt
in their tents upon all the face from the
sunrising to Gilead.

11 And the sons of Gad dwelt before
them in the land of Bashan and Salcah:

12 Joel the head, and Shapham the
second, and Jaanai and Shaphat in Ba-
shan.

13 And their brethren to the house
of their fathers, Michael and Meshul-
lam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan,
and Zia, and Eber; seven.

14 Those the sons of Abihail son of
Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son
of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jah-
do, son of Buz;

15 Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni,
the head to the house of their fathers.

16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Ba-
shan, and in her daughters, and in all
the areas of Sharon, upon their goings
forth.

17 All these were enrolled in the
days of Jotham king of Judah, and in
the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

18 The sons of Reuben and the Gad-
ites, and half the tribe of Manasseh from
the sons of strength, men lifting up
shield and sword, and bending the bow,
and accustomed to war; forty and four
thousand and seven hundred and sixty
going forth to war.

19 And they will make war with the
Hagarites, and Jetur and Nephish, and
Nodab.

20 And they will be helped against

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them, and the Hagarites will be given
into their hand, and all with them: for
they cried to God in the war, and he
was entreated for them, for they trusted
in him.

21 And they will take captive their
cattle; their camels fifty thousand, and
sheep two hundred and fifty thousand,
and asses two thousand, and the soul of
man, a hundred thousand.

22 For many fell down wounded, for
the war was from God. And they
dwelt in their stead even to the exile.

23 And the sons of half the tribe of
Manasseh dwelt in the land: from Ba-
shan even to Baal-Hermon and Senir
and mount Hermon they multiplied.

24 And these the heads of the house
of their fathers: and Epher and Ishi,
and Kliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah,
and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel; mighty
men of strength, men of names, heads
to the house of their fathers.

25 And they will transgress against
the God of their fathers, and they will
commit fornication after the gods of the
peoples of the land, which God destroy-
ed from before them.

26 And the God of Israel will rouse
up the spirit of Pul, king of Assur and
the spint of Tilgath-Pileser, king of
Assur; and he will carry them into ex-
ile to the Reubenites and to the Gad-
ites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh ;
and he will bring them to Halah, and
Habor, and Hara, and the river Gozan,
even to this day.

27 And the sons of Levi: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.

28 And the sons of Kohath: Am-
ram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

29 And the sons of Amram: Aaron
and Moses and Miriam. And the sons
of Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar,
and Ithamar.

80 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phine-
has begat Abishua,

81 And Abishua begat Bukki, and
Bukki begat Uzzi,

82 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and
Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

83 Meraioth begat Amariah, and
Amariah begat Ahitub,

34 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and
Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

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85 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and
Azariah begat Johanan,

86 And Johanan begat Azariah, he
who was the priest in the house that
Solomon built in Jerusalem:

87 And Azariah will beget Amariah,
and Amariah begat Ahitub,

88 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and
Zadok begat Shallum,

39 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and
Hilkiah begat Azariah,

40 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and
Seraiah begat Jehozadek,

41 And Jehozadek went away in Je-
hovah’s carrying away into exile Judah
and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebu-
chadnezzar.

CHAPTER VI.
HE sons of Levi: Gershom, Ko-
hath and Merari. :

2 And these the names of the sons
of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

8 And the sons of Kohath, Amram
and Izhar, and Hebron and Uzziel.

4 The sons of Merari: Mahli and
Mushi. And these the families of the
Levites according to their fathers.

5 To Gershom: Libni his son, Ja-
hath his son, Zimmah his son,

6 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah
his son, Jeaterai his son.

7 The sons of Kohath: Aminadab
his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

8 Elkanah his son, and Kbiasaph his
son, and Assir his son,

9 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uz-
ziah his son, and Saul his son.

10 And the sons of Elkanah: Am-
asai, and Ahimoth.

11 Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah:
Zophai his son and Nahath his son.

12 Ehab his son, Jeroham his son,
Elkanah his son.

18 And the sons of Samuel:
first-born, Vashni and Abiah.

14 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Lib-
ni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his
son,

15 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son,
Asaiah his son.

16 And these whom David set up
over the hands of song of the house of
Jehovah from the resting of the ark.

17 And they will be serving before

the

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the dwelling of the tent of appointment
in song even till Solomon built the
house of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and
they will stand according to their judg-
ment over their service.

18 And these standing and their
sons. From the sons of the Kohath-
ites: Heman singing, son of Joel, son
of Samuel, :

19 Son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham,
son of Hliel, son 01 Toah,

20 Son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son
of Mahath, son of Amasai,

21 Son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son
of Azariah, son of Zephaniah,

22 Son of Tahath, son of Assir, son
of Ebiasaph, son of Korah,

23 Son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son
of Levi, son of Israel.

24 And his brother Asaph standing
at his right hand, Asaph the son of
Berachiah the son of Shimea,

25 The son of Michael, the son of
Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,

26 The son of Ethni, the son of Ze-
rah, the son of Adaiah,

27 The son of Ethan, son of Zimmah,
son of Shimei,

28 Son of Jahath, son of Gershom,
son of Levi.

29 And the sons of Merari their
brethren at the left: Ethan son of Ki-
shi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,

80 Son of Hashabiah, son of Ama-
ziah, son of Hilkiah,

31 Son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of
Shamer,

89 Son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son
of Merari, son of Levi.

33 And their brethren the Levites
being given to all the service of the
dwelling of the house of God.

34 And Aaron and his sons burning
incense upon the altar of the burnt-offer-
ing, and upon the altar of incense for
all the work of the holy of holies, and
to expiate for Israel according to all that
Moses the servant of God commanded.

35 And these the sons of Aaron: Ele-
azar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua
his son,

86 Bukki his son, 11221 his son, Ze-
rahiah his son,

87 Moraioth his son, Amariah his
son, Ahitub his son,

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88 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

89 And these their dwellings for
their walls in their bound to the sons
of Aaron to the families to the Kohath-
ites: for to them was the lot.

40 And they will give to them He-
bron in the land of Judah, and its areas
round about it.

41 And the field of the city and its
enclosures they gave to Caleb son of
Jephunneh.

42 And to the sons of Aaron they
gave the cities of refuge, Hebron and
Libnah and her areas, and Jattir and
Eshtemoa, and her areas,

43 And Hilen and her areas, and De-
bir and her areas,

44 And Ashan and her areas, and
the house of the sun and her areas:

45 And from the tribe of Benjamin:
Geba and her areas, and Alemeth and
her areas, and Anathoth and her areas.
All their cities thirteen cities in their
families.

46 And to the sons of Kohath being
left from the family of the tribe from
the half tribe, the half of Manasseh, by
lot, ten cities.

47 And to the sons of Gershom for
their families from the tribe of Issachar,
and from the tribe of Asher, and from
the tribe of Naphtali, and from the
tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
cities.

48 To the sons of Merari for their
families from the tribe of Reuben, and
from the tribe of Gad, and from the
tribe of Zebulon, by lot, twelve cities.

49 And the sons of Israel will give
to the Levites cities and their areas.

50 And they will give by lot from
the tribe of the sons of Judah, and
from the tribe of the sons of Simeon,
and from the tribe of the sons of Ben-
jamin, these cities which they called
them by names.

51 And from the families of the sons
of Kohath and there will be cities of
their bound from the tribe of the sons
of Ephraim.

52 And they will give to them the
cities of refuge, Shechem and her areas
in mount Ephraim and Gezer and her
areas,

58 And Jokmeam and her areas, and

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the house of the hollow and_ her
areas,

54 And Ajalon and her areas, and
Gath-Rimmon and her areas.

55 And from the half tribe of Ma-
nasseh: Aner and her areas, and Bi-
leam and her areas for the families re-
maining to the sons of Kohath.

56 To the sons of Gershom from the
families of half the tribe of Manasseh,
Golan in Bashan and her areas and
Ashtaroth and her areas:

57 And from the tribe of Issachar:
Kadesh and her areas, Daberah and her
areas,

58 And Ramoth and her areas, and
Anem and her areas:

59 And from the tribe of Asher: Ma-
shal and her areas, and Abdon and her
areas,

60 And Hukok and her areas, and
Rehob and her areas;

61 And from the tribe of Naphtali:
Kadesh in Galilee and her areas, and
Hammon and her areas, and Kirjatha-
im and her areas.

62 To the sons of Merari remaining
from the tribe of Zebulon : Rimmon and
her areas, Tabor and her areas:

63 And from beyond Jordan of Jer-
icho to the sunrising of Jordan, from the
tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the desert and
her areas, and Jahzah and her areas,

64 And Kedemoth and her areas,
and Mephaath and her areas.

65 And from the tribe of Gad: Ra-
moth in Gilead and her areas, and Ma-
hanaim and her areas.

66 And Heshbon and her areas, and
Jazer and her areas.

CHAPTER VII.
ND the sons of Issachar, Tola and
Puah, Jashub and Shimron ; four.

2 And the sons of Tola, Uzzi, and
Rephaiah, and Jeriel and Jahmai, and
Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads to the
house of their fathers, to Tola: strong
ones of power to their generations; their
number in the days of David, twenty
and two thousand and six hundred.

8 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah:
and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and
Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah; five; heads,
all of them.

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4 And to them to their generations,
to the house of their fathers, troops of
the host of war, thirty and six thous-
and: for they multiplied wives and
sons.

5 And their brethren to all the fami-
lies of Issachar strong mighty ones,
eighty and seven thousand, being en-
rolled for all.

6 Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and
Jediael, three.

7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and
Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and
Ini; five; heads of the house of their
fathers, mighty, strong ones; and they
being enrolled twenty and two thou-
sand and thirty and four.

8 And the sons of Becher: Zemira,
and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai,
and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah,
and Anathoth, and Alameth. A!l these
the sons of Becher.

9 And their enrolling for their gene-
ration for the heads of the house of their
fathers, mighty ones of power, twenty
thousand and two hundred.

10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan:
and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and
Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah
and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahish-
ahar.

11 All these the sons of Jediael for
the heads of the fathers, strong mighty
ones, seventeen thousand and two hun-
dred, going forth to the host to war.

12 And Shappim and Huppim, the
sons of Ir: Hushim, the sons of Aher.

13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel
and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the
sons of Bilhah.

14 The sons of Manasseh: Ashriel
which she bare: (his concubine the
Aramitess bare Machir the father of -
Gilead.

15 And Machir took a wife to Hup-
pim and to Shuppim, and the name of
his sister, Maachah;) and the name of
the second, Zelophehad: and daughters
will be to Zelophehad.

16 And Maachah the wife of Machir
will bear a son, and she will call his
name Peresh; and the name of his
brother, Sheresh; and his sons Ulam
and Rakem.

17 And the sons of Ulam: Bedan.

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These the sons of Gilead, son of Machir,
son of Manasseh.

18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare
Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

19 And the sons of Shemida will be
Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and
Aniam.

20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuth-
eleth, and Bered his son, and Tahath
his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath
his son,

21 And Zabad his son, and Shuthe-
lah his son, and Ezer, and Elead; and
the men of Gad killed them being born
in the land, for they came down to take
their cattle.

22 And their father Ephraim will
mourn many days, and his brethren
will come to comfort him.

23 And he will go in to his wife, and
she will conceive and bear a son, and
he will call his name Beriah, because it
was in being evil with his house.

24 And his daughter Sherah, and
she will build the house of the hollow,
the lowest and the highest, and the ear
of Sherah.

25 And Rephah his son, and Resheph
and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

26 And Laadan his son, Ammihud
his son, Elishama his son,

27 Nun his son, Jehoshua his son.

28 And their possessions and their
dwellings, the house of God and its
daughters, and to the sunrising Naaran,
and to the west, Gezer and her daugh-
ters, and Shechem and her daughters,
and even to Gaza and her daughters :

29 And upon the hands of the sons
of Manasseh, the house of quiet and her
daughters, and Taanach and her daugh-
ters, and Megiddo and her daughters,
Dor and her daughters. In these dwelt
the sons of Joseph the son -of Israel.

30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and
Ishuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and
Serah their sister.

81 And the sons of Beriah: Heber,
and Malchiel, he the father of Birzavith.

82 And Heber begat Japhlet, and
Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their
sister.

33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach
and Bimhal and Ashvath. These the
sons of Japhlet.

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84 And the sons of Shamer: Ahi,
and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

95 And the sons of Helem his
brother: Zophah, and Imna, and She-
lesh, and Amal.

86 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and
Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and
Imrah,

37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma,
and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

38 And the sons of Jether: Jephun-
neh, and Pispah, and Ara.

39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and
Haniel, and Rezia.

40 All these the sons of Asher, heads
of the fathers’ house, chosen, strong,
mighty ones, heads of the princes. And
their enrolling in the host in war, their
number twenty and six thousand men.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND Benjamin begat Bela his first-
born, and Ashbel the second, and
Aharah the third,

2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the
fifth.

8 And the sons to Bela will be Adar
and Gera and Abihud,

4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and
Ahoah,

5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and
Huram.

6 And these the sons of Ehud: these
the heads of the fathers to the inhabi-
tants of Geba; and they will carry
them away captive to Manahath.

7 And Naaman and Ahiah and Gera,
he carried them away captive; and he
begat Uzza and Ahihud.

8 And Shaharaim begat in the field
of Moab from his sending them away ;
Hushim and Baara his wives.

9 And he will beget from Hodesh his
wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and
Malcham,

10 And Jeuz and Shachiah and Mir-

ma. These his sons, heads of the
fathers,

11 And from Hushim he begat Abi-
tub and Elpaal.

12 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, and
Misham, and Shamei, he built Ono and
Lod, and her daughters.

13 And Beriah and Shema, they
the heads of the fathers to the inhabi-

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tants of Ajalon, they chased away the
inhabitants of Gath:

14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jere-
moth,

15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and
Ader,

16 And Michael, and Ispah, and
Joha, sons of Beriah ;

17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam,
and Hezeki, and Heber,

18 And Ishmerai, and Jezliah, and
Jobab, sons of Elpaal ;

19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and
Zabdi,

20 And Hlienai, and Zilthai, and
Eliel,

21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and
Shimrath, sons of Shimhi;

22 And Ishpan and Kber and Hliel,

23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Ha-
nan,

24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and
Antothijah,

25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the
sons of Shashak ;

26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah,
and Athaliah,

27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zi-
chri, sons of Jeroham.

28 These the heads of the fathers to
their generations, heads. These dwelt
in Jerusalem.

29 Amd in Gibeon they dwelt, the
father of Gibeon; and the name of his
wife Maacah:

80 And his son the first-born, Abdon,
and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Na-
dab,

81 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zaccur.

89 And Mikloth begat Shimeah.
And these also over against their breth-
ren dwelt in Jerusalem with their
brethren.

88 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish
begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan,
and Malchi-Shua, and Abinadab, and
Eshbaal.

34 And the son of Jonathan Merib-
Baal; and Merib-Baal begat Micah.

85 And the sons of Micah: Pithon,
and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

86 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah, and
Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azma-
veth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat

Moza,

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87 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha
his son, Hleasah his son, Azel his son.

38 And to Azel six sons, and these
their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah,
and Hanan. All these the sons of
Azel.

39 And the sons of Eshek his
brother, Ulam his first-born, Jehush
the second, and Eliphalet the third.

40 And the sons of Ulam will be
strong men of power, bending the bow,
and many sons and sons’ sons, a hund-
red and fifty. All these from the sons
of Benjamin.

CHAPTER IX.
ND all Israel were enrolled; and .
behold, being written upon the
book of the kings of Israel and Judah,
they were carried into exile to Babel in
their transgression.

2 And the first inhabitants which
were in their possession in their cities,
Israel the priests, the Levites, and the
Nethinims.

3 And in Jerusalem there dwelt from
the sons of Judah, and from the sons of
Benjamin, and from the sons of Ephra-
im and Manasseh :

4 Uthai son of Ammihud, son of
Omri, son of Imri, son of Benjamin,
sons of Pharez, son of Judah.

5 And from the Shilonites: Asaiah
the first-born and his sons.

6 And from the sons of Zerah: Jeu-
el and their brethren, six hundred and
ninety.

7 And from the sons of Benjamin:
Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Hoda-
viah, son of Hasenuah.

8 And Ibneiah son of Jeroham, and
Elah son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and
Meshullam son of Shephatiah, son of
Reuel, son of Ibnijah ;

9 And their brethren for their gene-
rations, nine hundred and fifty and six.
All these men heads of the fathers to
the house of their fathers.

10 And from the priests: Jedaiah,
and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

11 And Azariah son of Hilkiah, son
of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of
Meraioth, son of Ahitub, leader of the
house of God.

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12 And Adaiah son of Jeroham, son
of Pashur, son of Malchiah, and Maa-
sui son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son
of Meshullam, son of Meshillemeth, son
01 Immer;

18 And their brethren, heads to the
house of their fathers, a thousand seven
hundred and sixty; strong ones of
aes the work of the service of the

ouse of God.

14 And from the Levites: Shemaiah
son of Hashub, son of Azrikam, son of
Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari;

15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Ga-
lal, and Mattaniah, son of Micah, son
of Zichri, son of Asaph ;

16 And Obadiah son of Shemaiah,
son of Galal, son of Jeduthan, and Bere-
chiah son of Asa, son of Elkanah, dwell-
ing in the villages of the Netophathites.

17 The gate-keepers, Shallum and
Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and
their brethren: Shallum the head ;

18 And hitherto in the king's gate
from the sunrising: they keeping the
gate for the camps of the sons of Levi.

19 And Shallum son of Kore, son of
Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his breth-
ren to the house of his father, the Ko-
rahites over the work of the service
watching the thresholds to the tent:
and their fathers over the camp of Je-
hovah watching the entrance.

20 And Phinehas son of Eleazar was
leader over them to their face; Jeho-
vah with him.

21 Zechariah son of Meshelemiah,
the gate of the opening to the tent of
appointment.

22 All of them chosen for the gates
upon the thresholds, two hundred and
twelve. They in their villages being
enrolled, David founded them, and
Samuel the seeing, in their faithfulness.

23 And they and their sons over the
gates to the house of Jehovah to the
house of the tent, for the watches.

24 To the four quarters will be the
gates, from the sunrising, the sea, the
north and the south.

25 And their brethren in their enclos-
ures to come for seven days from time
to time with these.

26 For in faithfulness these four
strong ones of the gates, these Levites,

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and they were over the cells and over
the treasures of the house of God.

27 And they will lodge round about
the house of God, for upon them the
watches, and they over its opening, and
for morning to morning.

28 And from them over the vessels
of the service, for by number they will
bring them im, and by number they
will carry them forth.

29 And from them being appointed
over the vessels, and over all the vessels
of the holy place, and over the fine
flour and the wine and the oil, and the
frankincense and the spices.

30 And from the sons of the priests
seasoning the ointment to the spices.

31 And Mattithiah from the Levites,
he the first-born to Shallum the Korah-
ite, in faithfulness over the work of the
things cooked.

32 And from the sons of the Kohath-
ites, from their brethren over the bread
of arrangement to prepare the Sab-
bath, Sabbath.

33 And these singing, heads of the
fathers to the Levites in the cells being
free: for their day and night upon
them in work.

34 These heads 10 the fathers to the
Levites to their generations, heads;
these dwelt in Jerusalem.

95 And in Gibeon they dwelt, the
father of Gibeon, Jehiel, and the name
of his wife Maachah :

36 And his son the first-born, Abdon,
and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner,
and Nadab,

87 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zech-
ariah, and Mikloth. .

58 And Mikloth begat Shimeam.
And also they dwelt over against their
brethren in Jerusalem, with their breth-
ren.

39 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish
begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan,
and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and
Ksh-Baal.

40 And the son of Jonathan, Merib-
Baal: and Merib-Baal begat Micah.

41 And the sons of Micah: Pithon
and Melech, and Tahrea.

42 And Ahaz begat Jarah, and Ja-
rah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth,
and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;

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48 And Moza begat Binnea and Re-
phaiah his son, and Hleasah his son,
Azel his son.

44 And to Azel six sons, and these
their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, and
Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah,
and Hanan: these the sons of Azel.

CHAPTER X.
ND the rovers waged war with Is-
rael; and the man Israel will
flee from the face of the rovers, and
they will fall wounded in mount Gil-
boa.

2 And the rovers will pursue after
Saul, and after his sons; and the rovers
will strike Jonathan and Abinadab and
Malchishua, Saul’s sons.

3 And the war will be heavy upon
Saul, and they shooting with bows will
find him, and he will be wounded from
those shooting.

4 And Saul will say to him lifting
up his utensils, Draw thy sword and
thrust me through with it, lest these
uncircumcised shall come and_ shall
mock against me. And he lifting up
his utensils would not, for he feared
greatly. And Saul will take the sword
and fall upon it.

5 And he lifting up his utensils will
see that Saul died, and he will also fall
upon the sword and die.

6 And Saul will die, and his three
sons, and all his house together died.

7 And all the men of Israel which
are in the valley will see that they fled,
and that Saul and his sons died, and
they will forsake their cities and will
flee: and the rovers will come and
dwell in them.

8 And it will be from the morrow,
and the rovers will come to strip the
wounded, and they will find Saul and
his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

9 And they will strip him and lift up
his head, and his weapons, and send
into the land of the rovers round about,
to announce the good news to their
images and the people.

10 And they will set up his weapons
in the house of their gods, and they
fastened his skull in the house of Dagon.

11 And all Jabesh-Gilead will hear
all that the rovers did to Saul,

12 And they will rise, every man of
strength, and they will lift up the body
of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and
they will bring them to Jabesh, and
they will bury their bones under an
our in Jabesh, and they will fast seven

ays.

13 And Saul will die in his trans-
gression which he transgressed against
Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah,
which he watched not, and also for ask-
ing to a sorcerer to seek out ;

14 And not seeking to Jehovah : and
he will kill him, and turn the kingdom
to David the son of Jesse.

CHAPTER XI.
ND all Israel will gather together
to David to Hebron, saying, Be-
hold, we thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Also yesterday also the third day,
also in Saul being king thou wert bring-
ing forth and bringing in Israel: and
Jehovah thy God will say to thee,
Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and
thou shalt be leader over my people Is-
rael.

3 And all the old men of Israel will
come to the king to Hebron; and Da-
vid will cut out to them a covenant in
Hebron before Jehovah ; and they will
anoint David for king over Israel ac-
cording to the word of Jehovah by the
hand of Samuel.

4 And David will go, and all Israel
to Jerusalem; this is Jebus; and there
the Jebusites dwelling in the land.

5 And they dwelling in Jebus will
say to David, Thou shalt not come in
hither. And Dayid will take the cas-
tle of Zion, this the city of David.

6 And David will say, Every one strik-
ing the Jebusites the first. shall be for
head and for chief, And Joab son of
Zeruiah, will go up at first, and he will
be for head.

7 And David dwelt in the castle ; for
this they called to it the city of David.

8 And he will build the city from
round about from Millo, and even round
about: and Joab will revive the re-
mainder of the city.

9 And David will go, going and
growing great: and Jehovah of armies
with hii.

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10 And these the heads, strong ones,
which were to David, strengthening
themselves with him in his kingdom,
with all Israel, to cause him to reign
according to the word of Jehovah up-
on Israel.

11 And these the number of strong
ones which were to David; Jashobeam,
son of Hachmoni, head of the thirty;
he lifted up his spear against three
hundred wounding at one time.

12 And after him Eleazar, son of
Dodo, the Ahohite, he among the three
strong ones.

13 He was with David in Pas-dam-
mim, and the rovers were gathered to-
gether there to war, and there will be a
portion of the field filled with barley ;
and the people fled from before the ro-
vers.

14 And they will set themselves in
the midst of the portion, and they will
deliver it, and will strike the rovers;
and Jehovah will save a great salva-
tion.

15 And the three from the thirty
heads will go down upon the rock to
David to the cave of Adullam; and
the camp of the rovers encamped in
the valley of Rephaim.

16 And David then in the castle, and
a garrison of the rovers then in the
house of bread.

17 And בוג‎ will long, and say,
Who will give me to drink from the
water from the well of the house of
bread, which is in the gate?

18 And the three will break forth in-
to the camp of the rovers, and draw

waters from the well of the house οἵ,

bread which is in the gate, and they
will lift up and bring to David: and
David would not drink them, and he
will pour them forth to Jehovah.

19 And he will say, Far be it to me
from my God from doing this: shall I
drink the blood of these men with their
souls? for with their souls they brought
them. And he would not drink them.
These did the three strong ones.

20 And Abishai, brother of Joab, he
was head of the three: and he lifted up
his spear against three hundred; he
wounded, and to a name among the
three.

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21 Of the three, above the two he was
honored ; and will be to them for chief :
and even to the three he came not.

22 Benaiah son of Jehoida, son of a
man of power, great of deeds, from
Kabzeel, he struck two lions of god of
Moab: and he went down and struck
the lion in the midst of the pit in the
day of snow.

23 And he struck the man, the
Egyptian, a man of measure, five b
the cubit; and in the hand of the
Egyptian a spear as the beam of those
weaving; and he went down to him
with a rod, and he will take by force
the spear from the hand of the Egypt-
ian, and he will kill him with his spear.

24 These did Benaiah son of Jehoida;
and to him a name among the three
strong ones.

25 From the thirty, behold, he was
honored, and to three he came not: and
David will set him over his audience.

26 And the strong ones of the forces,
Asahel, brother of Joab, Elhanan son
of Dodo from the house of bread,

27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the
Pelonite,

28 Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Abiezer the Anathothite,

29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Iai the
Ahohite,

30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled
son of Baanah the Netophathite,

31 Ithai son of Ribai from Gibeah,
the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pi-
rathonite,

32 Hurai from the torrents of Gaash,
Abiel the Arbathite,

88 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Hliaba
the Shaalbonite,

84 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite,
Jonathan son of Shage the Harorite,

85 Ahiam son of Sacar the Harorite,
Eliphal son of Ur,

36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijahi
the Pelonite,

87 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai son
of Ezbai,

88 Joel, brother of Nathan, Mibhar
son of Haggeri,

89 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the
Berothite, lifting up the utensils of Joab
son of Zeruiah,

40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

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41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of
Athiai,

42 Adina son of Shiza the Reuben-
ite, head to the Reubenites, and with
him thirty,

43 Hanan son of Maachah, and Jo-
saphat the Mithnite,

44 Uzziah the Ashterathite, Shama
and Jehiel, the sons of Hothan the
Ayroerite,

45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and
Joha his brother the Tizite,

46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai
and Joshayiah, sons of Elnaam, and Ith-
mah the Moabite,

47 Eliel and Obed and Jasiel, the
Mesobaite.

CHAPTER XII.
ND these coming to David to Zik-

.\ lag, yet shut up from before
Saul son of Kish: and they among the
strong ones helping the war,

2 Bending the bows from the right
hands and from the left with stones and
with arfows, with the bow from Saul’s
brethren of Benjamin :

3 The head, Ahiezer and Joash, sons
of Shimeah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel
and Pelet, the sons of Azmayeth and
Berachah ; and Jehu the Anathothite,

4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a strong
one among the thirty, and over the
thirty; and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and
and Johanan and Josabad the Gede-
rathite,

5 Eluzai and Jerimoth, and Bealiah,
and Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haru-
phite,

6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel,
Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,

7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, sons of
Jeroham of Gedor.

8 And of the Gadites they separated
to David to the castle from the desert
strong ones of power, men of the army
for war, setting in array the shield and
spear, and the face of a lion their faces,
and as roes upon the mountain to make
haste ;

9 Ezer the head, Obadiah the second,
Ehiab the third, /

10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremi-
ah the fifth,

11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

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12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the
ninth,

13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai
the eleventh.

14 These from the sons of Gad, heads
of the army: one to a hundred the
small, and the great to a thousand.

15 These they who passed over
Jordan in the first month, and it filling
over all its banks; and they drove out
all the valleys to the sunmising and to
the west.

16 And there will come from the
sons of Benjamin and Judah even to
the fortress to David.

17 And Dayid will go forth before
them, and he will answer and say to
them, If for peace ye came to me to
help me, the heart will be together with
you: and if to deceive me to mine
enemy, in not being violence in my
hand, the God of our fathers will see
and decide.

18 And the spirit clothed Amasai,
head of the thirty: ΤῸ thee David, and
with thee, son of Jesse: peace, peace to
thee, and peace to thy help; for thy
God helped thee. And David will re-
ceive them and give them for heads of
the troops.

19 And from Manasseh there fell to
David in his going with the rovers
against Saul to war; and he helped
them not, for in counsel the princes of
the rovers sent him away, saying, With
our heads he will fall to his lord Saul.

20 In his going to Ziklag -there fell
to him from Manasseh, Adnah, and
Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael and
Jozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, the heads
to the thousands which were to Manas-
seh,

21 And they helped with David
against the troops: for strong ones of
power all of them, and they will be
chiefs in the army.

22 For at the time day by day they
will come to David to help him, even a
great camp as the camp of God.

23 And these the numbers of heads
drawn out for the army, they came to
David to Hebron to turn the kingdom
of Saul to him according to the mouth
of Jehovah,

24 The sons of Judah lifting up the

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shield and spear six thousand and
eight hundred drawn out for the army.

25 From the sons of Simeon, strong
ones of power for the army, seven thou-
sand and one hundred.

26 From the sons of Levi four thou-
sand and six hundred.

27 And Jehoida the leader to Aa-
ron, and with him three thousand seven
hundred.

28 And Zadok a youth strong of
power, and the house of his father
twenty and two chiefs.

29 And from the sons of Benjamin
the brethren of Saul, three thousand :
and hitherto from many of them watch-
ing the watches of the house of Saul.

30 From the sons of Ephraim twenty
thousand and eight hundred strong
ones of power, men of names to the
house of their fathers.

81 And from half the tribe of Ma-
nasseh eighteen thousand who were
distinguished by names, to come to
make David king.

82 And from the sons of Issachar,
those knowing the understanding to the
times to know what Israel shall do;
their heads two hundred; and all their
brethren at their mouth.

33 From Zebulon coming forth to
the army, setting the battle in array
with all the utensils of war, fifty thou-
sand to set in order, with not a heart
and a heart.

84 And from Naphtali a thousand
chiefs, and with them with shield and
spear, thirty and seven thousand.

85 And from the Danites setting the
battle in array, twenty and eight thou-
sand and six hundred.

36 And from Asher those going forth
to the army to set the battle in array,
forty thousand.

37 And from beyond Jordan, from
the Reubenites and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasseh, with all
utensils of the army of the war, a hund-
red and twenty thousand.

88 All these men of war setting in
order the arrangement with the whole
heart, came to Hebron to make David
king over all Israel: and also all the
rest of Israel of one heart to make Da-
vid king,

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39 And they will be there with Da-
vid three days, eating and drinking:
for their brethren prepared for them.

40 And also those being near to
them, even to Issachar, and Zebulon,
and Naphtali, bringing bread upon
asses and upon camels, and upon mules,
and upon oxen; food of flour, round
cakes, and dried grapes, and wine and
oil, and oxen and sheep for multitude:
for joy in Israel.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND David will counsel with the
chiefs of the thousands and the
hundreds, to every leader.

2 And David will say to all the con-
vocation of Israel, If good to you, and
from Jehovah our God, we will break
forth, we will send to all our brethren
being left in all the lands of Israel, and
with them the priests and the Levites
in the cities of their areas, and they
shall gather together to us.

3 And we will turn about the ark of
our God to us: for we sought it not in
the days of Saul.

4 And all the conyocation will say
to do thus: for the word was straight
in the eyes of all the people.

5 And Dayid will convoke together
all Israel from Sihor of Egypt and even
to the going in of Hamath, to bring in
the ark of God from the cities of the
forests.

6 And David will go up, and all Is-
rael, to Baalah, to the cities of the for-
ests which were to Judah, to bring up
from thence the ark of God Jehovah
dwelling in the cherubims, which the
name was called.

7 And they caused the ark of God
to ride upon a new wagon from the
house of Abinadab: and Uzza and his
brethren conducting in the wagon.

8 And Dayid and all Israel playing
before God with all strength, and with
songs and with harps, and with lyres,
and with drums, and with cymbals,
and with trumpets.

9 And they will come to the thresh-
ing-floor of Chidon, and Uzza will
stretch forth his hand to hold firm the
ark; for the oxen thrust it.

10 And the anger of Jehovah will be

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kindled against Uzza, and he will strike
him for that he stretched forth his hand
upon the ark: and he will die their be-
fore God.

11 And it will kindle to David be-
cause Jehovah broke forth a breach up-
on Uzza: and he will call to this place,
This the Breach of Uzza, even to this
day.
12 And David will fear God in that

day, saying, How shall I bring to me
the ark of God?

13 And David removed not the ark

of God from the city of David, and he
will turn it away to the house of Obed-
Edom the Gathite.

14 And the ark of God will dwell
with the house of Obed-Edom in his
house three months. And Jehovah
will bless the house of Obed-Edom, and
all which is to him.

CHAPTER XIV.
Λ ND Hiram king of Tyre will send
messengers to David, and trees of
cedars and workmen of the wall and
workmen of woods to build for him a
house.
2 And David knew that Jehovah
repared him for king over Israel, for
ae kingdom was lifted up to above on
account of his people Israel.

3 And David will take yet wives in
Jerusalem: and David will yet beget
sons and daughters.

4 And these the names of the chil-
dren which were to him in Jerusalem ;
Shamua and Shobab, Nathan and Sol-
omon,

5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and El-
phalet,

' 6 And Nogah and Nepheg, and Jap-
hia,

7 And Hlishama, and Beeliada, and
Eliphalet.

8 And the rovers will hear that Da-
vid was anointed for king over all Israel,
and all the rovers will come up to seek
David. And David will hear and he
will go forth before them.

9 And the rovers came and they
will spread out in the valley of the
shades.

10 And Dayid will ask in God, say-
ing, Shall I go up against the rovers?

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and gavest thou them into my hand?
and Jehovah will say to him, Go up;
and I gave them into thy hand.

11 And they will go up to the mas-
ter of breaches, and David will strike
them there. And David will say, God
broke forth upon mine enemies by my
hand as the breaking forth of waters:
for this they called the name of that
place, The Master of the Breaches.

12 And they will leave their gods
there, and David will say, and they will
burn in fire,

13 And the rovers will yet add, and
they will spread out in the valley.

14 And Dayid will yet ask in God:
and God will say to him, Thou shalt
not go up after them ; turn about from
off them, and go to them from the front
of the weepings.

15 And it will be in thy hearing a
voice of the goings in the heads of the
weepings, then thou shall go forth in
war: for God will go forth before thee
to strike the camp of the rovers.

16 And David will do as Jehovah
commanded him: and they will strike
the camp of the rovers from Gibeon
even to Gaza.

17 And the name of David will go
forth into all lands; and Jehovah gave
his fear upon all the nations.

CHAPTER XV.
ND he will make to himself
houses in the city of David, and
he will prepare a place for the ark of
God, anak will spread for it a tent.

2 Then David said, None to lift up
the ark of God but the Levites: for in
them God chose to lift up the ark of
God, and to serve him even to for-
ever.

3 And David will convoke all Isra-
el together to Jerusalem, to lift up the
ark of Jehovah to its place which he
prepared for it.

4 And David will gather together
the sons of Aaron and the Levites:

5 To the sons of Kohath: Uriel the
chief and his brethren, a hundred. and
twenty :

6 To the sons of Merari: Asaiah
the chief and his brethren, two hund-
red and twenty :

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7 To the sons of Gershom: Joel the
chief and his brethren, a hundred and
thirty :

8 To the sons of Elizaphan: Shema-
jah the chief and his brethren, two
hundred:

9'To the sons of Hebron: Eliel the
chief and his brethren, eighty:

10 To the sons 01 Uzziel: Aminadad
the chief and his brethren, a hundred
and twelve.

11 And David will call for Zadok
and for Abiathar the priests, and for
the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel,
Shemaiah, and Eliel and Aminadab,

12 And he will say to them, Ye heads
of the fathers to the Levites: ye shall
purify yourselves, ye and your breth-
ren, and bring ye up the ark of Jeho-
vah the God of Israel to that 1 prepared
for it.

18 For ye not from the first, Jehovah
our God broke forth upon us, for we
sought him not according to judgment.

14 And the priests will purify them-
selves and the Levites to bring up the
ark of Jehovah God of Israel.

15 And the sons of the Levites will
lift up the ark of God as Moses com-
manded, according to the word of Je-
hovah, upon the shoulders, with the
rods upon them.

16 And David will say to the chiefs
of the Levites to cause their brethren
to stand singing with every instrument
of song, lyres and harps, and cymbals,
causing to hear to lift up with the voice
for joy.

17 And the Levites will set up He-
man son of Joel; and from his breth-
ren, Asaph son of Berechiah ; and from
the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan
son of Kushaiah ;

18 And with them their brethren be-
ing second, Zechariah the son, and Ja-
haziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel,
and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and
Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphe-
leh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom,
Jeiel, gate-keepers.

19 And those singing, Heman, Asaph
and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to
cause to hear ;

20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni,

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and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah,
with lyres upon Alemoth ;

21 And Mattithiah and Elipheleh,
and Milkneiah, and Obed-Edom, and
Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps upon
the Sheminith to shine.

22 And Chenaniah chief of the Le-
vites, in lifting up, admonished in the
lifting up, for he discerning.

23 And Berechiah and Elkanah gate-
keepers to the ark.

24 And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat,
and Nathaniel, and Amasai, and Zech-
ariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the
priests, trumpeting with trumpets be-
fore the ark of God: and Obed-Edom
and Jehiah, gate-keepers to the ark.

25 And Davii will be, and the old
men of Israel and the chiefs of thou-
sunds, going to bring up the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah from the house of
Obed-Edom with joy.

26 And it will be in God’s helping
the Levites lifting up the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah, and they will sae-
rifice seven bullocks and seven rams.

27 And David being girded with an
upper garment of byssus, and all the
Levites lifting up the ark and those
singing, and Chenaniah the chief of the
lifting up of those singing: and upon
David an ephod of linen.

28 And all Israel bringing up the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah with a
signal and with the voice of the horn, and
with trumpets and with cymbals caus-
ing to hear, and with lyres and harps.

29 And the ark of the covenant of
Jehovah will be coming even to the
city of David, and Michal daughter of
Saul, looking forth from a window, and
she will see king David leaping and
playing: and she will despise him in
her heart.

CHAPTER XVI
ND they will bring the ark of God
and set it in the midst of the tent
which David stretched out for it: and
they will bring near burnt-offerings and
peace before God,

2 And David will finish the bringing
up of the burnt-offering and the peace,
and he will bless the people in the
name of Jehovah,

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- 8 And he will divide to every man
of Israel from man and even to woman,
to each a round of bread, and a meas-
ure and cakes.

4 And he will give before the ark of
Jehovah from the Levites serving, and
for keeping in remembrance, and to con-
fess and to praise to Jehovah God of
Israel.

5 Asaph the head, and his second,
Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Kliab, and
Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: and Jeiel
with instruments of lyres and harps;
and Asaph with trumpets causing to
hear ;

6 And Benaiah and Jahaziel the
priests with trumpets continually before
the ark of the covenant of God.

7 In that day thus David gave at the
first to confess to Jehovah by the hand
of Asaph and his brethren.

8 Confess ye to Jehovah, call upon
his name, make known among the peo-
ples his deeds,

9 Sing ye to him, play on the harp
to him, speak upon all his wonders.

10 Praise ye in his holy name: the
heart of those seeking Jehovah shall
rejoice.

11 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength,
seek his face always.

12 Remember ye his wonders which
he did, and his miracles, and the judg-
ments of his mouth ;

18 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye
sons of Jacob his chosen ones.

14 He Jehovah our God; in all the
earth his judgments.

15 Remember ye forever. his cove-
nant; the word he commanded to a
thousand generations ;

16 Which he cut out with Abraham,
and his oath to Isaak.

17 And he will cause it to stand to
Jacob for a law, to Israel a covenant
forever,

18 Saying, To thee I will give the
land of Canaan, the cord of your inher-
itance ;

19 In your being men’of number, as
few, and strangers in it.

20 And they will go about from na-
tion to nation, and from kingdom to
another people ;

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21 And he permitted not to a man
to oppress them: and for them he will
reprove kings:

22 Ye shall not touch upon my Mes-
siah, and upon my prophets ye shall
not do evil.

28 Sing ye to Jehovah, all the earth ;
announce good news, from day to day
his salvation.

24 Recount his glory among the na-
tions; his wonders among all peoples

25 For great is Jehovah, and greatly
praised: and he to be feared above all
gods.

26 For all the gods of the peoples
nothings: and Jehovah made the heay-

ens.

27 Glory and honor before his face;
strength and joy in his place.

28 Give to Jehovah ye families of
the peoples, give to Jehovah glory and
strength.

29 Give ye to Jehovah the glory of
his name: lift up a gift and come be-
fore him: worship to Jehovah the or-
naments of holiness.

80 Tremble from before him, all ye
earth: also the habitable globe shall Ne
set up, it shall not be shaken.

31 The heavens shall rejoice, and the
earth shall exult: and they shall say
among the nations, Jehovah reigned :

32 The sea shall tremble and its ful-
ness, and the field shall rejoice and all
that is in it.

33 Then shall the trees of the forest
shout from the face of Jehovah, for he
came to judge the earth.

84 Confess ye to Jehovah, for he is
good, for his mercy is forever.

35 And say ye, Save us, God of our
salvation, and gather us together and
deliver us from the nations, to confess
to thy holy name, to glory in thy praise.

36 Praised be Jehovah God of Israel
from forever and even to forever. And
all the people will say, Amen, and
praise to Jehovah.

87 And he will leave there before
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to
Asaph and to his brethren, to serve be-
fore the ark always, for the word of a
day in its day.

88 And Obed-Edom and his brethren,
sixty and eight; and Obed-Kdom son

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of Jeduthun and Hosah for gate-keep-
ers:

89 And Zadok the priest, and his
brethren the priests, before the dwelling
of Jehovah in the height which is in
Gibeon,

40 To bring up burnt-offerings to Je-
hovah upon the altar of burnt-offering
always at morning and at evening, and
according to all written in the law of
Jehovah which he charged upon Is-
rael ;

41 And with them Heman and Je-
duthun, and the rest being chosen, who
were separated by names to confess to
Jehovah: for his mercy is forever.

42 And with them Heman and Je-
duthun, with trumpets and cymbals to
cause to hear, and instruments of song
of God. And the sons of Jeduthun at
the gate.

43 And all the people will go each
to his house: and David will turn about
to bless his house.

CHAPTER XVII.
ND it will be as David will sit in
his house, and David will say to
Nathan the prophet, Behold me dvwell-
ing in a house of cedars, and the ark of
the covenant of Jehovah under cur-

tains.

2 And Nathan will say to David, Do
all that is thy heart; for God is with
thee.

3 And it will be in that night, and the
word of God will be to Nathan, saying,

4 Go and say to David my servant,
Thus said Jehovah, Thou shalt not
build to me a house to dwell in:

5 For I dwelt not in a house from
the day that I brought up Israel even
to this day: and I will be from tent to
tent, and from a dwelling.

6 In all that I went about in all Is-
rael, spake I the word with one of the
judges of Israel that I commanded to
feed my people, saying, Wherefore
built ye not to me a house of cedars?

7 And now, thus shalt thou say to
my servant, to David, Thus said Jeho-
vah of armies, I took thee from the
dwelling from behind the flocks 10 be
leader over my people Israel :

8 And I will be with thee in all

which thou walkedst, and I will cut
off all thine enemies from thy face, and
I made to thee a name as the name of
the great ones which are in the earth.

9 And I set a place for my people
Israel, and I planted him, and he dwelt
in his place, and he shall no more be
disturbed ; and the sons of evil shail
not add to vex him, as in the beginning,

10 And to the days which I com-
manded judges over my people Israel :
and I brought low all thine enemies.
And I will announce to thee, and Je-
hovah will build a house to thee.

11 And it was when thy days were
completed to go with thy fathers, and I
raised up thy seed after thee, which
shall be from thy sons; and I prepared
his kingdom.

12 He shall build to me a house, and
I prepared his throne even to forever.

18 I will be to him for father, and he
shall be to me for son: and my mercy
will I not remove from him as I re-
moved from him being before thee.

14 And I caused him to stand in my
house and in my kingdom eyen to for-
ever: and his throne shall be set up
even to forever.

15 According to all these words, and
according to all this vision, so spake
Nathan the prophet to David.

16 And king David will come and
sit before Jehovah, and he will say,
Who am I, O Jehovah God, and what
my house, that thou broughtest me
even to hither?

17 And this will be small in thine
eyes, O God; and thou wilt speak up-
on the house of thy servant to far off,
and thou sawest me according to the
manner of the man of the ascent, O Je-
hovah God.

18 What more shall David add to
thee to honor thy servant? for thou
knewest thy servant.

19 0 Jehovah, for sake of thy sery-
ant, and according to thy heart, thou
didst all this greatness to make known
all thy greatnesses,

20 O Jehovah, none like thee, and
no God besides thee, in all that we
heard with our ears.

21 And what one nation as thy peo-
ple Israel, in the earth, whom God

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went to redeem to him a people to set
up to thee a name of greatnesses and
terrible things, to thrust out nations
from before thy people, whom thou didst
redeem from Egypt?

22 And thou wilt give thy people
Israel to thee for a people even to for-
ever; and thou, O Jehovah, wert to
them for God.

23 And now, O Jehovah, the word
which thou spakest concerning thy
servant and concerning his house, shall
be faithful even to forever, and do as
thou spakest.

24 And it shall be firm, and thy
name shall be magnified even to forever,
saying, Jehovah of armies, God of Is-
rael, is God to Israel: and the house of
David thy servant was prepared before
thee.

25 For thou, my God, didst uncover
the ear of thy servant to build for him
a house: for this thy servant found to
pray before thee.

26 And now, O Jehovah, thou thy-
self art God, and thou wilt speak con-
cerning thy servant this goodness.

27 And now thou wert pleased to
bless the house of thy servant, to be
forever before thee: for thou didst
bless, and blessing forever.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND it will be after this, and Da-
vid will strike the rovers, and he
will subdue them, and take Gath and
her daughters from the hand of the
rovers.

2 And he will strike Moab; and
Moab will be servants to David, lifting
up a gift.

8 And David will strike Hadarezer
king of Zobah to Hamath, in his going
to set up his hand upon the river
Phrath.

4 And David will take from him a
thousand chariots, and seven thousand
horsemen, and twenty thousand men
on foot: and David will root up every
chariot, and David will leave from
them a hundred chariots.

5 And Aram of Darmesek will come
to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, and
David will strike in Aram twenty and
two thousand men.

1. CHRONICLES XVIIL, אזא‎

6 And Dayid will set up in Aram of
Darmesek ; and Aram will be servants
to David, lifting up a gift. And Jeho-
vah will save for David in all which he
went.

7 And David will take the shields of
gold that were upon the servants of
Hadarezer, and he will bring them to
Jerusalem.

8 And from Tibhath and from Chun,
cities of Hadarezer, David took very
much brass; with it Solomon made the
sea of brass, and the pillars and the ves-
sels of brass.

9 And Tou, king of Hamath, will
hear that David struck all the power of
Hadarezer king of Zobah ;

10 And he will send Hadoram his
son to king David to ask to him for
peace, and to bless him because he
fought against Hadarezer, and he will
strike him; (for Hadarezer was a man
of war with Tou;) and all vessels of
gold and silver and brass.

11 Also them king David consecra-
ted to Jehovah, with the silver and the
gold which he lifted up from all the
nations from Edom, from Moab, and
from the sons of Ammon, and from the
rovers, and from Amalek.

12 And Abishai son of Zeruiah
struck Kdom in the valley of salt,
eighteen thousand.

13 And he will set up garrisons in
Edom; and all Edom will be servants
to David. And Jehovah will save
David in all which he went.

14 And David will reign over all Is-
rael, and he will be doing judgment
and justice to all his people.

15 And Joab son of Zeruiah over the
army ; and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud,
bringing to remembrance.

16 And Zadok son of Ahitub, and
Abimelech son of Abiathar, the priests ;
and Shavsha the scribe.

17 And Benaiah son of Jehoiada over
the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and
the sons of David, heads at the hand of
the king.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND it will be after this, Nahash
king of the sons of Ammon will
die, and his son will reign in his stead.

I. CHRONICLES XX.

2 And David will say, I will do
mercy with Hanun son of Nahash, for
his father did mercy with me. And
David will send messengers to comfort
him concerning his father. And Da-
vid's servants will come to the land of
the sons of Ammon to Hanun, to com-
fort him.

8 And the chiefs of the sons of Am-
mon will say to Hanun, Is David hon-
oring thy father in thine eyes, that he
sent comforters to thee? is it not in
order to search out, and to overthrow,
and to spy out the land, came his serv-
ants to thee?

4 And Hanun will take David's ser-
vants and shave them, and cut off their
garments in the half, even to the step,
and he will send them away.

5 And they will go and announce to
David concerning the men; and he
will send to meet them: for the men
were greatly ashamed. And the king
will say, Sit in Jericho till your beard
shall spring up, and turn ye back.

6 And the sons of Ammon will: see
that they were loathsome with David,
and Hanun will send, and the sons of
Ammon, a thousand talents of silver to
hire to them from Aram of the rivers
and from Aram-Maachah, and from
Zobah, chariots and horsemen.

7 And they will hire to them two
and thirty thousand chariots, and the
king of Maachah and his people, and
they will come and encamp before Me-
deba. And the sons of Ammon were
gathered together from their cities, and
they will come to the battle.

8 And David will hear, and he will
send Joab and all the army of strong
ones.

9 And the sons of Ammon will go
forth and set the battle in array at the
entrance of the city: and the kings that
came by themselves into the field.

10 And Joab will see that the face
of the battle was against him, before
and behind; and he will choose from
all the young men in Israel, and he will
set in array to meet Aram.

11 And the rest of the people he
gave into the hand of Abishai his broth-
er, and he will set in array to meet the
sons of Ammon.

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12 And he will say, If Aram shall
be strong above me, and thou wert to
me for salvation: and if the sons of
Ammon shall be strong above thee,
and I saved thee.

13 Be strong, and we will strengthen
ourselves for our people and for the
cities of our God: and Jehovah will do
the good in his eyes.

14 And Joab wiil draw near, and the
people which are with him, before Aram
to battle; and they will flee from be-
fore him.

15 And the sons of Ammon saw that
Aram fled, and they will flee also them-
selves from the face of Abishai his
brother, and they will come into the
city. And Joab will come to Jerusalem.

16 And Aram will see that they
were smitten before Israel, and they
will send messengers and bring forth
Aram that was from beyond the river:
and Shophach the chief of the army of
Hadarezer before them.

17 And it will be announced to Da-
vid; and he will gather together all
Israel, and he will pass over Jordan
and come against them, and he will set
in array against them. And David
will set the battle in array to meet
Aram, and they will wage war with
him.

18 And Aram will flee from the face
of Israel; and David will kill from
Aram seven thousand chariots and for-
ty thousand footmen; and he killed
Shophach chief of the army.

19 And the servants of Hadarezer
will see that they were smitten before
Israel, and they will be at peace with
David, and will serve him: and Aram
would no more help the sons of Am-
mon.

CHAPTER XX.

ND it will be at the time of the
return of the year, at the time
of the going forth of kings, and Joab
will lead the power of the army, and
he will destroy the land of the sons of
Ammon, and he will come and press
upon Rabbah: and David dwelt in Je-
rusalem. And Joab will strike Rab-

bah and destroy it.
2 And David will take the crown of

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their king from off his head, and he will
find the weight a talent of gold, and in
it precious stone; and it will be upon
David’s head: and he brought forth
the spoil of the city exceeding much.

3 And he brought out the people
that were in it, and he will contend
with the saw and with threshing-
sledges of iron, and with saws. And
Dayid will do thus to all the cities of the
sonsof Ammon. And David will turn
back and all the people, to Jerusalem.

4 And it will be after this and war
will stand up in Gezer with the rovers:
then Sibbechai the Hushathite struck
Sippai from the children of Rapha, and
they will be subdued.

5 And there will be yet war with the
rovers; and Elhanan son of Jair will
strike Lahmi the brother of Goliah the
Gathite, and the wood of his spear as a
weaver's beam.

6 And there will be yet war in Gath ;
and there will bea man of measure, and
his fingers six and six, twenty and four:
and he also was born to Rapha.

7 And he will reproach Israel, and
Jonathan son of Shimea, Dayid’s broth-
er, struck him.

8 These were born to Rapha in Gath ;
and they will fall by the hand of Da-
vid and by the hand of his servants.

CHAPTER XXL
1 ND an adversary will stand up
against Israel, and he will stim-

ulate David to number Israel.

2 And David will say to Joab and to
the chiefs of the people, Go number Is-
rael from the well of the oath even to
judgment, and bring to me and 1 shall
know their number.

3 And Joab will say, Jehovah will
add to his people as they are, a hundred
times: are they not, my lord the king,
all of them for servants to my lord?
for what will my lord seek this? where-
fore will he be for trespass to Israel ?

4 And the word of the king was
strong upon Joab. And Joab will go
forth, and he will go about in all Isra-
el, and he will come to Jerusalem.

5 And Joab will give the number of
reviewing the people to David. And
all Israel will be a thousand thousand

I. CHRONICLES XXI.

and a hundred thousand men drawing
sword: and Judah four hundred and
seventy thousand men drawing sword.

6 And Levi and Benjamin he re-
viewed not in the midst of them: for
the king’s word was abhorred with
Joab.

7 And it willbe evil in the eyes of
God concerning this word, and he will
strike Israel.

8 And David will say to God, I sin-
ned greatly that I did this word: and
now cause to pass away now the iniqui-
ae thy servant, for I acted very fool-
ishly.

9 And Jehovah will speak to Gad
the seer of David, saying,

10 Go and speak to David, saying,
Thus said Jehovah, Three, I stretch
forth upon thee; choose to thee one
from these and I will do to thee.

11 And Gad will come to David and
say to him, Thus said Jehovah, Take
to thee,

12 If three years of famine, and if
three months of being destroyed from
before thine adversaries, and the sword
of thine enemies to overtake; and if
three days the sword of Jehovah, and
the word in the land, and the messen-
ger of Jehovah destroying in all the
bound of Israel. And now see what
word I shall turn back to him sending

me.

13 And David will say to Gad, Straits
to me exceedingly: I will fall now in-
to the hand of Jehovah, for his com-
passions are very many: and 1 will not
fall into the hand of man.

14 And Jehovah will give death up-
on Israel: and there will fall from Is-
rael seventy thousand men,

15 And God will send a messenger
to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he
destroyed, Jehovah saw, and he will
grieve for the evil, and he will say to
the messenger destroying, Enough;
slacken thy hand. And the messenger
of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.

16 And David will lift up his eyes
and see the messenger of Jehovah
standing between the earth and between
the heavens, and his sword drawn in
his hand stretched forth over Jerusa-

I. CHRONICLES XXII.

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lem. And David will fall, and the old|senger, and he will turn back his sword

men being covered with sackcloth, up-
on their face.

17 And David will say to God, Is it
not I who said to number in the peo-
ple? and I am he who sinned, and do-
ing evil I did evil; and these sheep,
what did they? O Jehovah my God,
thy hand now shall be upon me and
upon my father’s house; and not to
smite upon thy people.

18 And the messenger of Jehovah
said to Gad to say to David that David
shall go up to set up an altar to Jeho-
vah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.

19 And David will go up at the
word of Gad which he spake in the
name of Jehovah.

20 And Ornan will turn back and
see the messenger; and his four sons
with him hiding themselves. And Or-
nan treading out the wheat.

21 And David will go even to Ornan,
and Ornan will look and see David, and
he will go forth from the threshing-
floor, and he will worship to Dayid, the
face to the earth.

22 And Dayid will say to Ornan,
Thou shalt give to me the place of the
threshing-floor, and I will build in it an
altar to Jehoyah: for the full silver
thou shalt give it to me, and the smit-
ing shall be restrained from the people.

23 And Ornan will say to David,
Take to thee, and my lord the king
shall do the good in his eyes: see, I
gave the oxen for bnrnt-offerings, and
the threshing-sledges for woods, and
the wheat for a gift; I gave all.

24 And king David will say to Or-
nan, Nay; for buying, I will buy for
the full silver: for 1 will not lift up
what is to thee to Jehovah, and bring
up burnt-offerings gratuitously.

25 And David will give to Ornan for
the place six hundred shekels of gold
from weight.

26 And David will build there an al-
ter to Jehovah, and he will bring up
burnt-offerings and peace, and will call
to Jehovah; and he will answer him in
fire from the heavens upon the altar of
burnt-offering.

27 And Jehovah will say to the mes-

to its sheath.

28 In that time in David's seeing
that Jehovah answered him in the
threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
and he will sacrifice there.

29 And the dwelling of Jehovah
which Moses made in the desert, and
the altar of burnt-offering in that time
in the height in Gibeon.

30 And David could not go before it
to seek God, for he was afraid from the
face of the sword of the messenger of
Jehoyah.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND David will say, This house it-
ἃ self 01 Jehovah God, and this the
altar for burnt-offering to Israel.

2 And David will say to assemble
the strangers which are in the land of
Israel ; and he will set up hewers of
stone to hew out hewn stones to build
the house of God.

8 And iron for abundance for nails
for the doors of the gates, and for the
junctions, Dayid prepared; and brass
for. abundance no weight ;

4 And cedar woods to no number:
for the Zidonians and the ‘'T'yrians
brought cedar woods for multitude to
David.

5 And David will say, Solomon my
son a youth and tender, and the house
to be built for Jehovah to be great for
going up for a name and for glory to
all the lands: I will now prepare for it.
And David will prepare for abundance
before his death.

6 And he will call for Solomon his
son, and he will command him to build
a house to Jehovah God of Israel.

7 And David will say to Solomon
his son, I, it was with my heart to build
a house 10 the name of Jehovah my
God.

8 And the word of Jehovah will be
upon me, saying, Thou didst pour out
blood for abundance, and didst make
great wars: thou shalt not build a
house for my name, for thou didst pour
outmany bloods in the earth before
me.

9 Behold, a son being born to thee,
he shall be a man of rest; and I caused

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rest to him from all his enemies from
round about: for Solomon shall be his
name, and I will give peace and quiet
upon Israel in his days.

10 He shall build a house to my
name; and he shall be to me for son,
and I to him for father ; and I prepared
the throne of his kingdom over Israel
even to forever.

11 Now, my son, Jehovah will be
with thee; and prosper thou and build
the house of Jehovah thy God as he
spake concerning thee.

12 Surely Jehovah will give to thee
wisdom and understanding, and he will
command thee concerning Israel, and
to watch the law of Jehovah thy
God.

13 Then thou shalt prosper if thou
shalt watch todo the laws and the
judgments which Jehovah commanded
Moses concerning Israel: be strong and
be active; thou shalt not fear and thou
shalt not be terrified.

14 And behold in my affliction I pre-
ees for the house of Jehovah, gold, a
hundred thousand talents, and silver, a
thousand thousand talents; and for
brass and for iron, no weight ; for it was
for abundance: and woods and stones
I prepared, and upon them thou wilt
add.

15 And with thee for abundance,
they doing the work, hewers and work-
men of stone and wood, and all the
wise for all the work.

16 To gold, to silver, and to_ brass,
and to iron, no number. Arise and do,
and Jehovah will be with thee.

17 And David will command to all
the chiefs of Israel for help to Solomon
his son:

18 Is not Jehovah your God with
you? and he caused rest to you from
round about? for he gave into my hand
the inhabitants of the land; and the
land was subdued before Jehovah, and
before his people.

19 Now ye shall give your heart and
your soul toseek to Jehovah your God ;
and arise ye and build the holy place
of Jehovah God to bring the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah and the holy ves-
sels of God, to the house being built to
the name of Jehovah.

I. CHRONICLES XXIII.

CHAPTER XXIII.
ND David was old and full of
days, and he will make Solomon
his son king over Israel.

2 And he will gather together all the
chiefs of Israel, and the priests and the
Levites.

3 And the Levites will be numbered
from the son of thirty years and above:
and their number for their craniums,
for the men, thirty and eight thousand.

4 From these to superintend over the
work of the house of Jehovah, twenty
and four thousand; and scribes and
judges, six thousand:

5 And four thousand gate keepers,
and four thousand praising to Jehovah
with instruments which I made to
praise.

6 And David will divide them into
divisions to the sons of Levi, to Gershon,
Kohath and Merari.

7 To Gershon, Laadan, and Shimei.

8 The sons of Laadan: the head, Je-
hiel, and Zetham and Joel, three.

9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomith,
and Haziel and Haran, three. These
heads of the fathers to Laadan.

10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath,
Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These
four the sons of Shimei.

11 And Jahath will be head, and
Ziza, the second: and Jeush and Beriah
did not multiply sons; and they will
be to the father’s house for one review-
ing.

19 The sons of Kohath: Amram,
Izhar, Hebron ahd Uzziel, four.

18 The sons of Amram: Aaron and
Moses: and Aaron will be separated
for his consecrating the holy of holies,
he and his sons, even to forever, to
burn incense before Jehovah to serve
him and to praise in his name, even to
forever.

14 And Moses the man of God, his
sons will be called for the tribe of Levi.

15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and
Eliezer. ,

16 The sons of Gershom, Shebuel the
head.

17 And the sons of Eliezer will be
Rehabiah the head. And to Ehiezei
was no other sons; and the sons of Re
habiah were multipled to going up.

I. CHRONICLES XXIV.

18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the
head.

19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the
head, Amariah the second, Jehaziel the
third, and Jekameam the fourth.

20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the
head, and Jesiah the second.

21 The sons of Merari: Mahl and
Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Hleazar
and Kish.

22 And Eleazar will die, and no
sons were to him, but daughters: and
their brethren the sons of Kish will
take them.

23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and
Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

24 These the sons of Levi for the
house of their fathers: the heads of the
fathers for their reviewing by the num-
ber of names to their craniums doing
the work for the service of the house of
Jehovah, from the son of twenty years
and above.

25 For David said, Jehovah God of
Israel caused rest to his people, and
they will dwell in Jerusalem forever ;

26 And also to the Levites: not to
lift up the dwelling and all its vessels
for its service.

27 For by the last words of David
these the number of the sons of Levi
from the son of twenty years and
above.

28 For from their station at the hand
of the sons of Aaron for the service of
the house of Jehovah, upon the en-
closures and upon the cells and for the
cleansing to all the holy place and the
works of the service of the house o
God. Η

29 And for the bread of the arrange-
ment, and for the fine flour for the gift,
and for the thin cakes unleavened, and
for the pan, and for the mingling, and
for all measure and extension.

30 And to stand in the morning by
morning to confess and to, praise to Je-
hovah, and so at evening.

31 And to bring up for all burnt-
offerings to Jehovah for the Sabbaths,
for the new moons, and for the ap-
pointments by number, according to
the judgment upon them, always before

JehoV@h:
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the tent of appointment, and the watch-
es of the holy place, and the watches of
the sons of Aaron, their brethren for
the service of the house of Jehovah.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND to the sons of Aaron their
divisions. The sons of Aaron:
Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Itha-
mar.

2 And Nadab will die, and Abihu,
before their father; and sous were not
to them: and Eleazar and Ithamar will
be priests.

8 And David will separate them, and
Zadok from the sons of Eleazar, and
Ahimelech from the sons of Ithamar,
for their reviewing in their service.

4 And the sons of 10168282 will be
found many for heads, mighty ones
above the sons of Ithamar; and they
will be divided: to the sons of Eleazar,
heads to the house of the fathers, six-
teen; and to the sons of Ithamar, to
the house of their fathers, eight.

5 And they will be divided by lots,
these with these, for the chiefs of the
holy place, and the chiefs of God, were
from the sons of Eleazar, and among
the sons of Ithamar.

6 And Shemaiah, son of Nathaniel
the seribe, son of the Levites, will write
them before the king, and the chiefs,
and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech
son of Abiathar, and the heads of the
fathers to the priests and to the Le-
vites: one house of a father taken for
Eleazar, and taking, he took for Itha-
mar.

7 And the first lot will go forth to
Jehoiarib, to Jedaiah the second,

8 To Harim the third, to Seorim the
fourth,

9 To Malchijah the fifth, to Mijamin
the sixth,

10 To Hakkoz the seventh, to Abi-
jah the eighth,

11 To Joshua the ninth, to Sheca-
niah the tenth,

12 To Eliashib the eleventh, to Ja-
kim the twelfth,
> 18 To Huppah the thirteenth, to Je-
shebeab the fourteenth,

14 To Bilgah the fifteenth, to Immer
the sixteenth,

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15 Τὸ Hezir the seventeenth, to
Aphses the eighteenth,

16 To Pethahiah, the nineteenth, to
Jehezekel, the twentieth.

17 To Jachin, the one and twentieth,
to Gamul the two and twentieth,

18 To Delaiah, the three and twenti-
eth, to Maaziah, the four and twenti-
eth.

19 These their reviewing for their
service to come into the house of Jeho-
vah according to their judgment, by
the hand of Aaron their father, as Jeho-
vah God of Israel commanded him.

20 And to the sons of Levi remain-
ing: ΤῸ the sons of Amram: Shubael:
to the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

21 To Rehabiah: to the sons of Re-
habiah: the head, Isshiah.

22 ΠῸ the Izharites: Shelomoth: to
the sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.

23 And the sons of Jeriah: Amari-
ah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jeka-
meam the fourth.

24 The sons of Uzziel: Micah: to
the sons of Micah: Shamir.

25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah : to
the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.

26 The sons of Merari: Mahli, and
Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah: his son.

27 The sons of Merari, to Jaaziah:
his son and Shoham and Zaccur and
Tbri.

28 And to Mahli, Eleazar; and no
sons to him.

29 To Kish: the sons of Kish, Je-
rahmeel. .

80 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli
and Eder and Jerimoth. These the
sons of the Levites to the house of their
fathers.

31 And they will also cast lots near
their brethren the sons of Aaron hefore
David the king and Zadok, and Ahim-
elech, and the heads of the fathers to
the priests and to the Levites, the fa-
thers the head near his brethren the
small.

CHAPTER ΧΧΥ.
ND David will separate, and the
chiefs of the army, for service to
the sons of Asaph and Heman and Je-
duthun, prophesying with harps, with
lyres and with cymbals: and there will

1. CHRONICLES ΧΧΥ.

be their number of men of work for
their service.

2 To the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and
Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah,
sons of Asaph upon the hand of Asaph
prophesying upon the hands of the
king.

3 To Jeduthun: the sons of Jedu-
thun: Gedaliah, Zeri, and Jeshaiah,
Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, upon
the hands of their father Jeduthun,
with the harp prophesying for confess-
ing and praising to Jehovah.

4 To Heman: the sons of Heman:
Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel,
and Jerimoth, Hanamiah, Hanani, Elia-
thah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer,
Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Maha-
zloth,

5 All these the sons to Heman the
king’s seer in the words of God, to lift
up the horn. And God will give to
Heman fourteen sons and three daugh-
ters.

6 All these upon the hands of their
father in the song of the house of Jeho-
vah, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for
the service of the house of God, upon
the ‘hands of the king, Asaph and Je-
duthun and Heman.

7 And their number will be with
their brethren teaching the song to Je-
hovah, all haying understanding, two
hundred eighty and eight.

8 And they will cast lots from the
watches near, as the small so the great,
he understanding with him taught.

9 And the first lot will come forth
to Asaph to Joseph: Gedeliah the sec-
ond, he and his brethren and his sons,
twelve:

10 The third, Zaccur, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:

11 The fourth to Izri, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:

12 The fifth, Nethaniah, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:

13 The sixth, Bukkiah, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:

14 The seventh, Jesharelah, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:

15 The eighth, Jeshaiah, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:

16 The ninth, Mattaniah, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:

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17 The tenth, Shimei, his sons and
his brethren, twelve:

18 The eleventh, Azareel, his sons
and his brethren, twelve:

19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, his
sons and his brethren, twelve:

20 The thirteenth, Shubael, his sons
and his brethren, twelve :

21 For the fourteenth, Mattithiah,
his sons and his brethren, twelve:

22 For the fifteenth to Jerimoth, his
sons and his brethren, twelve:

23 For the sixteenth to Hananiah,
his sons and his brethren, twelve:

24 For the seventeenth, to Joshbeka-
shah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

25 For the eighteenth to Hanani, his
sons and his brethren, twelve:

26 For the nineteenth to Mallothi,
his sons and his brethren, twelve:

27 For the twentieth to Eliathah, his
sons and brethren, twelve:

28 For the one and twentieth to Ho-
thir, his sons and his brethren twelve:

29 For the two and twentieth to
Giddalti, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:

30 For the three and twentieth to
Mahazioth, his sons and his brethren,
twelve:

31 For the four and twentieth to
Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his breth-
ren, twelve.

CHAPTER XXVIL
OR the divisions to the gates. 0
the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the
son of Kora from the sons of Asaph.

2 And to Meshelemiah, sons: Zech-
ariah the first-born, Jediael the second,
Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

8 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth,
Elioenai the seventh.

4 And to Obed-Edom, sons: Shema-
iah, the first-born, Jehozabad the second,
Ji ἘΠ the third, and Sacar the fourth,
and Nathaniel the fifth,

5 Ammiel the Sith Issachar the
seventh, Peulthai the eighth : for God
blessed hin,

6 To Shemaiah his son were sons

born, lords to the house of their fathers : | +

for they were strong of power.
7 The sons of Shemaiah : Othni, and
Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, his breth-
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ren, sons of strength, Elihu and Sema-
chiah.

8 All these from the sons of Obed-
Edom: they and their sons and their
brethren, men of strength in power for
the service, sixty and two to Obed-
Edom.

9 And to Meshelemiah sons and
brethren, sons of strength, eighteen.

10 And to Hosah from the sons of
Merari, Shimri the head, (for he was
not the first-born, and his father will set
him for head ;)

11 Hilkiah the second, T'ebaliah the
third, Zechariah the fourth: all the
sons and the brethren to Hosah, thir-
teen.

12 To these the divisions of the gates
for the heads of the strong ones, the
watches near their brethren, to serve in
the house of Jehovah.

13 And they will cast lots, according
to small according to great, for the house
of their fathers, to gate and gate.

14 And the lot will fall from the sun-
rising to Shelemiah. And Zechariah
his son counseling in understanding,
they cast lots; and his lot will go forth
north.

15 To Obed-Edom, south;
his sons the house of stores.

16 To Shuppim and to Hosah to the
west, with the gate of Shallecheth, b
the highway of the going up, wate
over against- watch.

17 To the sunrising, six Levites; to
the north, four for the ‘day, to the south,
four for the day, and to Asuppim, two,
two.

18 To Parbar to the west, four at the
highway, two at the open portico.

19 These the divisions of the gates
to the sons of the Korahites, and to the
sons of Merari.

20 And the Levites, Ahijah over the
treasures of the house of God, and for
the treasures of the holies. <

21 The sons of Laadan; the sons of
the Gershonite to Laadan, the heads of
the fathers to Laadan the Gershonite,
Jehieli.

22 The sons of Jehieli: Zotham and
Joel his brother, over the treasures of
the house of Jehovah.

23 To the Amramites, to the Izhar-

and to

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ites, to the Hebronites, to the Uzziel-
ites : .

24 And Shebuel son of Gershom, son
of Moses, leader over the treasures.
= 26 And his brethren for Eliezer: Re-
habiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son,
and Joram his son, and Zaccur his son,
and Shelomith his son.

26 This Shelomith and his brethren
over all the treasures of the holies that
David the king consecrated, and the
heads of the fathers to the chiefs of the
thousands and the hundreds, and the
chiefs of the army.

_ 27 From the battles and from the
spoils they consecrated to strengthen
for the house of Jehovah.

28 And all Samuel the seer conse-
crated, and Saul son of Kish, and Ab-
ner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeru-
iah, all consecrating over the hand of
Shelomith and his brethren.

29 To the Izharites, Chenaniah and
his sons for the work without over Is-
rael, for seribes and for judges.

80 To the Hebronites, Hashabiah and
“his brethren, sons of strength, a thou-
sand and seven hundred over the charge
of Israel from beyond to Jordan from
the west for all the work of Jehovah,
and for the service of the king.

31 ΤῸ the Hebronites, Jerijah the
head to the Hebronites for his genera-
tions, for his fathers. In the fortieth
year to the kingdom of David they
were sought and he will find im them
strong ones of power in Jazer of Gilead.
᾿ς 32 And his.brethren, sons of strength,
two thousand and seven hundred heads
of the fathers, and David the king will
appoint them over the Reubenites, and
the Gadites, and the half tribe of the
“Manassites, for every word of God, and
the word of the king.

CHAPTER XXVILI.

ND the sons of Israel for their
: number, heads of the fathers and

‘chiefs of thousands and hundreds, and
‘their scribes serving the king for all
the word of the divisions coming in and
going forth month by month for all the
months of the year, of the one division,
‘twenty and four thousand.

2 Over the first division for the first

1. CHRONICLES XXVIII.

month, Jashobeam, son of Zabdiel: and
upon his division twenty and four thou-
sand.

8 From the sons of Perez the head to
all the chiefs of the armies for the first
month.

4 And over the course of the second
month, Dodai the Ahohite, and his di-
vision, Mikloth the leader: and for his
division twenty and four thousand.

5 The chief of the army the third for
the third month, Benaiah son of Jehoi-
da the head priest: and for his division
twenty and four thousand.

6 This the Benaiah the strong one of
the thirty, and over the thirty: and his
division Ammizabad his son.

7 The fourth for the fourth month,
Asahel, brother of Joab, and Zebadiah
his son after him: and for his dvision
twenty and four thousand.

8 The fifth for the fifth month, the
chief Shamhuth the Izrahite: and for
his division twenty and four thousand.

9 The sixth for the sixth month, Ira
son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and over
his division twenty and four thousand.

10 The seventh for the seventh month,
Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of
Ephraim: and for his division twenty
and four thousand.

11 The eighth for the eighth month,
Sibbecai the Hushathite to the Zarhites :
and for his division twenty and four
thousand.

12 The ninth for the ninth month,
Abiezer the Anathothitg for the Ben-
jamites: and for his division twenty
and four thousand.

18 The tenth for the tenth month,
Maharai the Netophathite to the Zar-
hites: and for his division twenty and
four thousand.

14 The eleventh for the eleventh
month, Benaiah the Pirathonite from
the sons of Ephraim: and for his divi-
sion twenty and four thousand.

15 The twelfth for the twelfth month,
Heldai the Netophathite, to Othniel:
and for his division twenty and four
thousand.

16 And over the tribes of Israel: for
the Reubenites, the leader, 19110207 son
of Zichri: for the Simeonites: Sheph-
atiah son of Maacah :

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17 For the Levites: Hashabiah son
of Kemuel: to Aaron: Zadok:

18 To Judah: Elihu, from the breth-
ren of David: to Issachar, Omri, son of
Michael :

19 To Zebulon: Ishmaiah son of
Obadiah: to Naphtali: Jerimoth son
of Azriel: 7
. 20 To the sons of Ephraim: Hoshea
son of Azaziah: to the half tribe of
Manasseh: Joel son of Pedaiah :

21 To the half of Manasseh-Gilead :
Iddo son of Zechariah: to Benjamin:
Jaasiel, son of Abner:

22 To Dan: Azriel son of Jeroham.
These the chiefs of the tribes of Israel.

23 And David lifted not up their
number, from the son of twenty. years
and beneath: for Jehovah said to
multiply Israel as the stars of the
heavens.

24 Joab son of Zeruiah began to
number, and finished not, for there will
be wrath upon this against Israel; and
the number went not up into the num-
ber of the words of the days to king
David.

25 And over the treasures of the
king, Azmaveth son of Adiel: and
over the treasures in the field, in the
cities, and in the villages, and in the
towers, Jehonathan son of Uzziah:

26 And over those doing the work
of the field for the service of the earth,
Hzri son of Caleb:

27 And over the vineyards, Shimei
the Ramothite: and over the increase
of the vineyards for the treasures of
wine, Zabdi the Shiphmite :

28 And over the olive trees and the
sycamores which are in the low coun-
try, Baal-Hanan the Gederite: and
over the treasures of oil, Joash:

29 And over the cattle feeding in
Sharon, Shitrai the Sharonite: and
over the cattle in the valleys, Shaphat
son of Adlai:

80 And over the camels, Obil the
Tshmaelite: and over the asses, Jehde-
iah the Meronothite :

31 And over the sheep, Jaziz the
Hagerite. All these the chiefs of the
possessions which were to king David.

82 And Jehonathan, David's uncle,
counseling a man of understanding,

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and he a scribe: and Jehiel son of
Hachmoni with the sons of the king:

83 And Ahithophel counseling to
the king: and Hushai the Archite the
friend of the king:

84 And after Ahithophel, Jehoida
son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the
chief of the army to the king, Joab.

CHAPTER XXVIII

ND David will convoke together

all the chiefs of Israel, the chiefs

of the tribes and the chiefs of the divi-

sions serving the king, and the chiefs

of the thousands and the chiefs of the

hundreds, and the chiefs of all the pos-

sessions and the cattle to the king and

to his sons, with the eunuchs, and the

strong ones, and to every one strong of
power to Jerusalem.

2 And David the king will rise upon
his feet and say, Hear me, my breth-
ren and my people: I with my heart
to build a house of rest for the ark of
the covenant of Jehovah, and for the
footstool of the feet of our God; and I
prepared for the building.

9 And God said to me, Thou shalt
not build a house to my name, for thou
aman of war, and thou didst pour out
bloods.

4 And Jehovah God of Israel will
choose in me from all the house of my
father to be for king over Israel for-
ever: for in Judah he chose for leader ;
and in the house of Judah the house of
my father; and in the sons of my
father he delighted in me to make a
king over all Israel :

5 And from all my sons (for Jeho-
vah gave to me many sons) and he will
choose in Solomon my son to sit upon
the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah
over Israel.

6 And he will say to me, Solomon
thy son, he shall build my house and
my enclosures: for I ehose in him to
me for son, and I will be to him for
father.

7 And I set up his kingdom even to
forever, if he shall be strong to do my
commands and my judgments as this
day.

ὃ And now before the eyes of all Is-
rael, the convocation of Jehoyah, and

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in the ears of our God, watch ye and
seek all the commands of Jehovah your
God, so that ye shall inherit the good
land, and give an inheritance to your
sons after you even to forever.

9 And thou, O Solomon my son,
know thou the God of thy father, and
serve him with a whole heart and with
a willing soul: for Jehovah searched
all hearts, and he understands every
formation of the thoughts: if thou
shalt seek him he will be found to thee,
and if thou wilt forsake him, he will
cast thee off forever.

10 See now; for Jehovah chose in
thee to build a house for a holy place:
be strong and do.

11 And Dayid will give to Solomon
-his son a pattern of the porch, and its
houses, and its treasuries, and its upper
chambers, and its apartments within,
and the house of the expiation,

12 And the pattern of all that was in
the spirit with him for the enclosures of
the house of Jehovah, and for all the
cells round about for the treasures of
the house of God, and for the treasures
of the holies:

13 And for the divisions of the
priests and the Levites, and for all the
work of the service of the house of Je-
hovah, and for all the vessels of the
service of the house of Jehovah.

14 For the gold by weight for the
gold, for all the vessels of service; and
for all the vessels of silver by weight,
for all the vessels of service and service :

15 And the weight for the candle-
sticks of gold, and their lamps of gold,
by weight of the candlestick and can-
dlestick, and its lamps: and for the
candlesticks of silver by weight, for the
candlestick and its lamps, according to
the service of candlestick and candle.
stick.

16 And the gold of the weight for
the tables of the arrangement for table
and table; and silver for the tables of
silver: :

17 And the flesh-hooks, and the
vases, and the bowls of pure gold, and
for the cups of gold: by weight for cup
and cup; and for the cups of silver by
weight, for cup and cup. :

18 And for the altar of incense of

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gold purified by weight; and for the
pattern of the chariot of the Cherubims,
gold for spreading and covering over
the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

19 All in writing from the hand of
Jehovah upon me, causing to under-
stand all the works of the pattern.

20 And David will say to Solomon
his son, Be strong and be active, and
do: thou shalt not fear, and thou shalt
not be terrified, for Jehovah God, my ,
God, is with thee; he will ποῦ be slack
to thee, and he will not forsake thee
till the finishing all the works of the
service of the house of Jehovah.

21 And behold, the divisions of the
priests and the Levites for all the ser-
vice of the house of God: and with
thee in all the work for every one wil-
ling in wisdom for all the service: and
the chiefs and all the people for all thy
words.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND David the king will say to all
the convocation, Solomon my
son, God chose in him alone, is a youth
and tender, and the work great; for ,
the fortress not for man but for Jeho-
vah God.

2 And with all my power I prepared
for the house of my God, gold for gold,
and silver for silver, and_ brass for
brass, and iron for iron, woods for
woods, and stones of onyx, and the fill-
ings up, and stones of paint and of va-
riegation, and every precious stone, and
stones of white marble for multitude.

3 And yet in my delighting in the
house of my God, there is to me prop-
erty of gold and silver I gave to the
house of my God, to above from all I
prepared for the holy house,

4 Three thousand talents of gold
from gold of Ophir, and seven thou-
sand talents of purified silver, to spread
over the walls of the houses:

5 To gold for gold, and to silver for
silver, and for all the work by the hand
of artificers. And who being willing
for the filling up of his hand this day
to Jehovah?

6 And the chiefs of the fathers will
show themselves willing, and the chiefs
of the tribes of Israel, and the chiefs of

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thousands and of hundreds, and for the
chiefs of the king’s work,

7 And will give for the service of
the house of God, gold five thousand
talents and ten thousand darics, and
silver ten thousand talents, and brass
a myriad and eight thousand talents,
and iron a hundred thousand talents.

8 And with whom stones being found
they gave to the treasure of the house
of Jehovah by the hand of Jehiel the
Gershonite.

9 And the people will rejoice for
their showing themselves willing, for
with the whole heart they showed
themselves willing to Jehovah: and
also David the king rejoiced with great
gladness.

10 And David will praise Jehovah
before the eyes of all the convocation :
and David will say, Praised be thou, O
Jehovah God of Israel our father, from
forever and even to forever.

11 To thee, O Jehovah, the greatness
and the strength, and the glory and the
confidence, and the majesty: for all in
the heavens and in the earth to thee, O
Jehovah, the kingdom and being lifted
up to all for head.

12 And riches and honor from before
thee, and thou ruling over all, and in
thy hand power and strength, and in
thy hand to magnify and to strengthen
to all.

13 And now, our God, we confess to
thee, and praise to the name of thy
glory.

14 And because who am I? and
who my people, that we shall retain
power to show ourselves willing accord-
ing to this? for from thee all things,
and from thy hand they gaye to
thee.

15 For we are strangers before thee,
and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a
shadow our days upon the earth, and
no expectation.

16 O Jehovah our God, all this mul-
titude that we prepared to build to thee
a house for thy holy name, it is from
thy hand, and to thee the whole.

17 And I knew, my God, that thou
triest the heart, and from uprightness
thou wilt delight. I in the uprightness
of my heart gave willingly all these:

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and now thy people were found here;
I saw with gladness to show themselves
willing to thee.

18 O Jehovah the God of Abraham,
Isaak, and Israel, our fathers, watch
this forever to the formation of the
thoughts of the heart of thy people, and
prepare for their heart to thee:

19 And to Solomon my son wilt thou
give a whole heart to watch thy com-
mands, thy testimonies, and thy laws,
and to do the whole, and to build the
fortress which I prepared.

20 And David will say to all the
convocation, Praise ye now Jehovah
your God. And all the convocation
will praise to Jehovah the God of their
fathers, and they will bow down and
worship to God and the king.

21 And they will sacrifice sacrifices
to Jehovah, and they will bring up
burnt-offerings to Jehovah for the mor-
row of that day, a thousand bullocks,
a thousand rams, a thousand lambs,
and their libations, and sacrifices for
abundance for all Israel :

22 And they will eat and drink be-
fore Jehovah in that day with great
gladness. And they will make the
second time for Solomon son of David
to be king, and they will anoint him to
Jehovah for leader, and to Zadok for
priest.

23 And Solomon will sit upon the
throne of Jehovah for king instead of
David his father, and he will prosper ;
and all Israel will hear to him.

24 And all the chiefs and the strong
ones, and also all the sons of king Da-
vid gaye the hand under Solomon the
king.

25 And Jehovah will magnify Solo-
mon to above before the eyes of all Is-
rael, and he will give upon him the
majesty of the kingdom which was
not upon any king before him over
Israel.

26 And David son of Jesse reigned
over all Israel.

27 And the days which he reigned
over Israel were forty years; in Hebron
he reigned seven years, and in Jerusa-
lem he reigned thirty and three.

28 And he will die in a good old
age, full of days, riches, and honor:

8δ4

and Solomon his son will reign in his
stead.

29 And the first and the last words
of David the king, behold them writ-
ten upon the words of Samuel the seer,
and upon the words of Nathan the

II. CHRONICLES 1.

prophet, and upon the words of Gad
the seer,
30 With all his kingdom and his

strength, and the times which passed
over upon him and upon Israel, and
upon all the kingdoms of the lands.

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CHRONICLES.

CHAPTER. I.
ND Solomon son of David will be
strengthened over his kingdom,
and Jehovah his God with him, and he
will magnify him to above.

2 And Solomon will say to all Israel,
to the chiefs af thousands and of hund-
reds, and to the judges, and to every
prince to all Israel, the heads of the fa-
thers.

3 And Solomon and all the convoca-
tion with him will go to the height
which is in Gibeon; for there was the

nt of appointment of God, which Mo-
ses servant of Jehovah made in the
desert.

4 But the ark of God David brought
up from the city of forests in David's
preparing for it: for he spread out for
16 a tent in Jerusalem.

5 And the altar of brass which Beza-
leel, son of Uri, son of Hur, made, he
set before the dwelling of Jehovah:
and Solomon and the convocation will
seek it.

6 And Solomon will go up there
upon the altar of brass before Jehovah,
which is at the tent of appointment,
and he will bring up a thousand burnt-
offerings upon it.

7 In that night God was seen to Sol-
omon, and he will say to him, Ask
what I shall give to thee.

8 And Solomon will say to God,
Thou didst great merey with David my
father, and hast caused me to reign in
his stead.

9 Now, O Jehovah God, shall thy
word with David my father be firm:
for thou didst cause me to reign over a

people a multitude as the dust of the
earth.

10 Now wilt thou give to me wisdom
and knowledge, and 1 shall go out be-
fore this people, and come in: for who
shall judge this thy great people?

11 And God will say to Solomon,
Because this was with thy heart, and
thou askedst not riches, treasures and
honor, and the soul of those hating
thee, and also many days thou askedst
not, and thou wilt ask for thee wisdom
and knowledge that thou shalt judge
my people that I caused thee to reign
over them :

12 Wisdom and knowledge are given
to thee; and riches and treasures and
honor will I give to thee which was not
thus to the kings that were before thee ;
and after thee it shall not be thus.

13 And Solomon will come to the
height which is in Gibeon to Jerusalem
from before the tent of appointment,
and he will reign over Israel.

14 And Solomon will gather together
chariots and horsemen: and there will
be to him a thousand and four hundred
chariots, and twelve thousand horse-
men; and he will deposit them in the
cities of the chariots, and with the king
in Jerusalem.

15 And the king will give the silver
and the gold in Jerusalem as stones,
and he gave cedars as sycamore trees
which are in the low country for mul-
titude.

16 And the going forth of horses
which was to Solomon from Egypt, and
a collection of merchants of the king
will take a collection at a price.

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17 And they will go up and bring
forth from Egypt a chariot for six
hundred of silver, and a horse for fifty
and a hundred: and thus for all the
kings of the Hittites, and the kings of
Aram, by their hand will they bring
forth.

18 And Solomon will say to build a
house for the name of Jehoyah, and a
house for his kingdom.

CHAPTER זז‎
ND Sclomon will number seventy
thousand men to carry, and eighty
thousand men to hew in the mountain ;
and they superintending over them
three thousand six hundred.

2 And Solomon will send to Huram
king of Tyre, saying, According as thou
didst with David my father, and thou
wilt send to him cedars to build for
him a house to dwell in it.

3 Behold, I build a house to the
name of Jehovah my God, to conse-
crate to him, to burn incense before
him, incense of spices, and the arrange-
ment always, and the burnt-offerings
for morning and for evening, for the
Sabbaths and for the new moons, and
for the appointments of Jehovah our
God. Forever this upon Israel.

4 And the house that I build is great:
for great our God above all gods.

5 For who shall retain power to build
for himahouse? for the heavens and
the heavens of the heavens shall not
contain him: and who am 1 who shall
build to him a house but to burn in-
cense before him?

6 And now send to me aman wise
to work in gold and in silver, and in
brass, and in iron, and in purple, and
crimson, and cerulean purple, and
knowing to engrave engravings with
the wise which are with me in Judah
and in Jerusalem, which David my fa-
ther prepared.

7 And send to me cedar trees and
cypresses, and algum trees from Leba-
non: for I knew that thy servants are
knowing to cut trees of Lebanon; and
behold, my servants with thy servants,

8 And to prepare for me woods for
multitude: for the house that I build
is great and wonderful.

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9 And behold, to those hewing, to
those cutting woods, wheat, the 0086
ings out to thy servants twenty thou-
sand cors, and barley, twenty thousand
cors, and wine, twenty thousand baths,
and oil, twenty thousand baths.

10 And Huram king of Tyre will say
in writing, and he will send to Solo-
mon, In Jehovah's loving his people he
gave thee king over them.

11 And Huram will say, Praised be
Jehovah God of Israel, who made the
heayens and the earth; who gave to
David the king a wise son, knowing in-
telligence and understanding, who will
build a house to Jehovah, and a house
for his kingdom.

12 And now 1 sent a wise man
knowing understanding to Huram my
father,

13 The son of a woman from the
daughters of Dan, and his father a man
of Tyre knowing to work in gold, and
in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and
in woods, in purple, in cerulean purple,
and in byssus, and in crimson; and to
engrave every engraving, and to invent
every work of art which shall be given
to him, with thy wise ones, and the
wise of my lord David thy father.

14 And now the wheat and the bar-
ley and the oil and the wine which my
lord said he will send to his servants ;

15 And we will eut woods from Leb-
anon, according to all thy need: and
we will bring them to thee in floats up-
on the sea of Joppa; and thou shalt
bring them up to Jerusalem.

16 And Solomon will number all the
men, the strangers which are in the
land of Israel, after the numbering
which David his father numbered them ;
and they will be found a hundred and
fifty thousand and three thousand and
six hundred.

17 And he will make from them sev-
enty thousand to earry, and eighty
thousand hewing in the mountain, and
three thousand six hundred superin-
tending to cause the people to work.

CHAPTER III.
ND Solomon will begin to build
the house of Jehovah in Jerusa-
lem in mount Moriah, which was seen

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to David his father in the place which
David prepared in the threshing-floor
of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 And he will begin to build in the
second month, in the second, and in the
fourth year to his kingdom.

3 And these Solomon founded to
build the house of God. The length of
cubits in the first measure, sixty cubits,
and the breadth twenty cubits.

4 And the porch which was upon
the face of the length, upon the face of
the breadth, twenty cubits, and its
height, a hundred and twenty: and he
will overlay it from within with pure

old.

: 5 And the great house he covered
with woods of cypresses, and he will
cover it with good gold, and he will
bring up palm trees upon it and chains.

6 And he will overlay the house
with precious stone for glory: and the
gold, gold of Parvaim.

7 And he will cover the house, the
beams, the thresholds, and its walls,
and its doors, with gold; and he en-
graved Cherubims upon the walls.

8 And he will make the house of the
holy of holies, its length upon the face
of the breadth of the house, twenty cu-
bits, and its breadth twenty cubits:
and he will cover it with good gold to
six hundred talents.

9 And the weight to the nails to fifty
shekels of gold. And the upper cham-
bers he covered with gold.

10 And in the house of the holy of
holies he will make two cherubims, a
work of sculptures, and he will over-
lay them with gold.

11 And the wings of the cherubims
their length, twenty cubits: the one
wing to five cubits, reaching to the
wall of the house: and the wing of the
other, five cubits, reaching to the wing
of the other cherub.

12 And the wing of the other cherub,
five cubits, reaching to the wall of the
house; and the other wing five cubits,
cleaving to the wing of the other
cherub.

13 The wings of these cherubims
spreading twenty cubits: and they
standing upon their feet, and their faces
to the house.

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14 And he will make the vail of ce-
rulean purple, and purple, and crimson,
and byssus, and he will bring up cher-
ubims upon it.

15 And he will make before the
house two pillars of thirty and five -גוס‎
bits the length, and the capital which
was upon its head, five cubits.

16 And he will make chains, in the
oracle, and give upon the head of the
pillars; and he will make a hundred
pomegranates and give upon the
chains. ;

17 And he will set up the pillars
upon the face of the temple, one from
the right, and one from the left; and
he will call the name of the right, Ja-
chin, and the name of the left, Boaz.

CHAPTER IV.
ND he will make an aitar of

\. brass, twenty cubits its length,
and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten
cubits its height.

2 And he will make the molten sea
ten by the cubit from its lip to its lip,
rounded round about; and five by the
cubit its height; and a cord thirty by
the cubit will surround it round about.

3 And a likeness of oxen under-
neath to it round about, round about,
surrounding it: ten by the eubit going
round the sea, round about. ‘Two rows
of oxen being cast in its casting.

4 Standing upon twelve oxen, three
looking to the north, and three looking
to the sea, and three looking to the
south, and three looking to the sunris-
ing: and the sea upon them from
above, and all their back parts within.

5 And its thickness a hand breadth,
and its lip according to the work of the
lip of a cup, a lily flower holding; it
will contain three thousand baths.

6 And he will make ten wash-basins,
and give five from the right, and five
from the left, to wash in them: the
work of the burnt-offering they will
cleanse in them; and the sea for the
priests to wash in it, f

7 And he will make ten chandeliers
of gold according to their judgment,
and give in the temple, five from the
right, and five from the left.

8 And he will make ten tables and

II. CHRONICLES Υ.

put in the temple, five from the right,
and five from the left. And he will
make a hundred vases of gold.

9 And he will make the enclosure of
the priests, and the great terrace, and
the doors to the terrace, and he over-
laid their doors with brass.

10 And he gave the sea from the
right shoulder east, from over against
the south.

11 And Huram will make the pots
and the shovels and the vases. And
Huram will finish to make the work
that he did for king Solomon in the
house of God ;

12 The two pillars and the reser-
voirs, and the capitals upon the head of
the two pillars, and the two lattices to
cover the two reservoirs of the capitals
which were upon the head of the pil-
lars.

13 And four hundred pomegranates
to the two lattices; two rows of pome-
granates to the one lattice to cover the
two reservoirs of the capitals which are
upon the face of the pillars.

14 And he made ten bases, and he
made wash-basins upon the bases;

15 One sea, and twelve oxen un-
der it.

16 And the pots and the shovels and
the flesh-hooks, and all their vessels,
Huram his father made to king Solo-
mon for the house of Jehovah, of pol-
ished brass.

17 In the circuit of Jordan the king
will cast them, in the thicknesses of the
land between Succoth and between
Zeredathah.

18 And Solomon will make all these
vessels for a great multitude: for the
weight of the brass was not searched
out.

19 And Solomon will make all the
vessels, those of the house of God, and
the altar of gold, and the tables, and
upon them the bread of the faces ;

20 And the chandeliers and their
lamps, to burn according to judgment
before the oracle of shut up gold.

21 And the flower, and the lamps,
and the tongs of gold, it was the com-
pletions of gold.

22 And the snuffers, and the vases,
and the dishes, and the censers, of shut

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up gold: and the entrance of the house,
its doors within for the holy of holies,
and the doors of the house of the tem-
ple, of gold.

CHAPTER V.

ND all the work that Solomon
made for the house of Jehovah
will be completed: and, Solomon will
bring in the holy things of David his
father; and the silver and the gold, and
all the vessels he gave into the treas-

ures of the house of God.

2'Then Solomon will convoke to-
gether the old men of Israel, and all the
heads of the tribes, the princes of the
fathers to the sons of Israel, to Jerusa-
lem, to bring up the ark of the cove-
nant of Jehovah from the city of Da-
vid; it is Zion.

3 And all the men of Israel will be
convoked together to the king in this
festival of the seventh month.

4 And all the old men of Israel will
come; and the Levites will lift up the
ark.

5 And they will bring up the ark
and the tent of appointment, and all the
holy vessels that were in the tent, the
priests, the Levites, brought them up.

6 And king Solomon and all the as-
sembly of Israel being assembled to
him before the ark, sacrificing sheep
and oxen, which shall not be counted
and numbered for multitude.

7 And the priests will bring in the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its
place to the oracle of the house, to the
holy of holies, under the wings of the
cherubims.

8 And the cherubims will be spread-
ing forth the wings over the place of
the ark, and the cherubims will cover
over the ark, and over its bars from
above.

9 And they will extend the bars, and
the heads of the bars will be seen from
the ark upon the face of the oracle;
and they will not be seen without
And it will be there even to this day.

10 Nothing in the ark only the two
tables which Moses gave in Horeb when
Jehovah cut out with the sons of Israel
in their coming out of Egypt.

11 And it will be in the coming forth

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of the priests from the holy place, (for
all the priests being found were conse-
crated not to watch to the divisions:

12 And the Levites, those singing to

all them to Asaph, to Heman, to Jedu-
thun, and to their sons and their breth-
ren; being clothed with byssus, with

cymbals and with lyres and harps, |

standing from the sunrising to the altar,
and with them the priests to a hundred
and twenty, trumpeting with trumpets :)

13 And it will be as one to those
trumpeting and to those singing, to
cause one voice to be heard to praise
and to confess to Jehovah; and when
lifting up the voice with the trumpets
and with the cymbals and with the in-
struments of the song, and with prais-
ing to Jehovah, For he is good, for his
mercy is forever: and the house was
filled with a cloud, the house of Jeho-
vah ;

14 And the priests were not able to
stand to serve from the face of the cloud,
for the glory of Jehovah filled the house
of God.

CHAPTER VI.
HEN said Solomon, Jehovah said
to dwell in thick clouds.

2 And 1 built a house of habitation
for thee, and a foundation for thy dwel-
ling forever.

3 And the king will turn his face,
and will bless all the convocation of
Israel: and all the convocation of Is-
rael stood.

4 And he will say, Praised be Jeho-
vah the God of Israel, who spake with
his mouth to David my father, and
filled up with his hands, saying,

5 From the day that I brought forth
my people from the land of Egypt I
chose not in a city from all the tribes
of Israel to build a house for my name
to be there ; and I chose not in man to
be leader over my people Israel.

6 And I will choose in Jerusalem for
my name to be there; and I will choose
in David to be over my people Israel.

7 And it will be with the heart of
David my father to build a house to the
name of Jehovah God of Israel.

8 And Jehovah will say to David
my father, Because it was with thy

II. CHRONICLES VI.

heart to build a house to my name,
thou didst well that it was with thy

| heart.

9 But thou shalt not build the house ;
for thy son coming forth from thy loins,
he shall build the house to my name.

10 And Jehovah will raise up the
word that he spake: and I shall rise up
instead of David my father, and sit up-
on the throne of Israel according to the
word of Jehovah; and 1 will build the
house to the name of Jehovah God of
Israel.

11 And there I will set the ark
where is there the covenant of Jehovah
which he cut out with the sons of Israel.

12 And he will stand before the altar
of Jehovah before all the convocation
of Israel, and he will spread forth his
hands:

18 For Solomon made a platform of
brass, and he will give it in the midst
of the terrace; five cubits its length,
and five cubits its breadth, and three
cubits its height: and he will stand
upon it, and he will bend upon his

|knees before all the convocation of Is-

rael, and he will spread forth his hands
to the heavens,

14 And he will say, O Jehovah God
of Israel, not as thee a God in the heay-
ens and in the earth, watching the coy-
enant and the mercy to thy servants
going before thee with all their heart:

15 Who didst watch to thy servant
David my father what thou spakest to
him; and thou wilt speak with th
mouth, and with thy hand thou wilt
fill up, as this day.

16 And now Jehovah God of Israel,
watch to thy servant David my father
what thou spakest to him, saying, A
man shall not be cut off to thee from
before me sitting upon the throne of
Israel; only if thy sons shall watch
their way to go in my law according as
thou wentest before me.

17 And now, O Jehovah God of Is-
rael, thy word shall be firm which thou
didst speak to thy servant, to David.

18 For indeed will God dwell with
man upon the earth? Behold, the heav-
ens and the heavens of the heavens will
not contain thee; much less this house
which I built.

II. CHRONICLES VI.

19 Turn to the prayer of thy servant
and to his supplication, O Jehovah my
God, to hear to the cry and to the
prayer which thy servant prays before
thee : :

20 For thine eye to be opened to
this house day and night, to the place
which thou saidst to put thy name
there, to hear to the prayer which thy
servant shall pray to this place.

21 And hear to the supplications of
thy servant, and thy people Israel,
which they shall pray to this place:
and thou wilt hear from the place of
thy dwelling from the heavens; and
thou heardest and forgave.

22 If a man shall sin against his
neighbor, and he lifted up an oath upon
him to cause him to swear,and the
oath coming before thine altar in this
house ;

23 And wilt thou hear from the
heavens, and do, and judge thy serv-
ants, to turn back to the unjust to give
his way upon his head: and to justify
the just one by giving to him according
to his justice.

24 And if thy people Israel shall be
smitten before the enemy because they
will sin against thee: and they turned
back and confessed thy name, and
prayed and made supplication before
thee in this house;

25 And thou wilt hear from the heav-
ens, and forgive to the sin of thy people
Israel, and turn them back to the land
which thou gavest to them and to their
fathers.

26 In’ shutting up the heavens and

there was no rain, because they sinned
against thee; if they prayed to this
place, and confessed thy name, they
shall turn back from their sin when
thou wilt humble them.

27 And wilt thou hear from the

heavens and forgive to the sin of thy
servants, and thy people Israel? For
thou wilt teach them to the good way
which they shall go in it; and give
rain upon the land which thou gavest
to thy people for inheritance.

28 If famine shall be in the land, if
there shall be death, blasting and yel-
lowness, the locust, and if there shall be
the devourer; if the enemy shall press

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upon him in the land of his gates;
every stroke and every disease:

29 Kvery prayer, every supplication
which shall be to every man, and to all
thy people’ Israel, when 680 shall
know his stroke and his griefs, and
spreading forth his hands to this house ;

80 And wilt thou hear from the
heavens the place of thy dwelling, and
forgive, and give to each according to
his ways, which thou wilt know his
heart? for thou alone knewest the heart
of the sons of men:

81 So that they shall fear thee to
walk in thy ways all the days which
they live upon the face of the land
which thou gavest to our fathers.

82 And also to the stranger which he
is not from thy people Israel, and com-
ing from a land far off for sake of thy
great name, and thy strong hand, and
thine arm stretched out; and they came
and prayed to this house;

33 And wilt thou hear from the heay-
ens from the place of thy dwelling, and
do according to all the stranger shall
eall to thee? so that all thy people
shall know that thy name was called
upon this house that I built.

34 If thy people shall go forth to
war against their enemies in the way
which thou shalt send them, and they
prayed to thee the way of this city
which thou didst choose in it, and the
house that I built to thy name;

35 And hear thou: from the heavens
their prayer and their supplication, and
do their judgment.

36 If they shall sin against thee, (for
no man which shall not sin) and thou
wert angry with them, and gavest them
before the face of the enemy, and they
taking. them captive carried them cap-
tive to a land afar off or near ;

37 And they turned back to their
heart in the land which they were car-
ried away captive there, and they turn-
ed back and made supplication to thee
im the land of their captivity, saying,
We sinned, we were perverse, and we
did evil;

38 And they turned back to thee
with all their heart and with all their
soul, into the land of their captivity
where they carried them away captive;

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and they prayed the way of their land
which thou gavest to their fathers, and
the city which thou chosest, and to the
house that I built for thy name.

89 And thou heardest from the heay-
ens from the place of thy dwelling,
their prayer and their supplications ;
and do their judgment, and forgive to
thy people who sinned against thee.

40 Now, my God, shall thine eyes
now be opened and thine ears attend-
ing to the prayer of this place.

41 And now arise, O Jehovah God,
to thy rest, thou, and the ark of thy
strength: thy priests, O Jehovah God,
shall be clothed with salvation, and thy
merciful ones shall rejoice in good.

42 0 Jehovah God, thou wilt not
turn away the face of thy Messiah: re-
member for the mercies of David thy
servant.

CHAPTER VIL
ND when Solomon finished to
pray, and the fire will come down
from the heayens and consume the
burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and
the glory of Jehovah filled the house.

2 And the priests were not able to
come in to the house of Jehovah, for
the glory of Jehovah filled the house
of Jehovah.

3 And all the sons of Israel seeing in
the fire coming down, and the glory of
Jehovah upon the house, and they will
bow down their faces to the earth upon
the tesselated pavement, and they will
worship and praise to Jehovah, for he
is good, for his mercy is forever.

4 And the king and all the people
sacrificed sacrifices before Jehovah.

5 And king Solomon will sacrifice a
sacrifice of oxen, twenty and two thou-
sand ; and sheep, a hundred and twen-
ty thousand. And the king and all
the people will consecrate the house of
God.

6 And the priests standing over their
watches : and the Levites with instru-
ments of song of Jehovah which David
the king made to praise to Jehovah,
for forever his mercy in David’s prais-
ing by their hand; and the priests
trumpeting before them, and all Israel
standing,

II. CHRONICLES VII.

7 And Solomon will consecrate the
midst of the enclosure which was be-
fore the house of Jehovah, for he did
there the burnt-offerings and the fat of
the peace, for the altar of brass which
Solomon made was not able to contain
the burnt-offering and the gift and the
fat.

8 And Solomon will do the festival
in this time seven days, and all Israel
with him, a great convocation, from
the going in of Hamath even to the
torrent of Egypt.

9 And they will do in the eighth
day a restraint: for they did the con-
secration of the altar, seven days; and
the festival, seven days.

10 And in the twenty and third to
the seventh month he sent the people
to their tents rejoicing and good of
heart for the good that Jehovah did to
Dayid and to Solomon and to Israel
his people.

11 And Solomon will finish 6
house of Jehovah, and the house of the
king: and all coming upon the heart of
Solomon to doin the house of Jehovah,
and im his house, he prospered.

12 And Jehovah will be seen to Sol-
omon in the night, and he will say to
him, I heard thy prayer, and I chose in
this place for me for a house of saeri-
fice.

13 If I shall shut up the heavens
and there shall not be rain, and if I
shall command upon the locust to con-
sume the land, and if I shall send
death upon my people;

14 And if my people which my
name was called upon them shall be
humbled and pray and seek my face,
and turn back from their evil ways;
and I will hear from the heavens and
forgive to their sin, and I will heal
their land.

15 Now shall mine eyes be opened,
and mine ears attending to the prayer
of this place.

16 And now I chose and I consecra-
ted this house for my name to be there
even to forever: and mine eyes and
my heart were there all the days.

17 And thou, if thou wilt go before
me as David thy father went, and to
do according to all that I commanded

II. CHRONICLES VIII.

thee, and my law and my judgment
thou shalt watch:

18 And I set up the throne of thy
kingdom according as I cut out to Da-
vid thy father, saying, There shall not
be cut off to thee a man ruling over
Israel.

19 And if ye shall turn away and
forsake my laws and my covenant
which I gave before you, and ye went
and served other gods and worshiped to
them ;

20 And I plucked them up from my
land which I gave to them; and this
house which I consecrated to my name
I will cast from my face, and I will
give it for a parable and for a derision
among all peoples.

21 And this house which was high] p

shall astonish to every one passing by
it; and saying, For what did Jehovah
thus to this land and to this house?

22 And they said, Because they for-
sook Jehovah the God of their fathers
who brought them forth from the land
of Egypt; and they will lay hold upon
other gods and worship to them, and
serve them: for this he brought upon
them all this evil.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND it will be from the end of
twenty years, which Solomon
built the house of Jehovah and his
house,

2 And the cities which Huram gave
to Solomon, Solomon built them, and
he will cause the sons of Israel to
dwell there.

8 And Solomon will go to Hamath-
Zobah and he will lay hold upon it.

4 And he will build Tadmor in the
desert, and all the cities of the stores
which he built in Hamath.

5 And he will build the house of the
hollow the high, and the house of the
hollow the low, fortified cities, the
walls, doors, and bar:

6 And Baalath andall the cities of
the stores which were to Solomon, and
all the cities of the chariots, and the
cities of the horsemen, and all the de-
sire of Solomon which he delighted to
build in Jerusalem and Lebanon, and
in all the land of his dominion.

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7 All the people being left from the
Hittites and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites and the
Jebusites, which they were not from
Israel,

8 From their sons who were left after
them in the land which the sons of
Israel consumed them not, and Solo-
mon will bring them up for tribute
even to this day.

9 And from the sons of Israel which
Solomon gaye not for servants for his
work, for they the men of war and the
chiefs of his thirds, and chiefs of his
chariots and his horsemen.

10 And these the chiefs of the pre-
fects which were to king Solomon, fifty
and two hundred ruling over the peo-
le.

11 And the daughter of Pharaoh,
Solomon brought up from the city of
David to the house which he built for
her: for he said, The wife to me shall
not dwell in the house of David king
of Israel, for they are holiness which to
them came the ark of Jehovah.

12 Then Solomon brought up burnt-
offerings to Jehovah upon the altar of
Jehovah which he built before the
porch.

18 And in the word of a day in a
day to bring up according to the com-
mands of Moses for the Sabbaths, and
for the new moons, and for the appoint-
ments, three times in the year, in the
festival of unleavened, in the festival of
sevens, and in the festival of the tents.

14 And he will set up according to
the judgment of David his father the
divisions of the priests for their service,
and the Levites for their watches, to
praise and to serve before the priests
for the word of a day in its day; and
the gate-keepers in their divisions, to
gate and gate: for thus the command
of Dayid the man of God.

15 And they departed not from the
command of the king concerning the
priests and the Levites for every word
and for the treasures.

16 And all the work of Solomon will
be prepared even to the day of the
founding the house of Jehovah and
even till its finishing. The house of
Jehoyah was completed.

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17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-Ge-
ber and to Eloth upon the lip of the sea
in the land of Edom.

18 And Huram will send to him. by
the hand of his servants, ships, and
servants knowing the sea; and they
will go with the servants of Solomon
to Ophir, and they will take from there
four hundred and fifty talents of gold
and bring to king Solomon.

CHAPTER IX.

ND the queen Sheba heard the

hearing of Solomon, and she will

come to try Solomon with enigmas in

Jerusalem, with very weighty power,

and camels lifting up spices, and gold

for multitude, and precious stone:

and she will come to Solomon and

speak with him all which was with her
heart.

2 And Solomon will announce to her
all her words, and not a word was hid-
den from Solomon which he announced
not to her.

ὃ And the queen of Sheba will see
the wisdom of Solomon, and the house
which he built,

4 And the food of his table, and the
seat of his servants, and the standing of
_ those waiting upon him, and their cloth-
ing, and his cup-bearers and their
clothing, and his ascent that he went
up to the house of Jehovah; and no
more spirit was in her.

5 And she will say to the king, The
word was truth which I heard in my
land concerning thy words, and con-
cerning thy wisdom:

6 And I believed not their words till
when I came, and mine eyes will see:
and behold, the half of the greatness of
thy wisdom was not announced to me:
thou didst add upon the hearing which
1 heard.

7 Happy thy men, and happy thy
servants, these standing before thee al-
ways, and hearing thy wisdom.

8 Blessed shall be Jehovah thy God
who delighted in thee to give thee upon
his throne for king to Jehovah thy
God: in thy God loying Israel to cause
him to stand forever, and he will give
thee for king over them to do judgment
and justice.

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9.And she will give to the king a
hundred and twenty talents of gold,
and spices for a multitude greatly, and
precious stone: and there was not as
that spice which queen Sheba gave to
king Solomon.

10 And also the servants of Huram,
and the servants of Solomon who
brought gold from Ophir, brought al-
mug trees and precious stone.

11 And the king will make the almug
trees stair-cases to the house of Jeho-
vah, and to the house of the king, and
harps and lyres for those singing: and
none were seen as they in the land of
Judah.

12 And king Solomon gave to queen
Sheba all her desire which she asked,
besides what she brought to the king.
And she will turn and go to her land,
she and her servants.

13 And the weight of the gold that
came to Solomon in one year will be
six hundred and sixty six talents of
gold ;

14 Besides from men reconnoiterin
and those trafficking, bringing. aaa
all the kings of Arabia and the prefects
of the land bringing gold and silver to
Solomon.

15 And king Solomon will make two
hundred shields of beaten gold: six
hundred of beaten gold he will bring
up upon one shield.

16 And three hundred shields of
beaten gold: three hundred of gold he
will bring up upon one shield. And
the king will give them into the house
of the forest of Lebanon.

17 And the king will make a great
throne of ivory, and he will overlay it
with pure gold.

18 And six steps to the throne, and
a footstool in gold holding fast to the
throne, and hands from hence and from
thence, upon the place of the seat, and
two lions standing near the hands,

19 And twelve lions standing there
upon the six steps, from hence and
from thence. There was not made thus
to any kingdom.

20 And all the vessels of drinking of
king Solomon, gold; and all the vessels
of the house of the forest of Lebanon,
of shut up gold: no silver was reckon-

II. CHRONICLES X.

ed in the days of Solomon for any
thing.
21 For the king's ships went to Tar-

shish with the servants of Huram:}i

once to three years will come the ships
to Tarshish, lifting up gold and silver
and ivory, and apes and peacocks.

22 And king Solomon will be mag-
nified above all the kings of the earth
for riches and wisdom.

23 And all the kings of the earth
seeking the face of Solomon to hear his
wisdom that God gave in his heart.

24 And they bringing each his gift,
vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and
garments, weapons and spices, horses
and mules, the word of a year in a year.

25 And there will be to Solomon
four thousand stalls of horses and cha-
riots, and twelve thousand horsemen ;
and he will place them in the chariot
cities, and with the king in Jerusalem.

26 And he will be ruling over all
the kingdoms from the river and even
to the land of the rovers, and even to
the bound of Egypt.

27 And the king will give silver as
stones in Jerusalem, and he gave cedars
as sycamore trees in the low country,
for multitude.

28 And bringing forth horses from
Egypt to Solomon, and from all lands.

29 And the rest of the words of Sol-
omon, the first and the last, are they
not written upon the words of Nathan
the prophet, and upon the prophesy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions
of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the
son of Nebat?

30 And Solomon will reign in Jeru-
salem over all Israel forty years.

81 And Solomon will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him in
the city of David his father: and Reho-
boam his son, will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER X.
ND Rehoboam will go to She-
chem: for to Shechem came all
Israel to make him king.

2 And it will be as Jeroboam son of
Nebat heard, and he in Egypt where
he fled from the face of Solomon the
king, and Jeroboam will turn back from

Egypt.

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3 And they will send and call to him.
And Jeroboam will come, and all Israel,
and they will speak to Rehoboam, say-

ng,

4 Thy father hardened our yoke:
and now lighten from the hard servi-
tude of thy father, and from his heavy
yoke which he gaye upon us, and we
will serve thee.

5 And he will say to them, Yet three
days and turn back to me. And the
people will go.

6 And king Rehoboam will consult
with the old men who were standing
before Solomon his father in his being
alive, saying, How counsel ye me to
turn back word to this people?

7 And they will speak to him, say-
ing, If thou wilt be for good to this
people, and pleasing them, and speak to
them good words, and they were sery-
ants to thee all the days.

8 And he will forsake the counsel of
the old men which they counseled, and
he will consult the children which grew
up with him, standing before him.

9 And he will say to them, What
counsel ye? and we will turn back
word to this people who spake to me,
saying, Lighten from the yoke which
thy father gave upon us.

10 And the children which grew up
with him will speak with him, saying,
Thou shalt say thus to the people who
spake to thee, saying, Thy father made
heavy our yoke, and lighten thou from
us; thus shalt thou say to them, My lit-
tle finger thick above my father’s loins.

11 And now my father loaded upon
you a heavy yoke, and I will add upon
your yoke: my father corrected you
with whips, and I with scorpions.

12 And Jeroboam will come, and all
the people, to Rehoboam, in the third
day, as the king spake, saying, Turn
back to me in the third day.

13 And the king will answer them
hard; and king Rehoboam will forsake
the counsel of the old men.

14 And he will speak to them accord-
ing to the counsel of the children, say-
ing, My father made heavy your yoke,
and I will add upon it: my father cor-
rected you with whips, and I with scor-
pions.

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15 And the king heard not to the

II. CHRONICLES ΧΙ.

9 And the two mounds, and Lachish,

Pace for the turn was of God, so that}and Azekah,

ehovah raised up his word which he
spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shi-
lonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

16 And all Israel saw that the king
heard not to them, and the people will
turn back to the king, saying, What
pou to us in David? ‘And no in-

eritancein the son of Jesse: each to
thy tents, O Israel: now see thy house,
O Dayid. And all Israel will go to his
tents. |

17 And the sons of Israel dwelling
in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam
will reign over them.

18 And king Rehoboam will send
Hadoram who was over the tribute;
and the sons of Israel will stone upon
him, and he will die. And king Reho-
boam strengthened himself to go up in-
to the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

19 And Israel will break with the
house of David even to this day.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.

ND Rehoboam will come to Jeru-

salem, and he will convoke to-

gether the house of Judah and Benja-

min a hundred and eighty thousand

chosen, making war to fight with Isra-

el, to turn back the kingdom to Reho-
boam.

2 And the word of Jehovah will be
to Shemaiah a man of God, saying,

3 Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon,
king of Judah, and to all Israel in Ju-
dah and Benjamin, saying,

4 Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not go
up, and ye shall not war with your
brethren: turn ye back each to his
house: for from me was this word.
And they will hear the words of Jeho-
vah and turn back from going against
Jeroboam.

5 And Rehoboam will dwell in Jeru-
salem, and he will build cities for forti-
fication in Judah.

6 And he will build the house of
bread, and the place of ravenous beasts,
and the pitching of tents,

7 And the house of the rock, and the
branches, and the justice of the people,

8 And the wine-press, and Mareshah,
and Ziph,

10 And Zorah, and Ajalon, and He-
bron, which are in Judah and in Benja-
min, cities of fortifications.

11 And he will strengthen the fortifi-
cations, and he will give in them lead-
ers and treasures of food, and oil, and
wine.

12 And in every city and city,
shields and spears, and he will ו‎
en them very greatly, and there will
be to him Judah and Benjamin.

13 And the priests and the Levites
which were in all Israel stood forth to
him from all their bound.

14 For the Levites forsook their
areas and their possession, and they
will come to Judah and to Jerusalem:
for Jeroboam and his sons rejected them
from being priest to Jehovah :

15 And he will set up to him priests
for the heights, for the wood-demons,
and for the calves which he made.

16 And after them from all the tribes
of Israel those giving their heart to
seek Jehovah God of Israel came to
Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah the
God of their fathers.

17 And they will strengthen the king-
dom of Judah, and make firm Reho-
boam son of Solomon, for three years:
for they went in the way of David and
Solomon for three years.

18 And Rehoboam will take to him
a wife, Mahalath, daughter of Jerimoth,
son of David, and Abihail daughter of
Eliab son of Jesse ;

19 And she will bear to him sons,
Jeush and Shemariah, and Zaham.

20 And after her he took Maacah,
daughter of Absalom; and she will
bear to him Abijah and Attai, and Ziza
and Shelomith.

21 And Rehoboam will love Maacah
the daughter of Absalom above all his
wives and his concubines: for he took
eighteen wives and sixty concubines ;
and he will beget twenty and eight
sons, and sixty daughters.

22 And Rehoboam will set up for
head, Abijah son of Maacah for leader
over his brethren: in order to make
him king.

23 And he will understand, and he

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will spread from all his sons to all the
lands of Judah and Benjamin, to all
the cities of fortifications: and he will
give to them food for multitude. And
he will ask for a multitude of wives.

CHAPTER XII.
ND it will be when Rehohoam es-
tablished the kingdom, and when
he strengthened himself, he forsook the
law of Jehovah, and all Israel with
him.

2 And it will be in the fifth year to
king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, (for they
transgressed against Jehovah,)

3 With a thousand and two hundred
chariots, and with sixty thousand horse-
men: and no number to the people
that came with him out of Egypt; the
Lubims, Sukkims, and the Cushites.

4 And he will take fortified cities
which were to Judah and he will come
even to Jerusalem.

5 And Shemaiah the prophet came
to Rehoboam, and the chiefs of Judah
who were gathered together to Jerusa-
lem from the face of Shishak, and he
will say to them, Thus said Jehovah,
Ye forsook me, and 1 also left you in
the hand of Shishak.

6 And the chiefs of Israel, and the
king, will humble themselves; and
they will say, Jehovah is just.

7 And in Jehovah’s seeing that they
humbled themselves, the word of Jeho-
vah was to Shemaiah, saying, They
humbled themselves; I will not destroy
them, and I gave to them as a little for
deliverance; and my wrath shall not
be poured out upon Jerusalem by the
hand of Shishak.

8 For they shall be to him for serv-
ants; and they shall know my service
and the service of the kingdoms of the
lands.

9 And Shishak king of Egypt will
come up against Jerusalem, and_ will
take the treasures of the house of Jeho-
vah, and the treasures of the house of
the king; he took the whole: and he
will take the shields of gold that Solo-
mon made.

10 And king Rehoboam will make
instead of them, shields of brass, and

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he deposited upon the hand of the
chiefs of the runners, those watching
the entrance of the king’s house.

11 And it will be as often as the king
came into the house of Jehovah the
runners came and lifted them up and
turned them back to the chamber of
the runners.

12 And in his humbling himself, the
anger of Jehovah turned back from him,
and not to destroy to the end: and also
in Judah was good words.

13 And king Rehoboam will strength-
en himself in Jerusalem, and he will
reign: for the son of forty and one
years was Rehoboam in his reigning,
and seventeen years he reigned in Je-
rusalem, the city which Jehovah chose
to set his name there from all the tribes
of Israel. And the name of his mother,
Naamah the Ammonites.

14 And he will do evil, for he pre-
pared not his heart to seek Jehovah.

15 And the words of Rehoboam, the
first and the last, are they not written
in the words of Shemaiah the prophet,
and Iddo the seeing for the enrolling?
And wars of Rehoboam and Jeroboam
all the days.

16 And Rehoboam will lie down
with his fathers, and be buried in the
city of David: and Abijah his son will
reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XIIL
ND in the eighteenth year to king
Jeroboam, Abijah will reign over
Judah.

2 And three years he reigned in Je-
rusalem. - And the name of his mother,
Michaiah, daughter of Uriel from Gi-
beah. And war was between Abijah
and Jeroboam.

5 And Abijah will bind on the bat-
tle with the strength of the strong ones
of war, four hundred thousand chosen
men: and Jeroboam arranged the bat-
tle with him with eight hundred thou-
sand, each chosen, strong of power.

4 And Abijah will rise up upon
mount Zemaraim, which is in mount
Ephraim, and he will say, Hear me,
Jeroboam, and all Israel ;

5 Is it not to you to know that Je-
hovah God of Israel gave the kingdom

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to David over Israel forever, to him
and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

6 And Jeroboam son of Nebat serv-
ant of Solomon son of David, will rise
up and will rebel against his lord.

7 And vain men will gather together
to him, sons of Belial; and they will
strengthen themselves against Reho-
boam son of Solomon; and Rehoboam
being young and tender of heart, and
he was not strong before them.

8 And now ye saying to be strength-
ened before the kingdom of Jehovah
in the hand of the sons of David; and
ye a great multitude, and with you
ealves of gold which Jeroboam made
for you for gods.

9 Did ye not thrust out the priests
of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron and the
Levites? and ye will make to you
pecs according to the peoples of the
ands, every one coming to fill his hand
with a bullock, son of the cow, and
seven rams; and he was priest to no
God.

10 And we, Jehovah is our God,
and we forsook him not; and the
priests serving to Jehovah, the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites in the work:

11 And burning to Jehovah the
burnt-offering in the morning, in the
morning, and in the evening, in the
evening, and incense of spices, and the
arrangement of bread upon the pure
table; and the chandelier of gold and
its lamps to burn in the evening, in the
evening: for we watch the watches of
Jehovah our God; and ye forsook him.

12 And behold, with us God for
head, and his priests and trumpets of
loud noise to cry against you. O ye
sons of Israel, ye shall not wage war
with Jehovah God of your fathers, for
ye shall not prosper.

13 And Jeroboam turned about an
ambush to come from behind them:
and they will be before Judah, and the
ambush from behind them.

14 And Judah will turn, and behold,
to them the war before and behind:
and they will cry out to Jehovah and
the priests trumpeting with the trum-

ets.
15 And the men of Judah will shout :
and it will be in the shouting of the

II. CHRONICLES XIV.

men of Judah, and God smote Jerobo-
am and all Israel before Abijah and
Judah.

16 And the sons of Israel will flee
from the face of Judah: and God will
give them into their hand.

17 And Abijah and his people will
strike upon them a great blow: and
there will fall wounded from Israel five
hundred thousand chosen men.

18 And the sons of Israel will be
subdued in that time, and the sons of
Judah will be strong, for they relied
upon Jehovah the God of their fathers.

19 And Abijah will pursue after
Jeroboam, and he will take cities from
him, the house of God and its daugh-
ters, and Jeshanah and its daughters,
and Ephraiin and its daughters.

20 And Jeroboam retained no more
strength in the days of Abijah: and
Jehovah will smite him and he will die.

21 And Abijah will be strengthened,
and he will take to him fourteen wives,
and he will beget twenty and two sons,
and sixteen daughters,

22 And the rest of the words of Abi-
jah, and his ways, and his words, being
written in the commentary of the proph-
et Iddo.

23 And Abijah will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him in
the city of David: and Asa his son
will reign in his stead. In his days
the land rested ten years.

CHAPTER XIV.
Λ ND Asa will do the good and the
straight in the eyes of Jehovah
his God;

2 And he will remove the altars of
the stranger, and the heights, and. break
the pillars, and cut down the images:

3 And he will say to Judah to seek
Jehovah the God of their fathers, and
to do the law and the commands.

4 And he will remove from all the
cities of Judah the heights and the
images: and the kingdom will rest be-
fore him.

5 And he will build cities of fortifi-
cation in Judah: for the land rested,
and not with him war in these years;
for Jehovah gave rest to him,

6 And he will say to Judah, We

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will build these cities, and surround a
wall, and towers, doors and bars, and
the land yet before us; for we sought
Jehovah our Ged, and he will give to
us rest from round about. And they
will build and prosper.

7 And there will be to Asa an army
lifting up the shield and spear, out of
Judah three hundred thousand; and
from Benjamin lifting up the shield
and bending the bow, two hundred and
eighty thousand: all these strong of
power.

8 And there will come forth against
them Zerah the Cushite with an army
of a thousand thousand, and three
hundred chariots; and he will come
even to Mareshah.

9 And Asa will come forth before
him, and they will arrange the battle
in the valley of the watch-tower to
Mareshah.

10 And Asa will call to Jehovah his
God, and he will say, O Jehovah, noth-
ing with thee to help between many to
those of no power: help us, O Jehovah
our God, for upon thee we relied, and
in thy name we came against this mul-
titude. O Jehovah, thou our God;
man shall not detain with thee.

11 And Jehovah will smite the Cush-
ites before Asa, and before Judah; and
the Cushites will flee.

12 And Asa will pursue them, and
the people which were with him, even
to the lodging-place: and there will
fall from the Cushites to nothing being
to them, for they were broken before
Jehovah, and before his camp; and
they will lift wp exceeding much spoil.

13 And they will strike all the cities
round about the lodging-place; for the
fear of Jehovah was upon them: and
they will plunder all the cities, for
much plunder was in them.

14 And also tents of cattle they
struck, and they will turn back sheep
for multitude, and camels; and they
will turn back to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER XV.
Λ ND Azariah son of Oded, upon
-\ him was the spirit of God.
2 ‘And he will go forth before Asa,
and say to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and

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all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah is
with you in your being with him; and
if ye will seek him he will be found to
you; and if ye will forsake him, he will
forsake you.

3 And many days to Israel for not a
God of truth, and for no priest teaching,
and for no law.

4 And he will turn back in straits to
him upon Jehovah God of Israel, and
they will seek him and he will be
found to them.

5 And in these times no peace to him
going out, and to him coming in, for
much consternation upon all inhabiting
the lands.

6 And they dashed themselves, na-
tion upon nation, and city upon city:
for God disturbed them with all straits.

7 And ye, be ye strong, and your
hands shall not be relaxed; for there is
a reward to your work.

8 And when Asa heard these words,
and the prophecy of Oded the prophet,
he strengthened himself, and he will put
away the abominations from all the
land of Judah and Benjamin, and from
the cities which he took from monnt
Ephraim, and he will renew the altar
of Jehovah which was before the porch
of Jehovah. -

9 And he will gather all Judah and
Benjamin, and the strangers with them
from Ephraim and Manasseh and from
Simeon: for they fell to him from Is-
rael for multitude in their seeing that
Jehovah his God was with him.

10 And they will gather together at
Jerusalem in the third month, for the
fifteenth year to the kingdom of Asa.

11 And they will sacrifice to Jeho-
vah in that day from the spoil they
brought, seven hundred oxen and seven
thousand sheep.

12 And they will come into a cove-
nant to seek Jehovah the God of their
fathers with all their heart and with all
their soul;

13 And every one who will not seek
for Jehovah God of Israel shall be put
to death, from small and even to great,
from man and even to woman.

14 And they will swear to Jehovah
with a great voice, and with shouting
and with trumpets and with horns.

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15 ‘And all Judah will rejoice at the
oath: jor with all their heart they
sware, and with all their desire they
sought him, and he will be found to
them: and Jehovah will give rest to
them from round about.

16 And also Maachah, Asa’s mother,
the king removed her from queen be-
cause she made terror for a statue: and
Asa will cut off her terror, and beat
small, and burn in the torrent Kidron.

17 And the heights were not remov-
ed from Israel: but the heart of Asa
was complete all his days.

18 And he will bring the holies of
his father, and his holies, into the house
of God, silver and gold and vessels.

19 And war was not even to the
thirty and fifth year to the kingdom of
Asa.

CHAPTER XVI.
N the thirty and stxth year to the
kingdom of Asa, Baasha king of Is-
rael came up against Judah, and he
will build Ramah, not to give him com-
ing out and going in to Asa, king of
Judah.

2 And Asa will bring forth silver
and gold from the treasures of the
house of Jehovah, and the house of the
king, and he will send to the son of
Hadad king of Aram, dwelling in Dar-
mesek, saying,

3 A covenant between me and be-
tween thee, and between my father and
between thy father: behold, I sent to
thee silver and gold; go break thy coy-
enant with Baasha king of Israel, and
he will go up from me.

4 And the son of Hadad will hear to
king Asa, and he will send chiefs of the
armies which were with him against
the cities of Israel; and they will strike
Tjon and Dan and Abel-Maim, and all
the stores of the cities of Naphtali.

5 And it will be when Baasha heard,
and he will desist from building Ramah,
and cause his works to cease.

6 And Asa the king took all Judah ;
and they will lift up the stones of Ra-
mah, and its woods which Baasha built,
and he will build with it Geba and Miz-

eh.

7 And in that time Hanani the seer

Il. CHRONICLES XVL, XVII.

came to Asa king of Judah, and he
will say to him, In thy relying upon
the king of Aram, and thou didst not
rely upon Jehovah thy God, for this
the power of the king of Aram escaped
from thy hand.

8 Were not the Cushites and the Lu-
bims for an army for multitude, for
chariots, and for horsemen to a great
multitude? and in thy relying upon
Jehovah he gave them into thy hand.

9 For Jehovah, his eyes run to and
fro in all the earth to strengthen him-
self with the perfected heart of them to
him. Thou wert foolish for this that
from now there is wars with thee.

10 And Asa will be indignant to the
seer, and he will give him to the house
of the stocks, for he was in anger with
him for this, And Asa will oppress
from the people in that time.

11 And behold, the words of Asa, the
first and the last, behold them written
upon the book of the kings to Judah
and to Israel.

12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth
year to his kingdom will be diseased in
his feet, his disease even to above: and
also in his disease he sought not Jeho-
vah but in physicians.

13 And Asa will lie down with his
fathers, and he will die in the year forty
and one to his kingdom.

14 And they will bury him in his
graves which he digged for himself in
the city of David, and they will lay
him down upon the bed which was
filled with spices and sorts seasoned
with aromatics of work. And they
will burn for him a great burning, even
to vehemence.

CHAPTER XVII.
Λ ND Jehoshaphat his son ]ו‎
reign in his stead, and he will
strengthen himself against Israel.

2 And he will give an army in all
the fortified cities of Judah, and he
will give garrisons in the land of Judah
and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa
his father took.

3 And Jehovah will be with Jehosh-
aphat, for he went in the first ways of
David his father, and he sought not for
the Baals,

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4 For to the God of his father he
sought, and in his commands he went,
and not according to the works of Is-
rael.

5 And Jehovah will prepare the
kingdom in his hand; and all Judah
will give a gift to Jehoshaphat, and
riches will be to him and honor for
multitude.

6 And his heart will be high in the
ways of Jehovah: and yet more, he re-
moved the heights and statues from
Judah.

7 And in the third year to his king-
dom he sent to his chiefs to the son of
power, and to the servant of Jehovah,
and to him Remembered of Jehovah,
and to the Gift of God, and to Who as
God, to teach in the cities of Judah.

8 And with them the Levites, him
Heard of Jehovah, and The gift of Je-
hovah, and him Jehovah gave, and
him God made, and The Watchful of
Death, and him Jehovah gave, and
the Lord Jehovah, and The Good of Je-
hovah, and The Good Lord Jehovah,
Levites; and with them God will hear,
and Jehovah exalted the priests.

9 And they will teach in Judah, and
with them the book of the law of Je-
hovah, and they will turn about in all
the cities of Judah, and they will teach
among the people.

10 And the fear of Jehovah will be
upon all the kingdoms of the lands that
are round about Judah, and they
warred not with Jehoshaphat.

11 And from the rovers bringing a
gift to Jehoshaphat, and silver of trib-
ute; also the Arabians bringing to him
flocks, seven thousand, and seven hund-
red rams, and seven thousand and
seven hundred he goats.

12 And it will be Jehoshaphat went
and was great even to above; and he
will build fortresses in Judah, and
cities of stores.

18 And much work was to him in
the cities of Judah: and the men of war
strong of power in Jerusalem.

14 And these their reviewing for
the house of their fathers: to Judah
the chiefs of thousands; Pleasure the
chief, and with him strong ones of
power, three hundred thousand.

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15 And upon his hand, Jehovah
gave the chief, and with him two hund-
red and eighty thousand...

16 And upon his hand Jehovah lift-

ed up, son of The remembered, he vol-

unteering to Jehovah; and with him
two hundred thousand strong of power.

17 And from Benjamin: him God
knew, strong of power; and with him
those bending the bow and the shield,
two hundred thousand.

18 And upon his hand him Jehovah
gave, and with him a hundred and
eighty thousand armed for war.

19 These serving the king, besides
which the king gave in the fortified
cities in all Judah.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND there will be to Jehoshaphat
riches and honor for multitude,
and he will contract affinity by mar-
riage to Ahab.

2 And he will go down at the end of
years to Ahab to Shomeron. And
Ahab will 3801106 to him sheep and
oxen for multitude, and to the people
which are with him, and he will stim-
ulate him to go up to Ramoth-Gilead.

3 And Ahab king of Israel will say
to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt
thou go with me to Ramoth-Gilead ?
And he will say to him, As me, as
thou; as thy people, my people; and
with thee in war. ;

4 And Jehoshaphat will say to the
king of Israel, Seek now according to
the day the word of Jehovah.

5 And the king of Israel will gather
together the prophets, four hundred
men, and he will say to them, Shall
we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war, or
shall I desist? And they will say,
Go up, and God will give into the
hand of the king.

6 And Jehoshaphat will say, Is
there not yet more a prophet to Jeho-
vah, and we will seek from him?

7 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Yet one man to seek Je-
hovah from him: and 1 hated him, for
he prophesies not to me for good, but
all his days for evil: he is Micaiah son
of Imlah. And Jehoshaphat will say,
The king shall not say thus.

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8 And the king of Israel will call
for one eunuch, and say, Hasten Micai-
ah son of Imlah.

9 And the king of Israel and Jehosh-
aphat king of Judah sitting each upon
his throne, being clothed in garments,
and sitting in the area of the door of
the gate of Shomeron: and all the
prophets prophesying before them.

10 And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah
will make for himself horns of iron;
and he will say, Thus said Jehovah,
With these shalt thou strike Aram even
to finishing them.

11 And all the prophets prophesying
thus, saying, Go up to Ramoth-Gilead
and prosper: aud Jehoyah gave into
the hand of the king.

12 And the messenger who went to
call for Micaiah spake to him, saying,
Behold, the words of the prophets with
one mouth good to the king; and now
will thy word be as one of them, and
speak good.

18 And Micaiah will say, Jehovah
lives, for what God shall say I shall
speak it.

14 And he will come to the king,
and the king will say to him, Micaiah,
shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war,
or shall I desist? And he will say, Go
ye up and prosper, and they shall be
given into your hand.

15 And the king will say to him,
Even how many times do I cause thee
to swear that thou wilt speak to me
only the truth in the name of Jehovah?

16 And he will say, I saw all Israel
being dispersed upon the mountains as
sheep which not to them a shepherd:
and Jehovah will say, No lords to
these; they shall turn back each to his
house in peace.

17 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Did I not say to thee, He
will not prophesy good to me, but for
evil?

18 And he will say, Therefore hear
ye the word of Jehovah ; I saw Jehoyah
sitting upon his throne, and all the
army of the heavens standing upon his
right and his left.

19 And Jehovah will say, Who will
persuade Ahab king of Israel, and he
shall go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead ?

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And this will say, saying, according to
this, and this, saying according to this.

20 And a spirit will come forth and
stand before Jehovah, and say, I will
persuade. And Jehovah will say, In
what ?

21 And he will say, I will go forth
and be for a spirit of falsehood in the
mouth of all his prophets. And he
will say, Thou shalt persuade, and also
thou shalt prevail: go and do thus.

22 And now behold Jehovah gave a
spirit of falsehood in the mouth of these
thy prophets, and Jehovah spake evil
against thee.

23 And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah,
will draw near and strike Micaiah upon
the cheek, and he will say, Which way
passed the spirit of Jehovah from me to
speak with thee ?

24 And Micaiah will say, Behold
thee seeing in that day which thou
shalt go to a chamber in a chamber to
hide thyself.

25 And the king of Israel will say,
Take ye Micaiah and turn him back to
Amon chief of the city, and to Joash
son of the king;

26 And say, Thus said the king,
Put ye this in the house of the prison,
and feed him with bread of oppression
and water of oppression till my turning
back in peace.

27 And Micaiah will say, If turning
back thou shalt turn back in peace, Je-
העסנ[‎ spake notin me. And he will
say, Hear, ye peoples, all of them.

28 And the king of Israel will go up,
and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to
Ramoth-Gilead.

29 And the king of Israel will say to
Jehoshaphat, Disguising myself and go-
ing into the war; and thou, put on thy
garments. And the king of Israel will
disguise himself, and will go into the
war.

80 And the king of Aram command-
ed the chiefs of the chariots which
were with him, saying, Ye shall not
war with small and great, but with the
king of Israel, him only.

81 And it will be as the chiefs of the
chariots, seeing Jehoshaphat, and they
said, He isthe king of Israel. And
they will surround about him to wage

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war: and Jehoshaphat will cry out,
and Jehovah helped him, and God stim-
ulates them from him.

32 And it will be in the chiefs of the
chariots seeing that he was not the king
of Israel, and they will turn back from
after him.

33 And a man drawing upon a bow
to his fulness, and he will strike the
king of Israel between the joints and
between the coat of mail: and he will
say to the driver, Turn thy hands and
bring me out from the camp, for I was
made sick.

34 And the battle will go up in that
day: and the king of Israel was made
to stand in the chariot over against
Aram till the evening: and he will die
at the time of the going down of the
sun.

CHAPTER XIX.
ND Jehoshaphat king of Judah
will turn back to his house in
peace to Jerusalem.

2 And Jehu son of Hanani the seer
will go forth to his face, and say to
king Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou love to
help to the unjust, and to those hating
Jehovah? and in this, wrath upon you
from before Jehovah.

3 But good words were found with
thee, for thou didst burn the images
from the land, and didst prepare thy
heart to seek God.

4 And Jehoshaphat will dwell in Je-
rusalem: and he will turn back and go
forth among the people from the Well
of the Oath, even to mount Ephraim ;
and he will turn them back to Jehovah
the God of their fathers.

5 And he will set up judges in the
land in all the fortified cities of Judah,
to city and city ;

6 And he will say to the judges, See
ye what ye do: for not for man shall
ye judge, but for Jehovah; and he
with you in the word of judement.

7 And now the fear of Jehovah shall
be upon you: watch ye and do: for
not iniquity with Jehovah our God, and
lifting up of faces, and taking a gift.

8 And also in Jerusalem, Jehosha-
phat set up from the Levites and the

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thers to Israel, for the judgment of Je-
hovah and for contention; and they
will turn back to Jerusalem.

9 And he will command upon them,
saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of
Jehovah, with faithfulness and with
the whole heart.

10 And every contention which shall
come upon you from your brethren
dwelling in their cities, between blood
to blood, between law to command, to
precepts and to judgments, and warn
ye them and they shall not trespass
against Jehovah, and wrath being upon
you and upon your brethren: thus
shall ye do and not trespass.

11 And behold, Amariah the head
priest over you for every word of Je-
hovah; and Zebadiah son of Ishmael
the leader to the house of Judah, for
every word of the king: and the scribes,
the Levites, before you. Be strong
and do, and Jehovah will be with the
good.

CHAPTER XX.
ND it will be after this, the sons
of Moab and the sons of Ammon
came, and with them from the Ammon-
ites against Jehoshaphat for war.

2 And they will come and announce
to Jehoshaphat, saying, A great multi-
tude coming against thee from beyond
the sea from Aram in Hazazon-Tamar ;
this the fountain of the kid.

8 And Jehoshaphat will fear, and he
will give his 1866 to seek to Jehovah,
and he will call a fast for all Judah.

4 And Judah will gather together to
seek from Jehovah; also from all the
cities of Judah they came to seek Jeho-
vah.

5 And Jehoshaphat will stand in the
convocation of Judah and Jerusalem,
in the house of Jehovah before the new
enclosure.

6 And he will say, O Jehovah God
of our fathers, art thou not he the God
in the heavens? and thou art ruling
over all the kingdoms of the nations?
and in thine hand power and strength,
and none to stand with thee?

7 Art thou not our God? Thou didst
dispossess the inhabitants of this land

priests, and from the heads to the fa-|from before thy people Israel, and thou

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wilt give it to the seed of Abraham thy
beloved forever.

8 And they will dwell in it, and
build to thee in it a holy place to thy
name, saying,

9 If evil shall come upon us, the
sword, judgment, and death and fam-
ine, we shall stand before this house
and before thee, for thy name is upon
this house, and we will cry to thee
from our straits, and thou wilt hear,
and thou wilt save.

10 And now behold the sons of Am-
mon and Moab and mount Seir, which
thou gavest not to Israel to come
against them in their coming out of the
land of Egypt, for they turned away
from them and destroyed them not;

11 And behold them rewarding upon
us to come to drive us out from thy
possession which thou causedst us to
possess. :

12 O our God, wilt thou not judge
against them? for no power in us be-
fore this great multitude coming against
us; and we shall not know what we
shall do: for our eyes are upon thee.

13 And all Judah standing before
Jehovah, also their little ones, their
wives and their sons.

14 And Jahaziel, son of Zechariah,
son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of
Mattaniah the Levite from the sons of
Asaph, upon him was the spirit of Je-
hovah in the midst of the convocation.

15 And he will say, Attend all Ju-
dah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and thou, king Jehoshaphat. Thussaid
Jehovah to you, Ye shall not fear, and
ye shall not be terrified from the face of
this great multitude; for not to you
the battle but to God.

16 To-morrow go ye down against
them: behold them coming up in the
ascent of brightness; and ye found
them in the end of the valley before the
desert of Jeruel.

17 Not to you to war in this: set
yourselves, stand ye, and see the salva-
tion of Jehovah with you, O Judah
and Jerusalem. Ye shall not fear, and
ye shall not be terrified; to-morrow go
ye forth before them, and Jehovah with

you.

2 18 And Jehoshaphat will bow down

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the face to the earth: and all Judah
and those inhabiting Jerusalem fell be-
fore Jehovah to worship to Jehovah.

19 And the Levites from the sons of
the Kohathites, and from the sons of
the Korhites, will rise up to praise to
Jehovah the God of Israel with a great
voice to above.

20 And they will ris» early in the
morning and go forth to the desert of
Tekoa: and in their going forth Jehosh-
aphat stood, and he will say, Hear me,
O Judah, and ye inhabiting Jerusalem ;
Believe in Jehovah your God and ye
shall be firm; believe in his prophets
and prosper.

21 And he will counsel to the peo-
ple, and he will set up those singing to
Jehovah, and those praising to the or-
naments of holiness, in their going out
before the strong, and saying, Confess
ye to Jehovah; his merey is forever.

22 And in the time they began in
rejoicing and praising, Jehovah gave
ambushes against the sons of Ammon,
Moab, and mount Seir, coming against
Judah ; and they will be smitten.

23 For the sons of Ammon and Moab
will stand up against those inhabiting
mount Seir to utterly destroy and to
cut off: and in their finishing upon
those inhabiting Seir they helped each
against his neighbor for destruction:

24 And Judah came upon the watch-
tower to the desert, and they will look
towards the multitude, and behold them
corpses falling to the earth, and none
escaping.

25 And Jehoshaphat will come, and
his people, to plunder their spoil, and
they will find among them for multi-
tude and possession, and corpses, and
vessels of desires, and they will take
away for themselves to not lifting up:
and they will be three days plundering
the spoil, for it was much.

26 And in the fourth day they were
convoked together to the valley of
praise; for there they praised Jehovah :
for this, they called the name of that
place, The valley of praise, even to this
day.

And they will turn back every‏ זל
man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Je-‏
hoshaphat at their head, to turn back‏

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to Jerusalem with joy: for Jehovah
gladdened them from their enemies.

28 And they will come to Jerusalem
with lyres and with harps and with
trumpets to the house of Jehovah.

29 And the terror of God will be
upon all the kingdoms of the lands in
their hearing that Jehovah warred with
the enemies of Israel.

80 And the kingdom of Jehosha-
phat will rest: and God will give rest
to him from round about.

31 And Jehoshaphat will reign over
Judah: the son of thirty and five years
in his reigning, and twenty and five
years he reigned in Jerusalem. And
his mother’s name Azubah, daughter
of Shilhi.

99 And he will go in the way of his
father Asa, and he removed not from
it, doing the straight in the eyes of Je-
hovah.

33 Only the heights were not re-
moved: and yet the people prepared
not their heart to the God of their
fathers.

34 And the rest of the words of Je-
hoshaphat, the first and the last, be-
hold them written in the words of Je-
hu son of Hanani, who was made to go
up ‘pen the book of the kings of Is-
rael.

85 And after this Jehoshaphat king
of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah
king of Israel, he being unjust to do.

86 And he will join himself with
him to make ships to go to Tarshish:
and they will make the ships in Ezion-
Geber.

37 And Eliezer son of Dodavah of
Mareshah will prophesy against Je-
hoshaphat, saying, In thy joining thy-
self with Ahaziah, Jehovah broke thy
works. And the ships will be broken,
and be hindered to go to Tarshish.

CHAPTER XXI.

Λ ND Jehoshaphat will lie down

with his fathers, and be buried

with his fathers in the city of David.

And Jehoram his son will reign in his
stead.

2 And to.him brethren, sons of Je-

hoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and

Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael,

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and Shephatiah: all these sons of Je-
hoshaphat king of Israel.

3 And their father will give to them
many gifts to silver and to gold, and to
precious things, with fortified cities in
Judah: and he gave the kingdom to
Jehoram, for he was the first-born.

4 And Jehoram will rise up over the
kingdom of his father, and he will
strengthen himself, and he will kill all
his brethren with the sword, and also
from the chiefs of Israel.

5 The son of thirty and two years
was Jehoram in his reigning, and he
reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

6 And he will go in the way of the
kings of Israel as did the house of
Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was to
him for wife: and he will do evil in
the eyes of Jehovah.

7 And Jehovah would not destroy
the house of David, for sake of the
covenant which he cut out to David,
and as he said to give to him a light
and to his sons all the days.

8 In his days Edom revolted from
under the hand of Judah, and they
will cause a king to reign over them.

9 And Jehoram will pass over with
his chiefs, and all the chariots with
him: and he will be rising by night,
and he will strike Edom surround-
ing to him, and the chiefs of the char-
10ts.

10 And Edom will revolt from un-
der the hand of Judah, even to this
day. Then Libnah will revolt in that
time from under his hand, for he for-
sook Jehovah the God of his fathers.

11 Also he made heights in the
mountains of Judah, and he will cause
those inhabiting Jerusalem to com-
mit fornication, and he will seduce
Judah.

12 And a writing will come to him
from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus
said Jehovah God of David thy father,
Because that thou didst not go in the
ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, and
in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

13 And thou wilt go in the way of
the kings of Israel, and thou wilt cause
Judah to commit fornication, and
those inhabiting Jerusalem, according
to the fornications of the house of

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Ahab, and also thou didst kill thy
brethren of the house of thy father, be-
ing good above thee.

14 Behold, Jehovah smote a great
stroke upon thy people, and upon thy
sons, and upon thy wives, and upon
all thy possessions :

15 And thou in great sicknesses in
disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels
shall come forth from the sickness days
upon days.

16 And Jehovah will rouse up
against Jehoram the spirit of the rovers
and the Arabians which were upon the
hand of the Cushites.

17 And they will come up into Ju-
dah and rend it, and carry away cap-
tive all the possessions being found at
the king’s house, and also his sons and
his wives; and there was not left to
him a son except Jehoahaz the young
of his sons.

18 And after all this Jehovah smote
him in his bowels with a sickness for
no healing.

19 And it will be to days from days,
and according to the time of the going
forth of the end to the days the second
time, his bowels will go forth with his
sickness: and he will die with evil
sicknesses. And his people made not
to him a burning as the burning of his
fathers.

20 The son of thirty and two was he
in his reighing, and he reigned eight
years in Jerusalem; and he will go
without desire: and they will bur ry
him in the city of David, and not in
the graves of the kings.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND they inhabiting Jerusalem
will make Ahaziah his young
son king in his stead: for a troop com-
ing with the Arabians to the camp
killed all the first. And Ahaziah son
of Jehoram king of Judah will reign.

2 The son of forty and two years was
Ahaziah in his reigning, and he reigned
one year in Jerusalem. And _ his
mother’s name Athaliah, daughter of
Omri.

3 Also he went in the ways of the
house of Ahab: for his mother was
counseling him to do eyil.

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4 And he will do the evil in the eyes
of Jehovah as the house of Ahab: for
they were were counseling to him after
the death of his father, for destruction
to him.

5 Also he went in their counsel, and
he will go with Jehoram son of Ahab
king of Israel to war against Hazael,
king of Aram in Ramoth-Gilead : and
the ‘Syrians will strike Joram.

6 And he will turn back to be healed
in Jezreel because of the blows which
they struck him in Ramoth in his war-
ring with Hazael king of Aram. And
Azariah son of Jehoram king of Judah
will go down to see Jehoram son of
Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

7 And from God was the destruction
of Ahaziah, for coming to Joram: and
in his coming he went forth with Jeho-
ram against Jehu son of Nimshi, whom
Jehovah anointed him to cut off the
house of Ahab.

8 And it will be according to the
judging of Jehu with the house of Ahab,
and he will find the chiefs of Judah,
and the sons of the brethren of Aha-
ziah serving to Ahaziah, and he will
kill them.

9 And he will seek Ahaziah, and
they will take him, (and he being hid
in Shomeron) and they will bring him
to Jehu: and they will put him to
death and bury him: For, they said,
he is the son of Jehoshaphat who sought
Jehovah with all his heart, And not
to the house of Ahaziah to retain
strength to the kingdom.

10 And Athaliah the mother of Aha-
ziah saw that her son died, and she will
rise up and destroy all the seed of the
kingdom to the house of Judah.

11 And Jehoshabeath daughter of the
king will take Joash son of Ahaziah,
and she will steal him from the midst
of the king's sons being slain, and give
him and his nurse in a bed-chamber.
And Jehoshabeath daughter of king
Jehoram wife of Jehoiada the priest,
(for she was sister of Ahaziah) will hide
him from the face of Athaliah. and she
slew him not.

12 And he will be with them in the
house of God being hid six years: and
Athaliah reigned over the land.

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CHAPTER XXIII.

ND in the seventh year Jehoiada

strengthened himself, and he will

take chiefs of hundreds to Azariah son

of Jeroham, and to Ishmael son of Jeho-

hanan, and to Azariah son of Obed, and

with Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and with

Hlishaphat son of Zichri, with him in
covenant.

2 And they will go about in Judah
and gather the Levites from all the
cities of Judah, and the heads of the
fathers to Israel, and they will come to
Jerusalem.

8 And all the convocation will cut
out a covenant in the house of God
with the king. And he will say to
them, Behold, the king's son shall reign,
as Jehovah spake concerning the sons
of David.

4 This the word which ye shall do;
the third of you coming in the Sabbath
to the priests and to the Levites, to the
gates of the thresholds;

5 And the third in the king’s house;
and the third in the gate of the founda-
tion: and all the people in the enclos-
ures of the house of Jehovah. ,

6 And they shall not come into the
house of Jehovah except the priests
and those serving to the Levites; they
shall come in for they are holy: and
all the people shall watch the watches
of Jehovah,

7 And the Levites surrounded the
king round about, a man and his uten-
sil in his hand; and he coming to the
house shall be put to death: and be ye
with the king in his coming in, and in
his going out.

8 And the Levites and all Judah will
do according to all that Jehoiada the
priest commanded, and they will take
each his men coming in on the Sabbath,
with those coming out on the Sabbath :
for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the
divisions.

9 And Jehoiada the priest will give
to the chiefs of hundreds, spears and
shields and bucklers, which were to king
David, which were in the house of God.

10 And he will cause all the people
to stand, and each his missile weapon
in his hand, from the right shoulder of
the house even to the left shoulder of

the house, to the altar and to the house
by the king round about.

11 And they will bring forth the
king’s son, and they will give the dia-
dem upon ‘him, and the testimonies, and
they will make him king. And Jeho-
iada and his sons will anoint him, and

say, The king shall live.

12 And Athaliah will hear the voice
of the people running and praising the
king, and she will come to the people
in the house of Jehovah.

13 And she will see, and behold, the
king standing upon his standing in the
coming in, and the chiefs and the trum-
pets by the king: and all the people of
the land rejoicing, and they clanged
upon the trumpets; and those singing
with instruments of the song, and those
knowing to praise. And Athaliah will
rend her garments and say, A conspir-
acy ! a conspiracy !

14 And Jehoiada the priest will bring
forth the chiefs of hundreds reviewing
the army, and he will say io them,
Bring her forth from the house of the
ranks: and he coming after her shall
be slain with the sword: for the priest
said, Ye shall not slay her in the house
of Jehovah.

15 And they will put hands upon
her, and she will come to the entrance
of the gate of horses of the king’s house ;
and they will slay her there.

16 And Jehoiada will cut out a cove-
nant between him, and between all the
people. and between the king, to be for
a people to Jehovah.

17 And all the people will come to
the house of Baal, and they will pull it
down, and they broke his altars and
his images, and they killed Mattan the
priest of Baal before the altars.

18 And Jehoiada will set the oversight
of the house of Jehovah in the hand of
the priests the Levites, whom David
distributed over the house of Jehovah,
to bring up the burnt-offerings of Jeho-
vah, as was written in the law of Moses,
with rejoicing and with song, by the
hands of David.

19 And he will cause the gate-keep-
ers to stand at the gates of the house of
Jehovah, and the unclean. shall not
come in to all the word.

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20 And he will take the chiefs of
hundreds, and the powerful, and those
ruling over the people, and all the peo-
ple of the land, and he will bring down
the king from the house of Jehovah:
and they will come in the midst of the
highest gate of the king’s house: and
they will set the king upon the throne
of the kingdom.

21 And all the people of the land
will rejoice: and the city rested; and
they killed Athaliah with the sword.

CHAPTER XXIV.
NHE son of seven years was Joash
in his reigning, and forty years he
reioned in Jerusalem. And his mother’s
name Zibeah from the Well of the Oath.

2 And Joash will do the straight in
the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Je-
hoiada the priest.

3 And Jehoiada will take to him two
wives; and he will beget sons and
daughters.

4 And it will be after this it was
with the heart of Joash to renew the
house of Jehovah.

5 And he will gather together the
priests and the Levites, and say to
them, Go ye forth to the cities of Ju-
dah and gather together from all Israel
silver to strengthen the house of your
God as often as year by year, and ye
shall hasten to the word. And the Le-
vites hastened not.

6 And the king will call for Jehoiada
the head, and say to him, Wherefore
didst thou not seek out for the Levites
to bring in from Judah and from Jeru-
salem the loan of Moses the servant of
Jehovah, and of the convocation to Is-
rael, to the tent of testimonies ?

7 For Athaliah doing evil; her sons
broke asunder the house of God; and
also all the holies of the house of Jeho-
vah they made for the Baals.

8 And the king will say, and they
will make one ark, and they will give
it in the gate of the house of Jehovah
without.

9 And they will give a voice in Ju-
dah and in Jerusalem, to bring in to
Jehovah the loan of Moses the servant
of God, upon Israel in the desert.

10 And the chiefs and all the people

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will rejoice, and they will bring in and
cast into the ark, even to finishing.

11 And it will be in the time of
bringing in the ark to the charge of the
king by the hand of the Levites, and
in their seeing that there was much sil-
ver, and the king’s scribe came, and the
head priest’s overseer, and they will
empty the ark and lift it up, and turn
it back to its place. Thus they did to
day by day, and they will gather silver
for multitude.

12 And the king and Jehoiada will
give for doing the work of the service
of the house of Jehovah, and hewers and
artificers will be hired to renew the
house of Jehovah, and also for those
working iron and brass to strengthen
the house of Jehovah.

13 And they doing the work will
work, and healing will go up to the
work by their hand, and they will cause
the house of God to stand upon its
measure, and they will make it firm.

14 And in their finishing they
brought before the king and Jehoiada
the rest of the silver, and they will make
vessels for the house of Jehovah, vessels
to serve and to bring up, and dishes,
and vessels of gold and silver. And
they will be bringing up burnt-offerings
in the house of Jehovah always all the
days of Jehoiada.

15 And Jehoiada will be old and full
of days, and he will die the son of a
hundred and thirty years in his death.

16 And they will bury him in the
city of David with the kings, for he did
good in Israel, and with God and his
house.

17 And after the death of Jehoiada
came the chiefs of Judah, and they will
worship to the king. Then the king
heard to them.

18 And they will forsake the house
of Jehovah the God of their fathers,
and they will serve the statues and the
images: and wrath will be upon Judah
and Jerusalem in this their trespass.

19 And he will send prophets among
them to turn them back to Jehovah;
and they will testify against them: and
they gave not ear.

20 And the spirit of God clothed
Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest,and

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he will stand from above to the people,
and say to them, Thus said God, Where-
fore are ye passing by the commands
of Jehovah, and ye shall not prosper?
for ye forsook Jehovah, and he will
forsake you.

21 And they will conspire against
him, and stone him with stone by the
commands of the king in the enclosure
of the house of Jehovah.

22 And Joash the king remembered
not the kindness which Jehoiada his
father did with him, and he will kill
his son. And in his death he said, Je-
hovah will see and seek out.

23 And it will be at the circuit of
the year, the power of Aram came up
against him: and they willcome to Ju-
dah and Jerusalem, and destroy all the
chiefs of the people from the people,
and all their spoil they sent to the king
of Darmesek.

24 For with a smallness of men came
the army of Aram, and Jehovah gave
into their hand an army to a great mul-
titude, for they forsook Jehovah the
God of their fathers. And they did
judgment with Joash.

25 And in their going away from
him (for they forsook him in many dis-
eases) his servants conspired against
him for the bloods of the sons of Jeho-
jada the priest, and they will kill him
upon his bed, and he will die: and
they will bury him in the city of David,
and they buried him not in the graves
of the kings.

26 And these they conspiring against
him: Zabad son of Shimeath the Am-
monitess, and Jehozabad son of Shim-
rith the Moabitess.

27 And his sons and the multitude
of the lifting up upon him, and the
founding of the house of God, behold
them written upon the commentary of
the book of the kings. And Amaziah
his son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXV.
A son of twenty and five years
reigned Amaziah, and twenty and
nine years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Jehoaddan
from Jerusalem.
2 And he will do the straight in the

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eyes of Jehovah, only not with a whole
heart.

3 And it will be when the kingdom
was strengthened over him, and he will
slay his servants striking the king his
father.

4 And their sons he slew not, for as
written in the law in the book of Mo-
ses where Jehovah commanded, saying,
The fathers shall not die for the sons,
and the sons shall not die for the fa-
thers, for each shall die in his sin.

5 And Amaziah will gather Judah
together, and set them up for the house
of the fathers for chiefs of thousands,
and for chiefs of hundreds, to all Judah
and Benjamin: and he will review
them from the son of twenty years and
above, and he will find them three
hundred thousand chosen going forth
to war, holding spear and shield.

6 And he will hire from Israel a
hundred thousand strong of power, with
a hundred talents of silver.

7 And aman of God came to him,
saying, O king, the army of Israel shall
not go with thee; for Jehovah is not
with Israel all the sons of Ephraim.

8 For if thou goest, to be strong for
war: God will cause thee to falter be-
fore the enemy, for there is power with
God to help and to cause to falter.

9 And Amaziah will say to the man
of God, And what to do for the hund-
red talents of silver which I gave to the
troop of Israel? And the man of God
will say, There is to Jehovah to give to
thee much above this.

10 And Amaziah will separate them
for the troop which came to him from
Ephraim to go to their place: and their
anger will kindle greatly against Judah,
and they will turn back to their place
in the heat of anger.

11 And Amaziah strengthened him-
self, and he will lead out his people,
and go to the valley of salt, and he will
strike the sons of Seir, ten thousand.

12 And ten thousand living the sons
of Judah carried away captive, and
they will bring them to the head of the
rock, and they will cast them down
from the head of the rock, and they
were rent asunder all of them.

13 And the sons of the troop which

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Amaziah turned back from going with
him to war, and they will invade upon
the cities of Judah from Shomeron and
even to the house of the hollow, and
he will strike of them three thousand,
and they will plunder much plunder.

14 And it will be after Amaziah
came from the smiting of the Edomites,
and he will bring the gods of the sons
of Seir, and he will set them up to him
for gods, and worship before them, and
burn incense to them.

15 And the anger of Jehovah will
kindle against Amaziah, and he will
send to him a prophet, and he will say
to him, Wherefore soughtest thou the
gods of the people who delivered not
their people from thy hand ?

16 And it will be in his speaking to
him, and he will say to him, Did they
give thee for counselor to the king?
Desist ; for thyself, wherefore shall they
strike thee? And the prophet will de-
sist, and say, I knew that God coun-
seled to destroy thee, for thou didst
this, and thou heardest not to my coun-

sel.

17 And Amaziah king of Judah will
take counsel, and will send to Joash
son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of
Israel, saying, Come, we will see faces.

18 And Joash king of Israel will
send to Amaziah king of Judah, say-
ing, The thorn-bush which was in Leb-
anon sent to the cedar which was in
Lebanon, saying, Thou shalt give thy
daughter to my son for wife: and a
beast of the field that was in Lebanon
will pass by and tread down the thorn-
bush.

19 Thou saidst, Behold, thou didst
strike Edom; and thy heart lifted thee
up to boast: now dwell in thy house;
wherefore wilt thou be stirred up in
evil, and thou fallest, and Judah with
thee? 1

20 And Amaziah heard not; for it
was from God, so that he will give
them into the hand, for they sought the
gods of Edom.

21 And Joash king of Israel will go
up; and they will see faces, he and
Amaziah king of Judah, in the house
of the sun which was to Judah.

22 And Judah will be smitten before

II. CHRONICLES XXVI.

Israel, and they will flee a man to his
tent.

23 And Joash king of Israel seized
Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash,
son of Jehoahaz, in the house of the
sun; and he will bring him to Jerusa-
lem, and he will break in upon the wall
of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim,
even to the gate of turning, four hund-
red cubits.

24 And all the gold and the silver,
and all the vessels being found in the
house of God with Obed-Edom, and the
treasures of the king’s house, and the
sons of suretyship, and he will turn
back to Shomeron.

25 And Amaziah son of Joash king
of Judah will live after the death of
Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel,
fifteen years,

26 And the rest of the words of Am-
aziah, the first and the last, behold, are
they not written upon the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel ?

27 And from the time that Amaziah
turned away from Jehovah and they
will conspire against him a conspiracy
in Jerusalem; and he will flee to La-
chish: and they will send after him to
Lachish, and they will kill him there.

28 And they will lift him up upon
horses, and bury him with his fathers
in the city of Judah.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND all the people will take Uz-
ziah, and he the son of sixteen
years, and they will make him king in-
stead of his father Amaziah.

2 He built Eloth and turned it back
to Judah; afterwards the king lay
down with his fathers.

3 The son of sixteen years was Uz-
ziah in his reigning, and he reigned fifty
and two years in Jerusalem. And his
mother’s name Jecoliah from Jerusalem.

4 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah according to all which
Amaziah his father did.

5 And he will be for seeking God in
the days of Zechariah understanding in
the visions of God: and in the days of
his seeking Jehovah, God prospered
him.

6 And he will go forth and war

Il. CHRONICLES ΧΧΥΤΙ.

against the rovers, and he will break in
the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jab-
neh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he
will build cities in Ashdod, and among
the rovers.

7 And God will help him against the
rovers, and against the Arabians inhab-
iting Gur-Baal, and the Mehunims.

8 And the Ammonites will give a
gift to Uzziah: and his name will go
even to the entrance of Egypt: for he
was strengthened even to above.

9 And Uzziah will build towers in
Jerusalem at the gate of the corner, and
at the gate of the valley, and at the an-
gle, and he will strengthen them.

10 And he will build towers in the
desert, and hew out many wells: for
there were many cattle to him; and in
the low country and in the plain; and
husbandmen and vine-dressers in the
mountains, and in Carmel: for he was
loving the earth.

11 And there will be to Uzziah an
army making war, going forth to war
to a troop in the number of their re-
viewing by the hand of Jeiel the scribe
and Maaseiah the leader, upon the hand
of Hananiah from the king's chiefs. -

12 All the number of the heads of
the fathers to the strong ones of power,
two thousand and six hundred.

13 And upon their hand the power
of an army, three hundred thousand
and seven thousand and five hundred,
making war with the strength of power
to help to the king against the en-
emy.

14 And Uzziah will prepare for them
for all the army shields and spears, and
helmets, and coats of mail, and bows,
and for stones of slings.

15 And he will make in Jerusalem
engines, devised of him devising, to be
upon the towers and upon the corners
to cast with arrows and with great
stones. And his name went forth even
to afar off; for he was made wonderful
to help even till he was strong.

16 And in his being strong his heart
was lifted up even to destruction: for
he will transgress against Jehovah his
God, and come in to the temple of Je-
hovah to burn incense upon the altar
of incense.

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17 And Azariah the priest will go in
after him, and with him eighty priests
to Jehovah, sons of strength.

18 And they will stand against Uz-
ziah the king, and say to him, Not to
thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jeho-
vah, but to the priests, the sons of
Aaron, being consecrated to burn in-
cense: go forth from the holy place,
for thou didst trespass; and not to thee
for honor from Jehovah God.

19 And Uzziah will be angry, and
in lis hand a censer to burn incense:
and in his being angry with the priests,
the leprosy rose in his forehead before
the priests in the house of Jehovah,
from above to the altar of incense.

20 And Azariah the head priest will
turn to him, and all the priests, and be-
hold, he was smitten in his forehead,
and. they will drive him out from
thence; and he also hastened to go
forth, for Jehovah struck him.

21 And Uzziah the king will be
smitten even to the day of his death;
and he dwelt ina house of infirmity,
leprous; for he was cut off from the
house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son
over the king’s house, judging the peo-
ple of the land.

22 And the rest of the words of Uz-
ziah, the first and the last, wrote Isaiah
son of Amos the prophet.

28 And Uzziah will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him
with his fathers in the field of the bu-
rial which was to the kings; for they
said, He is leprous: and Jotham his
son will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXVIL
HE son of twenty and five years
was Jotham in his reigning, and
sixteen years reigned he in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name Jerushah,
daughter of Zadok.

2 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah, according to all which
Uzziah his father did: only he came
not into the temple of Jehovah. And
the people yet being corrupted.

3 He built the gate of the house of
Jehovah the highest, and upon the
wall of Ophel he built for multitude.

4 And he built cities in the mount-

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ain of Judah, and in the thickets he
built fortresses and towers.

5 And he waged war with the king
of the sons of Ammon, and he will be
strong against them. And the sons of
Ammon will give to him in that year
a hundred talents of silver, and ten
thousand cors of wheat, and barley ten
thousand. This the sons of Ammon
turned back to him, in the second year,
and the third.

6 And Jotham will be strengthened,
for he prepared his ways before Jeho-
vah his God.

7 And the rest of the words of Jo-
tham, and all his works and his ways,
behold them written upon the’ book of
the kings of Israel and Judah.

8 The son of twenty and five years
was he in his reigning, and sixteen
years reigned he in Jerusalem.

9 And Jotham will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him in
the city of David: and Ahaz his son
will reign in his stead.

CHAPTER XXVIIL
HE son of twenty years was Ahaz
in his reigning, and sixteen years
reioned he in Jerusalem: and he did
not the straight in the eyes of Jehovah
according to David his father.

2 And he will go in the ways of the
kings of Israel, and also molten amages
made he to the Baals.

3 And he burnt incense in the val-
ley of the son of Hinnom, and he will
burn his sons in fire according to the
abomination of the nations which Jeho-
vah dispossessed from before the sons
of Israel.

4 And he will sacrifice and burn in-
cense in the heights, and upon the hills,
and under every green tree.

5 And Jehovah his God will give
him into the hand of the king of Aram ;
and they will strike upon him, and
they will make captives from them a
great captivity, and bring to Darmesek.
And also he was given into the hand
of the king of Israel, and he will strike
upon him a great blow.

6 And Pekah son of Remaliah will
kill in Judah a hundred and twenty
thousand in one day, the whole sons

1. CHRONICLES XXVIII.

of strength ; in their forsaking Jehovah
the God of their fathers.

7 And Zichri a strong one of
Ephraim will kill Maaseiah the king’s
son, and Azrikam leader of the house,
of Elkanah, second to the king.

8 And the sons of Israel will make
captive from their brethren two hund-
red thousand, women, sons and daugh-
ters, and also much spoil they plunder-
ed from them, and they will bring the
spoil to Shomeron.

9 And a prophet to Jehovah was
there, Oded his name: and he will go
forth before the army coming to Sho-
meron, and say to.them, Behold, in the
anger of Jehovah the God of your
fathers upon Judah he gaye them into
your hand, and ye will slay among
them in wrath reaching even to the
heavens.

10 And now ye are saying to sub-
dae the sons of Judah and Jerusalem
for servants and for maids to you: are
not only with you trespasses with you
against Jehovah your God?

11 And now hear me and turn back
the captivity that ye took captive from
your brethren: for the burning of the
anger of Jehovah is upon you.

12 And there will arise wp men from
the heads of the sons of Ephraim, Aza-
riah son of Johanan, Berechiah son of
Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah son of
Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai,
against those coming from the war,

13 And they will say to them, Ye
shall not bring the captivity here; be-
cause for trespass Jehovah is against
us, ye saying to add to our sins and to
our trespass: for great the trespass to
us, and the burning of anger against
Israel.

14 And the armed will leave the cap-
tivity and the plunder before the chiefs
and all the convocation.

15 And men who were distinguished
by names will rise up and will lay hold
upon the captivity, and all their naked
they clothed from the spoil, and they
will clothe them, and shoe them, and
feed them, and give them to drink, and
anoint them, and conduct them upon
asses for all being weak, and bring them
to Jericho the city of palm trees, near

II. CHRONICLES XXIX.

their brethren: and they will turn
back to Shomeron.

16 In that time king Ahaz sent for
the kings of Assur for help to him.

17 And yet the Edomites came and
they will strike in Judah, and take cap-
tive a captivity.

18 And the rovers invaded upon the
cities of the low country, and the south
to Judah, and they will take the house
of the sun, and the oak, and the walls,
and the branches and her daughters,
and the portion assigned and her
daughters, and Gimzo and her daugh-
ters: and they will dwell there.

19 For Jehovah humbled Judah on
account of Ahaz king of Israel: for he
was unbridled upon Judah, and trans-
gressing, he transgressed against Jeho-
vah.

20 And Tilgath-Pileser king of As-
sur, will come to him and he will press
upon him, and he strengthened him
not.

21 For Ahaz divided out the house
of Jehovah, and the king’s house, and
the chiefs, and he will give to the king
of Assur: and not for help to him.

22 And in the time of straits to him

and he will add to transgress against‏ י

' Jehovah: this the king Ahaz.

23 And he will sacrifice to the gods
of Darmesek smiting upon him: and
he will say, Because the gods of the
kings of Aram they help them, to them
will I sacrifice, and they will help me.
And they were to him for stumbling,
and to all Israel.

24 And Ahaz will gather together
the vessels of the house of God, and cut
in pieces the vessels of the house of
God, and shut up the doors of the house
of Jehovah, and he will make to him
altars in every corner in Jerusalem.

25 And in every city and city to Ju-
dah he made heights to burn incense to
other gods, and he will irritate Jeho-
vah the God of his fathers.

26 And the rest of his words and all
his ways, the first and the last, behold
them written upon the book of the kings
of Judah and Israel.

27 And Ahaz will lie down with his
fathers, and they will bury him in the
city in Jerusalem: but they brought

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him not to the graves of the kings of
Israel: and Hezekiah his son will reign
in his stead.

CHAPTER XXIX.
ND Hezekiah reigned the son of
twenty and five years, and twen-
ty and nine years reigned he in Jerusa-
lem. And his mother’s name Abiah,
daughter of Zechariah.

2 And he will do the straight in the
eyes of Jehovah acoording to all which
David his father did.

.8 He, in the first year to his reign,
in the first month, opened the doors of
the house of Jehovah, and he will
strengthen them.

4 And he will bring in the priests
and the Levites, and he will gather them
together to the street of the sunrising,

5 And he will say to them, Hear me,
ye Levites: now consecrate yourselves
and consecrate the house of Jehovah
the God of your fathers, and bring
forth the uncleanness from the holy
place.

6 For our fathers trespassed and did
evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God,
and they will forsake and turn away
their faces from the dwelling of Jeho-
vah, and they will give the neck.

7 Also they shut up the doors of the
porch, and they will put out the lights,
and they burnt not incense, and they
brought not up the burnt-offering in
the holy place to the God of Israel.

8 And the wrath of Jehovah will be
upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he
will give them to disquiet, to astonish-
ment, and to hissing, according to what
ye see with your eyes.

9 And behold, our fathers fell by the
sword, and our sons and our daugh-
ters and our wives in captivity for
this.

10 Now with my heart to cut out a
covenant to Jehovah the God of Israel,
and he will turn back from us the burn-
ing of his anger.

11 My sons, now ye shall not go
astray: for in you Jehovah chose to
stand before him, to serve him, to be
serving to him, and burning incense.

12 And the Levites will rise up, Ma-
hath son of Amasai, and Joel son of

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Azariah, from the sons of the Kohath-
ites: and from the sons of the Merar-
ites: Kish, son of Abdi, and Azariah,
son of Jehalelel: and from the Ger-
shonites: Joah, son of Zimmah, and
Eden, son of Joah:

13 And from the sons of Elizaphan :
Shimri and Jeiel: and from the sons of
Asaph: Zechariah and Mattamiah :

14 And from the sons of Heman:
Jehiel and Shimei: and from the sons
of Jeduthun: Shemai:h and Uazziel.

15 And they will gaiher their breth-
ren, and they will consecrate them-
selves, and they will come according to
the command of the king in the words
of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Je-
hovah.

16 And the priests will come to
within the house of Jehovah to cleanse,
and they will bring forth all the un-
cleanness which they found in the tem-
ple of Jehovah to the enclosure of the
house of Jehovah. And the Levites
will take to bring forth to the torrent
Kidron without.

17 And they will begin in one to the
first month to consecrate, and in the
eighth day to the month they came to
the porch of Jehovah: and they will
consecrate the house of Jehovah for
eight days; and in the sixteenth day
to the first month they finished.

18 And they will come within to
Hezekiah the king, and say, We cleans-
ed all the house of Jehovah, and the
altar of burnt-offering, and all its ves-
sels, and the table of the arrangement
and all its vessels.

19 And all the vessels which king
Ahaz cast away in his kingdom, in his
transgression, we prepared and conse-
erated, and behold them before the al-

‘tar of Jehovah.

20 And Hezekiah the king will rise
early and gather the chiefs of the city,
and he will go up to the house of Je-
hoyah.

21 And they will bring seven bul-
locks and seven rams, and seven lambs,
and seven he goats of the goats for sin,
for the kingdom, and for the holy place,
and for Judah. And he will say to
the sons of Aaron the priests to bring
up upon the altar of Jehovah.

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22 And they will slaughter the oxen,
and the priests will take the blood and
sprinkle the altar : and they will slaugh-
ter the rams, and sprinkle the blood
upon the altar: and they will slaughter
the lambs and sprinkle the blood upon
the altar.

23 And they will bring near the he
goats of the sin before the king and the
convocation; and they will lay their
hands upon them.

24 And the priest will slaughter
them, and expiate the altar with their
blood, to expiate for all Israel: for to
all Israel the king said to bring up the
sin.

25 And he will set wp the Levites in
the house of Jehovah with cymbals,
with lyres and with harps by the com-
mand of David, and Gad, the kine’s
seer, and Nathan the prophet: for by
the hand of Jehovah the command by
the hand of his prophets.

26 And the Levites will stand with
all the instruments of David, and the
priests with trumpets.

27 And Hezekiah will say to bring
up the burnt-offering to the altar. And
in the time of beginning to bring up,
the song of Jehovah began, and the
trumpets, and upon the hands of the in-
struments of David king of Israel.

28 And all the convocation worship-
ing, and the song singing, and the trum-
pets trumpeting: the whole eyen to
finishing the burnt-offering.

29 And as they finished to bring up,
the king and all being found with him,
bowed and worshiped.

80 And Hezekiah the king, and the
chiefs, will say, to the Levites to praise to
Jehovah in the words of Dayid, and
Asaph the seer. And they will praise
even to gladness, and they will bow
down and worship.

81 And Hezekiah will answer and
say, Now ye filled your hand to Jeho-
vah, draw near and bring sacrifices and
praises to the house of Jehovah. And
the convocation will bring sacrifices and
praises; and all of a willing heart,
burnt-offerings. = |

32 And the number of the burnt-of-
ferings which the convocation brought,
will be seventy oxen, a hundred rams,

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two hundred lambs: all these for a
buint-offering to Jehovah.

33 And the consecrated things, six
hundred oxen and three thousand
sheep.

34 Only the priests were for fewness
and they could not slaughter all the
burnt-offerings: and their brethren the
Levites will strengthen them till the
finishing of the work, and till the priests
shall consecrate themselves: for the
Levites being upright of heart to con-
secrate themselves more than 6
priests.

80 And also the burnt-offering for
multitude, with the fat of the peace of-
ferings, and with the libations for the
burnt-offering. And the service of the
house of Jehovah will be prepared.

86 And Hezekiah will rejoice, and
all the people, for God prepared for the
people: for the word was in sudden-
ness.

CHAPTER .אאא‎

ND Hezekiah will send to all Is-
efi rael and Judah, and also he wrote
letters to Ephraim and Manasseh to
come to the house of Jehovah in Jeru-
salem, to do the passover to Jehovah
the God of Israel.

2 And the king will take counsel,
and his chiefs, and all the convocation
in Jerusalem, to do the passover in the
second month.

3 For they could not do it at that
time for the priests consecrated not
themselves sufficiently, and the people
were not gathered to Jerusalem.

4 And the word will be straight in
the eyes of the king, and in the eyes of
all the convocation.

5 And they will set up a word to
cause a voice to pass in all Israel, from
the well of the oath, and even to judg-
ment, to come to do the passover to Je-
hovah God of Israel in Jerusalem: for
they did not for much time as written.

6 And the runners will go with the
letters from the hand of the king and
his chiefs in all Israel and Judah, and
according to the command of the king,
saying, Ye sons of Israel, turn back to
Jehovah the God of Abraham, Tsaak
and Israel, and he will turn back to the

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escaping being left to you from the
hand of the king of Assur.

7 And ye shall not be as your fa-
thers and as your brethren who tres-
passed against Jehovah the God of their
fathers, and he will give them to deso-
lation according to what ye see.

8 Now ye shall not harden your neck
as your fathers ; ye shall give the hand
to Jehovah, and come ye into his holy
place which he consecrated forever:
and serve ye Jehovah your God, and
he will turn back from you the burning
of his anger.

9 For in your turning back to Jeho-
vah, your brethren and your sons are
for compassions before them making
them captive, to turn back to this land:
for Jehovah your God being merciful
and compassionate, and he will not
turn away his face from you if ye shall
turn back to him.

10 And the runners will be passing
from city to city in the land of Ephra-
im and Manasseh, and even to Zebu-
lon: and laughing upon them, and de-
riding over them.

11 But men from Asher and Manas-
seh, and from Zebulon, were sane
and they will come to Jerusalem,

12 Also in Judah was the hand of
God to give to them one heart to do
the commands of the king and the
chiefs by the word of Jehovah.

13 And there will gather together
many people at Jerusalem to do the fes-
tival of the unleavened in the second
month, a convocation for exceeding
greatness.

14 And they will rise and take away
the altars which were in Jerusalem,
and the censers they removed, and they
will cast to the torrent Kidron.

15 They will slaughter the passover
in the fourteenth to the second month:
and the priests and the Levites were
ashamed, and they will consecrate them-
selves and bring burnt-offerings to the
house of Jehovah.

16 And they will stand upon their
standing according to their judgment,
according to the law of Moses the man
of God: the priests sprinkling the
bloods from the hand of the Levites.

17 For many in the convocation

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which consecrated not themselves: and
the Levites for slaughtering the pass-
over to all not being cleansed to con-
secrate to Jehovah.

18 For a multitude of the people,
many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Is-
sachar and Zebulon, were not cleansed,
for they ate the passover not as writ-
ten. But Hezekiah prayed for them,
saying, Jehovah the good will expiate
in behalf

19 Of every one preparing his heart
to seek God, Jehovah the God of his
fathers, and not according to the purifi-
cation of the holy place.

20 And Jehovah will hear to Heze-
kiah and he will heal the people.

21 And the sons of Israel, those
found in Jerusalem, will do the festival
of the unleavened seven days, in great
gladness: and the priests and the Le-
vites praising to Jehovah day by day
with instruments of strength to Jehovah.

22 And Hezekiah will speak to the
heart of all the Levites considering the
good knowledge to Jehovah: and they
will eat at the appointment seven days,
sacrificing sacrifices of peace, and con-
fessing to Jehovah the God of their fa-
thers.

23 And all the convocation will take
counsel to do other seven days: and
they will do seven days with gladness.

24 For Hezekiah king of Judah lifted
up to the convocation a thousand bul-
locks and seven thousand sheep; and
the chiefs lifted up to the convocation
a thousand bullocks and ten thousand
sheep: and the priests will consecrate
themselves to a multitude.

25 And all the convocation of Judah
will rejoice, and the priests and the Le-
vites, and all the convocation coming
from Israel, and the strangers coming
from the land of Israel, and those dwell-
ing in Judah.

26 And there will be great gladness
in Jerusalem: for from the days of
Solomon son of David king of Israel
there was not as this in Jerusalem.

27 And the priests the Levites will
rise up and bless the people: and he
will hear to their voice, and their pray-
er will come to the dwelling of his holy
place to the heavens.

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CHAPTER ΧΧΧΙ.

ND as all this was finished, all

Israel being found will go forth

to the cities of Judah, and they will

break the images and cut off the statues

and tear down the heights, and the al-

tars of all Judah and Benjamin, and in

Ephraim and Manasseh even to finish-

ing. And all the sons of Israel will

turn back each to his possession to their
cities.

2 And Hezekiah will set up the di-
visions of the priests and the Levites
for their divisions each according to the
mouth of his service to the priests and
to the Levites for the burnt-offering
and for the peace, to serve and to con-
fess and to praise, in the gates of the
camp of Jehovah.

3 And the portion of the king from
his possessions for the burnt-offerings,
for the burnt-offerings of the morning
and the evening, and the burnt-offer-
ings for the Sabbaths, and for the new
moons, and for the appointments ac-
cording as written in the law of Jeho-
vah.

4 And he will say to the people, to
those inhabiting Jerusalem, to give the
portion of the priests and the Levites
so that they shall be strengthened in
the law of Jehovah.

5 And when the word broke forth,
the sons of Israel increased the first-
fruits of the grain, the new wine and
the new oil, and honey, and all the
produce of the field; and the tenth of
all they brought in for abundance.

6 And the sons of Israel and Judah
dwelling in the cities of Judah, also
they brought in the tenth of oxen and
sheep, and the tenth of the holies being
consecrated to Jehovah their God, and
they will give heaps, heaps.

7 In the third month the heaps began
to be founded, and in the seventh
month they were finished.

8 And Hezekiah and the chiefs will
come and see the heaps, and they will
praise Jehovah and his people of Israel.

9 And Hezekiah will seek to the
priests and the Levites concerning the
heaps.

10 And Azariah the head priest for
the house of Zadok will say to him,

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and he will say, From the beginning to
bring the oblations into the house of
Jehovah, eating and being filled, and
leaving even to abundance: for Jeho-
vah blessed his people; and that being
left this multitude.

11 And Hezekiah will say to pre-
pare cells in the house of Jehovah ; and
they will prepare,

12 And they will bring in the obla-
tions and the tenth, and the holies, with
faithfulness: and over them the leader
Cononiah the Levite, and Shimei his
brother, the second.

18 And Jehiel and Azaziah and Na-
hath and Asahel and Jerimoth, and
Jozabad, and 19116, and Ismachiah, and
Mahath, and Benaiah, reviewing from
the hand of Conomah and Shimei his
brother, at the appointment of Hezekiah
the king, and Azariah leader of the
house of God.

14 And Kore, son of Imnah the Le-
vite, the gate-keeper to the sunrising
over the voluntaries of God, to give the
oblations of Jehovah, and the holies of
holies.

15 And upon his hand Eden and
Miniamin, and Joshua, and Shemaiah,
Amariah, and Sheeaniah, in the cities of
the priests, with faithfulness, to give to
their brethren by divisions according to
the great, according to the small:

16 Besides their enrolling to males
from the son of three years and aboye,
to all coming to the house of Jehovah,
for the word of a day inits day for
their service in their watches according
to their divisions.

17 And the enrolling of the priests
for the house of their fathers, and the
Levites from the son of twenty years
and above, in their watches, by their
divisions:

18 And to the enrolling upon all
their little ones, their wives and their
sons, and their daughters, for all the
convocation: for in their faithful-
ness they will consecrate themselves
holy:

19 And to the sons of Aaron th
priests in the fields of the area of their
cities, in every city and city, the men
who were distinguished by names to
give gifts to every mdle among the

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priests, and to all the enrolling among
the Levites.

20 And according to this Hezekiah
will do in all Judah, and he will do
the good and the straight and the truth
before Jehovah his God. J

21 And in all the work which he
began in the, service of the house of
God, and in the law and in the com-
mand to seek to his God, with all his
heart he did, and prospered.

CHAPTER XXXII.
FTER these words and the truth,
eame Senherib king of Assur,
and he will come into Judah, and will
encamp against the fortified cities, and
say to divide them for himself.

2 And Hezekiah will see that Senhe-
rib came, and his face for war against
Jerusalem.

5 And he will take counsel with his
chiefs and his strong ones to stop the
waters of the fountains which were
without to the city: and they will help
him.

4 And much people will be gathered
together, and they will stop all the
fountains, and the torrent gushing
through the midst of the land, saying,
Wherefore shall the kings of Assur
come and find many waters ?

5 And he will strengthen himself
and build all the wall broken down,
and he will go up upon the towers, and
to without another wall, and he will
strengthen the filling up of the city of
David, and he will make darts for
abundance, and shields.

6 And he will give chiefs of the war
over the people, and he will gather
them together to him to the street of
the gate of the city, and he will speak
to their heart, saying,

7 Be strong and be firm; ye shall
not fear and ye shall not be terrified
from the face of the king of Assur, and
from before all the multitude which are
with him: for with us much more than
with him.

8 With him an arm of flesh; and
with us Jehovah our God to help, and
to war our wars. And the people will
lean upon the words of Hezekiah king
of Judah.

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9 After this Senherib king of Assur
sent his servants to Jerusalem (and he
at Lachish, and all his dominion with
him) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and
against all Judah which were in Jeru-
salem, saying,

10 Thus said Senherib king of As-
sur, Upon what are ye trusting, and
dwelling in the fortress in Jerusalem ?

11 Is not Hezekiah stimulating you
to give yourselves to die by famine
and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God
will deliver us from the hand of the
king of Assur?

12 Did not this Hezekiah remove his
heights, and his altars? and he will say
to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying,
Before one altar shall ye worship and
upon if shall ye burn incense ?

13 Will ye not know what I did, 1
and my fathers, to all the peoples of
the lands? Being able, were the gods
of the nations of the lands able to de-
liver their land from my hand?

14 Who from all the gods of these
nations that my fathers utterly destroy-
ed, which were able to deliver his peo-
Pg from my hand, that your God shall

e able to deliver you from my hand?

15 And now Hezekiah shall not de-
ceive you, and he shall not stimulate
fon according to this, and ye shall not

elieve upon him: for not any God of
any nation and kingdom was able to
deliver his people out of my hand, and
out of the hand of my father: much
less shall your God deliver you out of
my hand.

16 And yet spake his servants against
Jehovah God, and against Hezekiah his
servant.

17 And he wrote letters to reproach
to Jehovah God of Israel, and to say
against him, saying, As the gods of the
nations of the lands who delivered not
their people from my hand, so shall not
the God of Hezekiah deliver his people
from my hand.’

18 And they will call with a great
voice in Judaic to the people of Jeru-
salem which were upon the wall, to
eause them to fear and to terrify them,
so that they shall take the city.

19 And they will speak against the
God of Jerusalem as against the gods of

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the peoples of the land, the work of the
hand of man.

20 And Hezekiah the king will pray,
and Isaiah the prophet, son of Amos, for
this, and they will ery to the heavens.

21 And Jehovah will send a messen-
ger, and he will cut off every strong
one of power, and leader and chief in
the camp of the king of Assur. And
he will turn back with shame of face to
his land. And he will come into the
house of his God, and they coming
forth from his bowels caused him to
fall there by the sword.

22 And Jehovah will save Hezekiah,
and those inhabiting Jerusalem, from
the hand of Senhenb king of Assur,
and from the hand of all, and protect
them from round about.

23 And many bringing a gift to Je-
hovah to Jerusalem, and precious things
to Hezekiah king of Judah: and he
will be lifted up to the eyes of all the
nations from after this.

24 In those days Hezekiah was sick
even to death, and he will pray to Je-
hovah: and he will say to him, and he
gave to him a sign.

25 And not according to the doing to
him did Hezekiah turn back, for his
heart was lifted up: and there will be
wrath upon him, and upon Judah and
upon Jerusalem.

26 And Hezekiah will humble him-
self for the lifting up of his heart, he
and those inhabiting Jerusalem, and the
wrath of Jehovah came not upon tlkem
in the days of Hezekiah.

27 And there will be to Hezekiah
riches and honor exceedingly much:
and he made to him treasuries for silver
and for gold, and for precious stone,
and for spices and for shields, and for
all vessels of desire:

28 And stores for produce of grain
and new wine, and new oil, and stalls
for all cattle, and cattle and flocks for
the stalls.

29 And he made cities to him and
possession of flocks and oxen for abund-
ance: for God gave to him exceeding
much substance.

30 And this Hezekiah stopped the
going forth of the waters of Gihon the
highest, and he will make them straight

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down from the west to the city of Da-
vid. And Hezekiah will prosper in all
his work.

31 Thus in the chiefs of Babel inter-
ceding, sending to him to seek out the
sign which was in the land, God left
him, to try him, to know all in his
heart.

32 And the rest of the words of Hez-
ekiah and his mercies, behold them
written in the vision of Isaiah the
prophet, son of Amos, upon the book of
the kings of Judah and Israel.

88 And Hezekiah will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him in
the ascent of the graves of the sons of
David: and all Judah and those inhab-
iting Jerusalem did honor to him in his
death: and Manasseh his son will reign
in his stead.

CHAPTER XXXIII.
HE son of twelve years was Ma-
nasseh in his reigning, and fifty
and five years he reigned in Jerusalem.

2 And he will do the evil in the eyes
of Jehovah, as the abominations of the
nations which Jehovah dispossessed
from before the sons of Israel.

8 And he will turn back and build
the heights which Hezeliah his father
pulled down; and he will raise up al-
tars for the Baals, and he will make
statues, and worship to all the army of
the heavens, and he will serve them.

4 And he built altars in the house of
Jehovah, which Jehovah said, In Jeru-
salem shall be my name forever.

5 And he will build altars to all the
army of the heavens in the two enclos-
ures of the house of Jehovah.

6 And he caused his sons to pass
through in fire in the valley of the son
of Hinnom: and he practiced magic
and used divination, and offered prayers,
and made sorcerers and wizards: he
multiplied to do evil in the eyes of Je
hovah to irritate him.

7 And he will set up a carved im-
age, the likeness which he made in the
house of God, of which God said to
David and to Solomon his son, In this
house and in Jerusalem which I chose
from all the tribes of Israel, I will set
my name forever.

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8 And I will not add to remove the
foot of Israel from the land which I set
to your fathers; only if they will
watch to do all I commanded them,
for all the law and the precepts and
the judgments by the hand of Moses.

9 And Manasseh will cause Judah
and those inhabiting Jerusalem to wan-
der, to do evil more than the nations
which Jehovah destroyed from before
the sons of Israel.

10 And Jehovah will speak to Man-
asseh, and to his people, and they at-
tended not.

11 And Jehovah will bring upon
them the chiefs of the army which were
to the king of Assur, and they will take
Manasseh with hooks, and they will
bind him with fetters and cause him to
go to Babel.

12 And when straits were to him he
besought the face of Jehovah his God,
and he will humble himself greatly from
before the God of his fathers.

13 And he will pray to him, and he
will be entreated for him, and he will
hear his supplication, and he will turn
him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom.
And Manasseh knew that Jehovah he
is God.

14 And after this he built a wall
outside to the city of David from the
west to Gihon, in the valley to the en-
tering into the gate of fishes, and it
turned round about to the hill, and he
will lift it up greatly, and he will set
chiefs of the army in all the fortified
cities in Judah.

15 And he will remove the strange
gods and the likeness from the house of
Jehovah, and all the altars which he
built in the mountain of the house of
Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and he will
east without to the city.

16 And he will build the altar of Je-
hovah, and he will sacrifice upon it sac-
rifices of peace and praise, and he will
say to Judah to serve Jehovah the God
of Israel.

17 But the people yet are sacrificing
in the height, only to Jehovah their God.

18 And the rest of the words of Man-
asseh, and his prayer to his God, and
the words of the seers speaking to him
in the name of Jehovah the God of Is-

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rael, behold them upon the words of
the kings of Israel.

19 And his prayer, and he was en-
treated for him and all his sin, and his
transgression, and the places where he
built in them heights, and he set up
statues and carved images before his
humbling: behold them written upon
the words of the seers.

20 And Manasseh will lie down with
his fathers, and they will bury him in
his house: and Amon his son will
reign in his stead.

21 The son of twenty and two years
was Amon in his reigning, and two
years he reigned in Jerusalem.

22, And he will do the evil in the
eyes of Jehovah as did Manasseh his
father: and to all the carved images
which Manasseh his father made, Amon
sacrificed, and he will serve them.

23 And he was not humbled from
before Jehovah as Manasseh his father
humbled himself; for this Amon mul-
tiplied trespass.

24 And his servants will conspire
against him, and they will kill him in
his house.

25 And the people of the land will
strike all those conspiring against king
Amon; and the people of the land
will make Josiah his son king in his
stead.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

ΠΕ son of eight years was Josiah

in his reigning, and thirty and one
years he reigned in Jerusalem.

2 And he did the straight in the eyes
of Jehovah, and he went in the ways
of David his father, and he turned not
to the right and to the left.

8 And in the eighth year to his
reigning, and he yet a youth, he began
to seek to the God of David his father:
and in the twelfth year he began to
cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the
heights, and the statues, and the carved
images, and the molten images.

4 And they will pull down the altars
of the Baals before him, and the images
which were above from on high to them
he cut down; and the statues and the
carved images, and the molten images
he break in pieces and beat small, and

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he will strew upon the face of the graves
of those sacrificing to them.

5 And he burnt the bones of the
priests upon their altars, and he will
cleanse Judah and Jerusalem.

6 And in the cities of Manasseh and
Ephraim, and Simeon, and eyen to
Naphtali he proved their houses round
about.

7 And he will pull down the altars
and the statues, and the carved images
he beat down to make fine, and he cut .
down all the images in all the land
of Israel, and he will turn back to Je-
rusalem.

8 And in the eighteenth year to his
reigning, to cleanse the land and the
house he sent Shaphan son of Azaliah,
and Maaseiah chief of the city, and
Joah son of Joahaz the rememberer to
strengthen the house of Jehovah his
God.

9 And they will come to Hilkiah the
great priest, and they will give the sil-
ver being brought to the house of God,
which the Levites watching the thresh-
old gathered from the hand of Manas-
seh and Ephraim, and from all the rem-
nant of Israel, and from all Judah and
Benjamin ; and they will turn back to
Jerusalem.

10 And they will give to the hand
of those appointed to do the work in
the house of Jehovah, and they will
give it to those doing the work, work-
ing in the house of Jehovah to repair
and to strengthen the house.

11 And they will give to the artifi-
cers and to the builders to buy stones
and woods for junctions, and to frame
the houses which the kings of Judah
destroyed.

12 And the men doing in the work in
faithfulness: and over them being ap-
pointed Jahath and Obadiah the Levites
from the sons of Merari; and Zechariah
and Meshullam from the sons of the
Kohathites to superintend ; and the Le-
vites all understanding in instruments
of song.

18 And over those carrying, and su-
perintending to all doing the work for
service and service: and from the Le-
vites, scribes and leaders and gate-keep-
ers.

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14 And in their bringing forth the
silver being brought to the house of
Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the
book of the law of Jehovah by the hand
of Moses.

15 And Hilkiah will answer and say
to Shaphan the scribe, I found a book
of the law im the house of Jehovah.
And Hilkiah will give the book to
Shaphan.

16 And Shaphan will bring the book
to the king, and he will yet turn back
word to the king, saying, All which
was given into the hand of thy servants,
they do.

17 And they will pour out the silver
being found in the house of Jehovah,
and “they will give it to the hand of
those reviewing, and to the hand of
those domg the work.

18 And Shaphan the scribe will an-
nounce to the king, saying, Hilkiah the
priest gave a book tome. And Sha-
phan will read in it before the king.

19 And it will be when the king
heard the words of the law, and he will
rend his garments.

20 And the king will command Hil-
ldah, and Ahikam son of Shaphan, and
Abdon son of Micah, and Shaphan the
scribe, and Asaiah servant of the king,
saying,

21 Go seek Jehovah for me, and for
those being left in Israel and in Judah,
concerning the words of the book which
was found: for great the wrath of Je-
hoyah which is poured out upon us,
because our fathers watched not the
word of Jehovah to do according to all
wriften upon this book.

22 And Hilkiah will go, and those
of the king, to Huldah the prophetess,
wife of Shallum son of Tikvyath, son of
Hasrah, watching the garments ; (and
she will dwell in Jerusalem in the sec-
ond rank) and they will speak to her
according to this.

23 And she will say to them, Thus
said Jehovah God of Israel, Say to the
man who sent you to me,

24 Thus said Jehovah, Behold me
bringing evil upon this place, and upon
its inhabitants, all the curses written
upon the book which they read before
the king of Judah:

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25 Because that they forsook me,
and they will burn incense to other
gods, so that they irritated me with all
the works οἵ their hands; and my
wrath shall be poured out ‘upon this
place, and it shall not be quenched.

26 And to the king of Judah sending
you to seek in Jehov ah, thus shall ye
say to him, Thus said Jehovah God “of
Israel the words which thou hear dest ;

27 Because thy heart was tender, ἘΠῚ
thou wilt be humbled from before God
in thy hearing his words against this
place and against its inhabitants, and
thou wilt be humbled before me, and
thou wilt rend thy garments and weep
before me; I also heard, says Jehovah.

98 Behold me gathering thee to thy
fathers, and thou wert gathered to thy
graves in peace, and thine eyes shall
not look upon all the evil which 1
bring upon this place and upon its in-
habitants. And they will turn back
word to the king,

29 And the king will send and gather
together all the o Id ‘men of Judah and
Jerusalem.

80 And the king will go up to the
house of Jehovah, ‘and all the men of
Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
and the priests and the Levites, and all
the people, from great and even to
small: and he will read in their ears all
the words of the book of the covenant
being found in the house of Jehovah.

31 And the king will stand upon his
standing, and he will cut out a cove-
nant before Jehovah to go after Jeho-
vah and to watch his commands and
his testimonies, and his laws with all
his heart and with all his soul, to do
the words of the covenant being written
upon this book.

32 And he will cause to stand all
being found in Jerusalem and Benja-
min. And they inhabiting Jerusalem
will do according to the covenant of
God, the God of their fathers.

88 And Josiah will remove all the
abominations out of all the lands which
were to the sons of Israel, and he will
cause to serve all being found in Israel,
to serve Jehovah their God. All his
days they departed not from after Je-
hoyah the God of their fathers.

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CHAPTER טאאא‎
ND Josiah will do in Jerusalem
the passover to Jehovah: and
they will slaughter the passover in the
fourteenth day to the first month.

2 And he will cause the priests to
stand upon their watches, and he will
strengthen them to serve the house of
Jehovah.

3 And he will say to the Levites
causing to all Israel to understand, being
consecrated to Jehovah, Ye shall give
the holy ark into the house which Sol-
omon son of David, king of Israel
built: not to you a lifting up upon the
shoulder: now serve ye Jehovah your
God, and his people Israel.

4 And prepare yourselves to the
house of your fathers in your divisions,
in the writing of David king of Israel,
and in the writing of Solomon his son:

5 And stand ye in the holy place for
the divisions of the house of the fathers
to your brethren the sons of the people,
and the division of the father’s house
to the Levites.

6 And slaughter ye the passover and
consecrate yourselves, and prepare for
your brethren to do according to the
word of Jehovah by the hand of Moses.

7 And Josiah will lift up to the sons
of the people, sheep, lambs and sons of
the goats, the whole for the paschal
lambs for all being found to the num-
ber of thirty thousand, and three thou-
sand oxen: these from the king’s sub-
stance.

8 And his chiefs for willingness to
the people, to the priests and to the Le-
vites, lifted up: Hilkiah and Zechari-
ah and Jehiel, leaders of the house of
God, gave to the priests for paschal
lambs, two thousand and six hundred,
and three hundred oxen.

9 And Cononiah and Shemaiah, and
Nathaniel his brethren, and Hashabiah,
and Jeiel, and Jozabad, chiefs of the
Levites, lifted up to the Levites for
paschal lambs, five thousand, and five
hundred oxen.

10 And the service will be prepared,
and the priests will stand upon their
standing, and the Levites upon their
divisions according to the command of
the king.

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11 And they will slaughter the pass-
over, and the priests will sprinkle from
their hand, and the Levites flaying,

12 And they will remove the burnt-
offering to give them to the divisions
for the house of the fathers to the sons
of the people, to bring near to Jehovah
according to the writing in the book of
Moses. And thus to the oxen.

13 And they will reast the passover
in fire according to judgment: and the
holy things they cooked in pots and in
boilers, and in dishes, and they will
cause to run to all the sons of the peo-

14 And afterward they prepared for
themselves and for the priests: for the
priests the sons of Aaron in bringing vp
the burnt-offering and the fat, even till
night; and the Levites prepared for
themselves and for the priests the sons
of Aaron.

15 And those singing, sons of Asaph,
upon their station according to the com-
mand of David, and Asaph, and He-
man, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and
the porters at gate and gate; not for
them to depart from their service ; for
their brethren the Levites prepared for
them.

16 And all the service of Jehovah
will be prepared in that day to do the
passover, and bring up the burnt-offer-
ings upon the altar of Jehovah, ac-
cording to the command of the king
Josiah.

17 And the sons of Israel being
found will do the passover in that time,
and the festival of the unleavened
seven days.

18 And a passover as this was not
done in Israel from the days of Samuel
the prophet; and all the kings of Israel
did not like the passover which Josiah
did, and the priests and the Levites,
and all Judah and Israel being found,
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

19 In the eighteenth year to the
kingdom of Josiah was done this pass-
over.

20 After all this, when Josiah pre-
pared the house, Necho king of Egypt
came up to war against Carchermish
upon Phrath: and Josiah will go forth
to meet him.

II. CHRONICLES XXXVI.

21 And he will send messengers to
him, saying, What to meand to thee,
thou king of Judah? Not against thee
this day, but against the house of my
war: and God said to hasten me:
cease to thyself from God who is with
me, and he will not destroy thee.

22 And Josiah turned not his face
from him, but to fight with him he dis-
guised himself, and he heard not to the
words of Necho from the mouth of God ;
and he will go forth to fight in the val-
ley of Megiddo.

23 And the archers will shoot at
king Josiah; and the king will say to
his servants, Cause me to pass away ;
for I was made sick greatly.

24 And his servants will cause him to
pass from the chariot, and they will
cause him to ride in the second chariot
which was to him; and they will cause
him to go to Jerusalem, and he will die,
and be buried in the graves of his
fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem
mourning for Josiah.

25 And Jeremiah will lament for Jo-
siah: and all the singing men and sing-
ing women will speak concerning Josi-
ah in their lamentations, even to this
day, and they will give them for a law
upon Israel: and behold them written
upon the lamentations.

26 And the rest of the words of Jo-
siah and his mercies as written in the
law of Jehovah,

27 And his words, the first and the
last, behold them written upon the book
of the kings of Israel and Judah.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Λ ND the people of the land will

\ take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and
make him king instead of his father in
Jerusalem.

2 The son of three and twenty years
was Jehoahaz in his reigning, and three
months reigned he in Jerusalem.

3 And the king of Egypt will remove
him in Jerusalem, and he will amerce
the land a hundred talents of silver and
a talent of gold.

4 And the king of Egypt will make
Eliakim his brother king over Judah
and Jerusalem, and he will turn his
name to Jehoiakim. And Necho will

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take Jehoahaz his brother and bring
him to Egypt.

5 The son of twenty and five years
was Jehoiakim in his reigning, and
eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem:
and he will do evil in the eyes of Jeho-
vah his God.

6 Against him came up Nebuchad-
nezzar king of Babel, and he will bind
him in fetters to cause him to go to
Babel.

7 And from the vessels of the house
of God Nebuchadnezzar brought to Ba-
bel, and he will give them into his tem-
ple in Babel.

8 And the rest of the words of Jeho-
iakim, and his abominations which he
did, and that being found upon him,
behold them written upon the book of
the kings of Israel and Judah. And
Jehoiachin his son will reign in his
stead.

9 The son of eight years was Jehoia-
chin in his reigning, and three months
and ten days reigned he in Jerusalem:
and he will do the evil in the eyes of
Jehovah.

10 And at the return of the year
king Nebuchadnezzar sent and he will
bring him to Babel, with the vessels of
desire of the house of Jehovah, and he
will make Zedekiah his brother king
over Judah and Jerusalem.

11 The son of twenty and one years
was Zedekiah in his reigning, and
eleven years reigned he in Jerusalem.

12 And he will do the evil in the
eyes of Jehovah his God; he was not
humbled from before Jeremiah the
prophet from the mouth of Jehovah.

13 And also he rebelled against king
Nebuchadnezzar who caused him to
swear by God: and he will harden his
neck and strengthen his heart from
turning back to Jehovah the God of
Israel.

14 Also all the chiefs of the priests
and the people multiplied to transgress
transgression according to all the abom-
inations of the nations; and they will
defile the house of Jehovah which he
consecrated in Jerusalem.

15 And Jehovah the God of their
fathers will send to them by the hand
of his messengers, rising early and send-

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ing; for he compassionated upon his
people, and upon his dwelling:

16 For they will be mocking upon
the messengers of God, and despising
his words, and scoffing at his prophets,
even to the bringing up the wrath of
Jehovah against his people, eyen to no
healing.

17 And he will bring against them
the king of the Chaldeans, and he will
kill their chosen with the sword in the
house of the holy place, and he pitied
not over young man and virgin, old man
and the gray-headed: he gave all into
his hand.

18 And all the vessels of the house
of God, great and small, and the treas-
ures of the house of Jehovah, and the
treasures of the king and his chiefs, he
brought the whole to Babel.

19 And they will burn the bouse of
God and break down the walls of Jeru-
salem, and burn all her palaces in fire,
and all her precious vessels for destruc-
tion.

IL CHRONICLES XXXVI.

20 And the remainder from the sword
he will carry away captive to Babel;
and they will be to him and to his sons
for servants, even to the reigning of the
kingdom of Persia :

21 To fill up the word of Jehovah in
the mouth of Jeremiah, till the land de-
lighted in her Sabbaths: all the days
she was laid waste she rested, to com-
plete seventy years.

22 And in the year one to Cyrus
king of Persia, to complete the word of
Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah,
Jehovah roused up the spirit of Cyrus
king of Persia, and he will cause a
voice to pass in all his kingdom, and
also in writing, saying,

23 Thus said Cyrus king of Persia,
All the kingdoms of the earth gave Je-
hovah the God of the heavens to me;
and he charged upon me to build to
him a house in Jerusalem which is in
Judah. Who among you from all his
people? Jehovah his God be with
him, and he shall go up.

THE

NEW TESTAMENT

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MATTHEW.

CHAPTER 1.
HE book of the generation of

Jesus Christ, son of David, son of
Abraham.

2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac
begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas
and his brethren ;

3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara
of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom ;
and Ksrom begat Aram;

+ An! Aram bezat Aminadab; and
Aiminadib begat Naasson; and Na-
assun begat Salmon ;

5 And Salmon begat Booz of Ra-
chab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth ;
and Obved begat Jesse;

6 And Jesse begat David the king ;

and David the king begat Solomon of
her of Urias ;

7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and
Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat
Asa;

8 And Asa begat Josaphat ; and Jos-
aphat begat Joram; and Joram begat
)(2188 ;

9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and
Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz be-
gat Ezekias ;

10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and
Manasses begat Amon; and Amon be-
git Josias;

11 And Josias begat Jechonias and
his brethren upon the transferring of
Babylon ;

12 And after the transferring of Bab-
ylon Jechonias begat Salathiel; and
Salathiel begat Zorobabel ;

13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud ; and
Abind begat Eliakim; and Eliakim
begat Azor;

14 And Azor begat 08000 ; and Sa-
doc begat Achim; and Achim begat
Eliud ;

15 And Elind begat Eleazar; and
Eleazar begat Matthan ; and Matthan
> begat Jacob ;

16 And Jacob begat Joseph the hus-
band of Mary, of whom was born Je-
sus, being called Christ, the anointed.

17 Therefore all the generations
from Abraham to David, fourteen gen-
erations; and from David to the trans-
ferring of Babylon, fourteen genera-
tions; and from the transferring of
Babylon to Christ, fourteen genera-
tions.

18 And the generation of Jesus
Christ was thus: for Mary his mother
haying been betrothed to Joseph, be-
fore they came together she was found
with child by the Holy Ghost.

19 And Joseph her husband being
just, and not willing to expose her to
disgrace, wished to let her go in secret.

20 And reflecting upon these things,
behold a messenger of the Lord ap-
peared to him saying, Joseph, thou son
of David, thou shouldest not fear to
take to thyself Mary thy wife: for
that begotten in her is of the Holy
Spirit.

21 And she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for
he shall save his people from their
sins.

22 And the whole of this has been
that it might becompleted having been
spoken by the prophet, saying,

23 Behold, the virgin shall be with
child, and shall bring forth a son, and
they shall call his name Emmanuel,
which is, being interpreted, God with
us.
24 And Joseph having awaked from
sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord
commanded him :

25 And he took to himself his wife,
and knew her not till she brought forth
her first born son: and he called his
name Jesus.

CHAPTER זז‎

ND Jesus born in Bethlehem of
Judea in the days of Herod the
king, behold the magi from the sun-
risings arrived in Jerusalem, saying:
2 Where is he born King of the

Jews? for we have seen his star in the
sunrising, and have come to worship
him.

3 And Herod the king having heard,
was stirred up, and all Jerusalem with
him.

4 And assembling all the chief
priests and scribes of the people, he
inquired of them where Christ should
be born.

5 And they said to him, In Bethle-
hem of Judea: for thus has it been
written by the prophet :

6 And thou Bethlehem, land of Ju-
dah, by no means art thou least among
the leaders of Judah; for out of thee
shall come forth the leader, who shall
feed my people.

7 Then Herod having secretly called
for the magi, searched thoroughly
from them the time of the star ap-
pearing.

8 And having sent them to Bethle-
hem, he said, Having gone, examine
thoroughly concerning the child; and
when ye should find, announce ye to
me, so that 1 also, having gone, will wor-
ship him.

9 And they having heard the king
went forth; and, behold the star they
saw in the sunrising, it led before them,
till having come, it stood above where
the young child was.

10 And seeing the star, they rejoiced
with great joy exceedingly.

11 And having come into the house,
they found the young child with Mary
his mother, and having fallen, they
worshipped him; and having opened
their treasures they brought forward to
him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and
myrrh.

12 And having received intimation
of the divine willin a dream not to
turn back to Herod, by another way
they went back to their own country.

13 And they, having gone back, lo,
the messenger of the Lord appears ina
dream to Joseph, saying, Having risen,
take to thyself the young child and his
mother, and flee into Egypt, and be
there till I speak to thee; for Herod is
about to seek the young child to de-
stroy him.

MATTHEW IL, III.

14 And having risen, he took to him-
self the young child and his mother by
night, and turned back in Egypt :

15 And was there till the death of
Herod: that it might be completed hav-
ing been spoken by the Lord through
the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have
1 691160 my son.

16 Then Herod, seeing he was delu-
ded by the magi, was very angry, and
having sent, destroyed all the children
which in Bethlehem, and in all its
bounds, from two years and under, 80-
cording to the time he examined thor-
oughly of the magi.

17 Then was completed that spoken
by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

18 A voice was heard in Rama,
wailing, and weeping, and much lamen-
tation; Rachel weeping for her children,
and would not be comforted, for they
are not.

19 And Herod having died, behold
a messenger of the Lord appeared in a
dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

20 Having risen, take to thyself the
young child and his mother, and go
into the land of Israel; for they seek-
ing the soul of the young child have
died.

21 And having risen, he took the
young child and his mother, and came
into the land of Israel.

22 And having heard that Arche-
laus_ reigned over Judea, instead
of Herod his father, he was afraid to
go there ; and having received intima-
tion of the divine will in a dream, he
turned back into the parts of Galilee.

23 And having come, he dwelt in a
city called Nazareth: that it might be
completed spoken by the prophets, That
he shall be called a Nazarite.

CHAPTER III.
אך‎ these days John the Baptist is

present, proclaiming in the desert
of Judea;

2 And saying, Repent, for the king-
dom of the heavens has drawn near.

3 For this is he spoken of by the
prophet Esaias, saying, A voice of him
|erying in the desert, Prepare the way

MATTHEW IIL, IV.

of the Lord ; make his paths straight.

4 And this John had his garment
from camel’s hair, and a leather girdle
about his loins, and his 1000 was locusts
and wild honey.

5 Then went out to him Jerusalem,
and all Judea, and all round about
Jordan ; .

6 And they were immersed in Jor-
dan by him, acknowledging their sins.

7 And seeing many of the Phari-
sees and Sadducees coming to his im-
mersion, he said to them, O generation
of vipers, who has indicated to you to
flee from the wrath about to come?

8 Do ye theretore fruit worthy of
repentance.

9 And think not to say in yourselves
we have Abraham a father; for I say
to you that God can of these stones raise
up children to Abraham.

10 And now also the axe lies at the
root of the trees; therefore every one
not making good fruit is cut off and
cast into fire.

11 I truly immerse you in water to
repentance ; but he coming after me is
stronger than I, whose shoes I am not
fit to lift up; he shall immerse in the
Holy Spirit, and fire ;

12 Whose winnowing fan is in his
hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse
his threshing floor, and gather his
wheat into the store ; but he will burn
down the chaff in inextinguishable
fire.

13 Then Jesus approaches from Gali-
lee to Jordan, to John, to be immersed
by him.

14 And John hindered him, saying,
Ihave need to be immersed by thee,
and dost thou come to me?

15 And Jesus having answered said
to him, Permit now; forso it is suitable
for us to complete all justice : then he
permitted him. —

16 And Jesus, having been im-
mersed, went up straight from the wa-
ter, and, behold, the heavens were
opened to him, and he saw the Spirit
of God descending as a dove, and com-
ing upon him.

17 And behold a voice from the

loved Son, in whom I was contented.

CHAPTER IV.

HEN was Jesus led up by the
Spirit into the desert to be tried
by the devil.

2 And haying fasted forty days and
forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

3 And the tempter having come to
him, said, If thou art the Son of God,
say that these stones should become
bread.

4 And he having answered, said, It
has been written, Man shall not live
by bread alone, but by every word go-
ing forth through the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil takes him into the
holy city, and sets him upon the small
wing of the temple;

6 And says to him, If thou art the
Son of God cast thyself down ; for it
has been written, That to his messen-
gers he will command concerning thee ;
and in the hands shall they lift thee up,
lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot
against a stone.

7 Jesus said to him, Again has it
been written, Thou shalt not tempt
the Lord thy God.

8 Again, the devil takes him into a
very high mount, and shows him all
the kingdoms of the world, and their
glory ;

9 And he says tohim, All these will
I give to thee, if, falling down, thou
wouldst worship me.

10 Then says Jesus to him, Retire,
Satan; for it has been written, The Lord
thy God shalt thou worship, and him

| alone shalt thou serve.

11 Then the devil lets him go, and
behold, the messengers came up, and
they served him.

12 And Jesus having heard that
John was delivered up, went back into
Galilee.

13 And having left Nazareth behind,
having come, he dwelt in Capernaum,
near the sea, in the boundaries of Zabu-
lon and Nephthalim :

14 That it might be completed hay-
ing been spoken through Esaias the

heavens, saying, This is my dearly be- | prophet, saying,

6 MATTHEW IYV., V.

15 The land of Zabulon, and the
land of Nephthalim, the way of the sea
beyond Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

16 The people sitting in darkness
saw a great light; and to them sitting
in the room and shadow of death, light
has sprung np to them.

17 From then Jesus began to pro-
claim, and to say, Repent: tor the king-
dom of the heavens has drawn near.

18 And Jesus, walking about by the
sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Si-
mon being called Peter, and Andrew
his brother, casting a sweep-net into
the sea; for they were fishermen.

19 And he says to them, Come after
me, and 1 will make you the fishermen
of men.

20 And they instantly having let go
their nets, followed him.

21 And having proceeded thence, he

saw other two brethren, James him of

Zebedee, and John his brother, in the
ship with Zebedee their father, adjust-
ing their nets; and he called them.

22 And they having instantly let go
the ship and their father, followed
him.

23 And Jesus went about the whole
of Galilee, teaching in their assemblies,
and proclaiming the good news of the
kingdom, and curing disease, and
every weakness in the people.

24 And a report went forth of him
into the whole of Syria: and they
brought to him all those having inju-
ries, being oppressed by various dis-
eases, and trials, and being under the

influence of a demon, and being luna-

tics, and paralytics, and he cured them.

25 And many crowds followed him
from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jeru-
salem, and Judea, and beyond Jordan.

CHAPTER V.

ND seeing the multitudes, he
went up into a mountain ; and he
having sat down, his disciples came to
him.
2 And having opened his mouth, he
taught them, saying,
3 Happy the poor in spirit: for
their’s is the kingdom of the heavens.

4 Ha they suffering: for the
shall be contorted. A 7

5 Happy the meek: for they shall
inherit the earth.

6 Happy they hungering and thirst-
ing for justice : for they shall be filled.

7 Happy the compassionate: for
they ‘shall be commiserated.

8 Happy the pure in heart: for they
shall see God.

9 Happy they making peace: for
they shall be called sone of Ud:

10 Happy they driven out for jus-
tice: for their’s is the kingdom of the
heavens.

11 Happy are ye, when they shall
upbraid you, and drive you out, and
say every evil word against you, lying,
for my sake.

12 Rejoice and be transported with
joy; for much your reward in the heay-
ens: for so they drove out the prophets
which before you.

13 Ye are the salt of the earth: and
if the ealt be rendered insipid, with
what shall it be salted? it is yet strong
for nothing, except to be cast without,
and to be trodden under foot of men.

14 Yeare the light of the world. A
city cannot be hid, set on a mountain.

15 Neither do they burn a light, and
set it under a basket, but upon a chan-
delier : and 16 chinesto allin the house.

16 So let your light shine before
men, that they see your good works,
and praise your Father, him in the
heavens.

17 Think not that I have come to
abolish the law, or the prophets: for I
have come not to abolish, but to com-
plete.

18 For verily Isay to you, Till heav-
ep pass away, and earth, one iota, or
one mark, should not pass away from
the law, till all should be.

19 Whoever therefore, should loose
one of the least of these commands, and
so teach men, he shall be called least
in the kingdom of the heavens : but who-
ever should do and teach, he shall be
called great in the kingdom of the
heavens. ו‎

20 עס‎ 1 say to you, That except your
justice abound more than the scribes

MATTHEW יצ‎ 7

and Pharisees, ye should not come into
the kingdom of the heavens.

21 Ye have heard that: it was said
to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill: and
whoever should kill shall be subject to
judgement:

22 But 1 say to you, That every one
becoming angry with his brother, shall
be subject to judgment: and. whoever
should say to his brother, Raca, should
be subject to the council: and whoever
should say, O foolish, shall be subject
to a hell of fire.

23 If therefore, thou bring thy gift
upon the altar, and there thou remem-
ber that thy brother has: anything
against thee,

24 Let go there thy gift, before the
altar, and retire; first be reconciled to
thy brother, and then, having come,
bring thy gift.

25 Be kindly disposed to thy oppo-
nent quickly, while thou art in the way
with him, lest thy opponent should
deliver thee to the judge, and the
judge should deliver thee to the assist-
ant, and thou be cast into prison.

26 Verily I say to thee, Thou
shouldst not come out thence, even
till thou shouldst give back the last
fourth.

27 Ye have heard that it was said to
the ancients, Thou shalt not commit
adultery :

28 But 1 say to you, That every one
seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her,
has already committed adultery with
her, in his heart.

29 And if thine eye give thee cause
of offence, take it out, and cast it from
thee: forit is profitable for thee that
one of thy members be destroyed, and
not thy whole body be east into hell.

30 And if thy right hand give thee
cause of offence, cut it off, and cast
from thee; for it is profitable to thee,
that one of thy members should be de-
stroyed, and not thy whole body should
be cast into hell.

31 And it wassaid, That whosoever
should loose his wife, let him give her
a repudiation.

32 But I say to you, That whosoever
shall let go his wife, except for the

reason of adultery; makes her to com-
mitadultery; and whosoever should
marry her having been loosed, commits
adultery.

33 Again, ye have heard, that it was
said to the ancients, Thou shalt not
swear a false oath, and thou shalt re-
turn to the Lord thine oaths.

34 But I say to you, Swear not at
all; neither by heaven, for it is the
throne of God:

35 Neither by the earth; for it is
the footstool of his feet: neither by
Jerusalem, for it. is the city of the
great king.

36 Neither shouldst thou swear by
thy head, for thou canst not make one
hair white or black.

37 But let your word be Yea, yea,
and No, no: but that above this is of
evil.

88 Ye have heard, that it has been
said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth
for a tooth:

39 But I say to you not to resist
evil: but whosoever shall smite thee
with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn
to him also the other.

40 And to him wishing to be
judged with thee, and to take thy coat,
let go to him also thy garment.

41 And whoever shall compel thee
to carry dispatches one mile, go for-
ward with him two.

42 To him asking thee, give thou,
and him wishing to borrow from thee,
thou shouldst not turn away.

43 Ye have heard that it has been
said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and
hate thine enemy.

44 But 1 say to you, Love your ene-
mies, praise them cursing you, do well
to them hating you, and pray for them
threatening you, and driving you out.

45 So that ye might be sons of
your Father, which in the heavens: for
he makes his sun rise upon evil and
good, and rains on the just and unjust.

46 For if ye lovethem loving you,
what reward have you? donotalsothe
tax collectors the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren
only, whatdo ye above ordinary ? and
do not the tax collectors the same?

8 MATTHEW V., VI.

48 Therefore, be ye perfected, as
your Father which is in the heavens is
perfected.

CHAPTER VI.

jee ye not to do your justice be-
fore men, to be seen to them; and
if otherwise ye have no reward from
your Father which in the heavens.

2 When therefore thou doest alms,
thou shouldst not sound the trumpet
before thee, as hypocrites do in the as-
semblies, and in the streets, that they
might be praised by men. Verily I say
to you, They have their reward.

3 But thou doing alms, let not thy
left hand know what thy right does:

4 That thine alms might be in secret ;
and thy Father, who seeing in secret,
shall give back to thee openly.

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt
not be as.the hypocrites; for they love
in the assemblies, and in the corners of
the broad ways to stand praying, so that
they might appear to men. Verily I
say to you, that they have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, en-
ter into thy store-house, and having
shut thy door, pray to thy Father which
in secret ; and thy I’ather who seeing in
secret shall give back to thee openly.

7 And praying, talk ye not vainly
as the nations; for they think that by
their profaneness of speech they shall
be listened to.

8 Therefore make not yourselves like
them: for your Father knows of what
things ye have need before ye ask him.

9 Therefore so do ye pray: Our
Father which in the heavens, Let thy
name be declared holy.

10 Let thy kingdom come. Let thy
will be as in heaven also upon the
earth.

11 Give us this day our bread snffi-
cient for sustenance.

12 And let go.to us our debts, as we
let go to our debtors.

13 And thou shouldst not lead us in-
to temptation, but deliver thou us from
evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

14 For if ye let go to men their

faults, your Father which in the heav-
ens will also let go to you.

15 But if ye should not let go to
men their faults, neither will your
Father let. go your faults.

16 And when ye fast, be not, as
hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they
conceal their faces that they might ap-
pear to men fasting. Verily I say to
you, That they have their reward.

17 And thon fasting, anoint thy
head, and wash thy face ;

18 That thou mightest not appear to
men fasting, but to thy Father which in
secret ; and thy Father which in secret,
will give back to thee openly.

19 Treasure not up to you treasures
upon earth, where moth and gnawing
destroy, and thieves dig through and
steal :

20 But treasure to you treasures in
heaven, where neither moth, nor gnaw-
ing destroy; and where thieves dig not
through, nor steal.

21 For where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.

22 The light of the body is the eye;
if therefore thine eye be single, thy
whole body shall be light.

23 But if thine eye be evil, thy
whole body shall be dark. If therefore
the light which in thee is darkness,
how much the darkness ! :

24 None can serve two lords: for
either he will hate one and love the
other; or hold firmly to one and de-
spise the other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.

25 For this I say to you, Be not anx-
ious about your soul, what ye eat, and
what ye drink; nor about your body,
what ye put on. Is not the soul more
than food, and the body than dress ?

26 Look ye upon the fowls of heay-
en; for they neither sow, nor reap,
nor collect into stores; and your heay-
enly Father nourishes them. Do ye
not rather differ from them ?

27 Which of you, being anxious, can
add one eubit to his size?

28 And about dress, why are ye
anxious ? Consider the white lilies of the
field, how they grow; they are not
wearied, neither do they spin:

MATTHEW VI., VII. 9

29 And I say to you that neither
Solomon in all his glory was surround-
ed as one of these.

30 And if the grass of the field, be-
ing this day, and to morrow cast into
the furnace, God so clothes much
rather you, ye of little faith !

31 Therefore be ye not anxious, say-
ing: Whatshall we eat? or, What shall
we drink? or, What shall we put round
us ?
> 32 For all these the nations seek
for; for your heavenly Father knows
that ye have need of all these.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God
and his justice, and all these shall be
added to you.

34 Therefore should ye not be anx-
ious about the morrow : for the morrow
shall be anxious about the things of it-
self. Sufficient for the day its evil.

CHAPTER VII.

not, that ye be not judged.‏ ו

2 For with what judgment ye
judge, ye shall be judged; and with
what measure ye measure, it shall be
repaid to you.

3 And why seest thou the mote
which is in thy brother’s eye, and the
beam in thine eye thou observest not ?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy broth-
er, Let go: I will cast out the mote
from thine eye: and behold a beam in
thine eye.

5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the
beam from thine eye, and thou shalt
see clearly to cast out the mote from
thy brother’s eye.

6 Ye should not give the holy thing
to dogs, neither should ye cast your
pearls before swine, lest they tread
them down with their feet, and having
turned, should rend you.

7 Ask, and it shall be given you.
Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and
it shall be opened to you.

8 For everyone asking, receives; and
he seeking, finds ; and to him knocking
shall be opened.

9 Or what man is of you, which, if
his son ask bread, he will not give him
a stone?

10 And if he ask a fish, he will not
give him a serpent? -

11 If ye, therefore, being evil, know
to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your Father which
is in the heavens give good things to
those asking him?

12 Therefore all whatever ye would
that men should do to you, 80 also do
ye to them; for this is the law and the
prophets.

13 Enter ye in through the strait
gate, for broad the gate and spacious
the way leading to destruction, and
many are they coming in through it.

14 For strait the gate and afflicted
the way leading into life, and few are
they finding it.

15 And hold from false prophets
which come in to you in sheep’s
dresses, but within they are rapacious
wolves.

16 By their fruits shall ye know
them. Far from it, do they gather
grapes from thorns, or figs from cal-
trops ?

17 So every good tree makes good
fruits; but the rotten tree makes evil
fruits.

18 A good tree cannot make evil
fruits, nor a rotten tree make good
fruits.

19 Every tree not making good fruit
is cut off, and cast into fire.

20 Wherefore from their fruits shall
ye know them.

21 Not every one saying to me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
the heavens; but he doing the will of
my Father who is in the heavens.

22 Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name, and in thy name have we
east out evil spirits, and in thy name
done many powers?

23 And then shall I confess to them
that Inever knew you. Go away from
me, ye working iniquity.

24 Therefore, every one which hears
these my words and does them, I will
liken him toa discerning man which
built his house upon the rock.

25 And the rain descended, and riy-
ers came, and winds blew, and fell upon
that house, and it fell not, for it was
founded upon the rock.

26 And every one hearing these my

words and doing them not, shall be
likened to a foolish man, which built
his house upon sand.

27 And the rain descended, and riv-
ers came, and winds blew, and struck
upon that house, and it fell, and great
was its fall.

28 And it was when Jesus finished
these words, the crowds were struck
with amazement at his teaching:

29 For he was teaching them as hay-
ing power, and not as the scribes.

CHAPTER VIII.

ND having come down from the
mountain, great crowds followed
him.

2 And, behold, a leper, having come,
worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou
wilt thou canst cleanse me.

3 And having stretched forth the
hand, Jesus touched him, saying, I
will; be thou cleansed; and instantly
his leprosy was cleansed.

4 And Jesus says to him, See thou
tell no one; but retire, show thyself to
the priest, and bring near the gift
which Moses commanded, for a testi-
mony to them.

5 And Jesus having entered into
Capernaum, a captain of a hundred
came to him, and beseeching him,

6 And saying, Lord, my seryant has
been laid up in the house a paralytic,
being grievously tormented.

7 And Jesus says to him, I, having
come, will cure him.

8 And the captain of a hundred
having answered said, Lord, I am
not fit that thou shouldest enter in
under my roof: but only say the word,
and my servant shall be healed.

9 For I alsoam a man under power,
having soldiers under me: and I say to

, this, Go, and he goes; and to another,

Come, and he comes; and to my ser-
vant, Do this, and he does.

= 10 And Jesus having heard, admired,
and said to those following, Verily, I
gay to you, not in Israel have I found
such faith.

| 11 AndIsay to you, That many shall
come from the sun-rising and_ the

MATTHEW ,זז‎ VIII.

ham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the king-
dom of the heayens.

12 But the sons of the kingdom shall
be cast out into outer darkness; weep-
ing shall be there, and gnashing of
teeth.

13 And Jesus said to the captain of
a hundred, Retire; as thon hast, be-
lieved, let it be to thee. And. his
servant was healed in that honr.

14 And Jesus, having come into
Peter’s house, saw his mother-in-law
having been laid up, and affected with
fever.

15 And he touched her hand, and
the fever let her go: and she arose,
and served them.

16 And evening being come, they
brought him many possessed with evil
spirits; and he cast out the spirits by
the word, and cured all having evils:
17 So that that spoken by Esaias
the prophet was completed, saying.
He took our weakness, and lifted up
diseases. :

18 And Jesus seeing many crowds
about him, encouraged to go away be-
ond.

19 And one scribe, coming near, said
to him, Teacher, I will follow thee
wherever thou goest.

20 And Jesus says to him, The foxes
have dens, and the fowls of heaven
oceupy nests; but the Son of man has
not where he might recline the head.
21 And another of his disciples said
to him, Lord, permit me first to go and
inter my father.

22 But Jesus said to him, Follow
me; and let the dead inter the dead.
23 And he having gone into a ship,
his disciples followed him.

24 And, behold, a great shaking was
in the sea, so that the ship was covered
by the waves: and he slept.

25 And his disciples, having come
near, awoke him, saying, Lord, save
us: we are lost.

26 And he says to them, Why are ye
timorous, ye of little faith? Then
having risen, he censured the winds
and sea; and there was a great calm.
27 And the men admired, saying, Of
what race is this? for the winds and the

descents, and shall recline with Abra- | sea listen to him.

MATTHEW ΥὙΠΙ|. IX.

28 And he having come beyond the
country of the Gergesenes, two pos-
sessed with evil spirits, coming out of
the tombs, met him, very rough, so that
not any could pass by that way.

29 And, behold, they cried out, say-
ing, What to us and thee, Jesus, Son
of God? hast thou come here to torture
us before the time ?

30 And far off from them was a herd
of many swine grazing.

31 And the evil spirits besought
him, saying, If thou cast us out, permit
us to go away into the herd of swine.

32 And he said to them, Retire.
And having gone, they went away into
the herd of swine: and, beliold, all the
herd of swine rushed down the precipice
into the sea, and died in the water.

33 And they feeding fled; and hav-
ing come into the city, they announced
all things, and those of the possessed
with evil spirits.

34 And, behold, all the city came
forth to the meeting to Jesus: and see-
ing him, they besought that he would
go away from their boundaries.

CHAPTER IX.

ee having entered into aship, he
passed over and -came into his
own city.

2 And, behold, they brought him a
paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus
seeing their faith, said to the paralytic,
Take courage, child; thy sins are let go
to thee.

3 And behold, certain of the scribes
said in themselves, This defames.

4 And Jesus seeing their reflections,
said, Why reflect ye within your
hearts ?

5 For why is it easier to say, Sins
are let go to thee; or say, Arise and
walk ?

6 But that ye might know that the
Son of man has power upon earth to
let go sins, (then he says to the para-
lytic), Having risen, take up thy bed
and retire to thy house.

7 And having risen, he went away
into his house.

8 And the crowds, seeing, admired,
and praised God, giving such power to
men.

9 And Jesus, passing away from
thence, saw a man sitting by the cus-
tom-house, being called Matthew, and
he says to him, Follow me; and hav-
ing risen he followed him.

10 And it was he sitting at table in
the house, and behold, many tax col-
lectors and sinful, having come, sat at
table with Jesus and his disciples.

11 And the Pharisees, seeing, said
to his disciples, Wherefore does your
teacher eat with tax collectors and the
sinful ?

12 And Jesus having heard, said to
them, They being strong have no need
of a physician, but they having evils.

13 And having gone, learn what is
this, 1 wish mercy, and not sacrifice:
for I came not to call the just, but the
sinful to repentance.

14 Then came to him the disciples
of John, saying, Wherefore do we and
the Pharisees fast much, and thy dis-
ciples fast not?

15 And Jesus said to them, The
sons of the nuptial chamber cannot
mourn inasmuch as the bridegroom is
with them; but the days shall come
when the bridegroom shall be taken
away from them, and then shall they
fast.

16 And no one puts on a cover of
uncombed fragment upon an old gar-
ment, for its filling takes away from
the garment, and the division is worse.

17 Neither do they cast new wine
into old wine-skins: but if otherwise,
the wine-skins burst, and the wine is
poured out, and the wine-skins are
destroyed; but they cast new wine
into new wine-skins, and they are both
preserved.

18 Hespeaking these things to them,
behold, a ruler, having come, wor-
shipped him, saying, That my daughter
has just now died: but having come,
put thy hand upon her, and she shall
live.

19 And Jesus having risen, followed
him: also his disciples.

20 And behold, a woman discharg-
ing blood twelve years, having come
near behind, touched the hem of his
garment:

91 For she said in herself, If I
should only touch the hem of his gar-
ment, I shall be saved.

22 And Jesus having turned round,
and seeing her, said, Take courage,
daughter; thy faith has saved thee.
And the woman was saved from that
hour.

23 And Jesus having come into the
ruler’s house, and seeing the ftute
players and the crowd making an up-
roar,

24 He says to them, Give way; for
the girl is not dead but sleeps; and
they mocked him.

25 But when the crowd was driven
forth, having entered, he seized her
hand, and the little girl was awakened.

26 And this report went forth into
that whole land.

27 And Jesus passing from thence,
two blind ones followed him, erying
out and saying, Commiserate us, O son
of David.

28 And having come into the house,
the blind came to him: and Jesus says
to them, Believe ye that I can do this?
They say to him, Yes, Lord.

29 Then touched he their eyes, say-
ing, According to your faith be it to
you.

30 And their eyes were opened ; and
Jesus threatened them, saying, See, let
none know.

31 But they, having gone out, di-
vulged it in that whole land.

32 And they having gone, behold
they brought to him a man dumb,
possessed with an eyil spirit.

33 And the demon being cast out,
the dumb spake, and the crowd ad-
mired, saying, It was never so brought
to light in Israel.

34 But the Pharisees said, By the
chief of demons he casts out. demons.

35 And Jesus went about all the
cities and towns, teaching in their
assemblies, and proclaiming the good
news of the kingdom, and curing
every disease and every weakness in
the people.

36 And having seen the crowds, he
felt compassion for them, for they
were relaxed and dispersed, as sheep
not having a shepherd.

ו
τὸ τς τς τς - τ τ - πε ται‏ ב ה ד מ הד הי

MATTHEW IX., X.

37 Then he says to his disciples,
Truly the harvest much, but the la-
borers few.

38 Implore therefore the Lord of
the harvest, so that he might draw
forth laborers into his harvest.

0 Χ.
ו‎ having 681160 his twelve disci-
ples, he gave them power over un-
clean spirits, to cast them out, and to
cure every disease and every weak-
ness.

2 And the names of the twelve sent
are these: first, Simon, called Peter,
and Andrew his brother; James, he of
Zebedee, and John his brother;

3 Philip, and Bartholomew ; Thomas,
and Matthew the tax collector; James,
he of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, he sur-
named Thaddeus ;

4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas
Iscariot, he also having delivered him
up.
5 These twelve Jesus sent, having
announced to them, saying, Go not in
the way of the nations, and into the
city of the Samaritans enter ye not.

6 But rather go to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.

And going, proclaim, saying, That‏ ד
the kingdom of the heavens has drawn‏
near.‏

8 Cure the sick, cleanse the leprous,
rouse the dead, cast out demons; asa
gift ye have received, as a gift give.

9 Provide not gold, nor silver, nor
brass in your purses ;

10 Nor wallet for the way, nor two
coats, nor shoes, nor rod: for the labor-
er is worthy of his food.

11 And to whatever city or town ye
should come in, examine who in it is
worthy ; and there remain till ye go
forth.

12 And entering into a house, do ye
greet it.

13 And if the honse should be wor-
thy, let your peace come upon it; but
if it be not worthy let your peace re-
turn to you.

14 And whoever should not receive
you, nor hear your words, coming out
of that house or that city, shake off the
cloud of the dust of your feet.

MATTHEW Χ,, XI.

15 Verily I say to you, it shall be
more supportable for the land of Sodom
and Gomorrha in the day of judgment,
than for that city.

16 Behold I send you as sheep in the
midst of wolves; be ye therefore dis-
cerning as serpents, and pure as doves.

17 And hold ye from men: for they
will deliver you up to councils, aad in
their assemblies will they scourge you.

18 And ye shall be brought before
leaders and kings for my sake, for a tes-
timony to them and to the nations.

19 And when they deliver you up,
have no care how or what ye should
speak : for it shall be given you in that
hour what ye shall speak.

20 For ye yourselves are not speak-
ing, but the spirit of your father speak-
ing in you.

21 And brother shall deliver up
brother to death, and father child: and
children shall rise up in revolt against
parents, and kill them.

22 And ye shall be hated by all for
my name: and he having remained to
the end shall be saved.

23 And when they drive you out in
this city, flee ye to another; for verily
Isay to you, Ye shall not finish the
cities of Israel till the Son of man
come.

24 The disciple is not above the
teacher, nor the servant above his lord.

25 Sufficient to the disciple that he
be as his teacher, and the servant as
his lord. If they have called the mas-
ter of the-house Beelzeboul, how much
more those pertaining to his house-
hold ?

26 Therefore fear them not; for
nothing has been covered, which shall
not be revealed; and concealed, that
shall not be known.

27 What I say to you in darkness,
speak ye in light: and what ye hear in
the ear, proclaim upon the houses.

28 And fear not from those killing
the body, and not able to kill the soul:
but rather fear him able to destroy also
soul and body in hell.

29 Are not two little sparrows sold
for a farthing? and one of them shall
not fall to the earth without your Fath-
er. .

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80 And also the hairs of your head
are all numbered.

31 Fear not therefore; ye have the
preéminence over many sparrows.

32 Every one therefore who shall
agree with me before men, | 1 also will
agree with him before my Father, him
in the heavens.

33 But whoever should deny me be-
fore men, him will I also deny before
my Father, him in the heavens.

34 Think not that I came to cast
peace upon earth; I came not to cast
peace, but a sword.

35 For I came to set a man at vari-
ance against his father, and the daugh-
ter against her mother, and the bride
against her mother-in-law.

36 And a man’s enemies, they per-
taining to his household.

37 He loving father or mother above
me, is not worthy of me; and he loving
son or daughter above me, is not wor-
thy of me.

38 And whoever takes not his cross,
and follows after me, is not worthy of
me.

39 He finding his soul shall lose it ;
and he having lost his soul for my sake
shall find it.

40 He receiving you, receives me ;
and he receiving me, receives him send-
ing me.

41 He receiving a prophet in a
prophet’s name, shall receive a proph-
et’s reward; and he receiving the just
in the name of the just, shall take the
reward of the just.

42 And whoever should give to
drink one of these little ones a cup of
cold water only, in the name of a disci-
ple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose:
his reward.

CHAPTER ΧΙ.
ND it was when Jesus finished or-
dering his twelve disciples, he
went away from thence to teach and:
proclaim in all their cities.

2 And John having heard in prison
the works of Christ, having sent two of
his disciples,

3 He said to him, Art thou he com-
ing, or should we look for another ?

4 And Jesus having answered said

14 ᾿ MATTHEW ΧΙ,, XII.

to them, Having gone, announce to
John what ye hear and see:

5 The blind receive sight, and the
lame walk, the leprous are cleansed,
and the deaf hear, the dead are roused,
and the poor have good news announc-
ed.
6 And happy is he who shall not
give cause of offence in me.

7 And these going forth, Jesus began
to say to the crowds concerning John,
What went ye forth into the desert to
see? A reed shaken by the wind ?

8 But what went ye out to see? A
man clad in soft garments? but they
having soft things are in king’s houses.

9 But what went ye out to see? A
prophet? yes, 1 say to you, and more
eminent than a prophet.

10 For this is he for whom it was
written, Behold, I send my messenger
before thy face, who shall prepare thy
way before thee.

11 Verily Isay to you, in the be-
gotten of women has there not risen a
greater than John the Immerser; but
the less in the kingdom of the heavens
is greater than he.

12 From the days of John the Im-
merser till now the kingdom of the
heavens is achieved by force, and they
committing violence seize it eagerly.

13 For all the prophets, and the
law prophesied till John.

14 And if ye will receive, this is
Elias, he about to come.

15 He having ears to hear, let him
hear.

16 To what shall [liken this genera-
tion? it is like little boys sitting in
market-places, and calling to their com-
panions,

17 And saying, We played the flute
to you, and ye moved not; we lament-
ed to you, and ye lamented not.

18 For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say, He has an eyil
spirit.

19 The Son of man came eating and
drinking, and they say, Behold a man
a glutton, and wine drinker, a friend
of publicans and sinful; and wisdom
has been justified from her children.

- 20 Then began he to blame the cities
in which were his greatest powers, be-
cause they repented not.

21 Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to
thee, Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and Si-
don had been the powers being in you,
long since had they repented in sack-
cloth and ashes.

22 But I say to you, To Tyre and Si-
don shall it be more supportable in the
day of judgment, than to you.

23 And thou, Capernaum, lifted up
even to heaven, thou shalt be brought
down to hades: for if in the people of
Sodom had been the powers being in
thee, they had remained till this day.

24 But I say to you, That to the Jand
of Sodom it shall be more supportable
in the day of judgment, than to you.

25 In that time Jesus having an-
swered, said, I acknowledge to thee, Ὁ
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for
thou hast hidden these things from the
wise and intelligent, and revealed them
to children.

26 Yes, Father : for so was it beneyo-
lence before thee.

27 All things were deliyered to me
by my Father; and none knows the
Son, except the Father; nor knows
any one the Father, except the Son,
and to whom the Son will reveal.

28 Come to me, all ye wearied and
loaded, and I will cause you to rest.

29 Lift up my yoke upon yon, and
learn from me; for I am meek and
humble in heart; and ye shall find
rest to your souls.

30 For my yoke is useful, and my
load is light.

CHAPTER XII.
ו‎ time Jesus went in the sab-
baths through the standing corn;
and his disciples were hungry, and be-
gan to pluck the ears, and eat.

2 And the Pharisees, seeing, said to
him, Behold, thy disciples do what is
not lawful to do in the sabbath.

3 And he said to them, Have ye not
read what David did, when he was
hungry, and they with him ;

4 How he went into the house of
God, and ate the loaves of setting up,
which was not lawful for him to eat,
nor those with him, but for the priests
alone?

5 Or have ye not read in the law,
that in the sabbaths, the priests in the

MATTHEW XII.

temple profane the sabbath, and are in-
nocent 4

6 But I say to you, That he here is
greater than the temple.

7 And if ye knew what it is, I will
mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not
have condemned the innocent.

8 For the Lord of the sabbath is also
the Son of man.

9 And having passed from thence,
he went into their assembly ;

10 And, behold, there was a man
having the hand withered. And they
asked him saying, Is it lawful to cure
in the sabbaths? that they might ex-
pose him.

11 And he said to them, Which of
you shall be the man who shall have
one sheep, and if this should fall into a
pit in the sabbaths, will he not take
hold of it, and raise it up?

12 How much then does a man sur-
pass a sheep? So that it is lawful to do
well in the sabbaths.

13 Then says he to the man, Stretch
out thy hand; and he stretched it out;
and it was restored, sound as the other.

14 And the Pharisees took counsel
against him, having gone out, that they
might kill him.

15 And Jesus having known, with-
drew from thence; and many crowds
followed him, and he cured them all;

16 And he rebuked them that they
should not make him known:

17 Sothat that spoken by the proph-
et Esaias might be completed, saying,

18 Behold my servant, which I have
chosen: my dearly beloved, in whom
my soul was contented; I will put my
spirit upon him, and he shall proclaim
judement to the nations.

19 He shall not contend, nor ery;
nor shall any hear his voice in the
streets.

20 He shall not break a bruised reed,
and smoking flax shall he not quench,
till he should draw forth judgment to
victory. ;

21 And in his name shall the nations
hope.

22 Then he possessed with a demon,
blind, and dumb, was bronght to him;
and he cured him, so that the blind and
dumb spake and saw also,

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23 And all the crowds were affected,
and said, Is not this the son ot David?

24 But the Pharisees, having heard,
said, He casts not out demons, but by
Beelzebub, ruler of demions.

25 And Jesus knowing their reflec-
tions, said to them, Every kingdom
divided against itself is laid waste ; and
every city or house divided against it-
self shall not stand.

26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he
was divided against himself; how then
shall his kingdom stand ¢

27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out
demons, by whom do your sons cast out?
for this shall they be your judges.

28 but if I, by the Spirit of God,
cast out demons, the kingdom of God
has come before hand upon you.

29 Or how ean any one come into the
house of the strong, and plunder 8
goods, except he first bind the strong?
and then he will plunder his house.

30 He not being with me is against
me; and he not gathering with me,
scatters.

31 For this I say to you, All sin and
blasphemy shall be let go to men; but
the blasphemy of the Spirit shall not
be let go to men.

32 And whoever speaks a word
against the Son of man, it shall be re-
mitted to him; but whoever speaks
against the Holy Spirit,it shall not be
let go to him, neither in this time, nor
that about to be.

33 Either make the tree good, and its
fruit good; or make the tree rotten,
and its frnit rotten; for the tree is
known by its fruit.

34 O generation of vipers! how can
ye speak good things, being evil? for
out of the abundange of the heart the
mouth speaks.

85 The good man, out of the good
treasure of the heart, casts forth good
things: and the evil man, out of the
evil treasure, casts forth evil things.

36 And I say to you, That every idle
word which men spéak, they shall re-
turn word for it in the day of judg-
ment.

37 For by thy words shalt thou be
justified, and by thy words shalt thou
be condemned.

38 Then certain of the scribes and
Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher,
we wish to see a sign from thee.

89 And he having answered, said to
them, An evil generation and an adul-
teress seeks a sign; and no sign shall
be given it, but the sign of Jonas the
prophet.

40 For as Jonas was in the whale’s
belly three days and three nights; so
shall the Son of man be in the heart of
the earth three days and three nights.

41 The Ninevite men shall rise up
in judgment with this generation, and
condemn it: for they repented at the
proclamation of Jonas; and, behold, a
greater than Jonas here. .

49 The queen of the South shall 6
raised up in judgment with this gen-
eration, and shall condemn it; for she
came from the end of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold,
a greater than Solomon here.

43 And when the unclean spirit has
gone out from a man, he passes through
sterile places, seeking rest, and finds
not.

44 Then says he, I will return into
my house, whence I came out; and
having come, he finds vacant ; having
been swept, and put in order.

45 Then he goes, and takes with
himself seven other spirits, worse than
he, and having come in, they dwell
there: and the last things of that man
are worse than the first. So also shall
it be to this evil generation.

46 And he yet speaking to the
crowds, behold, his mother and breth-
ren stood without, seeking to speak to
him.

47 And acertain one said to him, Be-
hold, thy mother, and thy brethren
stand without, seeking to speak to thee.

48 And he having answered, said to
him speaking to. him, Who is my
mother? and who are my brethren ?

49 And having stretched forth his
hand towards his disciples, he said, Be-
hold my mother and my brethren!

50 For whoever should do the will
of my Father, him in the heavens, the
same is my brother, and sister, and
mother.

MATTHEW XII., XIII.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND in that day Jesus, having come
out of the house, sat by the sea.

2 And many crowds were assembled
together to him; therefore having en-
tered into the ship, he sat down, and
all the crowd stood upon the sea shore.

3 And he spake to them many things
in parables, saying, Behold, he, the
sower, weut forth to sow.

4 And in his sowing some truly fell
by the way, and the flying things came
and swallowed them down.

5 And others fell upon rocky places
where it had not much earth, and quick-
ly it sprang forth, for it had no depth
of earth.

6 And the sun having risen, it was
parched up; and for the not havinga
root, it was dried up.

7 And others fell among thorns, and
the thorns came up and choked them.

8 And others fell upon good earth
and gave fruit, some truly a hundred,
and some sixty, and some thirty.

9 He having ears to hear let him
hear.

10 And the disciples having come
near, said to him, Why speakest thou
to them in parables ?

11 And having answered, he said to
them, For to you it was given to know
the mysteries of the kingdom of the
heavens, but to them it was not given.

12 For whoever has shall be given to
him, and he shall have in excess; and
whoever has not, also what he has
shall be taken away from him.

13 For this I speak to them in para-
bles: for seeing they see not, and hear-
ing they hear not, neither do they un-
derstand.

14 And the prophecy of Esaias is
filled up in them, saying, In hearing
shall ye hear, and not understand ; and
seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.

15 For the heart of this people has
been thickened, and with their ears
have they heard heavily, and their eyes
have they closed; Jest perhaps they
should see with the eyes, and hear with
the ears, and understand with the heart,
and turn back, and I should heal them.

16 But happy your eyes, for they

MATTHEW XIII.

see: and your ears, for they hear.

17 For verily I say to you, that
many prophets and just desired eager-
ly to see what ye see, and saw not; and
to hear what ye hear, and heard not.

18 Therefore hear ye the parable of
him sowing.

19 Every one hearing, and not un-
derstanding, the evil one comes, and
carries off that sown in his heart. This
is he having sown by the way.

20 And he having sown ‘upon rocky
places, this is he hearing the word, and
quickly with joy receiving it ;

21 And has no root in himself, but
is for a time; and there being pressure
or expulsion for the word, straightly is
he offended.

22 And he having sown among
thorns, this is he hearing the word ; and
the care of this time, and the deceit of
riches, choke the word, and it is unfruit-
ful.

23 But he having sown upon good
earth is he hearing the word, and un-
derstanding; who indeed bears fruit,
and who makes truly a hundred, and
who sixty, and who thirty.

24 Another parable set he before
them, saying, The kingdom of the
heavens was made like a man sowing
good seed in his field :

25 And in men’s sleeping, his enemy
came and sowed tares in the midst of
the wheat, and went away.

26 And when the grass sprouted
up and made fruit, then appeared the
tares also.

27 And the servants of the master
of the house having come, said to him,
Lord, didst thou not sow good seed in
thy field’whence therefore has it tares?

28 And he said to them, A man, an
enemy, has done this: and his servants
said to him, Wilt thon therefore we,
having departed, should gather them ?

29 And he said, No; lest gathering
the tares, ye root up the wheat together
with them.

30 Suffer both to grow together till
harvest; and in time of harvest I will
say to the reapers, Gather first the
tares, and bind them in bundles to burn
them; and gather the wheat into my
barn.

31 Another parable set he before
them, saying, The kingdom of the
heavens is like a kernel of mustard,
which a man taking, sowed in his field:

32 Which truly is less than all seeds ;
but when it has grown, it is greater
than vegetables, and becomes a tree, so
that the flying things of heaven come
and lodge in its young shoots.

33 Another parable spake he to
them; The kingdom of the heavens is
like to leaven, which a woman having
taken, hid in three measures of wheat-
en flour, till the whole was leavened.

34 All these things spake Jesus in
parables to the crowds; and without a
parable spake he not to them.

35 So that that spoken by the prophet
might be filled up, saying, I will open
my mouth in parables; I will declare
things having been hid from the foun-
dation of the world.

36 Then Jesus having dismissed the
crowds, went into the house; and his
disciples came to him, saying, Explain
to us the parable of the tares of the
field.

37 And he having answered, said to
them, He sowing the good seed is the
Son of man:

38 And the field is the world; and
the good seed, these are the sons of the
kingdom; and the tares are the sons of
the evil one;

39 And the enemy having sowed
them is the devil; and the harvest is the
end of time;and the reapers are the
messengers.

40 As therefore the tares are gather-
ed together and burnt in fire; so shall it
be in the end of this time.

41 The Son of man shall send forth
his messengers, and they shall gather
out of his kingdom all scandals, and
those doing iniquity ;

42 And they shall cast them into a
furnace of ftre; there shall there be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.

43 Then shall the just emit a brilliant
light as the sun in the kingdom of their
Father. He having ears to hear, let
him hear.

44 Again, the kingdom of the heav-
ens is like to a treasure hid in the field;
which a man finding, concealed, and

from his joy, he retires, and all things
which he has he sells, and he purchases
that field.

45 Again, the kingdom of the heav-
ens is like to a man,a wholesale mer-
chant, seeking beautiful pearls:

46 Who, finding one pearl of great
value, having departed, he sold all
things which he had, and purchased it.

47 Again, the kingdomof theheavens
is like to a large sweep-net, cast into the
sea, and having gathered of every kind:

48 Which, when it was filled, having
raised up upon the shore, and having
set down, they gathered the good things
into vessels, and the rotten things they
cast without.

49 So shall it be in the end of time;
the messengers shall come forth, and
separate the evil from the midst of the
ust,

, 50 And they shall cast them ἱπίο ἃ
furnace of fire; there shall there be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.

51 Jesus says to them, Have ye un-
derstood all these? They say to him,
Yes, Lord.

52 And he said to them, Therefore
every scribe, having been a disciple in
the kingdom of the heavens, is like toa
man, master of a house, who casts out
from his treasure new things and old.

53 And it was when Jesus finished
these parables, he removed thence.

54 And having come into his native
land, he taught them in their assembly,
so that they were struck with amaze-
ment, and said, Whence to him this
wisdom, and powers ?

55 Is not this the son of the carpen-
ter? is not his mother called Mary ? and
his brethren, James, and Joses, and Si-
mon, and Judas?

56 And his sisters, are they not all
with us? Whence then to him all these?

57 And they were scandalized in him.
And Jesus said to them, A prophet is
not unhonoured, except in his native
land, and in his house.

58 And he did nof many powers
there, because of their unbelief.

CHAPTER XIV.
N that time Herod the tetrarch
heard the report of Jesus,
2 And ‘he said to his servants, This

MATTHEW XIII, XIV.

is John the Baptist; he was aroused
from the dead; and for this, powers
are energetic in him.

3 For Herod, having seized John,
bound him, and put him in prison for
Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife:

4 For John said to him, It is not
lawful for thee to have her:

5 And wishing to kill him, he was
afraid of the crowd, because they held
John as a prophet.

6 The festivities of Herod’s birth-
day being celebrated, the daughter of
Herodias danced in the midst, and
pleased Herod.

7 Wherefore, with an oath, he
agreed to give her whatever she
should ask.

8 And having been urged on by her
mother, Give me, she says, here upon
a board, the head of John the Baptist.

9 And the king was grieved: but
for his oath, and those reclining to-
gether at the table, he ordered to be
given.

10 And having sent, he beheaded
John in the prison.

11 And his head was brought upon
a board, and given to the girl, and she
brought to her mother.

12 And his disciples having come:
near, took away the body, and interred
it; and having come, they announced
to Jesus.

13 And Jesus having heard, with-
drew from thence into a desert place
apart: and the crowds, having heard,
followed him on foot from the cities.

14 And Jesus having come, saw a
great crowd: and he felt compassion
for them, and he cured their sick.

15 And being evening, his disciples
came to him, saying, It is a desert
place, and the time has passed already ;
loose the crowds, that, having gone
into towns, they might purchase food
for themselves.

16 But Jesus said to them, They
have no need to depart ; give ye them to
eat.

17 And they say to him, We have
not here but five loaves, and two
fishes.

18 And he said, Bring them here to
me.

19 And haying encouraged the

MATTHEW XIV., XV.

crowds to recline upon the grass, and
having taken the five loaves, and two
fishes, and having looked up to heav-
en, he praised; and having broken,
gave the loaves to the disciples, and
the disciples to the crowds.

20 And they all ate, and were satis-
fied ; and they took up the remaining
of fragments, twelve baskets full.

21 And they eating were five thou-
sand men, besides women and children.

22 And quickly Jesus constrained
his disciples to go into the ship, and
to go before him to the other side, till
he should loose the crowds.

23 And having loosed the crowds,
he went up into a mount apart to
pray : and being evening, he was there
alone.

24 And the ship was already in the
midst of thesea, overcharged by
waves: for the wind was contrary.

25 And in the fourth watch of the
night Jesus went out to them, walk-
ing upon the sea.

26 And the disciples seeing him
walking upon the sea, were troubled,
saying, It is an apparition ; and they
cried out for fear.

27 And quickly Jesus spake to them,
saying, Take courage; I am; be not
afraid.

28 And Peter having answered him,
said, Lord, if thou art, encourage me
to come upon the waters.

29 And he said, Come. And Peter
having gone down from the ship,
walked upon the waters, to go to Jesus.

30 And seeing the wind strong, he
was afraid: and beginning to sink, he
cried out, Lord, save me.

81 And quickly Jesus, having
stretched out the hand, laid hold of
him, and says to him, O thou of little
faith, for what didst thou doubt ?

82 And having gone into the ship,
the wind ceased.

33 And they in the ship, having
come, worshipped him, saying, Thou
art truly the Son of God.

34 And having passed over, they
came to the Jand of Gennesaret.

35 And the men of the place, hav-
ing known him, sent into the whole
country round about, and brought to
him all those having evils:

36 And besonght him that they
might only touch the hem of his gar-
ment: and as many as touched were
saved from danger.

CHAPTER XV.
HEN came to Jesus from Jerusa-
lem the scribes and Pharisees,
saying,

2 Wherefore do thy disciples pass
by the tradition of the elders? for
they wash not their hands when they
eat bread.

3 And he, having answered, said to
them, Wherefore do ye also pass by
the command of God by your tra-
dition ?

4 For God commanded, saying,
Honour thy father and mother: and,
he calumniating father or mother, in
death let him die.

5 And ye say, Whoever should say
to father or mother, A gift, whatever
thou shouldest be profited by me;

6 And should not honour his father
or his mother. And ye have annulled
the command of God by your tra-
dition.

7 Hypocrites, well did Esaias proph-
esy of you, saying,

8 This people draw near me with
their mouth, and honour me with their
lips; but their heart keeps off far
from me.

9 But they worship me in yain,
teaching doctrines the commands of
men.

10 And having called the crowd, he
said to them, Hear ye, and under-
stand.

11 Not that coming into the mouth
pollutes the man; but that going forth
out of the mouth, this pollutes the
man.

12 Then his disciples having come
near, said to him, Knowest thou that
the Pharisees, having heard the word,
were scandalized ?

13 And having answered, he said,.
Every plant, which my heavenly
Father has not planted, shall be
rooted up.

14 Let them go: they are blind
guides of the blind. And if the blind
guide the blind, both shall fall into the
ditch.

15 And Peter, having answered,
said to him, Explain to us this parable.

16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet
destitute of understanding ?

17 Do ye not yet understand, that
everything going into the mouth pro-
ceeds to the belly, and is cast out in
the privy ἢ

18 But the things going forth out of
the mouth come from the heart, and
these pollute the man.

19 For from the heart come forth
evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false testimonies,
defamations:

20 These are the things polluting a
man: but to eat with unwashed hands
pollutes not a man.

21 And Jesus, having gone forth
from thence, withdrew into the parts
of Tyre and Sidon.

22 And, behold, a woman, a Canaan-
ite, having come forth from those
boundaries, cried out to him, saying,
Pity me, Lord, son of David; my
daughter is badly possessed with an
evil spirit.

23 And he answered her not a word.
And his disciples, having come, asked
him, saying, Loose her; for she cries
out after us.

24 And he, having answered, said,
I was not sent except to the sheep
having been lost, of the house of
Israel.

25 And she, having come, wor-
shipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

26 And he, having answered, said,
It is not good to take the children’s
bread, and cast it to the little dogs.

27 And she said, Yes, Lord; for the
little dogs also eat from the crumbs
falling from the table of their lord.

28 Then Jesus, having answered,
said to her, O woman, great thy faith :
let it be to thee as thou wilt. And
her daughter was healed from that
hour.

29 And haying passed from thence,
Jesus came to the sea of Galilee; and
having gone up into a mountain, he
sat there.

30 And many crowds came to him,
having with them the lame, blind,
dumb, maimed, and many others, and

MATTHEW XV., XVI.

they cast them at the feet of Jesus;
and he cured them;

81 ₪0 that the crowds wondered,
seeing the dumb speaking, the maimed
sound, the lame walking, and the blind
seeing: and they praised the God of
Israel.

32 And Jesus having called his dis-
ciples, said, I feel compassion for the
crowd, for already they remain with
me three days, and they have nothing
they could eat: and I will not leave
them fasting, lest they be relaxed in
the way.

33 And his disciples say to him,
Whence to us, in a lonely place, so
many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd?

34 And he says to them, How many
loaves have ye? And they said, Seven,
and a few little fishes.

35 And he encouraged the crowd to
recline upon the earth.

36 And having taken the seven
loaves and the fishes, having returired
thanks, he brake, and gave to his dis-
ciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

37 And all ate, and were satisfied:
and they took up that remaining of the
fragments seven wicker baskets full.

98 And they eating were four thou-
sand men, besides women and children.

39 And having loosed the crowds,
he went into a ship, and came into the
bounds of Magdala,

CHAPTER XVI.
ND the Pharisees and Sadducees
having come, tempting, asked him
to shew them a sign from heaven.

2 And he having answered, said to
them, It being evening, ye say, Calm
weather: for the heaven is fiery red.

3 And in the morning, To-day, win-
try weather: for heaven, being sad,
is fiery red. lHHypocrites, truly ye
know to decide the face of heaven,
but the signs of the times ye cannot.

4 An evil and adulterous generation
seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be
given her, except the sign of Jonas the
prophet. And having left them, he
departed.

5 And his disciples having come to
the other side, forgot to take loaves.

6 And Jesus said to them, Attend

MATTHEW

and keep from the leayen of the Phari-
sees and the Sadducees.

7 And they reasoned among them-
selves, saying, Because we took no
loaves.

8 And Jesus having known, said to
them, Why reason ye among your-
selves, O ye of little faith, because ye
have taken no loaves ?

9 Do ye not yet understand, nor re-
member the five loayes of five thou-
sand, and how many baskets ye took?

10 Nor the seven loaves of four
thousand, and how many wicker bas-
kets 6ץ‎

11 How do ye not understand that
I spake not to you concerning bread,
to keep from the leaven of the Phari-
sees and Sadducees?

12 Then understood they that he
spake, not to keep from the leaven of
bread, but from the teaching of the
Pharisees and Sadducees.

13 And Jesus, having come into the
parts of Czesarea of Philippi, asked his
disciples, saying, Whom do men say
me to be, the Son of Man ?

14 And they said, Some, truly, John
the Baptist: and others, Elias; and
others, Jeremias, or one of the proph-
ets.

15 And he says to them, But whom
say ye me to be?

16 And Simon Peter having an-
swered, said, Thou art Christ, the Son
of the living God.

17 And Jesus, having answered,
said to him, Happy art thou, Simon
Bar-jona: for flesh and blood has not
revealed to thee, but my Father, he in
the heavens.

18 And 1 say to thee, That thou art
Peter, and upon this reck will I build
my church; and the gates of hell shall
not overcome her.

19 And I will give thee the keys of
the kingdom of the heavens : and what-
ever thoushalt bind upon earth shall be
bound in the heavens: and whatever
thou shalt loose upon earth shall be
loosed in the heavens.

20 Then he enjoined his disciples
that they say to none that he is Jesus
Christ.

21 From then Jesus began to shew

XVI., XVII. 21
to his disciples, that he must depart to
Jerusalem, and suffer many things
from the elders and chief priests and
scribes, and be killed, and be raised in
the third day.

22 And Peter having taken him, be-
gan to reproach him, saying, Be pro-
pitious to thyself, Lord: this shall not
be to thee.

23 And having turned, he said to
Peter, Retire behind me, Satan: thou
art an offence to me: for thou hast
not in mind the things of God, but the
things of men.

24 Then said Jesus to his disciples,
If any wish to come after me, let him
deny himself absolutely, and lift up his
cross, and follow me.

25 For whoever should wish to save
his life shall lose it: and whoever shall
lose his soul for my sake shall find it.

26 For what is a man profited, if he
should gain the whole world, and in-
jure his soul? or what shall a man
give in exchange for his soul ?

27 For the Son of man is about to
come in the glory of his Father with
his messengers; and then he will give
back to each according te his deed.

28 Verily I say to you, Some are
standing here, who should not taste of
death, till they see the Son of man

coming in his kingdom.

Ape after six days Jesus takes
Peter, James, and John his

brother, and brings them up into a

high mountain apart.

2 And he was transformed before
them: and his face shone as the sun,
and his garments were white as the
light.

3 And, behold, Moses and Elias were
seen to them, conversing with him.

4 And Peter, having answered, said
to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be
here: let us make here three tents;
one for thee, and one for Moses, and
one for Elias.

5 He yet speaking, behold, a shin-
ing cloud overshadowed them: and
behold a voice out of the cloud, saying,
This is my dearly beloved Son, in
whom I was contented; hear ye him.

CHAPTER XVII.

MATTHEW XVII., XVIII.

6 And the disciples, having heard, | Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son

fell upon their face, and were greatly
afraid.

7 And Jesus, having come, touched
them, and said, Be raised, and be not
afraid.

8 And having lifted up their eyes,
they saw no one but Jesus alone.

9 And they, coming down from the
mountain, Jesus charged them, saying,
Tell the sight to none, even till the Son
of man rises from the dead.

10 And his disciples asked him, say-
ing, Why then say the scribes that
Elias must first come ?

11 And Jesus having answered,
said to them, Elias truly comes first and
will re-establish all things.

12 And I say to you, That Elias has
already come, and they knew him not,
but did by him whatever they would.
So also the Son of man is about to
suffer by them.

13 Then understood the disciples
that he told them of John the Baptist.

14 And they having come to the
crowd, there came to him a man, sup-
plicating on his knees to him, and say-
ing, ἢ

15 Lord, pity my son: for he is a
lunatic, and suffers badly: for many
times he falls into the fire, and many
times into the water.

16 And 1 brought him to thy disci-
ples, and they could not cure him.

17 And Jesus, having answered,
said, O faithless and perverted genera-
tion, how long shall I be with you?
how long shall I endure you? bring
him here to me.

18 And Jesus censured him; and
the demon went forth out of him: and
the child was cured from that hour.

19 Then the disciples having come
to Jesus apart, said, Why could not we
cast it out?

20 And Jesus said to them, For your
unbelief: for truly I say to you, If ye
have faith as a kernel of mustard, ye
shall say to this mount, Go away from
thence, and it shall go away; and
nothing shall be impossible to you.

21 But this kind goes not forth but
by prayer and fasting.

22 And they haying returned into

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of man is about to be delivered into
the hands of men:

23 And they shall kill him, and the
third day he shall be raised. And
they were greatly grieved.

24 And they having come to Ca-
pernaum, they taking double drachmas
came to Peter and said, Doesnot your
teacher pay double drachmas ?

25 He says, Yes. And when he
came into the house, Jesus anticipated
him, saying, What seems to thee, Si-
mon? from whom do the kings of
the earth take taxes or census? from
their sons, or from strangers ?

26 Peter says to him, From strangers.
Jesus said to him, Then are the chil-
dren free.

27 But that we should not scandal-
ize them, haying gone to the sea, cast
a fish hook, and lift up the fish coming
up first, and having opened its mouth,
thou shalt flnd a gold coin: having
taken that, give to them for me and
thee.

CHAPTER XVIII.
N that hour came the disciples to
Jesus, saying, Who is the greater
in the kingdom of the heavens?

2 And Jesus, having called a young
child, set it in the midst of them,

3 And said, Truly I say to you, Ex-
cept ye be turned, and become as young
children, ye should not come into the
kingdom of the heavens.

4 Whoever, therefore, should be
humbled as this young child, the same
is the greater in the kingdom of the
heavens.

5 And whoever shall receive such a
young child in*my name, receives me.

6 And whoever should offend one
of these little ones believing in me, it
is profitable for him that the millstone
of an ass be hung upon his neck, and
he be sunk in the midst of the sea.

4% Woe to the world for offences! for
there is necessity for offences to come ;
but woe to that man by whom the of-
fence comes!

8 And if thy hand or thy foot give
thee cause of offence, cut them off, and
cast from thee: it is good for thee to

MATTHEW XVIII., XIX.

come into life lame or maimed, than
having two hands or two feet to be
cast into eternal fire.

9 And if thine eye give thee cause
of offence, take it out, and cast from
thee: it is good for thee, one-eyed, to
enter into life, than having two eyes
to be cast into a hell of fire.

10 See that ye despise not one of
these little ones; for 1 say to you, That
their messengers in the heavens always
behold the face of my Father which is
in the heavens.

11 For the Son of man has come to
save the lost.

12 What does it seem to you? if there
be to any man a hundred sheep, and
one of them have been led astray,
does he not, having left the ninety-
nine upon the mountains, having gone,
seek the one led astray ?

13 And if it be found, truly I say
to you, he rejoices more over it, than
over the ninety-nine not led astray.

14 So is not the will of your Father,
he in the heavens, that one of these
little ones be lost.

15 And if thy brother sin against
thee, retire, and refute him between
thee and him alone; if he hear thee,
thou hast gained thy brother.

16 But if he hear thee not, take
with thee yet one or two, that at the
mouth of two or three witnesses every
word might stand.

17 And if he refuse hearing them,
speak to the church: and if he refuse
hearing the church, let him be to thee
as of the nations and a publican.

18 Truly I say to you, Whatever
things ye should bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven; and whatever things
ye should loose upon earth shall be
loosed in heaven.

19 Again, 1 say to you, That if two
of you agree in opinion for everything
which they ask, it shall be to them of
my Father, he in the heavens.

20 For where two or three are as-
sembled in my name, there am I in
the midst of them.

21 Then Peter, having come to him,
said, Lord, how often shall my brother
sin against me, and I let him go? Till
seven times?

22 And Jesus says to him, I say not

to thee, till seven times ; but till seventy
times seven.

23 Therefore the kingdom of the
heavens was likened to 8 man, the king,
who wished to lift up the word to-
gether with his servants.

24 And he having begun to settle
accounts, one was brought him, a
debtor of ten thousand talents.

25 And he not having to give back,
his lord ordered him to be sold, and
his wife and his children, and all which
he had also to be given back.

26 Then the servant, having fallen,
worshipped him, saying, Lord, be slow
to anger towards me, and I will give
back all to thee.

27 And thelord of that servant, hav-
ing felt compassion, loosed him, and let
go to him the money lent.

28 But that servant havinz come,
found one of his fellow-servants who
owed him one hundred drachmas,
and having seized, he choked him, say-
ing, Give back to me what thou owest.

29 Then his fellow-servant having
fallen at his feet besought him, saying,
Be slow to anger towards me, and 1 will
give back all to thee.

30 And he would not; but having
departed he cast him into prison till
he should give back that being owed.

31 And his fellow-servants having
seen the thing done, were greatly
grieved, and having come, made
known to their lord all things done.

32 Thenhis lord, having 681100 him,
said unto him, O thou evil servant, I
let go to you all that debt since thou
besoughtest me:

33 Oughtest thou not also to pity thy
fellow-servant, as I also pitied thee ?

34 And his lord having become an-
gry, delivered him to the torturers
even till he should give back all being
owed to him.

35 So also will my heavenly Father
do to you, if ye let not go each to his
brother from your hearts their falls.

CHAPTER XIX.

ND it was when Jesus finished

these words he removed from
Galilee, and came from the bounds of
Judea beyond Jordan ;

2 And many crowds followed him ;
and he cured them there.

8 And the Pharisees came to him, }

tempting him, and saying to him, Is it
lawful for a man to loose his wife for
every cause ?

4 And having answered, he said to
them, Have ye not read, that he having
made from the beginning, made them
male and female,

5 And said, For this shall a man
leave father and mother, and be joined
to his wife: and they two shall be one
flesh ?

6 So that they are no more two, but
one flesh. What therefore God has
yoked together, let not man separate.

7 They say to him, Why then did
Moses charge to give a writing of
divorce, and loose her ?

8 He says to them that Moses for
your hard heart permitted you to loose
your wives: and from the beginning it
was not so.

9 And I say to you, That whoever
should loose his wife, except for forni-
cation, and marry another, commits
adultery ; and he having married the
one loosed commits adultery.

10 His disciples say to him, If the
cause of aman is so with the woman,
it is not profitable to marry. :

11 And he said to them, All have
not room for this word, but to whom
it is given.

12 For there are eunuchs, who were
born so from the mother’s belly: and
there are eunuchs, who were made
eunuchs by men: and there are eu-
nuchs, who have made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom of the
heavens. He being able to receive, let
him receive.

13 Then young children were
brought to him, that he might put hands
upon them and pray ; and the disciples
censured them. ἡ

14 But Jesus said, Let go the young
children, and hinder them not, to come
to me: for of such is the kingdom of
the heavens.

15 And having put hands upon them,
he went out from thence.

16 And, behold, one having come,
said to him, Good teacher, what good

MATTHEW XIX.

shall I do, that I might have eternal
life ?

17 And he said to him, Why sayest
thou me good? None is good except
one, God; but if thou wouldst come
into life, keep the commands.

18 He says to him, Which? And
Jesus said, thus: Thou shalt not mur-
der; Thou shalt not commit adultery ;
Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not
bear false witness ;

19 Honour thy father and mother;
and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself. j

20 The young man says to him, All
these have I watched from my youth;
what yet do I want?

21 Jesus said to him, If thon wishest
to be perfected, retire, sell thy posses-
sions, and give to the poor, and thou
shalt have treasure in heaven: and
come, follow me.

22 And the young man_ having
heard the word, departed, being
grieved: for he was holding many
possessions.

23 And Jesus said to his disciples,
Truly I say to you, That with difficulty
shall a rich one come into the kingdom
of the heavens.

24 And again I say to you, It is of
easier labor fora camel to pass through
the hole of a needle, than for a rich
one to come into the kingdom of God.

25 And his disciples were greatly
struck with amazement, saying, Who
then can be saved ?

26 And Jesus having looked up said
to them, With men this is impossible,
but with God all things are possible.

27 Then Peter having answered,
said to him, Behold, we have let go
all things, and have followed thee;
what therefore shall be to us?

28 And Jesus said to them, Verily
I say to you, That ye having followed
me, in the regeneration when the Son
of man should sit upon the throne of
his glory, shall be seated ye also upon
twelve thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of Israel.

29 And every one who lets go
houses, or brethren, or sisters, or
father, or mother, or wife, or chil-
dren, or fields, for the sake of my

MATTHEW XIX., XX.

name, shall receive a hundredfold, and
shall inherit eternal life.

30 And many first shall be last, and
the last first. -

CHAPTER .אא‎
OR the kingdom of the heavens is
like to a man, master of a house,
who went out as soon as morning to
hire workmen for his vineyard.

2 And having agreed for a drachma
a day, he sent them to his vineyard.

5 And having gone out about the
third hour, he saw others standing idle
in the market-place,

4 And he says to them, Retire ye
also into the vineyard, and whatever
should be just I will give you: and
they departed.

5 Again, having gone out about the
sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.

6 And about the eleventh hour,
having gone out, he found others
standing idle, and he says to them,
Why stand ye here idle the whole
day ?

7 They say to him, That none has
hired us. He says to them, Retire
also to the vineyard ; and whatever be
just, ye shall receive.

8 And it being evening, the lord of
the vineyard says to his steward, Call
the workmen, and give back to them
the wages, beginning from the last

even to the first.

' 9 And they of the eleventh hour
having come, thereupon received a
drachma.

10 And the first, having come,
thought that they will receive more;
and they also received thereupon a
drachma.

11 And having received, they mur-
mured against the master of the house,

12 Saying, That these last worked
one hour, and thou hast made them
equal to us, having borne the burden
and heat of the day.

13 And he, having answered, said
to one of them, Friend, I injure thee
not; didst not thou agree with me for
a drachma ?

14 Take thine and retire: and 1 will
to give to this last, as also to thee.

15 Is it not lawful for me to do

what I will with my things? Or is
thine eye evil because 1 am good ?

16 So shall the last be first, and the
first last; for many are called, but few
chosen.

17 And Jesus, going up to Jerusa-
lem, took the twelve disciples apart in
the way, and he said to them,

18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem ;
and the Son of man shall be delivered
to the chief priests and scribes, and
they shall condemn him to death,

19 And they shall deliver him to
the nations to mock, and scourge, and
crucify: and he shall be raised the
third day.

20 Then came to him the mother of
the sons of Zebedee, with her sons,
es, and asking something of
nim.

21 And he said to her, What wilt
thou? She says to him, Say that these
my two sons might sit, the one on th
right hand, and one on thy left, in thy
kingdom.

22 And Jesus having answered,
said, Ye know not what ye ask: can
ye drink the cup which 1 am about to
drink, and be immersed with the im-
mersion which Iam immersed? They
say to him, We can.

23 And he says to them, Truly my
cup shall ye drink, and with the im-
mersion which I am immersed shall
ye be immersed; but to sit on my
right, and on my left, is not mine to
give, but to those it was prepared for
by my Father.

24 And the ten haying heard, felt
pain about the two brethren.

25 But Jesus, having called them,
said, Ye know that the rulers rule over
their nations, and the great exercise
authority over them.

26 But it shall not be so among
you; but whoever should wish to be
great among you, let him be your
attendant ;

27 And whoever would be first
among you, let him be your servant :

28 As the Son of man came not to
be served, but to serve, and to give his
soul a ransom for many.

29 And they going out from Jericho,
a great crowd followed him.

30 And, behold, two blind sitting by
the way, having heard that Jesus passes
by, cried out, saying, Pity us, O Lord,
son of David.

31 And the crowd censured them
that they should be silent: but they
cried the more, saying, Pity us, O
Lord, son of David.

32 And Jesus having stood, called
them, and said, What will ye I shall do
to you?

33 They say to him, Lord, that our
eyes might be opened.

34 And Jesus, having felt compas-
sion, touched their eyes: and quickly
their eyes looked up, and they fol-
lowed him.

CHAPTER XXI.
AG when they drew near to Je-
rusalem, and came to Bethphage,
to the mount of Olives, then sent
Jesus two disciples, saying to them,

2 Go ye into the town opposite to
us, and quickly shall ye find an ass
bound, and a colt with her; having
loosed, bring to me.

3 And if any one say to you, Why ?
ye shall say, That the Lord has need
of them; and quickly will he send
them.

4 And the whole of this was, that
that spoken by the prophet be com-
pleted; saying,

5 Say to the daughter of Zion, Be-
hold, thy king comes to thee, meek,
and mounted upon an ass, and a colt,
son of a beast of burthen.

6 And the disciples, having gone
and done as Jesus commanded them,

7 Brought the ass, and colt, and put
on them their garments, and he sat
over them.

8 And avery great crowd strewed
their garments in the way ; and others
cut down young shoots from the trees,
and strewed in the way.

9 And the crowds leading before,
and following, cried, saying, Osanna
to the son of David: he coming in the
name of the Lord being praised ;
Osanna in the highest ones.

10 And he having come to Jerusa-
lem, all the city was shaken, saying,
Who is this?

MATTHEW XX., XXI.

11 And the crowds said, This 18
Jesus, the prophet, from Nazareth of
Galilee.

12 And Jesus came into the temple
of God, and cast out all those selling
and buying in the temple, and he over-
turned the money-changers’ tables, and
the seats of those selling doves,

13 And he says to them, It was
written, My house shall be called the
house of prayer; and ye have made it
a den of robbers.

14 And the blind and lame came to
him in the temple ; and he cured them.

15 And the chief priests and scribes,
seeing the wonderful things which he
did, and the children crying in the
temple, and saying, Osanna to the son
of David; they felt pain.

16 And they said to him, Hearest
thou what these say? And Jesus says
to them, Yes; have ye never read, That
out of the mouths of young children
and sucklings thou hast adjusted
praise ?

17 And leaving them, he went
without the city, to Bethany; and
lodged there.

18 And in the morn, having re-
turned into the city, he hungered.

19 And having seen one fig tree by
the way, he came to it, and found
nothing on it, except leaves only; and
he says to it, Let no more fruit be
from thee forever. And instantly the
fig tree was dried up.

20 And the disciples, seeing, won-
dered, saying, How suddenly was the
fig tree dried up!

21 And Jesus, having answered,
said to them, Truly I say to you, if ye
have faith, and be not removed, ye
shall do not only that of the fig tree,
but also to this mountain, if ye should
say, Be thou lifted up, and cast into
the sea, it shall be.

22 And all things, whatever ye ask
in prayer, believing, shall ye receive.

23 And to him, having come into
the temple to him teaching, came the
chief priests and elders of the people,
saying, By what authority doest thou
these? and who gave thee this au-
thority ?

24 And Jesus, having answered,

MATTHEW ,זאא‎ XXII.

said to them, I will also ask you one

277

38 And the farmers, seeing the son,

word, which if ye tell me, I also will|said among themselves, This is the
tell you by what authority I do these.| heir; come, let us kill him, and pos-

25 The baptism of John, whence
was it? of heaven or of men? And
they reasoned by themselves, saying,
If we say, Of heaven; he will say to
us, Why, then, believed ye him not?

26 But if we say, Of men; we fear
the crowd; for all hold John as a
prophet.

27 And having answered Jesus,
they said, We know not. And he said
to them, ‘Neither do I say to you by
what authority I do these.

28 But what seems to you? A man
had two children ; and having come to
the first, he said, Child, retire to-day,
work in my vineyard.

29 And he, having answered, said,
I will not; but afterward, having felt
regret, he ‘departed.

30 And having come to the second,
he said likewise. And he, having an-
swered, said, I, Lord: and he departed
not.

31 Which of the two did the father’s
will? They say to him, The first.
Jesus says to them, Truly Ὶ say to you,
that publicans and harlots go into the
kingdom of God before yon.

32 For John came to you in the
way of justice, and ye believed him
not: and the publicans and harlots be-
lieved him; and ye, seeing, repented
not afterwards, to believe him.

33 Lear another parable: A certain
man was master of a house, who
planted a vineyard, and put a hedge
around it, and digged in it a wine-
press, and let it out to farmers, and
went abroad:

34 And when the time of the fruits
drew near, he sent his servants to the
farmers, to receive his parts.

35 And the farmers having taken
his servants, truly one they stripped,
and one they killed, and one they
stoned.

36 Again he sent other servants,
more than the first, and they did to
them likewise.

37 And afterwards he sent to them
his son, saying, They will be changed
by my son.

sess his inheritance.

39 And having taken, they cast out
of the vineyard, and killed.

40 When, therefore, the lord of the
vineyard should come, what will he do
to those farmers ?

41 They say to him, He will mis-
erably destroy these wicked, and let
out the vineyard to other farmers,
who will give back to him the fruits
in their seasons.

42 Jesus says to them, Have ye
never read in the writings, The stone
which the builders disapproved of, this
was for the head of the corner? This
was from the Lord, and it was wonder-
ful in your eyes.

43 For this I say to you, The king-
dom of God shall be taken from you,
and shall be given toa nation doing
its fruits.

44 And he falling upon this stone
shall be crushed: but upon whomso-
ever it should fall, it shall winnow him.

45 And the chief priests and Phari-
sees, having heard his parable, knew
that he spake of them.

46 And seeking to lay hold on him,
they feared the crowd, since they held
him as a prophet.

CHAPTER XXII.
yas Jesus, having answered, spake
to them in parables, saying,

2 The kingdom of the heavens was
likened to a man, a king, who made a
nuptial feast for his son.

3 And he sent his servants to those
having been called to the nuptial feast :
and they would not come.

4 And again; he sent other servants,
saying, Say to the: called: Behold, I
have “prepared my supper; my bulls
and 8611-1600 killed, and all prepared :
come to the nuptials.

5 And they, not having heeded, de-
parted, one truly to his own field, and
one to his traffic:

6 And the rest, having seized his
servants, were insolent, and killed
them.

7 And the king, having heard, was

angry, and having sent his armies,
destroyed those murderers, and burned
their city.

8 Then says he to his servants,
Truly the nuptial feast is prepared,
and those called were not worthy.

9 Go ye, therefore, to the passages
of the ways, and as many as ye should
find, call to the nuptial feast.

10 And those servants, having come
to the ways, gathered together all, as
many as they found, also both the evil
and good, and the nuptial feast was
filled with the reclining.

11 And the king, having come in
to behold the reclining, saw there a
man not clad with the garment of the
wedding :

12 And he says to him, Friend, how
camest thou in here, not having a gar-
ment of the nuptial feast? And he
was muzzled.

13 Then said the king to his ser-
vants, Having bound his feet and
hands, take him away, and cast ye him
into outer darkness; weeping shall be
there, and gnashing of teeth.

14 For many are called, and few
chosen.

15 Then the Pharisees, having gone,
took counsel how they might ensnare
him in word.

16 And they send to him their dis-
ciples, with the MHerodians, saying,
Teacher, we know that thou art true,
and teachest the way of God in truth,
and eare is to thee for none; for thou
lookest not to the face of men.

17 Therefore say to us, What seems
to thee? Is it lawful to give tribute to
Ceesar, or not?

18 But Jesus, having known their
evil, said, Why tempt ye me, hypo-
crites 4

19 Show me the piece of money of
tribute. And they brought him a
drachma,

20 And he says to them, Whose is
this image and inscription ?

21 They say to him, Ceesar’s. Then
says he to them, Give back then to
Ceesar the things of Czesar; and the
things of God to God.

22 And having heard, they won-
dered, and having left him, they de-
parted,

MATTHEW XXII.

23 In that day the Sadducees came
to him, they saying there is to be no
rising up: and they asked him,

24 Saying, Teacher, Moses said, If
any one die, not having children, his
brother shall marry his wife, and raige
up seed to his brother.

25 And with us were seven breth-
ren: and the first, having married,
died; and having no seed, he left his
wife to his brother.

26 And likewise the second, and
third, even till the seven.

27 And after all died
woman.

28 Therefore in the rising up whose
of the seven shall the woman be? for
they all had her.

29 And Jesus, having answered,
said to them, Ye are led astray, not
having known the writings, nor the
power of God.

30 For in the rising up they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage, but are
as the messengers of God in heaven.

31 And for the rising up of the
dead, read ye not that spoken by God,
saying,

382 Lam God of Abraham, and God
of Isaac, and God of Jacob? God is
not the God of the dead, but of the
living.

33 And the crowds having heard,
were astonished at his teaching.

34 And the Pharisees having heard
that he muzzled the Sadducees, were
gathered upon the same.

35 And one of them, skilled in the
law, asked, tempting him, and saying,

36 Teacher, which the great com-
mand in the law?

37 And Jesus said to him, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with thy
whole heart, and with thy whole soul,
and with thy whole mind.

38 This is the first and the great
command.

39 And the second like it: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

40 In these two commands hang the
whole law and the prophets.

41 And the Pharisees having been
gathered together, Jesus asked them,

42 Saying, What seems to you about
Christ 2 = Whose son is סג[‎ ? They say
to him, David’s.

also. the

MATTHEW XXII, XXIII.

43 116 says to them, How then does
David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

44 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit
by my right, till 1 make thine enemies
the footstool of my feet ἢ

45 If, therefore, David calls him
Lord, how is he his son ?

46 And none could answer him a
word, nor dared any one from that
day to ask him any more.

CHAPTER XXIII.
Cf eee spake Jesus to the, crowds
and to his disciples,

2 Saying, Upon Moses’ seat sat the
scribes and Pharisees.

3 Therefore all whatever they say
to you to keep, keep anddo; and ac-
cording to their works do not, for they
say and do not.

4 For they bind loads heavy and
difficult to carry, and put upon men’s
shoulders; and with their fingers will
they not move them.

5 And all their works do they, to
be seen by men: and make broad their
preservatives, and enlarge the border
of their garments,

6 And love the first place at sup-
pers, and the first seat in the assem-
blies,

7 And greetings in the markets, and
to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

8 And be ye not called Rabbi: for
one is your guide, Christ ; and all ye
are brethren.

9 And call not your father upon
earth : for one is your Father, which in
the heavens.

10 Nor be ye called leaders, for one
is your Leader, Christ.

11 And the greater of you shall be
your servant.

12 And whoever shall exalt himself
shall be humbled ;and whoever shall
humble himself, shall be exalted.

13 Woe to youscribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye lock up the king-
dom of the heavens before men: for
ye come not in yourselves, neither
those coming in, permit ye to come
in.
14 Woe to youscribes and Pharisees,
* hypocrites! for ye devour widows’
houses, and for pretence, praying at
great lengths; for this shall ye re-

ceive more distinguished judgment.

15 Woe to you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites! for ye go about sea
and dry land to make one proselyte,
and when he should become, ye make
him the son of hell, twofold more
than you.

16 Woe to you blind guides, saying,
Whoever should swear by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever should
swear by the gold of the temple, he is
indebted !

17 Foolish and blind; for which is
the greater, the gold, or the temple
consecrating the gold ?

18 And, Whoever should swear by
the altar, it is nothing: and whoever
should swear by the gift above it, he
is indebted.

19 Foolish and blind: for which is
the greater, the gift, or the altar, con-
secrating the gifts?

20 Therefore, he having sworn by
the altar, swears by it, and by all
above it.

21 And he having sworn by the
temple, swears by it, and by him
dwelling in it.

22 And he haying sworn by heay-
en, swears by the throne of God, and
by him sitting above it.

23 Woe to youscribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and
dill and cummin, and ye have left the
weightier things of the law, judgment,
and mercy, and faith: these it was
necessary to do, and not to let go
those.

24 Blind guides, straining a gnat,
and swallowing down a camel.

25 Woe to you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites ! for ye cleanse the out-
side of the cup, and the side dish of
sweet-meats, and within they are full of
pillage and bad mixture.

260 blind Pharisee, cleanse first
the inside of the cup, and side dish
of sweetmeats, that also their outside
might be clean.

27 Woe to you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites! for ye are like white-
washed tombs, which without indeed
appear beautiful, but within are full of
the bones of the dead, and of all un-
cleanness.

28 So also ye without truly appear

i to men, but within ye are full of
ocrisy and iniquity.
Τῷ we to an scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites! for ye build the
tombs of the prophets, and deck the
monuments of the just,

80 And say, If we had been in the
days of our fathers, we had not been
their partakers in the blood of the
prophets,

31 Wherefore ye bear testimony to
yourselves, that ye are the sons of
those having slain the prophets.

82 And fill ye up yourselves the
measure of your fathers.

33 Serpents, generations of vipers,
how would ye flee from the judgment
of hell?

34 Therefore, behold, I send to you
prophets, and the wise, and scribes:
and of them shall ye kill and crucify ;
and of them shall ye chastise in your
assemblies, and drive out from city to
city,
δὲ So that all the just blood shed
upon the earth might come upon you,
from the blood of just Abel to the
blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias,
whom ye killed between the temple
and altar.

36 Truly 1 say to you, All these shall
come upon this generation.

387 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the
prophets, and stoning those sent to
her; how often did I wish to gather
thy children together, which manner
a bird gathers together her young
broods under the wings, and ye would
not!

> 88 Behold, your house is left to you
desolate.

89 For I say to you, Ye should not
see me from henceforth, till ye should
say, Praised be he coming in the
name of the Lord.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND Jesus having gone out, went
out of the temple: and his disci-
ples came near to shew him the build-
ings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said to them, See ye
not all these ? truly I say to you, Stone
upon ‘stone shall not be left here,
which shall not be loosened.

MATTHEW XXIII, XXIV.

3 And sitting upon the mount of
Olives, his disciples came to him apart,
saying, Say to us when these shall be,
and what the sign of thy arrival, and the
termination of the time.

4 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, See lest any lead you astray.

5 For many shall come upon my
name, saying, [am Christ ; and deceive
many.

6 And ye will be about to hear of
wars and rumors of war: see, be not
terrified ; for all must be, but the end
is not yet.

7 For nation shall be raised up
against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom; and there shall be famines,
and plagues, and shakings in places.

8 And all these the beginning of
anguish.

9 Then shall they deliver you to
pressure, and they shall kill you: and
ye shall be hated by all nations, for my
name.

10 And then shall many be offended,
and they shall deliver up one another,
and they shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall
be raised up, and deceive many.

12 And because anxiety shall in-
crease, the love of many shall be cooled.

13 But he having persevered to the
end, this shall be saved.

14 And this good news of the king-
dom shall be proclaimed in the whole
habitable globe for a witness to all na-
tions ; and then shall the end come.

15 Therefore, when ye see the abom-
ination of devastation, spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, standing in the
holy place, (let him reading, under-
stand : )

16 Then let them in Judea flee to
the mountain ;

17 He upon the house-tops, let him
not come down to take away anything
out of his house:

18 And hein the field, let him not
turn back to take up his garments :

19 And woeto those having in the
womb, and to those giving suck, in
those days!

20 And pray that your flight be not
in winter, nor in the sabbath.

21 For then shall be great pressure,

MATTHEW XXIV., XXV.

such as has not been from the begin-
ning of the world till now, nor should

22 And except those days had been
shortened, no flesh shonld be saved : but
for the chosen, those days shall be
shortened.

23 Then if any say to you, Behold,
here Christ, or there; believe ye not.

24 For false Christs, and false pro-
phets, shall be raised up, and give
great signs and wonders; 80 as to de-
ceive, if possible, also the chosen.

25 Behold, I have told you before-
hand.

26 If therefore they should say to
you, Behold, he is in the desert ; go not
forth; Behold, in the store-houses, be-
lieve ye not.

27 For as the lightning comes forth
from the sunrisings, and shines to the
descents ; so also shall be thearrival of
the Son of man.

28 lor wherever be the fall, there
will the eagles be gathered together.

29 And quickly after the pressure
of those days, the sun shall be dark-
ened, and the moon shall not give her
light, and the stars shall fall from the
heavens, and the powers of the heay-
ens shall be shaken ;

30 And then shallappear the sign
of the Son of man in heaven; and then
shall the tribes of the earth lament, bit-
terly, and they shall see the Son of
man coming upon the clouds of heay-
en with power and much glory,

31 And he shall send his messen-
gers, with the great voice of the
trumpet, and they shall bring together
his chosen from the four winds, from
the extremities of the heavens to the
extremities.

32 And from the fig tree learn a
parable; When already her young
shoot should be tender, and the leaves
should spring forth, ye know that sum-
mer is near:

33 So also ye, when ye should see
all these things, know ye that it is
near at the doors.

34 Truly I say to you, That this
generation should not pass away, till
all these things should be.

85 The heaven and the earth shall

pass away, but my words should not
pass away.

36 And concerning that day and
hour, none know, nor the messengers
of the heavens, except my Father only.

37 And as the days of Noe, so shall
be the arrival of the Son of man.

38 For as they were in the days of
the inundation, eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, un-
til the day Noe came into the ark,

39 And knew not till the inunda-
tion came, and took them all away; so
also shall be the arrival of the Son of
man.

40 Then shall be two in the field ;
one shall be taken, and one is let go;

41 Two grinding in the mill; one
shall be taken, and one let go.

42 Watch therefore; for ye know
not what hour your Lord comes.

43 But know this, that if the master
of the house had known what watch
the thief comes, he had watched, and
would not haye suffered his house to be
undermined.

44 Therefore be ye also prepared:
for what hour ye think not, the Son of
man comes.

45 Who then is the faithful and dis-
cerning servant, which his lord set over
his attendance, to give them food in
due season ?

46 Happy that servant which his
lord, having come, shall find doing
thus.

47 Truly I say to you, That he shall
set him over all his possessions.

48 But if that servant say in his
heart, My lord delays to come;

49 And he should begin to strike
the fellow-servants, and to eat and
drink with those intoxieated ;

50 The lord of that servant shall
come in a day that he expects not, and
in an hour which he knows not,

51 And he shall cut him in two
equal parts, and he shall set his portion
with the hypocrites : and there shall be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.

CHAPTER XXV.
ves shall the kingdom of the heay-
ens be likened to ten virgins, who
having taken their lanterns, went forth

to the meeting of the bridegroom.

2 And five of them were discerning,
and five foolish.

3 Those foolish having taken their
lanterns, took no oil with them.

4 And the discerning took oil in
their vessels with their lanterns.

5 And the bridegroom delaying, they
all slumbered and slept.

6 And in the middle of the night
there was a cry, Behold, the bride-
groomcomes; go ye forth to his meet-
ing.

Ἢ Then all these virgins were aroused,
and put their lanterns in order.

8 And the foolish said to the dis-
cerning, Give us of youroil; for our
lights are quenched.

9 And the discerning answered, say-
ing, Lest it should not 801106 us and
you: but go ye rather to those selling,
and buy for yourselves.

10 And they, going to buy, the
bridegroom came ; and they prepared,
went in with him to the nuptials; and
the door was locked.

11 And afterwards came also the
rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord,
open to us.

12 And he having answered said,
Truly I say to you, I know you not.

13 Watch, therefore, for ye know
not the day, neither the hour, in which
the Son of man comes.

14 For as a inan going abroad,
681160 his ownservants, and delivered
them his possessions :

15 And to one he truly gave five
talents, and to one, two, and to one,
one; to each according to his own
power; and he quickly went abroad.

16 And he having received five tal-
ents, having gone, worked with them,
and he made other five talents.

17 Likewise he haying the two also,
gained he also other two.

18 And he having received one,
having departed, dug in the earth, and
concealed his lord’s silver.

19 And after much time the lord of
these servants comes, and lifts up the
word with them.

20 And he haying received the five
talents, having come near, brought the
other five talents, saying, Lord, thou

MATTHEW ΧΧΥ.

deliveredst me five talents: and Ihave
gained other five talents.

21 And his lord said to him, Well,
good and faithful servant: thou wast
faithful over a few things, I will set
thee over many ; enter into the joy of
thy lord.

22 And he also having received the
twotalents, having come nearsaid, Lord,
thou deliveredst me two talents; see, I
gained two other talents to them.

23 His lord said to him, Well, good
and faithful servant ; thou wast faith-
ful over a few things, I will set thee
over many ; enter into the joy of thy
lord.

24 And he also having received one
talent, having come near, said, Lord, I
knew thee that thou art a hard man,
reaping where thou sowedst not, and
gathering where thou scatteredst not:

25 And having been afraid, having
gone away, I concealed thy talent in
the earth; see, thou hast thine own.

26 And his lord having answered,
said to him, O evil and slothful servant,
thou knewest that I reap where I sowed
not, and gather where I scattered not:

27 Thou therefore oughtest to have
cast my silver to the money changers,
and I’having come, had received mine
own, with interest.

28 Therefore take the talent away
from him, and give him having ten
talents.

29 For to, every one having shall be
given, and he shall be in abundance:
and from him not having, also what he
has shall be taken away from him.

30 And cast ye the useless servant
into darkness without ; weeping shall
be there, and gnashing of teeth.

31 And when the Son of man should
come in his glory, and all his holy
messengers with him, then shall he sit
upon the throne of his glory:

32 And all nations shall be gathered
together before him, and he shall sep-
arate them from one another, as a
shepherd separates the sheep from the
kids:

33 And he shall set the sheep from his
right, and the kids from his left.

34 Then shall the king say to them
from his right, Came, the praised of

MATTHEW XXV.. XXVI.

my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
pared for you from the foundation of
the world:

35 For Iwas hungry, and ye gave
me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave
me to drink: I wasa stranger, and ye
brought me in:

36 Naked, and ye put around me:
Iwas sick, and ye reviewed me: 1 wasin

‘prison, and ye came to me.

37 Then shallthe just answer him
saying, Lord, when saw we thee hun-
gering, and nourished ? or thirsting, and
gave to drink?

38 And when saw we thee a stranger,
and brought in? or naked, and put
around ?

39 And when saw we thee sick, orin
prison, and came to thee ?

40 And the king having answered,
will say to them, Truly I say to
you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of
the least of my brethren, ye did to
me.

41 Then shall he say to them from
the left, Go away from me, the cursed,
into eternal fire, prepared for the devil
and his messengers:

42 For 1 was hungry, and ye gave
me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye
gave me no drink;

43 I was a stranger and ye brought
me not in; naked, and ye put not
around me ; sick, andin prison, and ye
took not a view of me.

44 Then shall they answer him,
they also saying, Lord, when saw we
thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and atten-
ded not to thee ?

45 Then shall he answer them saying,
Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the
least of these, ye did not to me.

46 And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment: and the just
into eternal life.

CHAPTER XXVI.
ND it was when Jesus finished all
the words, he said to his disci-
ples,

2 Ye know that after two days is the
passover, and the Son of man shall be
delivered to be crucified.

3 Then were gathered together the

που σαν a a a SSS EEE EE EEE Ee Se

chief priests, and scribes, and the more
ancient of the people, into the court-
yard of the chief priest, called Caiaphas,

4 And they counselled together, that
they might obtain Jesus by stratagem,
and might kill.

5 And they said, Not in the festival,
lest there should be an uproar among
the people.

6 And Jesus having been in Beth-
any, in the house of Simon the lep-
rous,

7 There came to him a woman hav-
ing an alabaster box of costly perfumed
ointment, and she poured upon the
head of him, reclining at table.

8 And his disciples seeing, felt pain,
saying, For what this loss ?

9 For this perfumed oil could
have been sold for much, and have
been given to the poor.

10 And Jesus having known, said
to them, Why offer ye toils to the
woman? for a good work has she
worked upon me.

11 Foralways the poor ye have with
you, but me ye have not always.

12 For she, casting this perfumed
oil upon my body, did to prepare me
for interment.

13 Truly Isay to you, Wheresoever
this good news be proclaimed in the
whole world, shall it also be spoken
what she did, for aremembrance of her.

14 Then one of the twelve having
gone forth, he being called Judas Is-
cariot, to the chief priests,

15 Said, What will ye give me, and
I will deliver him to you? and they
placed to him thirty silver:coins.

16 And from then he sought oppor-
tunity, that he might deliver him.

17 And in the first of the unleay-
ened loaves, the disciples came to Je-
sus, saying to him, Where wilt thou
we should prepare for thee to eat the
pascha ?

18 And he said, Retire ye into the
city, to a certain person, and say to
him, The teacher says, My time is
near; with thee do I the pascha with
my disciples.

19 And the -disciples did as Jesus
commanded them: and they prepared
the passover,

20 And it being evening, he re-
clined at table with the twelve.

21 And they eating, he said, Truly
I say to you, that one of you shall de-
liver me up.

22 And they being greatly grieved,
began each of them to say to him, Far
from it am I, O Lord :

23 And he having answered, said,
He having dipped with me the hand
in the small dish, the same shall deliy-
er me up.

24 Truly the Son of man retires as
has been written concerning him ; and
woe to that man by whom the Son of
man is delivered up! it was good for
him if that man had not been born.

25 And Judas delivering him up,
having answered, said, Far from it, am
I, Rabbi? He said to him, Thou hast
said. :

26 And they eating, Jesus, having
taken the bread and praised, brake and
gave to the disciples, and said, Take,
eat ; this is my body.

27 And having taken the enp, and
given thanks, he gave to them, saying,
Drink of it all ye.

28 For this is my blood, that of the
new covenant, having been poured out
for many, for the remission of sins.

29 And I say to you, that I drink
not from henceforth of this fruit of the
vine, even till that day when I drink
it new with you, in the kingdom of
my Father.

30 And having sung, they went
forth to the mount of Olives.

31 Then says Jesus to them, All ye
shall be seandalized in me this night ;
for it has been written, I will smite
the shepherd, and the sheep of the
flock shall be seattered up and down.

32 And after I be raised, I will lead
before you into Galilee.

33 And Peter having answered, said
to him, And if all men shall be sean-
dalized in thee, I will never be scanda-
lized.

34 Jesus says to him, Truly I say to
thee that in this night, before the cock
utters a sound, thou shalt deny me
thrice.

35 Peter says to him, Though it
should be necessary for me to die with

MATTHEW XXVI.

thee, I will not deny thee: likewise
also said all the disciples.

80 Then comes Jesus with them in-
to the place called Gethsemane, and
says to the disciples, Sit here, till
I, having gone, shall pray.

87 And having taken Peter and the
two sons of Zebedee, he began to be
grieved, and to be dejected.

38 Then says he to them, My soul
is sorely grieved, even to death: re-
main here, and watch ye with me.

39 And having gone forward a lit-
tle, he fell upon his face, praying, and
saying, My Father, if it is possible, let
this cup pass away from me: but notas
1 will, but as thou.

40 And he comes to his disciples,
and finds them sleeping, and says to
Peter, So were ye not able to watch
with me one hour?

41 Watch and pray, lest ye come
into temptation: truly the spirit of
a ready will, and the flesh weak.

42 Again of a second time, having
goneaway, heprayed, saying, My Father
if this cup cannot pass away from me
except I drink it, let thy will be.

43 And having gone he finds them
again sleeping: for their eyes were
loaded. ,

44 And having left them, having
gone away again, he prayed of the
third time, speaking the same word.

45 Then comes he to his disciples,
and says to them, Sleep for the re-
maining time, and take rest: behold,
the hour has drawn near, and the Son
of man is delivered into the hands of
the sinful.

46 Be aroused, let us lead forth ; be-
hold, he delivering me up, has drawn
near.

47 And he yet speaking, behold, Ju-
das, one of the twelve, came, and with
him a great crowd, with swords, and
sticks, from the chief priests, and the
more ancient of the people.

48 And he delivering him up, gave
them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I
shall kiss, the same is he: hold him
firmly.

49 And quickly having come to
Jesus, he said, Hail, Rabbi! and kissed
him,

MATTHEW XXVI., XXVII.

50 And Jesus said to him, Friend,
for what comest thou? Then having
come near, they put hands upon Jesus,
and held him firmly.

51 And, behold, one of them with Je-
sus, having stretched out the hand,
pulled out his sword, having struck the
chief priest’s servant, took away his
ear.

52 Then says Jesus to him, Turn
back thy sword to its place: for all
they having taken the sword, shall
perish by the sword.

53 Thinkest thou that I am not able
to call to my Father for aid, and he will
set before me more than twelve legions
of messengers ?

54 How then would the writings be
filled up, that so it must be?

55 In that hour, Jesus said to the
crowds, Asagainst arobbercame ye out,
with swords and sticks, to take me? In
the day I sat down with you, teaching,
and ye took not hold of me.

56 But this has been wholly that
the writings of the prophets might be
filled up. Then all the disciples, hav-
ing left him, fled.

57 And they having held Jesus,
brought to Caiaphas the chief priest,
where the scribes and elders were
gathered together.

58 And Peter followed him from
far, even tothe court-yard of the chief
priest, and having entered within, he
" sat with the attendants, to see the end.

59 And the chief priests, and the
elders, and the whole council sought
false testimony against Jesus, so that
they might put himto death ;

60 And they found not: and many
false witnesses having come near, they
found not.

61 And afterwards two false wit-
nesses, having come near, said, This
said, I can loosen the temple of God,
and after three days build it.

62 And the chief priest, having ris-
en, said to him; Answerest thou noth-
ing? what do these witness against
thee ?

63 But Jesus was silent. And the
chief priest having answered, said to
him, 1 cause thee to swear by the liv-
ing God, that thou tell us, if thou art
Christ, the Son of God.

64 And Jesus says to him, Thou
hast said: but I say to you, from
henceforth ye shall see the Son of man,
sitting from the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven.

65 Then the chief priest tore his gar-
ments, saying, That he blasphemed:
what further need have we of witnesses?
see, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

66. What seems to you? And they
having answered, said, He is liable to
the penalty of death.

67 Then did they spit in his face,
and cuffed him, and struck him with a
rod :

68 Saying, Prophesy to us,O Christ,
Who is he having struck thee ?

69 And Peter sat without in the
court-yard, and one young girl came
to him saying, Thou also wast with
Jesus of Galilee.

70 And he denied before all, saying,
I know not what thou sayest.

71 And he having gone out into
the gate, another saw him, and she says
to them there, This also was with Je-
sus the Nazarite.

72 And again he denied with an
oath, That I know not the man.

73 And a little after, those standing,
having come near, said to Peter, Tru-
ly thou also art of them; for also thy
speech makes thee manifest.

74 Then began he to anathematize,
and to swear, That I know not the
man: and quickly the cock uttered a
sound.

75 And Peter remembered the word
of Jesus, having said to him, That be-
fore the cock utter a sound, thou shalt
deny me thrice. And having gone forth
without, he wept bitterly. -

CHAPTER XXVII.
ND having been morning, all the
chief priests and elders of the
people took counsel against Jesus, to
kill him :

2 And having bound they brought
him away, and they delivered him to
Pontius Pilate, the leader.

3 Then Judas, he delivering him
up, having seen that he was con-
demned, having felt regret, returned
the thirty silver coins to the chief
priests, and the more ancient,

4 Saying, 1 have sinned, having de-
livered up guiltless blood. And they
said, What to us? thou shalt see.

5 And haying cast down the silver
coins in the temple, he withdrew ; and
having gone away, he strangled him-
self.

6 And the chief priests, having ta-
ken the silver coins, said, It is not law-
ful to cast them for an offering, since
it is the price of blood.

7 And having taken counsel, they
purchased with them the potter’s field,
for the interment to strangers.

8 Wherefore, that field was called, The
field of blood, even to this day.

9 Then was completed that having
been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet,
saying, And they took the thirty silver
coins, the price of him prized, whom
they from the sons of Israel prized ;

10 And they gave them for the
potter’s field, as the Lord comman-
ded me.

11 And Jesus stood before the
leader: and the leader asked him, say-
ing, Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus
said to him, Thou sayest.

12 And in the accusing him by the
chief priests and the more ancient, he
answered nothing.

13 Then says Pilate to him, Hearest
thou not what they witness against
thee?

14 And he answered him not to one
word: so that the leader wondered
greatly.

15 And in the festival the leader
was accustomed to loose one impris-
oned to the crowd, which they de-
sired.

16 And they had then an imprisoned
distinguished, called Barabbas.

17 Therefore they assembled to-
gether, Pilate said to them, Whom will
ye I shall loose to you? DBarabbas,
or Jesus, called Christ ?

18 For he knew that through envy,
they had delivered lim up.

19 And he sitting upon the judg-
ment seat, his wife sent to him, saying,
Nothing to thee and that just one : for
1 have suffered this day many things
in a dream, on his account.

20 And the chief priests and the

MATTHEW XXVII. °

elders persuaded the crowds that they
should ask Barabbas, and destroy
Jesus.

21 And the leader having answered,
said to them, Which of the two will
ye I shall loose to you? And they
said, Barabbas.

22 Pilate says to them, What then
shall I do with Jesus, called Christ ?
They all say to him, Let him be cruci-
fied.

23 And the leader said, For what
evil hath he done? and they cried ex-
cessively, saying, Let him be crucified.

24 And Pilate, seeing that it profits
nothing, but there is rather an uproar,
having taken water, he washed his
hands before the crowd, saying, 1 am
guiltless of the blood of this just one:
yeshall see yourselves.

25 And all the people having an-
swered, said, His blood upon us, and
upon our children.

26 Then he loosed to them Barab-
bas: and having scourged Jesus, deliv-
ered him up, that he might be eruci-
fied.

97 Then the soldiers of the leader,
having taken Jesus to the Pretorinm,
gathered together the whole band
against him.

28 And having unclothed him, they
put round him a scarlet, loose, warm
cloak.

29 And having twined a crown of
thorns, they put upon his head: and
areed upon his right hand : and having
fallen upon the knees before him, they
mocked him, saying, Hail, King of
the Jews!

30 And having spit upon him, they
took the reed, and struck upon his
head.

31 And when they mocked him,
they put off from him the loose, warm
cloak, and put on him his garments,
and brought him away to crucify.

32 And coming, they found a man,
a Cyrenian, Simon by name ; they com-
pelled him that he should lift up his
cross.

33 And having come to the place
called Golgotha, which is called the
place of the skull,

34 They gave him vinegar to drink,

MATTHEW XXVII.

mingled with bile: and having tasted,
he would not drink.

35 And having crucified him, they
divided his garments among them,
casting lot: that that spoken by the
prophet might be filled up: They
divided among them my garments,
and upon my clothing they cast lot.

36 And sitting down, they observed
him there.

37 And they set above his head his
accusation, having been written: THIS
IS JESUS THE KING OF THE
JEWS.

38 Then were crucified with him
two robbers; one from the right hand,
and the other from the left.

39 And they coming near, blas-
phemed him, shaking their heads,

40 And saying, He loosing the
temple, and building in three days,

save thyself: if thou art the Son of

God, come down from the cross.

41 And likewise also the chief
priests mocking, with the scribes and
elders, said,

42 Others he saved ; himself he can-
not save. If he is King of Israel, let
him now come down from the cross,
and we will believe him:

43 He trusted upon God; let him
now deliver him, if he desires him:
for he said, That I am the Son of God.

44 And the robbers crucified with
him, reproached him with the same.

45 And from the sixth hour, dark-
ness was upon all the earth, even to the
ninth hour.

46 And about the ninth hour, Jesus
cried out with a great voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? this is, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me ? ;

47 And some of them standing
there, having heard, said, That he calls
Elias.

48 And quickly one of them, having
run, and taken asponge, and filled with
vinegar, and put upon a reed, gave him
to drink.

49 And the rest said, Let go: we
should see if Elias comes, * going to
save him.

50 And Jesus, again having cried
with a great voice, let go the spirit.

51 And, behold, the covering of the
temple was cleft in two, from above
to below; and the earth was shaken;
and the rocks were cleft:

52 And the tombs were opened: and
many bodies of the holy ones, having
been set to sleep, were raised,

53 And having come forth from the
tombs, after his arising, went into the
holy city, and were exhibited to many.

54 And the centurion, and they with
him, observing Jesus, having seen the
shaking, and the things having been,
were greatly afraid, saying, Truly this
was the Son of God.

55 And many women were there,
beholding from far off, who followed
Jesus out of Galilee, serving him:

56 Among whom was Mary Magda-
lene, and Mary the mother of James
and Joses, and the mother of Zebe-
dee’s sons.

57 And being evening, then there
came arich man from Arimathea, Jo-
seph by name, who also himself wasa
disciple to Jesus :

58 He having come to Pilate, asked
the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered
the body to be given back.

59 And Joseph having taken the
body, inwrapped it in clean fine linen.

60 And put it in his new tomb,
which he quarried in the rock: and
having rolled a great stone to the door
of the tomb, he departed.

61 And Mary Magdalene was there,
and the other Mary, sitting opposite
the tomb.

62 And in the morrow, which is af-
ter the preparation, the chief priests
and the Pharisees were gathered to-
gether to Pilate,

63 Saying, Lord, we remember that
that impostor said, yet living, After
three days, I arise.

64 Order therefore, the tomb to be
rendered secure till the third day, lest
his disciples, having come by night,
should steal him, andsay to the people,
He was raised from the dead; end the
last error shall be worse than the first.

65 And Pilate saidto them, Yehave
a watch: retire, render secure as ye
know.

66 And they, having gone, renderel

the tomb secure, having sealed the
stone with the watch.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
yA after the sabbaths, in the shin-
ing forth to one of the sabbaths,
came Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary to behold the tomb.

2 And, behold, there was a great
shaking ; for a messenger of the Lord,
having come down out of heaven, hav-
ing come near, rolled away the stone
from the door, and sat above it.’

3 And his aspect was as lightning,
and his garment white as snow.

4 And from fear of him the keep-
ers were shaken, and were as dead.

5 And the messenger, having an-
swered, said to the women, Be ye not
afraid; for I know that ye seek Jesus,
having been crucified.

6 He is not here: for he wasraised,
as he said. Come, see the place where
the Lord lay.

7 And having gone quickly, say ye
to his disciples, that he was raised from
the dead; and, behold, he leads before
you into Galilee: there shall ye see
him : behold 1 have said to you.

8 And they having come quickly
from the tomb, with fear and great joy,
ran to announce to his disciples.

9 And as they were going to announce
to his disciples, behold, Jesus met
them, saying, Rejoice ye. And they
having come, held his feet firmly, and
worshipped him.

10 Then says Jesus to them, Be ye

MATTHEW XXVII., XXVIII.

not afraid: retire, and announce tomy
brethren that they should goaway into
Galilee, and there shall they see me.

11 And they going, behold certain of
the watch having come to the city,
announced to the chief priests all hay-
ing been done.

12 And having been gathered to-
gether with the elders, and havin
taken counsel, they gave sufticient sik
ver coins to the soldiers,

13 Saying, Say ye, That his disci-
ples having come by night, stole him,
we being asleep.

14 And if this should be heard by
the leader, we will persuade him, and
we will make you undisturbed.

15 And they having received the
silver coins, did as they were taught;
and this word was spread a report by
the Jews till this day.

16 And the eleven disciples went
into Galilee, into a mountain, where
Jesus commanded them.

17 And having seen him, they wor-
shipped him; and some doubted.

18 And Jesus, having come near,
spake to them, saying, All power has
been given me in heaven and upon
earth:

19 Therefore, having gone, disci-
ple all nations; immersing them into
the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit :

20 Teaching them to keep all things
whatever I have commanded you ; and
behold, I am with you all the days,
even to the end of time. Amen.

MARK.

CHAPTER I.

as beginning of the good news of

Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

9 As it has been written in the!

prophets, Behold, I send my messen-
ger before thy face, who shall prepare
thy way before thee.

3 A voice of him erying in the des-

ert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord;
make his beaten paths straight.
4 John was immersing in the desert,

and proclaiming the immersion of re-

pentance for the remission of sins.
5 And the Judean country, and the

Jerusalemites, were going out to him,
and all were being immersed by himin

MARK I.

the river Jordan, acknowledging their
81η8.

6 And John was dressed in camel’s
hair, and a leathern girdle about his
loins; and eating loeusts and wild
honey ;

7 And he proclaimed, saying, The
stronger than I comes after me, of
whom I am not sutlicient, having bent
the head, to loose the strings of his
shoes.

8 I truly immersed you in water:
but he shall immerse you with the
Holy Spirit.

9 And it was in those days Jesus
came from Nazareth of Galilee, and
was immersed by John in Jordan.

10 And quickly coming up from the
water, he saw the heavens 61015 asun-
der, and the Spirit, as a dove, descend-
ing upon him:

ἼΙ And a voice was from the heav-
ens; Thou art my dearly belov ed Son,
in whom I was contented.

12 And directly the Spirit casts him
out into the desert.

13 And he was there in the desert
forty days, tempted by Satan; and he
was with wild beasts; and messengers
were serving him.

14 And after John was delivered
up, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaim-
ing the good news of the kingdom of
God,

15 And saying, That the time has
been completed, “and the kingdom of
God has drawn near: repent ye, and
believe in the good news.

16 And walking by the sea of Gali-
lee, he saw Simon and Andrew his
brother, casting a large sweep-net in
the sea: for they were fishermen.

17 And Jesus said to them, Come
after me, and I will make you to be-
come fishermen of men.

18 And quickly having left their
nets, they followed him.

19 And having moved forward a
little from thence, he saw James of
Zebedee, and John hisbrother, and they
in the ship adjusting their nets.

20 And quickly he called them: and
having left their father Zebedee in the
ship with the hirelings, they went af-
ter him. /

21 And they go into Capernaum ;

and quickly in the sabbaths, having en-
tered into the synagogue, he taught.

22 And they were struck with amaze-
mentat his teaching; for he was teach-
ing them as having power, and not as
the scribes?

23 And there was in the synagogue
aman with an unclean spirit; and he
cried out, saying,

24 Let alone; what to us and thee,
Jesus thou Nazarene? hast thou come
to destroy us? I know thce who thou
art, the Holy of God.

25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying,
Be silent, and come out of him.

26 And the unclean spirit having
torn him, and having cried with a
great voice, came out of him.

27 And all were amazed, so as to
seek out with themselves, saying, What
is this? what new teaching this? for
with power also he commands the un-
clean spirits, and they listen to him.

28 And a report of him went out
quickly in the whole country about
Galilee.

29 And quickly, having come out of
the synagogue, they came into the
house of Simon and Andrew, with
James and John.

30 And Simon’s mother-in-law was
laid down, affected with fever: and
quickly they speak to him concerning

er.

31 And having come, he raised her,
having held her hand; and the fever
quickly left her, and she served them.

32 And evening having come, when
the sun set,they brought to him all be-
ing afflicted, and the possessed with a
demon.

33 And the whole city was gathered
together at the door.

34 And he cured many afflicted with
various diseases, and cast out many de-
mons; and permitted not the devils to
speak, for they knew him.

35 And early, having risen far in
the night, he went out, and departed
into a deserted place, and there pray-
ed.

36 And Simon, and they with him,
followed him.

87 And having found him, they say
to him, That all seek thee.

38 And he says to them, We should

lead into the next small cities, that I
might proclaim there also: for, for this
have I come forth.

39 And he was proclaiming in their
synagogues in the whole of Galilee,
and casting out demons.

40 And a leprous one came to him,
beseeching him, and supplicating him
on his knees, and saying to him, That
if thou wouldst, thou canst cleanse me.

41 And Jesus, having felt compas-
sion, having stretched out the hand,
touched him, and says to him, I will:
be thou cleansed.

49 And he haying spoken, quickly
the leprosy departed from him, and he
was cleansed.

43 And having threatened him vio-
lently, quickly he cast him forth:

44 And says to him, See thou say
nothing to any one: but retire, shew
thyself to the priest, and bring for-
ward for thy cleansing what things
Moses commanded, for a testimony to
them.

45 And he, having gone forth, be-
gan to proclaim many things, and to
spread the word a report, so that he
could no more openly enter the city,
but was without in desert places: and
they come to him from every quarter.

CHAPTER II.
ee again he went into Capernaum
after the days; and it was heard
that he is in the house.

2 And quickly many were gathered
together, so as no more to have room,
neither at the door: and he spake the
word to them. :

3 And they come to him, bringin
a paralytic, lifted up by four.

4 And not being able to draw near
to him for the crowd, they uncovered
the roof where he was: and having ex-
cavated, they let down his couch upon
which the paralytic was laid.

5 And Jesus haying seen their faith,
says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins
have been remitted to thee.

6 And certain of the scribes were
sitting there, and discussing in their
hearts,

7 Why does this thus speak blas-
phemies? who can remit sins but the
one God?

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MARK L, IL.

8 And Jesus quickly having known
that they discuss in themselves, says to
them, Why discuss ye these things in
your hearts ?

9 Why is it easier to say to the par-
alytic, Sins have been remitted to
thee? or to say, Arise, lift up thy
couch, and walk ?

10 And that ye might know that
the Son of man has power to remit
sins upon earth, (he says to the para-
lytie,

ἵ 11 Ὶ say to thee, Arise, and lift up
thy couch, and retire to thy house.

12 And he was quickly raised up;
and having lifted up the couch, he
went forth before all, so that all were
affected in mind, and praised God,
saying, That we never saw it thus.

13 And he went out again by the
sea; and all the crowd came to him,
and he taught them.

14 And passing by, he saw Levi,
him of Alpheus, sitting by the custom-
house, and he says to him, Follow me.
And having risen, he fullowed him.

15 And it was in his reclining at
table in his honse, and many publicans
and sinful reclined together with Jesus
and his disciples: for they were many,
and they followed him.

16 And the scribes. and Pharisees
having seen him eating with publicans
and sinful, said to his disciples, Why
does he eat and drink with publicans
and sinful ?

17 And Jesus having heard, says to
them, They being strong have no need
of a physician, but those being affected :
I came not to call the just, but the
sinful to repentance.

18 And the disciples of John, and
of the Pharisees were fasting: and
they come and say to him, Why do
the disciples of John, and of the Phar-
isees fast, and the disciples to thee
fast not ?

19 And Jesus said to them, Can the
sons of the nuptial-chamber, in which
the bridegroom is with them, fast? as
much time as they have the bridegroom
with them, they cannot fast.

20 And the days shall come when
the bridegroom should be taken away
from them, and then shall they fast in
those days.

MARK

91 And none sews a piece of un-
combed fragment upon an old gar-
ment; and lest its new filling-up take
away from the old, and the splitting
be worse.

22 And none puts new wine in old
wine-skins: and lest the new wine rend
the wine-skins, and the wine be poured
out, and the wine-skins perish; but
they put new wine in new wine-skins.

23 And it was he passed by through
the standing corn in the sabbaths: and
his disciples began to make the way,
picking out the ears of corn.

94 And the Pharisees said to him,
Behold, why do they in the sabbaths
what is not lawful ?

25 And he said to them, Did ye
never read what David did, when he
had need, and hungered, himself, and
those with him ?

26 How he went into the house of
God to Abiathar the chief priest, and
ate the loaves of setting up, which is
not lawful to eat but for priests, and
gave to those being with him?

27 And hesaid to them, The sabbath
was for man, and not man for the sab-
bath:

28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord
also of the sabbath.

CHAPTER III.
ND he went again into the syna-
gogue ; and a man was there hav-
ing the hand dried up.

2 And they were observing him
narrowly, if in the sabbaths he will
heal him; that they might accuse him.

3 And he says to the man having
the hand dried up, Rise in the midst.

4 And he says to them, Is it lawful
in the sabbaths to do good, or to do
evil? to save a soul, orto kill? And
they were silent.

5 And having looked round upon
them with anger, grieved for the hard-
ness of their heart, he says to the man,
Stretch out thy hand. And he stretch-
ed out: and his hand was restored
whole as the other.

6 And the Pharisees having come
ont, quickly with the Herodians were
making counsel against him, that they
might destroy him.

7 And Jesus withdrew with, his

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disciples to the sea: and a great multi-‏
tude from Galilee followed him, and‏
from Judea,‏

8 And from Jerusalem, and from
Idumea, and beyond Jordan; and they
about Tyre and Sidon, a great multi-
tude, having heard what he did, came
to hin.

9 And he said to his disciples, that
a small vessel should remain for him,
on account of the crowd, that they
might not press him.

10 For he cured many; 80 as to fall
upon him that they might touch him,
as many as had plagues.

11 And unclean spirits, when they
saw him, fell before him, and 41
saying, That thou art the Son of God.

12 And he censured them much, lest
they should make him manifest.

13 And he goes up to a mountain,
and calls whom he would: and they
came to him.

14 And he made the twelve, that
they might be with him, and that he
might send them forth to proclaim,

15 And have power to cure diseases,
and cast out demons:

16 And he set to Simon the name
Peter ;

17 And James, him of Zebedee, and
John brother of James; and he set to
them names Boanerges, which 1s, Sons
of thunder:

18 And Andrew, and Philip, and
Bartholomew, and Matthew, and
Thomas, and James him of Alpheus,
and Thaddeus, and Simon the Ca-
naanite,

19 And Judas Iscariot, who also de-
livered him up.

20 And they came into the house ;
and again came the crowd together, so
that they could not even eat bread.

21 And they with him, having
heard, came forth to take hold of him:
for they said, That he is affected in
mind.

22 And the scribes, they having
come down from Jerusalem, said, That
he has Beelzeboul, and that by the rul-
er of demons he 68568 out demons.

23 And having called them, in par-
ables spake he to them, How can Sa-
tan cast out Satan 4

24 And if a kingdom be divided

against itself, that kingdom cannot
stand.

25 And if ahouse be divided against
itself, that house cannot stand.

26 And if Satan rise up against
himself, and has been divided, he can-
not stand, but has an end.

27 None can plunder the vessels of
the strong, having entered his house,
except he first bind the strong; then
he will plunder his house.

28 Truly I say to you, That all sins
shall be remitted to the sons of men,
and defamations whatever they de-
faine :

29 And whoever should defame
against the Holy Spirit has no remis-
sion forever, but he is liable to the
penalty of eternal condemnation.

30: For they said, He has an unclean
spirit.

31 Then came his brethren and his
mother, and, standing without, they
sent to him, calling him.

32 And the crowd sat about him,
and they said to him, Behold, thy
mother and thy brethren without seek
thee.

33 And he answered them, saying,
Who is my mother, and my brethren ?

34 And having looked round upon
those sitting round about him, he says,
Behold my mother and my brethren!

35 For whoever should do the will
of God, he is my brother, and my sis-
ter, and mother.

CHAPTER IV.

ἀν again he began to teach by the

sea: and a great crowd was ga-

thered together to him, so that he,

having gone into the ship, sat in the

sea; and all the crowd was by the sea
upon land.

2 Aud he taught them in parables
many things, and said to them in his
teaching,

3 Hear ye; behold, he sowing went
out to sow:

4 And it was in sowing some truly
fell by the way, and the vine things
of heaven came and ate it down.

5 And other fell upon stony places,
where it had not much earth; and
quickly it sprang forth, for it had no
deepness of earth:

MARK IIL., IV.

6 And the sun having risen, it was
parched up; and because it had no
root, it was dried up.

7 And other fell in thorns, and the
thorns came up, and choked it, and it
gave no fruit.

8 And other fell in good earth, and
gave fruit coming up and increasing;
and one brought thirty, and one sixty,
and one a hundred.

9 And he said to them, He haying
ears to hear, let him hear.

10 And when he was alone, they
about him with the twelve asked him
of the parable.

11 And he said to them, To you has
it been given to know the mystery of
the kingdom of God: but to those
without, all are in parables :

12 That seeing they might see, and
not know; and hearing they might
hear, and not understand; lest they
turn back, and their sins be remitted to
them.

13 And he says to them, Know ye
not this parable? and how will ye
know all parables ?

14 116 sowing sows the word.

15 And these are they by the way,
where the word is sown; and when
they hear, quickly comes Satan, and
takes away the word sown in their
hearts.

16 And these are likewise they sown
upon stony places; who, when they
hear, quickly with joy receive it ;

17 And have no root in themselves,
but are temporary ; then pressure hav-
ing been or expulsion for the word,
quickly are they scandalized.

18 And these are they sown in
thorns; these are they hearing the
word.

19 And the eares of this time, and
the deceit of riches, and eager de-
sires about remaining things, coming
in, choke the word, and it is unfruitful.

20 And these are they sown on good
earth; who hear the word, and receive,
and bear fruit, one thirty, and one six-
ty, and one a hundred.

21 And he said to them, Much less
the light comes that it be set under a
bushel, or under a bed; that it be not
set upon a candlestick. 7:

22 For not anything is hid, which

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should not be manifested ; neither was
concealed, but that it should come clear.

23 Whoever has ears to hear, let
him hear.

24 And he said to them, See ye how
ye hear: with what measure ye meas-
ure, shall be measured to you: and to
you hearing, shall be added.

25 For whoever should have, to him
shall be given: and whoever has not,
also what he has shall be taken away
from him.

26 And he said, So is the kingdom
of God, as 11 8 man should cast seed up-
on the earth ;

27 And he sleep, and should rise
night and day, and the seed should
sprout, and be raised; how, he knows
not.

28 For the earth bears fruit sponta
neously; first the grass, then the ear,
then the full wheat in the ear.

29 But when the fruit shonld yield,
quickly he sends the sickle, for the
harvest is brought forward.

30 And he said, To what should we
liken the kingdom of God? or in what
parable should we hold it forth?

81 As a kernel of mustard, which,
when‘it be sown in the earth, is small-
er than all seeds upon the earth:

32 And when it be sown, it comes
up and is greater than all vegetables,
and makes great young shoots; so that
the flying things of heaven can encamp
under its shadow.

33 And with many such parables
spake he the word to them, as they
were able to hear.

34 And without a parable spake he
not to them: and apart, he solved all
to his disciples.

35 And he says to them in that day,
being evening, Let us go beyond.

36 And having let the crowd go, they
receive him as he was in the ship.
And there were also other small vessels
with him.

37 And there is a great hurricane
of wind, and the waves struck against
the ship, so that it was already filled.

38 And he was upon the back part
of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow:
and they aroused him, and say to him,
Teacher, carest thou not that we perish ?

39 And having risen, he censured |

the wind, and said to the sea, Be silent,
be constricted. And the wind ceased,
and there was a great calm.

40 And he said to them, Why are ye
so timorous? how have ye not faith?

41 And they feared a great fear, and
said to one another, Who is this, that
also the wind and sea listen to him ?

CHAPTER V.
oe they went beyond the sea, to
the country of the Gadarenes.

2 And to him coming out of the
ship, quickly a man met him from the
monuments with an unclean spirit,

3 Who had a dwelling among the
monuments; and neither with chains
could any one bind him:

4 For he had been bound many
times with fetters and chains, and the
chains were torn asunder by him, and
the fetters broken in pieces: and none
could tame him.

5 And always, night and day, was he
in the mountains, and among the mon-
uments, crying, and mangling himself
with stones.

6 And having seen Jesus from afar,
he ran and worshipped him.

7 And having cried with a great
voice, he said, What to me and thee,
Jesus, O Son of God most high ? I ad-
jure thee by God, that thou torture me
not.

8 For he said to him, Come forth
out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

9 And he asked him, What the
name to thee? And he answered, say-
ing, My name, Legion: for we are
many.

10 And he besought him much that
he would not send them out of the
country.

11 And a great herd of swine was
feeding there near the mountains.

12 And all the demons besought
him, saying, Send us into the swine,
that we might enter into them.

13 And quickly Jesus permitted
them. And the evil spirits having
come forth, entered into tle swine:
and the herd rushed through the preci-
pice into the sea, ( and they were about
two thousand; ( and they were choked
in the sea.

14 And those feeding the swine fled,

and they announced in the city, and in
the fields. And they came forth to
see what is it that was done.

15 And they come to Jesus, and
they see him possessed with the demon,
sitting down, and being clothed, and
of sound mind: and they were afraid.

16 And they having seen, recounted
to them how it was to him possessed
with the demon, and concerning the
swine.

17 And they began to beseech him
to depart out of their bounds.

18 And he having gone into the ship,
he having been possessed with a de-
mon besouglt him that he might be
with him.

19 And Jesus permitted him not;
but he says to him, Retire to thy
house, to thine own, and announce to
them what things the Lord did 50 6%
and he pitied thee.

20 And he went away, and began to
proclaim in Decapolis what Jesus did
to him: and all were wondering.

21 And Jesus having pass ed over
again in the ship on the other side, a
great crowd was gathered together to
eke and he was by the sea.

2 And, behold, one of the rulers of
ne synagogue comes, Jairus by name ;
and ‘having seen him, he fell at his
feet,

23 And he besought him much, say-
ing, That my little daughter is at the
last extremity: that, having come, thou
mightest put the hands upon her, so
that she might be saved; and she shall
live.

24 And he meat away with him;
and a great crowd followed him, and
they pressed him.

25 And a certain woman, being in a
flowing of blood twelve years,

26 And havi ing suffered many things
by many physicians, and having ex-
pended all of her own, and not having
been benefited, but having come rather
to the worse,

27 Having heard concerning Jesus,
having come in the crowd behind, she
touched his garment.

28 For she said, That if I touch his
garment, I shall be saved.

29 And quickly the fountain of her

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blood was dried up; and she knew in
the body that she is healed from the
plague.

30 And Jesus, having quickly known
in himself the power having gone out
of him, having turned round in the
crowd, he said, Who has touched my
garments 2

31 And his disciples said to him,
Seest thou the crowd pressing thee,
and sayest thou, Who has touched me 4

32 And he looked round about to
see her having done this.

33 And the woman, afraid and
trembling, having known what had
been upon her, came and fell down be-
fore him, and spake all the truth to
him.

34 And he said to her, Daughter,
thy faith has saved thee; retire in
peace, and be whole from thy plague.

3) He yet speaking, they come from
the ruler of the synagogue, saying
That thy daughter is dead: why yet
dost thou importune the Teacher ?

36 And Jesus having quickly heard
the word spoken, says to the ruler of
the synagogue, Fear not, only believe.

37 And he permitted not any to fol-
low him, except Peter, and James,
and John the brother of James.

38 And he comes to the house of the
ruler of the synagogue, and sees an
uproar, they weeping and wailing
much.

39 And having come in, he says to
them, Why make ye an uproar, and
weep? the young child is not dead,
but sleeps.

40 And they laughed at him. And
he, having 6885 them all out, takes the
father and mother of the young child,
and those with him, and goes where
the young child was lying.

41 And having taken the hand of
the young child, he says to her, Talitha
cumi; which is, being interpreted,
Little girl, I say to thee, arise.

42 And the little girl arose quickly,
and walked; for she was of twelve
years. ‘And they were affected in
mind with great amazement.

43 And he charged them much that
none should know this thing ; and he
spake to give her to eat.

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CHAPTER VI.
ND he came out thence, and came
to his native land; and his disci-
les follow him. .

2 And sabbath having come, he be-
gan to teach in the synagogue: and
many hearing were struck with amaze-
ment, saying, Whence to this one
these things? and what this wisdom
given to him, that such powers are
done by his hands?

3 Is not this the carpenter, son of
Mary, and brother of James, and Jo-
ses, and Juda, and Simon? andare not
his sisters here with us? And they
were scandalized in him.

4 And Jesus said to them, That a
prophet is not unhonoured, except in
his native land, and in kinsmen, and in
his house.

5 And he could do no power there,
except having laid his hands upon a!
few sick, he cured.

6 And he wondered for their unbe-
lief. And he went about the towns
teaching.

7 And he ealls the twelve, and be-
gan to send them, two and two; and
gave them power over unclean spirits ;

8 And enjoined them, that they take
nothing for the way, except a rod
only ; no travelling-sack, no bread, no
brass in the purse:

9 But bound with sandals; and not
clothed with two coats.

10 And he said to them, Wherever
ye come into a house, there remain ye
even till ye should come forth thence.

11 And as many as receive you not,
nor hear you, going out thence, shake
off the heap of dust under your feet
for testimony to them. Truly I eay
to you, It shall be more supportable
for the Sodomites or Gomorrhites in
the day of judgment, than that city.

12 And having gone out, they pro-
claimed that they repent.

15 And they cast out many demons,
and anointed many sick with oil, and
they were cured.

14 And king Herod heard his name ;
( for it was manifest:) and said, That
John the Immerser was raised from
the dead, and for this the powers were
energetic in him,

15 Others said, That he is Elias.
And others said, That he is a prophet,
or as one of the prophets.

16 And Herod, having heard, said,
That John whom I beheaded, this is
he; he was raised from the dead.

17 For this Herod, having sent, took
John, and bound him in prison be-
cause of Herodias, his brother Philip’s
wife: for he married her.

18 For John said to Herod, That it
is not lawful for thee to have thy
brother’s wife.

19 And 110900188 had a grudge
against him, and desired to kill him;
and could not:

20 For Herod feared John, knowing
him a just and holy man, and he ob-
served him: and having heard him,
did many things, and heard him
cheerfully.

21 And ἃ convenient day having
come, when Herod in the festivities of
his birthday made a supper to his
leading persons, and to the captains of
thousands, and to the first of Gali-
lee;

22 And the daughter of this Ierodi-
as, having come in,and danced, and
pleased Herod and those reclining to-
gether at table, the king said to the
little girl, Ask me whatever thou
wishest, and I will give thee.

23 And he swore to her, That what-
ever thou shouldest ask, I will give
thee, even to half my kingdom.

24 And she haying come out, said
to her mother, What shall I ask? And
she said, The head of John the Immer-
ser.

25 And having come quickly with
haste to the king, she asked, saying,
I wish that thou wouldest give me by
itself, upon a board, the head of John
the Immerser.

26 And the king having been
sorely grieved on account of the oaths
and those reclining at table together,
wished not to refuse her.

27 And quickly the king, having
sent a scout, commanded his head to
be brought :

28 And he having departed, be-
headed him in prison, and brought
his head upon a board, and gave it to

the little girl: and the little girl gave
it to her mother.

29 And his disciples, having heard,
came and took up his corse, and put
it ina tomb.

30 And the sent are gathered to
Jesus, and announced to him all things,
whatever they did, and whatever they
taught.

81 And he said to them, Come ye
yourselves apart to a desert place, and
rest a little : for many were coming
and returning, and neither had they
leisure to eat.

32 And they departed to a desert
place by ship apart.

33 And the crowds saw them retir-
ing, and many knew him, and they
were running there on foot from all
cities, and came before them, and
came together to him.

84 And Jesus, having come out,
saw agreat crowd, and felt compas-
sion for them, for they were assheep
not having a shepherd: and he began
to teach them many things.

35 And having been already much
time, his disciples, having come to
him, say, This is a desert place, and
already the time much:

36 Loose them, that having departed
to the fields and towns round about,
they might buy to themselves loaves:
for they have nothing they might eat.

87 And having answered, he said
to them, Give ye them toeat. And
they say to him, Having gone, should
we buy loaves of two hundred
drachmas, and give them to eat?

38 And he says to them, How many
loaves have ye? retire andsee. And
having known, they say, Five, and
two fishes.

39 And he commanded them all to
recline a drinking together, drinking
together upon the green grass.

40 And the borders, the borders re-
clined, by one hundred, and by fifty.

41 And having taken the five loaves
and two fishes, having looked up to
heaven, he praised, and he brake the
loaves, and gave to his disciples that
they might set before them; and the
two fishes he divided to all.

42 And they all ate, and were satis-
fied.

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43 And they took up twelve baskets
full of fragments and of fishes.

44 And they eating the loaves were
about tive thousand men.

45 And quickly he constrained his
disciples to go to the ship, and to lead
before to the other side of Bethsaida,
till he loose the crowd:

46 And having dismissed them, he
went away to the mount to pray.

47 And evening having come, the
ship was in the midst of the sea, and he
alone upon land.

48 And he saw them trying to urge
forward, for the wind was contrary to
them: and about the fourth watch of
the night he comes to them walking
upon the sea, and he would pass by
them.

49 And haying seen him walking
upon the sea, they thought it was an
apparition, and cried out:

50 For all saw him, and were tron-
bled. And quickly he spake with
them, and says to them, Take cour-
age: 1 am; be not afraid.

51 And he went up to them to the
ship; and the wind ceased, and they
were greatly affected in mind above
measure and wondered.

52 For they understood not the
loaves; for their heart was hardened.

58 And having passed over, they
came to the land of Gennesaret, and
put into a harbor.

54 And they having come out of the
ship, quickly having known him.

55 Running round about that whole
country, began to bring the afficted
upon couches, where they heard that
he is there.

56 And wherever he went, in towns,
or cities, or fields, they set the sick in
the market places, and besought him
that they might even touch the hem
of his garment: and as many as
touched him were saved.

CHAPTER VII.

the Pharisees are gathered‏ ו

together to him, and certain of

the scribes, having come from Jeru-
salem,

2 And having seen some of his dis-

ciples with common hands, that is,

unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked.

MARK VII.

3 (For the Pharisees, and all the
Jews, except they vigorously wash
hands, eat not, holding the tradition
of the elders.

4 And from the market-place, ex-
cept they be immersed, they eat not.
And there are many other things
which they received to hold; the im-
mersion of cups, and of measures,
and of brazen vases, and of chairs.)

5 Then the Pharisees and scribes
asked him, Wherefore do not thy dis-
ciples according to the tradition of the
elders, but eat bread with unwashed
hands?

6 And he having answered, said to
them, That Esaias prophesied well
concerning you, as it has been written,
This people honour me with lips, and
their heart keeps far from me.

7 And in vain they revere me,
teaching doctrines the commands of
men.

₪ For having left the command of
God, ye hold firmly to the tradition
of men, the immersion of measures
and cups: and many other such like
things ye do.

9 And he said to them, Well do ye
abrogate the command of God, that
ye might keep your tradition.

10 For Moses said, Honour thy
father and thy mother; and he re-
viling father or mother, in death let
him die:

11 And ye say, If a man say to
father or mother, Corban, which is, a
gift, whatever thou be profited by me;

12 And ye permit him to do nothing
more for his father or his mother;

13 Abrogating the word of God by
your tradition, which ye have de-
livered: and many such like things
ye do.

. 14 And having called all the crowd,
he said to them, Hear me, all ye, and
do ye understand :

15 There is nothing from without a
man, entering into him, which can
defile him: but things coming out
from him, these are the things pol-
luting the man.

16 If any have ears to hear, let him
hear.

17 And when he came into the

house from the crowd, his disciples
asked him of the parable.

18 And he says, So are ye also with-
out understanding? Do ye not per-
ceive, that anything from without
entering into @ man, cannot pollute
him ;

19 For it goes not into the heart,
but into the belly, and goes forth into
the privy, purging all food ?

20 And he said, That going out of
a man, that pollutes a man.

21 For within, out of the heart of
men, go forth evil reflections, adul-
teries, fornications, murders,

22 Thefts, overreaching, deceit, li-
centiousness, an evil eye, defamation,
pride, foolishness:

23 All these evils go out from with-
in, and pollute a man.

24 And arising from thence, he de-
parted into the bounds of Tyre and
Sidon, and haying come into the
house, he would have none know; and
he could not be hid.

25 For a woman haying heard of
him, whose danghter had an unclean
spirit, having come, fell at his feet :

26 And the woman was a Grecian,
a Syrophenician by birth; and she
entreated him that he would cast the
demon out of her daughter.

27 And Jesus said to her, Permit
the children first to be satisfied ; for it
is not good to take the children’s
bread, and cast to little dogs.

28 And she answered and says to
him, Yes, Lord: for also the little
dogs under the table eat from the
children’s crumbs.

29 And he said to her, For this word
retire; the demon has gone out of thy
daughter.

30 And having departed to her
house, she found the demon gone
forth, and the daughter cast upon the
bed.

31 And again, having gone out from
the bounds of Tyre and Sidon, he
came to the sea of Galilee, in the
midst of the bounds of Decapolis.

82 And they bring to him a deaf
one, tongue-tied; and they beseech
him that he would put the hand upon
him.

33 And having taken him away
from the crowd apart, he put his
fingers in his ears, and having spit, he
touched his tongue ;

34 And having looked up to heaven,
he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha,
which is, Be opened.

35 And quickly his ears were
opened, and the bond of his tongue
was loosed, and he spake rightly.

36 And he charged them that they
should say to none: and as much as he
charged them, they proclaimed more
abundantly ;

387 And above measure were they
struck with amazement, saying, Well
has he done all things: he makes the
deaf to hear, and the speechless to
speak.

CHAPTER VIII.
1 those days the crowd being very
many, and having nothing they
might eat, Jesus having called his
disciples, says to them,

21 feel compassion for the crowd,
for already they remain three days
with me, and have nothing they might
eat:

3 And if I loose them fasting to
their house, they will be relaxed in the
way: for some of them have come
from far.

4 And his disciples answered him,
Whence might anyone be able to satis-
fy these with loaves here in the lonely
place ?

5 And he asked them, How many
loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

6 And he enjoined to the crowd to
recline upon the earth: and having
taken the seven loaves, having returned
thanks, he brake, and he gave to his
disciples that they might set before;
and they set before the crowd.

7 And they had a few little fishes:
and having praised, he spake to set
them also before.

8 And they ate, and were satisfied:
and they took up the remains of the
fragments, seven wicker-baskets.

9 And they eating were about four
thousand: and he loosed them.

10 And quickly having gone into
the ship with his disciples, he came
into the parts of Dalmanutha.

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11 And the Pharisees came out, and
began to search out with him, seeking
of him a sign from heaven, tempting
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12 And having sighed deeply in
spirit, he says, Why seeks this genera-
tion fora sign? Verily I say to you,
shall asign be given to this generation,

13 And having let them go, having
gone again into the ship, he departed
beyond.

14 And they forgot to take loaves,
and had not but one loaf with them in
the ship.

15 And he enjoined them, saying,
See ye, look away from the leaven of
the Pharisees, and the leaven of
Herod.

16 And they reasoned with one
another, saying, Because we have no
loaves.

17 And Jesus having known, says
to them, Why reason ye with your-
selves, because ye haye no loaves ? ob-
serve ye not yet, neither understand ?
have ye your heart yet hardened ?

18 Having eyes, see ye not? and
having ears, hear ye not ¢ and remem-
ber ye not ¢

19 When I brake the five loaves to
five thousand, how many baskets full
of fragments took ye up? They say to
him, Twelve.

20 And when the seven to four
thousand, the fillings of how many
baskets of fragments took ye up?
And they said, Seven.

21 And he said to them, How do
ye not understand ?

22 And he coines to Bethsaida; and
they bring to him one -blind, and be-
seech him that he would touch him.

23 And having taken the hand of
the blind, he led him forth without
the town; and having spit into his
eyes, having put hands upon him, he
asked him if he saw any thing.

24 And having looked up, he said,
I see men that I see as trees, walking.

25 Then again he put hands upon
his eyes, and made him look up; and
he was restored, and he saw all clearly.

26 And he sent him to his house,
saying, Thou shouldest not either enter
into the town, neither say to any in
the town.

MARK IX.

97 And Jesus went out, and his dis-
ciples, to the towns of Ceesarea Phil-
ippi: and he asked his disciples in the
way, saying to them, Whom do men
say me to be 4

28 And they answered, John the
Immerser: and some, Elias; and oth-
ers, One 61 the prophets.

29 And he says to them, And
whom do ye say me to be? And Pe-
ter, having answered, says to him,
Thou art Christ.

30 And he rebuked them, that they
should say to none concerning him.

31 And he began to teach them that
the Son of man must suffer many
things, and be disapproved of by the
elders, and the chief priests, and
scribes, and be killed, and after three
days rise up.

32 And he spake the word with
frankness. And Peter having taken
him, began to rebuke him.

33 And he having turned back, and
having seen his disciples, rebuked
Peter, saying, Retire behind me, Satan:
for thou hast not in mind the things
of God, but the things of men.

84 And having called the crowd
with his disciples, he said to them,
Whoever wills to come after me, let
him absolutely deny himself, and take
up his cross, and follow me.

35 For whoever wills to save his
life shall lose it; and whoever should
lose his life for my sake and the
good news, the same shall save it,

36 For what shall it profit a man, if
he gain the whole world, and injure
his soul ?

37 Or what shall a man give for the
exchange of his soul ?

38 For whoever should be ashamed
of me and my words in this adulterous
and sinful generation ; also the Son of
man shall be ashamed of him, when
he should come in the glory of the
Father with the holy messengers.

CHAPTER IX.
פא‎ he said to them, Truly I say
to you, That some of those are
standing here, who should not taste
of death, till they. see the kingdom of
God having come in power.

9 48 after six days Jesus takes
Peter, and James, and John, and
brings them up into a high mountain
apart alone: and he was transformed
before them.

3 And his garments were shining,
exceeding white, such as no fuller on
earth can make white.

4 And Elias was seen to them, with
Moses: and they were speaking to-
gether with Jesus.

5 And Peter having answered, says
to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good for us to be
here: and let us make three tents; one
for thee, and one for Moses, and one
for Elias.

6 For he knew not what he said;
for they were terrified.

7 And a cloud was overshadowing
them:and a voice came out of the
cloud, saying, This is my dearly be-
loved Son: hear ye him.

8 And suddenly, having looked
around, they no more saw any one, but
Jesus alone with them.

9 And they coming down from the
mount, he charged them that they re-
count to none what they saw, except
when the Son of man should arise
from the dead.

10 And they held the word firmly
to themselves, searching out together
what it is to arise from the dead.

11 And having asked him, saying,
That the scribes say that Elias must
first come.

12 And he having answered, said to
them, Elias truly having first come,
restores all things; and how it has
been written of the Son of man, that
he suffer many things; and be set at
nought.

18 But I say to you, that Elias also
has come, and they did to him what-
ever they would, as it has been writ-
ten of him.

14 And having come to the disci-
ples, he saw a great crowd about
them, and the scribes seeking out
with them.

15 And immediately all the crowd,
having seen him, were amazed, and
running near greeted him.

16 And he asked the scribes, What
seek ye together with them ἵ

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17 And one from the crowd having
answered, said, Teacher, I have brought
my son to thee, having a speechless
spirit.

18 And wherever he overtakes him,
he rends him: and he foams, and gnash-
es his teeth, and he is dried up: and
I spake to thy disciples that they
might cast him out; and they could
not.

19 And he having answered,
to him, O faithless generation,
long shali I be with you? how
shall I bear with you? bring
to me.

20 And they brought him to him:
and haying seen him, quickly the spirit
rent him; and having fallen upon the
earth, foaming he rolled himself about.

21 And he asked his father, How
long is it that this has been to him?
And he said, From childhood.

22 And many times also it cast him
into fire, and into water, that it might
destroy him; but if thou canst any-
thing, help us, having had compassion
upon us.

23 And Jesus said to him, If thou
canst believe, all things possible to him
believing.

24 And quickly the child’s father
having cried out with tears, said, I be-
lieve, O Lord, help thou mine unbe-
lief.

25 And Jesus, having seen that the
crowd ran together, rebuked the un-
clean spirit, saying to him, Speechless
and deaf spirit, 1 command thee to
come out 01 him, and that thou come
no more into him.

26 And having cried and rent him
much, it came forth, and he was as
dead ; so that ‘many said, That he is
dead.

27 And Jesus having held him by
the hand, raised him; and he stood
ה‎

says
how
long
him

28 And the having come into the
house, his -<diseiples asked him apart,
Wherefore were we not able to cast
him forth ¢

29 And he said to them, This kind
can go out by nothing, but by prayer
and fasting.

30 And ‘having .come out thence
they passed throngh Galilee ; and he

MARK IX.

desired not that any one should know.

31 For he taught his disciples, and
said to them, That the Son of man is
delivered into the hands of men, and
they shall kill him; and having been
killed, he shall raise himself the third
day.

And they knew not the word,‏ ל
and were afraid to ask him.‏

83 And he came to Capernaum : and
being in the house he asked them, What
reasoned ye to yourselves in the way ?

34 And they were silent; for they
discussed to one another in the way,
who the greatest.

35 And having sat down, he called
the twelve, and says to them, If any
wish to be first, he shall be last of all,
and servant of all.

36 And having taken a young child,
he set him in the midst of them : and
having taken it up in his arms, he said
to them,

87 Whoever should receive one of
such young children in my name, re-
ceives me: and whoever should receive
me, receives not me, but him sending
me.

38 And John answered him, saying,
Teacher, we saw a certain one casting
out demons in thy name, who follows
not us: and we checked him, for he
follows not us.

39 And Jesus said, Check him not:
for there is no one who shall do pow-
er in my name, and shall be able quick-
ly to revile me.

40 For whoever is not against us, is
for us.

41 For whoever should give you to
drink a cup of water in my name, be-
cause ye are of Christ, verilv I say to
you, he should not lose his reward.

42 And whoever should scandalize
one of these little ones believing in
me, it is good for him rather if a mill-
stone is put about his neck, and he be
cast into the sea.

43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut
it off; it is good for thee rather to en-
ter into life inaimed, than having two
hands, to go away into hell, into inex-
tinguishable fire :

44 Where their worm dies not, and
the fire is not quenched.

45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut

MARK .א‎

it off: it is good for thee to enter into
life lame, than having two feet to be
east into hell, into inextinguishable
fire:

46 Where their worm dies not, and
the fire is not quenched.

47 And if thine eye offend thee, cast
it out: itis good for thee, one eyed, to
come into the kingdom of God, than
having two eyes to be cast into a hell
of fire :

48 Where their worm dies not, and
the fire is not quenched.

49 For all shall be salted with fire,
and every sacrifice shall be salted with
salt.

50 Salt good: but if the salt be salt-
less, with what will ye prepare it?
Have salt in yourselves, and live in
peace one with another.

CHAPTER X.

bank having risen from thence, he

comes into the bounds of Judea,
through the other side of Jordan: and
crowds came together again to him;
and, as he was accustomed, again he
taught them.
ὦ And the Pharisees having come
near, asked him, if it is lawful fora
man to loose his wife; tempting him.

3 And he, having answered, said to
them, What did Moses command you?

4 And they said, Moses permitted
to write a bill of divorce, and to loose.

5 And Jesus, having answered, said
to them, For your hard heart he wrote
you this command.

6 And from the beginning of cre-
ation God made them male and female.

7 For this will a man [6876 his
father and mother, and be attached to
his wife;

8 And they two shall be in one
flesh: so that they are no more two,
but one flesh.

9 What therefore God yoked to-
gether, let not man separate.

10 And again in the house, his dis-
ciples asked him of the same.

11 And he says to them, Whoever
should loose his wife, and should marry
another, commits adultery against her.

12 And if a woman should loose her
husband, and be married to another,
she commits adultery.

13 And they brought young chil-
dren to him, that he might touch
them: and the disciples rebuked those
bringing.

14 And Jesus, having seen, felt
pain, and said to them, Permit chil-
dren to come to me, and forbid them
not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

15 Truly I say to you, Whoever
should not receive the kingdom of God
as a young child, should not come
into it.

16 And having taken them up in
his arms, having put the hands upon
them, he praised them.

17 And he going in the way, one
running and having fallen upon his
knees, asked him, Good teacher, What
shall I do that 1 might inherit eternal
life ?

18 And Jesus said to him, Why
sayest thou me good? none good,
except the one God.

19 Thou knowest the commands:
Thou shouldst not commit adultery ;
Thou shouldst not kill; Thou shouldst
not steal; Thou shouldst not bear
false testimony ; Thou shouldst not de-
fraud; Honour thy father and mother.

20 And he, having answered, said to
him, O teacher, all these have I
watched from my youth.

21 And Jesus having looked upon
him, loved him, and said to him, One
thing is wanting to thee; retire; what-
ever thou hast, sell, and give to the
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven ; and come, follow me, having
taken up the cross.

22 And he, being sad at the word,
went away being grieved: for he had
many possessious.

23 And Jesus having looked round,
said to his disciples, With what diffi-
culty shall they having property enter
into the kingdom of God?

24 And his disciples were amazed at
his words. And Jesus again having
answered, says to them, Low difficult,
children, is it for those trusting in
property to enter into the kingdom of
God!

25 It is easier labor for a camel to
come through the hole of a needle, than
for a rich one to come into the king-
dom of God.

96 And they were struck with
to

amazement, excessively, saying
themselves, And who can be saved ?

27 And Jesus having beheld them

says, With men impossible, but not

with God: for all things are possible

with God.

28 And Peter began to say to him,
Behold, we have left all things, and
have followed thee.

29 And Jesus having answered, said,
Truly I say to you, There is none who
has left house, or brethren, or sisters,

or father, or mother, or wife, or chil-

dren, or fields, for sake of me, and the
good news,

30 Except he 8110010 receive a hun-

dred-fold now in this time, houses, and
brethren, and sisters, and mother, and
children, and fields, with expulsions ;
and in the time coming eternal life.

31 And many first shall be last ; and
the last first.

32 And they were in the way going
up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was lead-
ing before them; and tley were
amazed; and following, they were
afraid. And again taking the twelve,
he began to say to them the things
about to happen to him,

33 For, behold, we go up to Jerusa-
Jem; and the Son of man shall be de-
livered to the chief priests, and scribes ;
and they shall condemn him to death:
and shall deliver him to the nations :

34 And they shall mock him, and
shall scourge him, and shall spit upon
him, and shall kill him: and the third
day he shall be raised up.

35 And James and John, the sons of
Zebedee, come to him, saying, Teach-
er, we wish that whatever we should
ask, thou wouldst do for us.

36 And he said to them, What wish
you me to do for you?

37 And they said to him, Give us
that we might sit, one from thy right
hand, and one from thy left, in thy

lory.

38 And Jesussaid to them, Ye know
not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup
which I drink? and the immersion
with which I am immersed to be im-
mersed ?

39 And they said to him, We can.
And Jesus said to them, Truly the cup

MARK XI.

which I drink shall ye drink ; and the
immersion with which I am immersed,
shall ye be immersed.

40 And to sit from my right hand,
and from my left is not mine to give ;
but for whom it has been prepared.

41 And the ten having heard, began
to feel pain about James and John.

42 And Jesus having called them,
says to them, Ye know that they think-
ing to be first of the nations rule over
them; and their great ones exercise
authority over them.

43 And it shall not be so among
you: but whoever should wish to be
great among you, shall be your at-
tendant :

44 And whoever of you should wish
to be the first, he shall be the servant
of all.

45 For also the Son, of man came
not to be served, but to serve, and to
give his soul a ransom for many.

46 And they come into Jericho:
and he going ont from Jericho, and
his disciples, and a sufficient crowd,
Bartimeus the blind, son of Timeus,
sat by the way asking alms.

47 And having heard that it is Jesus
the Nazarite, he began to cry, and to
say, Son of David, O Jesus, compas-
sionate me.

48 And many were rebuking him,
that he should be silent: and he cried
much more, Son of David, compassion-
ate me.

49 And Jesus having stood, spake
for him to be called. And they call
the blind man, saying to him, Take
courage, arise ; he calls thee.

50 And he, having cast away his
garment, having risen, came to Jesus.

51 And Jesus having answered, said
to him, What wishest thou 1 should do
to thee? And the blind said to him,
Rabboni, that I might see again.

52 And Jesus said to him, Retire;
thy faith has saved thee. And quick-
ly he looked up, and followed Jesus in
the way,

CHAPTER XI.
a when they draw near to Je-
rusalem, to Bethphage and Beth-
any, to the mount of Olives, he sends
two of his disciples,

MARK ΧΙ.

2 And says to them, Retire into the
town over against you: and quickly
going into it, ye shall find a colt tied,
upon which none of men has sat; hay-
ing loosed, bring him.

3 And if any say to you, Why do ye
this? say ye that the Lord has need
of him; and quickly will he send him
here.

4 And they went away, and found
the colt tied to the door without by
the road, and they loose him.

5 And certain standing there said
to them, What do ye, loosing the colt ?

6 And they said as Jesus charged
them: and they let them go.

7 And they bronght the colt to
Jesus, and they cast their garments up-
on him, and he sat upon him.

8 And many strewed their garments
in the way: and others cut down
branches from -the trees, and strewed
in the way.

9 And they going before, and they
following, cried, saying, Osanna;
praised he coming in the name of the
Lord:

10 Praised the kingdom coming in
the name of the Lord of our father
David: Osanna in the highest ones.

11 And Jesus came into Jerusalem,
and into the temple: and having look-
ed around upon all things, the hour
being already coming, he went into
Bethany with the twelve.

12 And in the morrow, they havy-
ing come from Bethany, he hungered:

13 And haying seen a fig tree afar
off having leaves, he came, if yet he
shall find any thing upon it; and hay-
ing come to it, he found nothing ex-
cept leaves; for it was not time of the
figs.

₪ And Jesus having answered, said
to it, May none eat more fruit of thee
forever. And his disciples heard.

15 And they come to Jerusalem:
and Jesus having entered into the tem-
ple, began to cast out those selling and
buying in the temple; and the tables
of the money-changers, and the seats
of those selling doves he overturned ;

17 And he taught, saying to them,
Has it not been written, That my house
shall be 681160 the house of prayer to
all nations? and ye made it a den of
robbers. .

18 And the scribes and chief priests
heard, and they sought how they might
destroy him: for they feared him, for
all the crowd were struck with amaze-
ment at his teaching.

19 And when it was evening, he
went without the city.

20 And in the morning, coming
near, they saw the fig tree having been
dried up from the roots.

21 And Peter, having recalled to
mind, says to him, Rabbi, behold, the
flg tree which thou cursedst is dried

up.

22 And Jesus) having answered,
says to them, Have the faith of God.

23 For truly I say to you, That who-
ever should say to this mountain, Be
thou removed, and be thou cast into
the sea; and should not discuss in his
heart, but believe that what he says,
is; it shall be to him, whatever he
should say.

24 For this I say to you, All things
whatever, praying, ye ask, believe that
ye receive, and it shall be to you.

25 And when ye stand_ praying, let
go, if ye have any thing against any
one: that also your Father, he in the
heavens, might let go to you your
falls.

26 And if ye do not let go, neither
will your Father, he in the heavens,
let go your falls.

27 And they come again to Jerusa-
lem: and he walking in the temple,
the chief priests, and scribes, and elders
come to him,

28 And say to him, By what power
doest thou these things? and who gave
thee this power that thou doest these
things?

29 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, And 1 will ask you one word,
and answer ye me, and 1 will tell you
by what power I do these things.

30 Was the immersion of John from

16 And he permitted not that any | heaven, or from men? answer me.

should bring a vessel through the tem-

ple.

31 And they reasoned with them-
selves, saying, 11 we say, rom heayen ;

he will say, Wherefore did ye not be-
lieve him ?

32 But if we say, Of men; they
feared the people: for all held John,
that he was truly a prophet.

33 And having answered they say to
Jesus, We know not. And Jesus hav-
ing answered, says to them, Neither
say I to you by what power I do these
things.

CHAPTER XII.
pane he began to speak to them in
parables. A man planted a vine-
yard, and put a fence round, and dig-
ged a winefat, and built a tower, and
let it out to husbandmen, and went
abroad.

2 And he sent a servant to the hus-
bandmen in time, that he might re-
ceive of the husbandmen from the
fruit of the vineyard.

3 And they, taking him, stripped,
and sent away empty.

4 And again he sent to them another
servant ; and having stoned the same
they treated in a summary manner,
and sent away despised.

5 And again he sent another; and
him they killed, and many others;
truly stripping some, and killing some.

6 Yet therefore having one dearly
beloved son, and him he sent last to
them, saying, That they will be chang-
ed by my son.

7 And these husbandmen said with
themselves, That this is the heir ; come,
let us kill him, and the inheritance
shall be our’s.

8 And they having taken him, kill-
ed, and cast out of the vineyard.

9 Therefore what will the lord of the
vineyard do? he will come and destroy
the husbandmen, and give the vineyard
to others.

10 And have ye not read this writ-
ing; The stone which the builders
disapproved of, this was for the head
of the corner:

11 This was of the Lord, and is won-
derful in our eyes?

12 And they sought to seize him,
and they feared the crowd: for they
knew that he spake this parable against
them: and haying let him go they
went away.

MARK XII.

13 And they sent to him certain of
the Pharisees and of the Herodians,
that they might catch him in the word.

14 And they having come, say to
him, Teacher, we know that thou art
true, and thou carest not for any one:
for thou lookest not to the face of men,
but in truth thou teachest the way of
God: Is it lawful to give tribute to
Ozesar, or no ?

15 Should we give, or not give?
And he knowing their hypocrisy, said
to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me
a drachina that 1 might see it.

16 And they bronght. And he says
to them, Whose is this image and in-
scription? And they said to him, Cx-
sar’s.

17 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, Give back Cvesar’s things to
Cesar, and the things of God to God.
And they wondered at him.

18 And the Sadducees come to him,
who. say there is no rising up; and
they asked him, saying,

19 Teacher, Moses wrote to us, That
11 any one’s brother die, and leave his
wife, and leave no children, that his
brother should take his wife, and raise
up seed to his brother.

20 There were seven brethren: and
the first took a wife, and dying left no
seed.

21 And the second took her, and
died, and neither left he seed: and the
third likewise.

92 And the seven took her, and left
no seed : and the woman died last of all.
> 23 Therefore in the rising up, when
they should rise, to which of them shall
the woman be? for the seven had her
a wife.

24 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, For this do ye not go astray,
not knowing the writings, nor the pow-
er of God?

25 For when they arise from the
dead, they neither marry, nor are given
in marriage, but are as the messengers
which in the heavens.

26 And concerning the dead that
they are raised: have ye not read in
the book of Moses, at the bramble, how
God spake to him, I the God of Abra-
ham, and God of Isaac, and God of
Jacob ἢ

MARK XIII.

97 He isnot God of the dead, but
God of the living; ye therefore go
astray greatly.

28 And one of the scribes having
come, having heard them seeking out
together, knowing that he answered
them well, asked him, Which is the
first command of all 4

29 And Jesus answered him, That
the first of all the commands, Hear, O
Israel; The Lord our God isone Lord:

30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God from thy whole heart, and from
thy whole soul, and from thy whole
mind, and from thy whole strength:
this the first command.

31 And the second like it, Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No
other command is greater than these.

32 And the scribe said to him, Well,
Teacher, in truth hast thou spoken:
for one God is; and there is no other
but he:

83 And to love him from the whole
heart, and from the whole understand-
ing, and from the whole soul, and from
the whole strength, and to love the
neighbor as himself, is more than all
the whole burnt offerings, and the sac-
rifices.

34 And Jesus having seen him that
he answered understandingly, said to
him, Thou art not far from the king-
dom of God. And none dared to ask
him any more.

35 And Jesus having answered, said,
teaching in the temple, How say the
scribes that Christ isthe son of David ?

36 For David himself said in the
Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my
Lord, Sit from my right hand, till 1
set thine enemies the footstool of thy
feet.

37 Therefore David himself calls
him Lord; and whence is he his son 4
ae a great crowd heard him willing-
"38 And he said to them in his teach-
ing, Look from the scribes, wishing to
walk in robes, and greetings in market-
places,

39 And first seats in synagogues,
and first place at tables in first meals :

40 They eating in widows’ houses,
and praying long for a pretext: these

shall receive more abundant judgment.

41 And Jesus having sat over against
the royal treasury, saw how the crowds
cast money into the treasury: and
many rich cast in much.

42 And one poor widow, having
come, cast in two small coins, which is
a farthing.

43 And having called his disciples,
he says to them, Truly I say to you,
That this poor widow has cast into the
royal treasury, more than all they cast-
ing into the treasury: >

44 For all they cast in out of the
abundance to them; and she, out of
her want, cast in all things which she
had, her whole living.

CHAPTER XIII.
Gn he going out of the temple,
one of his disciples says to him,
Teacher, see of what country the
stones, and of what country the build-
ings |

2 And Jesus having answered, said
to him, Seest thou these great build-
ings ? stone upon stone shall not be left
which shall not be loosed.

3 And he sitting in the mount of
Olives over against the temple, Peter
and James and John and Andrew ask-
ed him apart,

4 Say to us, when shall be these
things? and what the sign when all
these be about to be finished ?

5 And Jesus having answered began
to say to them, See ye lest any should
lead you astray:

6 For many shall come in my name,
saying, That I am; and they shall lead
many astray.

7 And when ye hear of wars and
rumors of wars, be not terrified: for it
must be; but the end is not yet.

8 For nation shall be raised against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom,
and there shall be earthquakes in
places, and there shall be famines, and
commotions: these the beginnings of
anguish.

9 And see ye to yourselves: for they
shall deliver you up to councils; and
in the synagogues shall ye be stripped:
and shall be set before rulers and kings
for my sake, for testimony to them.

10 And the good news must first be
proclaimed to all nations.

11 And when delivering up, they
bring you, take no care beforehand
what ye speak, neither bestow atten-
tion: but whatever should be given
you in that hour, that speak ye: for
not ye are speaking, but the Holy
Spirit.

12 And brother shall deliver brother
to death, and father child ; and children
shall rise up against parents, and kill
them. é

13 And ye shall be hated by all for
my name’s sake: and he having re-
mained to the end, the same shall be
saved.

14 And when ye see the abomina-
tion of desolation, that spoken by
Daniel the prophet, standing where it
ought not, (let him reading under-
stand, ) then let them in Judea flee to
the mountains:

15 And he upon the house, let him
not come down into the house, nor let
him come in, to take any thing away
out of his house:

16 And he being in the field, let
him not turn back to take up his gar-
nent.

17 And woe to them having in the
womb, and to them giving suck in
those days!

18 And pray ye that your flight be
not of winter.

19 For those days shall be pressure,
such as there has not been from be-
ginning of creation which God created
till now, and should not be.

20 And except the Lord shortened
the days, no flesh should be saved: but
for the chosen whom he chose, he
shortened the days.

21 And if any say to you, Behold,
here Christ; or, behold, there; believe
ye not:

22 For false Christs and false proph-
ets shall be raised up, and shall give
signs and wonders, to deceive, if possi-
ble, also the chosen.

23 But see ye; behold, I have fore-
told you all things.

24 But in those days, after that
pressure, the sun shall be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light,

MARK XIY.

25 And the stars of heaven shall be
falling out, and the powers which in
the heavens shall be shaken.

26 And then shall they see the Son
of man coming in clouds with much
power and glory.

27 And then shall he send his mes-
sengers, and gather together his chosen
from the four winds, from extremity
of earth to extremity of heayen.

28 And from the fig tree learn ye
a parable; When its young shoot be
tender, and cause the leaves to grow,
ye know that summer is near.

29 So also ye, when ye see these
things done, ye know that it is near at
the door.

30 Truly I say to you, that this gen-
eration should not pass away, till all
these things should be.

31 Heaven and earth shall pass
away, and my words shall not pass
away.

82 And concerning that day and
hour none knows, nor the messengers
in heaven, neither the Son, but the
Father.

88 See, watch and pray: for ye
know not when the time is.

34 As aman travelling, having left
his house, and having given power to
his servants, and to each his work, and
he commanded the guard of the door
that he should watch.

35 Watch therefore: for ye know
not when the Jord of the house comes,
at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing,
or morning.

36 Lest having come suddenly he
find you sleeping.

37 And what I say to you, I say to
all, Watch ye.

CHAPTER XIV.
ah 10 after two days was the pascha,
and the unleavened loaves: and
the chief priests and scribes sought
how, having taken him by fraud, they
might kill.
2 And they said, Not in the festival,
lest there be an uproar of the people.
3 And he being in Bethany in the
house of Simon the leprous, he reclin-
ing at table, a woman came having an
alabaster box of perfumed oil of per-

MARK XIY.

suasive, costly, spikenard ; and having
broken the alabaster box, she poured
upon his head. ;

4 And there were some displeased
in themselves, and saying, For what
has been the loss of this perfumed oil ?

5 For this could have been sold for
above three hundred drachmas, and
have been given to the poor. And
they raged against her.

6 And Jesus said, Let her go; why
bestow ye weariness upon her? she
has wrought a good work upon me.

7 For always have ye the poor with
you, and when ye wish ye can do them
good: and me ye have not always.

8 And what she had, she has done:
she has undertaken beforehand to per-
fume my body for the burial.

9 Truly I say to you, Wherever
this good news be proclaimed in the
whole world, also what she has done
shall be spoken for a memorial of her.

10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the
twelve, went away to the chief priests,
that he might deliver him to them.

11 And having heard, they rejoiced,
and promised to give him silver. And
he sought how he might opportunely
deliver him up.

12 And in the first day of the un-
leavened, when they sacrificed the
pascha, his disciples say to him, Where
wilt thou, we, having gone, should
prepare that thou eat the pascha ?

13 And he sends two of his disci-
ples, and says to them, Retire to the
city, and a man shall meet you bearing
an earthen vessel of water; follow
him.

14 And wherever he should enter in,
say to the lord of the house, That the
TeXcher says, Where is the room
where I might eat the pascha with my
disciples ?

15 And he will shew you a great
apartment spread, ready: there pre-
pare for us.

16 And his disciples went out, and
came to the city, and found as he said to
them: and they prepared the pascha.

17 And having been evening, he
comes with the twelve. Ὁ

18 And they reclining and eating,
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, That

one of you shall deliver me up, he
eating with me.

19 And they began to be grieved,
and to say to him one by one, What,
not 1? and another, What, not I?

20 And he having answered, said to
them, One of the twelve, he dipping
with me into the small dish.

21 Truly the Son of man retires, as
has been written of him: and woe to
that man by whom the Son of man is
delivered up! it were good for him if
that man had not been born.

22 And they eating, Jesus having
taken bread, having praised, brake,
and gave them,and said, Take, eat:
this is my body.

23 And having taken the cup, hav-
ing returned thanks, he gave them:
and they all drank of it.

24 And he said to them, This is my
| blood, that of the new covenant, being
poured out for many.

25 Truly I say to you that I will no
more drink of the fruit of the vine, till
that day when I drink it new in the
kingdom of God.

26 And having sung, they came out
to the mount of Olives.

27 And Jesus says to them, That all
ye shall be offended with me in this
night: for it has been written, I will
strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall
be scattered.

28 But after I have risen, I will lead
before you into Galilee. .

29 And Peter said to him, And if
all shall be offended, yet not I.

30 And Jesus says to him, Truly 1
say to thee, That to day, in this night,
surely before the cock has uttered a
sound twice, thon shalt deny me thrice.

31 And he said more excessively, If
I should die with thee, 1 shall not deny
thee. And so likewise they all said.

32 And they came to a place, the
name of which Gethsemane: and he
says to his disciples, Sit here, while I
shall pray.

33 And he takes Peter and James
and Johu with himself, and began to
be amazed, and to be dejected.

34 And he says to them, My soul is
sorely grieved, even to death: remain
here, and watch.

95 And having gone forward a little,
he fell upon the earth and prayed
that, if it be possible, the hour might
pass away from him.

36 And he said, Abba, Father, all
things possible tothee; turn away this
cup from me: but not what I will,
but what thou.

37 And he comes, and finds them
sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon,
sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch
one hour?

38 Watch ye and pray, that ye should
not come into temptation. | Truly the
spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak.

39 And again having gone away, he
prayed, saying the same word.

40 And having turned back, he
found them again sleeping, ( for their
eyes were loaded, ) and they knew not
what they might answer him.

41 And he comes the third time,
and says to them, Sleep the remaining
time, and take rest: it is sufticient, the

hour has come; behold, the Son of

man is delivered into the hands of the
sinful.

42 Arise, and let us lead; behold,
he delivering me up has drawn near.

43 And quickly, he yet speaking,
Judas approaches, being one of the
twelve, and with him a great crowd
with swords and sticks from the chief
priests and scribes and the more an-
cient.

44 And he delivering him up gave
them a token, saying, Whomsoever I
shall kiss, this is he; seize him, and
lead away safely.

45 And haying come, quickly hav-
ing approached him, he says, Rabbi,
rabbi; and kissed him.

46 And they put their hands on him,
and seized him.

47 And a certain one of them stand-
ing by, having drawn a sword, struck
the chief priest’s servant, and took
away his ear.

48 And Jesus having answered,
said to them, As against a robber come
ye out, with swords and sticks to take
me?

49 Daily was I with you in the tem-
ple teaching, and ye seized me not:
but that the writings might be com-
pleted.

MARK XIV.

50 And having left him, they all
fled.

51 And one certain young man fol-
lowed him, having cast a garment of
fine linen over his nakedness; and the
young men seized him:

52 And having left the fine linen
garment, he fled from them naked.

53 And they led Jesus away to the
pontificate: and all the chief priests
and elders and ecribes came with him.

54 And Peter followed him from far,
even to within the court-yard of the
chief priest: and he was sitting with
the attendants, and warming himself
near the light.

55 And the chief priests and the
whole council sought testimony
against Jesus, to put him to death; and
found not:

56 For many testified falsely against
him, and* the testimonies were not
alike.

57 And certain having risen up tes-
tified falsely against him, saying,

58 That we heard him saying, That
I will abolish this temple made with
hands, and in three days will I build
another, made without hands.

59 And neither so was their testi-
mony alike.

60 And the chief priest having risen
up in the midst, asked Jesus, saying,
Answerest thou nothing? what these
testify against thee ?

61 And he was silent, and answered
nothing. Again the chief priest asks
him, and says to him, Art thou Christ,
Son of the Praised ?

62 And Jesus said, 1 am: and ye
shall see the Son of man sitting from
the right hand of power, and coming
with the clouds of heaven.

08 And the chief priest, having
rent his tunic, says, What further
need have we of witnesses /

64 Ye have heard the blasphemy ;
How does it appear to you? And they
all condemned him to be liable to the
penalty of death.

65 And certain began to spit upon
him, and to cover his face, and to cuff
him, and tosay to him, Prophesy: and
the attendants struck him blows with
rods.

66 And Peter being in the hall be-

MARK ΧΥ.

low, one of the chief priest’s young
girls comes:

67 And seeing Peter warming him-
self, having looked upon him, she says,
And thou wast with Jesus the, Naza-
rene.

68 And he denied, saying, 1 know
not, neither understand what thou
sayest. And he went forth without in-
to the vestibule; and the cock uttered
a sound.

69 And the young girl seeing him
again, began to say to them standing
by, That this is of them: and again
he denied.

70 And after a little, again they
standing by said to Peter, Truly thou
art of them: for thou art a Galilean,
and thy speech is like.

71 And he began to anathematize
and swear, That I know not this man
of whom ye speak.

72 And of the second time the cock
uttered a sound. And Peter remem-
bered the word which Jesus spake to
him, That before the cock utter a sound
twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And
throwing blame, he wept.

CHAPTER XV.
jee quickly the chief priests hay-
ing made counsel with the more
ancient and scribes and the whole
council, having bound Jesus, led away,
and delivered to Pilate.

2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou
the King of the Jews? And having
answered, he said to him, Thou sayest.

3 And the chief priests accused him
much. 1

4 And Pilate again asked him, say-
ing, Answerest thou nothing? behold
how much they accuse thee.

5 And Jesus yet answered nothing ;
so that Pilate wondered.

6 And at the festival he loosed to
them one in bonds, whomsoever they
asked.

7 And there was he called Barabbas,
bound with those exciting sedition,
who did murder in the revolt.

8 And the crowd having cried, be-
gan to ask, as he did always to them.

9 And Pilate answered them, say-
ing, Will ye I loose to you the King
of the Jews?

10 For he knew that through envy
the chief priests had delivered him up:

11 And the chief priests moved the
crowd, that he would rather loose
Barabbas to them.

12 And Pilate having answered,
again said to them, What then will ye
I should do to him whom ye eall King
of the Jews? '

13 And again they cried out, Cru-
cify him.

14 And Pilate said to them, But
what evil hashe done? And they cried
out more excessively, Crucify him.

15 And Pilate, willing to satisfy the
crowd, loosed to them Barabbas, and
delivered Jesus, having scourged, that
he might be crucified.

16 And the soldiers led him away
within the hall, which is the Pretori-
um; and they call together the whole
band.

17 And they clothed him with pur-
ple, and put round him, having woven,
a thorny crown.

18 And they began to greet him,
Hail, O King of the Jews!

19 And they struck his head with a
reed, and they spit upon him, and
having placed the knees, they wor-
shipped him. ;

20 And when they mocked him,
they put off the purple from him, and
clothed him with his own garments,
and led him out that they might cru-
011 him.

21 And they constrain a certain
Simon, a Oyrenian, passing by, coming
from the field, the father of Alexan-
der and Rufus, that he might take up
his cross.

22 And they bring him to the place
Golgotha, which is, interpreted, The
place of a skull.

23 And they gave him wine to
drink, prepared with myrrh: and he
took not.

24 And having crucified him, they
divided his garments, casting lots
upon what any should take up.

25 And it was the third hour, and
they crucified him:

26 And the inscription of his ac-
cusation was inscribed above, THE
KING OF THE JEWS.

27 And with him they crucify two

robbers; one from the right, and one
from the left.

28 And the writing was completed,
saying, And he was reckoned with the
lawless.

29 And they going by blasphemed
him, shaking their heads, and saying,
Ah, thou loosing the temple, and
building in three days,

30 Save thyself, and come down
from the cross.

81 And likewise also the chief
priests, mocking to one another with
the scribes, said, He saved others;
himself he cannot save.

32 Let Christ, King of Israel, come
down from the cross, that we might
see and believe. And they ל‎ 4
with him reproached him.

83 And being the sixth hour, dark-
ness was upon the whole earth till the
ninth hour.

34 And at the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being
interpreted, My God, my God, for what
hast thou forsaken me?

35 And some of them standing by,
having heard, said, Behold, he calls
Elias.

36 And one running and having
filled a sponge with vinegar, and put
round a reed, gave him to drink, say-
ing, Let alone; let us see if Elias will
come to take him down.

37 And Jesus having let go a great
voice, expired.

88 And the veil of the temple was
split in two from above to below.

39 And the centurion, standing over
against him, having seen that having
so cried out he expired, said, Truly
this man was the Son of God.

40 And women also were beholding
from far: among whom was Mary
Magdalene, and Mary of James the
small and the mother of Joses, and Sa-
lome ; -

41 (And they, when he was in Ga-
11166, followed him and served him ; (
and many other women, having come
up with him to Jerusalem.

42 And being already evening, for
it was the preparation, which is before
sabbath,

MARK XVI.

43 Joseph came from Arimathea, a
distinguished counsellor, who also him-
self was expecting the kingdom of
God, having ventured, he went in to
Pilate, and asked for the body of Je-
sus.

44 And Pilate wondered if he were
already dead: and having called the
centurion, he asked him if he had been
dead long ago.

45 And having known from the
centurion, he bestowed the body to
Joseph.

46 And having bought fine linen,
and taken him down, he rolled in fine
linen, and placed him ina tomb, which
was quarried out of a rock, and he
rolled a stone at the door of the tomb.

47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary
of Joses were beholding where he is
laid.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND the sabbath having interven-
ed, Mary Magdalene, and Mary
of James, and Salome, bought spices,
that having come, they might anoint
him.

2 And very early in the morning
of one of the sabbaths, they came to
the tomb, the sun having risen.

3 And they said to themselves, Who
shall roll away for us the stone from
the door of the tomb ?

4 And having looked up, they saw
that the stone was rolled away: for it
was very great.

5 And having come to the tomb,
they saw a young man sitting on the
right, being encompassed with a white
robe; and they were terrified.

6 And he says to them, Be not ter-
rified: Ye seek Jesus the Nazarene,
being erncified: he was raised; he is
not here: see the place where they
laid him. '

7 But retire ye;say to his disciples
and to Peter that he goes before you
into Galilee: there shall ye see him,
as he said to you.

8 And having come forth quickly,
they fled from the tomb; and terror
and amazement held them: and they
said nothing to any; for they were
afraid.

LUKE I.

9 And having risen early the first of
the sabbath, he was manifested first to
Mary Magdalene, trom whom he had
cast seven demons.

10 She having gone announced to
them having been with him, grieving
and weeping.

11 And they having heard that he
lives, and was seen by her, believed not.

12 And after these things, to two of
them, walking about, was he manifested
in anotherform,they goingintothe field.

18 And they having come announc-
ed to the rest: neither did they believe
them.

14 Afterwards to those reclining at
table was he manifested, and he re-
proached their unbelief and hard
heart, because they believed not them
having seen him raised.

15 And he said to them, Having
gone into all the world proclaim the
good news to all creation.

16 And he having believed and hay-
ing been immersed shall be saved ;
but he not having believed shall be
condemned.

17 And these signs shall follow those
having believed; In my name they
shall cast out demons; they 1
speak with new tongues}

18 They shall take up serpents; and
should they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them; they shall put
peal: upon the sick, and they shall be
well.

19 Truly therefore the Lord, after
he had spoken to them, was taken up
into the heavens, and sat on the right
hand of God.

20 And they, having gone forth,
proclaimed every where, the Lord
performing together, and confirming
the word by signs following. Amen.

LUKE.

CHAPTER I.
S INCE many have undertaken to
arrange the narration concerning
things rendered perfectly certain
among us,

2 As they delivered to us, who from
the beginning being eyewitnesses, and
servants of the word ;

3 It seemed fitting to me also, hav-
ing comprehended all things thor-
oughly from above, to write to thee in
order, most excellent Theophilus,

4 That thon mightest know the cer-
tainty ot the words concerning which
thou hast been instructed.

5 HERE was in the days of

Herod, king of Judea,a cer-
tain priest named Zacharias, of the
daily order of Abia: and his wife the
daughter of Aaron, and her name
Elizabeth.

6 And they were both just before
God, going faultless in all the com-
mands and precepts of the Lord.

. ἢ And no child was to them, as
Elizabeth was barren, and both were ad-
vanced in their days.

8 And it was in his being priest, in
the arranging of the daily order be-
fore God,

9 According to the custom of the
priesthood, he drew lots to burn in-
cense, having entered into the temple
of the Lord. : /

10 And all the multitude of people
were praying without at the hour of
incense.

11 And a messenger of the Lord
was seen to him, standing from the
right of the altar of fumigation.

12 And Zacharias having seen, was
troubled, and fear fell upon him.

13 And the messenger said to him,
Fear not, Zacharias: for thy supplica-
tion has been heard; and thy wife
Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and
thou shalt call his name John.

14 And joy shall be to thee, and

gladness: and many shall rejoice at his
birth.

15 For he shall be great before the
Lord, and wine and fermented liquor
he should not drink ; and with the Holy
Spirit shall he be filled, even from his
mother’s womb.

16 And many of the sons of Israel
shall he turn back to the Lord their
God.

17 And he shall come before him in
the spirit and power of Elias, to turn
back the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and the disobedient to the
intelligence of the just; to prepare a
people having been put in order for
the Lord.

18 And Zacharias said to the mes-
senger, By what shall I know this?
for I am an old man, and my wife ad-
vanced in her days.

19 The messenger having answered,
said to him, I am Gabriel, standing be-
fore God; and was sent to speak to
thee, and announce these good news
to thee.

20 And, behold, thou shalt be silent,
and not able to speak, till the day in
which these things shall be, because
thou didst not believe my words, which
shall be completed in their time.

21 And the people were expecting
Zacharias, and wondered at his tarry-
ing in the temple.

22 And haying come out, he could
not speak to them: and they knew
that he had seen a vision in the tem-
ple: and he was nodding to them, and
remained dumb.

23 And it was when the days of his
service were filled, he departed to his
house. ,

24 And after these days Elizabeth
his wife conceived, and concealed her-
self five months, saying,

25 That so has the Lord done to m
in days which he looked upon, to take
away my reproach among men.

26 And in the sixth month the mes-
senger Gabriel was sent by God into a
city of Galilee, to which the name
Nazareth,

27 To a virgin betrothed to a man
to whom the name of Joseph, of the
house of David; and the virgin’s name

Mary.

LUKE 1.

28 And the messenger, having come
in to her said, Hail, thou made accept-
able; the Lord with thee: praised thou
among women.

29 And having seen him, she was
troubled at his words, and turned in
her thoughts of what country this
greeting might be.

30 And the messenger said to her,
Fear not, Mary: thou hast found
grace with God.

81 And, behold, thou shalt conceive
in the womb, and shalt bear a son, and
thou shalt eall his name JESUS.

32 He shall be great, and he shall
be called the Son of the Highest : and
the Lord God shall give him the
throne of David his father:

33 And he shall reign over the
house of Jacob forever; and of his
kingdom there shall be no end.

84 And*Mary said to the messenger,
How shall this be, since I know not
man ?

35 And the messenger having ans-
wered, said to her, The Holy Spirit
shall come upon thee, and the power
of the Highest shall overshadow thee:
wherefore also the holy thing born of
thee shall be called the Son of God.

36 And, behold, Elizabeth thy kins-
man, she also having conceived a son
in her old age: and this is the sixth
month to her, called barren.

37 For nothing shall be impossible
with Ged.

38 And Mary said, Behold the ser-
vant of the Lord; may it be to me ac-
cording to thy word. And the mes-
senger departed frem her.

39 And Mary having risen in those
days, went into the mountainous coun-
try with haste, into a city of Judah;

40. And she entered into the house
of Zacharias, and greeted Elizabeth.

41 And it was when Elizabeth heard
Mary’s greeting, the babe leaped in
her womb; and Elizabeth was filled
with the Holy Spirit :

42 And she called out with a great
voice, and said, Praised thou among
women, and praised the fruit of thy
womb.

43 And whence this to me, that thie
mother of my Lord should come to
me?

LUKE IL.

44 For, behold, when the voice of
thy greeting was in mine ears, the
babe leaped in my womb for joy.

45 And happy she having believed :
fora completion of the things spoken
shall be to her from the Lord.

46 And Mary said, My soul magni-
fies the Lord,

47 And my Spirit rejoiced in God
my Saviour.

48 עס‎ he looked upon the humilia-
tion of his servant; for, behold, from
now shall all generations deem me
happy.

49 For the powerful one has done
great things for me; and his name
holy.

50 And his mercy to generations of
generations to those fearing him.

51 He has done strength with his
arm; he has scattered the proud in
the thought of their heart.

52 He has pulled down the power-
ful from thrones, and lifted up the
ha noble.

53 He has filled the hungry with
good things; andthe rich he sent away
empty.

54 He succored Israel his servant,
remembering mercy ;

55 As he spake to our fathers, to
Abram, and his seed forever.

56 And Mary remained with her
about three months, and returned to
her house.

57 And the time was completed to
Elizabeth, for her to bring forth; and
she brought forth a son.

58 And they dwelling near and her
kinsmen heard, for the Lord magni-
fied his merey with her; and they re-
joiced with her. ‘

59 And it was in the eighth day they
came to circumcise the child; and they
681160 him by the name of his father
Zacharias.

60 And his mother, having answered
said, Nay; but he shall be called John.

61 And they said to her, That there
is none among thy kindred who is
called by this name.

_.62 And they nodded to his father,
what he may wishto have him called.

63 And having asked for a small
writing tablet, he wrote, saying, John

is his name. And they all wondered.

64 And his mouth was opened im-
mediately, and his tongue, and he
spake, praising God.

65 And fear was upon all dwelling
round about them: and inall the mount
01 Judea all these words were dis-
coursed about.

66 And all having heard, set in their
heart, saying, What then shall this
child be! And the hand of the Lord
was with him.

67 And Zacharias his father, was
filled with the Holy Spirit, and proph-
esied, saying,

68 Praised the Lord God of Israel;
for he reviewed and he has made a
redemption for his people,

69 And he raised up a horn of sal-
vation to us in the house of David, his
servant;

70 As he spake by the mouth of his
holy prophets, from. forever:

71 Salvation from our enemies, and
from the hand of all hating us;

72 To do mercy with our fathers, and
to remember his holy covenant:

τὸ The oath which he sware to
Abraham our father,

74 To give to us, fearlessly, delivered
from the hands of our enemies,

75 To serve him in sanctity and jus-
tice before him all the days of our life.

76 And thou, child, shalt be called
the prophet of the Highest: for thou
shalt go before the face of the Lord to
prepare his ways;

77 To give knowledge of salvation
to his people, in remission of their sins.

78 Through the bowels of mercy of
our God; by which the rising of the
sun of sublimity has reviewed us,

79 To shine forth to those in dark-
ness and sitting in the shadow of death,
to direct our feet in the way of peace.

80 And the child grew, and was
strengthened in spirit, and he was in
the deserts till the day of his shewing
forth to Israel.

CHAPTER II.
ND it was in those daysan order
came out from Cesar Augustus,
for the whole habitable globe to be
enrolled.

64 LUKE II.

2 (This enrolling was first, Cyrenius
being leader of Syria.)

3 And all went to be enrolled, each
in his own city.

4 And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth,
into Judea, to the city of David, which
is called Bethlehem; (for he was of
the house and family of David :)

5 To be enrolled with Mary his be-
trothed wife, being pregnant.

6 And it was in their being there,
the days were completed for her to
bring forth.

7 And she brought forth her first-
born son, and swathed him, and put
him in a manger; for there was no
place for them in the inn.

8 And shepherds were in the coun-
try, sleeping in the fields, and watch-
ing over their flock the watches of
the night.

9 And, behold, a messenger of the
Lord stood before them, and the glory
of the Lord shone around them: and
they fear a great fear.

10 And the messenger said to them,
Fear not: for, behold, I announce you
good news, great joy, which shall be
to all people.

11 For this day a Saviour was born
to you, who is Christ the Lord, in the
city of David.

12 And this the sign to you; ye
shall find the babe swathed, lying in a
manger.

13 And suddenly was there a multi-
tude with the messenger of the heav-
enly army praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest ones,
and upon earth peace, benevolence in
men.

15 And it was when the messenger
departed from them into heaven, and
the men, the shepherds, said to one an-
other, Let us pass through now to
Bethlehem, and see this word done,
which the Lord made known to us.

16 And having hastened, they came
and found both oo and Joseph, and
the babe lying in a manger.

17 And having seen, they made
known concerning the word spoken to
them about the child.
> 18 And all having heard wondered

at the things spoken to them by the
shepherds.

19 And Mary kept together all these
sayings, reflecting in her heart.

20 And the shepherds returned, hon-
ouring and praising God for all which
they heard and saw, as was spoken to
them.

21 And when eight days were
completed for cireumcising the child
and his name was ealled JESUS,
called by the messenger before he was
conceived in the womb.

22 And when the days of her cleans-
ing were completed, according to the
law of Moses, they brought him to
Jerusalem to present to the Lord ;

23 (As has been written in the law
of the Lord, That every male opening
the womb ‘shall be called holy to the
Lord ;(

24 And to give a sacrifice according
to that said in the law of the Lord,
A pair of turtle-doves, or two of the
young of pigeons.

25 And, behold, a man was in Je-
rusalem, the name to him Simeon ; and
this man just and cautious, waiting the
consolation of Israel: and the Holy
Spirit was upon him.

26 And it was intimated to him by
the Holy Spirit, not to see death, be-
fore he should see the Christ of the
Lord.

27 And he came in the Spirit to the
temple: and in the parents bringing
in the child Jesus, for them to do ac-
cording to the custom of the law for
him,

98 And he took him into his arms,
and praised God, and gaid :

29 Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy
servant, according to thy word, in
peace:

30 For mine eyes have seen thy sal-
vation,

31 Which thou hast prepared before
the face of all peoples:

32 A light for the revelation of the
nations, and the glory of thy people
Israel.

33 And Joseph and his mother were
wondering at the things spoken of
him.

34 And Simeon praised them, and

LUKE III.

said to Mary his mother, Behold, he 18 | us? behold, thy father and I, grieving,
laid for the fall and rising up of many in| have sought thee.

Israel ; and for a sign spoken against ;
35 (And also a spear shall pass

49 And he said to them, For what
have ye sought me? knew ye not that

through the soul of thyself,) so that /among the things 01 my Father I must

the reasonings from
might be revealed.
36 And Anna was a _prophetess,

many hearts

;daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe οἵ].

“Aser: she advanced in many days, hav-
ing lived with a husband seven years
from her virginity;

37 And she a widow of about
eighty-four years, who departed not
from the temple, with fastings and
supplications serving night and day.

38 And she haying stood at that
hour, confessed to the Lord, and spake
concerning him to all awaiting redemp-
tion in Jerusalem.

39 And when they finished all
things according to the law of the
Lord, they returned into Galilee to
their city, Nazareth.

40 And the child grew, and was
strengthened in spirit, being filled
with wisdom: and the grace of God
was upon him.

41 And his parents went every year
to Jerusalem to the festival of the
passover. -

42 And when he was of twelve
years, they having gone up to Jeru-
salem according to the custom of the
festival :

43 And having completed the days,
in their returning the child Jesus re-
mained in Jerusalem ; and Joseph and
his mother knew not.

44 And they, having supposed him
to bein the caravan, came the way of
a day, and sought him among kins-
men and among acquaintanees.

45 And not having found him, they
returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.

46 And it was after three days they
found him in the temple, sitting in
the midst of teachers, and hearing
them, and inquiring of them.

47 And all hearing him were af-
fected in mind at his understanding
and answers.

48 And having seen him, they were
struck with awe: and his mother said
to him, Child, why didst thou so to

be?

50 And they understood not the
word which he spake to them.
51 And he went down with them,
and came to Nazareth, and was placed
under them: and his mother kept all
these words in her heart.

52 And Jesus advanced in wisdom
and age,and in grace with God and
man.

CHAPTER III.

ΝΟΥ͂ in the fifteenth year of the

supremacy of Tiberius Cesar,
Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea,
and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee,
and Philip his brother being tetrarch
of Iturea and the region of Trachoni-
tis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abi-
lene,

2 Upon Annas and Caiaphas being
chief priests, the word of God was up-
on John, son of Zacharias in the desert.

3 And he came into all the country
round about Jordan, proclaiming
the immersion of repentance for re-
mission of sins ;

4 As it has been written in the book
of the words of Esaias the prophet,
saying, A voice of him erying in the
desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make his footpaths straight.

5 Every ravine shall be filled up,
and every mount and hill shall be
lowered ; and the crooked shall be into
straightness, and the rough into smooth
ways.

6 And all flesh shall see the salva-
tion of God.

7 Thensaid he to the crowds com-
ing out to be immersed by him, Gen-
eration of vipers, who indicated to
you to flee from the anger about to
come ¢

8 Do ye therefore fruits worthy of
repentance, and begin not to say in
yourselves, We have a father Abra-
ham ; for I say to you, That God isable -
to raise children to Abraham of these
stones.

9 And also the axe is already laid
at the root of the trees: therefore every
tree not making good fruit is cut down,
and cast into fire.

10 And the crowds asked him, say-
ing, What therefore shall we do?

11 And he having answered, says
to them, He having two coats, let him
impart to him having none; and he
having food, let him do likewise.

12 And publicans came to be im-
mersed, and said to him, Teacher, what
shall we do?

18 And he said to them, Do noth-
ing more than that appointed you.

14 And they making war asked him,
saying, And what shall we do? And he
said to them, Shake none violently,
neither make slanderous accusation ;
and be content with your pay.

15 And the people awaiting, and all
reasoning in their hearts concerning
John, whether he may not be the
Christ ;

16 John answered to all, saying, I
truly immerse you with water; and he
stronger than I comes, of whom I am
not worthy to loose his shoes’ strings:
he shall immerse you with the Holy
Spirit and fire:

17 Whose winnowing fan in his
hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse
his threshing-floor, and gather the
wheat into his store; and the chaff he
will burn down with inextinguishable
fire.

18 And then truly many other
things beseeching, he evangelized the
people.

19 And Herod the tetrarch, being
reproved by him for Herodias his
brother Philip’s wife, and for all the
evils which Herod did,

20 And he added this to all, and
shut up John in prison.

21 And it was in all the people hay-
ing been immersed, and Jesus having
been immersed, and praying, heaven
was opened,

22 And the Holy Spirit descended
in a bodily form as a dove upon him,
and there was a voice from heaven,

‘saying, Thou art my dearly loved Son;
in thee I was eontented. ,
23 And Jesus himself was beginning

LUKE IV.

about thirty years, being, as was
thought, the son of Joseph, ‘of Eli,
24 Of Matthat, of Levi, of Melchi,
of Janna, of Joseph, |
25 Of Mattathias, of Amos, of
Naum, of Esli, 01 Naggai,

26 Of Maath, of Mattathias, of
Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,

27 Of Joanna, of Rhesa, of Zoroba-
bel, of Salathiel, of Neri,

28 Of Melchi, of Addi, of Cosam, of
Elmodam, of Er,

29 Of Jose, of Eliezer, of Jorim, of
Matthat, of Levi,

30 Of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph,
of Jonan, of Eliakim,

31 Of Melea, of Menan, of Mat-
tatha, of Nathan, of David,

32 Of Jesse, of Obed, of Booz, of
Salmon, of Naasson,

33 Of Aminadab, of Aram, of
Esrom, of Phares, of Juda,

34 Of J acob, of Isaac, of Αὐῥαϊααν
of Thara, of Nachor,

35 Of Saruch, 01 Ragau, of Phalee,
of Eber, of Sala,

36 Of Cainan, of Arphaxad, of Sem,
of Noe, of Lamech,

37 Of Mathusala, of Enoch, of Ja-
red, of Maleleei, of Cainan,

38 Of Enos, of Seth, of Adam, of
God.

CHAPTER IV.
(AAD Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,
turned back from Jordan, and
was led by the Holy Spirit into the
desert,

2 Being tempted forty days by the
devil. And he ate nothing in those
days: and they having ended, he after-
ward hungered.

3 And the devil said to him, If thou
art the Son of God, say thou to this
stone that it might be bread.

4 And Jesus answered to him saying,
It has been written, That not by bread
alone shall man live, but by every
word of God. ,

5 And the devil, bringing him into
a high mountain, shewed him all the
kingdoms of the habitable globe in
an instant of time.

6 And the devil said to him, I will
give thee all this power, and their

LUKE IV.

glory ; for to me has it been delivered ;
and to whom I will I give it.

7 Therefore if thou worship before
me, all shall be thine.

8 And having answered him Jesus
said, Retire behind me, Satan: for it
has been written, Thou shalt worship

the Lord thy God, and him only shalt |

thou serve.

9 And he brought him to Jerusalem
and set him upon the small wing of the
temple, and said to him, If thou art
the Son of God, cast thyself down from
hence:

10 For it has been written, That he
shall charge his messengers concerning
thee, to watch over thee :

11 And upon hands shall they lift
thee up, lest that perhaps thou
shouldest strike thy foot against a stone.

12 And Jesus having answered said
to him, Thatit has been said, Thou
shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

13 And having ended all the trial,
the devil departed from him for a
time.

14 And Jesus turned back in the
power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a
rumor went out concerning him
through the whole country round
about.

15 And he tanght in their assem-
blies, being honoured of all.

16 And he came to Nazareth where
he was brought up, and he went in, as
was the custom to him in the day of
the sabbaths, into the assembly, and

stood up to read.

17 And the book of Esaias the
prophet was giventohim. And having
unfolded the book, he found the place
where it was written,

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, for which he anointed me to an-
nounce good news to the poor ; he has
sent me to heal the broken in heart, to
proclaim a remission to the captives,
and a recovery of sight to the blind,

_to send away with remission the
bruised,

19 To proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord.

20 And having folded the book and
given back to the servant, he sat down.
And the eyes of all in the assembly were
looking attentively upon him.

21 And he began to say to them,
That this day has this. writing been
filled tip in your ears.

22 Aud all bore him testimony and
wondered at the words of grace going
out of his mouth: and said, Is not this
the son of Joseph ?

23 And he said to them, Directly
will ye say to me this proverb, Physi-
cian, cure thyself: what things we
have heard done in Capernaum, do
also here in thy country.

24 And he said, Truly I say to you,
That not any prophet is acccepted in
his country.

25 And I tell you of a truth, many
widows were in the days of Elias in
Israel, when heaven was shut up
three years and six months, when a
great famine was upon all the land;

26 And to none of them was Elias
sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a
widow-woman.

27 And many leprous were during
Eliseus the prophet in Israel ; and none
of them was cleansed but Naaman the
Syrian.

28 And all in the assembly were
filled with wrath, hearing these things,

29 And having risen up, they cast
him without the city, and they
brought him to the brow of the mount
upon which their city was built, to
hurl him down. —

30 And he having passed through
the midst of them, went away.

31 And he came down to Caper-
naum, a city of Galilee, and he was
teaching them on the sabbaths.

82 And they were struck with
amazement at his teaching: for his
word was with power.

33 And inthe assembly was a man
having the spirit of an unclean demon,
and he cried out witha great voice,

34 Saying, Let alone; what to us and
thee, Jesus Nazarene? hast thou come
todestroy us? I know thee who thou
art; the Holy of God.

35 And Jesus answered him, saying,
Be thou silent, and come out of him.
And the demon having thrown him
into the midst, came out of him, not
having injured him.

36 And amazement was upon all,
and they spake to one another, saying,

What this word! with authority and
power he commands unclean spirits,
and they come out.

37 And areport went forth concern-
ing him into every place of the coun-
try round about.

98 And having risen from the as-
sembly, he went into Simon’s house.
And Simon’s mother-in-law was taken
with agreat fever; and they entreated
him for her.

39 And having stood over her, he
censured the fever; and it left her: and
having risen immediately she served
them.

40 And the sun setting, all as many
as had sick ones with various diseases
brought them to him; and he having
put hands upon each one of them,
cured them.

41 And demons came out of many,
erying, and saying, Thou art Christ the
Son of God. And answering he suffered
them not to speak, for they knew him
to be Christ.

42 And it having been day, having
gone forth he went into a deserted
place: and the crowds sought him, and
came to him, and detained him‘ not to

o from them.

43 And he said to them , That also
to other cities must I announce the
good news, the kingdom of God : be-
cause for this have 1 been sent.

44 And he was proclaiming in the
assemblies of Galilee.

CHAPTER V.
ND it was the crowd pressing
close upon him to hear the word
of God, and he was standing near the
lake of Gennesaret,

2 And he saw two ships standing
near the lake: and the fishermen havy-
ing gone out of them, washed the
᾿ fishing-nets.

3 And having gone into one of the
ships, which was Simon’s, he asked
him to sail out a little from land. And
having sat down, he taught the crowds
out of the ship.

4 And when he ceased speaking, he
said to Simon, Sail out into the deep,
and slacken your nets for fishing.

5 And Simon having answered, said

LUKE Υ.

to him, Commander, wearied for the
whole night, we took nothing: but at
thy word I will slacken the net.

6 And having done this, they en-
closed a great multitude of fishes, and
their net broke through ;

7 And they nodded to partners,
those in the other ship, that having
come they should succor them. And
they cameand filled both ships, so that
they were sinking.

8 And Simon Peter fell upon his
knees before Jesus, saying, Go out
from me; for I am a sinful man, O
Lord.

9 For amazement held him, and all
those with him, at the fishing of the
fishes which they took :

10 And likewise also James and
John, Zebedee’s sons, who were part-
ners with Simon. And Jesus said to Si-
mon, Fear not; from now thou shalt
be capturing men.

11 And having brought down the
ship upon the land, having let go all
things, they followed him.

12 And it was in his being in one
of the cities, and behold a man full of
leprosy : and having seen Jesus, having
fallen upon the face, supplicated him,
saying, Lord, if thou wouldst, thou
canst cleanse me.

13 And having put forth the hand,
he touched him, saying, I will: be
thou cleansed. And the leprosy depart-
ed from him.

14 And he enjoined him to tell
none: but having departed, show thy-
self to the priest, and bring near for
thy cleansing as Moses commanded,
for a testimony to them.

15 But the more the word passed
through concerning him: and many
crowds came together to hear, and to
be cured from their weaknesses.

16 And he was retreating into the
deserts, and praying.

17 And it was in one of the days,
and he was teaching, and the Phari-
sees and teachers of the law were sit-
ting, who were come out of every
town of Galilee, and Judea, and Je-
rusalem; and the power of the Lord
was for healing them.

18 And, behold, men bringing upon |

LUKE V., VI.

a bed a man who was affected with
paralysis; and they sought to bring
him, and set before him.

19 And not finding how they might
bring him iu, for the crowd, having
ascended npon the house, they put him
down through the tiles, with the small
couch, in the midst before Jesus.

20 And having seen their faith, he
said to him, Man, thy sins are remit-
ted to thee.

21 And the seribes and Pharisees
began to reason with themselves, say-
ing, Who is this who speaks blasphe-
mies? Who can remit sins but God
alone ?

22 And Jesus having known their
reflections, haying answered, said to
them, What do ye reason with your-
selves in your hearts ?

23 Which is easier, to say, Thy sins
are remitted to thee ; or to say, Arise
and walk ?

24 And that ye might know that the
Son of man has power upon earth to
remit sins, (he said to him affected with
paralysis.) I say to thee, Arise, and

aving taken up thy couch, go into thy
house.

25 And immediately having risen
before them, having taken up on what
he lay, he went away to his house,
hononring God.

26 And amazement took them all,
and they honoured God, and were filled
with fear, saying, That we have seen
wonderful things to day.

27 And after these, he went out, and
saw a publican, by name Levi, sitting
by the custom-house; and he said to
him, Follow me. l

28 And having left all, having risen,
he followed him.

29 And Levi made a great enter-
tainment for him in his house: and
there was a great crowd of publicans
and others who were sitting down with
them.

80 And the scribes and Pharisees
murmured against his disciples, say-
ing, Wherefore eat and drink ye with
publicans and sinful 7

81 And Jesus, having answered,
said to them, Those being in good
health have no need of a physician ;
but they being ill

32 I came not to call the just, but
the sinful to repentance.

33 And they said to him, Wherefore
do the disciples of John fast frequent-
ly, and make prayers, and likewise
they of the Pharisees; and they to
thee eat and drink ?

34 And he said to them, Ye cannot
make the sons of the nuptial-chamber
fast, when the bridegroom is with
them.

35 But the days will come also,
when the bridegroom shall be carried
away from them; then shall they fast
in those days.

36 And he also spake to them a par-
able; That none put a piece of new
garment, upon an old garment; and if
not so, the new also splits, and the
piece from the new agrees not with’
the old.

37 And none put new wine into old
wine-skins; and if not so, the new
wine bursts the wine-skins, and it will
be poured out, andthe wine-skins will
perish.

88 But new wine cast into new
wine-skins ; and both are kept.

39 And none drinking old, quickly
desires new, for he says, The old is
better.

CHAPTER VI.
ND it was in-the second first sab-
bath, he went through the stand-
ing corn; and his disciples pulled out
the ears of corn, aud ate, crumbling in
small pieces with hands.

2 And certain of the Pharisees said
to them, Why do ye what is not law-
ful to do in the sabbaths ?

3 And having answered to them,
Jesus said, Have ye not read this,
which David did when he hungered,
and they being with him ;

4 How he went into the house of
God, and took the loaves of the setting
before, and ate, and gave also to those
with him; which is not lawful to eat,
except for priests alone ?

5 And he said to them, The Son of
man is Lord also of the sabbath.

6 And it was also in another sab-
bath, he came into the assembly, and
taught : and a man was there, and his
right hand was withered.

7 And the scribes and Pharisees ob-
served him narrowly, if he will heal
in the sabbath: that they might find
accusation against him.

8 And he knew their reflections, and
said to the man having the withered
hand, Arise, and stand in the midst.
And having risen, he stood.

9 Then. said Jesus to them, I will
ask you; What is lawful in the sab-
bath; to -do good, or to do evil? to
save the life, or destroy ?

10 And having looked round upon
them all, he said to the man, Stretch
forth thine hand. And he did so:
and his hand was restored whole as the
other.

11 And they were filled with want
of understanding ; and they discoursed
with one another what they may do
to Jesus.

12 And it was in those days, he went
out tothe mount to pray, and he was
passing the whole night in prayer to
God

13 And when it was day, he called
to his disciples: and haying chosen
twelve from them, and he named
them, the sent ;

14 Simon, (and he named him Pe-
ter, ) and Andrew his brother, James
and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

15 Matthew and Thomas, James,
him of Alpheus, and Simon called Ze-
lotes,

16 Judas, of James, and Judas Is-
cariot, and he was the traitor.

17 And having come down with

them, he stood upon a level place, and |

a crowd of his disciples, and a great
multitude of people from all Judea
and Jerusalem, and the maritime coun-
try of Tyre and Sidon, they also came
to hear him, and to be healed of their
diseases ;

18 And those molested with unclean
spirits: and they were cured.

19 And all the crowd sought to
touch him ; for there came forth pow-
er from him, and healed all.

20 And he having lifted up his eyes
upon his disciples, said, Happy the
poor, for yours is the kingdom of
God.

21 Happy the hungering now: for

LUKE VI.

ye shall be satisfied. Happy the
weeping now: for ye shall laugh.

22 Happy are ye, when men hate
you, and when they separate you, and
reproach, and cast out your name as
evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

23 Rejoice in that day, and skip:
for, behold, yourreward much in heay-
en: for according to these did their
fathers to the prophets.

24 But woe to you rich! for ye take
away your consolation.

25 Woe to you having been filled!
for ye shall hunger. Woe to you
laughing now! for yeshall grieve and
weep.

26 Woe to you when all men speak
well of you! tor according to these did
their fathers to the false prophets.

27 But I say to you hearing, Love
your enemies, do good to those hating
you,

28 Praise those cursing you, and
pray for those threatening you.

29 To him striking thee upon the
cheek hold also near the other;
and from him taking away thy gar-
ments, and thou shouldest not re-
trench thy coat.

30 And to every one asking thee,
do thou give;and from him taking
away thy things, re-demand not.

31 And as ye wish that men would
do to you, and do you to them like-
wise.

32 And if ye love them loving you,
what grace is to you? for also the sin-
ful would love those loving them.

33 Andif ye do good to those doing
good to you, what grace is to you? for
also the sinful do the same.

34 And if ye lend of whom ye hope
to receive back, what grace is to you?
for also the sinful lend to the sinful,
that they might receive back the like
things.

35 But love ye your enemies, and
do good, and lend, hoping for nothing
back ; and your reward shall be much,
and ye shall be sons of the Highest ;
for he is kind to the graceless and
evil.

36 Be ye therefore compassionate, as
also your Father is compassionate.

97 And judge not, and ye should

LUKE VII.

not be judged: condemn not, and ye|a foundation; against which the river

should not be condemned: loose ye,
and ye shall be loosed.

38 Give, and it shall be given you;
good measure, yielded, and shaken, and
overflowed, shall they give into your
bosom: for with the same measure
that ye measure, shall it be measured
back to you.

39 And he spake to them a parable,
Can the blind lead the blind? shall
they not both fall into the ditch ?

40 For the learner is not above his
teacher: and every one set in order
shall be as his teacher.

41 And why beholdest thou the dried
straw in thy brother’s eye, and per-
ceivest not the beam in thine own eye?

42 Or how canst thou say to thy
brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out
the mote in thine eye, thyself not be-
holding the beam in thine eye? O
hypocrite, cast out first the beam from
thine own eye, and then shalt thou see
through to cast out the mote in thy
brother’s eye.

43 For it is not a good tree making
decayed fruit; neither a decayed tree
making good fruit.

44 For each tree is known by its own
fruit. For of thorns they gather not
figs, nor of the bramble do they har-
vest the grape.

45 The good man out of the good
treasure of his heart, brings forward
the good thing; and the evil man
out of the evil treasure of his heart,
brings forward the evil thing: for out
of the abundance of the heart does his
mouth speak.

46 And why call ye me Lord, Lord,
and do not what I say ?

47 Every one coming to me, and
hearing my words, and doing them, 1
will shew you to whom he is like:

48 He islike to a man building a
house, who digged, and deepened, and
set the foundation upon the rock: and
there having been an oyerflow, the
river dashed against that house, and
. was not able to move it: for it was
founded upon the rock.

49 And he having heard, and not
having done, is like a man _ having
built a house upon the earth, without

dashed, and immediately it fell ; and the
breaking of that house was great.

CHAPTER. VII.
ge when he completed all his
words in the ears of the people,
he came to Capernaum.

2 And a certain centurion’s servant
being sick, was about to die; which
was highly valued by him.

3 And having heard of Jesus, he
sent elders of the Jews to him, asking
him, that having come, he would save
his servant. ;

4 And they approaching to Jesus, be-
sought him earnestly, saying, That he
is worthy to whom he will bestow this:

5 For he loves our nation, and has
built us a synagogue.

6 And Jesus went with them. And
now he being away not far from the
house, the centurion sent friends to
him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not
thyself: for I am not fit that thou
shouldest come under my roof ;

7 Therefore neither thought I my-
self worthy to come to thee: but speak
in a word, and my servant shall be
healed.

8 For I also am a man set under au-
thority, having soldicrs under myself,
and I say to this, Go, and he goes ; and
to another, Come, and he comes: and
to my servant, Do this, and he does.

9 And Jesus having heard these,
wondered at him, and having turned
to the crowd following him, he said, I
say to you, Neither have I found so
much faith in Israel.

10 And those sent, having turned
back to the honse, found the servant
being sick, restored to health.

11 And it was in continuation he
went to a city called Nain; and suf-
ficient of his disciples went with him,
and a great crowd.

12 And as he drew near to the gate
of the city, behold, he dead was
carried out, the only son of his mother,
and she a widow; and a sufficient
crowd of the city was with her.

13 And having seen her, the Lord
felt compassion for her, and said, to
her, Weep not.

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14 And having come, he touched
the coftin, and they bearing stood.
And he said, Young man, I say to thee,
arise.

15 And the dead sat up, and began
tospeak. And he gave him to his moth-
er.
16 And fear took all; and they
praised God, saying, That a great
prophet has risen up among us; and
That God has reviewed his people.

17 And this word went out about
him in all Judea, and in all the coun-
try round about.

18 And John’s disciples announced
to him of all these things.

19 And having 681100 certain two of
his disciples, John sent to Jesus, say-
ing, Art thou he coming? or should we
expect another ?

20 And the men, having approached
to him, said, John the Immerser has
sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he
coming? or should we expect another ?

21 And in that same hour he cured
many of diseases, and scourges, and evil
spirits, and tomany blind he conferred
the favor to see.

22 And Jesus haying answered said
to them, Having gone, announce to
John-what ye saw and heard; for the
blind look up, the Jame walk, the lep-
rous are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised, the poor are announc-
ed good news.

23 Andhappy is he, whoever should
not be offended in ine.

' 24 And the messengers of John hay-
ing departed, he began to say to the
crowds concerning John, What went
ye forth into the desert tosee? A reed
shaken by the wind ?

25 But what went ye out to see? A
man 61001160 in soft garments? Behold,
those in glorious clothing, and being
in luxury, are in royal abodes.

26 But what went ye out to see? A
prophet? Yea, I say to you, superior to
a prophet. :

27 This is he of whom it has been
written, Behold, I send my messenger
before thy face, who shall prepare thy
way before thee.

28 For I say to you, Among the be-
gotten of women none is a greater

LUKE VIL.

prophet than John the Immerser; and
the less in the kingdom of heaven is
greater than he.

29 And all the people having heard,
and the publicans, justified God, hav-
ing been immersed with the immersion
of John.

30 And the Pharisees, and they per-
taining to the law, rejected the counsel
of God against themselves, not im-
mersed by him.

31 And the Lord said, To whom
shall I liken the men of this genera-
tion? and to whom are they like ?

32 They are like children sitting in
the market-place, and calling to one
another, and saying, We played the
flute to you, and ye danced not; we
lamented to you, and ye wept not.

33 For John the Immerser came,
neither eating bread, nor drinking
wine, and ye say, He has a demon.

34 The Son of man came eating and
drinking; and ye say, Behold a man,
a glutton, and wine-drinker, a friend
of publicans and sinful.

35 And wisdom was justified of all
her children.

386 And a certain one of the Phari-
sees asked him that he would eat with
him. And having come into the Phari-
see’s house, he reclined.

37 And, behold, a woman in the city,
who was sinful, knowing that he is re-
clining at table in the Pharisee’s
house, having brought an alabaster box
of perfumed oil,

88 And stood at his feet behind,
weeping, began to wet his feet with
tears, and wiped with the hairs of her
head; and she kissed his feet, and
anointed with the perfumed oil.

39 And the Pharisee having called
him, seeing, said within himself, This,
if he were a prophet, had known who
and what race of woman which had
touched him : for she is sinful.

40 And Jesus having answered, said
to him, Simon, I have something to say
to thee. And he says, Teacher, speak.

41 Two debtors were to a certain
money-lender: one owed five hundred
drachmas, and the other fifty.

42 And they not having to pay, he
bestowed as a gift upon both. Which

LUKE VIII.

of them therefore will love him the
more? Say thou.

43 And Simon, having answered,
said, I suppose, that to whom he be-
stowed more favor. And he said to
him, Thou hast judged rightly.

44 And having tucned to the woman,
he said to Simon, Thou seest this
woman ? I came into thy house, thou
gavest me no water for my feet: and
she wet my feet with tears, and wiped
them with the hairs of her head.

45 Thou gavest me no kiss: and she
from shee came in left not kissing
my feet.

46 Thou anointedst not my head
with oil: and she anointed my feet
with perfumed oil.

47 For which I say to thee, Her
many sins are remitted; forshe loved
much: and he to whom little is re-
mitted, loves little.

48 And he said to her, Thy sins are
remitted.

49 And they reclining together be-
gan to say in themselves, Who is this
who also remits sins ?

50 And he said to the woman, Thy
faith has saved thee ; go in peace.

CHAPTER VIII.
שור הי‎ it was afterwards, and he
passed through city and town
proclaiming and. announcing good
news, the kingdom of God; and
the twelve with him,

2 And certain women, who were
eured from evil spirits and weaknesses,
Mary called Magdalene, from whom
went forth seven demons,

8 And Joanna wife of Chuza,
Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and
many others, who served him from
possessions to them.

4 And a great crowd being together,
and coming to him in the city, he spake
by a parable:

5 The sower went ont to sow his
seed; and in his sowing, some truly
fell by the way, and was trodden
down, and the fowls of heaven de-
voured it.

6 And other fell wpon a rock ;
having brought forth, was dried up, for
it had no mvisture.

and.

7 And other fell in the midst of
thorns; and the thorns grew together
and choked it. i

8 And other fell upon good earth ;
and having brought forth, made fruit, a
hundredfold. Saying these, he called
out, He having ears to hear, let him
hear.

9 And his disciples asked him, say-
ing, What may this parable be ?

10 And he said, To you it has been
given to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of God : and to the rest in par-
ables; that seeing they might not see,
and hearing they might not understand.

11 And this is the parable: The
seed is the word of God.

12 And they by the way are they
hearing; then comes the devil, and
takes away the word from their heart,
lest having believed, they should be
saved.

13 And they upon the rock, who,
when they hear, with joy receive
the word ; and they have no root, who
for a time believe, and in time of trial
fly away.

14 And that having fallen into
thorns, and they are they having heard, -
and with eares,and riches, and pleasures
of life going forth, are choked, and
bring not to maturity.

15 And that in the good earth, they
are they which, in a fair and good
heart, having heard, keep the word,
and bring forth fruit with patience.

16 None, having lighted a light,
covers it with a vessel, or puts under
a bed; but sets upon a candlestick, that
they entering might see the light.

17 For there is nothing hid, which
should not be made manifest ; nor con-
cealed, which should not be made
known, and come clear.

18 See therefore how ye hear: for
whoever should have, shall be given
him; and whoever should not have,
and what he seems to have shall be
taken away from him.

19 And his mother and brethren ap-
proached to him ; and they could not
come to him for the crowd.

20 And it was announced to him,
saying, Thy mother and thy brethren

lhave stood without, wishing to see thee.

21 And he having answered, said un
to them, My mother and my brethren
are they hearing the word of God, and
doing it.

22 And it was in one of the days,
and he went into a ship, and his disci-
ples: and he said to them, Let us pass
through to the other side of the lake.
And they led forth.

23 And they sailing, he fell asleep:
and a hurricane of wind came down
upon the lake; und they were filled,
and were in peril.

24 And having come near, they
awoke.him, saying, Ruler, ruler, we
perish. And having risen, he censured
the wind and heaving of water; and
they ceased, and there was a calm.

25 And he said to them, Where is’

yourfaith? And having feared, they
wondered, saying to one another, Who
then is this! that also commands the
winds and the waters, and they listen
to him!

26 And they sailed over to the coun-
try of the Gadarenes, which is over
against Galilee.

27 And he coming upon land, a cer-
tain man met him from the city, who
had demons of long times, and put on
no garment, and abode not in a house,
but in the tombs.

28 And having seen Jesusand cried
out, he fell before him, and with a
great voice said, What to me and thee,
Jesus, Son of God most high? I im-
plore thee, thou wouldst not torment
me.

29 For he proclaimed to the unclean
spirit to come out of the man. For
many times it snatched him: and he
was bound with chains, and being
guarded with fetters ; and bursting the
bonds, he was driven by the demon
into the deserts.

30 And Jesus asked him, saying,
What is the name to thee? And he
said, Legion: for many demons came
intohim. —.

31 And he besought him that he
would not command him to go away
into the abyss.

32 And a herd of numerous swine
was there feeding on the mount: and
they besought him that he would per-

LUKE VIII.

mit them to come into the swine. And
he permitted them.

33 And the demons having come
out of the man, came into the swine:
and the herd rushed down the precipice
into the lake, and were choked.

34 And they feeding, having seen
that done, fled, and having departed,
proclaimed in the city and in the
tields. .

35 And they went out to see that
done; and came to Jesus, and they
found the man from whom the demons
had gone out, sitting clothed, and _be-
ing of sound mind, at the feet of Je-
sus ; and they were afraid.

36 And they, having seen, proclaim-
ed to them how he possessed with a de-
mon was saved.

37 And all the multitude of the
country round about, of the Gadarenes,
asked him to depart from them; for
they were held fast by great fear:
and he having gone into the ship, re-
turned.

38 And the man from whom the de-
mons had gone out implored him to
be with him: and Jesus loosed him,
saying,

39 Return to thy house and recount
what God did to thee. And he de-
parted, proclaiming throughout the
whole city what Jesus did to him.

40 And it was in Jesus’ returning,
the crowd received him; for all were
expecting him.

41 And, behold, a man came, to
whom the name of Jairus, and he was
ruler of the assembly: and having
fallen before the feet of Jesus, he be-
sought him to come to his house :

42 For an only daughter was to
him, of about twelve years, and she
was dying. And in his going the
crowds pressed him.

43 And a woman being in a flowing
of blood for twelve years, who having
expended all the means of subsistence
upon physicians, could not be cured
by any,

44 Having come near behind,
touched the hem of his garment: and

immediately her flow of blood was

stopped.
45 And Jesus said, Who having

LUKE IX.

touched me? And all denying, Pe-|in, remain there, and come out thence.

ter said. and they with him: Ruler, the
crowds hold with thee and press thee,
and thou sayest, Who having touched
me ἢ

46 And Jesus said, Somebody
touched me: for I know power having
gone out from me.

47 And the woman having seen that
she was not hid, came trembling, and
having fallen before him, announced
to him before all people for what
cause she touched him, and how she
was healed immediately.

48 And he said to her. Take cour-
age, Daughter: thy faith has saved
thee; go in peace.

49 He yet speaking, there comes
a certain of the ruler of the assembly,
saying to him, That thy daughter is
dead ; trouble not the Teacher.

50 And Jesus having heard, ans-
wered him, saying, Fear not: only be-
lieve, and she shall be saved.

51 And having come into the house,
he suffered not any to come in, except
Peter, and James, and John, and the
father and mother of the child.

52 And all wept, and bewailed her:
and he said, Weep not ; she is not dead,
but sleeping.

53 And they derided him, knowing
that she was dead.

54 And he having cast all without,
and held firmly her hand, called, say-
ing, Child, arise.

55 And her spirit returned, and she
rose up immediately : and he ordered
to give her to eat.

56 And her parents were affected in
mind: and he proclaimed to them, to
tell no one that having been done.

CHAPTER IX.
yee having called together his
twelve disciples, he gave them
power and authority over all demons,
and to cure diseases.

2 And he sent them to proclaim the
kingdom of God, and heal the sick.

3 And he said to them, Take away
nothing for the way, neither rods, nor
wallet, nor bread, nor silver; nor to
have two coats apiece.

5 And as many as should not re-
ceive you, having come out of that
city, and shake off the clond of dust
from your feet for testimony against
them.

6 And having gone out, they went
through the towns, proclaiming the
good news, and healing every where.

7 And Herod the tetrarch heard all
done by him: and was in perplexity,
for it was said by certain, that John
had been raised from the dead.

8 And by certain, that Elias has ap-
peared ; and by others, that a prophet,
one of the ancients, was risen.

9 And Herod said, John I behead-
ed: and who is this, of whom I hear
such things? And he sought to see
him.

10 And the sent, having returned,
recounted to him what they did. And
having taken them, he retreated apart
ina desert place of the city, called Beth-
saida.

11 And the crowds having known,
followed him: and having received
them; he spake to them, of the kingdom
of God, and healed them having need
of cure.

12 And the day began to decline:
and the twelve having come near, said
to him, Loose the crowd, that having
departed into the towns round about
and the fields, they might rest, and
might find provisions; for here are we
in a deserted place.

13 And he said to them, Give ye
them to eat. And they said, There
are no more to us than five loaves
and two fishes ; except having gone we
buy food for all this people.

14 For they were about five thou-
sand men. And he said to his disci-
ples, Place them reclining by fifty ina
place for reposing.

15 And they did so, and they made
all recline.

16 And having taken the five loaves
and two fishes, having looked up to
heaven, he praised them, and brake,
and gave to the disciples to set before
the crowd.

17 And they all ate, and were satis-

4 And into whatever house ye come|fied: and that over and above having

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remained to them was taken up, twelve
baskets of fragments.

18 And it was in his being alone
praying, his disciples were’ with him:
and he asked them, saying, Whom do
the crowds say me to be¢

19 And they having answered, said,
John the Immerser ; and others, Elias ;
and others, that a certain prophet of
the ancients has risen up.

20 And he said to them, And whom
say ye me to be? And Peter having
answered said, The Christ of God.

21 And he having censured them,
enjoined them to tell this tono one;

22 Saying, That the Son of man
must suffer many things, and be dis-
approved of by the more ancient and
the chief priests and the scribes, and
be slain, and be raised up the third
day.

23 And he said to all, If any one
wish to come after me, let him deny
himself, and lift up his cross daily, and
let him follow me.

24 For whoever would wish to save
his soul shall lose it: and whoever
should lose his soul for my sake, the
same shall save it. j

25 For what 18 a man profited, hav-
ing gained the whole world, and hav-
ing lost himself, or having been dam-
aged ¢

26 For whoever should be ashamed
of me and my words, of him shall the
Son of man be ashamed, when he
should come in the glory of himself,
and of the Father, and of the holy
messengers.

27 And I say to you truly, certain
are standing here, who shall not taste
of death, till they should see the king-
dom of God.

28 And it was after these words
about eight days, and having taken
Peter and John and James, he went
up into the mount to pray.

29 And it was in his praying, the
look of his face was another, and his
clothing white, shooting forth light-
ning.

30 And, behold, two men _ were
speaking with him, which were Moses
and Elias:

31 Who, having been seen in glory,

LUKE -IX.

spake of his exit which he was about
to complete in Jerusalem.

382 And Peter and they with him
were heavy with sleep: and having
waked, they saw his glory, and two
men standing with him.

33 And it was in their having
withdrawn from him, Peter said to
Jesus, Ruler, it is good for us to be
here: and let us make three tents, one
for thee, and one for Moses, and one
for Elias: not knowing what he says.

34 And he saying these things, there
was a cloud, and it overshadowed
them: and they were afraid in their
going into the cloud.

35 And there was a voice out of the
cloud, saying, This is my dearly be-
loved Son: hear him.

36 And in there having been a
voice, Jesus was found alone. And they
were silent, and announced nothing to
any one in those days, of what they
had seen.

37 And it was in the day following,
they having come down from the
mountain, there met him a great
crowd.

38 And, behold, a man from the
crowd cried out, saying, Teacher, I
implore thee look upon my son: for
he is my only,born.

39 And, behold, a-spirit takes him,
and suddenly he cries out; and it tears
him with foam, and with difficulty
withdraws from him, bruising him.

40 And I implored thy disciples
that they cast it out; and they could
not.

41 And Jesus having answered
said, O faithless and perverted gener-
ation, how long shall I be with you,
and endure you? Bring hither thy
son.

42 And he yet coming near, the de-
mon rent him, and tare him. And
Jesus censured the unclean spirit,
and healed the child, and gave him
back to his father.

43 And all were struck with amaze-
ment at the majesty of God. And all
wondering at all which he did, Jesus
said to his disciples,

44 Put ye these words into your
ears: for the Son of man is about to

LUKE .א‎

be delivered up into the hands of
men.

45 And they knew not this word,
and it was hid from them, lest they
should understand it: and they feared
to ask him concerning this word.

46 And there came up aconference

among them, thus, which of them.

should be the greatest.

47 And Jesus, having seen the reflee-
tion of their heart, having taken upa
child, set it by himself,

48 And he said to them, Whoever
should receive this child in my name
receives me: and whoever should re-
ceive me, receives him having sent
me: for he being less among you all,
thesame shall be great.

49 And John having answered said,
Ruler, we saw a certain one casting
out demons in thy name; and we hin-
dered him, because-he follows not with
us.

50 And Jesus said, Hinder him not:
for who is not against ₪818 for us.

51 And it was in the days of his ac-
ceptation being completed, and he
fixed his face to go into Jerusalem.

52 And he sent messengers before
his face: and having gone, “they came
into a town of Samaritans, i in order to
prepare for him,

*53 And they received him not, for
his face was going to Jerusalem.

54 And his disciples James and John
having seen, said, O Lord,wilt thou
that we should speak fire to come down
from heaven, and destroy them, as al-
so did Elias ?

55 And having turned he censured
them, and said, Ye know not of what
sort of spirit ye are.

56 For the Son of man came not to
destroy men’s souls, but to save them.
And they proceeded into another
town:

57 And it was, they going in the
way, a certain one said to him, I will
follow thee wherever thou shouldest go
forth, Lord.

58 And Jesus said to him, Foxes
have dens, and fowls of heaven en-
campments; but the Son of man has
not where he might lay down the
head.

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59 And he said to another, Follow
me. And he said, Lord, permit me
having gone, first to inter my father.

60 And Jesus said to him, Permit
the dead to inter their own dead ; and
thou, having gone, announce the king-
dom of God.

61 And another said, 1 will follow
thee, Lord; and first permit me to
take leave of those in my house.

62 And Jesus said to him, No one
putting his hand upon the plough, and
looking back, is adapted to the king-
dom of God.

CHAPTER X,
ND after these the Lord showed
forth other seventy, and sent them
together two and two before his face
into every city and place, where he
was about to come.

2 Then said he to them, Truly the
harvest much, and the laborers few:
implore therefore the Lord of the har-
vest, that he would send forth laborers
into his harvest.

3 Retire: behold, I send you as
lambs in the midst of wolves.

4 Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor
shoes: and greet none by the way.

5 And in whatever house ye enter,
first say, Peace to this house.

6 And if truly the son of peace be
there, your peace shall rest upon it:
and if not so, it shall turn back to you.

7 And remain in the same house,
eating and drinking the things of
them: for the laborer is w orthy of
his hire. Go not from house to house.

8 And in whatever city ye enter,
and they receive you, eat the things
set before you.

9 And eure the sick in it, and say
to them, The kingdom of God has
drawn near to you.

10 And in whatever city ye enter,
and they receive you not, having gone
into its spacious ways, say,

11 And the dust having cleaved to
us from your city, we wipe off to you:
but know this, that the kingdom of
God has drawn nigh to you.

12 And I say to you, that it shall be
more supportable in that day for
Sodom, than for that city.

18 Woe to thee Chorazin! woe to
thee Bethsaida! for if in Tyre and
Sidon were the powers having been
in you, long since had they changed the
mind, sitting in sackeloth and ashes.

14 But for Tyreand Sidon shall it be
more supportable in judgment, than
for you.

15 And thou, Capernaum, indeed
even lifted up to heaven, shalt be cast
down to hades.

16 He hearing you hears me: and
he rejecting yourejects me; and he re-
jecting me rejects him having sent
me.

17 And the seventy returned with
joy, saying, Lord, and the demons are
subject to us in thy name.

18 And he said to them, I saw Satan
as lightning fallen from heaven.

19 Behold, I give you power to
tread above serpents and scorpions,
and upon all the power of the enemy :
and nothing shall hurt you.

20 But in this rejoice not, that the
spirits are subject to you; but rather
rejoice, that your names were written
in the heavens.

21 In that honr Jesus rejoiced in
spirit, and said, I will acknowledge
to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, that thou hast hid these
things from the wise and intelligent,
and hast revealed them to babes: yes
Father, for so was it benevolence be-
fore thee.

22 All things were delivered me by
my Father: and none knows who is
the Son, but the Father; and who the
Father is, but the Son, and to whom-
soever the Son would wish to reveal.

23 And having turned to the disci-
ples apart he said, Happy the eyes see-
ing what ye see:

24 For I say to you, that many
prophets and kings wished to behold
what yesee, and saw not; and to hear
what ye hear, and heard not.

95 And, behold, a certain skilled in
the law stood up, tempting him, and
saying, Teacher, what having done
shall I inherit eternal life ?

26 And he said to him, What has
been written in the law? how read-
est thou ?

LUKE X.

27 And he having answered, said,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from
thy whole heart, and from thy whole
soul, and from thy whole strength ;
and thy neighbor as thyself.

28 Andhe said to him, Thou hast
answered rightly; this do and thou

‘shalt live.

29 And he, wishing to justify him-
self, said to Jesus, And who is my
neighbor ?

30 And Jesus having replied said,
A certain man went down from Jern-
salem to Jericho, and fell among rob-
bers: and having stripped him, and
laid on blows, they departed, leaving
him half dead.

31 And by accident a certain priest
went down in that way: and having
seen him, went on the opposite side.

32 And likewise also a Levite, hay-
ing been in the place, having come
and seen him, went on the opposite
side.

38 And a certain Samaritan, travel-
ling, came to him: and having seen
him, felt compassion.

34 And having come near, he bound
up his wounds, pouring in oil and.
wine, and having mounted him upon
his own animal, he brought him to an
inn, and took care of him.

35 And upon the morrow, he hav-
ing come forth, taking out two
drachmas, he gave to the inn-keeper,
and said to him, Take care of him ; and
whatever thou spendest besides, I, in
my coming back, will repay thee.

36 Which then of these three seems
to thee to have been neighbor to him
fallen among robbers?

37 And he said, He having done
merey with him. Then said Jesus to
him, Go thou, and do likewise.

38 And it was in their going forth,
and he came to’a certain town: anda
certain woman by the name of Martha
received him in her house.

39 And also a sister was to her,
081160 Mary; and she having sat at
Jesus’ feet, heard his word.

40 And Martha was perplexed about
much service, and having stood before,
said, Lord, 081085 thou not that my sis-
ter left me to serve alone? speak

LUKE ΧΙ.

therefore to her that she may lay hold
and assist with me.

41 And Jesus having answered, said
to her, Martha, Martha, thou hast care,
and art confused about many things:

42 And of one thing there is need :
and Mary has chosen the good part
which shall not be taken away from her.

CHAPTER XI.
ND it was in his being in a cer-
tain place praying, when he ceas-
ed, acertain of his disciples said to him
Lord, teach us to pray, as John also
taught his disciples.

2 And he said to them, When ye
pray, say, Our Father he in the heay-
ens, Holy be thy name.
kingdom come. Let thy will be, as
in heaven, also upon the earth.

3 Give us our bread sufficient for
sustenance by the day. :

4 And remit to us our sins; for we
onrselves also remit to every one in-
debted to us. And bring us not into
temptation; but deliver us from the
evil. :

5 And he said to them, Which of
you shall have a friend, and shall go to
him at midnight, and should say to
him, Friend, lend me three loaves;

6 Since my friend has come to me
from the way, and I have not what I
may set before him ?

7 And he within, having answered,
should say, Offer not weariness to me:
already has the door been shut, and
my children are with me in bed; I
cannot having risen, give thee.

8 I say to you, If also having risen
he will not give him because of being
his friend, yet for his effrontery, hav-
ing risen, he will give him as many as
he needs.

9 And I say to you, Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened to
you.

10 For every one asking, reccives ;
and he seeking, finds; and to him
knocking, it shall be opened.

11 And shall a son ask bread of any
of you a father, will he give him a
stone? and if a fish, for a fish he will
not give him a serpent.

Let thy

12 Or also if he ask an egg, he will
not give him a scorpion.

13 If then ye, being evil, know to
give good gifts to your children; how
much more the Father, he from heay-
en, will give the Holy Spirit to them
asking him ?

14 And he was casting out a demon,
and it was dumb. And it wag the de-
mon having come out, the dumb spake ;
and the crowds wondered.

15 And certain of them said, By
Beelzebul ruler of demons he easts out
demons.

16 And others, tempting, sought a
sign of him from heayen.

17 And he, knowing their thoughts,
said to them, Every kingdom divided
against itself is rendered desolate ;
and a house against a house falls.

18 And if Satan also be divided
against himself, how should his king-
dom stand? for ye say by Beelzebul
I cast out demons.

19 Andif I by Beelzebul cast out de-
mons, by whom do your sons cast out ?
for this shall they be your judges.

20 And if by the finger of God I
cast out demons, then has the kingdom
of God got beforehand to you.

21 When the strong, completely
armed, should watch his court-yard, his
possessions are in peace :

22 And when a stronger than he,
having come, conquers him, he takes
away his complete armor in which he
trusted, and distributes his spoils.

23 He not being with me is against
me: and he not gathering with me
scatters.

24 When the unclean spirit comes
out from a man, he passes through
places wanting water, seeking rest; and
not finding, he says, I will return to
my house whence I came out.

25 And having come, he finds it
swept and set in order.

26 Then he goes, and takes seven
other spirits more evil than himself;
and having entered, they dwell there:
and the last things of that man are
worse than the first.

27 And it was in his speaking these
things, a certain woman of the crowd,
having lifted up the voice, said to him,

Happy the womb having borne thee,
and breasts thou didst suck.

28 And he said, Rather, happy they
hearing the word of God, and watch-
ing it.

29 And crowds being collected, he
began to say, This is an evil genera-
tion: it seeks a sign; and no sign shal]
be given it, but the sign of Jonas the
prophet.

30 For as Jonas was a sign to the
Ninevites, so shall be the Son of man
to this generation.

31 The queen of the south shall be
raised up in the judgment with the
men of this generation, and shall con-
demn them: for she came from the
ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon; and, behold, more than
| Solomon here.

32 The Ninevite men shall rise up
in the judgment with this generation,
and condemn it: for they repented
at the proclamation of Jonas; and, be-
hold, more than Jonas here.

33 And none, having lighted a lamp,
puts in secret, neither under a bushel,
but upon the.chandelier, that they
coming in should see the light.

34 The light of the body is the eye ;
when therefore thine eye be plain, also
thy whole body is clear: and when it
be evil, also thy body dark.

35 Take heed therefore lest the light
in thee be darkness.

36 If therefore thy whole body
clear, not having any part dark, the
whole shall be clear, as when a lamp
enlightens thee with its gleam.

37 And in the speaking, a certain
Pharisee asked him that he would
dine with him: and having come in
he reclined.

38 And the Pharisee having seen,
wondered that he was not first wash-
ed before dinner.

89 And the Lord said to him, Now
ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the
cup and trencher; and your inside is
full of plunder and wickedness.

40 O foolish, has not he having
made the outside, also made the in-
side?

41 But of the things being, give
alms ; and, behold, all things are clean
to you. »

LUKE XII.

42 But woe to you, Pharisees! for
ye tithe spearmint and rue and every
plant, and ye pass by the judgment
and love of God: these ought ye to
have done, and not to have left those.

43 Woe to you, Pharisees! for ye
love the first seat in assemblies, and
greetings in market-places.

44 Woe to you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites! for ye are as conceal-
ed tombs, and men walking above
know not.

45 And acertain of the skilled in the
law having answered, said, Teacher,
speaking these things, and thou in-
jurest us. :

46 And he said, And woe to you,

‘skilled in the law! for ye load men

with loads difficult to carry, and ye
yourselves touch not one of the fingers
to the load.

47 Woe to you! for ye build the
tombs of the prophets, and your fathers
killed them.

48 Surely ye testify and assent to
your fathers’ works: for they indeed
killed them, and ye build their tombs.

49 And for this said the wisdom of
God, I will send them prophets and
the sent, and of them shall they kill
and drive out:

50 That the blood of all the prophets
shed from the foundation of the world
be required of this generation ;

51 From the blood of Abel even to
the blood of Zacharias perishing be-
tween the altar and house: yea, I say
to you, It shall be required of {1115 gen-
eration.

52 Woe to you, skilled in the law!
for ye have taken away the key of
knowledge : ye came not.in yourselves,
and those coming in ye hindered.

53 And he saying these things to
them, the scribes and Pharisees began
to hold on greatly, and to put questions
to him of many things:

54 Laying wait for him, and seek-
ing to seize something out of his
mouth, that they might accuse him.

CHAPTER XII.
{ἠθῶν which, myriads of the crowd
having been gathered together,
so as to tread upon one another, he be-
gan to speak to his disciples first, Keep

LUKE XII.

yourselves from the leaven of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

17 And he calculated in himself,
saying, What shall I do, for I have

2 And there is nothing 0076260, | not where I shall collect together my

which shall not be revealed; and se-
cret which shall not be known.

3 Therefore whatever ye have said
in darkness shall be heard in light ;
and what ye spake to the ear in store-
houses shall be proclaimed upon house-
tops.

-4 And I say to you my friends, Be
not afraid of those killing the body,
and after these not having anything re-
maining to do.

5 And I will shew you whom ye
should fear: Fear him having power,
after killing, to cast into hell; yea, I
say to you, [ear him.

6 Are not five little sparrows sold
for two small coins, and one of them is
not forgotten before God ἢ

7 But also the hairs of your head
were all numbered. Therefore fear not:
ye have the preéminence over many
little sparrows.

8 And I say to you, Every one who
should acknowledge in me before men,
also the Son of man will acknowledge
in him before the messengers of God.

9 And he having denied me before
men, shall be denied before the mes-
sengers of God.

10 And every one who shall say a
word against the Son of man, it shall
be remitted to him: and to him blas-
pheming against the Holy Spirit, it
shall not be remitted.

11 And when they bring you to as-
semblies, and beginnings, and powers,
have no anxiety how or what ye allege
for justification, or what ye say:

12 For the Holy Spirit will teach
you in that hour what ye must say.

13 And a certain one out of the
crowd said to him, Teacher, speak to
my brother to divide the inheritance
with me,

14 And he said to lim, Man, who ap-
Reintod me judge or distributer over

ou ?

15 And he said to them, See, and
watch yourselves from covetousness :
for not in the abounding to any one of
lis possessions is his life.

16 And he spake a parable to them,
saying, The farm of a certain rich man
bore well:

fruits ¢

18 And he said, This will I do: 1
will pull down my stores, and build
greater; and there will I collect all
my produce and my good things.

19 And I will say to my soul, Soul,
thou hast many good things laid up
for many years; rest, eat, drink, be
gladdened.

20 And God said to him, O foolish
one, this night they require thy soul
from thee: and what thou hast pre-
pared, to whom shall it be?

21 So he treasuring up for himself,
and not rich toward God.

22 And he said to his disciples,
Therefore I say to you, Have no anx-
iety for your soul, what ye eat; nor
for the body what ye put on.

23 The soul is more than food, and
the body than clothing.

24 Consider the ravens: for they
sow not neither do they reap; to them
there is not store-house nor store; and
God nourishes them: how much more
have ye preéminence of the fowls?

25 And which of you having anx-
iety can add to his size one eubit ?

26 If then ye cannot do the least,
why have ye anxiety for the rest ?

27 Consider the white lilies, how
they grow; they are not wearied,
neither do they spin ; and I say to you,
neither was Solomon in all his glory
clothed as one of these.

28 And if the grass, to day being in
the field and to morrow east into the
furnace, God so clothes; how much
rather you, ye of little faith ?

29 And ye, seek ye not what ye eat,
or what ye drink, and keep not in
anxiety.

30 For all these things the nations
of the world seek for: and your
Father knows that ye have need of
these.

31 But seek the kingdom of God ;
and all these shall be added to you.

32 Fear not, little flock; for your
Father was contented to give you the
kingdom.

33 Sell your possessions, and give
alms; make to yourselves purses not
growing old, an inexhaustible treasure

in the heavens, where the thief ap-
proaches not, nor moth corrupts.

34 For where your treasure is, there
also will be your heart.

35 Let your loins be girded about,
and your lights burning ;

36 And ye like men expecting their
Lord, when he shall loose from the
nuptials; that having come and knock-
ed, they might quickly open to him.

37 Happy those servants, whom the
Lord having come shall find watching ;
truly I say to you, he will gird him-
self, and make them recline, and hay-
ing come he will serve them.

58 And if he should come in the
second watch, and should come in the
third watch, and find so, happy are
those servants.

39 And know this, that if the mas-
ter of the house knew what hour the
thief is coming, he had watched, and
not have suffered his house to be un-
dermined.

40 And be ye therefore ready: for
in the time which ye think not the
Son of man is coming.

41 And Peter said to him, Lord,
sayest thou this parable to us, or also to
all?

42 And the Lord said, Who then is
that faithful and wise steward, which
the Lord will set over his household,
to give the allowance of wheat in due
time ?

43 Happy that servant, which his
Lord, having come, shall find so doing.

44 Truly I say to you, that he will
set him over all his possessions.

45 And if that servant should say in
his heart, My Lord delays to come;
and should begin to strike the servants
and maids, also to eat and drink, and
to be intoxicated ;

46 The lord of that servant shall
come in a day which he expects not,
and in an hour which he knows not,
and he will cut him in two equal parts,
and set his portion with the unbeliev-
ing.

ἍΤ And that servant having known
his lord’s will, and not prepared,
neither having done his will, shall be
skinned with many.

48 And he not having known, and

LUKE XII, XIII.

having done things worthy of blows,
shall be skinned with few. And to
every one to whom much was given,
shall much be required of him: and
with whom they have deposited much,
they will ask of him the more.

49 I have come to cast fire into the
earth ; and what will Lif it has been
already lighted up!

50 And Ihave an immersion to be
immersed with ; and how am I pressed
together till it should be finished!

51 Think ye that I came to give
peace in the earth? Nay, 1 say to you;
but rather division:

52 For from now shall five be in
one house ‘divided, three against two,
and two against three.

53 Father shall be divided against
son, and son against father; mother
against daughter, and daughter against
mother; mother-in-law against her
daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law.

54 And he said to the crowds, When
ye see a cloud rising from the de-
scents, ye say quickly, A heavy shower
of rain is coming ; and it is so.

55 And when the south wind blow-
ing, ye say, That there will be heat;
and it is.

56 O hypocrites, ye know to judge
the face of the earth and of heaven ;
and how do ye not judge this time ?

57 And why also of yourselves judge
ye not the just thing 4

58 For when thou retirest with
thine adversary to the ruler, in the
way give labor to be released from
him; lest he drag thee to the judge,
and the judge deliver thee to the aven-
ger, and the avenger cast thee into
prison.

59 I say to thee, thou shouldest not
come out thence, even till also thou
shouldest give back the last small coin.

CHAPTER XIII.

ND certain were present in that
time announcing to him of the
Galileans, whose blood Pilate mingled

with their sacrifices.
2 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, Think ye that these Galileans
were sinful above all the Galileans,

LUKE XIII.

because they have suffered such
things ?

3 No, I say to you: but except ye
should change the mind, ye shall all
likewise perish.

4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the
tower in Siloam fell, and killed them,
think ye that these were debtors
above all men dwelling in Jerusalem ?

5 No, I say: but except ye repent,
ye shall all likewise perish.

6 And he spake this parable: A cer-
tain had a fig tree planted in his vine-
yard; and he came seeking fruit on
it, and found not.

7 And he said to the vine-dresser,
Behold, three years 1 am come seek-
ing fruit on this fig tree, and find not:
cut it off; wherefore also does it leave
the earth unemployed ?
᾿ 8 And he haying answered says to
him, Lord, let it go also this year, till
I shall dig round it, and cast,dung:

9 Whereas also it might bear fruit:
and if not, afterwards thou shalt cut
it off.

10 And he was teaching in one of
the assemblies in the sabbaths.

11 And, behold, there was a woman
having a spirit of weakness eighteen
years, and was bent together, and not
able wholly to lift up the head.

12 And having seen her, Jesus called
to, and said to her, Woman, thou hast
been loosed from thy weakness.

13 And he put his hands on her:
and immediately she was set upright,
and honoured God.

14 And the ruler of the assembly
haying answered, feeling pain because
Jesus cured on the sabbath, said to
the crowd, Six days there are in which
they ought to work; in those there-
fore, coming, be ye cured, and not the
day of the sabbath.

15 Then answered the Lord and
said, Hypocrite, does not each of you
on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from
the stall, and leading away, give to
drink 4

16 And this being a daughter of
Abraham, whom Satan has bound, be-
hold, eighteen years, ought she not to
be loosed from this bond the day of
the sabbath ?

17 And he saying these things, all |

opposed to him were ashamed: and
the crowd rejoiced for all the glorious
things done by him.

18 And he said, To what is the king-
dom of God like? and to what shall I
liken it?

19 It is like a kernel of mustard,
which a man having taken, cast into
his garden; and it grew, and became
into a great tree; and the fowls of
heaven encamped in its young shoots.

20 And again he said, To what shall
I liken the kingdom of God?

21 It is like leaven, which a woman
having taken, hid in three measures of
wheaten flour, until the whole was
leavened.

22 And he went through cities and
towns, teaching, and making his pas-
sage to Jerusalem.

23 And a certain said to him, Lord,
if few saved? And he said to them,

24 Strive earnestly to enter through
the narrow gate: for many, I say to
you, shall seek to enter in, and shall
not be able.

25 From the time when the master
of the house should rise up, and shut
the door, and ye begin to stand with-
out, and knock at the door, saying,
Lord, Lord, open to us: and having
answered, he will say to you, I know
not whence ye are:

26 Then will ye begin to say, We
ate and drank before thee, and thou
didst teach in our streets.

27 And he will say, I say to you, I
know you not whence ye are; depart
from me, all ye workmen of iniquity.

28 Weeping shall be there and
gnashing of teeth, when ye see Abra-
ham, and Isaae, and Jacob, and all the
prophets, in the kingdom of God, and
you cast without.

29 And they shall come from the
risings, and the settings, and from
north, and south, and they shall recline
in the kingdom of God.

30 And, behold, there are last which
shall be first, and there are first which
shall be last.

31 In the same day certain Phari-
sees came near, saying to him, Come
out, and go from thence: for Herod
wishes to kill thee.

32 And he said to them, Having

gone, say to that fox, Behold, 1
out demons, and complete cures to day
and to morrow, and the third day Iam
completed.

33 But I must go to day and to
morrow, and the following: for it is
not possible for a prophet to perish
out of Jerusalem.

84 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the
prophets, and striking with stones
those having been sent to her; how
often I wished to gather thy children
together, which manner a hen עסו[‎
young brood under the wings, and ye
would not!

85 Behold, your house is left to you
a desert: and truly I say to you, That
ye should not see me, until it should
come when ye say, Praised he coming
in the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND it was in his coming into the
house of a certain of the Phari-
sees in the sabbath to eat bread, and
they were observing him narrowly.

2 And, behold, a certain dropsical
man was before him.

3 Aud Jesus having answered, said
to those skilled in the law and the
Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to cure
in the sabbath ?

4 And they were silent. And hav-
ing taken, he healed, and loosed him.

5 And having answered, he said to
them, Whose ass or ox of yours shall
fall into a well, and will he not quickly
pull it out on the sabbath day ?

6 And they were not able to answer
him in turn to these things.

7 And he spake a parable to the
081160, fixing his attention how they
chose out the first places at table ; say-
ing to them,

8 When thon art called to the nup-
tials, thou shouldest not recline in the
first place at table; lest a more hon-
ourable than thou be called by him:

9 And he having called thee and
him, having come, shall say to thee,
Give place to this; and then thou
shalt begin with shame to take posses-
sion of the last place.

10 But when thou art called, having
gone, recline in the last place; that

LUKE ,זזוא‎ XIV.

when he having called thee come,
might say to thee, Friend, mount up
higher; then shall honour be to thee
before them reclining with thee.

11 For whoever exalts himself shall
be humbled; and he humbling himself
shall be exalted.

12 And he also said to him having
called him, When thou makest a break-
fast or supper, call not thy friends,
nor thy rich neighbors, nor thy breth-
ren; lest they call thee in return, and
a giving back be to thee.

13 But when thou makest an enter-
tainment, eall the poor, the maimed,
the lame, the blind:

14 And happy shalt thon be; for
they have not to give back to thee:
for it shall be given back to thee at
the rising up of the just.

15 And a certain of them having
reclined together, having heard these
things, said to him, Happy he who
shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

16 And he said to him, A certain
man made a great supper and called
many ;

17 And he sent his servant at the
hour of the supper to say to the called,
Come ; for all things are already pre-
pared.

18 And from one they all began to
conciliate. The first said to him, I
bought a field, and have necessity to
go and see it: I ask thee, haye me
pardoned.

19 And another said, I have bought
flve yoke of oxen, and I go to prove
them: I ask thee, have me pardoned.

20 And another said, I have married
a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

21 And approaching, that servant
announced to his lord these things.
Then the master of the house, angry,
said to his servant, Go forth quickly
into the streets and quarters of the
city, and bring in hither the poor, the
maimed, the lame, and the blind.

22 And the servant said, Lord, it has
been done as thou hast. commanded,
and yet there is place.

23 And the lord said to the servant,
Go out into the ways and hedges, and
compel to come in, that my house may

be filled up.

LUKE, ,זא‎ XV.

24 For I say to you, That none of

5 And having found, he puts upon

those men called shall taste of my | his shoulders, rejoicing.

supper.

25 And great crowds went with
him, and having turned he said to
them,

26 If any come to me, and hate not
his father, and mother, and wife, and
children, and brethren, and sisters, and
yet also his own life, he cannot be my
disciple.

27 And whoever lifts not his cross,
and coies after me, cannot be my
disciple.

28 For which of you, wishing to
build a tower, not first, having sat
down, calculates the expense, if he
have things for completion ?

29 That lest, having set the founda-
tion, and not able to finish, all seeing
begin to mock him,

30 Saying, That this man began to
build, and was not able to finish.

81 Or what king, going to fight
with another king in war, not, having
sat down first, consults, if he be able
with ten thousand to meet him coming
with twenty thousand against him 7

32 And if he, yet being far off,
having sent an embassy, asks things
for peace.

33 So then, every one of you, who
renounces not all of his possessions,
cannot be my disciple.

34 Salt good: but if salt be rendered
insipid, with what shall it be fitted ?

35 Neither for the land, nor is it
fitted for the dunghill; they east it
without. He having ears to hear, let
him hear.

CHAPTER XV.
ba ae all publicans and sinful were
drawing near him to hear him.

2 And the Pharisees and _ scribes
murmured, saying, That this receives
the sinful, and eats together with
them.

3 And he spake this parable to them,
saying,

4 What man of you, having one hun-
dred sheep, and having lost one of
them, leaves not the ninety-nine in the
desert, and goes for the one lost, till
he find it?

6 And having come into the house,
he calls together friends and neigh-
bors, saying to them, Rejoice with me:
for 1 have tound my lost sheep.

7 I say to you, that so shall joy be in
heaven over one sinful repenting, nore
than over ninety-nine just, which have
no need of repentance.

8 Or what woman having ten
drachmas, if she lose one drachma,
lights not a lamp, and sweeps the
house, and seeks diligently till she
should find ?

9 And having found, she calls to-
gether female friends and neighbors,
saying, Rejoice with me; for I found
the drachma which I lost.

10 So, 1 say to you, joy isin heaven
before the messengers of God for one
sinful changing the mind.

11 And he said, A certain man had
two sons:

12 And the younger of them said to
the father, Father, give me the por-
tion of property falling. And he di-
vided to them the property.

13 And not many days after, having
gathered all things, the younger son
went abroad into a far-off country, and
there disposed his property, living in
a profligate manner.

14 And having spent all things, a
powerful famine was in that country ;
and he began to be in want.

15 And having gone, he was joined
to one of the citizens of that country ;
and he sent him into the fields to feed
swine.

16 And he eagerly desired to fill
his belly with the fruits of the horn-
tree which the swine ate: and none
gave to him.

17 And having come to himself, he
said, Many hired of my father abound
in loaves, and I am perishing with
hunger!

18 Having risen, I will go to my
father, and say to him, Father, I have
sinned against heaven, and before
thee,

19 And I am nomore worthy to be
called thy son: make me as one of thy
hired.

86 LUKE
20 And having risen, he came to
his father. And yet being far off, his
father saw him, and felt compassion,
and having run, fell upon his neck,
and kissed him.

21 And the son said to him, Father,
I sinned against heaven, and before
thee, and I am no more worthy to be
called thy son.

22 And the father said to his ser-
vants, Bring out the first robe, and
clothe him; and give a ring for his
hand, and shoes for the feet:

23 And having brought the fatted
ealf, sacrifice, and eating, let us be
g laddened.

24 For this my son was dead, and
has returned to life; and he was lost,
and found. And they began to be
gladdened.

25 And his elder son was in the
field: and coming, as he drew near the
house, he heard a concert of music, and
dances.

26 And having called one of his
servants, he inquired what these may
be.

27 And he said to him, That thy
brother has come, and thy father has
sacrificed the 180000 calf, because he
received him in good health.

28 And he was angry and would
not goin; then his father having come
out, ‘besought him,

29 And he having answered said to
the father, Behold, so many years I
serve thee, ‘and neverat any time passed
by thy command: and never hast thou
given me a kid, that I might be glad-
dened with my "friends.

30 And when this thy son, devour-
ing thy property with harlots, came,
thou hast sacrificed for him the fatten-
ed calf.

31 And he said to him, Child, thou
art always with me, and all mine are
thine.

32 And to be gladdened, and to re-
joice, was fitting: for this thy brother
was dead, and has returned to life ; and
he was lost, and found.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND he said to his disciples, A
certain man was rich, who had a

VOM L

steward ; and he was slandered to him
as dispersing his goods.

2 And having called him, he said to
him, What is ‘this I hear of thee?
give back the word of thy steward-
D3 for thou canst no more be stew-
ar

3 And the steward said in himself,
What shall I do? for my lord takes
away the stewardship from me: I can-
not dig; I am ashamed to beg.

41 have resolved what 1 ἘΠῚ do,
that, when I should be removed from
the ’stewardship, they might receive
me in their houses.

5 And having 681160 upon each one
of his lord’s debtors, he said to the
first, How much owest thou to my
lor d?

6 And he said, An hundred baths
of oil. And he said to him, Take thou
thy book, and having quickly sat
down, write fifty.

7 Then said he to another, How
much owest thou? And he said, An
hundred measures of wheat. And he
said to him, Take thy book, and write

eighty.

₪ And the Lord praised the steward
of injustice, because he did wisely:
for the sons of this life are wiser than
the children of light in their genera-
tion.

9 And I say to you, Make to your-
selves friends of the mammon of in-
justice ; that, when ye fail, they might
recelve you into lasting tents.

10 He faithful in the least, is also
faithful in much: and he unjust in the
least, is also unjust in much.

11 If therefore ye were not faithful
in the unjust mammon, who shall
trust to you the true?

12 And if ye were not faithful with
another, who shall give you your own ?

13 No servant can serve two lords:
for he will either hate one, and love
the other; or he will hold firmly to
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot
serve God and mammon.

14 And the Pharisees heard all these
things, being avaricious: and they de-
rided hin.

15 And he said to them, Ye are they
justifying yourselves before men ; and

LUKE, XVI., XVII.

God knows your hearts: for the high
with men is abomination before God.

16 The law and the prophets until
John: from then the kingdom of God
announces good news, and every one
is forced into it.

17 And it is easier for heaven and
earth to pass away, than for one horn
of the law to fall.

18 Every one loosing his wife, and
marrying another, commits adultery:
and every one marrying her having
been loosed from the husband commits
adultery.

19 A certain man was rich, and
was clothed in purple and fine linen,
being daily splendidly gladdened :

20 And there was a certain beggar,
Lazarus by name, who was cast at his
gate, having been wounded,

21 And eagerly desirous to be fed
from crumbs falling from the rich one’s
table: but also the dogs, coming, lick-
ed off his wounds.

22 And it was, the beggar died, and
was carried by messengers into Abra-
ham’s bosom: and the rich one died
also, and was buried ;

23 And in hades, having lifted up
his eyes, being in torments, he sees
Abraham from far off, and Lazarus in
his bosom.

24 And he having called out, said,
Father Abraham, pity me, and send
Lazarus, that he might dip his finger
in water, and cool my tongue; for I
am tormented in this flame.

25 But Abraham said, Child, re-
member that thou didst receive thy
good things in thy life, and Lazarus
likewise evil things: and now here is
he comforted, and thou art tormented.

26 And besides all these, between
us and you a great chasm has been fix-
ed: so that they wishing to pass
through thence to you could not;
neither could they cross over from
thence to us.

27 And he said, Then I ask thee,
father, that thou wouldest send him
to my father’s house :

28 For I have five brethren; that
he might testify to them, lest they
also come into this place of torment.

29 Abraham says to him, They have

Moses and the prophets; let them
hear them.

30 And he said, Nay, father Abra-
ham: but if some one from the dead
go to them, they will change the
mind.

31 And he said to him, If they hear
not Moses and the prophets, neither if
any. rise from the dead, will they be
persueded.

CHAPTER XVII.
Ate he said to the disciples, It is
impossible there come not causes
of offence: and woe, through whom
they come!

2 It is profitable to him if the mill-
stone of an ass were placed about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, rather
than he should offend one of these lit-
tle ones.

3 Attend to yourselves: and if thy
brother sin against thee, censure him ;
and if he should repent, let him go.

4 And if seven times in a day he
sin against thee, and seven times in a
day turn back to thee, saying, I re-
pent; thou shalt let him go.

5 And the sent said to the Lord,
Add faith to us.

6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith
as a kernel of mustard, said ye to this
mulberry-tree, Be thou rooted up, and
planted in the sea; and it had listened
to you.

7 And which of you having a ser-
vant ploughing or feeding, who will
say to him having come out of the
field, Quickly having come, recline ?

8 But will he not say to him, Pre-
pare what I shall sup, and, being gir-
ded, serve me, till I eat and drink; and
after these, thou mayest eat and drink ?

9 He has no favor to that servant,
for he did the things appointed. I
think not.

10 So also ye, when ye do all ap-
pointed you, say, That we are useless
servants: for what we ought to do,
we have done.

11 And it was in his going to Jeru-
salem, and he came through the land
of Samaria and Galilee.

12 And he coming toa certain town,
ten leprous men met him, who stood
far off:

13 And they lifted up the voice,
saying, Jesus, Master, pity us.

14 And having seen, he said to them,
Having gone, show yourselves to the
priests. And it was in their retiring
they were cleansed.

15 And one of them, having seen
that he was healed, turned back, with
a great voice honouring God.

16 And he fell upon the face at his
feet, thanking him: and he wasa Sa-
marifan.

17 And Jesus having answered said,
Were not ten cleansed ? and where the
nine ¢

18 They were not found returning

to give glory to God, except this of

another race.

19 And he said to him, Having
risen, go: thy faith has saved thee.

20 And having been asked by the
Pharisees when the kingdom of God
comes, he answered them and said,
The kingdom of God comes not with
observation :

21 Neither shall they say, Behold
here! or, behold there! for, behold,
the kingdom of God is within you.

22 And he said to the disciples, The
days come when ye shall eagerly de-
sire to see one of the days of the Son
of man, and ye shall not see.

23 And they shall say to you, Behold
here, or; behold there: go not away,
nor pursue.

24 For as lightning, flashing out
from that under heaven, shines to that
under heaven; so also shall be the Son
of man in his day.

25 And first must he suffer many
things, and be disapproved of by this
generation.

26 And as it was in the days of
Noe, so shall it be in the days of the
Son of man.

27 They ate, they drank, they mar-
ried, they were given in marriage,
till the day which Noe came into the
ark, and the overflow came, and de-
stroyed all.

28 And likewise as it was in the
days of Lot; they ate, they drank,
they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded ;

29 And the day which Lot went out

LUKE XVII. XVIII.

of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur
from heaven, and destroyed all.

30 According to these shall be the
day in which the Son of man is re-
vealed.

31 In that day, whoever shall be
upon the house, and his goods in the
house, let him not go down to take
them away: and he in the fields, like-
wise let him not turn back behind.

32 Remember Lot’s wife.

33 Whoever should seek to save his
life shall lose it; and whoever shall
lose it, shall preserve it alive.

34 I say to you, that night shall be
two upon one bed; one shall be taken,
and the other let go.

35 Two females shall be grinding
together; one shall be taken, and the
other let go.

[Verse 36 is wanting in most of the Greek
copies. }

37 And having answered, they say to
him, Where, Lord? And he said to

|them, Where the body, there shall the

eagles be gathered together.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND. he spake to them a parable,
that they must always pray, and
not lose courage ;

2 Saying, There was a certain judge
in a certain city, fearing not God, and
not occupied about man:

3 And a widow was in that city;
and she came to him, saying, Avenge
me of mine adversary.

4 And he would not for a time: and
after these he said in himself, And if
I fear not God, and am not occupied
about man ;

5 Yet because this widow produces
fatigue to me, I will avenge her, lest
in the end, coming, she give me a blow
under the eyes.

6 And the Lord said, Hear ye what
the judge of injustice says.

7 And shall not God do the aveng-
ing of his chosen, crying to him day
and night, being slow to anger toward
them ?

8 I say to you, that he will do their
avenging swiftly. But the Son of
man having come, shall he find faith
upon earth ?

LUKE XVIII.

9 And he spake to certain trusting
upon themselves that they were just,
and setting at nought the rest, this
parable :

10 Two men went up to the temple
to pray ; one a Pharisee, and the other
a publican.

11 The Pharisee having stood, prayed
these to himself, O God; I return thee
thanks that L am not as the rest of
men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or
also as this publican.

12 I fast twice of the sabbath ; I pay
tithes of all 1 possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar
off, would not either lift up the eyes to
heaven, but struck upon his breast,
saying, God propitiate for me the sin-

ul.

141 say to you, this one went down
to his house justified rather than that
one: for every one lifting up himself
shall be humbled ; and he humbling
himself shall be lifted up.

15 And they also brought babes to
him, that he might touch them: and
the disciples having seen, censured
them.

16 And Jesus having ealled them,
said, Leave the young children to come
to me, and hinder them not: for of such
is the kingdom of God.

17 Truly 1 say to you, Whoever
should not receive the kingdom of
God as a young child should not enter
into it.

18 And a certain ruler asked him,
saying, Good Teacher, having done
what, shall I inherit eternal life ?

19 And Jesus said to him, Why
sayest thou me good? none good ex-
cept the one God.

20 Thou knowest the commands,
Thou shouldest not commit adultery,
Thon shouldest not kill, Thou shouldest
not steal, Thou shouldest not bear
false testimony, Honour thy father and
thy mother.

21 And he said, All these have 1
watched from my youth.

22 And Jesus having heard these,
said to him, Yet one thing fails thee:
all whatever thou hast, sell and distrib-
ute to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven: and come, follow
me.

23 And he having heard these
things, was sorely grieved: for he was
very rich.

24 And Jesus having seen him be-
ing sorely grieved, said, With how
much difficulty shall they having pos-
sessions come into the kingdom of
God!

25 For it is easier for a camel to
come through the hole of a needle,
than for a rich one to come into the
kingdom of God.

26 And they having heard, said,
And who can be saved #

27 And he said, The things impossi-
ble with men, are possible with God.

28 And Peter said, Behold,we have
left all, and followed thee.

29 And he said to them, Truly I say
to you, That there is none who has
lett home, or parents, or brethren, or
wife, or children, for sake of the king-
dom of God,

30 Whoshould not receive many fold
in this time, and in life coming, eter-
nal life.

81 And taking the twelve, he said
to them, Behold, we go up to Jerusa-
lem, and all things written by the pro-
phets shall be completed to the Son
of man.

82 For he shall be delivered to the
nations, and be mocked, and insulted,
and spit upon:

33 And having scourged, they shall
kill him: and the third day he shall
rise.

34 And they understood nothing of
these things: and this word was hid-
den from them, and they discerned
not the things spoken.

35 And it was in his drawing near
to Jericho, a certain blind sat by the
way, begging:

36 And having heard the multitude
passing by, he inquired what this
night be.

37 And they announced to him, That
Jesus the Nazarite passes by.

38 And he cried ont, saying, Jesus,
son of David, pity me.

89 And they going before censured
him, that he be silent: and he so much
the more cried out, O son of David,
pity me.

40 And Jesus having stood, com-

manded him to be brought to him:
and he having drawn near, he asked
him,

41 Saying, What wilt thou] shalldo
to thee? And he said, Lord, that I
might see again.

49 And Jesus said to him, See
again: thy faith has saved thee.

43 And he immediately saw again,
and foilowed him, honouring God:
and all the people having seen, gave
praise to God.

CHAPTER XIX.
yD having come in, he passed
through Jericho.

2 And, behold, a man, called Zac-
cheus by name, and he was chief of
the publicans, and he was rich.

3 And he sought to see Jesus, who
he is; and he could not, from the
crowd, for he was small in size.

4 And having run before, he went
up upon an Egyptian fig tree, that he
might see him: for he was about to
pass through that.

5 And when he came to the place,
having looked up, Jesus saw him, and
said to him, Zaccheus, having hasten:
ed, come down ; for to day must I re-
main in thine house.

6And having hasted, he came
- n, and receiv ved him rejoicing.

1 And all they having seen, mur-
mured, saying, That he entered in to
rest w ith a sinful man.

8 And Zaccheus having stood, said
to the Lord, Behold, the ‘half of my
possessions, ‘Lord, I give to the poor;
and if I have made any false accusa-
tion against any one, I give back four-
fold.

9 And Jesus said to him, That to
day salvation has been to this house,
as he is also a son of Abraham.

10 For the Son of man came to seek
and to save the lost.

1! And they hearing these things,
having added, he spake a parable, for
he was near to Jerusalem, and they
thought that immediately the kingdom
of God is about to be rendered. visi-
ble.

12 Then he said, A certain honour

able man went into a country far off

to take unto himself.a kingdom, and
to return.

LUKE XVIII, XIX.

13 And having called his ten ser-
vants, he gave them ten coins, and
said to them, Attend to business, till I
come.

14 And his citizens hated him, and
sent an embassy after him, saying, We
wish not this to reign over us.

15 And it was in his coming back,
having received the kingdom, and he
spake to have these servants called to
him, to whom he gave the silver, that
he might know who had attended to
any business.

16 And the first approached, saying,
Lord, thy coin has gained ten coins.

17 "And he said to him, Well, good
servant: because thou wast faithful in
the least, be thou having power over
ten cities.

18 And the second came saying,
Lord, thy coin made five coins.

19 And he said to him, And be thou
over five cities.

20 And another came saying, Lord,
behold, thy coin which I have placed
ina napkin :

21 For I feared thee, for thou art an
austere man: thou takest up what thou
layedst not down,and thou reapest what
8 didst not sow.

2 And he said to him, Out of thy
a willl judge thee, O evil ser-
vant. Thou knewest that 1 am an
austere man, taking up what I laid
not down, and reaping what I sowed
not :

23 And wherefore gavest thou not
my silver to the bankers, and I hav-
ing come had received it with interest ?

ὯΔ And to those standing by he
said, Take away from him the coin,
and give to him having the ten coins.

25 (And they said to him, Lord, he
has ten coins.)

26 For I say to yon, That to every one
having shall be given; and from him
not having, and what he has shall be
taken away from him.

27 But those mine enemies, not hav-
ing wished me to reign over them,
bring hither, and slaughter before me.

98 And having said these, he went
before, going up to Jerusalem.

29 And it was as he drew near to
Bethphage and Bethany, to the mount
called of Olives, he sent two of his
disciples,

LUKE XIX., XX.

30 Having said, Retire ye to the
opposite town; in whicl: entering, ye
shall find a colt bound, upon which
none of men at any time have sat:
having loosed, bring him.

31 And it any ask you, Wherefore
loose ye? thus shall ye say to him,
Because the Lord has need of him.

32 And the sent, having departed,
found as he said to them.

33 And they loosing the colt, his
lords said to them, Why loose ye the
colt ?

34 And they said, The Lord hasneed
of him.

35 And they brought him to Jesus:
and having cast their garments upon
the colt, they placed Jesus upon.

36 And he going, they laid down
their garments in the way.

37 And he already drawing near to
the descent of the mount of Oliv es, all
the multitude of the disciples, rejoic-
ing, began to praise God with a great
voice for all the powers which they
SAW ;

38 Saying, Praised the king coming
in the name of the Lord: peace in
heaven, and glory in the highest ones.

39 And certain of the Pharisees
from the crowd said to him, Teacher,
censure thy disciples.

40 And having answered, he said
to them, I say to you that if these
should be silent, the stones shall cry
out.

41 And as he drew near, having
seen the city, he wept over it,

42 Saying, That if thou knewest,
also thou, and also in this thy day, the
things for thy peace! and now have
they been hid from thine eyes.

43 For the days shall come upon
thee, and thine enemies shall cast a
trench about thee, and keep thee
together from all sides,

44 And they shall level thee with
the ground, and thy children in thee ;
they: shall not leave in thee stone upon
stone; because thou knewest not the
time of thine inspection.

45 And having come into the tem-
ple, he began to cast out them selling
and buying in it;

46 Saying to them, It has been writ-

ten, My house is the house of prayer :
and ye have made it a den of robbers.

47 And he was teaching in the day
in the temple. And the chief priests
and scribes and the first of the people
sought to destroy him,

48 And they found not what they
might do: for all the people hearing
hanged on him.

CHAPTER XX.
ND it was in one of those days,
he teaching the people in the
temple, and announcing good news,
there came for‘h the chief priests, and
the 5071008, and the more ancient,

2 And they spake to him, saying,
Say to us, by what authority doest
thou these? or who is he having given
thee this authority ?

3 And having answered he said to
them, I will ask you one word; and
tell me:

4 Was the immersion of John of
heaven, or of men ?

5 And they reckoned up together to
themselves, saying, That if we say, Of
heaven; he will say, Why then did ye
not believe him ?

6 And if we say, Of men; all the
people will stone us: for they are per-
suaded John to be a prophet.

7 And they answered not to know
from whence.

8 And Jesus said to them, Neither
tell 1 you by what authority 1 do
these.

9 And he began to say to the peo-
ple this parable; A certain man planted
a vineyard, and let it to farmers, and
went abroad suflicient time.

10 And in time he sent a servant to
the farmers, that they give him from
the fruit of the vineyard: and the far-
mers, skinning, sent ‘him out empty.

11 And he added to send another
servant: and they also having skinned
and dishonoured him, sent forth empty.

12 And he added to send a third ;
and also, having wounded, they cast
him out.

13 And the lord of the vineyard
said, What shall I do? I willsend my
dearly beloved son: perhaps, having
seen him, they will change.

14 And the farmers having seen him,
reasoned to themselves, saying, This
is the heir: come, let us kill him, that
the inheritance be ours.

LUKE XX.

wife, and he die without children, that
his brother should take the wife, and
raise up seed to his brother.

29 Therefore were there seven

15 And having cast him without the; brethren : and the first having taken a

vineyard, they killed. What there-
fore will the lord of the vineyard do
to them ?

16 He shall come and destroy these
farmers, and give the vineyard to
others. And having heard, they said,
It may not be.

17 And having looked upon them,
he said, What then is this written, The
stone which the builders disapproved
of, this has been for the head of the
corner ¢

18 Every one having fallen upon
that stone shall be erushed, and upon
whomsoever it should fall, it shall win-
now him.

19 And the chief priests and scribes
sought to lay hands upon him in the
same hour; and they feared the peo-
ple: for they knew he spake this par-
able against them.

20 And having observed narrowly,
they sent liers-in-wait, feigning them-
selves to be just, that they might seize
upon his word, to deliver him to the
beginning and authority of the leader.

21 And they asked him, saying.
Teacher, we know that thou sayest and
teachest rightly, and thou receivest
not the face, but teachest in truth the
way of God:

22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute
to Ceesar, or not?

23 And having perceived their craft,
he said to them, Why tempt ye me?

24 Show me a drachma. Whose im-
age and inscription hasit? And having
answered they said, Ceesar’s.

25 And he said to them, Return
therefore to Czesar, Czesar’s things,
and to God the things of God.

26 And they were not able to seize
upon his word before the people : and
having wondered at his answer, they
were silent.

27 And certain of the Sadducees
having approached, speaking against
there being a rising up, asked him,

28 Saying, Teacher, Moses wrote to
us, If any one’s brother 016. having a

wife, died without childrer.

30 And the second took the wife,
and he died without children.

31 And the third took her; and
likewise also the seven: and they left
no children, and died.

32 And after all died the woman
also.

33 Then in the rising up, whose
wife of them is she? for seven had
her a wife.

34 And Jesus having answered, said
to them, The sons of this life marry,
and are given in marriage:

35 And they having been deemed
worthy to obtain that life, and the ris-
ing up of the dead, neither marry, nor
are given in matriage :

36 For neither can they die any
more : for they are like to messengers ;
and are sons of God, being the sons of
the rising up.

37 And that the dead are raised,
Moses made known at the bramble,
when he ealls the Lord, God of Abra-
ham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob.

38 And he is not God of the dead,
but of the living: for all live to him.

39 And certain of the scribes hav-
ing answered, said, Teacher, thou
speakest well.

40 And they dared no more to ask
him anything.

41 And hesaid to them, How say
they Christ to be son of David ?

42 And David himself says in the
book of Psalms, the Lord said to my
Lord, Sit thou from my right hand,

43 Even till I set thine enemies the.
footstool of thy feet.

44 David therefore calls him Lord,
and how is he his son ?

45 And all the people hearing, he
said to his disciples,

46 Hold from the scribes, wishing
to walk about in robes, and loving
greetings in the markets, and _prece-
dencies in assemblies, and the first
places at tables at suppers ;

47 Who devour widows’ houses, and

DURE et, XX

for apretence pray at great length ;
these shall receive more abundant
judgment.

CHAPTER XXI.
ASE having looked up, he saw the
rich casting their gifts into the
royal treasury.

2 And he also saw a certain poor
widow casting there two small coins.

3 And he said, Truly I say to you,
that this poor widow has cast in more
than all:

4 For all they, of that abounding to
them, have cast in to the gifts of God:
and she from her want cast in all the
living which she had.

5 And certain speaking of the tem-
ple, that it has been arranged with
beautiful stones and decorations, he
said,

6 These which ye see, the days shall
come, in which stone shall not be left
upon stone, which shall not be loosen-
ed.

7 And they asked him, saying,
Teacher, when therefore shall these be ¢
and what the sign when these should
be about to be?

8 And he said, See ye, be not de-
001760: for many shall come in my
name, saying, That I am; and the
time has drawn near: therefore go not
after them.

9 And when ye hear of wars and
tumults, be not terrified: for these
must first be; but the end not imme-
diately.

10 Then said he to them, Nation
shall be raised up against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom :

11 And great earthquakes in places,
and famines, and scourges shall be;
and terrific objects and great signs
shall be from heaven.

12 And before all these shall they
cast their hands upon you, and drive
out, delivering to assemblies, and
prisons, being brought before kings
and leaders for my name’s sake.

13 And it shall turn ont to you for
a testimony.

14 Set therefore in your hearts, not
to practise beforehand to justify your-
selves:

15 For I will give you a month and
wisdom, which all they opposed to
you shall not be able to contradict nor
withstand.

16 And ye shall also be delivered
up by parents, and brethren, and kins-
men, and friends; and they shall put
of you to death.

17 And ye shall be hated by all for
my name’s sake.

18 And there shall not a hair of
your head perish.

19 In your patience possess ye your
souls.

20 And when ye see Jerusalem sur-
rounded by armies, then know that its
devastation has drawn near.

21 Then let those in Judea flee to
the mountain; and those in the midst
of her withdraw ; and let those in the
countries not go into her.

22 עס‎ these are the days of ven-
geance, that all things having been
written, shonld be completed.

23 And woe to them having in the
womb, and to them giving suck, in
those days! for there shall be great
necessity upon the land, and anger up-
on this people.

24 And they shall fall by the mouth
of the sword, and they shall be made
captivesinall nations: and Jerusalem
shall be trodden down by all the na-
tions, till the times of the nations
should be completed.

25 And signs shall be in the sun, and
moon, and stars; and upon earth dis-
tress of nations, with perplexity ; the
sea and commotion resounding.

26 Men losing breath for fear and
expectation of things coming on the
habitable globe: for the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken.

27 And then shall they see the Son
of man coming in a cloud with much
power and glory.

28 And these things beginning to
be, get out of danger, and lift up your
heads; for your redemption draws
near,

29 And he spake to them a parable ;
See the fig tree, and all trees;

30 When they should already throw
forth, seeing of yourselves ye know
that summer is already near.

31 So also ye, when ye see these be-
ing, know that the kingdom of God is
near.

32 Truly I say to you, That this
generation should not pass away, even
till all things should be.

33 Heaven and earth shall pass
away: and my words shall not pass
away.

34 And attend to yourselves, lest at
any time your hearts be loaded with
dizziness, caused by excess, and drunk-
enness, and cares of life, and that day
come upon you unexpectedly.

35 For as a snare shall it come upon
all remaining upon the face of all
the earth.

36 Watch therefore, in all time
praying, that ye be deemed worthy to
escape all these about to be, and to
stand before the Son of man.

37 And the days he was teaching in
the temple; and the nights, coming
out, he lodged in the mount called of
Olives.

38 And all the people arose early in
the morning to him in the temple, to
hear him.

CHAPTER XXII.
ND the festival of unleavened
drew near, called the Pascha.

2 And the chief priests and scribes
sought how they might kill him; for
they feared the people.

3 And Satan came into Judas called

Iscariot, being of the number of the|

twelve.

4 And having departed, he convers-
ed with the chief priests and the gen-
erals, how he might deliver him to
them.

5 And they rejoiced, and agreed to
give him silver.

6 And he promised, and sought an
opportunity to deliver him to them
apart from the crowd.

7 And the day of unleavened came,
in which must be sacrificed the pascha.

8 And he sent Peter and John, say-
ing, Having gone, prepare ye for us
the pascha, that we might eat.

9 And they said to him, Where wilt
thou that we should prepare ?

LUKE XXI., XXII.

you having come to the city, there
shall a man meet you, bearing an
earthen vessel of water; follow ye
him to the house where he goes in.

11 And ye shall say to the master of
the house, The Teacher says to thee,
Where is the room where I should eat
the pascha with my disciples ?

12 And he shall shew you a great
upper room spread: there prepare ye.

13 And having departed, they found
as he said tothem; and they prepared
the pascha.

14 And when it was the hour, he re-
clined, and the twelve sent with him.

15 And he said to them, With eager
desire have I desired to eat this pas-
cha with you before I suffer :

16 For I say to you, no more should
I eat of it, till when it should be com-
pleted in the kingdom of God.

17 Having taken the eup, and 16-
turned thanks, he said, Take this, and
divide among yourselves :

18 For I say to you that I drink not
of the fruit of the vine, till when the
kingdom of God comes.

19 Having taken the bread, and re-
turned thanks, he brake, and gaye
them, saying, This is my body given
for you: this do ye for my remem-
brance. /

20 Likewise also the cup after sup-
ping, saying, This the cup, the new
covenant in my blood, poured out for
ou:

21 But, behold, the hand of him de-
livering me up with me at the table.

22 And truly the Son of man goes’
according to that determined: but
woe to that man by whom he is de-
livered up!

23 And they began to seek together
among themselves, which of them it
should be that was about to do this
thing.

94. And a love of strife was in them,
which of them thinks to be the great-
er.
25 And he said to them, The kings
of the nations rule over them; and
they exercising power over them are
called benefactors.

26 And ye not so: but let the

10 And he said to them, Behold,|¢reater with you be as the young-

LUKE

er; and he leading, as he serving.

27 For which the greater, he reclin-
ing, or he serving? is not he reclin-
ing? and 1 am in the midst of you as
he serving.

28 And ye are they having remain-
ed with me in my temptations.

29 And I set to you, as my Father
set to me, a kingdom ;

30 That ye might eat and drink at
my table in my kingdom, and might
sit upon thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of Israel.

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Si-
mon, behold, Satan has demanded yon,
to sift as wheat:

32 And I have supplicated for thee
that thy faith fail not: and thou,
when having turned back, confirm thy
brethren.

33 And he said to him, Lord, with
thee am I ready to go, and to prison,
and to death.

34 And he said, I say to thee, Peter,
the cock shall not utter a sound this
day, before thou shalt thrice deny
knowing me.

39 And he said to them, When I
sent you without purse, and wallet,
and shoes, did ye want any thing? And
they said, Nothing.

86 Then said he to them, But now,
he having a purse, let him take up,
and likewise a wallet: and he not hay-
ing, let him sell his garment, and buy
a sword.

37 For I say to you, that this writ-
ten must yet be finished in me, that,
Also was he reckoned with*the law-
less: for also the things concerning
me have an end.

38 And they said, Lord, behold,
two swords here. And he said to
them, It is enough. 9

89 And having come out, he
went, according to custom, to the
mount of Olives; and his disciples
followed him.

40 And being at the place, he said
to them, Pray ye not to enter into
temptation.

41 And he was removed from them
about a stone’s cast, and having placed
the knees, he prayed,

42 Saying, Father, If thou art will-

XXII. 95

ing, turn aside this cup from me: but
not my will, but thine, be done.

43 And a messenger was seen to
him from heaven, strengthening him.

44 And being in a violent struggle,
he prayed more intently: and his
sweat was as clots of blood coming
down upon the earth.

45 And having risen from prayer,
having come to his disciples, he found
them sleeping from grief,

46 Aid he said to them, Why sleep
ye? having risen, pray that ye might
not enter into temptation.

47 And he yet speaking, Behold a
crowd, and he called Judas, one of the
twelve, came before them, and drew
near to Jesus to kiss him.

48 And Jesus said to him, Judas,
deliverest thou up the Son of man
with a kiss?

49 And they about him, having seen
that going to be, said to him, Lord,
shall we strike with the sword ?

50 And a certain one of them struck
a servant of the chief priest, and took
away his right ear.

51 And Jesus having answered
said, Allow yeevento this. And hay-
ing touched his ear, he healed him.

52 And Jesus said to the chief
priests, and generals of the temple,
and the elders, having come to him,
Have ye come out, as upon a robber,
with swords and sticks?

53 1 being with you daily in the
temple, ye stretched not forth the
hands upon me: but this is your hour,
and the power of darkness.

54 And having taken, they brought
him into the house of the chief priest.
And Peter followed him far off.

55 And having kindled a fire in the
midst of the hall, and they having sat
down together, Peter sat down in the
midst of them.

56 Anda certain young girl having
seen him sitting by the light, and
looked intently upon him, said, And
this was with him.

57 And he denied him, saying,
Woman, I know him not.

58 And after a little another having
seen him, said, Thou art also of them.
And Peter said, Man, I am not.

59 And about the space of one hour
a certain other assured himself, say-
ing, Of a truth this also was with him:
for he is a Galilean.

60 And Peter said, Man, I know not
what thou sayest. And immediately,
he yet speaking, the cock uttered a
sound.

61 And the Lord having turned,
looked upon Peter. And Peter 6
membered the word of the Lord, how
he said to him, That before the cock
utters a sound, thou shalt deny me
thrice.

62 And Peter having come forth
without, wept bitterly.

63 And the men holding Jesus
mocked him, stripping.

64 And having covered him, they
struck his face, and asked him, saying,
Prophesy who it is having struck thee.

65 And many otler things, blas-
pheming, they spake against him.

66 And when it was day, the coun-
cil of elders of the people was gathered
together, and the chief priests and
scribes, and they brought him to their
council,

67 Saying, Art thou Christ? tell us.
And he said to them, If I tell you, ye
would not believe:

68 And 11 I ask you, ye would not
answer me, or loose me.

69 From now shall the Son of man
be sitting from the right hand of the
power of God.

70 And they all said, Art thou there-
fore the Son of God? And he said to
them, Ye say that I am.

71 And they said, Why have we yet
need of testimony ? for we ourselves
have heard from his mouth.

CHAPTER XXIII.
ND all the multitude of them
having risen, brought him to 1'1-
late.

2 And they began to accuse him,
saying, We found this perverting the
nation, and forbidding to give tribute
to Cresar, saying himself to be Christ
a King.

3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art
thou King of the Jews? And he having
answered, said to him, Thou sayest.

LUKE, XXII, XXIII.

4 And Pilate said to the chief
priests and the crowd, I find nothing
blameworthy in this man.

5 And they were strong, saying,
That he stirs up the people, teaching
through the whole of Judea, begin-
ning from Galilee to here.

6 And Pilate having heard of Gali-
lee, asked if the man is a Galilean.

7 And having known that he is
from Herod’s authority, he sent him to
Herod, he being in Jerusalem in
those days.

8 And 00ע116‎ having seen Jesus, re-

joiced greatly : for he was wishing a

long while since to see him, for hearing
inany things of him; and he hoped to
see some sign done by him.

9 And he asked him in fitting
words; and he answered him nothing.

10 And the chief priests and scribes
stood zealously accusing him.

11 And Herod having set him at
nought with his troops, and having
inocked, putting about him shining
clothing, sent him out to Pilate.

12 And also Pilate and Herod were
friends in that day with one another:
for they were before being in enmity
with each other.

13 And Pilate having called togeth-
er the chief priests and rulers and
people,

14 Said to them, Ye have brought
to me this man, as perverting the peo-
ple: and, behold, ] having examined
him before you, have found nothing
blameworthy in this man, of what
things ye bring an accusation against
him :

15 But neither Herod: for I sent
you forth to him; and, behold, nothing
worthy of death is done to him.

16 Therefore, haying chastised him,
I will release.

17 (And he had necessity to loose
one at the festival. )

18 And they cried out with the en-
tire multitude, saying, Take this away,
and loose to us Barabbas:

19 (Who was for a certain sedition
having been in the city, and slaughter,
cast into prison.)

20 Again Pilate called, wishing to
loose Jesus.

LUKE XXIII.

21 And they exclaimed, saying,
Crucify, crucify him.

22 And hesaid to them the third
time, For what evil has he done? I
have found no cause of death in him:
therefore, having corrected him, I will
loose.

23 And they were urgent with great
voices, asking for him to be crucified.
And their voices and the chief priests’
overcame.

24 And Pilate sanctioned their ask-
ing to be done.

25 And he loosed to them him east
into prison for sedition, and slaughter,
which they demanded; and delivered
Jesus to their will.

26 And as they led him away, seiz-
ing upon Simon, a certain Cyrenian,
coming from the field, they laid the
cross upon him, to carry after Jesus.

27 And a great multitude of people
followed him, and of women, and who
were lamenting bitterly, and bewailing
him.

28 And having turned towards them
Jesus said, Daughters of Jerusalem,
weep not for me, but weep for your-
selves, and for your children.

29 For, behold, the days are coming
in which they shall say, Happy the
barren, and the wombs which never
brought forth, and the breasts which
gave not suck.

30 Then shall they begin to say to
the mountains, Fall upon us; and to
the hills, Cover us.

31 For if they do these in the moist
tree, what should be in the dry ?

32 And two others who were led,
evil doers, to be 111660 up with him.

33 And when they came to the place
called Kranium, there they crucified
him, and the evil doers, truly one
from the right, and one from the left.

94 And Jesus said, Father, let them
go; for they know not what they do.
And having divided his garments, they
cast lots.

35 And the people stood behold-
ing. And the rulers also who with them
were deriding, saying, He saved oth-
ers; 166 him save himself, if he is
Christ, the chosen of God.

him, approaching, and bringing him
vinegar.

37 And saying, If thou art king of
the Jews, save thyself.

38 And there was also an inscrip-
tion written upon him, in letters Greek,
Roman, and Hebrew, THIS IS KING
OF THE JEWS.

39 And one of the evil doers
hanged, blasphemed him, saying, If
thou art Christ, save thyself and us.
40 And the other having answered,
censured him, saying, Shouldest thou
not fear God, for thou art in the same
judgment ?

41 And truly we justly ; for we re-
ceive things worthy of what we have
done : and this has done nothing out
of place.

42 And he said to Jesus, Remem-
ber me, Lord, when thou shouldest
come into thy kingdom.

43 And Jesus said to him, Truly I
say to you, Thisday shalt thou be with
me in paradise.

44 And it was about the sixth hour,
and darkness was upon all the earth
till the ninth hour.

45 And the sun was darkened, and
the covering of the temple was split
in the middle.

46 And Jesus having eried with a
great voice, said, Father, into thy hands
will I commit my spirit: and having
said these, he expired.

47 And the centurion having seen
that having been done, honoured God,
saying, Surely this man was just.

48 And all the crowds having been
to this viewing, seeing the things
done, striking their breasts, returned.
49 And all his acquaintance stood
afar off, and the women having fol-
lowed him together from Galilee, see-
ing these.

50 And, behold, a man Joseph by
name, being a counsellor; good and
just :

51 ( Thesame was not set together in
the counsel and deed of them;) from
Arimathea, a city of the Jews: who
also himself waited for the kingdom
of God.

52 The same having come to Pilate,

36 And the soldiers also mocked | asked the body of Jesus.

53 And having taken it down, he
wrapped it in fine linen, and put it in
ה‎ tomb cut in stone, where none was
ever laid.

54 And the day was the preparation,
and the sabbath shone forth.

55 And the women having followed,
which had come to him out of Gal-
ilee, saw the tomb, and how his body
was laid.

56 And having returned, they pre-
pared spices and perfumed oils; and
truly the sabbath were they at rest ac-
cording to the command.

CHAPTER XXIV.
FAD in one of the sabbaths, in the
depth of the dawn of day, they
came to the tomb, bringing spices
which they had prepared, and certain
with them.

2 And they found the stone rolled
away from the tomb.

3 And coming in, they found not
the body of the Lord Jesus.

4 And it was in their being per-
plexed for this, and, behold, two men
stood by them in shining garments:

5 And they having been afraid, and
bending the face to the earth, they
said to them, Why seek ye the living
with the dead ?

6 He is not here, but has risen: re-
member how he spake to you being
yet in Galilee,

7 Saying, That the Son of man
must be delivered into the hands of
sinful men, and be crucified, and be
raised up the third day.

8 And they remembered his words,

9 And having returned from the
tomb, they announced these things
to the eleven, and to all the rest.

10 And they were Mary Magdalene,
and Joanna, and Mary of James, and
the rest with them, who said these
things to the sent.

11 And their words appeared be-
fore them as idle talk, and they be-
lieved them not.

12 And Peter having risen, ran to
the tomb; and having stooped, saw the
linen bandages lying alone, and he de-
parted, wondering in himself at what
was done.

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LUKE), XXIIL., XXIV.

13 And, behold, two of them were
going in the same day to a town being
about sixty stadia from Jerusalem, the
name of which Emmaus. ו‎

14 And they were conversing with
one another concerning all things hay-
ing happened.

15 And it was in their conversing
and seeking out together, and Jesus
himself, having drawn near, went with
them.

16 And their eyes were holden not
to know him.

17 And he said to them, What
words these which, walking about, ye
discuss with one another, and are of
gloomy aspect ?

18 And one haying answered, to
whom the name Cleopas, said to him,
Sojournest thou alone in Jerusalem,
and knowest not the things done in it
in these days?

19 And Jesus said to them, What
things? And they said to him, The
things concerning Jesus the Nazarite,
who was a man, 2 prophet, powerful
in work and words before God and all
the people:

20 And how the chief priests and
our rulers delivered him to the judg-
ment of death, and crucified him.

21 And we hoped that this is he
about to redeem Israel: but also with
all these things, to day it brings the
third day from which these things
were.

22 And also certain women of ours
moved us out of place, having been ear-
ly at the tomb ;

23 And not finding his body, they
came, saying also to have seen a vi-
sion of messengers, who say he is
living.

24 And certain of them with us de-
parted to the tomb, and found so as
the women said: and him they saw not.

25 And he said to them, O ye un-
wise, and slow in heart to believe in
all things which the prophets spake:

26 Must not Christ suffer these
things, and enter into his glory ?

27 And having begun from Moses
and from all the prophets, he ex-
plained clearly to them in all the writ-
ings concerning himself.

LUKE XXIV.

28 And they drew near to the town
where they were going: and he laid
claim to go still further.

29 And they constrained him, say-
ing, Remain with us: for it is near
eve, and the day has declined. And he
went in to remain with them.

30 And it was in his reclining at ta-
ble with them, having taken bread, he
praised, and having broken, bestowed
upon them.

31 And their eyes were opened, and
they knew him; and he was removed
from their view.

32 And they said to one another,
Was not our heart burning in us, as he
spake to us in the way, and as he
opened the writings to us?

33 And having risen the same hour,
they returned to Jerusalem, and
found the eleven gathered together,
and those with them.

34 Saying, That truly the Lord was
risen, and was seen to Simon.

35 And they recounted the things
in the way, and how he was known to
them in the breaking of bread.

36 And they speaking these things,
Jesus himself stood in the midst of
them, and he says to them, Peace to
you.

" 87 And they, struck with awe and
being afraid, thought to see a spirit.

38 And he said to them, Why have
ye been troubled? and wherefore do
reflections come up in your hearts?

39 See my hands and my feet, for
Iam he; feel, and see: for a spirit
has not flesh and bones, as ye see me
haying.

40 And having said this, he showed
them hands and feet.

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41 And yet they not believing from
joy, and wondering, he said to them,
Have ye any food here ?

42 And they bestowed upon him
part of a broiled fish, and of an honey
comb.

43 And having taken, he ate before
them.

44 And he said to them, These the
words which I spake to you, being yet
with you, for all things must be com-
pleted, written in the law of Moses, and
in the prophets, and in the psalms,
concerning me.

45 Then opened he their understand-
ing, to understand the writings,

46 And he said to them, That so
has it been written, and so was it ne-
cessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead the third day:

47 And repentance and remission
ofsins to be proclaimed in his name
to all nations, having begun from
Jerusalem.

48 And ye are witnesses of these
things.

49 And, behold, I send the solemn
promise of my Father upon you: and
do ye sit in the city of Jerusalem, till
ye be clothed with power from on high.

50 And he led them without, even
to Bethany, and having lifted up his
hands, he praised them.

51 And it was in his praising them,
he was separated from them, and car-
ried into heaven.

52 And they having worshipped him,
returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

53 And they were always in the
temple, praising and extolling God.
Amen.

JOHN.

CHAPTER I.

ΤΥ the beginning was the Word, and | God.

the Word was with God, and God
was the Word.

2 This was in the beginning with

3 All things were by him; and with-
out him was not one thing that was.

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4 In him was life; and the life was
the light of men.

5 And light shines in darkness ;
and darkness comprehended it not.

6 A man was sent from God, the
name to him John.

7 This came for testimony, that he
might testify concerning the Light,
that all might believe through him.

8 He was not that Light, but that
he might testify for the Light.

9 The Light was true, which en-
lightens every man coming into the
world.

10 He was in the world, and the
world was by him, and the world
knew him not.

11 116 came to his own things, and
his own received him not.

12 And as many as received him, he
gave them authority to be the children
of God, to them believing on his
name:

13 They were not born of bloods,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word was flesh, and
dwelt with us, (and we beheld his
glory, as the glory of the only born of
the Father,) full of grace and truth.

15 John testifies for him, and he
cried, saying, This was he of whom I
said, He coming after me was before
me: for he was before me.

16 And of his completion we all re-
ceived, and grace for grace.

17 For the law was given by Moses;
grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.

18 None has seen God at any time;
the only born Son, he being in the
bosom of the Father, he has declared.

19 And this is the testimony of

John, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerasalem that they
might ask him, Who art thou ?

20 And he acknowledged, and de-
nied not ; and he acknowledged, That
1 am not the Christ.

21 And they asked, What then ?
Art thon Elias? And he says, I am
not. Art thou a prophet? And hean-
swered, No.

22 Then said they to him, Who art
thou? that we might give answer to
them having sent us. What sayest
thon for thyself?

JOHN I.

23 He said, I the voice of him cry-
ing in the desert, Make ye straight the
way of the Lord, as said Esaias the
prophet.

24 And they having been sent were
of the Pharisees.

25 And they asked him, and said to
him, Why immersest thou then, if
thou art not Christ, neither Elias,
neither a prophet ?

26 John answered them saying, I
immerse in water: but he stands the
midst of you, whom ye know not;

27 This is he coming after me, who
was before me, of whom I am ποῦ
worthy that I might loose the strings
of his shoes.

28 These things were in Bethabara
beyond Jordan, where John was im-
mersing.

29 In the morrow John sees Jesus
coming to him, and says, Behold the
Lamb of God, he taking away thie sin
of the world.

30 This is he of whom I said, After
me comes a man who was before me:
for he was before me.

81 And I knew him not: but that
he might be manifested to Israel, for
this I came immersing in water.

32 And John testified, saying, That
I have seen the Spirit descending as a
dove from heaven, and it remained up-
on him,

33 And I knew him not: but he
having sent me to immerse in water,
this said to me, Upon whomsoever
thou shouldest see the Spirit descend-
ing, and remaining upon him, this is
he immersing in the Holy Spirit.

34 And I have seen, and testified
that this is the Son of God.

35 Again on the morrow John
stood, and two of his disciples ;

36 And having looked upon Jesus
walking, he says, Behold the Lamb of
God !

37 And two disciples heard him
speaking, and followed Jesus.

38 And Jesus having turned, and
seen them following, says to them,
What seek ye? They said to him,
Rabbi, (it says, being interpreted,
Teacher, ) where remainest thou ?

39 He says to them, Come and see.
They came and saw where he remains,

JOHN 1

and they remained with him that day :
and it was about the tenth hour.

40 It was Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother, one of the two’ having heard
of John, and followed him.

41 He first finds his own brother
Simon, and says to him, We have
found Messias, which is, being inter-
preted, Christ.

42 And he brought him to Jesus.
And Jesus having looked upon him,
said, Thouart Simon son of Jona: thou
shalt be called Cephas, which is, inter-
preted, Peter.

43 The morrow Jesus wished to go
forth to Galilee, and he finds Philip,
and he says to him, Follow me.

44 And Philip was from Bethsaida,
of the city of Andrew and Peter.

45 And Philip finds Nathanael, and
says to him, Of whom Moses wrote in
the law, and the prophets, we have
found, Jesus, son of Joseph, him from
Nazareth.

46 And Nathanael said to him, Can
any good be from Nazareth? Philip
says to him, Come and see.

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to
him, and he says of him, Behold truly
an Israelite, in whom is no deceit !

48 Nathanael says to him, Whence
knowest thou me? Jesus answered
and said to him, Before Philip called
thee, being under the fig tree, I saw
thee.

49 Nathanael answers and_ says
to him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of
God ; thou art the King of Israel.

50 Jesus answered and said to him,
Because I said to thee, I saw thee un-
der the fig tree, believest thou? thou
shalt see greater than these.

51 And he says to him, Amen,
amen, I say to you, From henceforth
shall ye see heaven opened, and the
messengers of God ascending and de-
scending upon the Son of man.

CHAPTER 11.
ND the third day was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee; and the
mother of Jesus was there :
2 And Jesus was also called, and his
disciples, to the wedding.
3 And wine having failed, the

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mother of Jesus says to him, They
have no wine.

4 And Jesus says to her, What to
me and thee, woman? mine hour
comes not yet.

5 His mother says to the servants,
Whatever he says to you, do.

6 And six stone water-buckets were
placed there, according to the purifica-
tion of the Jews, containing each two
or three measures.

7 Jesus says to them, Fill the water-
buckets with water. And they filled
them even up over.

8 And he says to them, Draw now,
and carry to the superintendent of the
feast. And they carried.

9 And when the superintendent of
the feast tasted the wine having been
water, and knew not whence it is:
(and the servants knew, having drawn
the water;) the superintendent calls
the bridegroom,

10 And says to him, Every man sets
good wine first; and when they be in-
toxicated, then inferior: thou hast
kept the good wine till now.

11 This beginning of signs did
Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and mani-
fested his glory; and his disciples be-
lieved on him.

12 After this he went down to Caper-
naum, he, and his mother, and his
brethren, and his disciples: and they
remained there not many days.

13 And the pascha of the Jews was
near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

14 And found in the temple those
selling oxen and sheep and doves, and
money-changers sitting ;

15 And having made a scourge of
ropes, he cast all out of the temple, al-
so sheep, and oxen; and poured out
the small coin of money-changers, and
overturned the tables ;

16 And he said to those selling
doves, Take away these things hence ;
make not the house of my Father a
honse of merchandise.

17 And his disciples remembered
that it is written, The zeal of thine
house has eaten me up.

18 Then answered the Jews and said
to him, What sign shewest thou, that
thou doest these things?

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IL, Il.

19 Jesus answered and said tothem,|to him, How can these things be?

Loose this temple, and in three days
will I raise it up.

20 Then said the Jews, In forty-six
years was this temple built, and wilt
thou raise it up in three days?

21 But he spake concerning the tem-
ple of his body.

22 When therefore he was risen
from the dead, his disciples remember-
ed that he said this tothem; and they
believed the writing, and the word
which Jesus spake.

23 And when he was in Jerusalem
at the pascha, in the festival, many be-
lieved in his name, beholding his
signs which he did.

24 And Jesus himself trusted not
himself to them, for he knew all,

25 For also he had no need that any
should testify concerning man; for he
knew what was in man.

CHAPTER IIT.
ND there was a man 01 the Phar-
isees, Nicodemus the name to him,
a ruler of the Jews:

9 He came to Jesus by night, and
said to him, Rabbi, we know that thon
hast come a teacher from God: tor
none can do these signs which thou
doest, except God be with him.

3 Jesus answered and said to him,
Amen, amen, I say to thee, Except
any one be born from above, he cannot
see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus says to him, How ean
a man be born, being an old man?
he cannot come in a second time to his
mother’s belly, and be born.

5 Jesus says to him, Truly, truly,
I say to thee, Except any one be born
of water and of the Spirit, he cannot
come into the kingdom of God.

6 That born of flesh is flesh; and
that born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Thou shouldest not wonder that 1
said to thee, Ye must be born from
above.

8 The wind, where it wills, blows,
and its voice thou hearest, but thou
knowest not whence it comes, and
where it goes: so is every one having
been born of the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus answered and said

10 Jesus answered and said to him,
Art thou a teacher of Israel, and know-
est not these?

11 Truly, truly, I say to thee, that
what we know, we speak, and what we
have seen we testify; and ye receive
not our testimony.

12 If I spake to you earthly things,
and ye believe not, how, if I speak to
you heavenly things, will ye believe ?

13 And none has ascended 0
heaven, except he having descended
from heaven, the Son of man, he be-
ing in heaven.

14 And as Moseslifted up the serpent
in the desert, so must the Son of man
be lifted up:

15 That every one believing in him
perish not, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only born Son, that every:
one believing in him perish not, but
have eternal life.

17 For God sent not his Son into
the world that he judge the world;
but that the world might be saved
through him.

18 He believing in him is not
judged: and he not believing has been
already judged, because he has not be-
lieved in the name of the only born
Son of God.

19 And this isthe judgment, that
light has come into the world, and
men rather loved darkness than light,
for their works were evil.

20 For every one doing bad things
hates the light, and he comes not to
the light, lest his works should be re-
buked.

21 But he doing the truth comes to
the light, that his works might be
manifested, that they are wrought in
God.

22 After these Jesus came and his
disciples into the Judean land; and
there he tarried with them, and im-
mersed.

23 And John was also immersing in
Afnon near Salim,for many waters were
there: and they came near and were
immersed.

24 For John was not yet cast into
prison.

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25 Then was there an investigation
of John’s disciples with Jesus about
purification.

26 And they came to John, and said
to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee
beyond Jordan, to whom thou hast
testified, behold, he immerses, and all
come to him.

27 John answered and said, No man
can receive anything except it be given
him from heaven.

28 Ye yourselves testify to me, that
I said, 1 am not the Christ, but that I
am sent before him.

29 He having the bride is the bride-
groom: and the friend of the bride-
groom, standing and hearing him, re-
jJoices with joy for the bridegroom’s
voice: therefore this my joy has been
completed.

30 He must 18620880, and I must be
diminished.

31 He coming from above is above
all, he being of the earth is of earth,
and speaks of earth: hecoming from
heaven is above all.

32 And what he saw and heard, this
he testifies: and none receives his tes-
timony.

33 He having received his testimony
has fixed aseal that God is true.

34 For he whom God sent speaks
the words of God: for God gives not
the Spirit by measure.

385 The Father loves the Son, and
he has given all things into his hand.

36 He believing in the Son has
eternal life: and he not believing the
Son shall not see life, but the anger of
God remains upon him.

CHAPTER IV.
HEREFORE whenthe Lord knew
that the Pharisees heard that
Jesus makes and baptizes more disci-
ples than John,
2(Though Jesus himself immersed
not, but his disciples,)
3 Ile left Judea, and departed again
into Galilee.
4 And it was necessary for him to
pass through Samaria.
5 Then comes he to a city of Sa-
maria, called Sychar, near to the place
which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.

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6 And Jacob’s spring was there.
Theu Jesus, wearied with the journey,
sat thus by the spring: it was about
the sixth hour.

7 A woman of Samaria comes to
draw water: Jesus says to her, Give
me to drink.

8 (For his disciples were gone into
the city that they might buy food.)

9 Then says the Samaritan woman
to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest
of me to drink, being a Samaritan
woman? for the Jews have no inter-
course with the Samaritans.

10 And Jesus answered and said to
her, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who he is saying to thee, Give me
to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he
had given thee living water.

11 The woman says to him, Lord,
thou hast no vessel for drawing, and
the well is deep; whence then hast
thou the living water ?

12 Thou art not greater than our
father Jacob, who gave us the well,
and he himself drank of it, and his
sons, and his young animals.

13 Jesus answered and said to her,
Alldrinking of this water shall thirst
again :

14 But whoever should drink of the
water which I shall give him, shall
never thirst; but the water which I
shall give him shall be in him aspring
of water springing up to eternal life.

15 The woman says to him, Lord,
give me this water, that I thirst not,
nor come here to draw.

16 Jesus says to her, Retire, eall thy
husband, and come here.

17 The woman answered and said,
Ihave no husband. Jesus says to her,
Thou sayest well, That I have no hus-
band :

18 For thou hadst five husbands ;
and now he whom thou hast is not thy
husband: this thou saidst true.

19 The woman says to him, Lord, I
see that thou art a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this
mount ; and ye say, that in Jerusalem
is the place where they must worship.

21 Jesus says to her, Woman, be-
lieve me, that the hour comes, when

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rusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

22 Ye worship what ye know not:
we worship what we know: for salva-
tion is of the Jews.

23 But the hour comes, and now. is,
when the true worshippers shall wor-
ship the Father in spirit and truth;
for also the Father seeks such wor-
shipping him.

24 God a Spirit: and they worship-
ping him must worship in spirit and
truth.

25 The woman says to him, I know
that Messias comes, called Christ:
when he should come, he will announce
all things to us.

26 Jesus says to her, I am he speak-
ing to thee.

27 And upon this his disciples came,
and they wondered that he spake with
the woman: yet none said, What seek-
est thou? or, Why speakest thou with
her?

28 The woman then left her water
buckets and departed to the city, and
says to the men,

29 Come, seea man, who told me all
which I ever did: is not this Christ ?

30 Then went they forth out of the
city, and came to him.

31 And in the mean time the disci-
ples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

32 And he said to them, I have food
to eat which ye know not.

33 Then said the disciples to one
another, Has any one brought him to
eat ἢ

34 Jesus says to them, My food is
that I might do the will of him having
sent me, and finish his work.

35 Say ye not, That there is yet the
fourth month, and harvest comes? be-
hold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes,
and behold the countries; for they
are already white for harvest.

36 And he reaping receives wages,
and gathers fruit to eternal life: that
he sowing might rejoice together and
he reaping.

387 For in thisthe word is true, That
one is sowing, and another reaping.

38 1 sent you to reap that with
which ye have not been wearied : some
have been wearied, and others have
come into their labor.

JOHN

IV.

39 And many of the Samaritans of
that city believed in him for the
woman’s word testifying, That he told
me all which I ever did.

40 When therefore the Samaritans
came to him, they asked him to re-
main with them: and he remained
there two days.

41 And many more believed on ac-
count of his word ;

42 And they said to the woman,
That we no more believe for thy
speaking: for we ourselves have heard
and know, that this is truly Christ, the
Saviour of the world.

43 And after two days he came out
thence, and departed to Galilee.

44 For Jesus himself testified, that
a prophet has no honour in his own
country.

45 When therefore he came to Gal-
ilee, the Galileans received him, hav-
ing seen all which he did in Jerusa-
lem in the festival : for they also came
to the festival.

46 Then came Jesus again to Cana
of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain royal
one, whose son was sick in Capernaum.

47 He, having heard that Jesus was
come from Judea to Galilee, went
away to him, and asked him that he
would go down and heal his son: for
he was about to die.

48 Then said Jesus to him, Except
ye see signsand wonders, ye would not
believe.

49 The royal one says to him, Lord,
go down before my child dies.

50 Jesus says to him, Go; thy son
lives. And the man believed the word
which Jesus said to him, and he went.

51 Andhe already going down, his
servants met him, and announced, say-
ing, That thy child lives.

52 Then he inquired of them the
hour in which he was attended to.
And they said to him, That yesterday
the seventh hour the fever left him.

53 Then the father knew that in
that hour in which Jesus saidto him,
That thy son lives: and he believed,
and kis whole house.

54 This second sign Jesus did, hay-
ing come out of Judea into Galilee.

JOHN יצ‎

CHAPTER V.
FTER these was the festival of
the Jews; and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.

2 And there is in Jerusalem, at the
sheep place a pool, in Hebrew called
Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these lay a great multitude of
weak, blind, lame, withered, expecting
the moving of the water.

4 Vor a messenger at a time went
down into the pool, and troubled
the water: then he having first stepped
in after the troubling of the water be-
came healthy, by whatever malady a
long while since he was laid.

5 And a certain man was there, be-
ing in weakness thirty-eight years.

6 Jesus having seen the same lying
down, and having known that it was
already much time, says to him, Wilt
thou be well?

7 He being sick answered him,
Lord, I have no man, that, when the wa-
ter was troubled, he might cast me into
the pool: and in which I am coming,
another steps down before me.

8 Jesus saysto him, Arise, take up
thy couch, and walk.

9 And quickly the man was well,
and he took up his conch, and walked:
and the sabbath was in that day.

10 Then said the Jews to him
healed, It is the sabbath: it is not
lawful for thee to take up thy couch.

11 He answered them, He having
made me well, the same said to me,
Lift up thy couch, and walk.

12 Then they asked him, Who is the
man having saidto thee, Lift up thy
couch, and walk?

13 And he healed knew not who he
is: for Jesus escaped, a crowd being
in the place.

14 After these, Jesus finds him in
the temple, and he said to him, Be-
hold, thou hast become well: sin no
more, lest something worse be to thee.

15 The man departed, and announced
to the Jews that it is Jesus having
made him well.

16 And therefore the Jews drove
out Jesus, and sought to kill him, be-
cause he did these in the sabbath.

17 And Jesus answered, My Father
works till now, and I work.

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18 For this therefore the Jews
sought the more to kill him, for not
only did he loose the sabbath, but al-
so he 681160 God his own Father, mak-
ing himself equal to God.

19 Then answered Jesus and said to
them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The
Soncan of himself do nothing, except
what he sees the Father doing: for
whatever he should do, also these does
the Son likewise.

20 For the Father loves the Son,
and shows him all which himself does:
and he will show him greater than
these, that ye might wonder.

91 For as the Father arouses the
dead, and makes alive; so also the
Son makes alive whom he will.

22 For the Father judges no one, but
he has given all judgment to the Son:

23 That all should honour the Son,
as they honour the Father. He honour-
ing not the Son, honours not the
Father having sent him.

24 Truly, truly, 1 say to you, That
he hearing my word, and believing
him having sent me, has eternal life,
and comes not into judgment; but
has passed from death to life.

25 Truly, truly, I say to you, That
the hour comes, and now is, when the
dead shall hear the voice of the Son
of God: and they hearing shall live.

26 For as the Father has life in
himself, so also gave he to the Son to
have life in himself ;

27 And gave him authority also to
do judgment, because he is the Son of
man.

28 Wonder not at this: for the hour
comes, in which all they in the tombs
shall hear his voice, and shall go forth;

29 They having done good, to rising
up of life; and they having done bad,
to rising up of judgment.

30 I can do nothing of myself: as
I hear, I judge: and my judgment is
just ; for 1 seek not my will, but the
will of the Father having sent me.

31 If I testify of myself, my testi-
mony is not true.

32 Another is testifying of me, and
I know that the testimony which he
testifies of me is true.

33 Ye have sent to John, and he
has testified to the truth.

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34 But I receive not testimony from
man: but these I say that ye might
be saved.

35 He was a burning and manifest
light: and ye wished to rejoice for a
time in his light.

36 And I have greater testimony
than of John: for the works that the
Father gave me that I might finish
them, the same works that I do, tes-
tify of me, that the Father has sent
me.

387 And the Father having sent me,
he has testified of me. Nor have ye at
any time heard his voice, or seen his
form.

88 And his word ye have not re-
maining in you: for whomhe sent, him
ye believe not.

89 Search the writings; for ye
think in them to have eternal life:
and these are they testifying of me.

40 And ye wich not tocome to me,
that ye might have life.

41 I receive not glory from man.

42 But I know you, that ye have
not the love of Godin you.

43 I have come in the name of my
Father, and ye receive me not: if an-
other should come in his own name,
him will ye receive.

44 Tlow can ye believe, receiving
glory from one another, and ye seek
not the glory that from God alone ?

45 Think not that I shall aecuse you
to the Father: he accusing you is
Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

46 For if ye had believed Moses, ye
had believed me: for he himself wrote
of me,

47 And if ye believe not his writ-
ings, how shall ye believe my words?

CHAPTER VI.

FTER these Jesus departed be-

yond the sea of Galilee, of Ti-
berias.

2 And a great crowd followed him,
for they saw his signs which he did up-
on the sick.

3 And Jesus went up into the
mount, and sat there with his disci-

les.

4 And the pascha was near, the fes-
tival of the Jews.

JOHN V., VL

5 Then Jesus having lifted up the
eyes, and seen that a great crowd
comes to him, says to Philip, Whence
shall we buy loaves that these might
eat /

6 And this he said trying him: for
cies knew what he was about to

7 Philip answered him, Loaves of
two hundred drachmas will not suftice
them, that each of them should take
some little.

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Si-
mon Peter’s brother, says to him,

9 There is one little boy here, who
has five barley 108708, and two small
fishes: but what are these among so
many ?

10 And Jesus said, Make the men
recline. And there was much grass
in the place. Then the men reclined,
the number about five thousand.

11 And Jesus took the loaves; and
having given thanks, distributed to
his disciples, and the disciples to the
reclining; and likewise of the small
fishes, as many as they wished.

12 And when they were filled, he
says to his disciples, Gather the frag-
ments remaining over, that nothing
should be lost.

13 Then gathered they, and filled
twelve baskets of the fragments of the
five barley loaves, which remained
over to them having eaten.

14 Then the men, having seen the
sign which Jesus did, said, That this is
truly the prophet coming into the
world.

15 Then Jesus haying known that
they were about to come and carry
him off forcibly, that they might make
him king, departed again to the mount
alone.

16 And when it was evening, his
disciples went down to the sea.

17 And having entered into a ship,
they came beyond the sea to Caper-
naum. And already was there dark-
ness, and Jesus had not come to them.

18 And the sea, a great. wind blow-
ing, arose.

19 Then having urged forward about
twenty-five or thirty stadia, they be-

_[hold Jesus walking upon the sea, and

JOHN

being near the ship: and they were
afraid.

20 And he says to them, 1 am; be
not afraid.

21 Then they wished to take him
into the ship: and the ship was quick-
ly at land to which they retired.

22 The morrow, the crowd standing
beyond the sea having seen that no
other small vessel was there, except
that one into which his disciples had
entered, and that Jesus entered not
with his disciples into the small vessel,
but his disciples departed alone ;

23 (But also other small vessels
came out of Tiberias near to the place
where they ate bread, the Lord having
returned thanks :(

24 When the crowd therefore saw
that Jesus is not there, nor his disci-
ples, they also entered into ships, and
came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

25 And having found them beyond
the sea, they said to him, Rabbi,
when camest thou here ?

26 Jesus answered them and said,
Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me,
not because ye saw signs, but for that

eye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied.

27 Work not for food perishing, but
food remaining to eternal life, which
the Son of man will give you: for him
God the Father sealed.

28 Then said they to him, What
shall we do, that we might work the
works of God?

29 Jesus answered and said to them,
This is the work of God, that ye
should believe in him whom he has
sent.

30 Then said they to him, What
sign doest thou, that we might see, and
believe thee? what workest thou ?

31 Our fathers ate manna in the
desert ; as itis written, He gave them
bread from heaven to eat.

32 Then said Jesus to them, Truly,
truly, I say to you, Moses has not given
you bread from heaven ; but my Father
gives you true bread from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he ecom-
ing down from heaven, and giving life
to the world.

34 Then said they to him, Lord,
always give us this bread.

VI.

35 And Jesus said to them, Iam the
bread of life: he coming to me should
not hunger; and he believing in me
should not thirst.

36 But I said to you, That ye have
seen me, and believe not.

37 All that the Father gives me shall
come to me; and he coming to me 1
will not cast out.

38 For 1 have come down from
heaven, not that I might do my will,
but the will of him having sent me.

39 And this isthe will of the Father
having sent me, that all which he has
given me, I should not loose of it, but
raise it up in the last day.

40 And this is the will of him hay-
ing sent me, that every one seeing the
Son, and believing in him, should have
eternal life: and I will raise him up
at the last day.

41 Then murmured the Jews about
him, because he said, I am the bread
having come down from heaven.

42 And they said, Is not this Jesus,
Joseph’s son, whose father and mother
we know? how then says he, That I
have come down from heaven 4

43 Then answered Jesus and said to
them, Murmur not with one another.

44 None can come to me, except the
Father having sent me draw him: and
I will raise him up at the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets, And
they shall be all taught of God. Every
one therefore having heard and learned
of the Father, comes to me.

46 Not that any one has seen the
Father, except he being from God, he
has seen the Father.

47 Truly, truly, I say to you, he be-
lieving in me has eternal life.

48 1 am the bread of life.

49 Your fathers ate manna in the
desert, and died.

50 This is the bread which coming
down from heaven, that whoever
should eat of it, andhe should not die.

51 1 am the living bread which hay-
ing come down from heaven: if an
one eat of this bread, he shall live
forever: and also the bread which 1
shall give is my flesh, which I shall
give for the life of the world.

52 Then the Jews contended with

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one another, saying, How can he give
us the flesh to eat 4

53 Then said Jesus to them, Truly,
truly, 1 say to you, except ye eat the
flesh of the Son of man, and drink his
blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

54 He chewing my flesh, and drink-
ing my blood, has eternal life; and 1
will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is truly food, and
my blood is truly drink.

56 116 chewing my flesh, and drink-
ing my blood, remains in me, and I
in him.

57 As the living Father sent me, and
I live through the Father: also he
chewing me, the same also shall live
through me.

58 This is the bread which having
come down from heaven: not as your
fathers ate manna, and died: he
chewing this bread shall live forever.

59 He said these, teaching in the
synagogue, in Capernaum.

60 Then many of his disciples, hav-
ing heard, said, This is a hard word;
who can hear it ?

61 And Jesus knowing in himself
that his disciples murmur for this,
said to them, Does this offend you?

62 If then ye see the Son of man
going up where he was before ?

63 It is the spirit making alive; the
flesh profits nothing: the words which
Ispeak to you are spirit, and are life.

64 But there are some of you who
believe not. For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they are not be-
lieving, and who he is going to de-
liver him up.

65 And he said, Therefore have I
said to you, that no one can come to
me, except it be given him of my
Father.

66 From this many of his disciples
went away back, and walked no more
with him.

67 Then said Jesus to the twelve,
And ye will not go away ?

68 Then Simon Peter answered
him, Lord, to whom shall we go away ?
thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we have believed, and
known, that thou art Christ, Son of
the living God.

JOHN VL, VII.

τὸ Jesus answered them, Have
Inot chosen you twelve, and of you
one is a devil #

71 And he spake of Judas Iscariot,
of Simon: for he was about to deliver
him up, being one of the twelve.

CHAPTER VII.
ND Jesus walked after these in
Galilee: for he wished not to
walk in Judea, because the Jews
sought to kill him.

2 And the festival of the Jews was
near, the Pitching of tents.

3 Then said his brethren to him, Go
away thence, and retire to Judea, that
also thy disciples might see thy works
which thou doest.

4 For none does any thing in secret,
and seeks himself to be in freedum of
speech. If thou do these, make thy-
self manifest to the world.

5 For neither believed his brethren
in him.

6 Then says Jesus to them, My time
is not yet present: and your time is
always ready.

7 The world cannot hate you: but
me it hates, for I testify of it, that itse
works are evil.

8 Go ye up to this festival : I go not
yet up to the festival; for my time
has not yet been completed.

9 And speaking to them these things,
he remained in Galilee.

10 And when his brethren went up,
then he went up to the festival, not
openly, but as in secret.

11 Then the Jews sought him in the
festival, and said, Where is he?

19 And much murmuring was
for him in the crowds: some truly
said, That he is good: and others said,
No; but he deceives the crowd.

13 However none spake of him with
freedom of speech, for fear of the Jews.

14 And now the festival being in
the midst, Jesus went up to the tem-
ple, and taught.

15 And the Jews wondered, saying,
How knows he letters, not having
learned ?

16 Jesus answered them, and said,
My teaching is not mine, but his hay-
ing sent me.

JOHN VIL.

17 If any desire to do his will, he
shall know of the teaching, whether it
is of Gud, or I speak from myself.

18 He speaking from himself, seeks
his own glory: but he seeking the
glory of him having sent him, he is
true, and no injustice is in him.

19 Has not Moses given you the
law, and none of you does the law?
Why seek ye to kill me?

20 The crowd answered and said,
Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill
thee ?

21 Jesus answered and said to them,
I did one work, and ye all marvel for
this.

22 Moses has given you cireumci-
sion; (not thatit is of Moses, but of
the fathers;) and in the sabbath ye
circumcise a man.

23 If a man receive circumcision in
the sabbath, that the law of Moses be
not loosed; rage not at me, because
I made a man wholly well on the sab-
bath.

24 Judge not according to sight,
but judge just judgment.

25 Then said some of the Jerusa-
lemites, Is not this he, whom they
seek to kill?

26 And, behold, he speaks in free-
dom of speech, and they say nothing
to him. Not at any time knew the
rulers truly, that this is truly Christ ?

27 But we know this whence he is:
and Christ, when he should come,
none knows whence he is.

28 Then cried Jesus in the temple,
teaching, and saying, And ye know
me, and ye know whence I am: and 1
have not come of myself, but he hav-
ing sent me is true, whom ye know
not.

29 But I know him; for I am from
him, and he sent me.

80 Then sought they to seize him:
and none put the hand upon him, for
his hour had not yet come.

31 And many of the crowd believed
on him, and said, That Christ, when
he should come, will he do more signs
than these which he did ?

82 The Pharisees heard the crowd
murmuring these things of him; and
the Pharisees and chief priests sent

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servants that they might seize him.

33 Then said Jesus to them, Yet
a little time am I with you, and 1 re-
tire to him having sent me.

34 And ye shall seek me and shall
not find: and where I am, ye cannot
come.

35 Then said the Jews among them-
selves, Where is he about to go, that
we shall not find him ? is he not about
to go to the dispersion of the Greeks,
and teach the Greeks ?

36 What is the word which he
spake, Ye shall seek me, and shall not
find: and where I am, ye cannot
come 2

37 In the last day, the great one of
the festival, Jesus stood and 61100, say-
ing, If any thirst, let him come to me,
and drink.

38 He believing in me, as said the
writing, from his belly shall flow riy-
ers of living waters.

39 (This spake he of the Spirit
which they believing in him were
about to receive: for the 11017 Spirit
was not yet; for Jesus was not yet
honoured.)

40 Then many of the crowd, having
heard the word, said, This is truly a
prophet.

41 Others said, This is Christ: and
others said, Yet Christ comes not out of
Galilee.

2 Said not the writing, That of the
seed of David, and from Bethlehem,
the town where David was, Christ
comes ?

43 Then was there a division in the
crowd on his account.

44 And some of them wished to
seize him; but none put hands upon
him.

45 Then came the servants to the
chief priests and Pharisees; and they
said to them, Why did ye not bring
him ?

46 And the servants answered, Nev-
er spake man as this man.

47 Then the Pharisees answered
them, Have ye not also been deceived 1

48 Have any of the rulers or of the
Pharisees believed in him ?

49 But the crowd, not knowing the
law, are cursed.

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50 Nicodemus says to them, (he hav-
ing come to him by night, being one
of them, )

51 Our Jaw judges not a man, ex-
cept it first hear from him, and know
what he does.

52 They answered and said to him,
And art thou not of Galilee? Search,
and see: for a prophet has not risen
out of Galilee.

53 And each man went to his house.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND Jesus went to the mount of
Olives.

2 And again in the morning he
was present in the temple, and all the
people came to him; and having sat
down, he taught them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees
brought him a woman taken in adul-
tery; and having set her in the midst,

4 They say to him, Teacher, this
woman was taken committing adultery,
in the very act.

5 In the law Moses commanded us
such to be stoned: therefore what
sayest thou?

6 And this said they, tempting him,
that they might have to accuse him.
And Jesus, having stooped down,
wrote with his fingers upon the earth.

7 And when they continued asking
him, having lifted up the head, he
said to them, Let him faultless among
you, first cast a stone at her.

8 And again having stooped down,
he wrote upon the earth.

9 And they having heard, and be-
ing convicted by consciousness, went
out one by one, beginning from the
eldest even to the last; and Jesus was
left alone, and the woman standing in
the midst.

10 And Jesus having lifted up the
head, and seen none but the woman,
said to her, Woman, where are they
accusing thee? has none condemned
thee ?

11 And she said, None, Lord. And
Jesus said to her, Neither do I con-
demn thee: go, and sin no more.

12 Again therefore Jesus spake to
them, saying, I am the light of the
world: he following me shall not walk

JOHN VIL, VIII.

in darkness, but shall have the light
of life.

13 Then said the Pharisees to him,
Thou testifiest of thyself; thy testi-
mony is not true.

14 Jesus answered and said to them.
Though I testify of myself, my testi-
mony is true: for I know whence 1
came, and where I retire; but ye
know not whence I came and where
I retire.

15 Ye judge according to the flesh ;
I judge no one.

16 And if I also judge, my judg-
ment is true: for Iam not alone, but
1 and the Father having sent me.

17 And also in your law has it been
written, that the testimony of two
men is true.

18 I am he testifying of myself, and
the Father having sent me testifies
of me.

19 Then said they to him, Where is
thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neith-
er know me, nor my Father: if ye
had known me, ye had known my
Father also.

20 These words spake Jesus in the
royal treasury, teaching in the temple:
and no one seized him; for his hour
had not yet come.

21 Then said Jesus again to them,
I retire, and ye shall seek me, and
shall die in your sins: where I retire,
ye cannot come.

22 Then said the Jews, Will he not
kill himself? for he says, Where I re-
tire, ye cannot come.

23 And he said to them, Ye are
from below ; Lam from above: ye are
of this world; Iam not of this world.

241 said therefore to you, that ye
shall diein yoursins: forif ye believe
not that Iam, ye shall die in your sins.

25 Then said they to him, Who art
thou? And Jesus said to them, In the
beginning, he which I spake to you.

26 Many things have I to speak and
judge of you: but he having sent me
is true; and what things I have heard
from him these say I to the world.

27 They knew not that he spake to
them of the Father.

28 Then said Jesus to them, When
ye lift up the Son of man, then shall

JOHN VIII., IX.

ye know that I am, and I do nothing
of myself; but as my Father taught
me, these I speak.

29 And he having sent me is with
me: the Father has not left me alone;
for I do always things pleasing to him.

30 He speaking these, many beliey-
ed in him.

31 Then said Jesus to the Jews hav-
ing believed him, If ye remain in
my word, ye are truly my disciples.

32 And ye shall know the truth, and
the truth shall make you free.

83 They answered him, We are
Abraham’s seed, and have never serv-
ed any ; how sayest thou, That ye shall
be free ?

34 Jesus answered them, Truly, tru-
ly, say I to you, That every one doing
sin, is servant of sin.

35 And the servant remains not in
the house forever; the Son remains
forever.

86 If the Son make you free, ye
shall be truly free.

37 1 know that ye are Abraham’s
seed; but ye seek to kill me, for my
word has no place in you.

38 I,what 1 haveseen from my Fath-
er, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye
have seen of your Father, do.

39 They answered and said to him,
Abraham is our Father. Jesus says
to them, If ye were Abraham’s chil-
dren, ye had done Abraham’s works.

40 And now yeseek to kill me, a man
who has spoken to you the truth, which
1 heard from God: this did not Abra-
ham.

41 Ye do the works of your father.
Then said they to him, We have not
been born of fornication; for we have
one Father, God.

42 Then said Jesus to them, If God
were your Father, ye had loved me:
for I went forth from God, and came ;
for 1 have not come of myself, but he
sent me.

43 Wherefore ye know not my
speech, for ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil,
and the eager desires of your father
will ye do. He was slaying men from
the beginning, and stood notin the
truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he would speak a lie, he speaks

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of his own things: for he is a liar,
and the father of him.

45 And because I say the truth, ye
believe me not.

46 Which of you convicts me of
sin? And if I say the truth, why do
ye not believe me.

47 He being of God hears the words
of God: therefore ye hear not, for ye
are not of God.

48 Then answered the Jews, and
said to him, Say we not well that thou
art a Samaritan, and hast a demon ?

49 Jesus answered, I have not a de-
mon; but I honour my Father, and ye
dishonour me.

50 And I seek ποῦ my glory: there
is he seeking and judging.

51 Truly, truly, say to you, If any
keep my word, he should never see
death.

52 Then said the Jews to him, Now
we have known that thou hast a demon.
Abraham died, and the prophets; and
thou sayest, If any keep my word, he
shall never taste of death.

53 Thou art not greater than our
father Abraham, who died; and the
prophets died: whom makest thou thy-
self ¢

54 Jesus answered, If I honour
myself, my honour is nothing: it is
my Father honouring me; whom ye
say, that he is your God:

55 And ye have not known him;
but I know him: and if I say, I know
him not, I shall be a liar like you: but
I know him, and keep his word.

56 Your father Abraham was over-
joyed that he might see my day: and
he saw, and rejoiced.

57 Then said the Jews to him, Thou
hast not yet fifty years, and hast thou
seen Abraham ?

58 And Jesus said to them, Truly,
truly, I say to you, Before Abraham
was born, I am.

59 Then lifted up they stones that
they might cast upon him: and Jesus
was hid, and he went forth out of the
temple, having passed through the
midst of them, and so he passed by.

CHAPTER IX.
A ND passing by, he saw a man
blind from birth.

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2 And his disciples asked him, say-
ing, Rabbi, who sinned, he, or his pa-
rents, that he was born blind ?

3 Jesus answered, Neither did this
sin, nor his parents: but that the
works of God might be manifested in
him.

41 must work the works of him
having sent me, while it is day : night
comes, when none can work.

5 While I be in the world, I am the
light of the world.

6 Having said these, he spat on the
ground, and made clay of the spittle,
and rubbed the clay upon the eyes of
the blind, :

7 And said to him, Retire, wash in
the pool of Siloam, (which is inter-
preted, Sent.) He went away there-
fore, and washed, and came seeing.

8 Then the neighbors, and those
seeing him before that he was blind,
said, Is not thishe sitting and beg-
ging ?

9 Others said, This is he: and oth-
ers, That he is like him: he said, That
Lam.

10 Then said they to him, How
were thine eyes opened ?

11 116 answered and said, A man
called Jesus made clay, and anointed
mine eyes, and said to me, Retire to
the pool of Siloam, and wash: and
having gone and washed, I saw again.

12 Then said they to him, Where
is he? He says I know not.

13 They bring him to the Pharisees,
him once blind.

14 And it was the sabbath, when
Jesus made clay, and opened his eyes.

15 Then again the Pharisees also
asked him how he saw again. 6
said to them, He put 6187 upon mine
eyes, and I washed, and I see.

16 Then said certain of the Phari-
sees, This man is not from God, for
he keeps not the sabbath. Others said,
How can a sinful man do such signs?
And a division was among them.

17 They say to the blind again,
What sayest thou of him, for he
opened thine eyes? He said, That he
is a prophet.

18 Then the Jews believed not of
him that he was blind, and saw again,

JOHN IX.

until they called the parents of him
having looked up.

19 And they asked them, saying, Is
this yourson, whom yesay that he was
born blind ? how then does he now see ?

20 His parents answered them and
said, We know that this is our son,
and that he was born blind:

21 But how he now sees, we know
not; or who opened his eyes, we
know not: he has age;ask him: he
shall speak for himself.

22 These said his parents, for they
feared the Jews: for already had the
Jews agreed, that if any should ac-
knowledge him Christ, he should be
put out of the synagogue.

23 Therefore said his parents, That
he has age; ask him.

24 Then called they the man of a
second time, who was blind, and said
to him, Give glory to God: we know
that this man is sinful.

25 He answered and said, If he be
sinful, I know not: one thing I know,
that, being blind, now I see.

26 And again said they to him,
What did he to thee? how opened he
thine eyes ¢

27 He answered them, 1 told you
already, and ye heard not: why wish
ye to hear again? ye wish not also to
be his disciples ?

28 Then they reviled him, and said,
Thou art his disciple; but we are Mo-
ses’ disciples.

29 We know that God has spoken
to Moses; but this, we know not
whence he is.

30 The man answered and said to
them, For in this is it wonderful, that
ye know not whence he is, and he
opened mine eyes.

31 And we know that God _ hears
not the sinful: but if any be godly,
and do his will, this he hears.

82 From forever was it not heard
that any opened the eyes of him born
blind.

33 If this one were not of God, he
could do nothing. :

84 They answered and said to him,
In sins wert thou wholly born, and
teachest thou us? And they cast him
without.

JOHN

35 Jesus heard that they cast him
without ; and having found him, said to
him, Believest thou in the Son 01 God ?

36 He answered and said, Who is
he, Lord, that I night believe in him ?

37 And Jesus said to him, Thou
hast also seen him, and he speaking
with thee, the same is he.

38 And he said, I believe, Lord.
And he worshipped him.

39 And Jesus said, For judgment
came I into this world, that they
not seeing might see; and they see-
ing might be blind.

40 And they being with him of the
Pharisees heard these things, and said
to him,

41 Weare not also blind? Jesus said
to them If ye were blind, ye had not
sinned: and now ye say, That we see;
therefore your sin remains.

CHAPTER X.
RULY, truly, 1 say to you, He
not coming in through the door
into the court-yard of the sheep, but
coming up from another place, he is a
thief and robber.

2 And he coming in throngh the
door is the shepherd of the sheep.

3 To him the guard of the door
opens; and the sheep hear his voice:
and he calls his own sheep by name,
and leads them out.

4 And when he would put forth his
own sheep, he goes before them, and
the sheep follow him: for they know
his voice.

5 And a stranger they would not
follow, but they will flee from him:
for they know not the voice of stran-
gers.

6 This proverb spake Jesusto them:
and they knew not what things they
were which he spake to them.

7 Then said Jesus again to them,
Truly, truly, 1 say to you, That I am
the door of the sheep.

8 All who came before me are
thieves and robbers: but the sheep
heard them not.

9Iam the door: if any come in
through me, he shall be saved, and he
shall come in, and go out, and find
pasture.

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10 The thief comes not, except that
he steal, and sacrifice, and destroy: I
came that they might have life, and
have above measure.

111 am the good shepherd: the
good shepherd lays down his life for
the sheep.

12 But the hired one, and not being
the shepherd, whose own the sheep
are not, sees the wolf coming, and he
leaves the sheep, ard flees: and the
wolf plunders them, and scatters the
sheep.

13 The hired flees, because he is
hired, and no care is to him for the
sheep.

14 1 am the good shepherd, and 1
know mine, and am known by mine.

15 As the Father knows me, I also
know the Father: and I lay down my
life for the sheep.

16 And I have other sheep, which
are not of this court-yard: and I must
also bring them, and they shall hear
my voice; and there shall be one flock,
and one shepherd.

17 Therefore does my Father love
me, because I lay down my life, that I
might take it again.

18 No one takes it away from me,
but I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I have power
to take it again. This command re-
ceived I of my Father.

19 Then was a division again among
the Jews for these words.

20 And many of them said, He has
a demon, and is frenzied; why hear
ye him?

21 Others said, These are not the
words of a demon. A demon cannot
open the eyes of the blind.

22 And there was the festival of in-
auguration among the Jerusalemites,
and it was winter.

23 And Jesus walked in the temple
in Solomon’s porch.

24 Then the Jews surrounded him,
and said to him, How long takest thou
away our soul? If thou art Christ, say
to us with freedom of speech.

25 Jesus answered them, I said to
you, and ye believe not: the works
which I do in my Father’s name, these
testify of me.

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26 But ye believe not, for ye are not
of my sheep, as I said to you.

27 My sheep hear my voice, and I
know them, and they follow me.

28 And I give them eternal life;
and they shall never perish, and no
one shall snatch them out of my
hand.

29 My Father, who has given to me,
is greater than all; and no one can
snatch them out of my Father’s
hand.

30 I and my Father are one.

31 Then again lifted up the Jews
stones that they might stone him.

32 Jesus answered them, Many
good works I shewed you from my
Father; for which of these works do
ye stone me ?

33 The Jews answered him, saying,
For a good work we stone thee ποῦ;
but for blasphemy; and that thou,
being man, makest thyself God.

34 Jesus answered them, Is it not
written in your law, I said, Ye are
gods?

35 If he called them gods, to whom
the word of God came, and the writ-
ing cannot be loosed ;

36 Whom the Father consecrated,
and sent into the world, say ye that
thou blasphemest; because I said, I
am the Son of God ?

37 1f I do not the works of my
Father, believe me not.

38 And if I do, though ye believe
me not, believe the works: that ye
might know, and believe, that the
Father in me, and 1 in him.

39 Then sought they again to take
him: and he went out from their
hand,

40 And again he departed beyond
Jordan to the place where John was
first immersing; and he remained
there.

41 And many came to him, and
said, That truly John did no sign: but
all which John said of him was true.

42 And many believed in him there.

CHAPTER XI.
ו‎ a certain Lazarus was sick,
from Bethany, of the town of
Mary .and Martha her sister.

JOHN .א‎ XI.

2 (And Mary was she having anoint-
ed the Lord with perfumed oil, and
wiped his feet with her hairs, whose
brother Lazarus was sick.)

3 Then sent the sisters to him, say-
ing, Lord, behold, he whom thou
lovest is sick.

4 And Jesus having heard, said,
This sickness is not to death, but for
the glory of God, that by it the Son of
God be honoured.

5 And Jesus loved Martha, and her
sister, and Lazarus.

6 When therefore he heard that he
is sick, then indeed he remained in the
place in which he was two days.

7 Then after this he says to his dis-
ciples, Let us go into Judea again.

8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi,
now the Jews songht to stone thee;
and retirest thou there again ?

9 Jesus answered, Are there not
twelve hours of the day? If any walk
in the day, he stumbles not, for he
sees the light of this world.

10 But if any walk in the night, he
stumbles, for light is not in him.

11 These things said he: and after
this he says to them, Lazarus our friend
has been set to sleep; but I go, that I
might waken him.

12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if
he has been set to sleep, he shall be
saved.

13 And Jesus spake of his death:
but these supposed that he speaks of
the repose of sleep.

14 Then therefore Jesus said ‘to
them with freedom of speech, Lazarus
is dead.

15 And I rejoice for you, that ye
might believe, that I was not there;
but let us go to him.

16 Then said Thomas, 081160 Didy-
mus, to his fellow disciples, Let us also
go, that we might die with him.

17 Then Jesus, having come, found
him having four days already in the
tomb.

18 And Bethany was near Jerusa-
lem, about fifteen stadia.

19 And many of the Jews were come
to them about Martha and Mary, that
they might console them for their
brother.

JOHN זא‎

90 Then Martha, when she heard
that Jesus comes, met him: and Mary
sat in the house.

21 Then said Martha to Jesus, Lord,
if thou hadst been here, my brotlier
had not died.

22 But now I also know, that what-
ever thou shalt ask of God, God will
give thee.

23 Jesus saysto her, Thy brother
shall arise.

24 Martha says to him, I know that
he shall rise at the rising up in the last
day.

δ Jesus said to her, I am the rising
up, and life : he believing in me, though
he die, shall live.

26 And all living and believing in
me should never die. 1201169686 thou
this?

27 She says to him, Yes, Lord: I
have believed that thou art Christ, the
Son of God, he coming into the world.

28 And having said these, she de-
parted and called Mary her sister se-
eretly, having said, The Teacher is
come, and ealls thee.

29 She, when she heard, arises
quickly, and comes to him.

30 And Jesus had not yet come into
the town, but was in the place where
Martha met him. ;

91 Then the Jews being in the
house with her, and consoling her,
having seen Mary, that she rose quick-
ly and went forth, followed her, say-
ing, That she retires to the tomb, that
she might weep there.

382 Then Mary, when she came
where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at
his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou
wert here, my brother had not died.

89 Then Jesus, when he saw her
weeping, and the Jews weeping hav-
ing come with her, was heavy in spirit,
and troubled himself,

34 And said, Where have ye laid
him? They say to him, Lord, come
and see.

35 Jesus wept.

36 Then said the Jews, See how he
loved him!

387 And certain of them said, Could
not he having opened the eyes of the
aa have made that this should not

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38 Then Jesus again being heavy in
himself, comes to the tomb. It was a
cave, and a stone was laid upon it.

39 Jesus says, Take away the stone.
Martha, the sister of the dead, says to
him, Lord, he already smells: for it is
the fourth day.

40 Jesus says to her, Said I not to
thee, if thou shouldest believe, thou
shalt see the glory of God ?

41 Then took they away the stone
where the dead was laid. And Jesus
lifted up his eyes above, and said,
Father, I return thee thanks that thou
didst hear me.

42 And I knew that thou always
hearest me: but for the crowd stand-
ing round I said, that they might
believe that thou didst send me.

43 And having said these, he cried
out with a great voice, Lazarus, come
out.

44 And the dead came out, bound
feet and hands with bandages; and
his face was bound with a napkin.
Jesus says to them, Loose him, and let
him retire.

45 Then many of the Jews, having
come to Mary, and seeing what Jesus
did, believed in him.

46 But certain of them departed to
the Pharisees, and said to them what
Jesus did.

47 Then gathered together the chief
priests and Pharisees a council, and
said, What do we? for this man does
many signs.

48 If we let him thus go, all will
believe on him: and the Romans will
come and take away also our place and
nation.

49 And a certain one of them, Caia-
phas, being chief priest that year, said
tothem, Ye know nothing,

50 Neither turn yein your thoughts
that it is profitable to us, that one
man die for the people, and the nation

erish not.

51 And this he said not of himself:
but being high priest that year, he
prophesied that Jesus was about to die
for the nation;

52 And not for the nation alone,
but that also the children of God,
scattered, should be gathered into one.

53 Then from that day they coun-

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him.

54 Jesus then walked no more with
freedom of speech among the Jews ; but
departed thence to the country near
the desert, to a city called Ephraim,
and there he tarried with his disciples.

55 And the Jews’ pascha was near:
and many went up to Jerusalem out
of the country before the pascha, that
they might purify themselves.

56 Then sought they Jesus, and
said with one another, standing in the
temple, What seems it to vou, that he
should not come to the festival ?

57 And also the chief priests and
Pharisees had given a command, that
if any know where he is, he should
make known, that they might take him.

CHAPTER XII.
ΕΝ Jesus, six days before the
pascha, came to Bethany, where
was Lazarus the dead, whom he raised
from the dead.

2 Then made they him a supper
there, and Martha served; and Laza-
rus was 06 of them reclining at table
with him.

3 Then Mary having taken a pound
of perfumed oil of spikenard, very
precious, anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hairs: and
the house was filled with the smell of
the perfumed oil.

4 Then says one of his disciples, Ju-
das Iscariot, of Simon, being about to
deliver him up,

5 Wherefore was not this perfumed
oil sold for three hundred drachmas,
and given to the poor?

6 And this he said, not that care
was to him for the poor: but because
he wasa thief, and had the small cof-
fer, and carried things deposited.

7 Then said Jesus, Let her go; for
the day of my interment has she kept
this.

8 For the poor have ye always with
you; and me ye have not always.

9 Thena great crowd of Jews knew
that he is there: and they came not
for Jesus alone, but that also they
might see Lazarus, whom he had raised
from the dead.

JOHN ,זא‎ XII.

10 And the chief priests took coun-
sel that they might also kill Lazarus;

11 Because many for him retired,
aud believed in Jesus.

12 The morrow a great crowd, hay-
ing come to the festival, having heard
that Jesus comes to Jerusalem,

13 Took branches of palm trees, and
went forth to the meeting to him, and
cried, Praised he coming in the name
of the Lord, King of Israel.

14 And Jesus having found a small
ass, sat upon it; as it is written,

15 Fear not, O daughter of Sion:
beliold, thy King comes, sitting upon
the foal of an ass.

16 And these the disciples knew not
at first: but when Jesus was honoured,
then remembered they that these were
written of him, and they did these
things to him.

17 The crowd therefore testified
which being with him, that he called
Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised
him from the dead.

18 And for this the crowd met
him, for they heard he had done this
sign.

19 Then said the Pharisees among
themselves, Ye see that ye aid noth-
ing; behold, the world has departed
after him.

20 And there were certain Greeks
of those going up that they might wor-
ship in the festival :

21 These then came to Philip, him
of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked
him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Je-
sus.

22 Philip comes and says to An-
drew : and again Andrew and Philip
say to Jesus.

23 And Jesus answered them, say-
ing, The hour has come, that the Son
of man should be honoured.

24 Truly, truly, I say to you, except
a kernel of wheat, having fallen into
the earth, should die, it remains alone:
and if it should die, it brings forth
much fruit.

25 He loving his soul shall lose it;
but he hating his soul in this world,
shall guard it for life eternal.

26 If any one would serve me, let
him follow me ; and where I am, there

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also shall be my servant: and if any
one serve me, him will the Father
honour.

27 Now has my soul been troubled ;
and what should I say? O Father,
save me from this hour: but for this
came I to this hour.

28 Father, honour thy name. Then
came a voice from heaven, 1 have also
hononred, and will again honour.

29 Then the crowd, having stood
and heard, said it was thunder: oth-
ers said, A messenger has spoken to
him.

30 Jesus answered and said, This
voice has not been for me, but for
you.

31 Now is the judgment of 8
world: now shall the ruler of this
world be cast out.

32 And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all to myself.

33 This said he, signifying what
death he was about to die.

34 The crowd answered him, We
have heard out of the law that Christ
remains forever: and how sayest thou,
That the Son of man must be lifted
up ? who is this Son of man ?

35 Then said Jesus to them, Yet
a little time the light 18 with you.
Walk while ye have light, lest dark-
ness overtake you: and he walking
in darkness knows not where he re-
tires.

36 While ye have light, believe in
the light, that ye might be the sons of
light. These things spake Jesus, and
having departed, he was hid from
them.

37 And he haying done so many
signs before them, they did not be-
lieve in him: :

38 That the word of Esaias the
prophet might be completed, which he
spake, Lord, who believed our report ?
and to whom was the arm of the Lord
revealed ἢ

39 Therefore they could not believe,
for Esaias said again,

40 He has blinded their eyes, and
hardened their heart: lest they see
with the eyes, and understand with
the heart, and should turn back, and 1
should heal them.

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41 These said Esaias, when he saw
his glory, and spake of him.

42 Yet nevertheless also many of the
rulers believed in him ; but on account
of the Pharisees they did not acknow]-
edge, lest they should be excluded
from the synagogue:

43 For they loved the honour of men
more than the honour of God.

44 Jesus cried and said, He believ-
ing in me, believes not in me, but in
him having sent me.

45 And he seeing me, sees him havy-
ing sent me.

461 have come a light into the
world, that every one believing in me
should not remain in darkness.

47 And if any hear my words, and
believe not, I judge him not: for I
came not that I might judge the
world, but that 1 might save the
world.

48 He rejecting me, and not receiv-
ing my words, has him judging him;
the word which I spake, that shall
judge him in the last day.

49 For I spake not of myself; but
the Father having sent me, he gave
me a command, whatI should say, and
what I should speak.

50 And I know that his command is
life eternal: therefore what I speak,
as the Father said to me, so I speak.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND before the feast of the pascha,
Jesus knowing that his hour had
come that heshould pass out of this
world to the Father, having loved his
own in the world, he loved them to
the end.

2 And supper having been, the devil
having already cast into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, of Simon, that he
should deliver him up;

3 Jesus knowing that the Father has
given all things to him into the hands,
and that he came out from God, and
retired to God ;

4 He arises from supper, and lays
down the garments; and having taken
a linen cloth, he girded himself.

5 Then casts he water into a washing
vessel, and began to wash the feet of
the disciples, and to wipe with the

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linen cloth with which he was girded.

6 And he comes to Simon Peter: and
he says to him, Lord, washest thou my
feet ?

7 Jesus answered and said to him,
What Ido thou knowest not now ; but
thou shalt know after these.

8 Peter says to him, Thou shouldest
never wash my feet. Jesus answered
him, Except I wash thee, thou hast no
part with me.

9 Simon Peter says to him, Lord,
not my feet only, but the hands and
head.

10 Jesus says to him, He washed
has no need but to have the feet
washed, but is wholly clean: and ye
are clean, but not all.

11 For he knew him delivering him
up, therefore he said, Ye are not all
clean.

12 When therefore he washed their
feet, and took his garments, going to
récline again, he said to them, Know
ye what 1 have done to you?

13 Ye call me Teacher and Lord:
and ye say well; for Jam.

14 If therefore, I washed your fect,
the Lord and Teacher; ye.also ought
to wash the feet of one another.

15 For I have given you a pattern,
as 1 have done to you, also should ye
do.

16 Truly, truly I say to you, The
servant is not greater than his Lord ;
neither the sent greater than he hay-
ing sent him.

17 If ye know these, happy are ye
if ye do them.

18 1 say not of you all: I know
whom I have chosen: but that the
writing might be completed, He chew-
ing bread with me lifted up his heel
against me.

19 From now I say to you before it
shall be, that, when it should be, ye
might believe that Iam.

20 Truly, truly, 1 say to you, He
receiving whomsoeyer I shall send re-
ceives me; and he receiving me re-
ceives him having sent me.

21 These things Jesus having spok-
en, was troubled in spirit, and he testi-
tied, and said, Truly, truly, I say to
you, that one of yon shall deliver me up.

XIII.

22 Then looked the disciples one
upon another, being perplexed of
whom he spake.

23 And there was one of his disci-
ples reclining on the bosom of Jesus,
whom he loved.

24 Then Simon Peter nodded to
this one, to inquire who it might be
of whom he speaks.

25 And he reclining upon Jesus’
breast says to him, Lord, who is it ?

26 Jesus answers, This is he to
whom 1, having dipped a small morsel,
shall bestow. And having dipped the
small morsel, he gives to Judas Iscar-
iot, of Simon.

27 And after the small morsel then
came Sataninto him, Then says Jesus
to him, What thou doest, do quickly.

28 And this none of the reclining
knew for what he said to him.

29 For some thought, since Judas
had the small coffer, that Jesus says
to him, Purchase of what we have
need for the festival ; or, that he might
give something to the poor.

30 He having taken the small mor-
sel went quickly forth : and it was night
when he then went forth.

31 Jesus says, Now was the Son of
man honoured, and God was honoured
in him.

32 If God were honoured in him,
also shall God honour him in himself,
and quickly shall he honour him.

33 Little children, yet a little am I
with you. Ye shall seek me: and asI
said tothe Jews, That where I retire,
ye cannot come; and I say to you now.

34 A new command give I to yon,
That ye love one another: as I leved
you, that ye also love one another.

' 35 In this all shall know that ye are
disciples to me, if ye have love in one
another.

36 Simon Peter says to him, Lord,
where retirest thou? Jesus answered
him, Where 1 retire, thou shalt not .
be able to follow me now; and after-
wards thou shalt follow me.

37 Peter says to him, Lord, why can I
not follow thee now? I will lay down
my life for thee.

88 Jesus answered, Wilt thou lay
down thy life for me? Truly, truly, I

JOHN XIIL, XIV.

say to thee, The cock shall not utter a
sound, till thou deny me thrice.

CHAPTER XIV.
“aes not your heart be troubled:
believe in God, and believe in me.

2 Τὴ my Father's house are many
dwellings: and if not, 1 had said to
you. I goto prepare a place for you.

8 And if I go and prepare a place
for you, again I come, and I will re-
ceive you to myself; that where I am,
ye might be also.

4 And where I retire ye know, and
the way ye know.

5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we
know not where thou retirest; and
how can we know the way ?

6 Jesus says to him, lam the way,
and the truth, and the life: no one
comes to the Father, except by me.

7 If ye had known me, ye had also
known my Father: and from now ye
know, and have seen him.

8 Philip says to him, Lord, show us
the Father, and it suffices us.

9 Jesus says to him, So long time
am 1 with you, and hast thou not
known me, Philip? he having seen me
has seen the Father; and how sayest
thou, Show us the Father ?

10 Believest thou not that I in the
Father, and the Father is in me? the
words which I speak to you, I speak
not of myself: and the Father re-
maining in me does the works.

11 Believe ye me that I in the Fa-
ther, and the Father in me: and if not,
for these works believe me.

12 Truly, truly, I say to you, He
believing in me, the works which I do
shall he do also; and greater than
these shall he do; for 1 go to my
Father.

13 And whatever ye ask in my
name, this will I do, that the Father
might be honoured by the Son.

14 If ye ask anything in my name,
I will do.

15 If ye love me, keep my com-
mands.

16 And I will ask the Father, and
he will give you another Intercessor,
that should remain with you forever;

17 The Spirit of truth; which the
world cannot receive, for it sees it not,

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neither knows: and ye know it; for
it shall remain with you, and shall be
in you.

18 I will not leave you orphans; I
come to you.

19 Yet a little, and the world sees
me no more; and ye see me: because
I live, ye shall live also.

20 In that day shall ye know that I
am in my Father, and yein me, and 1
in you.

21 He having my commands, and
keeping them, the same is he loving
me: and he loving me shall be loved
by my Father, and I will love him, and
manifest myself to him.

22 Judas says to him, not Iscariot,
Lord, how has it been that thou art
about to make thyself manifest to us,
and not to the world ?

23 Jesus answered and said to him,
If any one love me, he will keep my
word: and my Father will love him, and
we will come to him, and we will make
our stay with him.

24 He not loving me will not keep
my words: and the word which ye
hear is not of me, but of the Father
having sent me.

25 These have I spoken to you, re-
maining with you.

26 But the Intercessor, the Holy
Spirit, which the Father will send in
my name, the same shall teach you all
things, and he shall remind you of all
things which I spake to you.

27 Peace I leave to you, my peace
I give to you: not as the world gives,
give 1 50 you. Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be timid.

28 Ye have heard that I said to you,
I retire, and lam coming toyou. If ye
loved me, ye would rejoice because I
said, I go to the Father: for my Father
is greater than I.

29 And now have 1 told you before
it shall be, that when it should be, ye
might believe. .

30 I will no more speak much with
you: for the ruler of this world comes,
and has nothing in me.

31 But that the world might know
that I love the Father, and as the
Father commanded me, so I do.
Arise ye, let us go thence.

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CIIAPTER XV.
ale AM the true vine, and my Father is
the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me not bearing
fruit he takes away: and every one
bearing fruit, he cleanses it, that it
might bear more fruit.

3 Already are ye clean, through the
word which I have spoken to you.

4 Remain in me, and lin you. As
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
if it remain not in the vine; so neither
ye, if ye remain not in me.

5 I am the vine, ye the branches: he
remaining in me, and I in him, he
bears much fruit: for without me ye
can do nothing.

6 If any remain not in me, he was
east forth as the branch, and was dried
up; and they gather them together,
and cast into the fire, and they are
burned.

7 If ye remain in me, and my
words remain in you, ye shall ask
whatever ye wish, and it shall be to
you.

8 In this was my Father honoured,
that ye should bear much fruit: and
ye shall be disciples to me.

9 As the Father loved me, I also
loved you: remain in my love.

10 If ye keep my commands, ye
shall remain in my love; as I have
kept my Father’s commands, and re-
main in his love.

11 These things have I spoken to
you, that my joy might remain in you,
and your joy might be completed.

12 This is my command, That yelove
one another, as I loved you.

13 Greater love than this has none,
that any lay down his life for his
friends.

14 Ye are my friends, if ye do
whatever I command you.

15 I no more eall you servants; for
the servant knows not what his lord
does: and I have called you friends;
for all which I heard of my Father I
made known to you.

16 Ye chose not me, but I chose you,
and I have set you, that ye might re-
tire and bear fruit, and your fruit
remain: that whatever ye ask the
Father in my name, he might give you.

JOHN ,צא‎ XVI.

17 These things I command you, that
ye love one another.

18 If the world hate you, know that
it has hated me the first of you.

19 If ye were of the world, the
world had loved its own: and because
ye are not of the world, but I have
chosen you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you.

20 Remember the word which I
said to you, The servant is not greater
than his lord. If they expelled me,
they will also expel you; if they kept
my word, they will keep yours also.

21 But all these will they do to you
for my name, for they know not him
having sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to
them, they had not sin: and now they
have no pretext for their sin.

23 He hating me hates my Father
also.

24 If I did not the works in them
which none other has done, they had
not sin: and now have they also seen
and hated also me and my Father.

25 But that the word written in
their law might be completed, That
they hated me gratuitously.

26 And when the Intercessor should
come, which I will send you from the
Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes
from the Father, he shall testify of me:

27 And ye also testify, for ye are
with me from the beginning.

CHAPTER XVI.
es have I spoken, that ye
should not be offended.

2 They shall make you excluded
from the synagogne: but the hour
comes that every one having slain you
should think to bring service to God.

3 And these things shall they do to
you, for they know not the Father,
nor me.

4 But these have I spoken to you,
that when the hour should come, ye
should remember them, for I said to
you. And these I said not to you
trom the beginning, for I was with
you.
5 But now do I retire to him hay-
ing sent me; and not one of you asks
me, Where dost thou retire ?

JOHN XVI, XVII.

6 But because I have spoken these
to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

7 But 1 say the truth to you; it is

rofitable to you that 1 go away : for if
hap not away, the Intercessor shall
not come to you; and if I go, I will
send him to you.

8 And having come, he will convict
the world of sin, and of justice, and
of judgment:

9 Truly of sin, because they believe
not in me;

10 And of justice, because I retire
to my Father, and ye see me no more ;

11 And of judgment, for the ruler
of this world has been judged.

12 I have yet many things to say to
you, but ye cannot bear them now.

13 And when he should come, the
Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into

all truth: for he shall not speak of

himself ; but whatever he should hear,
shall he speak: and he shall announce
to you the things coming.

14 He shall honour me: for he
shall take of mine, and announce to
you.

15 All things which the Father has
are mine: therefore said I, he shall
take of mine, and announce to you.

16 A little whzle, and ye see me
not: and again, a little whe, and ye
shall see me, and because I retire to
the Father.

17 Then said of his disciples to one
another, What is this which le says
to you, A little, and ye see me not:
and again, a little, and ye shall see me:
and, Because I retire to my Father ?

18 Then said they, What is this
which he says, A little? we know
not what he says. ,

19 Then knew Jesus that they
wished to ask him, and he said to them,
For this seek ye with one another that
I said, A little whzle, and ye see me
not ; and again a little, and ye shall see
me ? /

20 Truly, truly, I say to you, That
ye shall weep and lament, but the
world shall rejoice: and ye shall be
grieved, but your grief shall be into
joy-

: 21 A woman when she should bring
forth, has grief, because her hour has

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come: and when the child should
be born, she no more remembers the
anguish, for the joy that a man was
born into the world.

22 And where truly ye now have
sorrow: but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy
no one takes away from you.

23 And in that day ye shall ask me
nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you,
That whatever ye shall ask the Father
in my name, he will give you.

24 Until now ye haveasked nothing
in my name: ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy might be completed.

25 These have 1 spoken to you
in proverbs: but the hour comes,
when I shall no more speak to you in
proverbs, but with freedom of speech
will 1 announce to you of the Father.

26 In that day shall ye ask in my
name: and 1 say not to you that I will
ask the Father for you:

27 For the Father himself loves
you, for ye have loved me, and be-
lieved that I came forth from God.

28 I came forth from the Father,
and have come into the world: again,
I leave the world, and go to the
Father.

29 His disciples say to him, See,
now thou speakest with freedom of
speech, and sayest no proverb.

30 Now we know that thou know-
est all things, and hast no need that
any ask thee: by this we believe that
thou camest forth from God.

31 Jesus answered them, Now do
ye believe ? :

32 Behold, the hour comes, and has
now come, that ye be scattered, each
to his own, and leave me alone: and 1
ain not alone, for the Father is with
me.

33 These have I spoken to you, that
inme ye might have peace. In the
world shall ye have pressure ; but take
courage ; 1 have conquered the world.

CHAPTER XVII.
gees spake Jesus, and lifted up
his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, the hour has come ; honour thy
Son, that thy Son honour thee:
2 As thou gavest him the power of

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all flesh, that every one which thou

JOHN. XVII, ΧΎΠΙ.

16 They are not of the world, as I

hast given him, he should give to|am not 01 the world.

them eternal life.

3 And this is eternal life, that they
might know thee the only true God,
and whom thou hast sent, Jesus
Christ.

4 1 honoured thee upon earth: 1
finished the work which thou hast
given me that I should do.

5 And now, honour thou me, O
Father, with thyself, with the honour
which I had with thee before the
world was.

6 I manifested thy name to the men
which thou hast given me from the
world: they were to thee, and thou
hast given them to me; and they
have kept thy word.

7 Now they have known that all
things whatsoever thou hast given me
are of thee.

8 For the words which thou hast
given me, I have given them; and
they received, and knew in truth that
I came out from thee, and they be-
lieved that thou sentest me.

9 Lask for them: I ask not for the
world, but for them thou hast given
me: for they are to thee.

10 And all my things are thine,
and thine mine; and 1 have been hon-
oured in them.

11 And I am no more in the world,
and these are in the world, and I
come to thee. O holy Father, keep
them in thy name whom thou hast
given me, that they might be one, as
we.

12 When I was with them in the
world, I kept themin thy name: those
thou hast given me I watched, and not
one of them perished, except the son
of perdition; that the writing might
be completed.

18 And now come I to thee; and
these things I speak in the world, that
I might have my joy completed in
them.

14 [ have given them thy word;
and the world hated them, for they
are not of the world, as I am not of
the world.

15 I ask not that thou take them out
of the world, but that thou keep them
from the evil.

17 Render them holy in thy truth:
thy word is truth.

18 As thou sentest me into the
world, I also sent them into the
world.

19 And for them I render myself
holy, that they also be rendered holy
in the truth ;

20 And 1 ask not for these alone,
but also for them believing in me
through their word ;

21 That all might be one; as thou,
Father, in me, and 1 in thee, that they
also be one in us; that the world
might believe that thou sentest me.

22 And 1, the honour which thou
hast given me, have given them; that
they might be one, as we are one.

23 1 in them, and thou in me, that
they might be perfected in one: and
that the world might know that thou
sentest me, and lovedst them, as thou
lovedst me.

24 O Father, those thou hast given
me, I will that where 1 am these also
be with me: that they might behold
my glory, which thou gavest me: for
thou lovedst me before the foundation
of the world.

25 O just Father, the world knew
thee not: but I knew thee, and these
knew that thou didst send me.

26 And I made known to them thy
name, and I will make known: that
the love with which thou loyedst me
might be in them, and 1 in them.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ESUS having said these, went out
with his disciples beyond the tor-
rent Kedron, where was a garden,
into which he came, he and his dis-
ciples. ,

2 And Judas also knew the place, he
delivering him up: for’Jesus was
many times gathered there with his
disciples.

3 Then Judas, having taken a band
and attendants from the chief priests
and Pharisees, comes there with lights
and torches and weapons.

4 Jesus then, knowing all coming
upon him, having come out, said to
them, Whom seek ye ?

JOHN

5 They answered him, Jesus the
Nazarite. Jesus says to them, I am.
And Judas also, he delivering up,
was standing with them.

6 Then, when he said to them,
That I am, they went away backward,
and fell to the ground.

7 Then asked he them again, Whom
seek ye? And they said, Jesus the
Nazarite.

8 Jesus answered, I said to you,
that I am: if then ye seek me, leave
these to retire:

9 That the word might be com-
pleted which he spake, That whom
thou hast given me, I lost none of
them.

10 Then Simon Peter having a
sword drew it, and struck the chief
priest’s servant, and cut off his right
ear. And the name totheservant was
Malchus.

11 Then said Jesus to Peter, Put
thy sword into the sheath: the cup
which my Father has given me, shal]
I not drink it ?

12 Then the band and captain of
a thousand and attendants of the
Jews took Jesus, and bound him,

13 And led him away to Annas
first; for he was the father-in-law of
Caiaphas, who was the chief priest
that year.

14 And Caiaphas was he having
counselled the Jews, that it is profit-
able for one man to be destroyed for
the people.

15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus,
and another disciple: and that disciple
was known to the chief priest, and
came together with Jesus to the hall
of the chief priest.

16 And Peter stood before the door
without. Then went out the other
disciple who was known to the chief
priest, and spake to her guarding the
door, and brought in Peter.

17 Then says the young girl guard-
ing the door to Peter, Art not thou
also of this man’s disciples? He says,
1 am not.

18 And the servants and attendants
stood, having made a heap of burning
coals ; for it was cold: and they warm-
ed themselves: and Peter was stand-

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ing with them, and warming himself.
19 Then the chief priest asked Jesus

of his disciples, and of his teaching.

20 Jesus answered him, I spake
with freedom of speech to the world:
I always taught in the synagogue, and
in the temple, where the Jews were
always come together; and I spake
nothing in secret.

21 Why askest thou me? ask those
having heard, what I said to them:
see, they know what I said.

22 And he having said these things,
one of the attendants standing by gave
Jesus a blow with a rod, having said,
Answerest thou the chief priest so ?

23 Jesus answered him, If I spake
badly, testify of evil: and if well,
why strikest thou me?

24 (Annas sent him bound to Caia-
phas the chief priest.)

25 And Simon Peter was standing,
and warming himself. Then said they
to him, Art thon not also of his disci-
ples ? He denied, and said, I am not.

26 Says one of the chief priest’s ser-
vants, being of his family whose ear
Peter cut off, Saw I not thee in the
garden with him ?

27 Then Peter again denied: and
quickly the cock uttered a sound.

28 Then led they Jesus from Caia-
phas to the pretorium: and it was
early morning; and they came not in-
to the pretorium, lest they should be
defiled; but that they might eat the
pascha.

29 Then went Pilate out to them,
and said, What accusation bring ye
against this man ?

30 They answered and said to him,
If he were not injurious, we had not
delivered him to thee.

31 Then said Pilate to them, Take
ye him, and judge him according to
your law. Then said the Jews to him,
It is not lawful for us to kill any one:

32 That the word of Jesus might be
completed which he spake, giving a
sign by what death he was about to
die.

33 Then came Pilate again into the
pretorium, and asked Jesus, and said
to him, Art thou the King of the Jews ?

34 Jesus answered him, Of thyself

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sayest thou this, or did others tell thee
of me?

35 Pilate answered, Much less am I
a Jew; thy nation and the chief priests
have delivered thee to me: What
didst thou?

36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is
not of this world: if my kingdom
were of this world, my servants had
contended, that I be not delivered to
the Jews; and now my kingdom is
not hence.

δῖ Then said Pilate to him, Art
thou not then king? Jesus answered,
Thou sayest that lam king. For this
was I born, and for this came I into
the world, that I testify to the truth.
Every one being of the truth hears my
voice.

38 Pilate says to him, What is
truth ? And having said this, again
went he out to the Jews, and says to
them, I find no fault in him.

39 But a custom is to you, that I
loose one to you in the pascha: will
ye therefore I should loose to you the
King of the Jews?

40 Then cried they all again, saying,
Not this, but Barabbas: and Barabbas
was a robber.

CHAPTER XIX.
HEN Pilate therefore took
sus, and scourged him.

2 And the soldiers having twined a
crown of thorns, put upon his head,
and they put round him a purple robe,

3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews!
and they gave him blows with a rod.

4 Then again went out Pilate with-
out, and says to them, See, I lead him
to you withont, that ye might know
that in him I find no fault.

5 Then went forth Jesus without,
bearing a crown of thorns, and a pur-
ple garment. And he says to them,
Behold the man!

6 When therefore the chief priests
and attendants saw him, they cried out,
saying, Orucify, crucify. Pilate says to
them, Take ye him, aud crucify; for
I find no fault in him.

7 The Jews answered him, We have
a law, and by our law he ought to die,
for he made himself the Son of God.

Je-

JOHN XVIII. XIX.

8 When Pilate heard this word, he
was more afraid:

9 And went into the pretorium
again, and says to Jesus, Whence art
thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.

10 Then says Pilate to him, Speak-
est thou not to me ¢ knowest thou not
that I have power to crucify thee, and
have power to loose thee.

11 Jesus answered, Thou hast no
power against me, if it were not given
thee from above: therefore he deliy-
ering me to thee has greater sin.

1% From this Pilate sought to loose
him: and the Jews cried out, saying,
If thou loose this, thou art not Czegar’s
friend: every one making himself a
king speaks against Ceesar.

13 Then Pilate having heard,
brought Jesus without, and sat upon
the judgment seat, in a place called
Paved with ornamental stones; in He-
braic, Gabbatha.

14 And it was the preparation of the
pascha, and about the sixth hour: and
he says to the Jews, Behold your
King!

15 And they cried, Take away, take
away, crucify him. Pilate says to
them, Shall 1 erucify your King?
The chief priests answered, We have
no king but Ceesar.

16 Then, therefore, delivered lhe him
to them, that he might 06

17 And they took Jesus, and led
away: and bearing his cross he went
out into aplace called Kranium, which
in Hebraic is called Golgotha :

18 Where they crucitied him, and
with him two others, hence and
thence, and Jesus in the midst.

19 And Pilate also wrote a title,
and put upon the cross. And it was
written, JESUS THE NAZARITE,
KING OF THE JEWS.

20 Then read many of the Jews this
title: for the place was near the city
where Jesus was crucified: and it was
written in Hebrew, Greek, Roman.

21 Then said the chief priests of the
Jews to Pilate, Write not, King of
the Jews; but that he said, 1 am
King of the Jews.

22 Pilate answered, What I have
written, I have written.

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23 Then the soldiers, when they
crucified Jesus, took his garments and
made four parts, to each soldier a part :
and also the coat: and the coat was
unsewn through the whole, having
been woven from above.

24 Then said they to one another,
Let us not divide it, but let us draw
lots for it, whose it shall be: that the
writing might be completed, saying,
They divided my garments to them-
selves, and upon my clothing cast they
the lot. Then truly did the soldiers
these things.

25 And by the cross of Jesus stood
his mother, and his mother’s sister,
ee, of Cleophas, and Mary Magda-
ene.

26 Jesus then having seen the moth-
er,and the disciple standing near,
whom he loved, says to his mother,
Woman, behold thy son!

27 Then says he to the disciple,
Behold thy mother! And from that
hour the disciple took her to his own.

28 After this, Jesus knowing that all
things were already completed, that the
writing might be finished, says, I
thirst.

29 Then was set a vessel full of vin-
egar: and they having filled a sponge
with vinegar, put upon hyssop, and
brought near to his mouth.

90 When Jesus therefore took the
vinegar, he said, It has been finished:
and having bent the head, he delivered
up the spirit.

31 Then the Jews, that the bodies
remain not upon the cross in the sab-
bath, since it was the preparation, ( for
great was the day of that sabbath,)
asked Pilate that their legs be broken,
and they be taken away.

32 Then came the soldiers, and tru-
ly brake the legs of the first, and of the
other crucified with him.

33 And upon having come to Je-
sus, when they saw him already dead,
they brake not his legs:

34 But one of the soldiers with a
javelin pricked his side, and quickly
came out blood and water.

35 And he having seen has testi-
fied, and his testimony is true: and he
knows that he says true, that ye might
believe.

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36 For these were that the writing
be completed, A bone of him shall
not be broken.

87 And again another writing says,
They shall look on whom they
goaded.

38 And after these, Joseph of Ari-
mathea, being a disciple of Jesus, in
secret, for fear of the Jews, asked Pi-
late that he might takeaway the body
of Jesus: and Pilate conceded. He
came then, and took the body of Je-
sus.

39 And Nicodemus also came, he
having cometo Jesus at first by night,
bringing a mixture of myrrh and al-
oes, about one hundred pounds.

40 Then took they the body of Je-
sus, and bound it in linen bandages
with spices, as the custom is to the
Jews to prepare a body for inter-
ment.

41 And in the place where he was
crucified, was a garden; and in the
garden a new tomb, in which no one
was ever laid.

42 There, therefore, on account of
the Jews’ preparation, because the
tomb was near, they laid Jesus.

CHAPTER XX.
ND in one of the sabbaths comes
Mary Magdalene in the morning,
there yet being darkness, to the tomb,
and sees the stone taken away from the
tomb.

2 Then she runs, and comes to Si-
mon Peter, and to the other disciple
whom Jesus loved, and says to them,
They took away the Lord from the
tomb; and we know not where they
laid him.

3 Peter then came forth, and the
other disciple, and they came to the
tomb.

4 And they two ran together: and
the other disciple ran before, swifter
than Peter, and came first to the tomb.

5 And having stood stooping, he
sees the linen bandages lying; yet he
did not go in.

6 Then comes Simon Peter follow-
ing him, and he came into the tomb,
and sees the linen bandages lying,

7 And the napkin, which was upon
his head, not lying with the linen band-

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ages, but separately inwrapped in one
place.

8 Then, therefore, went in also the
other disciple, having first come to the
tomb, and he saw, and believed.

9 For not yet knew they the writing,
that he must rise from the dead.

10 Then went away the disciples
again by themselves.

11 And Mary stood near the tomb
weeping without: therefore as she
wept, she stood stooping into the
tomb,

12 And sees two messengers in
white, sitting, one at the head, and
one at the feet, where the body of
Jesus was laid.

13 And they say to her, Woman,
why weepest thou? She says to them,
Because they took away my Lord, and
J know not where they laid him.

14 And having said these, she was
turned back, and sees Jesus standing,
and she knew not that it is Jesus.

15 Jesus says to her, Woman, why
weepest thou? whom seekest thou?
She, thinking that it is the gardener,
says to him, Lord, if thon didst bear him
away, say where thou hast laid him,
and 1 will take him away.

16 Jesus says to her, Mary. She
having turned, says to him, Rabboni;
which is called, Teacher.

17 Jesus says to her, Touch me not;
for I have not yet ascended to my
Father: and go thou to my brethren,
and say to them, I ascend to my
Father, and your Father; to my God,
and your God.

18 Mary Magdalene comes announc-
ing to the disciples that she has seen
the Lord, and he said these to her.

19 Then it being evening, in that
one day of the sabbaths, and the doors
shut where the disciples were gathered
together for fear of the Jews, Jesus
came and stood in the midst, and says
to them, Peace to you.

20 And having said this, he showed
them his hands, and his side. Then
the disciples rejoiced, having seen the
Lord.

21 Then said Jesus again to them,
Peace to you: as the Father has sent
me, 1 also send you.

JOHN XX., XXL

22 And having said this, he inspired,
and says to them, Receive the Holy
Spirit :

23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they
are remitted to them ; whose soever ye
retain, they have been retained.

24 And Thomas, one of the twelve,
called Didymus, was not with them
when Jesus came.

25 Then said the other disciples to
him, We have seen the Lord. And
he said to them, Except I see in his
hands the mark of thenails, and put my
finger in the mark of the nails, and
put my hand into his side, I will not
believe.

26 And after eight days again were
his disciples within, and Thomas with
them: Jesus comes, the doors shut,
and said, Peace to you.

27 Then says he to Thomas, Bring
hither thy finger, and see my hands;
and bring thy hand, and put into my
side: and be not unbelieving, but be-
lieving.

28 And Thomas answered and said
to him, My Lord and my God.

29 Jesus says to him, Because thou
hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast be-
lieved: happy they not having seen,
and having believed.

30 Then truly many other signs did
Jesus also before his disciples, which
are not written in this small book :

31 But these have been written, that
ye might believe that Jesus is Christ,
the Son of God; and that believing ye
roight have life in his name.

CHAPTER .אא‎
FTER these things Jesus again
manifested himself to the disci-
ples at the sea of Tiberias: and so he
made manifest.

2 There were together Simon Peter,
and Thomas called Didymus, and Na-
thanael from Cana of Galilee, and they
of Zebedee, and two other of his dis-
ciples.

3 Simon Peter says to them, I retire
to fish. They say to him, We also go
withthee. They came forth, and went
up into the ship quickly ; and in that
night they caught nothing.

4 And morning being already come,

JOHN XXI.

Jesus stood on the sea-shore: yet the
disciples knew not that it is Jesus.

5 Then says Jesus to them, Chil-
dren, have ye nothing cooked to eat ?
They answered him, No.

6 And he said to them, Cast the
net to the right parts of the ship, and
ye shall find. "Therefore they cast,
and were no more able to draw it,
from the multitude of fishes.

7 Then that disciple says, whom
Jesus loved, to Peter, It is the Lord.
Then Simon Peter having heard that
itis the Lord, girded round the upper
garment, (for he was naked,) and cast
himself into the sea.

8 And the other disciples came in a
little ship; (for they were not far
from land, but as from two hundred
cubits,) dragging the net of fishes.

9 When therefore they came away
to the land, they see a heap of burning
coals laid, and little fish laid upon, and
bread.

- 10 Jesus says to them, Bring ye
from the little fishes which ye have
now caught.

11 Simon Peter wentup, and drew
thenet upon the earth, full of great
fishes, an hundred and fifty- -three: and
being so many, the net was not split.

12 And Jesus says to them, Come,
dine. And none of the disciples dared
to inquire of him, Who art thou?
knowing that it is the Lord.

13 Then comes Jesus, and takes
bread, and gives them, and fish like-
wise.

14 This already the third time
Jesus was manifested to his disciples,
having risen from the dead.

15 Then, when they had dined,
Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon of
Jonas, lovest thou me more than these ?
He says to him, Yes, Lord; thou
knowest that I love thee. He says to
him, Feed my lambs.

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16 Jesussays to him again the sec-
ond time, Simon of Jonas, lovest thou
me? He says to him, Yes, Lord;
thou knowest that I love thee. He
says to him, Feed my sheep.

17 He says to him the third time,
Simon of Jonas, lovest thou me? Pe-
ter was grieved that he said the third
time, Lovest thou me? And he said
to him, Lord, thou knowest all; thou
knowest that I love thee. Jesus says
to him, Feed my sheep.

18 Truly, truly, I say to thee, when
thou wast younger, thou didst gird thy-
self and walk where thou wouldest ; and
when thou shalt grow old, thou shalt
stretch out thy hands, and another
shall gird thee, and bring thee where
thou wilt not.

19 And this he said, signifying by
what death he shallhonour God. And
haying said this, he says to him, Fol-
low me.

20 And Peter having turned back,
sees the disciple whom Jesus loved
following, who also reclined in the
supper upon his breast, and said, Lord,
who is he delivering thee up 4

21 Peter having seen him, says to
Jesus, Lord, and what this ?

22 Jesus says to him, If I will him
to remain till I come, what to thee?
follow me.

23 Then went out the word to the
brethren, That this disciple dies not:
and Jesus said not to him, That he
dies not; but, If I will him to remain
till I come, what to thee ?

24 This is the disciple testifying of
these, and having written this: and we
know that his testimony is true.

25 And there are also many other
things which Jesus did, which, if they
be written ev ery one, neither do I sup-
pose the world itself will receive the
books written. Amen.

CHAPTER I.
RULY the first word had I made of
all things, O Theophilus, of which
Jesus began to do and also to teach,

2 Till the day having commanded
the sent whom he chose through the
Holy Spirit, he was taken up:

3 To them also he presented him-
self living, after he suffered, by many
infallible signs, through forty days
seen to them, and speaking the things
of the kingdom of God:

4 And, being collected together, he
enjoined them not to be separated
from Jerusalem, but to wait tor the
solemn promise of the Father, which
ye heard of me.

5 For John truly immersed in water ;
and ye shall be immersed in the Holy
Spirit not after these many days.

6 Truly they therefore having come
together, asked him, saying, Lord, if
in this time thou wilt restore the king-
dom of Israel ?

7 And he said to them, It is not
yours to know the times and occasions,
which the Father fixed in his own

ower.

8 But ye shall receive power, the
Tloly Spirit having come upon you:
and ye shall be witnesses to me also in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Sama-
ria, and even to the last of the earth.

9 And having said these, they be-
holding, he was lifted up; and aclond
received him from their eves.

10 And as they were looking intently
to heaven, he going, behold, two
men were standing before them in
white raiment;

11 And they said, Galilean men,
why stand ye looking to heaven? this
Jesus, taken up from you to heayen,
so shall he come which manner ye
saw him going to heaven.

12 Then returned they to Jerusalem
from the mount called Olive, which is
near Jerusalem, having the way of a
sabbath.

13 And when they came in, they

went up into an upper room, where
were remaining also Peter, and James,
and John, and Andrew, Philip, and
Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew,
James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelo-
tes, and Judas of James,

14 All these were persevering unan-
imously in prayer and supplication,
with women, and Mary mother of
Jesus, with his brethren.

15 And in these days Peter having
risen in the midst of the disciples,
said, (also the crowd of names togeth-
er was abont an hundred and twenty,)

16 Men, brethren, this writing must
be filled up, which the Holy Spirit
spake before by mouth of David con-
cerning Judas, being guide to them
having taken Jesus.

17 For he was numbered with us,
and obtained the lot of this service.

18 Truly this therefore purchased
a place from the wages of iniquity ;
and being bent forward, he brake in
pieces in the midst, and all his entrails
were poured out.

19 And it was known to all dwell-
ing in Jerusalem; so that that place
was called in their own dialect, Acel-
dama, that is, The place ef blood.

20 For it has been written, in the
book of Psalms, Let his country-house
be a desert, and let none be dwelling
in it: and his inspection may another
take.

21 Therefore must there, of these
men having come with us in all the
time in which the Lord Jesus came in
and came out among us,

22 Having begun from the immer-
sion of John, unto the day which he
was taken up from us, be one of these
a witness with you of his rising up.

98 And they set two, Joseph called
Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus,
and Matthias.

24 And having prayed, they said,
Thou, O Lord, knowing the hearts of
all, shew forth one of these two which
thou hast chosen,

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25 To take the lot of this service
and sending forth, from which Judas
passed by, to go to his own place.

26 And he gave their lots; and the
lot fell upon Matthias; and he was
voted together with the eleven sent.

CHAPTER II.
ND in the day of Pentecost being
completed, they were all unani-
mously in one and the same place.

2 And suddenly was a sound from
heaven as of a wind moving violently,
and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting.

3 And seen to them were tongues
divided as fire, and it sat upon each one
of them.

4 And they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit, and began to speak in
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
to utter.

5 And there were dwelling in Jeru-
salem Jews, circumspect men, from
every nation of those under heaven.

6 And there having been this voice,
the multitude came together, and were
disturbed, for each one heard them
speaking in his own dialect.

7 And all were affected in mind
and wondered, saying to one another,
Behold, are not these speaking Gali-
leans ?

8 And how hear we each in our own
dialect, in which we were born ?

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elam-
ites, and they dwelling in Mesopota-
mia, and Judea, and Cappadocia,
Pontus, and Asia,

10 And Phrygia, and Pamphylia,
Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near
Cyrene, and Romans arriving 8
strangers, and Jews, and strangers,

11 Cretes and Arabians, we hear
them speaking in our tongues the
great things of God.

12 And all were affected in mind,
and were in doubt, saying one to
another, What may this mean to be?

13 And others mocking said, That
they are filled with new wine.

14 And Peter, having stood with
the eleven, lifted up his voice, and
said to them, Men, Jews, and all ye
dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be

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known to you, and hear ye my words:

15 For not, as ye suppose, are these
intoxicated, (for it is the third hour of
the day.)

16 But this is that spoken by the
prophet Joel ;

17 And it shall be in the last days,
says God, I pour out from my Spirit
upon all flesh: and your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy, and
your young men shall see visions, and
your elder dream dreams:

18 And also upon my servants and
upon my maids in those days will I
pour out from my Spirit; and they
shall prophesy :

19 And I will give wonders in
heaven above, and signs upon the
earth below ; blood, and fire, and steam
of smoke:

20 The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and distinguished day
of the Lord come:

21 And it shall be, every one, who
shall call on the name of the Lord,
shall be saved.

22 Men, Israelites, hear these
words; Jesus the Nazarite, a man
elected by God for you by powers
and wonders and signs, which God
did by him in the midst of you, (as
also ye yourselves know :)

23 This one, surrendered by the fix-
ed counsel and foreknowledge of God,
having taken by lawless hands, having
fastened, ye slew:

24 Whom God raised up, having
loosed the pains of death: as it was
not possible for him to be holden of
ite

25 For David says about him, I saw
beforehand the Lord before me always,
for he is 01 my right hand, that I be
not moved :

26 For this my heart was gladdened,
and my tongue was transported with
joy; and yet also shall my flesh en-
camp in hope:

27 For thou wilt not leave my soul
in hades, neither wilt thou give thy
sanctified one to see corruption.

28 Thou hast made known to me
the ways of life; thou wilt fill me
with gladness with thy face.

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29 Men, brethren, it is permitted to
speak with freedom of speech to you
of the patriarch David, for he died
and was buried, and his tomb is with
us even till this day.

30 Therefore being a prophet, and
knowing that God swore with an oath
to him, of the fruit of his loins, aecord-
ing to the flesh, to raise up Christ to sit
upon his throne:

31 Foreknowing, he spake of the
rising up of Christ, that his soul was
not Jeft in hades, neither did his flesh
see corruption.

32 This Jesus God raised up, of
which all we are witnesses.

33 Therefore exalted by the right
hand of God, and having received the
ἔπληξε of the Holy Spirit from the

ather, he poured out this, which ye
now see and hear.

34 For David ascended not into the
heavens: and he himself says, The
Lord said to my Lord, Sit from my
right hand,

35 Even till I set thine enemies the
footstool of thy feet.

36 Therefore let all the house of
Israel know certainly, that God made
him Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom
ye crucified.

87 And having heard, they were
pricked in heart, and said to Peter and
the rest of the sent, What shall we do,
men, brethren ?

38 And Peter said to them, Repent,
and be each of you immersed in the
name of Jesus Christ for remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of
the Holy Spirit.

39 For the promise is to you, and to
your children, and to all afar off, as
many as the Lord our God should call.

40 And with many other words he
appealed earnestly and besought, say-
ing, Be ye saved from this crooked
generation.

41 Then truly they haying gladly
received his word were immersed : and
in that day were added about three
thousand souls.

42 And they were persevering in
the teaching of the sent, and in mutual
participation, and breaking of bread,
and prayers.

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43 And to every soul was fear: and
through the sent were many wonders
and signs.

44 And all believing were in one
and the same place, and had all things
common :

45 And sold possessions and goods,
and divided them to all, as any one
had need

46 And in the day persevering
unanimously in the temple, and break-
ing bread in the house, they partook
of food with lively joy and simplicity
of heart,

47 Praising God, and having favor
with the whole people. And in the
day the Lord added the saved to the
church.

CHAPTER III.
ΝΡ Peter and John went up to-
gether into the temple at the
hour of prayer, the ninth.

2 And a certain man, being lame
from his mother’s womb, was carried,
whom they set in the day at the door
of the temple called Beautiful, to ask
alms from those going into the tem-

le 5
4 3 Who having seen Peter and John
about going into the temple asked to
receive alms.

4 And Peter, having looked intently
upon him with John, said, Look upon
us.

5 And he fixed his attention upon
them, expecting to receive something
of them.

6 And Peter said, Silver and gold
are not tome; but what I have, this
I give thee: In the name of Jesus
Christ the Nazarite, arise and walk.

7 And having taken him by the
right hand, he raised : and immediately
his feet and ankles were rendered
firm.

8 And springing forth he stood,
and walked, and entered with them
into the temple, walking, and spring-
ing, and praising God.

9 And all the people saw him walk-
ing and praising God: Ν

10 And they knew him, that this
was he sitting for alms at the Beauti-
ful gate of the temple: and they were

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filled with wonder and amazement at
that having happened to him.

11 And the lame healed holding Pe-
ter and John, all the people ran to
them in the porch called Solomon’s,
much amazed.

12 And Peter, having seen, answered
to the people, Men, Israelites, why
wonder ye at this? or why look ye in-
tently at us, as by our own power or
devotion having made him to walk ?

13 The God of Abraham, and Is-
aac, and Jacob, God of our fathers, has
honoured his child Jesus; whom ye
have delivered up, and denied him be-
fore the face of Pilate, he having
judged to loose.

14 And ye denied the Holy and
Just, and demanded a man, a murder-
er, to be yielded to you.

15 And ye killed the Author of life,
whom God raised from the dead ; of
whom we are witnesses.

16 And by faith of his name, this,
whom ye see and know, his name made
firm, and faith which by him, gave
lim this completeness before you all.

17 And now, brethren, I know that
ye did in ignorance, as also your ru-
lers.

18 But God, announced these things
beforehand by the mouth of all his
prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so
completed.

19 Therefore repent, and return, for
your sins to be wiped out, so that
times of refreshment might come from
the face of the Lord ;

20 And he send Jesus Christ, before
proclaimed to you,

21 Whom heaven must truly receive
till time of restoration of all which
God spake by the mouth of all his
holy prophets from forever.

22 For Moses truly said to the fath-
ers, That a prophet shall the Lord
your God raise up to you from your
brethren, like me; him shall ye hear ac-
cording to all whatever he speak to
you. /

23 And it shall be, whoever hears
not that prophet, shall be destroyed
from the people.

24 And all the prophets from Sam-
uel, and those in order, as many as

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spake, also announced beforehand
these days.

25 Ye are sons of the prophets, and
of the covenant which God set with
our fathers, saying to Abraham, And
in thy seed shall all families of earth
be praised.

26 To you first God, having raised
up his child Jesus, sent him praising
you, in turning away each from your
wickedness.

CHAPTER IV.
ND they speaking to the people,
the priests, and commander of
the temple, and the Sadducees, re-
sisted them,

2 Being exercised because they
taught the people, and announced in
Jesus the rising up from the dead.

3 And they put hands upon them,
and set in guard for the morrow: for
it was already evening.

4 And many of them having heard
the word, believed ; and the number of
men was about five thousand.

5 And it was on the morrow, their
rulers, and elders, and scribes, were
gathered together at Jerusalem,

6 And Annas, chief priest, and Cai-
aphas, and John, and Alexander, and
as many as were of the lineage of the
chief priest.

7 And having set them in the midst,
they inquired, In what power, or in
what name, did ye do this ?

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the peo-
ple, and elders of Israel,

9 If we are this day examined of
the kindness of the sick man, by whom
he has been saved ;

10 Be it known to all you, and to all
the people of Israel, that in the name
of Jesus Christ the Nazarite, whom ye
crucified, whom God raised from the
dead, in this he stands before you
whole. .

11 This is the stone set at nought by
you building, he having been for the
head of the corner.

12 And salvation is in no other: for
neither is another name given under
heaven among men, in which we must
be saved.

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3 And seeing the freedom of speech
of Peter and John, and comprehend-
ing that they are illiterate men, and
private individuals, they wondered;
and they knew them, that they were
with Jesus.

14 And seeing the man healed stand-
ing with them, they had nothing to
contradict.

15 And having urged them to de-
part out of the council, they delibera-
ted with one another,

16 Saying, What shall we do to
these men ¢ for that truly a known sign
has been by them, manifest to all them
dwelling in Jerusalem: and we cannot
deny.

17 But that it be not more and
more exposed to the wind among the
people, let us threaten them with a
threat, to speak no more in this name
to any man.

18 And having 681160 them, they
enjoined them universally not to utter
neither to teach in the name of Jesus.

19 And Peter and John having an-
swered to them, said, If it is just be-
fore God to hear you rather than God,
judge ye.

20 For we cannot, the things we
have seen and heard, not speak.

21 And they having made addition-
al threats, loosed them, finding noth-
ing how they might chastise them,
for sake of the people: for all honoured
God for that having been done.

22 For the man was more than forty
years, upon whom this sign of healing
was done.

23 And having been loosed, they
came to their own, and announced to
them what the chief priests and elders
said.

24 And they, having heard, lifted up
the voice unanimously to God, and
said, Sovereign, thou God having made
heaven, and earth, and sea, and all
things which in them:

25 Having said by the mouth of
David thy servant, That why were the
nations insolent, and did the people
practise vain things ?

26 Kings of the earth stood up, and
rulers were gathered together upon one
and the same, against the Lord, and
against his Christ.

27 For against the truth were they
gathered together against thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou didst anoint,
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with
the nations and peoples of Israel,

28 To do what thy hands and thy
counsel predestinated to be.

29 And now, Lord, look upon their
threats: and give to thy servants, with
all freedom of speech to speak thy
word,

30 In thy stretching out thy hand for
healing ; and signs and wonders to be
for the name of thine holy child Jesus.

31 And they having prayed, the
place was shaken in which they were
gathered together; and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit, and spake
the word of God with freedom of
speech.

32 And the heart and soul of the
multitude of them believing were
one: and not one said any of the
things being to him to be his own;
but all were common to them.

33 And in great power the sent
gave back testimony of the rising up
01 the Lord Jesus: and great grace was
upon them all.

34 For neither was any in want
among them: foras many as were pos-
sessors of farms or houses, selling,
brought the prices of things sold,

35 And laid down at the feet of the
sent: and it was distributed to each
as any had need.

36 And Joses, surnamed Barnabas
by the sent, ( which is interpreted, Son
of consolation,) a Levite, a Cyprian
by birth,

87 A field being to him having sold,
he brought the money and laid at the
feet of the sent.

CHAPTER V.
ND a certain man, Ananias by
name, with Sapphira his wife,
sold a possession,

2 And separated from the price, his
wite also knowing ; and having brought
a certain part, laid at the feet of the
sent.

3 And Peter said, Ananias, where-
fore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to
belie the Holy Spirit, and separate
from the price of the farm ?

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4 Remaining, did it not remain to
thee 7 and sold, it was in thy power: for
what hast thou put this thing in thy
heart ? thou hast not lied to men, but
to God.

5 And Ananias hearing these words,
having fallen down, he expired: and
great fear was upon all them hearing
these things.

6 And the younger having risen up,
drew him together, and having carried
out, interred.

7 And there was an interval of about
three hours, and his wife not know-
ing that done, came in.

8 And Peter answered to her, Tell
me, if for so much ye sold the farm /
And she said, Yes, for so much.
_ 9 And Peter said to her, For what

was it agreed by you to tempt the
Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet
of them having interred thy husband
at the door, and they shall carry thee
out. :

10 And she fell immediately at his
feet, and expired: and the young men
having come in, found her dead, and
having carried out, interred near her
husband.

11 And great fear was upon the
whole. church, and upon all haying
heard these things.

12 And by the hands of the sent
were many signs and wonders among
the people ; (and all were unanimously
in Solomon’s porch.

13 And of them remaining none
dared join them: but the people mag-
nified them.

14 And the believing were the more
added to the Lord, multitudes of men
and also of women.)

15 So that the sick were brought in-
to the streets, and Jaid upon beds and
couches, that Peter coming, even the
shadow might overshadow certain of
them.

16 And a multitude also came to-
gether of them all around the cities
to Jerusalem, bringing the sick, and
the molested by unclean spirits: who
were all healed.

17 And the chief priest having risen,
and all they with him, (the sect being
of the Sadducees,) they were filled with
zeal,

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18 And put their hands upon thie
sent, and set them in the public keep-
ing.

19 And a messenger of the Lord _
by night opened the doors of the pris-
on, and having brought them forth,
said,

20 Go ye, and having stood, speak
in the temple all the words of this life.

21 And having heard, they came in
by morning to the temple, and taught.
But the chief priest having approached,
and they with him, called the council
together, and all the assembly of the
sons of Israel, and sent to the prison
for them to be brought.

22 And the attendants having come
near, found them not in the prison,
and having returned, they announced,

23 Saying, That we truly found the
prison shut with all security, and the
watch standing without before the
doors: and having opened, we found
none within.

24 And when the priest and cap-
tain of the temple and chief priests
heard these words, they were in doubt
of them, what this might be.

25 And a certain one having come
near, announced to them, saying, That,
behold, the men which ye put in prison
are standing in the temple, and teach-
ing the people.

26 Then the commander having gone
with attendants, brought them, not
with force: for they feared the peo-
ple, lest they might be stoned.

27% And having brought them, they
set in the council: and the chief
priest asked them,

28 Saying, Did we not announce to
you by order, not to teach by this
name ? and, behold, ye have filled Jeru-
salem with your teaching, and ye de-
sire to bring upon us this man’s blood.

29 And Peter having answered. and
the sent, said, We must obey God rath-
er than men.

80 The God of our fathers raised up
Jesus, whom ye slew with your own
hands, having hung him upon a tree.

81 This, God exalted, a Chief and
Saviour, with his right hand to give
repentance to Israel, and remission of
sins.

82 And we are his witnesses of

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these words; and the Holy Spirit,
whom God gave to them obeying
him.

33 And having heard, they gnashed
the teeth with rage, and consulted to
kill them.

34 And a certain Pharisee having
risen up inthe council, by name Gama-
liel, a teacher of the law, honoured by
all the people, urged to put the sent
without a little while.

85 And hesaid to them, Men, Isra-
elites, attend to yourselves on account
of these men, what ye are about todo.

90 For before these days Theudas
arose, saying himself to be somebody :
which a number of men followed,
about four hundred, who wasslain;
and all, as many as believed him, were
destroyed, and were for nothing.

37 After this Judas the Galilean
arose in the days of enrolling, and mis-
led enough people after him: and he
perislied ; and all, as many as believed
1im, were scattered.

38 And now say I to you, Depart
from these men, and leave them;
for if this counsel or this work be 1
men, it shall be destroyed:

89 And if it is of God, ye cannot de-
stroy it; lest ye also be found conten-
ders against God.

40 And by him they were persua-
ded: and having called the sent, having
stripped, they enjoined not to speak in
the name of Jesus, and loosed them.

41 Truly therefore they went re-
joicing from the face of the council,
that for his name they were deemed
worthy to be dishonoured.

42 And every day in the temple, and
at the house, they ceased not teaching
and announcing the good news, Jesus
the Christ.

CHAPTER VI.
ND in those days, the disciples
multiplying, there was a mur-
muring of the Greeks against the He-
brews, because their widows were over-
looked in the daily service.

2 And the twelve having called the
multitude of the disciples, said, It is
not pleasing for us, having left the
word of God, to serve tables.

ΤῊ ACH ΥΕΣΎΙΙ.

3 Therefore, survey, brethren, seven
men of you, being witnesses full of the
Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye
shall set over this need.

4 And we will persevere in prayer,
and the service of the word.

5 And the word pleased before all
the multitude : and they chose Stephen,
a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit,
and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Ti-
mon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a
proselyte of Antioch :

6 Whom they set before the sent:
and having prayed, they put hands
upon them.

7 And the word of God increased:
and the number of disciples was mul-
tiplied greatly in Jerusalem; and a
great crowd of priests listened to the
faith.

8 And Stephen, full of faith and
power, did great wonders and signs
among the people.

9 And certain of them arose from
the synagogue, called Libertines, and
Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of
them from Cilicia and Asia, seeking
out with Stephen.

10 And they were not able to with-
stand the wisdom and the spirit by
which he spake.

11 Then they put under men, say-
ing, That we have heard him speaking
defaming words against Moses, and
God.

12 And they roused together the
people, and elders, and scribes, and
having stood against, they seized him,
and brought to the council,

13 And set false witnesses, saying,
This man ceases not speaking defam-
ing words against this holy place, and
the law:

14 For we have heard him saying,
That Jesus the Nazarite shall abolish
this place, and shall change the cus-
toms which Moses delivered to us.

15 And all they sitting in the coun-
cil, having looked intently upon him,
saw his face as the face of a messenger.

CHAPTER VII.
Ade the chief priest said, Hold
these things thus?
2 And he said, Men, brethren, and

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fathers, hear ye: The God of glory
was sent to our father Abraham, be-
ing in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Charran,

3 And he said to him, Come out of
thy land, and from thy kindred, and
come into the land which I shall show
thee.

4 Then having come out of the land
of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Charran:
and thence, after his father died, he
transplanted him into this land, in
which ye now dwell.

5 And he gave him none inheri-
tance in it, not a step of the foot : and
he promised to give it him fora pos-
session, and to his seed after him, there
being no child to him.

6 And God spake thus, That his seed
shall be dwelling in a strange land;
and it shall subjugate them, and inflict
evil four hundred years.

7 And the nation which they serve
will I judge, said God: and after
these shall they go out, and shall serve
me in this place.

8 And he gave him the covenant of
circumcision: and so he begat Isaac,
and circumcised him the eighth day ;
and Isaac Jacob; and Jacob the twelve
patriarchs.

9 And the patriarchs having been
jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but
God was with him,

10 And took him out of all his pres-
sures, and gave him grace and wisdom
before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set
him leader over Egypt and his whole
house.

11 And a famine came upon the
whole land of Egypt and Chanaan,
and great pressure: and our fathers
found no food.

12 And Jacob having heard wheat
being in Egypt, sent our fathers first.

13 And in the second time, Joseph
was made known to his brethren ; and
Joseph’s race was manifest to Pharaoh.

14 And Joseph having sent, called
for his father Jacob, and all his kin-
dred, in seventy-five souls.

15 And Jacob went down to Egypt,
and died, he, and our fathers,

16 And they transported him to
Sychem, and put him in the tomb
which Abraham was satisfied with for

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a price of silver from the sons of Em-
mor of Sychem.

17 And as the time of the solemn
promise drew near, which God sware to
Abraham, the people increased and
were multiplied in Egypt.

18 Till another king arose, which
knew not Joseph.

19 He having deceived our race by
sophistry, inflicted evil upon our fa-
thers, to make their babes cast out, that
they should not breed.

20 In which time Moses was born,
and he was shrewd to God, who was
nourished up three months in his fa-
ther’s house:

21 And he having been exposed,
Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and
nourished him for a son to herself.

22 And Moses was instructed in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was
powerful in words and in works.

23 And when the time of forty years
was completed to him, it came up upon
his heart to take a view of his brethren
the sons of Israel.

24 And having seen a certain one
injured, he defended, and did ven-
geance for him harassed, having struck
the Egyptian,

25 And he supposed his brethren to
understand that God by his hand gives
them salvation: and they understood
not.

26 And the following day he was
seen to those contending, and he com-
pelled them to peace, having said, Men,
ye are brethren; wherefore injure ye
one another ?

27 And he injuring the neighbor
repulsed him, having said, Who set
thee a ruler and judge over us ?

28 Wilt thou not kill me, as thou
didst kill the Egyptian yesterday ?

29 And Moses fled at this word, and
he was a sojourner in the land of Ma-
dian, where he begat two sons.

30 And forty years completed, a
messenger of the Lord was seen to
him in the desert of mount Sina, in a
flame of fire in a bramble.

31 And Moses having seen, won-
dered at the sight: and he coming
near to observe attentively, the voice of
the Lord was to him,

321 the God of thy fathers, God of

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Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God
of Jacob. And Moses being trem-
bling, dared not observe attentively.

33 And the Lord said to him, Loose
the shoes of thy feet: for the place
in which thou standest is holy land.

34 Having seen, I saw the injury
of my people in Egypt, and I heard
their groaning, and came down to
take them away. And now come, I
will send thee into Egypt.

35 This Moses which they denied,
having said, Who set thee ruler and
judge? this, God sent, a ruler and re-
deemer by the hand of the messenger
having been seen to him in the bram-
ble.

36 He brought them out, having
done wonders and signs in the land
of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in
the desert forty years.

37 This is Moses, having said to the
sons of Israel, A prophet shall the

Lord your God raise up to you of

your brethren, like me; him shall ye
hear.

38 This is he having been in the
church in the desert with the messen-
ger speaking to him in Mount Sina,
and our fathers: who received the liy-
ing oracles to give to us:

39 To whom our fathers would not
be obedient, but rejected, and in their
hearts they turned back into Egypt,

40 Having said to Aaron, Make us
gods who shall go before us: for this
Moses, who brought us out of the land
of Egypt, we know not what has been
to him.

41 And they made a calf in those
days, and brought up a sacrifice to the
image, and rejoiced inthe works of
their hands.

42 And God turned, and delivered
them up to serve the army of heaven ;
as it has been written in the book of
the prophets, Slain victims and sacri-
fices brought ye not to me forty years
in the desert, O house of Israel ?

43 And ye took up the tent of Mo-
loch, and the star of your god Rem-
phan, types which ye made to worship
them: and I will transplant you be-
yond Babylon.

44 The tent of testimony was with

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our fathers in the desert, as he speak-
ing set to Moses, to make it according
to the type which he had seen,

45 Which also our fathers having
received brought in with Jesus in the
possession of nations, which God
drove out from our fathers’ face, even
tothe days of David;

46 Who found grace before God,
and asked to find a tent to the God of
Jacob.

47 And Solomon built for himself
a house.

48 But the Highest dwells not in
temples made by hands; as says the
prophet,

49 Heaven 8 throne to me, and earth
the footstool of my feet: what house
will ye build to me? says the Lord:
or what the place of my rest ?

50 Did not my hand make all these
things ?

51 Ye stiffnecked and uncireum-
cised in heart and ears, ye always re-
sist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers,
also you.

52 Which of the prophets did not
your fathers drive out? and they slew
them announcing beforehand of the
coming of the Just ; of whom ye have
now been traitors and murderers :

53 Who have received the law by
the regulations of messengers, and
ye watched not.

54 And having heard these, they
were sawn through their hearts, and
they gnashed the teeth upon him.

55 And being full cf the Holy
Spirit, having looked intently to
heaven, he saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing at the right hand of
God,

56 And he said, Behold, I see the
heavens opened, and the Son of man
standing at the right hand of God.

57 And having cried with a great
voice, they held fast their ears, and
rushed unanimously upon him,

58 And having cast out of the city,
they stoned: and the witnesses laid
down their garments at the feet of a
young man called Saul.

59 And they stoned Stephen, call-
ing upon, and saying, Lord Jesus, re-
ceive my spirit.

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60 And having set the knees, he
cried with a great voice, Lord, wouldest
thou not set this sin to them. And
having said this he was set to sleep.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND Saul was assenting to his
murder. And in that day was a
great expulsion upon the church in
Jerusalem; and all were scattered up
and down in the countries of Judea
and Samaria, except the sent.

2 And circumspect men interred
Stephen, and made great lamentation
over him,

3 And Saul abused the church, go-
ing into houses, and drawing out men
and women, delivered to prison.

4 Truly therefore the dispersed
passed through announcing good news
the word.

5 And Philip having come down to
the city of Samaria, proclaimed Christ
to them.

6 And the crowds unanimously at-
tended to things spoken by Philip, in
their hearing and seeing the signs
which he did.

7 For of many having unclean
spirits, crying with a great voice, they
came out: and many affected with
palsy, and the lame, were healed.

8 And great joy was in that city.

9 And a certain man, Simon by
name, was before in the city using
magic, and astonishing the nation of
Samaria, saying himself to be some-
body great:

10 To whom attended from little to
great, saying, This is the great power
of God.

11 And they attended to him, be-
cause for a sufficient time they were
astonished by magics.

12 And when they believed Philip
announcing the good news of the king-
dom of God, and the name of Jesus
Christ, they were immersed, both men
and women.

13 And Simon also himself believed:
and having been immersed, he was
persevering with Philip, beholding the
signs and great powers having been,
they were astonished.

14 And the sent in Jerusalem hay-

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ing heard that Samaria had received
the word of God, they sent them
Peter and John:

15 Who, having gone down, prayed
for them, that they receive the Holy
Spirit :

16 (For not yet was it fallen upon
any of them: only they were immersed
into the name of the Lord Jesus.)

17 Then put they hands upon them,
and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 And Simon having seen that by
putting on of hands of the sent the
Holy Spirit is given, he brought money
to them,

19 Saying, Give me also this power,
that upon whomsoever I put hands, he
might receive the Holy Spirit.

20 And Peter said to him, May thy
silver be for ruin with thee, for thou
thoughtest the gift of God to be
purchased for money.

21 No portion is to thee, nor lot, in
this word : for thy heart is not upright
before God.

22 Repent therefore of this thy
wickedness, and pray to God, if
perhaps the thought of thy heart be
remitted to thee.

23 For 1 see thee being in the bile
of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.

24 And Simon having answered,
said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that
nothing which ye have spoken come
upon me.

25 Truly therefore, they having
testified and spoken the word of the
Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and an-
nounced good news to many towns of
the Samaritans.

26 And a messenger of the Lord
spake to Philip, saying, Arise, and go
at noon in the way going down from
Jerusalem to Gaza, (this is desert.)

27 And having risen, he went: and,
behold, an Ethiopian man, an eunuch of
great power of Candace queen of the
Ethiopians, who was over all her treas-
ure, who had come going to worship in
Jerusalem,

28 And he was returning, and sit-
ting in his chariot he read the prophet
Esaias.

29 And the Spirit said to Philip,
Come near, and be joined to this chariot.

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30 And Philip running near, heard
him reading the prophet Esaias, and
he said, Truly knowest thou what thou
readest ?

31 And he said, How can 1, except
somebody guide me? And he called
upon Philip coming up to sit with him.

32 And the passage of the writing
which he read was this, As a sheep
for slaughter was he brought; and as
alamb before him shearing it dumb,
so he opened not his mouth:

33 In his humiliation was his judg-
ment taken away: and his generation
who shall recount? for his life is
taken from the earth.

34 And the eunuch having answered
Philip, said, I pray thee, of whom speaks
the prophet this? of himself? or of
some other?

85 And Philip having opened his
mouth, and begun from this writing,
announced to him the good news,
Jesus.

36 And as they went in the way,
they cane to some water: and the
eunuch said, Behold water; what hin-
ders me to be immersed ?

37 And Philip said, If thou believest
from the whole heart, it is lawful. And
having answered, he said, I believe the
Son of God to be Jesus Christ.

88 And he ordered the chariot to
stand: and both went down into the
water, both Philip and the eunuch:
and he immersed him.

29 And when they came up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord car-
ried away Philip, and the eunuch saw
him no more: for he went his way re-
joicing.

40 And Philip was found at Azotus:
and passing through he announced
the good news to all of the cities,
even till he came to Cesarea.

CHAPTER IX.
ND Saul, yet breathing out threat-
ening and murder against the
disciples of the Lord, having come to
the chief priest,

2 He asked of him letters to Damas-
cus, to the synagogues, so that if he
find certain men being of the way,
and also women, he might bring them
bound to Jerusalem.

THE ACTS VIII, TX.

3 And in going, it was he drawing
near to Damascus: and suddenly a
light from heaven flashed with light-
ning around him :

4 And having fallen upon the earth,
he heard a voice saying to him, Sanl,
Saul, Why drivest thou me out ?

5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord ?
And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom
thou drivest out: hard for thee to
kick against goads.

6 And he trembling and amazed
said, Lord, What wilt thou me to do?
And the Lord to him, Arise, and
come into the city, and it shall be
spoken to thee what thou must do.

7 And the men journeying with
him stood astonished, hearing the
voice truly, and seeing no one.

8 And Saul was raised up from the
earth; and his eyes being opened, he
saw no one: and leading him by the
hand, they brought him to Damascus.

9 And he was three days not seeing,
and he ate not, nor drank.

10 And a certain disciple was in
Damascus, Ananias by name; and
the Lord said to him in a vision,
Ananias. And he said, Behold, I,
Lord.

11 And the Lord to him, Hav-
ing risen, go thou to the street called
Straight, and seek in the house of Ju-
das Saul by name, of Tarsus; for, be-
hold, he prays,

12 And he saw in a vision a man,
by name Ananias, coming in, and hav-
ing put hand upon him, so that he
might look up and see again.

13 And Ananias answered, Lord, I
have heard from many of this man,
how many evils he did to thy holy ones
in Jerusalem :

14 And here has he authority from
the chief priests to bind all those call-
ing on thy name.

15 And the Lord said to him, Go:
for he is a vessel of choice to me, to
lift up my name before nations, and
kings, and the sons of Israel :

16 For I will show him what he
must suffer for my name.

17 And Ananias departed, and came
into the house; and having put hands
upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord
has sent me, Jesus, he seen to thee in

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the way which thou camest, so that
thou mightest look up, and be filled
with the Holy Spirit.

18 And quickly there fell from his
eyes as scales: and he immediately
looked up, and having risen, he was
immersed.

19 And having taken food, he was
strong. And Saul was in Damascus
with the disciples certain days.

20 And quickly in the synagogues
he proclaimed Jesus, that he is the
Son of God.

21 And all they hearing were affect-
ed in mind, and said: Is not this he
having laid waste in Jerusalem those
calling upon this name, and he has come
here for this, that he might bring
them having been bound to the chief
priests ?

22 And Saul was the more strength-
ened, and confounded the Jews dwell-
ing in Damascus, demonstrating that
this is the Christ.

23 And when sufficient days were
completed, the Jews counselled to-
gether to put him to death :

24 But this project was known to
Saul. And they observed narrowly
the gates day, and also night, that they
might kill him.

25 And the disciples having taken
him by night, put through the wall,
haying let down in a wicker basket.

26 And Saul being present in Je-
rusalem, tried to join himself to the dis-
ciples: and they were all afraid of
him, not believing that he is a disci-

le.

27 And Barnabas having taken him,
brought him to the sent, and recounted
to them how in the way he saw the
Lord, and that he spake to him, and
how in Damascus he spake freely in
the name of Jesus.

28 And he was with them going in
and going ont in Jerusalem, and
speaking freely in the name of the
Lord Jesus.

29 And he spake and sought out
with the Greeks; but they purposed
to kill him.

30 And the brethren having known,
brought him down to Cesarea, and
they sent him forth to Tarsus.

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31 Then truly the churches through
the whole of Judea and Galilee and
Samaria, had peace, being built up;
and going in the fear of the Lord, and
in the consolation of the Holy Spirit,
were multiplied.

32 And it was Peter, passing
through all, came down also to the holy
ones dwelling in Lydda.

33 And he found there a certain
man, Eneas by name, lying upon a
bed of eight years, who was affected
with palsy.

34 And Peter said to him, Eneas,
Jesus Christ heals thee; arise, and
cover thyself. And he arose quickly.

35 And all dwelling in Lydda and
Saron saw him, who turned back to
the Lord.

36 And in Joppa was a certain dis-
ciple by name Tabitha, which inter-
preted is called Dorcas: she was full
of good works and alms which she
did.

37 And it was in those days, having
been sick, she died; and having wash-
ed, they Jaid her in an upper room.

88 And Lydda being near Joppa,
the disciples having heard that Peter
is in it, sent to him two men, beseech-
ing not to hesitate to pass through
even to them.

39 And Peter having risen came
with them. Whom having approach-
ed, they brought into the upper room:
and all the widows stood before him
weeping, and showing the coats and
garments which Dorcas made, being
with them.

40 And Peter having put them all
without, having set the knees, prayed ;
and having turned back to the body
he said, Tabitha, arise. And she open-
ed her eyes: and having seen Peter,
sat up.

41 And having given her the hand,
he raised her up, and having called
the holy ones and the widows, he
placed her living before them.

42 And it was known through the
whole of Joppa: and many believed
upon the Lord.

43 And days sufficient he remained
in Joppa with a certain Simon, a cur-
rier.

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ND a certain man was in Cesarea
by name Cornelius, a centurion
of the band called Italian,

2 Religious, and fearing God with
all his house, and doing many alms to
the people, and praying God always.

3 He saw in a vision manifestly
about the ninth hour of the day a
messenger of God having come in
to him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

4 And having looked at him intent-
ly, and being afraid, he said, What is
it, Lord? And he said to him, Thy
prayers and thine alms went up for
remembrance before God.

5 And now send men to Joppa, and
send for Simon, who 18 ealled Peter :

6 He is received as guest with a cer-
tain Simon a currier, to whom is a
house by the sea: he shall speak to
thee what thou must do.

7 And when the messenger speaking
to Cornelius departed, having called
two of his servants, and a religious
soldier of those persevering with him;

8 And having related all to them,
he sent them to Joppa.

9 And the morrow, these travelling,
and drawing near to the city, Peter
went up upon the house to pray about
the sixth hour:

10 And he was hungry, and would
have eaten: and these making ready,
a deep trance fell upon him,’

11 And he sees heaven opened, and
a certain vessel descending upon him,
as a great linen napkin fastened at the
four beginnings, and laid down upon
the earth:

12 In which were all the quadrupeds
of the earth, and wild beasts, and
creeping things, and the flying things
of heaven.

13 And a voice was to him, Having
risen, Peter, kill, and eat.

14 And Peter said, By no means,
Lord; for never ate I anything com-
mon or unclean.

15 Anda voice again of a second
time to him, What things God clean-
sed, do not thou make common.

16 And this was for thrice : and again
was the vessel taken up into heaven,

17 And as Peter was doubting in

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himself what the vision might be
which he saw, and behold, the man
sent from Cornelius having asked for
Simon’s house, stood at the gate,

18 And having called, they were
inquiring if Simon, surnamed Peter,
is received there as a guest.

19 And Peter reflecting con-
cerning the vision, the Spirit said to
him, Behold, three men seek thee.

20 But thou having risen, come
down, and go with them, discussing
nothing; for I have sent them.

21 And Peter having come down to
the men sent from Cornelius to him,
said, Behold, Iam he whom ye 860] :
what the cause for which ye are pres-
ent ?

22 And they said, Cornelius the
centurion, a just man, and fearing
God, and witnessed of by the whole
nation of the Jews, received intima-
tion of the divine will by a holy mes-
senger to send for thee to his house,
and hear words of thee.

23 Therefore having called them in,
he received as guests. And on the
morrow Peter came forth with them,
and certain of the brethren from Jop-
pa came with him.

24 And the morrow he came to Ce-
sarea. And Cornelius was waiting
for them, having called together his
kinsmen and friends by relationship.

25 And it was as Peter came in,
Cornelius having met him, having
fallen at his feet, worshipped.

26 And Peter raised him up, saying,
Arise: I am also myself man.

27 And discoursing with him, he
came in, and finds many come together.

28 And he said to them, Ye know
that it is violating law for a mana
Jew to join himself, or come near to
astrange tribe: and God shewed me
to call no man common or unclean.

29 And therefore came I without
contradiction, having been sent for;
therefore I inquire for what word ye
sent for me ?

30 And Cornelius said, From the
fourth day till this hour I was fasting ;
and the ninth hour praying in my
house, and, behold, a man stood before
me in bright clothing,

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81 And he says, Cornelius, thy|nations the gift of the Holy Spirit
prayer was harkened to, and thine} was poured 00. ~

alms remembered before God.

32 Therefore send to Joppa, and call
for Simon, who is surnamed Peter ; he
is received as guest in the house of Si-
mon the currier by the sea: who, be-
ing present, shall speak to thee.

33 From this therefore sent I to
thee: and thou didst well being
present. Now therefore are all we
present before God, to hear all com-
manded thee of God.

34 And Peter having opened the
mouth, said, Of a truth I comprehend
that God is no respecter of faces:

35 But in every nation he fearing
him, and working justice, is accepta-
ble to him.

36 The word which he sent to the
sons of Israel, announcing good news,

eace through Jesus Christ: (he is
Lord of all. )

37 The word ye know, having been
through the whole of Judea, haying
begun from Galilee, after the immer-
sion which John preached ;

88 Jesus from Nazareth, how God
anointed him with the Holy Spirit
and power ; who passed through doing
good, and healing all oppressed by the
devil; for God was with him.

39 And ye are witnesses of all which
he did in the country of the Jews, and
in Jerusalem; whom they killed, hay-
ing hanged upon wood :

40 Him God raised the third day,
and gave him to be manifest ;

41 Not to all people, but to wit-
nesses chosen before by God, to us,
who ate and drank with him after his
rising from the dead.

42 And he enjoined us to proclaim
to the people, and to testify that this is
he appointed by God, Judge of the
living and the dead.

43 To him all the prophets testify,
for all believing on him to receive re-
mission of sins through his name.

44 Peter yet speaking these words,
the Holy Spirit fell upon all hearing
the word.

45 And believers of the circumcision
were affected in mind, as many as
came with Peter, that also upon the

46 For they heard them speaking
with tongues, and magnifying God.
Then answered Peter,

47 Much less can any hinder water,
for these not to be immersed, who re-
ceived the Holy Spirit as also we?

48 And he commanded them to be
immersed in the name of the Lord.
Then asked they him to remain cer-
tain days.

CHAPTER XI.
pee the apostles and brethren,
those being in Judea, heard that
the nations also received the word of
God.

2 And when Peter went up to Jeru-
salem, they of the circumcision dis-
cussed with him,

3 Saying, That thou camest in to
men having uncircumcision, and didst
eat with them.

4 And Peter having begun, set
forth to them in order, saying,

5 I was in the city Joppa, praying:
and in a deep trance I saw a vision, A
certain vessel descending as a great
linen napkin, let down from heaven
by four beginnings; and it came even
to me:

6 Upon which having looked intent-
ly, I observed, and saw quadrupeds of
the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping
things, and the flying things of heaven.

7 And I heard a voice saying to me,
Having risen, Peter, kill and eat.

8 And I said, By no means, Lord:
for anything common or unclean never
came into my mouth.

9 And a voice answered me of a
second time from heaven, What God
cleansed, profane not.

10 And this was for thrice: and
again all was drawn up into heaven.

11 And, behold, from this three men
stood at the house in which I was, sent
from Cesarea to me.

12 And the spirit said to me to
come with them, discussing nothing.
And these six brethren came also with
me, and we came to the man’s house:

13 And he announced to us how he
saw a messenger in his house, having

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stood and said to him, Send men to
Joppa, and send for Simon, surnamed
Peter ;

14 Who shall speak words to thee,
by which thou shalt be saved and all
thy house.

15 And in my beginning to speak,
the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as
also upon us in the beginning.

16 And I remembered the word of
the Lord, when he said, John truly
immersed with water; but ye shall be
immersed with the Holy Spirit.

17 If therefore God gave the like
gift to them as also to us, having be-
lieved in the Lord Jesus Christ ; how
was I able to hinder God ?

18 And having heard these, they
were silent, and honoured God, say-
ing, For also God gave the nations re-
pentance to life.

19 Therefore truly those dispersed
by the pressure having been on ac-
count of Stephen, passed through even
to Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch,
speaking the word to none except the
Jews only.

20 And certain of them were Cy-
prian and Cyrenian men, who having
come to Antioch, spake to the Greeks,
announcing ₪000 news, the Lord
Jesus.

21 And the hand of the Lord was
with them ; and a great number haying
believed, turned to the Lord.

99 And the word was heard in the
ears of the church in Jerusalem con-
cerning them: and they sent Barna-
bas to pass through even to Antioch.

23 Who, having been present, and
seen the grace of God, rejoiced, and
besought them all, with purpose of
heart, to remain to the Lord.

24 For he was a good man, and full
of the Holy Spirit and of faith: anda
crowd sutticient were added to the
Lord.

25 And Barnabas came forth to
Tarsus, to seek Saul.

26 And having found him, 6
brought him to Antioch. And it was
for a whole year they were assembled
together in the churches, and taught a
sufficient crowd. And the disciples were
Christians by divine intimation first in
Antioch.

THE ACTS ΧΙ. XIE.

27 In these days came down prophets
from Jerusalem to Antioch.

28 And one of them having risen,
Agabus by name, signified by the
Holy Spirit a great famine was about to
be upon the whole habitable globe:
which was during Claudius Cesar.

29 And certain of the disciples, as
he was able, determined, each of them,
to send for service to the brethren
dwelling in Judea:

30 Which also they did, having sent
to the elders by the hands of Barna-
bas and Saul.

CHAPTER XII.
ND at that time Herod the king
laid hands upon toinjure certain
of the church.

2 And he killed James the brother
of John with the sword.

3 And having seen that it is pleas-
ing to the Jews, he added also to take
Peter. (They were the days of un-
leavened bread.)

4 And having seized, he put him in
prison, having delivered to four qua-
ternions of soldiers to watch him;
wishing after the pascha to bring him
to the people.

5 Truly therefore was Peter kept in
prison : and prayer was made continu-
ally by the church to God for him.

6 And when Herod was about to
bring him before, in that night Peter
was sleeping between two soldiers,
bound with two chains: and the watch
before the door kept the prison.

7 And, behold, the messenger of the
Lord stood before, and a light shone
in the dwelling: and having struck
Peter’s side, he raised him up, saying,
Arise quickly. And his chains fell ofl
trom the hands.

8 And the messenger said to him,
Gird thyself, and bind on thy small
sandals. And he did 50. And he said
to him, Put round thy garment, and
follow me.

9 And haying come out, he followed
him; and knew not that it is true that
being done by the messenger; and
seemed to see a vision.

10 And having passed by the first
and second watch, they came tothe iron
gate leading to the city ; which of its

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free will was opened to them: and
haying come out, they advanced one
street ; and quickly the messenger de-
parted from him.

11 And Peter being as himself, said,
Now know I truly that the Lord sent
his messenger, and took me out of the
hands of Herod, and all the expecta-
tion of the people of the Jews.

12 And being conscious, he came to
the house of Mary mother of John,
surnamed Mark; where were sufficient
assembled, and praying.

13 And Peter having knocked at the
door of the gate, a young girl came
near to listen, by name Rhoda.

14 And having known Peter’s voice,
from joy she opened not the gate, and
running, announced Peter to stand be-
fore the gate.

15 And they said to her, Thou art
mad. And she was strengthened to
have it so. And they said, It is his
Ine senger.

10 And Peter continued knocking:
and having opened, they saw him, and
were moved.

17 And having shaken with the
hand at them to be silent, he related to
them how the Lord bronght him out
of prison. And he said, Announcethese
things to James, and the brethren. And
having come out, he went to another
place.

18 And it being day, not a little
trouble was among the soldiers, what
was become of Peter.

19 And Herod having sought him,
and not found, having examined the
watch, commanded them to be re-
moved. And having come down from
Judea to Cesarea, he tarried.

20 And Herod was fighting with vi-
olent animosity, with Tyrians and Si-
donians: but they came unanimously
to him, and having conciliated Blastus,
him over the king’s bed-chamber,
they asked peace; for their country
was nourished from the king’s.

21 And upon a fixed day, Herod,
having put מס‎ royal apparel, and hay-
ing sat upon the judgment seat, har-
angued them.

22 And the people called aloud, The
voice of God, and not of man.

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23 And immediately the messenger
of the Lord struck him, because he
gave not the glory to God: and eaten
by worms, he expired.

24 And the word of God increased
and multiplied.

25 And Barnabas and Saul returned
from Jerusalem, having completed the
service, and taken with them John,
surnamed Mark.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND certain prophets and teachers
were in the church being in An-
tioch ; as Barnabas, and Simeon called
Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and
Manaen, brought up with Herod the
tetrarch, and Saul.

2 And they serving the Lord, and
fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate
to me Barnabas and Saul to the work
which I have 681160 them.

3 Then having fasted and prayed,
and put hands upon them, they let go.

4 Therefore these truly, sent forth
by the Holy Spirit, came down to Se-
leucia, and from thence they sailed to
Cyprus.

5 And being in Salamis, they an-
nounced the word of God in the syna-
gogues of the Jews: and they had also
John a servant.

6 And having passed through the
island to Paphos, they found a certain
magician, a false prophet, a Jew, the ~
name to him Bar-jesus :

7 Who was with the proconsul, Ser-
gius Paul, an intelligent man; he
having called Barnabas and Saul,
sought anxiously to hear the word of
God.

8 And Elymas the magician with-
stood them, (for so was his name in-
terpreted,) seeking to turn the procon-
sul from the faith.

9 And Sanl, (also Paul,) filled with
the Holy Spirit, and looking intently
upon him, said,

10 O, full of deceit, and all dex-
terity, sonof the devil, enemy of all
justice, wilt thou cease perverting the
straight waysof the Lord?

11 And now, behold, the hand of
the Lord upon thee, and thou shalt be
blind, not seeing the sun till the time.

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And immediately fell upon גוזו[‎ mist
and darkness; and going about he
sought leading by hand.

12 Then the proconsul having seen
that done, he believed, being struck
with amazement at the teaching of
the Lord.

13 And having been brought from
Paphos, they about Paul came to
Perga of Pamphylia: and John, hay-
ing departed from them, returned to
Jerusalem.

14 And they having passed from
Perga, approached Antioch of Pisidia,
and having come into the synagogue
on the day of the sabbaths, they sat
down.

15 And after reading of the law
and the prophets, the rulers of the
syhagogue sent to them, saying, Men,
brethren, if the word of encourage-
ment is in you to the people, speak.

16 And Paul having risen, and shak-
en with the hand, said, Men, Israclites,
and ye fearing God, hear ye.

17 God of this people Israel chose
our fathers, and exalted the people in
sojourning in the land of Egypt, and
with high arm brought them out of it.

18 And about forty years time he
bare them in the desert.

19 And having destroyed seven na-
tions in the land of Chanaan, he gave
them to inherit this land by lot.

20 And after these, about four hun-
dred and fifty years he gave judges,
even to Samuel the prophet.

21 And thence they desired a king;
and God gave them Saul, son of Kish,
aman of the tribe of Benjamin, forty
years.

22 And having removed him, he
raised up to them David for king; to
whom also having testified, he satd, I
found David of Jesse, a man accord-
ing to my heart, who shall do all my
desires.

23 From the seed of this has God
according to promise raised up to
Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

94 John having proclaimed before
the face of his coming the immer-
sion of repentance to all the people of
Israel.

25 And as John completed the

THE ACTS XIII.

course, he said, Whom think ye me
to be? Iam not. But, behold, he
comes after me, whose shoes of the
feet 1 am not worthy to loose.

26 Men, brethren, sons of Abra-
ham’s race, and those among you fear-
ing God, to you was the word of this
salvation sent.

27 For they dwelling in Jerusalem,
and their rulers, not having known
him, and the voices of the prophets
which being read in every sabbath,
having judged, they filled up.

28 And having found no cause of
death, they desired Pilate to have him
slain.

29 And when they finished 1
things written concerning him, having
taken down from the wood, they put
in a tomb.

80 And God raised him from the
dead :

31 Who was seen for many days to
them having come up with him froth
Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his wit-
nesses to the people.

32 And we announce good news to
you, the promise made to our fathers,

83 For this has God completed to
us, their children, having raised up
Jesus; asit has also been written in the
second psalm, Thou art my Son; to day
have I begotten thee.

34 And that he raised him from the
dead, no more about to return to cor-
ruption, so he said, That I will give
you the holy, faithful things of David.

35 For also in another, he says,
Thou shalt not give thy Holy one to
see corruption.

36 For David, truly having served
his own generation by the will of God,
was set to sleep, and was added to
his fathers, and saw corruption :

37 But whom God raised up, he saw
no corruption.

38 Be it known therefore to you,
men, brethren, that for him remission
of sins is announced to you.

39 And from all which ye could not
be justified by Moses’ law, every one
believing in him is justified.

40 See ye, therefore, that that
spoken by the prophets come not upon
you.

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41 See, ye despisers,.and wonder,
and perish: for 1 work a work in your
days, which ye would not believe if
any recount to you.

42 And the Jews having gone out
of the synagogue, the nations besought
to have these words spoken in the
sabbath between.

43 And the synagogue having been
dissolved, many of the Jews and
strangers worshipping, followed Paul
and Barnabas: who speaking to them,
persuaded them to remain in the grac<
of God.

44 And the next sabbath nearly all
the city was gathered together to hear
the word of God.

45 And the Jews, having seen the
crowds, were filled with envy, and
spake against the things said by Paul,
contradicting and defaming.

46 And Paul and Barnabas speaking
freely, said, To you was it first neces-
sary for the word of God to be spoken :
but since ye reject it,and judge your-
selves not worthy of eternal life, be-
hold, we turn to the nations.

47 For so has the Lord commanded
us, I have set thee for a light of the
nations, for thee to be for salvation
even to the last of the earth.

48 And the nations having rejoiced,
honoured the word of the Lord:
and they 00110960, 88 many as were
drawn out for eternal life.

49 And the word of the Lord was
conveyed through the whole country.

50 And the Jews urged on the wor-
shipping and distinguished women,
and the first men of the city, and they
raised up a persecution against Paul
and Barnabas, and they cast them out
of their bounds.

51 And they, having shaken off the
cloud of the dust of their feet against
them, came into Iconium.

52 And the disciples were filled with
joy, and the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER XIV.
Ae it was in Iconium according
to the same, went they into the
synagogue of the Jews, and so spake,
that a great multitude of the Jews
and also of Greeks believed.

ΧΆ χη 145

2 And the unbelieving Jews excited
and trained up the souls of the nations
against the brethren.

3 Therefore truly they remained a
sufficient time speaking freely’ in the
Lord, he testifying to the word of his
grace, and giving signs and wonders
to be done by their hands.

4 And the multitude of the city
was divided: and some truly were with
the Jews, and some with the sent.

5 And when there was a violent
effort of the nations, and also of the
Jews with their rulers, to be insolent,
and to stone them,

6 Being conscious, they fled to the
cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe,
and the country round about:

7 And there they were announcing
the good news.

8 And a certain man in Lystra, not
haying strength in the feet, sat, being
lame from his mother’s belly, who had
never walked:

9 He having heard Paul speaking,
who having looked intently upon him,
and seen that he has faith to be cured,

10 Said with a great voice, Stand
up upon thy feet upright. And he
leaped and walked.

11 And the crowds having seen
what Panl did, lifted up their voices,
saying in Lyeaonian, Gods likened to
men came down to us.

12 And truly they called Barnabas,
Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he
was leader of the word.

13 And Jupiter’s priest, being be-
fore their city, having brought bulls
and crowns to the gates, wished to
sacrifice with the crowd.

14 And Barnabas and Paul, the
sent, having heard, having rent their
garments, rushed in among the crowd,
erying out,

15 And saying, Men, why do ye
these things? We also are men of
similar passions with you, announcing
good news to turn you back from these
vanities to the living God, who made
heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in
them:

16 Who in past generations suffered
all nations to go in their ways.

17 And surely indeed he left not

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himself without witness, doing good,
having given us rain from heaven, and
fruitful times, filling our hearts with
food and gladness.

18 And saying these, they scarcely
hindered the crowds, not to sacrifice
to them.

19 And Jews came from Antioch
and Iconium, and having persuaded
the crowds, and stoned Paul, drew
out of the city, supposing him to be
dead.

20 And the disciples having sur-
rounded him, having risen, he came
into the city: and the morrow he
came out with Barnabas to Derbe.

21 And having announced that city
the good news, and made disciples sufli-
cient, they returned to Lystra, and
Iconium, and Antioch,

22 And supporting the souls of the
disciples, beseeching to remain in the
faith, that through many pressures we
must come into the kingdom of God.

23 And having chosen them elders
in the church, having prayed with
fasting, they set them before the
Lord, in whom they had believed.

24 And having passed through Pis-
idia, they came to Pamphylia.

25 And having spoken the word in
Perga, they came down to Attalia:

26 And thence they sailed away to
Antioch, thence were they delivered
by the grace of God to the work
which they completed.

27 And having arrived, and gather-
ed the church together, they announced
what God did with them, and that he
opened the door of faith to the
nations.

28 And they tarried there not a little
time with the disciples.

CHAPTER XV.
ND certain haying come down
from Judea taught the brethren,
That except ye be circumcised by
Moses’ custom, ye cannot be saved.

2 Therefore dissension and no small
discussion having been to Paul and
Barnabas with them, they arranged
for Paul and Barnabas to go up, and
certain others of them, to the sent and
elders.in Jerusalem about this ques-
tion.

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3 Truly therefore the sent by the
church passed through Phenice and
Samaria, relating the turning back of
the nations: and they made great joy
to all the brethren.

4 And having arrived at Jerusalem,
they were received by the church, and
the sent and elders, and they an-
nounced what God did with them.

5 And certain of them from the
sect of the Pharisees having believed,
rose up, saying, That they must be
cireumcised, and to enjoin to keep the
law ot Moses.

6 And the sent and elders were
gathered together to see about this
word.

7 And much discussion having been,
Peter having risen up, said to them,
Men, brethren, ye know that from an-
cient days God chose among us,
through my mouth for the nations to
hear the word of good news, and be-
lieve.

8 And God the knower of hearts
testified to them, having given them
the Holy Spirit, as also us;

9 And separated nothing between us
and also them, by faith having purified
their hearts.

10 Now therefore why tempt ye
God, to put a yoke upon the neck of
the disciples, which neither our fathers
nor we were able to bear?

11 But by grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ we believe to be saved, as also
they.

12 And all the multitude were si-
lent, and heard Barnabas and Paul, re-
counting what signs and wonders God
did in the nations through them.

13 And after they were silent,
James answered, saying, Men, breth-
ren, hear me:

14 Simeon related how God first re-
viewed to take from the nations a
people for his name.

15 And with this the words of the
prophets agree: as has been.written,

16 After these will I return, and re-
build the tent of David, having fallen ;
and its things undermined will I re-
build, and set it upright:

17 So that they remaining of men
might seek out the Lord, and all the
| nations upon whom my name has been

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called upon them, says the Lord,
making all these.

18 Known to God are all his works
from eternity.

19 Wherefore I judge, not to molest
them, from the nations turning back
to God:

20 But to send to them, to keep off
from pollutions of images, and harlo-
try, and strangulation, and blood.

21 For Moses of ancient generations
has them proclaiming him in every
city, being read in the synagogues in
every sabbath.

22 Then it seemed fitting to the
sent and the elders, with the whole
church, to send chosen men of them to
Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Ju-
das surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, lead-
ing men among the brethren:

23 Having written by their hand
thus; The sent and elders and breth-
ren to the brethren in Antioch and
Syria and Cilicia from the nations,
health :

24 Since we heard that certain of us
having come out have troubled you
with words, destroying your souls,
saying, To be circumcised, and keep
the law: to whom we sent no word:

25 It seemed fitting to us, having
been unanimous, to send to you chosen
men with our dearly beloved Barnabas
and Paul,

26 Men having delivered up their
souls for the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

97 Therefore have we sent Judas
and Silas, and these by the word an-
nouncing these things.

28 For it seemed fitting to the Holy
Spirit, and to us, for no more burden
to be put upon you but the necessities
of these ;

29 To keep off from things sacri-
ficed to idols, and from blood, and
strangulation, and harlotry: from which
keeping yourselves, ye shall do well.
Fare ye well.

30 Truly therefore having been
loosed, they came to Antioch ; and hay-
ing gathered the multitude together,
they gave up the epistle:

31 And having read, they rejoiced
for the encouraging

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And Judas and Silas, they also‏ 32
being prophets, through much speech‏
consoled the brethren, and supported.‏
And having made time, they‏ 383
were loosed with peace from the breth-‏
ren to the sent.‏

34 And it seemed fitting to Silas to
wait for him.

35 And Paul and Barnabas tarried
in Antioch, teaching and announcing
good news, with many others, the word
of the Lord.

36 And after certain days said Paul
to Barnabas, Now having turned back,
let us review our brethren in every
city in which we announced the word
of the Lord, how they hold.

387 And Barnabas purposed to take
with them John, called Mark.

38 But Paul deemed worthy, hav-
ing withdrawn from them from Pam-
phylia, and not having come with
them to the work, not to take him
with them.

39 Therefore there was an incite-
ment, so that they separated from one
another: and Barnabas, having taken
Mark, sailed to Cyprus;

40 And Paul, having chosen Silas,
went forth, having been delivered to
the grace of God by the brethren.

41 And he passed through Syria and
Cilicia, supporting the churches.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND he arrived at Derbe and
Lystra: and, behold, a certain
disciple was there, by name Timothy,
son of a certain woman, a faithful
Jewess; and of a Greek father:

2 Who was testified of by the breth-
ren in Lystra and Iconium.

3 Him Paul wished to go forth with
him ; and having taken, he circumcised
him, on account of the Jews being in
those places: for all knew his father
that he was a Greek.

4 And as they were going through
the cities, they delivered them the or-
ders to watch, having been determined
by the sent and the elders in Jerusa-
lem.

5 Therefore truly the churches were
rendered firm in faith, and abounded
in number daily,

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6 And having passed through Phry-
gia and the Galatian country, hinder-
ed by the Holy Spirit from speaking
the word in Asia,

7 Having come to Mysia, they tried
to go to Bithynia: and the Spirit
suffered them not.

8 And having passed by Mysia they
came down to Troas.

9 And a vision was seen to Paul by
night; A certain man,a Macedonian,
was standing, beseeching him, and
saying, Having passed to Macedonia,
help’ us.

10 And when he saw the vision, we
quickly sought to come out to Mace-
donia, concluding that the Lord called
us to announce good news to them.

11 Therefore having been conveyed
from Troas, we ran straight forward
to Samothracia, and the following day
to Neapolis;

12 And thence to Philippi, which is
the first city of Macedonia, a colony.
And we were in that city passing cer-
tain days.

13 And the day of the sabbaths we
came out of the city by the river,
where prayer was customary to be;
and having sat down, we spake to
the women come together.

14 And a certain woman, by name
Lydia, a dealer in purple garments, of
the city of Thyatira, worshipping God,
heard: whose heart the Lord opened
to attend to things spoken by Paul.

15 And when she was immersed,
and her house, she besought, saying, If
ye have judged me to be faithful to
the Lord, having come into my house,
remain. And she forced us.

15 And it was we going for prayer,
acertain young girl having the spirit
of Python met us, who furnished
much gain to her lords, prophesying :

17 She having followed Paul and
us, cried, saying, These men are tlie
servants of the most high God, who
announce to us the way of salvation.

18 And this did she for many days.
And Paul, having been exercised,
and having turned back to the spirit,
said, I command thee in the name of

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REV.

19 And her lords having seen that
the hope of their gain went out, tak-
ing Paul and Silas, they drew to the
assembly to the rulers,

20 And having brought them to the
generals, they said, These the men
who cause disturbance to our city, be-
ing Jews,

21 And they announce customs,
which it is not lawful for us to receive,
nor do, being Romans.

22 And the crowd set together
against them: and the generals having
rent their garments, commanded to
scourge with rods.

23 And many blows having been put
upon them, they cast into prison, hay-
ing commanded the jailor to keep
chem safely :

25 And at midnight Paul and Silas
praying, praised God: and the im-
prisoned heard them.

26 And suddenly was a great earth-
quake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken; and immediately
all the doors were opened, and the
bonds of all were let Joose.

27 And the jailor being awakened,
and having seen the doors of the
prison opened, having drawn a sword,
was about to kill himself, supposing
the imprisoned to have fled.

28 And Paul called with a great
voice, saying, Thou shouldest do no
injury to thyself; for we are all here.

29 And having asked for a light, he
rushed in, and being trembling, fell
before Paul and Silas,

30 And bringing them ont, he said,
Lords, what must ii do that I might be
saved 4

31 And they said, Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thon shalt be
saved, and thy house.

32 And they spake to him the
word of the Lord, and to all in his
house.

33 And haying taken them in that
hour of the night, he washed out the
blows; and was immersed, he and all

Jesus Christ to come out of her. And|his, immediately.

it came out the same hour,

34 And having brought them up in-

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to his house, he set a table before, and
rejoiced with the entire household,
having believed God.

35 And it being day, the generals
sent the bearers of the rod, saying,
Loose these men.

36 And the jailor announced these
words to Paul, That the generals have
sent that ye be loosed: now therefore
having come out, go in peace.

37 But Paul said to them, Having
stripped us publicly not condemned,
being Roman men, they cast into
prison ; and now do they cast us out se-
cretly? notso; but having come them-
selves, let them bring us out.

38 And the bearer of the rod an-
nounced these words to the generals:
and they were afraid, having heard
that they are Romans.

39 And having come they besought
them, and having brought out, they
entreated to come out of the city.

40 And having come out of prison,
they came to Lydia; and having seen
the brethren, they encouraged them,
and they came forth.

CHAPTER XVII.

ND haying passed through Am-|.

phipolis and Apollonia, they came
to Thessalonica, where was a syna-
gogue of the Jews:

2 And according to custom to Paul,
he went in to them, and upon three
sabbaths discussed with them from the
writings,

3 Opening and setting before, that
it was necessary for Christ to suffer, and
rise from the dead; and that this is
Christ Jesus, whom I announce to
you.

4 And certain of them were persna-
ded, and were assigned by lot to Paul
and Silas ; and of worshipping Greeks
a great multitude, and not a few of
the first women.

5 And the unbelieving Jews, having
been jealous, and having taken certain
evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tu-
mult, they disturbed the city by loud
noise, and having stood against the
house of Jason, they sought to bring
them to the populace.

6 And not having found them, they

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drew Jason and certain brethren to the
rulers of the city, erying, That those
having subverted the habitable globe,
these also are present here ;

7 Which Jason has received: and
these all do opposite to Czesar’s enact-
ments, saying, There is another king,
Jesus.

8 And they troubled the crowd and
rulers of the city, having heard these.

9 And having taken sufficient of
Jason, and the rest, they loosed them.

10 And the brethren quickly sent
out both Paul and Silas by night to Be-
rea: who arriving went away to the
synagogue of the Jews.

11 And they were of more noble
birth than those in Thessalonica, who
received the word with all willingness,
and examined the writings daily,
if these things might hold thus.

12 Therefore truly many of them
believed; and of the distinguished
Grecian women, and of men, not few.

13 And when the Jews from Thes-
salonica heard that also in Berea the
word of God was announced by Paul,
they came there also, agitating the
crowd.

14 And quickly the brethren sent
away Paul to go as by the sea: and
both Silas and Timothy remained
there.

15 And they conveying Paul brought
him even to Athens: and having taken
a command to Silas and Timothy that
now they might come to him most
speedily, they departed.

16 And Paul waiting for them
among the Athenians, his spirit was
excited in him, seeing the city being
addicted to idol worship.

17 Therefore truly he discussed in
the synagogue with Jews, and those
worshipping, and in the assembly in
every day with those being present.

18 And certain of the Epicurean
and Stoic philosophers deliberated
with him. And certain said, What
may this idle, talkative man wish to
say ¢and others, Heseems to be adeclar-
er of strange demons: because he an-
nounced to them good news, and the
rising up.

19 And having taken him, they

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brought upon Mars’ hill, saying, Can
we know what this new teaching is,
spoken by thee?

20 For thou bringest certain strange
things to our ears: we wish therefore
to know what these things may be.

21( And all the Athenians and
strangers being present, passed time in
nothing else but to say or hear some
thing new.)

22 And Paul having stood in the
midst of Mars’ hill, said, Men, Athe-
nians, I see that in all things ye have
a superstitious fear of divinity.

23 For having passed by, and be-
holding your venerations, I found also
an altar upon which was inscribed, TO
THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
not knowing therefore ye reverence,
him I announce to you.

24 God haying made the world and
all things in it, he being Lord of heay-
en and earth, dwells not in temples
made by hands;

25 Nor is served by men’s hands,
standing in need of anything, he giv-
ing to all life, and breath, and all
things.

26 And he made of one blood every
nation of men to dwell upon all the face
of the earth, having limited the times
before arranged, and the bounds of
their habitation ;

27 To seek the Lord, if perchance
indeed they have felt for him, and
found, although not being far from
each one of us:

28 For in him we live, and move,
and are; as certain of the composers
among you have said, For we also are
his race.

29 Being therefore the posterity of
God, we ought not to think gold, or
silver, or stone, an engraving of art,
or meditation of man, the divinity to
be like.

30 Therefore truly, God having
overlooked the times of ignorance,
now announces to all men everywhere
to repent:

31 Wherefore he set a day, in which
he isabout to judge the habitable globe
in justice by the man whom he appoin-
ted; having offered faith to all, having
raised him from the dead.

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THE ACTS ,-זצא‎ XVIII.

32 And having heard of the rising up
of the dead, they treated with mock-
ery; and said, We will hear thee again
concerning this.

33 And so Paul went forth from the
midst of them.

34 And certain men having joined
him, believed: among whom also Dio-
nysius the Areopagite, and a woman
by name Damaris, and others with
them.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND after these Paul having de-
parted from Athens, came to
Corinth ;

2 And having found a certain Jew
by name Aquila, a Pontian by birth,
having recently come from Italy, and
Priscilla his wife ; (for Claudius had
ordered all Jews to be separated from
Rome :( came to them.

3 And because being of the same
trade, he remained with them, and
wrought: for they were by trade tent-
makers.

4 And he discussed in the syna-
gogue on every sabbath, and persuaded
Jews and Greeks.

5 And when both Silas and Timothy
came down from Macedonia, Paul was
oppressed in spirit, testifying to the
Jews Jesus Christ.

6 And they opposing, and blasphem-
ing, having shaken off the garments
violently, he said tothem, Your blood
upon your head; I clean: from now
will I go to the nations.

7 And having gone away thence, he
came to the house of a certain Justus
by name, worshipping God, whose
house was adjoining the synagogue.

8 And Crispus, ruler of the syna-
gogue, believed the Lord with his
whole house; and many of the Corin-
thians hearing believed, and were bap-
tised.

9 And the Lord said through a vi-
sion by night to Paul, Fear not, but
speak, and thou shouldest not be si-
lent:

10 For I am with thee, and none
shall attack thee to injure thee: for
much people are to me in this city.

11 And he sat a year and six months,

THE ACTS XVIII, XIX.

teaching the word of God among
them.

12 And Gallio being proconsul οἱ
Achaia, the Jews arose unanimously
against Paul, and brought him to the
judgment seat,

13 Saying, This one persuades men
to worship God against the law.

14 And Paul being about to open
the mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If
therefore it were truly any injustice or
wicked, criminal action, O Jews, against
the word, I should have borne with
you:

15 But if it is a question of the
word, and names, and law, according
to you, see ye yourselves; for I will
not be judge of these.

16 And he drave them away from
the judgment seat.

17 And all the Greeks having taken
Sosthenes, ruler of the synagogue,
beat before the judgment seat. And
Gallio cared for none of these.

18 And Paul yet having remained
sufficient days, having taken leave of
the brethren, sailed out to Syria, and
with him Priscilla and Aquila; having
shorn the head in Cenchrea: for he
had a vow.

19 And Paul arrived at Ephesus, and
left those of his: and he having come
into the synagogue, discussed with the
Jews.

20 And they asking to remain with
them for more time, he acquiesced
not;

21 But he took leave of them, say-
ing, I must at any rate do the coming
festival in Jerusalem: and I willagain
return to you, God willing. And he
was conveyed from Ephesus.

22 And having come down to Ce-
sarea, having gone up and greeted the
ehureh, he went down to Antioch.

23 And having made a certain time,
he came out, passing in order the Gal-
atian country and Phrygia, supporting
all the disciples.

24 And a certain Jew, Apollos by
name, an Alexandrian by birth, an elo-
quent man, arrived at Ephesus, being
able in the writings.

25 He was instructed in the way of the

Lord ; and boiling up in the spirit, he]

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spake and taught attentively the things
of the Lord, knowing only the immer-
sion of John.

26 And he began to speak freely in
the synagogue: and Priscilla and
Aquila having heard him, took him,
and set forth to him the way of God
more accurately.

27 And he wishing to pass through
to Achaia, the brethren having encour-
aged, wrote to the disciples to receive
him: who having arrived, profited
much them having believed through
grace:

28 For he mightily refuted the Jews
publicly, shewing by the writings Jesus
to be Christ.

CHAPTER XIX.
pe it was in Apollos’ being in
Corinth, Paul haying passed
through the higher parts, came to
Ephesus: and having found certain dis-
ciples,

2 He said to them, Having believed,
have yereceived the Holy Spirit ? And
they said to him, But neither heard we
if there be a Holy Spirit.

3 And he said to them, Into what
then were ye immersed? And they
said, Into John’s immersion.

4 And Paul said, John truly im-
mersed the immersion of repentance,
saying to the people, that they should
believe on him coming after him, that
is, in Christ Jesus.

5 And they having heard, were im-
mersed in the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And Paul having laid hands upon
them, the Holy Spirit came upon
them; and they spake with tongues,
and prophesied.

7 And all the men were
twelve.

8 And having come into the syna-
gogue, he spake freely, discoursing
for three months, and persuading the
things concerning the kingdom of
God.

9 And when certain were hardened,
and believed not, speaking evil of the
way before the multitude, having de-
parted from them, he separated the
disciples, discoursing in the day in the
school of a certain Tyrannus.

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10 And this was for two years: so
that all dwelling in Asia heard the
word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews
and Greeks.

11 And God did special powers by
Paul’s hands:

12 So that also upon the sick were
brought from his body napkins or
aprons, and diseases were removed
from them, and evil spirits came out
ot them.

13 And certain of the wandering
Jews, exorcists, undertook to call over
them having evil spirits the name of
the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure
you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims.

14 And there were certain sons of
Seeva, ἃ Jew, chief priest, seven doing
this.

15 And the evil spirit having ans-
wered, said, Jesus I know, and Paul I
know; but who are ye?

16 And the man leaping upon them
in whom the evil spirit was, and hav-
ing overpowered them, he was strong
against them, so that naked and
wounded they fled out of the house.

17 And this was known to all the
Jews and Greeks also dwelling in
Ephesus; and fear fell woon them all,
and the name of the Lord Jesus was
inaguitied.

18 And many of them having be-
lieved came, acknowledging and pro-
claiming their deeds.

19 And sufficient of them having
done unnecessary things, having
brought books together, burned be-
fore all: and computed their prices, and
found fifty thousand of silver.

20 Thus with might the word of
the Lord increased, and was strong.

21 And when these were completed,
Paul proposed in spirit, having passed
through Macedonia and Achaia, to go
to Jerusalem, saying, That after I have
been there, I must also see Rome.

22 And having sent into Macedonia
two of them serving him, Timothy,
and Erastus, he stopped a season in
Asia.

23 And in that time was there no
little trouble about the way.

24 Fora certain Demetrius by name, |

THE ACTS XIX.

of Diana, furnished no little work to
artificers ;

25 Whom having collected together
and the workmen of such things, he
said, Men, ye know that out of this
work is our good food.

26 And ye see and hear that not
only Ephesus, but almost all Asia,
this Paul having persuaded, changed a
sufficient crowd, saying, that they are
not gods made by hands :

27 And not only this partis in dan-
ger tous to come to reproach; but
also the temple of the great goddess
Diana to be reckoned for nothing,
and her greatness also about to be
destroyed, whom the whole of Asia
and the habitable globe worship.

28 And having heard, and been filled
with wrath, they 61160, saying, Great
the Diana of the Ephesians.

29 And the whole city was filled
with confusion, and they rushed un-
animously into the theatre, having
taken away together Gaius and Aris-
tarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s compan-
ions of the journey.

80 And Paul wishing to come in to
the people, the disciples suffered him
not.

91 And certain also of the chief of
Asia, being friends to him, having sent
to him, besought not to give himself
into the theatre.

32 Others truly eried some other
things: for the church was confused 5
and the most knew not for what they
had come together.

20 And they foreed Alexander out
of the crowd, the Jews having put
him forward. And Alexander having
shaken the hand, wished to justify
himself to the people.

34 And having known that he is
a Jew, there was one voice from all
crying for about two hours, Great the
Diana of the Ephesians.

35 And the seribe having calmed the
crowd, says, Men, Ephesians, for who
is the man that knows not the city of
the Ephesians, being temple-keeper of
the great goddess Diana, and sent by
Jove?

36 Therefore these things not being

asilversmith, making thesilver temples | refuted, it is necessary for you to be

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restrained, and to do nothing rash.

81 For ye brought these men not
sacrilegious, nor blaspheming your
goddess.

38 If truly therefore Demetrius, and
the artificers with him, have a word
against any, the court days are kept,
and there are proconsuls ; let them
prosecute one another.

39 But if ye inquire anything con-
cerning other things, it shall be ex-
plained in a lawful assembly.

40 For we are also in danger to be
calledin question for this day, being
no cause for which we shall be able to
give back word of this confederation.

41 And having said these, he loosed
the assembly.

CHAPTER XxX. :
ND after the uproar was ceased,
Paul having called the disciples,
and greeted, he came out to go into
Macedonia.

2 And haying passed through those
parts, and having besought them by
much speech, he came into Greece.

3 And having made three months;
an insidious plot having been for him
by the Jews, being about to sail to
Syria, there was a purpose to return
through Macedonia.

4 And there agreed with him as far
as Asia Sopater a Berean; and of the
Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secun-
dus: and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy ;
and Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.

5 These having come before await-
ed us in Troas.

6 And we sailed forth after the days
of unleavened from Philippi, and came
to them in Troas up to five days;
where we tarried seven days.

7 And in one of the sabbaths, the
disciples having been assembled 10-
gether to break bread, Paul conversed
with them being about to go forth the
morrow; and he continued the word
until midnight.

8 And sufficient lights were in the up-
per room, where they were assembled.

9 And a certain young man by
name Eutychus, sitting in the window,
borne down by deep sleep, Paul con-
versing more and more, fell down

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below from the third story, and was
taken up dead.

10 And Paul haying gone down,
fell upon him, and embracing, said,
Be not disturbed, for his soul is in
him.

11 And having gone up, and broken
bread, and tasted, and conversed fora
sufficient time, till the light, so he
went forth.

12 And they brought the child liv-
ing, and were not little comforted.

13 And we having gone before to
the ship, sailed to Assos, there being
about to take up Paul: for so had he
ordered, being about himself to go on
foot.

14 And when he joined us at Assos,
having taken him up, we came to
Mitylene.

15 And from thence having sailed
away, the following day we arrived
over against Chios; and the other day
we approached to Samos, and having
remained in Trogyllium, the following
day we came to Miletus.

16 For Paul determined to sail to
Ephesus, as it might not be to him to
spend the time in Asia: for he hast-
ened, if it were possible to him, to be
in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

17 And having sent from Miletus
to Ephesus, he called for the elders
of the church.

18 And when they came to him, he
said to them, Ye know, from the first
day in which I embarked for Asia,
how I was with you all the time,

19 Serving the Lord with all humil-
ity, and many tears, and temptations,
having happened to me by the insid-
ious plots of the Jews:

20 How I concealed nothing of
things profitable, not to aunounce
to you, and teach you publicly, and in
the houses,

21 Testifying to both Jews, and
Greeks, repentance towards God, and
the faith towards our Lord Jesus
Christ.

22 And now, behold, I, bound in
the spirit, am going to Jerusalem,
not knowing the things going to hap-
pen to me in it;

23 But that the Holy Spirit testifies

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in the city, saying that bonds and pres-
sures await me.

24 But the word of none do I make
mine own, neither have I my soul
highly prized to myself, in order to
finish my course with joy, aud the
service which I received from tlie
Lord Jesus, to testify the good news
of the grace of God.

25 And now, behold, I know that
all ye shall see my face no more,
among whom I passed through, pro-
claiming the kingdom of God.

26 Wherefore ] testify to you in this
day, that 1 pure from the blood of all.

27 For I concealed not to announce
to you all the counsel of God.

28 Attend therefore to yourselves,
and to all the flock, in which the Holy
Spirit set you inspectors, to feed the
church of God, which he acquired by
his own blood.

29 For 1 know this, that there shall
come in after my departure grievous
wolves to you, not sparing the flock.

90 And of yourselves shall men
arise, speaking perverse things, to tear
away disciples after them.

91 Wherefore watch ye, remember-
ing that the space of three years night
and day I ceased not reminding each
one with tears.

32 And now I commit you, brethren,
to God, and to the word of his grace,
being able to build up, and give you
inheritance among all the consecrated.

33 Silver or gold, or clothing, of
none have I eagerly desired.

34 And ye yourselves know, that
to my necessities, and to those being
with me, these hands served.

35 1 shewed you all things, that so
being wearied ye must support the
weak, and remember the words of the
Lord Jesus, that himself said, It is
happy to give rather than receive.

36 And having said these, having
placed his knees, he prayed with
them all.

₪7 And much weeping was from all;
and having fallen upon Paul’s neck,
they kissed him,

38 Grieving chiefly for the word
which he spake, that they are about
to see his face no more. And they
sent him forward to the ship.

CHAPTER .א‎
ae or it Was, as we were conduct-
ed forth, torn asunder from
them, having run straight forward,
we came to Coos, and in continuation
to Ithodes, and thence to Patara;

2 And having found a ship passing
over to Phenicia, having embarked, we
were conducted forth.

3 And having been shown Cyprus,
and 1615 it at the left hand, we sail-
ed to Syria, and were conveyed to
Tyre: for thither was the ship dis-
charging the lading. ,

4 And having found disciples, we
remained there seven days: who said
to Paul through the Spirit, not to go
up to Jerusalem.

5 And it was when we accomplish-
ed the days, having come out we went;
all sending us forward, with wives and
children, even to without the city:
and having placed the knees upon the
sea-shore, we prayed.

6 And having greeted one another,
we embarked in the ship; and these
returned to their own.

7 And we haying finished the yoy-
age from Tyre, arrived at Ptolemais,
aud having greeted the brethren, we
remained one day with them.

8 And the morrow, they about Paul
having come out, came to Cesarea:
and having come to Philip’s house,
bearer of good news, being of the
seven,.we remained with him.

9 And to him were four daughters,
virgins, prophesying. .

10 And we remaining many days,
a certain prophet came down from Ju-
dea, by name Agabus.

11 And haying come to us, and lift-
ed up Panl’s girdle, and bound his
hands and feet, he said, Thus says the
Holy Spirit, The man whose is this
girdle, shall the Jews so bind in Jern-
salem, and they shall deliver him into
the hands of the nations.

12 And when we heard these things,
both we, and the nations, besought
him not to go up to Jerusalem.

13 And Paul answered, What do ye
weeping and breaking my heart? for
I not only to be bound, but to die at
Jerusalem, have prepared for the name
of the Lord Jesus.

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14 And he not being persuaded, we
were silent, saying, The will of the
Lord be done.

15 And after these days, having
packed up, we went up to Jerusalem.

16 And there came also with us of

disciples from Cesarea, bringing with
whom we should be received as guests
to a certain Mnason of Cyprus, an an-
cient disciple.

17 And we haying come to Jerusa-
lem, the brethren received us gladly.

18 And the following day Paul went
in with us to James; and all the elders
were present.

19 And having greeted them, he re-
counted to each one what things God
had done among the nations through
his service.

20 And they having heard, hononred
the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest,
brother, how many ten thousands of
Jews there are having believed: and
all are zealous of the law:

21 And they were taught about thee,
that thou teachest apostasy from
Moses, all the Jews among the nations,
saying, they are not to circumcise
children, nor walk in the customs.

22 What is it therefore? the multi-
tude must all come together: for they
will hear that thou hast come.

23 Therefore do this which we say
to thee: Four men are to us haying a
vow upon them;

24 Having taken these, be purified
with them, and expend upon them,
that they might shave the head: and
all might know that what they are
taught about thee is nothing; but thou

proceedest in regular order, also thyselt

watching the law.

25 And of the nations having be-
lieved, we have written having judged
them to keep nothing such, except to
watch themselves from that sacrificed
to idols, and blood, and strangulation,
and harlotry.

26 Then Paul having taken the
men, in the following day having been
purified with them, went into the
temple, announcing the completion of
the days of purification, till an offering
be brought for each one of them.

27 And when the seven days were

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about completed, the Jews from Asia,
having seen him in the temple, em-
broiled all the crowd, and put hands
upon them,

28 Crying out, Men, Israelites, help:
This is the man, teaching all, every-
where, against the people, and the law,
and this place: and yet also brought
the Greeks into the temple, and has
polluted this holy place.

29 ( For they had seen before with
him in the city Trophimus the Ephe-
sian, whom they thought that Paul
had brought into the temple.)

30 And the whole city was moved,
and there was a concourse of the peo-
ple: and having taken up Paul, they
drew him out of the temple: and
quickly the doors were shut.

31 And seeking to kill him, a ramor
went up to the captain of a thousand
of the band, that the whole of Jerusa-
lem had been embroiled.

32 Who haying taken out of it the
soldiers and centurions, he ran down to
them: and they having seen the cap-
tain of a thousand and the soldiers,
ceased striking Paul.

33 Then the captain of a thousand,
haying drawn near, took him, and
commanded to be bound with two
chains ; and inquired who he might be,
and what he had done.

34 And other cried what other in
the crowd: and not being able to know
certainly for the uproar, he command-
ed him to be brought into the camp.

35 And when he was upon the
steps, it happened, he was borne by
the soldiers for the violence of the
crowd.

36 For the multitude of the people
followed, erying, Take him away.

37 And being about to be brought
into the camp, Paul says to the cap-
tain of a thousand, Is it lawful for
me to speak anything to thee? and he
said, Hast thou knowledge in Greek ?

38 Art not thou then the Egyptian,
who before these days having risen up,
and having brought into the desert
four thousand men of murderers?

39 And Paul said, I am truly a man
a Jew, a Tarsean of Cilicia, a citizen

of no undistinguished city: and I be-

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seech of thee to give way for me to
speak to the people.

40 And having given way, Paul
standing upon the steps, shook with
the hand to the people. And being
much silence, he spake in the He-
brew dialect, saying,

CHAPTER XXII.
EN, brethren, and fathers, hear
my defence to you.

2 (And having heard that he spake
to them in Hebrew dialect, they held
more silence: and he says,)

3 Tam truly a Jew, a man born in
Tarsus, of Cilicia, and brought up in
this city at the feet of Gamaliel, in-
structed according to the exactness of
the fathers’ law, being zealous of God,
as all ye are this day.

4 Who droye out this way even to
death, binding and delivering to prison
both men and women.

5 As also the chief priest testifies
of me, and all the council of elders:
and whose letters to the brethren hav-
ing received, I went to Damascus,
going to bring there the bound to Jeru-
salem, that they might be punished.

6 And it was to me going, and
drawing near to Damascus about noon,
suddenly much light from heaven
flashed around me,

7 And I fell to the ground, and
heard a voice, Saul, Saul, why drivest
thou me out ?

8 And I answered, Who art thou,
Lord? Andhe said to me, 1 am Jesus
the Nazarite, whom thou drivest out.

9 And they being with me truly saw
the light, and were terrified; but they
heard not the voice of him speaking to
me.

10 And I said, What shall I do,
Lord? And the Lord said to me, Hay-
ing risen, go to Damascus; and there
shall be told thee of all which has
been arranged for thee to do.

11 And when I saw not from the
glory of that light, led by the hand of
them being with me I came to Dam-
ascus.

12 And a certain Ananias, a religious
man according to the law, testified of
by all the Jews dwelling,

THE ACTS XXI., XXII.

13 Having come to me, and stood,
said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And
the same hour I looked up to kim.

14 And he said, The God of our
fathers took thee in hand, to know his
will, and to see the Just, and hear the
voice from his mouth.

15 For thou shalt be a witness for
him to all men of what thou hast seen
and hast heard.

16 And now what art thou about to
do? having risen, be immersed and
wash away thy sins, having called
upon the name of the Lord.

17 And it was to me returning to
Jerusalem, and praying in the temple,
I was in a deep trance:

18 And saw him saying to me,
Hasten, and come quickly out of Jeru-
salem: for they will not receive thy
testimony of me.

19 And I said, Lord, these know
that I was imprisoning and skinning
in the synagogues them believing on
thee:

20 And when the blood of Stephen
thy witness was shed, I myself was
standing by, and assenting to his mur-
der, and watching the garments of
them murdering him.

21 And he said to me, Go: for I
will send 11160 ע18‎ off to the nations.

22 And they heard him to this word,
and lifted up their voices, saying, Take
away such a one from the earth: for
it is not suitable for him to live.

23 And they vociferating, and cast-
ing garments away, and throwing a
cloud of dust into the air,

24 The captain of a thousand com-
manded him to be brought to the camp,
having spoken to examine him by
scourges; that he might know for
what cause they exclaimed so against
him.

25 And as he held him before with
thongs, Paul said to the centurion
standing by, Is it lawful to scourge
aman a Roman, and uncondemned ¢

26 And the centurion having heard,
having come near announced to the
captain of a thousand, See what thou
art about to do: for this man is a
Roman.

27 And the captain of a thousand

THE ACTS XXII, XXIII.

having come near, said to him, Tell
me if thou art a Roman. And he
said, Yes.

28 And the captain of a thousand
answered, I obtained this citizenship
for much capital. And Paul said, And
I have been born.

29 Then quickly they about to ex-
amine him withdrew from him: and
the captain of a thousand was afraid,
knowing that he is a Roman, and
because he had bound him.

80 And on the morrow, wishing to
know the certainty that why he was
accused by the Jews, he loosed him
from bonds, and commanded the chief
priests and the whole of their council
to come, and having brought down
Paul, he set him among them.

CHAPTER XXIII.
ND Paul, having looked intently
to the council, said, Men, breth-
ren, I have lived as a citizen in all
good conscience to God till this day.
2And the chief priest Ananias
commanded those standing by him to
strike his mouth.

3 Then said Paul to him, God is about
to strike thee, thou wall covered with
dust: and sittest thou judging me
according to law, and commandest me
to be struck illegally 4

4 And they standing by said, Re-
vilest thou God’s chief priest ?

5 And Paul said, I knew not, breth-
ren, that he is chief priest: for it has
been written, Thou shalt not speak
evil of the ruler of thy people.

6 And Paul having known that one
part is of the Sadducees, and the other
of the Pharisees, cried in the council,
Men, brethren, I ama Pharisee, son
of a Pharisee: for the hope and ris-
ing up of the dead am I judged.

7 And he having spoken this, there
was a dissension of the Pharisees and
Sadducees: and the multitude was di-
vided.

8 For truly the Sadducees say there
is no rising up, neither messenger, nor
spirit : and the Pharisees acknowledge
both.

9 And there was a great cry: and
the scribes of the Pharisees’ part, hav-

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ing risen, struggled with obstinacy,
saying, We find nothing evil in this
man: but if a spirit or messenger
spake to him, we should not contend
against God.

10 And there being much dissension,
the captain of a thousand, having dread-
ed lest Paul be torn asunder by them,
commanded the army, having gone
down, to snatch him from the midst
of them, and bring into the camp.

11 And the following night the
Lord, having stood by him, said, Take
courage, Paul: for as thou hast testi-
fied the things concerning me at Jeru-
salem, so must thou also testify at
Rome.

12 And it being day, certain of the
Jews having made a condition, anath-
ematized themselves, saying, neither to
eat or drink till they kill Paul.

13 And there were more than forty
having made this conspiracy.

14 Who having come to the chief
priests and elders, said, By an anathe-
ma, we anathematized ourselves, to
taste of nothing till we kill Paul.

15 Now therefore do ye exhibit. to
the captain of a thousand, with the
council, so that to-morrow he might
bring him down to you, as about to
examine more accurately the things
concerning him: and we, before he
draws near, are ready to kill him.

16 And Paul’s sister’s son haying
heard of the ambuscade, having ap-
proached, and come into the camp, an-
nounced to Paul.

17 And Paul having called one of
the centurions, said, Bring this young
man to the captain of a thousand ; for
he has something to announce to him.

18 Then truly having taken him, he
brought to the captain of a thousand,
and says, Paul, the bound, having
ealled me, asked to bring this young
man to thee, having something to say
to thee.

19 The captain of a thousand, hay-
ing taken his hand, and having with-
drawn in private, inquired, What is it
which thou hast to announce to me?

20 And he said, That the Jews agreed
together to ask thee, so that to-mor-
row thou mightest bring down Paul to

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the council, as about to inquire some-
thing more accurately about him.

21 Therefore thou shouidest not be
persuaded by them: for more than for-
ty men of them lie in wait for him,
who anathematized themselves, neither
to eat or drink till they should kill
him: and now are they prepared, ex-
pecting a promise from thee.

22 Truly then the captain of a thou-
sand discharged the young man, hay-
ing enjoincd him, Tell none that thou
hast shown these things to me.

23 And having called two certain of
the centurions, he said, Prepare two
hundred soldiers, so that they go to
Cesarea, and seventy horsemen, and
two hundred having held spearsin the
right hand, at the third hour of the
night ;

24 And to bring forward cattle to set
Paul upon, that they might carry
through safely to Felix the leader.

25 Having written a letter contain-
ing this type:

26 Claudius Lysias to the most ex-
cellent leader Felix, health.

27 This man having been taken by
the Jews, and being about to be killed
by them: having stood with an army, I
took him away, having learned that he
is a Roman.

28 And wishing to know the cause
for which they aceused him, I brought
him down to this council:

29 Whom I found accused of ques-
tions of their law, and having no accu-
sation worthy of death or of bonds.

80 And the plot about to be by the
Jews, having been made known to me
against the man, for this I sent to
thee, having also commanded the ac-
cusers to say things against him to
thee. Farewell.

31 Then truly the soldiers according
to that appointed them, having taken
up Paul, brought by night to Antipa-
tris.

32 And the morrow, having suffered
the horsemen to go with him, they re-
turned to the camp:

33 Who having come into Cesarea
and given up the letter to the leader,
they also placed Paul before him.

34 And the leader having read, and

THE ACTS XXIII., XXIV.

asked of what province he is, and hav-
ing understood from Cilicia ;

35 I will hearken to thee, he said,
when also thine accusers should be
present. And he commanded him to
be watched in Herod’s pretorium.

CHAPTER XXIV.
ND after five days the chief
priest Ananias came down with the
elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus,
who exhibited to the leader against
Paul.

2 And he having been called, Ter-
tullus began to accuse, saying,

3 Attaining much peace by thee, and
good actions being to this nation by
thy foresight altogether and every-
where, we accept, most excellent Felix,
with all thankfulness.

4 And that I hinder thee no more,
I beseech thee to hear us concisely by
thy clemency.

5 For having found this man a
scourge, and moving sedition to all
Jews in the habitable globe, and stand-
ing in the first rank of the sect of Naz-
arites :

6 And who attempted to profane
the temple: whom we also seized, and
wished to judge according to our law.

7 And Lysias the captain of a thou-
sand, having come with much force,
carried away out of our hands,

8 Having commanded his accusers to
come to thee: by which thon thyself
shalt be able, having examined, to know
of all these of which we accuse him,

9 And the Jews also agreed, saying,
these things hold so.

10 And Paul answered, the leader
having nodded to him tospeak, Know-
ing from many years thee being judge
to this nation, more cheerfully do I
justify things concerning myself:

11 Thou being able to know that
not more than twelve days are to me
from which I went up, going to wor-
ship in Jerusalem.

12 And neither in the temple found
they me discussing with any, or mak-
ing a revolt of the crowd, neither in
synagogues, nor in the city:

13 Nor can they bring me forward
for things they now accuse me.

THE ACTS XXIV., XXV.

14 And this I confess to thee, that
according to the way which they call
asect, so serve I the God of the fath-
ers, believing all things written in the
law and the prophets:

15 Having hope to God, which they
themselves also admit, a rising from
the dead about to be, both of just and
unjust.

16 And in this I myself attend care-
fully, to have a conscience unhurt to-
wards God and men always.

17 And after many years I was pre-
sent, going to do alms to my nation,
and offerings.

18 In which they found me purified
in the temple, not with the crowd, nor

with uproar, and certain Jews from,

Asia.

19 Who ought to be present to thee,
and accuse, if they have anything
against me.

20 Or let these themselves say, if they
1000 any injustice in me, I having
stood before the council,

21 Or of this one voice,which I cried
standing with them, That of the rising
up of the dead I am judged this day
by you.

22 And having heard these, Felix
deferred them, knowing more accur-
ately the things of the way, having
said, When Lysias captain of a thou-
sand shall come down, I will exam-
ine narrowly things concerning you.

23 And having appointed a centu-
Tion to keep Paul, and to have a set-
ting at liberty, and to hinder none of
his own to serve or come to him.

24 And after eertain days, Felix,
having been present with Drusilla his
wife, being a.Jewess, sent for Paul and
heard him of the faith in Christ.

25 And he discoursing of justice,
and temperanee, and judgment about
to be, Felix being terrified, answered,
Having now, go ; having taken time, I
will recall thee.

26 And at the same time also hoping
that money should be given him by
Paul, so that he might loose him:
wherefore also sending for him more
frequently, he conversed with him.

27 And two years completed, Felix
took Porcius Festus, a successor: and

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wishing to render a favor to the Jews,
Felix left Paul bound.

CHAPTER XXV.
ESTUS therefore having come to
the province, after three days
went up to Jerusalem from Cesarea.

2 And the chief priest and first of
the Jews exhibited to him against
Paul, and besought him,

3 Asking favor against him, that he
might send for him to Jerusalem, mak-
ing an ambuseade to kill him in the
way.

4 Then truly answered Festus, Paul
to be kept in Cesarea, and himself
quickly about to go forth.

5 Therefore the able among you, he
says, having gone down together, if
there be anything in this man, let
them accuse him. :

6 And having tarried with them
more than ten days, having gone down
to Cesarea, on the morrow, having sat
upon the judgment seat, he com-
manded Paul to be brought.

7 And he having come, the Jews
having come down from Jerusalem
stood round about, bringing many
and heavy charges against Paul, which
they could not prove.

8 He justifying himself, That neith-
er against the law of the Jews, nor
against the temple, nor against Caesar
have I sinned any thing.

9 And Festus, wishing to render a
favor to the Jews, having answered
Paul, said, Wilt thou, having gone up
to Jerusalem, there be judged by me
of these things ?

10 And Paul said, At Cesar’s judg-
ment seat am 1 standing where 1 must
be judged: I injured the Jews noth-
ing, as thou also knowest better.

11 For if truly 1 act with injustice,
and have done anything worthy of

'death, I refuse not to die: but if there

be nothing of which these accuse me,
no one ean yield me up to them. I
appeal to Caesar.

12 Then Festus, having conversed
with the council, answered, Thou hast
appealed to Caesar, to Ceesar shalt thou
20.

7 18 And certain days having inter-

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vened, Agrippa the king and Ber-
nice arrived at Cesarea, having saluted
Festus.

14 And as they tarried there many
days, Festus set up to the king the
things of Paul, saying, There is a cer-
tain man left in bonds by Felix:

15 About whom, I being at Jerusa-
lem, the chief priests and the elders of
the Jews exhibited, asking judgment
against him. :

16 To whom I answered, That it is
not the custom to Romans’to yield up
any man to destruction, before that the
accused may have the accusers be-
fore the face, and take place for de-
fence for the accusation.

17 Therefore, they having come
here together, having made no delay,
in order having sat upon the judg-
mentseat, 1 commanded the man to be
brought.

18 About whom the accusers, having
stood up, brought no charge of what 1
supposed :

19 But had certain questions of
their own superstition against him,
and of a certain Jesus, having died,
whom Paul declared living.

20 And I doubting at the question
concerning this, said, If he be willing
to go to Jerusalem, and there be
judged of these things.

21 And Paul having appealed for
him to be kept for the determination
of Augustus, 1 commanded him to be
kept till I send him to Cesar.

22 And Agrippa said to Festus, I
wished myself also to hear the man.
And he said, Tomorrow thou shalt
hear him.

23 Therefore the morrow, Agrippa
having come, and Bernice, with much
display, and having come into the hall,
also with captains of thousands, and
men of the city being in eminence,
and Festus having commanded, Paul
was brought.

24 And Festus said, King Agrippa,
and all men being present with us, ye
behold this, of whom all the multitude
of Jews addressed me, both in Jeru-
salem and here, crying out he must no
more live.

25 And I discovering nothing he
has done worthy of death, and he also

THE ACTS XXV., XXVI.

himself having appealed to Augustus,
I judged to send him.

26 Of whom I have not any thing
certain to write to the lord. Where-
fore I brought him to you, and espec-
ially to thee, king Agrippa, so that, ex-
amination having been, I should have
some thing to write.

27 For it seems to me unreasonable
sending one in bonds, and not to signify
the charges against him.

CHAPTER XXVI.
yb Agrippa said to Paul, It is
permitted thee to speak for thy-
self. Then Paul defended himself,
having stretched out the hand :

2 Concerning all of which 1 am ac-
cused by the Jews, king Agrippa, 1
deem myself happy, being about to de-
fend myself to thee this day:

3 Especially thee being judge of all
the customs among the Jews, and also
of the questions: wherefore I beseech
thee to hear me patiently.

4 Therefore truly my manner of

life from youth, having been from the

beginning in my nation in Jerusalem,
all the Jews know :

5 Knowing me beforehand, from
a former period, if they would testify,
that aecording to the most strict sect
of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

6 And now in the hope of the sol-
emn promise having been made to the
fathers by God, I stand, being judged.

7 To which our twelve tribes, serv-
ing night and day, hope to arrive. For
which hope 1 am accused, king
Agrippa, by the Jews.

8 Why is it judged incredible by
you, if God raise the dead?

9 I therefore truly thought to my-
self, I must do many things contrary
to the name of Jesus, the Nazarite.

10 Which I also did in Jerusalem:
and many of the holy ones I shut up
in prison, having received authority
from chief priests; and they taken up,
Icarried down a vote.

11 And in all the synagogues, many
times punishing them, I compelled to
blaspheme ; and being exceedingly en-
raged against them, I drove out even
also to cities without.

12 In which also going to Damas-

THE ACTS XXVI, XXVIL

cus with authority, and superintend-
ence from the chief priests,

13 The middle of day, I saw in the
way, O king, a light from heaven,
abovethe brillianey of the sun, having
shone around me, and those going
with me.

14 And we having all fallen to the
earth, I heard a voice speaking to me,
and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul,
Saul, why drivest thou me out? hard
for thee to kick against goads,

15 And I said, Whoart thou, Lord 1
And he said, [am Jesus whom thou
drivest out.

16 But arise, and stand upon thy
feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to
take thee in hand, a servant and wit-
ness both of what things thou sawest,
and of what I shall be seen to thee;

17 Taking thee away from people,
and nations, to whom I now send thee.

18 To open theireyes, to turn them
back from darkness to light, and from
the power of Satan to God, fur them
to receive remission of sins, and in-
heritance with the consecrated by
faith in me.

19 Wherefore, O king Agrippa, I
was not disobedient to the heavenly
vision :

20 But to them in Damascus first,

and Jerusalem, and all the country of

Judea, and to the nations, announcing
to change the mind, and to turn back
to God, doing works worthy of change
of mind.

21 For these things, me the Jews,
having seized in the temple, attempted
to kill with their own hands.

22 Therefore having obtained as-
sistance from God, till this day do I
stand, testifying both to small and
great, saying nothing but what both
the prophets and Moses spake being
about to be:

23 That Christ exposed to snffering,
that first from the rising of the dead,
he is about to announce light to the
people, and nations.

24 And he defending himself by
these, Festus said with a great voice,
Thou art frenzied, Paul; many letters
turn thee to madness.

25 And he says, Iam not frenzied,

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most excellent Festus; but I speak the
words of truth and soundness of mind.

26 For the king knows of these, to
whom speaking freely I speak : for lam
persuaded that none of these are un-
known to him; for these were not done
in 8 corner.

27 Believest thou the prophets, king
Agrippa? I know that thou believest.

28 And Agrippa said to Paul, Ina
little thou persuadest me to be a
Christian.

29 And Paul said, I would pray to
God also in little, and in much, not
only thee, but also all hearing me this
day to become such, of what kind 1 al-
so am, besides these bonds.

30 And he having said these, the
king arose, and the leader, and Ber-
nice, and they sitting with them :

31 And having withdrawn, they
spake to one another, saying, This
man does nothing worthy of death or
of bonds.

32 And Agrippa said to Festus,
This man could have been loosed, if
he had not appealed to Cesar.

CHAPTER XXVII.
ND when it was determined for
us to sail to Italy, they de-
livered Paul and certain others bound
toacenturion named Julius, of Augus-
tus’ band.

2 And having embarked in a ship of
Adramyttium, being about to navi-
gate places in Asia, we were convey-
ed; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of
Thessalonica, being with us.

3 And another day we were brought
down to Sidon. And Julius having
treated Paul affectionately, gave him
up, having gone to his friends to ob-
tain care.

4 And conveyed from thence, we
sailed to Cyprus, for the winds were
contrary.

5 And having sailed over the sea by
Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down
to Myra, of Lycia.

6 And there the centurion having
found an Alexandrian ship sailing to
Italy, placed us upon it.

7 And in many days sailing slowly,
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Cnidus, the wind not permitting us,
we sailed under Crete, to Salmone;

8 And, with difficulty sailing by it,
we came to a certain place called The
fair havens; to which the city Lasea
was near.

9 And a suitable time having in-
tervened, and sailing being already
dangerous, tor the fast had already
passed by, Paul advised,

10 Saying to them, Men, I see that
with violence and much damage, not
only of the cargo and ship, but also of
our lives, the voyage is about to be.

11 But the centurion was rather
persuaded by the pilot and the ship-
master, than by the things spoken by
Paul.

12 And the harbor being not suita-
ble for passing the winter, the greater
part took counsel to be conveyed from
thence, if perhaps having arrived at
Phenice, they may be able to pass the
winter; a harbor of Crete, looking to
the south west and to the country.

13 And the south wind having
blown softly, having thought to have
obtained the purpose, hoisting up
near, they sailed by Crete.

14 And after not much a violent
wind struck against it, called Euroc-
lydon. :

15 And the ship having been caught,
and not able to resist the wind, yield-
ing we were carried away.

16 And having run under a certain
island called Clauda, with difficulty
were we able to be commanding the
boat :

17 Which having taken up, they
used helps, undergirding the ship ;
and fearing lest they might fall
through into the quicksand, having
loosened the vessel, so were they borne
away.

18 And we being exceedingly tem-
pest tossed, the following day they
made a casting of the cargo overboard ;

19 And the third, working with our
hands, we cast out the rigging of
the ship.

20 And neither sun nor stars ap-
pearing for many days, and no small
tempest impending, finally all hope for
us to be saved was removed.

THE ACTS זנזטאא‎

21 And there being much abstinence
from food, then Paul having stood in
the midst of them, said, Truly it was
fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not
to be conveyed from Crete, and gain
this violence and damage.

22 And now I advise you to be
cheerful: for there shall be no throw-
ng away of soul from you, but of the
ship. ;
23 For the messenger of God stood
by me in this night, whose I am, and
whom I serve,

24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; Thou
must stand before Ceesar : and, behold,
God has bestowed on thee as a gift all
these sailing with thee.

25 Wherefore, O men, be cheerful:
for I believe God, that so it shall be
as he has spoken to me.

26 But we must fall upon a cer-
tain island.

27 And when it was the fourteenth
night, we being carried up and down
in Adria, at midnight the sailors sup-
posed some country brought near:
them ;

28 And having sounded, they found
twenty fathoms; and having removed
alittle, and again having sounded, they
found fifteen fathoms.

29 And fearing lest perhaps we
might fall through into rough places,
having cast four anchors from the
stern, prayed for day to come.

30 And the sailors seeking to flee
out of the ship, and having loosened
the boat to the sea, for a pretext as
about to extend the anchors from the
prow,

31 Paul said to the centurion and
to the soldiers, Except these should
remain in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

32 Then the soldiers cut off the
ropes of the boat, and suffered it to
fall off.

33 And tillit was about to be day,
Paul besought all to take food, say-
ing, Awaiting this day the fourteenth
day, ye continue fasting, having taken
nothing.

34 Wherefore I beseech you to
take food: for this is for your salva-
tion: for not a hair of the head of
one of you shall fall.

THE ACTS, XXVII., XXVIII.

35 And having said these, and hay-
ing taken bread, he returned thanks to
God before all : and having broken, he
began to eat.

36 And all being cheerful, these al-
so received food.

37 And we were, all the souls in the
ship, two hundred and seventy-six.

38 And satisfied with food, they
lightened the ship, casting out the
wheat into the sea.

39 And when it was day, they knew
not the land: and they observed a cer-
tain deep bay having a coast, into
which they resolved, if able, to push
the ship.

40 And having removed the an-
chors, they let go into the sea, at the
same time haying let loose the bonds
of the rudders, and having lifted up
the mizen mast, they held with the
blast to the coast.

41 And having fallen into a place
between two seas, they caused the
ship to strike; and truly the prow, fix-
ed firmly, remained undisturbed, but
the stern was loosed by force of the
waves,

49 And the soldiers’ counsel was
that they kill the prisoners, lest any,
having swum away, may escape.

43 But the centurion wishing to
save Paul, hindered from the resolu-
tion; and he commanded those being
able to swim, having cast off first, to
come to land:

44 And the rest, truly some on
boards, and some on certain things from
the ship. And so it was, all were
saved upon the land.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
ND having been saved, then they
knew that the island is called
Melita.

2 And the foreigners bestowed upon
us no ordinary kindness: for having
lighted a pile of wood, they received
us all on account of the impending
rain, and for the cold.

3 And Paul having collected together
a multitude of dried sticks, and placed
upon the pile of wood, a viper, having
enue forth out of the heat, seized his

and.

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4 And when the foreigners saw the
wild beast hanging on his hand, they
said to one another, This man is alto-
gether a murderer, whom, saved from
the sea, vengeance suffered not to live.

5 Who truly then, having shaken off
the beast into the fire, suffered nothing
evil.

6 And they expected him about to
be inflamed, or to fall down dead sud-
denly : and they waiting for much, and
seeing nothing extraordinary coming to
him, changing their opinions, they said
he was a god.

7 And with them about that place
was landed property to the first of the
island, by name Publius; who having
received us, lodged us with friend-
ship three days.

8 And it was the father of Publius
lay, held fast with fever and dysen-
tery: to whom Paul, having come in
and prayed, laid hands upon him,
and healed him.

9 Then this done, the rest hav-
ing sicknesses in the island, came near,
and were cured :

10 And they honoured us with
many honours; and to us getting un-
der weigh, they set things for need.

11 And after three months we were
conveyed in a ship, having wintered
in the island, of Alexandria, marked,
Sons of Jove.

12 And brought down to Syracuse,
we tarried yet three days longer.

13 Whence having come round, we
arrived at Rhegium: and after one day
the south wind having come up, we
came the second day to Puteoli:

14 Where having found brethren,
we were besought by them to tarry
yet seven days longer: and so we
came to Rome.

15 And thence the brethren, having
heard of us, came out to our meeting
as faras Appii forum, and The three
taverns: whom Paul having seen, hay-
ing returned thanks to God, took
courage.

16 And when we came to Rome, the
centurion delivered the prisoners to the
commander of the camp: but to Paul
it was permitted to remain by himself
with a ‘soldier watching him.

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17 And it was after three days Paul
081160 together them being first of the
Jews: and they having come together,
he said to them, Men, brethren, 1 hay-
ing done nothing against the people,
or customs of the fathers, I was deliv-
ered in bonds from Jerusalem into the
hands of the Romans.

18 Who, having examined me, wished
to loose, for no cause of death was in
me.

19 And the Jews saying against, I
was forced to appeal to Ceesar ; as hay-
ing nothing to accuse my nation.

20 For this cause therefore I be-
sought to see you, and to speak: for,
for the hope of Israel am I surrounded
by this chain.

21 And they said to him, We neith-
er received letters concerning thee from
Judea, nor any of the brethren having
been present announced or spoke any
evil of thee.

22 And we desire to hear from thee
what thou thinkest: for truly of this
sect it is known to us that itis every-
where spoken against.

23 And having appointed him a
day, many came to him to the lodging ;
to whom testifying, he set forth the
kingdom of God, and persuading them
concerning Jesus, both from the law
of Moses, and the prophets, from morn
to eve.

THE ACTS XXVIII.

24 And some truly were persuaded
by things spoken, and some disbe-
lieved.

25 And being at variance with one
another, they were let go, Paul having
said one word, That well spake the
Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to
our fathers,

26 Saying, Go to this people, and
say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not
understand ; and seeing ye shall see,
and ye should not perceive:

27 For the heart of this people was
thickened, and with ears heard they
heavily, and their eyes they closed ;
lest they should see with the eyes, and
with ears should hear, and with- the
heart they should understand, and turn
back, and I should heal them.

28 Be it known to you therefore,
that salvation of God was sent to the
nations, and they shall hear.

29 And he having said these things,
the Jews departed, having much discus-
sion in themselves.

30 And Paul remained two whole
years in his own wages, and received all
going to him,

31 Proclaiming the kingdom of
God, and teaching things concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ, with all free-
dom of speech, unimpeded.

ROMANS.

CHAPTER I.
AUL, servant of Jesus Christ,
called sent, separated to the good
news of God,
2(Which he before promised by
his prophets in the holy writings,)
3 Concerning his Son born of the
seed of David according to the flesh.
4 Determined the Son of God in
power, according to the spirit of holi-
ness, by the rising up of the dead
of Jesus Christ our Lord:

5 By whom we received grace and
sending forth, to the obedience of
faith in all nations for his name :

6 In whom are ye also, the called
of Jesus Christ :

7 To all being in Rome, beloved of
God, called holy: Grace to you and

eace from God our Father, and the
Fad Jesus Christ.

8 First, I return thanks to my God
by Jesus Christ for you all, that your
faith is announced in the whole world.

ROMANS I, II.

9 For my witness is God, whom I
serve in my spirit in the good news of
his Son, so that continually 1 make
mention of you, always supplicating
in my prayers ;

10 If in any way I shall be pros-
pered on my way in the will of God
to come to you.

11 For I long to see you, that I
might impart to you some spiritual
grace, in order for you to be firm;

12 And this is, to be comforted to-
gether in you by the faith in one an-
other both of you and of me.

13 And I would not ye should be
ignorant, brethren, that many times I
proposed to come to you, (and I was
hindered till this time, ) that I might
have some fruit also in- you, and in the
rest of the nations.

14 Both to Greeks, and foreigners ;
both to wise and unwise, I am debtor.

15 So that for my part being zeal-
ous, also to you that in Rome, to an-
nounce the good news.

16 For 1 am not ashamed of the
good news of Christ: for it is the
power of God to salvation to all be-
lieving; both to the Jew first, and
the Greek.

17 For the justice of God in it is re-

vealed from faith to faith: as has been
written, And the just shall live by
faith.
- 18 For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven upon all profanation and
injustice of men, of those detaining
the truth in injustice ;

19 Wherefore that known of God
is manifest in them; for God mani-
fested to them.

20 For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world, being
understood by things made, are inspect-
ed, truly both his eternal power and
divinity ; so that they are inexcusable :

21 Wherefore having known God,
not as God did they honour or return
thanks; but were rendered vain in
their conversations, and their heart
without understanding was darkened.

22 Declaring themselves to be wise,
they were fools,

23 And they changed the glory of
the incorruptible God into the likeness

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of an image of corruptible man, and
of flying things, and of creeping
things, and of quadrupeds.

24 Wherefore God delivered them
in the eager desire of their hearts to
uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies
in themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God
into a falsehood, and reverenced and
served the creation above him creating,
who is praised forever. Amen.

26 Therefore God delivered them
to the suffering of ignominy: for also
their females changed the natural use
into that against generation:

27 Likewise also males, leaving the
natural use of the female, were set on
fire in their longing for one another;
males with males working deformity,
and the retribution which was needed
receiving in themselves for their err-
ing.

28 And as they chose not to have
God in knowledge, God delivered
them to an adulterated purpose, to do
things not fitting ; ;

29 Having been filled with all injus-
tice, fornication, wickedness, covetous-
ness, badness; full of envy, slaughter,
strife, deceit, malignity,

30 Whisperers, slanderers, odious to
God, abusers of power, proud, tumult-
uous, inventors of injuries, disobedient
to parents,

31 Destitute of understanding, un-
steady, devoid of natural affection, im-

lacable, merciless: Ἷ

32 Who knowing the justice of God,
that they doing such things are worthy
of death, not only do them, but also
approve those doing.

CHAPTER II.
IH EREFORE thou art inexcusable,
O man, every one judging: for in
what thou judgest another, thou con-
demnest thyself; for thou judging do-
est the same.

2 And we know that the judgment
of God is according to truth upon
them doing such things.

3 And thinkest thou this, O man,
judging them doing such things, and
doing the same, that thou shalt escape
the judgment of God?

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4 Or the abundance of his goodness
and forbearance and long suffering
dost thou despise ; not knowing that
the goodness of God brings thee to
repentance ἕ

5 And according to thy hardness
and impenitent heart thou treasurest
up to thyself anger in the day of an-
ger and revelation of the just judg-
ment of God;

6 Who will give back to each ac-
cording to his works :

7 To them truly by perseverance 1
the good work they seek glory and
honour and immortality, eternal life:

8 But to them of intrigue, and are
truly disobedient to the truth, and
yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,

9 Afiliction and distress, upon every
soul of man working evil, both of the
Jew first, and of the Greek ;

10 But glory, and honour, and
peace, to every one working good,
both to the Jew first, and to the
Greek :

11 For there is no distinction of
persons with God.

12 For as many as sinned without
law shall also perish without law:
and as many as sinned in the law shall
be judged by the law;

13 (For not hearers of the law just
with God, but the doers of the law
shall be justified.

14 For when nations, not having the
things of the law, by nature do the
things of the law, these, not having
the law, are law to themselves:

15 Which show the work of the law
written in their hearts, their con-
sciousness testifying together, and be-
tween one another thoughts accusing
or also excusing })

16 In the day when God shall judge
the concealed things of men accord-
ing to my. good news by Jesus Christ.

17 Behold, thon art named a Jew,
and restest upon the law, and boastest
thyself in God,

18 And knowest the will, and triest
things differing, being sounded out of
the law;

19 And art persuaded thou thyself
to be a guide of the blind, a light of
them in darkness,

ROMANS IL, ΠΙ|.

20 An instructor of the foolish, a
teacher of the inexperienced, having
the form of knowledge and of truth in
the law.

21 Therefore teaching another,
teachest thou not thyself? proclaiming
not to steal, stealest thou?

22 Speaking not to commit adultery,
committest thou adultery? abhorring

| Images, committest thou sacrilege ?

23 Thou who boastest in the law,
by transgression of the law dishonour-
est thou God ?

24 For the name of God by you is
blasphemed in the nations, as it has
been written.

25 For truly circumcision profits, if
thou do the law: and if thou be a
transgressor of the law, thy circumci-
sion has become uncireumceision.

26 Therefore if uncireumcision
watch the justification of the law, shall
not his uncireumcision be reckoned
for circumcision ?

27 And shall not uncireumcision by
nature, completing the law, judge
thee, which by letter and circumcision
a transgressor of the law ?

28 For hein appearance, is not a Jew;
neither circumcision, in appearance in
the flesh :

29 But he in concealment, a Jew;
and circumcision of the heart, in
spirit, not in letter; whose approba-
tion not of man, but of God.

CHAPTER III.
Wet then the superiority of the
Jew? or what the advantage of
circumcision ?

2 Much according to every manner:
for truly first were they trusted with
the oracles of God.

3 For what if some disbelieved?
their unbelief will not leave inactive the
faith of God.

4 16 may not be: and let God be
true, and every man a liar; as has
been written, That thou mightest be
justified in thy words, and mightest
conquer in thy being judged.

5 And if our injustice shall recom-
mend the justice of God, what shall
we say? God not unjust bringing in
anger? (I speak as man )

ROMANS

6 It may not be: for how shall God
judge the world?

7 For if the truth of God in my
lying abounded to his glory; why yet
am I judged as sinful?

8 And not, (as we are defamed, and
some have declared us to say,) That we
should do evil things, that good things
might come: whose judgment is just.

9 What advantage therefore have
we? Not in any way: for we before
accused both Jews and Greeks, all to
be under sin.

10 As has been written, That there
is no just one, not one:

11 There is none understanding,
there is none seeking God.

12 All have bent aside, together have
they hecome unprofitable: there is
none doing good, there is not even one.

13 Their throat an opened tomb;
with their tongues have they used de-
ceit; the poison of asps under their
lips:

1 Whose mouth is full of cursing
and harshness :

15 Their feet active to pour out
blood:

16 Bruising and grievous toil in
their ways:

17 And the way of peace they knew
not:

18 The fear of God is not before
their eyes.

19 And we know that whatever
says the law, it speaks to them in the
law: that every mouth be shut, and
all the world be culpable to God.

20 Therefore from the works of the
law shall no flesh be justified before
him: for by the law the knowledge
of sin.

21 But now withont law the justice
of God has been made apparent, being
testified by the Jaw and by the
prophets ;

22 And the justice of God by faith
of Jesus Christ to all and upon all
believing: for there is no distinction:

23 For all have sinned, and failed
of the glory of God;

24 Being justified as a gift by his
grace by the redemption which is in
Christ Jesus:

25 Whom God had set before a

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propitiatory by faith in his blood, for
a manifestation of his justice by pass-
ing over of sins before existing, in the
sufferance of God;

26 For the manifestation of his jus-
tice now in time: for him to be just,
and justifying him of the faith of
Jesus.

27 Where then boasting? It was
excluded. By what law? of works ?
No: but by the law of faith.

28 We reckon then man to be justi-
fied by faith without the works of the
law.

29 Or only the God of the Jews?
and not also of the nations? Yes,
also of the nations:

30 Since one God, who will justify
circumcision of faith, and uncircum-
cision by faith.

31 Therefore shall we leave the law
inactive by faith? It may not be: but
we should establish the law.

CHAPTER IY.
TWAT then shall we say Abra-
ham our father to haye found,
according to the flesh ?

2 For if Abraham was justified by
works, he has boasting; but not to-
ward God.

3 For what says the writing? And
Abraham believed God, and it was
reckoned to him for justice.

4 And to him working, the reward
is not reckoned according to favor;
but according to debt.

5 And to him not working, and
believing upon him justifying the im-
pious, his faith is reckoned for justice.

6 As also David speaks the happi-
ness of the man, to whom God reckons
justice without works,

7 Happy they whose iniquities were
remitted, and whose sins were covered.

8 A happy man to whom the Lord
should not reckon sin.

9 This happiness then upon circum-
cision, or upon uncircumcision 1 for we
say that faith was reckoned to Abraham
for justice. ,

10 How then was it reckoned? to

-him being in circumcision, or in uncir-

cumcision? Not in circumcision, but
in uncircumcision.

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11 And he received the sign of cir-
cumcision, a seal of the justice of the
faith which in uncireumcision: for him
to be father of all believing through
uncireumcision ; for justice also to be
reckoned to them:

12 And father of circumcision to
them not of circumcision only, but
also to them, walking in order in the
tracks of the uncireumcision, of the
taith of our father Abraham.

13 For not by the law, the promise
to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to
be heir of the world, but by the
justice of faith.

14 For if they’ of the law, heirs,
faith was made void, and the promise
left inactive:

15 For the law works wrath: for
where is no law, no transgression.

16 Therefore of faith, that aceord-
ing to grace; the promise to be firm
to all the seed; not to that of the law
only, but also to that of the faith of
Abraham; who is father of us all,

17 (As it has been written, That I
have set thee father of many nations,)
over against him who believed God,
making alive the dead, and calling
things not being as being.

18 Who against hope believed upon
hope, for him to become father of
many nations, according to that said,
So shall thy seed be.

19 And not having been weak in
faith, he observed not his own body
already having been dead, being about
a hundred years, and the death of
Saral’s womb:

20 And for the promise of God he
was not separated by unbelief; but was
strengthened in faith, having given
glory to God;

21 And made perfectly certain that,
what was promised, he is able to do.

22 And therefore it was reckoned to
him for justice.

23 And it was not written for him
alone, that it was reckoned to him;

24 But also for us, to whom it is
about to be reckoned, to them beliey-
ing upon him having raised up Jesus
our Lord from the dead;

25 Who was delivered up for our
faults, and raised up for our justitica-
tion.

ROMANS צז‎ V.

| CHAPTER יצ‎
ו‎ therefore of faith, we

have peace with God by our Lord
Jesus Christ:

2 By whom also we have had access by
faith into this grace in which we have
stood, and we boast upon hope of the
glory of God.

3 And not only, but also we boast
in affliction: knowing that affliction
works perseverance ;

4 And perseverance, proof; and
proof, hope.

5 And hope shames not ; for the love
of God has been poured in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit given us.

6 For yet Christ, we being weak, .
according to the time died for the im-
pious. :

7 For scarcely for the just will any
one die: yet for the good perhaps
some also would venture to die.

8 And God recommends his own
love to us, that we yet being sinful,
Christ died for us.

9 Much more then, justified now in
his blood, we shall be saved by him
from wrath.

10 For if, being enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his
Son, much more, reconciled, we shall be
saved in his. life.

11 And not only, but also boasting
in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received recon-
ciliation.

12 Therefore, as by one man sin
came into the world, and by sin death ;
and so death passed upon all men, in
that all have sinned:

13 (For until the law sin was in the
world: and sin is not charged, being
no law.

14 But death reigned from Adam
to Moses, and upon them not having
sinned upon the likeness of Adam’s
transgression, who isthe type of him
about to be.

15 But not as the fall, so also the
favor. For if for the fall of one many
died, much more the grace of God, and
the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus
Christ, has abounded to many.

16 And not as by one having sinned,
the gift : for truly the judgment of one

ROMANS V.,, VI., VII.

to condemnation, but the favor of
many falls to justification.

17 For if by the fall of one, death
reigned by one; much more they re-
ceiving the abundance of grace and the
gift 01 justice in life shall reign by one,
Jesus Christ.)

18 Therefore as by the fall of one
for all men to condemnation; so also
by the justification of one for all men
to justification of life.

19 For as by one man’s disohedi-
ence many were constituted sinful, so
also by the obedience of one shall
many be constituted just.

20 And the lawentered, that the
fall might abound. And where sin
abounded, grace superabounded :

21 That as sin reigned in death,
80 grace might reign by justice to life
eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

CHAPTER VI.
\7 TAT then shall we say? Shall
we continue in sin, that grace
might abound ¢
. 2 It may not be. We who died to
sin, shall we yet live in it ?

3 Or know ye not, that as many of us
as were immersed in Christ Jesus, we
were immersed into his death ?

4 Therefore were we buried with
him by immersion into death: that as
Christ was raised from the dead by the
glory of the Father, so also we should
walk in newness of life.

5 For if grown together we have
been in the likeness of his death, but
also shall we be of the resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man
was crucified together, that the body
of sin might be left inactive, for us no
more to serve sin.

7 For he having died was justified
from sin.

8 And if we died with Christ, we
believe we shall also live with him:

9 Knowing that Christ, raised from

the dead, dies no more; death has no.

miore power over him.
10 For he who died, died to sin
once: but he who lives, lives to God.
11 So also ye reckon yourselves
truly to be dead to sin, and living to
God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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12 Therefore let not sin reign in
your mortal body, to listen to it in its
passions.

13 Neither present ye your mem-
bers weapons of injustice to sin: but
present yourselves to God, as living
from the dead, and your members
weapons of justice to God.

14 For sin shall not rule over yon:
for ye are not under law, but un-
der grace. a

15 What then? shall we sin, be-
cause we are not under law, but under
grace ? It may not be.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye
present yourselves servants for obedi-
ence, ye are servants to whom ye listen;
either of sin to death, or of obedience
to justice ?

17 And grace to God, that ye were
servants of sin, but ye listened from
the heart to the type of teach-
ing in which ye were delivered.

18 And freed from sin, ye were sub-
dued to justice. -

19 )1 speak as man through the weak-
ness of your flesh :) for as ye presented
your members to uncleanness and iniq-
uity ; 80 now present ye your members
servants to justice for consecration.

20 For when ye were servants to
sin, ye were free to justice.

21 Therefore what fruit had ye then
of what ye are now ashamed? for the
end of these, death.

22 And now freed from sin, and
subdued to God, ye have your fruit to
consecration, and the end life eternal.

23 For the purchasing the provi-
sions of sin, death; and the grace of
God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our

Lord.

1 NOW ye not brethren, (for I
speak to them knowing law,) that

law rules over man as much time ashe

lives ?

2 For a married woman is bound by
the law to aliving husband ; andif the
husband die, she is left inactive from
the law of the husband.

3 Wherefore, the husband living, she
shall be called adulteress if she be to
another man: but if the man die,

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she is free from the law; not to be an
adulteress, being to another man.

4 Therefore, my brethren, ye also
were dead to the law by the body of
Christ ; for you not to be to another,
but to him raised from the dead, that
we bring forth fruit to God.

5 For when we were in the flesh the
passions of sins, those by the law, were
energetic in our members to bring
forth fruit to,death.

6 And now we were left inactive
from the law, having died in what we
were held; so that we serve in newness
of spirit, and not in the oldness of the
letter.

7 What then shall we say? The law
sin? It may not be. But I knew not
sin except by the law: for I knew
not lust, if the Jaw said not, Thou shalt
not eagerly desire.

8 And sin, haying taken occasion by
the command, wrought in me every
lust. For without Jaw sin dead.

9 And I was living without law
once: and the command having come,
sin came back to life, and I died.

10 And the command was found to
me which for life, this for death.

11 For sin having taken occasion by
the command, deceived me completely,
and by it killed me.

12 Therefore truly the law holy, and
the command holy, and just, and good.

13 Was then good death to me? It
may not be. But sin, that it might ap-
pear sin, by the good working death
in me; thatsin might be sinful to ex-
cess by the command.

14 For we know that the law is
spiritual : and I am fleshly, sold under
sin.

15 For what I work I know not: for
what I would not, this 1 do; but what
1 hate, this I do. .

16 Απα 11 what I would not this I do,
I consent to the law that it is good.

17 And now 1 no more wish it, but
sin dwelling in me.

18 For I know that in me dwells no
good, (that is, in my flesh :) for to will
lies near me; but to work good I find
not.

19 For not what good I would, do
I; but the evil I would not, this I do.

ROMANS VIL. VIL.

20 And if what I would not, this I
do, I no more work it, but sin dwell-
ing in me.

21 I find therefore a law to me, wish-
ing to do good, that evil lies near me.

22 For 1 rejoice in the law of God,
according to the man within:

23 And I see another law in my
members, fighting against the law of
my mind, and taking me 6800176 to
the law of sin being in my members.

241 an oppressed man: who shall
save me from the body of this death ?

25 I return thanks to God by Jesus
Christ our Lord. Therefore truly
with the mind I serve the law of God;
and with the flesh the law of sin.

CHAPTER VIII.
HEREFORE now no condemna-
tion to them in Christ Jesus,
walking not according to the flesh, but
according to the Spirit.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life
in Christ Jesus freed me from the law
of sin and death.

3 For the impossibility of the law,
in that it was weak by the flesh, God
having sent hisown Son in the like-
ness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, con-
demned sin in the flesh:

4 That the justification of the law
be filled up in us, not walking accord-
ing to the flesh, but according to the
Spirit.

5 For they being according to the
flesh mind things of the flesh; and
they according to the Spirit the
things of the Spirit.

6 For the thought of the flesh,
death ; and the thought of the Spirit,
life and peace. -

7 Wherefore the thought of the
flesh enmity to God: for it is not sub-
ject to the law of God, for it cannot
be.

8 And they being in the flesh cannot
please Gad. ἷ
_ 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in
the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God
dwell in you. And if any have not the
Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

10 And if Christ in you, truly the
body dead by sin; and the Spirit life
by Justice.

ROMANS

11 And if the Spirit of him having
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in
you, he having raised up Christ from
the dead will make alive also your
mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling
in you.

12 Therefore, brethren, we are not
debtors to the flesh, to live according
to the flesh.

13 Forif ye live according to the
flesh, ye shall die: and if by the Spirit
ye kill the deeds of the body, ye shall
live.

14 For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.

15 For ye have not received the
Spirit of servitude again for fear; but
have received the Spirit of adoption
as a son, in which we ery, Abba, Fa-
ther.

16 The Spirit itself testifies with our
spirit, that we are children of God:

17 And if children, also heirs;
truly heirs of God, and co-heirs of
Christ ; if indeed we suffer together,
that we may be also glorified together.

18 For 1 reckon that the sutterings
of the time now not worthy of the
glory about to be revealed in us.

19 For the anxious expectation of
the creation awaits the revelation of
the sons of God.

20 For the creation was subject to
vanity, not voluntarily, but by him
having subjected in hope,

21 That also the creation itself be
freed from servitude of corruption to
the freedom of the glory of the chil-
dren of God.

22 For we know that all creation
groans together and travails together
until now.

23 And not only, but also they hav-
ing the first fruits of the Spirit, and
we ourselves groan in ourselves, wait-
ing for the adoption as a son, the re-
demption of our body.

24 For by hope were we saved : but
hope being seen is not hope: for what
any one sees, why does he also hope?

25 And if what we see not, we hope
for, by patience we wait.

26 And likewise also the Spirit
takes hold together, and assists our
weaknesses : for what we would pray

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for as we ought, we know not, but the‏
Spirit itself intercedes for us with in-‏
expressible groanings.‏

27 And he searching hearts knows
what the thought of the Spirit, for
according to God he supplicates for
the holy ones.

28 And we know that to them lov-
ing God, all things work together for
good, to them being called according to
the setting up.

29 For whom he before knew, he
also before determined of the form of
the image of his Son, for him to be
first born in many brethren.

30 And whom he before determined,
these he also called: and whom he
called, these he also justified: and
whom he justified, these he also glo-
rified.

31 What then shall we say to these?
if God with us, who against us ?

32 Who truly spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all,
and how not with him will he freely
give us all?

33 Who shall demand payment for
the chosen of God? God justifying.

34 Who, he condemning? Christ
having died, and rather also raised
again, who is at the right hand of
God, and who intercedes for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ ? pressure, or perplexity,
or expulsion, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword ?

86 As has been written, That for
thy sake we are killed the whole day ;
we were reckoned as sheep for slaugh-
ter.

37 But in all these we obtain a com-
plete victory by him having loved us.

38 For 1 am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor begin-
nings, nor powers, nor things having
stood, nor things about to be,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creation, shall be able to sepa-
rate us from the love of God in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

CHAPTER IX.
SPEAK truth in Christ, I lie not,
my consciousness bearing witness
to me in the Holy Spirit,

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2 That there is great grief to me
and continued pain in my heart.

3 For I myself was praying to be
anathema from Christ for my breth-
ren, my kinsmen according to the
flesh :

4 Who are Israelites; whose the
adoption as a son, and the glory, and
covenants, and legislation, and divine
worship, and solemn promises ;

5 Whose the fathers, and from
whom Christ according to the flesh,
who being God over all, praised for-
ever. Amen.

6 And not as that the word of God
has fallen through. For not they all
of Israel, they which of Israel:

7 Neither that the seed of Abra-
ham, are all children: but, In Isaac
shall the seed be called to thee.

8 That is, The children of the flesh,
these not the children of God: but
the children of the solemn promise
are reckoned for seed.

9 For this the word of solemn
promise, According to this time will I
come, and there shall be a son to
Sarah.

10 And not only; but also Rebecca,
having coition of one, Isaac our
father;

11 (For not yet born, neither having
done any good or evil, that according
to choice the purpose of God might
remain, not of works, but of him eall-
ing :(

12 It was said to her, That the
greater shall serve the less.

13 As has been written, Jacob have
I loved, and Esau have I hated.

14 What then shall we say? Is in-
justice with God? It may not be.

15 I will commiserate whomsoever
I commiserate, and I will have com-
passion upon whomsoever I have com-
passion.

16 Surely then, not of him willing,
nor of him running, but of God com-
miserating.

17 For the writing says to Pharaoh,
That for this same have I raised thee
up, so that I might show in thee
my power, and so that my name
might be announced in all the earth.

18 Surely then, whom he will he

ROMANS IX.

commiserates, and whom he will he
hardens.

19 Thou wilt then say to me, Why
does he yet blame? For who has with-
stood his will ?

20 Surely, O man, who art thou re-
plying against God? Shall the forma-
tion say to him having formed, Why
hast thou made me ₪0 ?

21 Or has not the potter power over
the clay, of the same mixture truly to
make one vessel for honour, and one
for dishonour ?

22 And if God, willing anger to be
shown, and his power to be made
known, endured in much long suffer-
ing the vessels of anger put in proper
order for destruction :

23 And that he might make known
the riches of his glory upon the vessels
of mercy, which he before prepared for
glory,

24 Whom he also called us, not only
from the Jews, but also of the na-
tions?

25 As also he says in Hosea, I will
call not my people my people; and
the not loved, loved.

26 And it shall be, in the place
where it was said to them, Ye not my
people; there shall they be called the
sons of the living God.

27 And Esaias cries for Israel, If
the number of the sons of Israel as
the sand of the sea, the remnant shall
be saved :

28 For finishing and cutting short
the word in justice: for the Lord will
make the word cut short upon the
earth.

29 And as Esaias said before, Except
the Lord of Sabaoth had left us seed,
as Sodom had we been, and as Go-
morrha had we been likened.

30 What then shall we say? That
the nations, not following justice,
overtook justice, and the justice, of
faith.

31 And Israel following the law of
justice, reached not the law of justice.

32 Wherefore ? Because not of faith,
but as of the works of the law. For
they stumbled at the stumblingstone ;

88 As has been written, Behold 1
set in Ziona stone of stumbling and

ROMANS IX., X., ΣΙ.

rock of offence: and every one believ-
ing on him shall not be ashamed.

CHAPTER X.
pe GEL, truly my heart’s de-
light and prayer to God for Israel]
is for salvation.

2 For I testify for them that they
have a zeal of God, but not according
to knowledge.

3 For not knowing the justice of
God, and seeking to establish their
own justice, they have not been sub-
jected to the justice of God.

4 For Christ the end of the law for
justice to every one believing.

5 For Moses writes the justice of
the law, That the man having done
these things shall live in them.

6 And the justice of faith says thus,
Thou shouldest not say in thy heart,
Who shall go up to heaven ? (that is,
to bring Christ down :(

7 Or, Who shall go down to the
abyss? (that is, to bring up Christ
from the dead.)

8 But what does it say? The word
is near thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
heart : that is, the word of faith, which
we proclaim ;

9 For if thou confess in thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart
that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart is believed for
justice: and with the mouth is con-
fessed for salvation.

11 For the writing says, Every one
believing upon him shall not be
ashamed.

12 For no distinction is of the Jew
and also of the Greek: for the same
Lord of all being rich to all calling
upon him.

13 For every one whoever should
681] upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved.

14 How then shall they call upon
whom they believed not? and how
shall they believe whom they heard
not? and how shall they hear without
him proclaiming ?

15 And how shall they proclaim,
ו‎ they be sent? as has been writ-
ten, How beautiful the feet of them

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announcing good news, peace, of them
announcing good things!

16 But not all listened to the good
news. For Esaias says, Lord, who be-
lieved our report ?

17 Therefore faith, from the report,
and report by the word of God.

18 But I say, Have they not heard ?
Surely, in all the earth went out their
sound, and their words to the end of
the habitable globe.

19 But I say, Did not Israel know ?
First Moses says, I will make you
jealous of not a nation, and by ashort-
sighted nation will I anger you.

20 And Esaias is very confident,
and says, 1 was found of them not
seeking me; I was manifested to them
not asking for me.

21 And to Israel he says, The whole
day have I unfolded my hands to an
unbelieving and-contradicting people.

CHAPTER XI.
SAY then, Has God rejected his
people? It may not be. For I also
am an Israelite, of Abraham’s seed, of
the tribe of Benjamin.

2 God has not rejected his people
whom he foreknew. Or know ye not in
Elias, what says the writing? how he
addresses God against Israel, saying,

3 Lord, thy prophets have they killed,
and dug down thine altars; and I
alone was left, and they seek my
soul.

4 But what say to him the intima-
tions of divine will? I have left to
myself seven thousand men, who
bent not the knee to Baal.

5 So then also in the time now has
been a remnant according to the elec-
tion of grace.

6 And if to grace, it is no more of
works: otherwise grace is no more
grace. And if of works, it is no more
grace: otherwise work is no more
work.

7 What then ? What Israel seeks for,
this he attained not; but the selection
attained, and the rest were hardened.

8 (As has been written, God gave
them the spirit of mortal pain, eyes
not to see, and ears not to hear;) even
to this day.

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9 And David says, Let their table be
for a snare, and for booty, and for a
stumblingblock, and for a retribution
to them :

10 Let their eyes be darkened not
to see, and let them bend their back al-
ways.

11 I say then, Did they stumble that
they might fall? It may not be: but
by their fall salvation to the nations,
to make them jealous.

12 Andif their fall the riches of the
world, and their disaster the riches of
the nations ; how much more their ful-
ness ?

13 (For 1 speak to you the nations,
inasmuch as truly I am the sent of
the nations, I highly valuemy service :

14 If in some way I might make
jealous my flesh, and I might save
some of them.)

15 Forif their rejection the recon-
ciliation of the world, what the recep-
tion, but life from the dead ?

16 And if the first fruit holy, also
the mixture: and if the root holy,
also the young shoots.

17 And if certain of the young
shoots were broken off, and thou, be-
ing a wild olive tree, wert grafted in
them, and wert a partaker of the root
and fatness of the olive tree ;

18 Act not proudly to the young
shoots. And if thou boastest, thou
bearest not the root, but the root thee.

19 Thou wilt say then, That the
young shoots were broken off, that

might be grafted in.

20 Well; for unbelief were they
broken off, and thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded, but do thou fear :

21 For if God spared not the young
shoots according to nature, how will
he either spare thee ?

22 Behold then the goodness and
severity of God: truly upon the fallen,
severity ; and upon thee, goodness, if
thou continue in goodness: otherwise
shalt thou also be cut off.

23 And they also, if they continue
not in unbelief, shall be grafted in : for
God is able to graft them in again.

24 For if thou according to nature
wert cut out of the wild olive tree,
and against nature wert grafted into

ROMANS XL, XII.

the cultivated olive tree: how much
more these, according to nature, shall
be grafted into their own olive tree ?

25 For I will not ye should not
know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be
wise with yourselves; for hardness
from part has been to Israel, till the
filling up of the nations come in.

26 And so all Israel shall be saved :
as has been written, The Deliverer shall
come out of Sion, and turn away prof-
anation from Jacob.

27 And this the covenant to them
with me, when I take away their sins.

28 Truly concerning the good news,
enemies for you: and concerning the
selection, beloved for the fathers.

29 For the favors and calling of
God not causing repentance.

30 For as also ye, when ye were dis-
obedient to God, but now ye haye
been commiserated by the unbelief of
these:

31 So they now also were disobedi-
ent, by your mercy that they also be
commiserated.

32 For God shut them all up to-
gether in unbelief, that he might com-
miserate all.

38 O the depth of the riches and wis-
dom and knowledge of God ! his judg-
ments how unsearchable, and his ways
not traced out!

34 For who knew the mind of the
Lord? or who was his counsel ?

35 Or who first gave to him, and it
shall be given back to him ?

36 For of him, and by him, and to
him, all things: to him the glory for- -
ever. Amen.

CHAPTER XII.
1 BESEECH youtherefore, brethren,
by the compassions of God, to pre-
sent your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable
service.

2 And be ye not conformed to this
life, but be transformed by the reno-
vation of your mind, for you to prove
what the good, and the pleasing, and
the perfected will of God.

3 For I say, by the grace given me,
to every one being with you, not to
entertain a high opinion of one’s self

ROMANS XII, XIII.

above what is fitting to think: but to
think to be discreet, as God has divi-
ded the measure of faith to each.

4 For as in one body we have many
members, and all members have not
the same action :

5 So we, the many, are one body in
Christ, and the members for one
another.

6 And having gifts different accord-
ing to the grace given us, whether
prophecy, according to the due propor-
tion of faith ;

7 Whether service, in service: wheth-
er he teaching, in instruction ;

8 Whether he beseeching, in suppli-
cation : he imparting, in simplicity ; he
placed before, in earnestness ; he com-
passionating, in cheerfulness.

9 Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fast-
ened to good.

10 In brotherly love, being kindly
affectioned to one another; in honour
preceding one another.

11 In study not slothful; boiling in
the spirit; serving the Lord ;

12 Rejoicing in hope; holding out
under pressure; persevering in
prayer ;

13 Participating in the necessities of
the holy ones ; pursuing hospitality.

14 Praise them driving you out:
praise ye, and curse not.

15 To rejoice with the rejoicing,
and weep with the weeping.

16 Thinking the same towards one
another. Not thinking high things,
but being led by humble things. Be
not wise with yourselves.

17 Giving back evil for evil to
none. Providing good things before
all men.

18 If possible of you, living peacea-
bly with all men.

19 Avenging not yourselves, beloved,
but give ye place to anger: for it has
been written, Vengeance to me; I will
repay, says the Lord.

20 If therefore thine enemy hunger,
feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for doing this, thou shalt heap up
coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil with good.

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CHAPTER XIII.
ו‎ every soul be placed under the
protecting powers. For there is
no power except from God: and the
powers being, were ordered by God.

9 00 he opposing the power, has
resisted the arrangement of God: and
they having resisted shall receive to
themselves judgment.

3 For rulers are not the terror of
good works, but of evil. And wilt
thou not fear the power? do good, and
thou shalt have approbation of it:

4 For he is servant of God to thee
for good. And if thou do evil, be
afraid; for he bears not the sword
without order: for he is servant of
oon avenging for anger to him doing
evil.

5 Wherefore necessity to be placed
under, not only. for anger, but also for
consciousness.

6 For this also pay ye taxes: for they
are workmen of God, persevering in
this same.

7 Therefore restore debts to all; to
whom tribute, tribute ; to whom recom-
pense, recompense; to whom fear,
fear; to whom honour, honour.

8 Owe ye nothing to none, except
to love one another: for he loving
another has completed the law.

9 For this, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false
testimony, Thou shalt not covet; and if
any other command in this word it is
summed up, in it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.

10 Love works no evil to the neigh-
bor: love therefore the completion of
the law.

11 And this, knowing the time, that
already the hour ye should be awak-
ened out of sleep: for now our salva-
tion nearer than when we believed.

12 The night has advanced, and the
day has drawn near: therefore let us
lay down the works of darkness, and
put on the weapons of light.

13 As in the day, let us walk becom-
ingly ; not in revelries and drunken-
ness, not in coition and licentiousness,
not in strife and envy.

14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus

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Christ, and make not consideration
for the flesh, for the passions.

CHAPTER XIV.
יי‎ being weak in faith receive ye,
not to judgments of conversa-
tions.

2 One truly believes to eat all
things: and he being weak eats vege-
tables.

3 Let not him eating despise him
not eating: and let not him not eating
judge him eating: for God has 16-
ceived him.

4 Who art thou judging another’s
servant ¢ to his own lord he stands or
falls. And he shall be made to stand :
for God is powerful to make him
stand.

5 For one truly judges day above
day: and one judges everyday. Let
each one be perfectly certain in his
own mind.

6 He minding the day, minds to the
Lord; and he not minding the day, to
the Lord he minds not. He eating,
eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks
to God; and he not eating, to the
Lord he eats not, and he gives thanks
to God.

4 For none of us lives to himeelf,
and none dies to himself.

8 For whether we live, to the Lord
we live: and whether we die, to the
Lord we die: therefore whether we
live, and whether we die, we are of the

- Lord.

9 For, for this Christ also died, and
also arose, and returned again to life,
that he might also reign over the dead
and the living.

10 And why judgest thou thy
brother? or why also despisest thou
thy brother? for we shall all stand at
the judgment seat of Christ.

11 For it has been written, I live,
says the Lord, for to me shall every
knee bend, and eyery tongue acknowl-
edge to God.

12 So therefore shall each of us give
word for himself to God.

13 Then let us no more judge one
another: but rather judge ye this, not
to put a stumble or offence to thy
brother,

ROMANS ,זזנא‎ XIV., XV.

141 know and am persuaded in the
Lord Jesus, that nothing common by
itself; except to any one reckoning to
be common, to that one it is common.

15 And if by food thy brother is
grieved, thou no more walkest by love.
Not by thy food destroy him, for whom
Christ died.

16 Therefore let not your good be
defamed.

17 For the kingdom of God is not
food and drink ; but justice, and peace,
and joy in the Holy Spirit.

18 For he in these serving Christ,
pleasing to God, and acceptable to
men.

19 So therefore, let us pursue the
things of peace, and the things for the
building up for one another.

20 Not forsake of food destroy thou
the work of God. Truly all things
clean; but evil tothe man eating by
offence.

21 Good not to eat flesh, nor drink
wine, nor in what thy brother stum-
bles, or is offended, or is weak.

22'Thou has faith; have to thyself
before God. Happy he judging not
himself in what he proves.

23 And he being judged if he eat,
has been condemned for not of faith;
and everything not of faith is sin.

CHAPTER XV.
fhe we the able ought to bear the
weaknesses of the unable, and
not please ourselves.

2 For let each of us please the neigh-
bor for good to the building.

3 For Christ also pleased not him-
self, but as has been written, The re-
proaches of them reproaching thee
fell upon me:

4 For whatever before was written,
for our instruction was before written,
that by patience and consolation of
the writings we might have hope.

5 And may the God of patience and
consolation give you to mind the same
in one another according to Christ
Jesus: ;

6 That unanimously in one mouth ye
should glorify the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ. ,

7 Wherefore receive ye one another,

ROMANS,

as also Christ received us tothe glory
of God.

8 And 1 say Jesus Christ has be-
come the servant of circumcision for
the truth of God, to confirm the prom-
ises of the fathers :

9 And the nations to glorify God
for mercies; as has been written, For
this will I acknowledge to thee in the
nations; and I will play on the harp
to thy name.

10 And again he says, Rejoice, ye
nations, with his people.

11 And again, Praise the Lord, all

ere) and 1806 him all ye peo-
ple.
: 19 And again Esaias says, The root
shall be of Jesse, and he having risen
to rule over the nations; upon him
shall the nations hope.

13 And may the God of hope fill
you with all joy and peace in believ-
ing, for you to abound in hope, in the
power of the Holy Spirit.

14 And 1 am persuaded my brethren,
and I myself for you, that ye your-
selves alsoare full of goodness, filled
with all knowledge, being able also to
remind one another.

15 And I wrote to you more boldly,
brethren, from part as reminding you,
by the grace given me by God,

16 For me to be the workman of
Jesus Christ to the nations, offering
in 88071106 the good news of God,
that the bringing forward of the na-
tions be acceptable, consecrated in the
Holy Spirit.

171 have therefore boasting in
Christ Jesus the things toward God.

18 For 1 shall dare to speak nothing
that Christ has not brought about by
me, for the obedience of the nations,
by word and by work,

19 By power of signs and wonders,
by power of the Spirit of God, so
that I from Jerusalem, and round
about even to Illyricum, have com-
pleted the good news of Christ.

20 And so seeking the honour to an-
nounce the good news, not where
Christ was named, lest 1 should build
upon a strange foundation :

21 But 881188 been written, To whom
it was not announced of him, they

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shall see: and they who have not
heard shall understand.

22 Wherefore also I was hindered
in many things from coming to you.

23 And now having no more place
in these climes, and having an anxious
desire to come to you from many
years.

24 Whenever I go into Spain, I will
come to you, fur I hope passing
through to see you: and by you to be
sent forward there, if first from part 1
might be tilled with you.

25 And now I go to Jerusalem sery-
ing the holy ones.

26 For Macedonia and Achaia were
contented a certain mutual participa-
tion be made for the poor of the holy
ones in Jerusalem.

27 For they were contented; and
they are their debtors. For if the
nations have participated in their spir-
itual things, they ought also to serve
them in things pertaining to the flesh.

28 Therefore having completed this,
and sealed to them this fruit, I will
come away by you to Spain.

29 And 1 know that, coming to you,
I shall come in the cou:pletion of the
praise of the good news of Christ.

30 And I beseech you, brethren, by
our Lord Jesus Christ, and by love of
the Spirit, to fight together with me
in prayers for ine to God;

31 That I might besaved from the
unbelieving iu Judea; and that my
service for Jerusalem be acceptable to
the holy ones;

32 That in joy I might come to you
by the will of God, and rest with you.

33 And the God of peace with you
all. Amen.

CHARTER XVI.
ND I place with you Phebe our
sister, being servant of the church
in Cenchrea:

2 That ye receive her in the Lord,
worthy of the holy ones, and encour-
age her in whatever thing she have
need of you: for she also has been the
rule of many, and of myself.

3 Embrace Priscilla and Aquila my
helpers in Christ Jesus:

4 Who for my soul have laid down

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their own necks: to whom not only I
give thanks, but also all the churches
of the nations.

5 And the church in their house.
Embrace my beloved Epenetus, who is
the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

6 Embrace Mary, who wearied for
us.
7 Embrace Andronicus and Junia,
my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners,
who are distinguished among the sent,
who also have been in Christ before me.

8 Embrace ye Amplias my beloved
in the Lord.

9 Embrace Urbane, our helper in
Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

10 Embrace Apelles acceptable in
Christ. Embrace them of Aristobulus.

11 Embrace Herodion my kinsman.
Embrace them of Narcissus, them be-
ing in the Lord.

12 Embrace Tryphena and Tryphosa,
wearied in the Lord. Embrace Persis
the beloved, who was much wearied
in the Lord.

13 Embrace Rufus chosen in the
Lord, and his mother and mine.

14 Embrace Asyncritus, Phlegon,
Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
brethren with them.

15 Embrace Philologus, and Julia,
Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas,
and all the holy ones with them.

16 Embrace one another with a holy
kiss. The churches of Christ em-
brace you.

17 And I beseech you, brethren,
to observe narrowly them haying made
divisions and scandals against the
teaching which ye learned; and bend
away from them.

ROMANS XVI.

18 For such serve not our Lord
Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and
by specious language and praise com-
pletely deceive the hearts of the
innocent.

19 For your obedience has come to
all. Therefore I rejoice for you: and
I wish you truly to be wise to good,
and pure to evil.

20 And the God of peace will rub
together Satan under your feet swiftly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
with you.

21 Timotheus my helper, and Lu-
cius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my
kinsmen, embrace you.

221 Tertius embrace you, having
written the epistle in the Lord.

23 Gaius my guest, and of the
whole church, embraces you. Erastus
steward of the city embraces you, and
Quartus the brother.

24 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with you all. Amen.

25 And to him being ableto sup-
port you according to my good news,
and the proclamation of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mys-
tery kept silent from eternal times,

26 And now made manifest, also by
the prophetic writings according to the
command of the eternal God, for the
obedience of faith made known to all
nations;

27 To the only wise God, by Jesus
Christ, to whom glory forever. Amen.

"| It was written to the Romans from Cor-

inth, by Phebe deaconess of the church
among the Cenchreans.

I. CORINTHIANS.

CHAPTER I.
AUL, 61160, sent of Jesus Christ
by the will of God, and Sosthenes
the brother,
2 To the church of God being in

Corinth, to the consecrated in Christ
Jesus, to the called holy ones, with all
calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ in every place, both theirs and
ours;

I. CORINTHIANS 1. II.

3 Grace to you, and peace, from God
our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

4 1 return thanks to my God always
for you, for the grace of God given
you in Christ Jesus;

5 That in every thing we were en-
riched in him, in all the word, and all
knowledge ;

6 As the testimony of Jesus Christ
was made firm in you :

7 So that ye are not wanting in any
race; awaiting the revelation of our
ord Jesus Christ :

8 Who also shall make you firm
even to the end, blameless in the day
of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 God faithful, by whom we were
called to the communion of his Son
Jesus Christ our Lord.

10 And I beseech you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same, aud there be
no divisions in you; and ye be set in
order in the same mind and in the
same knowledge.

11 For it was manifested to me con-

cerning you, my brethren, by them of
Chloe, that there are contentions with
you.
i 12 And this I say, that each of you
says, I truly am of Paul; and I of
Apollos; andI of Cephas; and I of
Christ.

13 Has Christ been divided? Paul
was not crucified for you? orin Paul’s
name were ye immersed ?

141 thank God that I immersed
none of you, but Crispus and Gaius ;

15 Lest any should say that in my
name 1 have immersed.

16 And I immersed also the house
of Stephanas: besides, I know not if I
immersed any other.

17 For Christ sent me not to im-
merse, but to announce good news:
not in wisdom of word, lest the cross
of Christ be made void.

18 For truly the word of the cross
to them perishing is foolishness; but
to us saved it is the power of God.

19 For it has been written, I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise, and
put away the understanding of the in-
telligent.

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scribe? where the seekers together of
this life? has not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world ?

21 For since in the wisdom of God
the world by wisdom knew not God,
God was contented by the foolishness
of proclaiming to save them believing.

22 And since the Jews ask a sign,
and the Greeks seek wisdom:

23 And we proclaim Christ eruci-
fied, to the Jews truly a stumbling-
block, and to the Greeks foolishness ;

24 And to these the called, to both
Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of
God, and wisdom of God.

25 For the foolish thing of God is
wiser than men; and the weak thing
of God is stronger than men.

26 For ye see your calling, brethren,
that not many wise according to the
flesh, not many powerful, not many
well born:

27 But the foolish things of the
world, has God chosen that he might
shame the wise; and the weak things
of the world has God chosen that he
might shame things strong;

28 And the ignoble things of the
world, and the despised things, has
God chosen, and things not being, that
the things being he might leave un-
employed :

29 That no flesh might boast before
him.

30 And ye are of him in Christ
Jesus, who became to us wisdom from
God, and also justice, and consecra-
tion, and holiness:

31 That, as it has been written, Let
him boasting, boast in the Lord.

CHAPTER II.
gavel 1 having come to you, breth-
ren, came not with eminence of
word or of wisdom, announcing to you
the testimony of God.

2 For I judged not to know any
thing among you; except Jesus Christ,
and him crucified.

3 And I, in weakness, and in fear,
and in much tremor, was with you.

4 And my word and my proclaim-
ing not in persuasible words of man’s
wisdom, but in manifestation of the

20 Where the wise? where the|Spirit and of power:

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5 That your faith might not be in
the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God.

6 But we speak wisdom among the
perfected : and the wisdom not of this
life, nor of the rulers of this life, they
being left unemployed:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God
ina mystery, hidden, which God deter-
mined beforehand, before the times to
our glory:

8 Which none of therulers of this
world knew: for if they had known,
they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory.

9 But as has been written, Which
the eye saw not, and the ear heard not,
and upon the heart of man it came
not up, what things God has prepared
for them loving him.

10 And God has revealed to us by
his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all
things, and the deep things of God.

11 For who of men knows the
things of men except the spirit of man
in him? so also the things of God no
one knows, except the Spirit of God.

12 And we have not received the
spirit of the world, but the spirit from
God; that we might know things be-
stowed upon us as agift by God.

13 Which also we speak, not in
words taught of man’s wisdom, but in
them taught of the Holy Spirit; ex-
amining spiritual things by spiritual.

14 And the natural. man receives
not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness to him: and
he cannot know, for they are spiritual-
ly examined.

15 And the spiritual truly examines
all things, and he is examined by no
one.

16 For who knew the mind of the
Lord, who shall instruct him? And
we haye the mind of Christ.

CHAPTER III.
ND I, brethren, was not able to
speak to you as spiritual, but as
carnal, as babes in Christ.

9 1 have given you milk to drink,
and not food; for ye were not able,
but neither now are ye yet able.

3 For yet are ye carnal: for where-

I. CORINTHIANS ,זז‎ III.

fore enyy in you, and strife, and divi-
sions, are ye not carnal, and walk ac-
cording to man ?

4 For when a certain one should
say, I truly am ot Paul; and another,
I of Apollos; are ye not carnal ?

5 Who then is Paul, and who Apol-
los, but servants by whomye believed,
and to each as the Lord gave ?

6 I have planted, Apollos watered ;
but God increased.

7 So that neither he planting is any-
thing, neither he watering; but God
increasing.

8 And he planting and he watering
are one: and each shall receive his
own reward according to his own la-
bor.

9 For we are workers together with
God: the agriculture of God, ye are
the building of God. :

10 According to the grace of God
given tome, as a wise chiet-architect, I
have laid the foundation, and another
builds upon. And let each see how
he builds upon.

11 For none is able to lay another
foundation above that laid, which is
Jesus the Christ.

. 12 And if any one build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, grass, stalks;

13 The work of each shall be mani-
fested: for the day shall manifest, for
in fire it is revealed; and the work
of each, what sort it is, the fire shall
prove.

14 If the work of any shall remain
which he built upon, he shall receive
a reward,

15 1f the work of any one shall-be
burned, he shall be caused damage:
and he shall be saved ; and so as by fire.

16 Know ye not that ye are the tem-
ple of God, and the spirit of God
dwells in you?

17 If any one destroy the temple of
God, him will God destroy; for the
temple of God is holy, which ye are.

18 Let none completely deceive
himself. If any think to be wise in
this life, let him be foolish, that he
may be wise. =

19 For the wisdom of this world is
foolishness with God. For it has been

ΕἸ ICORINTARANS ΠΠΠ γεν.

written, He seizing the wise in their
deceptions.

20 And again, The Lord knows the
reasonings of the wise, that they are
vain.

21 Therefore let none boast in men.
For all things are yours ;

22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death,
or things present, or about to be; all
are yours ;

23 And ye of Christ; and Christ
of God.

CHAPTER IV.
O let a man reckon us, as servants
of Christ, and stewards of the mys-
teries of God.

2 And besides it is sought in stew-
ards, that any one be found faithful.

3 And to me it is the least that I
be judged by you, or by man’s day:
but neither do I judge myself.

4 For I know nothing by myself;
but in this [have not been justified :
and he examining me is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge ye nothing before
the time, until the Lord come, who also,
will bring to light the hidden things
of darkness, and make manifest the
counsels of hearts: and then shall
praise be to each from God.

6 And these things, brethren, I trans-
formed to myself and to Apollos for
you; that ye might learn in us not to
think above what has been written,
lest ye be puffed up one above one
against the other.

7 For who distinguishes thee? and
what hast thou which thou didst not
receive? and if thou also didst 16-
ceive, why dost thou boast, as not hay-
ing received ?

8 Already were ye satisfied, already
were ye rich, without us ye reigned ;
and I would ye also reigned, that we
also might reign together with you.

9 ForI think 186 God has exhi-
bited us the last sent, as exposed to
death ; for we were a theatre to the
world, and to messengers, and to men.

10 We foolish for Christ, and ye
wise in Christ;. we weak, and ye
strong; ye honourable, and we dishon-
oured.

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11 Until this present hour we also
hunger, and thirst, and we are naked,
and are cuffed, and are unsteady.

12 And we are wearied, working
with our own hands: being reviled,
we praise ; being driven out, we hold
up:

13 Being defamed, we entreat: as
the filth of the world were we be-
come, the offscouring of all until now.

14 Not shaming you, write I these,
but as my beloved children I admon-
ish yon.

15 For if ye have ten thousand pre-
ceptors in Christ, but not many fa-
thers: for in Christ Jesus by the good
news I begat you.

16 I beseech you therefore, be ye
imitators of me.

17 Therefore sent I Timotheus to
you, who is my beloved child, and
faithfulin the Lord, who will remind
you of all my ways in Christ, as I
teach everywhere in all the churches.

18 And as my not coming to you,
some were puffed up.

19 And I willcome to you swiftly, if
the Lord will, and I shall know not
the word of those puffed up, but the
power.

20 For the kingdom of God not in
word, but in power.

21 What will ye? should I come to
you with a rod, or in love, andin the
spirit of meekness ?

CHAPTER V.
je general is fornication heard
among you, and such fornication
which is not named in the ‘nations,
for any to have his father’s wife.

2 And ye were puffed up, and have
not rather mourned, that he having
done this work might be taken away
from the midst of you.

3 For I truly, as being at a distance
in the body, and being present in spirit,
have already, as being present, judged
him having so worked this.

4 Inthe name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, ye, gathered together, and my
spirit, with the power of our Lord Je-
sus Christ,

5 To deliver such a one to Satan for
the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit

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might be saved in the day of the Lord
Jesus.

6 Your boasting not good. Know
ye not that alittle leaven may leaven
the whole mixture ?

7 Therefore cleanse out the old
leaven, that ye may be a new mixture,
as yeareunleavened. For also our pas-
cha was sacrificed for us, Christ:

8 Therefore let us keep the festival,
not with old leaven, neither with the
leaven of vice and wickedness; but
with the unleavened of frankincense
and truth.

9 I wrote to you in the epistle not
to mix together with fornicators.

10 And not altogether with the for-
nicators of this world, or with the coy-
etous, or the rapacious, or idolaters ;
for then must ye needs go out of the
world.

11 And now I wrote to you not to
mix together, if any called a brother
is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idol-
ater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or ra-
pacious ; not to eat with such.

12 For what to me also to judge
them without ¢ do ye yourselves judge
them within ?

13 And them without God judges.
And take ye away evil from your-
selves.

CHAPTER VI.
ARE any of you, having an affair
with another, be judged by the
unjust, and not by the holy ones ?

2 Know ye not that the holy ones
shall judge the world? and if the
world be judged by you, are ye un-
worthy of the least judgments ?

3 Know ye not that we shall judge
messengers? also not only things per-
taining to the cares of life ?

4 Therefore truly, if ye have judg-
ments pertaining to the cares of life,
set them counted as nothing in the
chureh.

5 For confusion I speak to you. So
is there not one wise with you, who
will be able to judge between his
brother ?

6 But brother with brother 18
judged, and this by the unbelieving.

I. CORINTHIANS YV., VI.

7 Therefore truly, already is there
wholly a misfortune in you, that ye
have judgments with yourselves.
Wherefore had ye not rather be
treated ill? wherefore had ye not
rather be defrauded 4

8 But ye treat ill, and defraud, and
that the brethren. |

9 Or know ye not that the unjust
shall not inherit the kingdom of God ?
Be ye not deceived: neither fornica-
tors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor sodomites,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious,
shall inherit the kingdom of God.

11 And these were some of yon:
but ye were washed, but ye were con-
secrated, but ye were justitied in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and in the
Spirit of our God.

12 All things are lawful to me, but
all are not profitable: all are lawful to
me, but I will not be exercised by
power under any.

13 Foods for the belly, and the
belly for foods: and God will also
leave unemployed this and them. And
the body not for fornication, but for
the Lord ; and the Lord for the body.

14 And God also raised up the
Lord, and us will he also raise up by
his power.

15 Know ye not that your bodies
are the members of Christ? havin
taken the members of Christ, shall
make members of a harlot? It may
not be.

16 Or know ye not. that he joined
to a harlot isone body? for they shall
be, he says, they two into one flesh.

17 And he joined to the Lord is one
spirit.

18 Flee fornication. Every sin which
if a man do is without the body; but
he committing fornication sins against
his own body.

19 Or know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Spirit in
you, which ye have from God, and ye
are not your own 4

20 For ye were bought for a price:
then glorify God in your body, and in
-your spirit, which are of God.

I. CORINTHIANS ὙΠ].

CHAPTER VII.
ND of what ye wrote to me:
good for aman not to touch a
woman.

2 And, on account of fornication, let
each have his own wife, and let each
have her own husband.

3 Let the husband return to the
wife due benevolence: and likewise al-
so the wife to the husband.

4 The wife of her own body has not
power, but the husband: and likewise
also the husband of his own body has
not power, but the wife.

5 Deprive ye not one another, ex-
cept somewhat of an agreement for a
time, that ye might have leisure for
fasting and prayer; and again upon
the same ye might come 500010,
Satan tempt you for your want of self
command.

6 And this I say according to indul-
gence, not according to order.

7 For I will all men to be as also
myself. But each has his own favor
of God, the one truly thus, and the
other thus.

8 And 1 say to the unmarried and
widows, It is good for them if they re-
main also as I.

9 And if they have not self com-
mand, let them marry: for it is better
to marry than to be set on fire.

10 And to the married I announce,
(not I, but the Lord, ) The wife not to
be separated from the husband :

11 And if also she be separated, let
her remain unmarried, or be reconcil-
ed to the husband: and the husband
not to send away the wife.

12 And to the rest speak I, not the
Lord: If any brother have an unbe-
lieving wife, and she assents to dwell
with him, let him not send her away.

13 And the woman who hasan unbe-
lieving husband, and he assents to
dwell with her, let her not send him
away.

14 For the unbelieving husband was
consecrated in the wife, and the unbe-
lieving wife was consecrated in the
husband: for then are your children
unclean ; and now are they holy.

15 And if the unbelieving is sepa-

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or a sister has not been reduced to
slavery in such things as these: and
God has called us in peace.

16 For what knowest thou, O wife,
if thou shalt save the husband? or
what knowest thou, O husband, if thou
shalt save the wife ?

17 Except as God divided to each,
as the Lord has called each, so let him
walk. And so I ordain in all the
churches.

18 Whoever was called circumcised ?
let him not be drawn to himself.
Whoever was called in uncircumcision?
let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and un-
circumcision is nothing, but the keep-
ing of the commands of God.

20 Each in the calling which he was
called, in this let him remain.

21 A servant wert thou called ? let it
not concern thee: for if thou art able
to be free, rather make use of it.

22 For the servant called in the
Lord, is the freedman of the 1,070 :
likewise also the freedman called, is
the servant of Christ.

23 Ye were bought for a price; be
ye not servants of men.

24 Kach, in what he was called,
brethren, in this let him remain with
God.

25 But for virgins I have not an or-
der of the Lord: and I give an opinion
as compassionated by the Lord to be
faithful.

26 I think therefore this to be good
for the present necessity, that it is
good for aman to be thus.

27 Hast thou been bound to a wife ?
seek not a release. Hast thou been
loosed from a wife? seek thou not a
wife.

28 And if also thou marry, thou
hast not sinned ; and if a virgin marry,
she has not sinned. And such shall
have pressure to the flesh: and I
spare you.

29 And this I say, brethren, the
time is restricted; as to the rest, that
they also having wives should be as
not having ;

30 And they weeping, as not weep-
ing ; and they rejoicing, as not rejoic-

rated, let him be separated. A brother | ing; and they buying, as not possessing.

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I. CORINTHIANS VIL, ,זז‎ IX.

31 And they using this world, as|rifices to idols, we know that an idol

not using; tor the form of this world
passes away.

32 But 1 will you to be free from
care. The unmarried cares for things
of the Lord, how he shall please the
Lord:

88 And he married cares for the
_ things of the world, how he shall
please the wite.

34 The wife and virgin have been
divided. The unmarried cares for the
things of the Lord, that she might be
holy also in body and spirit: and she
married cares 10% the things of the
world, how she shall please her hus-
band.

35 And this I say for the advantage
of yourselves; not that I shall cast a
net upon you, but for the becoming,
and occupied assiduously for the Lord
without being turned away.

36 And if any think to act unbe-
comingly towards his virgin, if she be
past the vigor of youth, and so it
ought to be, let him do what he will,
he sins not; let them marry.

37 And he who has stood firmly
fixed in heart, not having necessity,
and has power concerning his own will,
and has judged this in his heart to keep
his virgin, does well.

38 So that he marrying does well;
and he not marrying does better.

39 The woman was bound by law
for as much time as her husband lives;
and if her husband be set to sleep, she
is free to be married to whom she
will ; only in the Lord.

40 And she is happier if she so re-
main, according to my opinion: and
I also think to have the Spirit of
God.

CHAPTER VIII.
AND concerning sacrifice to idols,
we know, (for we all have know-
ledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love
builds the house.

2 And if any one thinks to know
anything, as yet he has known nothing
as he ought to know.

3 And if any one love God, the
same is known of him.)

4 Concerning food therefore of sac-

nothing in the world, and that none
other God but one.

5 For also though they are called
gods, whether in heaven, whether upon
the earth, (for there are many gods,
and many lords,)

6 But to us one God, the Father, of
whom all things, and we for him; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all
things, and we by him.

7 But not in all, knowledge: and
some with consciousness of the idol
even till now eat as a sacrifice to idols:
and their consciousness being weak is
contaminated.

8 And food sets us not before God:
for neither, if we eat, do we abound;
neither if we eat not, do we want.

9 And see ye lest this your power
be a stumble to the weak.

10 For if any one see thee having
knowledge reclining in the idol’s tem-
ple, shall not his consciousness, being
weak, be built up to eat the sacrifices
to idols;

11 And shall the weak brother be
destroyed upon thy knowledge, for
whom Christ died ?

12 And so sinning against the breth-
ren, and striking their weak conscious-
ness, ye sin against Christ.

13 Wherefore, if food offend my
brother, I will eat no flesh forever,
lest I shall offend my brother.

CHAPTER IX.
M I not sent? am I not free?
have I not seen Jesus Christ our
Lord? are ye not my work in the
Lord ?
91+ to others I am not sent, but
surely Iam to you: for the seal of
my sending are ye in the Lord.
3 My justification to them examin-
ing me is this,
4 Have wenot power to eat and to
drink ¢
5 Have we not power to lead about
a sister, a wife, as also the rest of the
sent, and the brethren of the Lord, and
Cephas ?
6 Or I only and Barnabas, have we
not power not to work ?
7 Who makes war at any time at

I. CORINTHIANS IX., .א‎

his own charges? who plants a vine-
yard, and eats not of its fruit? or who
feeds aflock, and eats not of the milk
of the flock ?

8 Not according to man do I speak
these things: or does not the law also
say these things ?

9 For in the law of Moses has been
written, Thou shalt not muzzle the
mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not
eare to God for oxen ?

10 Or does he say altogether on ac-
count of us? For it was written on
account of us: that he ploughing
ought to plough upon hope; and he
grinding upon hope, to participate
with his hope.

11 If we have sown to you spiritual
things, is it great if we shall reap your
carnal things ?

12 If others participate with your
power, not rather we? But we used
not this power; but endure all
things, lest we give some hindrance
to the good news of Christ.

18 Do ye not know that they work-
ing consecrated things, eat of the tem-
ple? they working diligently at the
altar, share together with the altar?

14 Thus also the Lord appointed to
them announcing good news to live
of the good news.

15 But Lused none of these things:
and I wrote not these things, that thus
it might be with me: for good to me
rather to die, than that any should
render my boasting void.

16 For if I announce the good
news, there is no boasting to me: for
necessity is laid upon me; and woe is
to me,if I announce not the good
news!

17 For if of free will I do this, I
have reward: and if unwillingly, I
have been entrusted with a steward-
ship.

18 What reward therefore is to me ?
That announcing good news, I shall
make the good news of Christ not ex-
pensive, not to make use of my power
in the good news.

19 For being free from all, I have
subjected myself to all, that 1 might
gain the more.

20 And I was to the Jews as a Jew,

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that I might gain the Jews: to them
under the law, as under the law, that I
might gain them under the law ;

21 To the lawless, as lawless, (not
being lawless to God, but subject to
the law to Christ,) that I might gain
the lawless.

22 1 became to the weak as weak,
that I might gain the weak: I have
been all things to all, that altogether
I might save some.

23 And this I do on account of the
good news, that I might become a par-
taker of it.

24 Do ye not know that they run-
ning in a race-course, all truly run,
and one 10001008 the prize of combat ?
Do ye so run, that ye might receive.

25 And every one contending for the
prize, has self command in all things.
These surely therefore that they might
receive a corruptible crown ; and we an
incorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, as not uncertain-
ly ; so practise I pugilism, as not lay-
ing stripes upon air:

27 But I give my body a blow un-
der the eyes, and reduce to bondage:
lest having proclaimed to others, I
myself be rejected.

CHAPTER X.
ND I will not ye be ignorant,
brethren, that our fathers were
all under the cloud, and all passed
through the sea ;

2 And were all immersed into Mo-
ses In the cloud, and in the sea;

3 And they all ate the same spiritual
food ;

4 And all drank*the same spiritual
drink: for they drank of the spiritual
Rock following; and the Rock was
Christ.

5 But God was not contented with
the most of them: for they were over-
thrown in the desert.

6 And these things were our types,
that we be not eagerly desirous of
evil things, as they also eagerly de-
sired.

7 Neither be ye idolaters, as some
of them; as has been written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and
rose up to play.

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8 Neither should we commit fornica-
tion, as some of them committed for-
nication, and there fell in one day
twenty-three thousand.

9 Neither should we tempt Christ,
as also some of them tempted, and
were destroyed by serpents.

10 Neither do ye murmur, as also
some of them murmured, and were
destroyed by the destroyer.

11 And all these happened. types
to them: and it was written for our
reminding, to whom the ends of the
times have arrived.

12 Therefore let him seeming to
stand see that he fall not.

13 No temptation except human has
taken you: and God faithful, who will
not suffer you to be tempted above
what ye are able; but with the temp
tation will he also make an escape,
that ye may be able to bear.

14 Wherefore, ny beloved, do ye
flee from idolatry.

' 15 Astothe wise speak I; jndge ye
what I say.

16 The cup of praise which we
praise, is it not the mutual participa
tion of the blood of Christ ? The bread
which we break, is it not the mutual
participation of the body of Christ ?

17 That, one bread, one body, we
aremany: for we all partake of one
bread.

18 See ye Israel according to the
flesh: are not they eating the sacri-
fices mutual participators of the altar /

19 What do I say therefore? that an
idol is any thing? or that what is sac-
111600 to an 100118 any thing ?

20 But, that what things they sacri-
fice, the nations sacrifice to demons,
and not to God: andI will not ye be
partakers of demons.

21 Ye cannot drink the eup of the
Lord, and the cup of demons: ye can-
not partake of the table of the
Lord, and the table of demons.

22 Do we emulate the Lord? are we
stronger than he 4

23 All things are lawful to me, but
all are not profitable: all things are
lawful to me, but all build not the
house.

24 Let none seek his own, but each
another's.

J. CORINTHIANS ,א‎ XI.

25 Every thing being sold in the
market, eat ye, interrogating nothing
through consciousness :

26 For of the Lord the earth, and its
fulness.

27 And if any one of the unbeliey-
ing call you, and ye wish to go; every
thing set before you, eat, interrogating
nothing through consciousness.

28 And if any one say to you, This
is sacrificed to an idol, eat not, for him
making it known, and consciousness :
for of the Lord the earth, and its ful-
ness :

29 And consciousness, I say, not
thine, but another’s: for that why is
my freedom judged by another’s con-
sciousness ?

30 And if I partake by grace, why
am I defamed for what I give thanks?

31 Whether therefore ye eat, wheth-
er ye drink, or what ye do, do ye all
things to the glory of God.

32 And be ye not molesters to the
Jews, and the Grgeks, and to the
church of God:

33 As 1 also please in all things to
all, not seeking my advantage, but that
of many, that they might be saved.

CHAPTER XI.
BE ye imitators of me, as I also of
Christ.

2 And I approve yon, brethren,
that ye remember me in all things, and
as I have delivered to you, do ye hold
the traditions.

3 And I will you to know, that the
head of every man is Christ; and the
head of the woman the man; and the
head of Christ God.

4 Every man praying or prophesy-
ing, having on the head, shames his
head.

5 And every woman praying or
prophesying with head uncovered
shames her head: for it is one and the
same to her haying been shaved.

6 For if the woman is not covered,
let her also be shorn: and if shame-
ful to the woman to be shorn or
shaven, let her be covered.

7 For truly the man ought not to
have the head covered, being the
image and glory of God: and the
woman is the glory of the man.

I, CORINTHIANS XI., ΧΙ].

8 For the man is not of the woman;
but the woman of the man.

9 For also the man was not created
through the woman; but the woman
through the man.

10 Therefore the woman ought to
have power upon the head for the
angels.

ΤΙ But neither the man without the
woman, nor the woman without the
man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman by the man, so
also the man by the woman; and all
things of God.

ie Judge in yourselves: is it suita-
ble for a woman to pray to God
uncovered ?

14 Does not nature itself teach you,
that, if a man truly have long hair, it
is a dishonour to him?

15 And if a woman have long hair,
it isa glory to her: for the hair has
been given her for a cloak.

16 And if any one seem to be loving
strife, we have no such custom, neither
the churches of God.

17 And this announcing I approve
not, that not for the better come ye

together, but for the worse.

‘18 For truly first, ye coming to-
gether in the church, I hear divisions
to be among you; and some part I
believe.

19 For there must be also sects
among you, that the tried might be
made manifest among you.

20 Therefore ye coming together up-
on the same, it is not to eat the Lord’s
supper.

21 For each Blas his own supper in
eating: and one is truly hungry, and
one is intoxicated.

22 For, have ye not houses for eat-
ing and drinking? or despise ye the
church of God, and shame them not
having? What should I say to you?
shall I praise you in this? I praise
not.

23 For I received from the Lord
what I also delivered to you, That the
Lord Jesus, in the night which he was
delivered up, took bread:

24 And having given thanks, he
brake, and said, Take ve, eat; this is
my body, broken for you: this do ye
for my remembrance.

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25 Likewise the cup also, after sup-
ping, This cup is the new covenant
in my blood: this do ye, as often as ye
drink, for my remembrance.

26 For as often as ye eat this bread,
and drink this cup, ye announce the
Lord’s death till he come.

27 Therefore whoever should eat
this bread, and drink the cup of the
Lord, unworthily, shall be liable to
the penalty of the body and blood of
the Lord.

28 And let a man try himself, and
so eat of the bread, and drink of the
cup.

29 For he eating and drinking un-
worthily, eats and drinks judgment
to himself, not discerning the Lord’s
body.

30 For this many among you weak
and sick, and enough are asleep.

31 For if we examined ourselves,
we should not be judged.

32 And being judged, we are cor-
rected of the Lord, lest we be condemn-
ed with the world.

33 Therefore, my brethren, coming
together to eat, succeed one another.

34 And if any hunger, let him eat
in the house; lest ye come together
for judgment. And the rest when 1
come I will regulate.

CHAPTER XII.
AG concerning spiritual things,
brethren, 1 wish you not to be
ignorant.

2 Ye know that ye were the nations,
to dumb idols, as ye were led, being
carried away.

3 Wherefore I make known to you,
that none speaking in the Spirit of
God calls Jesus anathema: and none
ὯΝ say Lord Jesus, but in the Holy

init.

4 And there are distinctions of
favors, and the same Spirit.

5 And there are distinctions of ser-
vices, and the same Lord.

6 And there are distinctions of per-
formances, and it is the same God per-
forming all things in all.

7 And to each is given the manifes-
tation of the Spirit ‘for profit.

8 For truly to one is given by the
and to

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another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit ;

9 And to another faith in the same
Spirit; and to another graces of heal-
ings in the same Spirit ;

10 And to another performances of
powers; and to another discrimina-
tions of spirits; and to another kinds
of tongues; and to another interpreta-
tion of tongues:

11 And all these works one and the
same Spirit, dividing to each his own
things as he will.

12 For as the body is one, aud has
many members, and all the members
of the one body, being many, is one
body : so aiso is Christ.

13 For also in one Spirit were we
allimmersed into one body, whether
Jews or Greeks, whether servants or
free; and we have all been given to
drink into one Spirit.

14 For also the body is not one
member, but many.

15 If the foot say, Because I am not
the hand, I am not of the body ; by
this is it not of the body ?

16 And if the ear say, Because I am
not the eye, I am not of the body ; by
this is it not of the body ?

17 If the whole body an eye, where
the hearing? If the whole hearing,
where the smeliing ?

18 And now has God set the mem-
bers each one of them in the body, as
he would.

19 And if all were one member,
where the body ?

20 And now truly many members,
and one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand,
I have no need of thee: or again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22 But mueh rather the members of
the body, seeming to be weak, are
necessary :

23 And what we think to be less
honourable of the body, upon these we
put more abundant honour; and our
unseemly parts have more abundant
decorum.

24 And our becoming parts have no
need: but God blended the body to-
gether, to the wanting having given
more abundant honour :

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I. CORINTHIANS XII, XIII.

25 That no division be in the body ;
but the members should care the same
for one another.

26 And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer together; or
one member is honoured, all the
members rejoice together.

27 And ye are the body of Christ,
and members by parts.

28 And whom truly God set in the
chureh, first the sent, second the

prophets, third teachers, then powers, —

then graces of healings, helps, direc-
tions, kinds of tongues.
29 Not all sent: not all prophets:
not all teachers: not all powers:
30 All have not the favors of heal-
ing: not all speaking with tongues:
not all interpret accurately.
" 81 And be emulous of the better
favors: and yet I shew you a way
according to eminence.

CHAPTER XIII.
1: I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not love,
I have been the brass of echoes, and
the shouting cymbal.

2And if I have the gift of
prophecy, and know all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and if I have all faith
to remove mountains, and have not
love, I am nothing.

3 And if I feed out all my goods,
and if I deliver my body that I be
burned, and have not love, I am prof-
ited nothing.

4 Love is slow to anger, possesses
kindness; love enyies not; love
vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

5 It demeans itself not unbecom-
ingly, seeks not the things of itself, is
not irritated, reckons no evil ;

6 Rejoices not at injustice, and re-
joices with the truth;

7 Covers all things, believes all,
hopes all things, endures all.

8 Love never falters: but whether
gifts of prophecies, they shall be left
unemployed; whether tongues, they
shall cease; whether knowledge, it
shall be left unemployed.

9 For we know by parts, and we

rophesy by parts.
R 10 And ΤΣ the perfected come,

I. CORINTHIANS XIIL, XIV.

then shall that by parts be left unem-
loyed.

11 When I was a child, as a child I
spake, asa child I thought, as a child
I reckoned: and when I had become
aman, 1 left unemployed the things
of a child.

12 For now we see by a mirror in
an enigma; then face to face: now 1
know by parts; and then shall I know
as I was known.

13 And now remains faith, hope,
love, these three; and the greater of
these, love.

CHAPTER XIV.
PvE love, and be emulous of
spiritual things, and rather that ye
might prophesy.

2 For he speaking ina tongue speaks
not to men, but to God: (for none
hears ; and in the spirit he speaks mys:
teries.)

3 And he prophesying speaks to
men for building the house, and en-
treaty, and encouragement.

4 And he speaking in a tongue
builds himself; and he prophesying
builds the church.

5 And I will ye all to speak with
tongues, and rather that ye prophesy ;
for greater he prophesying, than he
speaking with tongues, unless he inter-
pret accurately, that the church receive
building up.

6 And now, brethren, if I come to
you speaking with tongues, what
shall I profit you, except I speak to
you either in revelation, or in knowl-
edge, or in prophecy, or in teaching ?

7 As inanimate things giving a
voice, whether pipe or harp, if it give
not a distinetion to sounds, how shall
the piping or harping be known?

8 For also if the trumpet give an
mneertain voice, who shall prepare
himself for war ?

9 So also ye, except by the tongne
ye give an evident word, how shall
the speaking be known ? for ye shall
be speaking into the air.

10 If perchance, such kind of voices
be in the world, and none of them
speechless.

11 If therefore I know not the pow-

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er of the voice, I shall be to him speak-
ing a foreigner, and he speaking a for-
eigner to me.

12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of
spirits, for the building up of the
church seek that ye may abound.

13 Wherefore he speaking in a
tongue, let him pray that he might
interpret.

14 For if I pray in a tongue, my
peat prays, and my mind is unfruit-

ul.

15 What therefore is it ? I will pray
with the spirit, and I will pray also
with the mind: I will play on the harp
in the spirit, and I will play also on the
harp in the mind.

16 When if thou praise in the
spirit, how shall he filling the place of
the private individual say Amen at
thy thanksgiving, since he knows not
what thou sayest ?

17 For thoutruly givest thanks well,
but the other is not built up.

18 1 thank my God, speaking in
tongues more than you all:

19 But in the chureh, I will to
speak five words by my mind, that I
night also sound in the ears of others,
than ten thousand words in a tongue.

20 Brethren, be not children in re-
flection: but in wickedness act like
children, and in reflection be ye per-
fected.

21 It has been written in the law,
That in other tongues and in other
lips will I speak to this people; and
not so will they hear me, says the
Lord.

22 So that tongues are for a sign,
not to the believing, but to the unbe-
lieving: and the gift of prophecy, not
to the unbelieving, but to the be-
lieving.

23 1f therefore the whole church
come together upon the same, and
all speak with tongues, and the private
individual, or unbelieving, come in,
will they not say that ye are enraged ?

24 And if all prophesy, and any
unbelieving, or ignorant private indi-
vidual come in, he is refuted by all,
he is examined by all:

25 And so the hidden things of his
heart are made manifest ; and so hay-

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ing fallen upon the face, he will wor-
ship God, proclaiming that God is
truly with you.

96 Therefore, what is it brethren ?
when ye come together, every one of
you has a psalm, has teaching, has a
tongue, has a revelation, has an inter-
pretatior. Let all things be for the
building of the house.

27 Whether any speak in a tongue,
by two, or the most by three, and in
part; and let one interpret.

28 And if there be no interpreter,
let him be silent in the church; and
let him speak to himself, and to God.

29 And let the prophets speak two
or three, and let others decide.

80 And if to another sitting by it
be revealed, let the first be silent.

31 For ye are all able to prophesy
one by one, that all might learn, and
all might be encouraged.

32 And the spirits of the prophets
are subjected to the prophets.

33 For God is not of unsteadiness,
but of peace, as in all the churches of
the holy ones.

34 Let your women be silent in the
churches: for it has not been commit-
ted to them to speak; but to be sub-
jected, as also says the law.

35 And if they will learn anything,
let them ask their own husbands in the
house ; for it is shameful for women to
speak in the church.

36 Or came out the word of God
from you ? or did it arrive to you only ?

37 If any think to be a prophet, or
spiritual, let him observe what I write
to you, that they.are the commands of
the Lord.

38 And if any is ignorant, let him
be ignorant.

39 Therefore, brethren, be zealous to
prophesy, and hinder not to speak in
tongues.

40 Let all things be becomingly and
according to order.

: CHAPTER XV.
(AXP I make known to you, breth-
ren, the good news which I an-
nounced to you, which also ye re-
ceived, and in which ye stood ;
2 By which also ye are saved, to

I. CORINTHIANS XIV., XV.

which word I announced to you if ye
hold, unless ye believed to no purpose.

3 For I delivered to you among the
first, what I also received, that Christ
died for our sins, according to the
writings ;

4 And that he was buried, and that
he was raised the third day, according
to the writings. :

5 And that he was seen by Cephas,
then by the twelve:

6 Then was he seen by above five
hundred brethren once for all; of
whom the most remain till now, and
some also are laid to rest.

7 Then was he seen by James; then
by all the sent. -

8 And last of all exactly as an
abortive, was he also seen by me.

9 For I am the least of the sent, who
am not fit to be called sent, for I drove
out the church of God.

10 And by the grace of God I am
what I am: and his grace which in me
was not vain; but I was more abund-
antly wearied than they all: and not
I, but the grace of God which with
me.

11 Whether therefore I or they, so
we proclaim, and so ye believed.

12 And if Christ is proclaimed that
he arose from the dead, how say some
among you that there is no rising up
of the dead ¢

13 And if there is no rising up of
the dead, neither has Christ risen:

14 And if Christ has not risen, then
our proclaiming vain, and also your
faith vain.

15 And we are also found false wit-
nesses of God ; for we testified for God
that he raised up Christ: whom he
raised not, it therefore the dead are
not raised.

16 For if the dead are not raised,
neither was Christ raised up:

17 Andif Christ was not raised up,
your faith is vain ; yet are ye in your
sins.

18 Then they also having died in
Christ perished.

19 If in this life only we have been
hoping in Christ, we are more to be
compassionated than all men.

20 And now was Christ raised from

I. CORINTHIANS XY.

the dead, he was the first fruits of
those having died.

21 For since by man death, also by
man the rising up of the dead.

22 For as in Adam all die, so also
in Christ shall all be made alive.

23 And each in his own order: the
first fruit Christ ; then they of Christ
in his arrival.

24 Then the end, when he should de-
liver up the kingdom to God, and the
Father; when he should leave unem-
ployed every beginning and every au-
thority and power.

25 For he must reign, till he put
all enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy, death, is left un-
employed.

27 Kor he subjected all things un-
der his feet. And when he said that all
things have been subjected, it is mani-
fest that without him haying subjected
all things to him.

28 And when all things be subjected
to him, then-also shall the Son himself
be subjected to him having made all
things subject to him, that God might
be all things in all.

29 For what shall they do being im-
mersed for the dead, if in fine the
dead rise not? and why are they im-
mersed for the dead?

30 And why are we in peril every
hour ?

31 In the day I die by your boast-
ing which I have in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

32 If according to man I fought
with wild beasts at Ephesus, what
the profit to me, if the dead rise not ?
let us eat and drink; for to morrow
we die.

33 Be not deceived: evil intercours-
es corrupt good habits.

34 Recover your senses rightly, and
sin not ; forsome havea want of know-
ledge of God: I speak to your confua-
sion.

35 But some one will say, How are
the dead raised up? and with what
body do they come ?

36 Froth, what thou sowest is not
made alive, except it die:

37 And what thou sowest, thou
sowest not the body going to be, but

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the naked kernel, if perhaps of wheat,
orsome of the rest:

38 And God gives it a body as he
would, and to each 01 the seed its own
body.

39 Not all flesh the same flesh: but
one truly flesh of men, and another
of cattle, and another of fishes, and
another of flying things.

40 And celestial bodies, and terres-
trial bodies: but truly one the glory of
the celestial, and another that of the
terrestrial.

41 One glory of the sun, and an-
other glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars : for star differs from
star in glory.

42 So also the rising up of the dead.
It is sown in corruption; it is raised
in incorruption :

43 It is sown in dishonour; it is
raised in glory: it is sown in weak-
hess; it is raised in power :

44 It is sown an animated body ;
it is raised a spiritual body. There is
an animated body, and there is a spir-
itual body.

45 So also has been written, The
first man Adam was born intoa liy-
ing soul; and the last Adam into a
spirit making alive.

46 But the first not spiritual, but an-
imated; then the spiritual.

47 The first man of earth, made of
earth: the second man the Lord from
heaven.

48 As the made of earth, such also
the made of earth: and as the celes-
tial, such also the celestial.

49 And as we have borne the image
of the made of earth, we shall also
bear the image of the celestial.

50 And this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither does cor-
ruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I speak to you a mys-
tery; We truly shall not all be laid
asleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In an atom, in the twinkling of
the eye, in the last trumpet: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.

53 For this corrupted must put on

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incorruption, and this mortal put on
immortality.

54 And when this corrupted shall
put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall put on immortality, then shall be
the word written, Death was swal-
lowed down in victory.

55 Where thine, death, the sting?
where thine, hades, the victory 4

56 And the sting of death sin; and
the power of sin the law.

57 And grace to God, giving us the
victory by our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
be stable, unmoved, abounding in the
work of the Lord always, knowing
that our fatigue is not in vain in the
Lord.

CHAPTER XVI.
ND concerning the collection for
the holy ones, as I appointed to
the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

2 According to one day of the sab-
baths let each of you put by himself,
treasuring up that which he is prospered
in, that when I come there be no
collections.

3 And when I be present, whom ye
approve by letters, these will I send
to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

4 And 11 it be suitable for me also
to go, they shall go with me.

5 And I will come to you, when I
pass through Macedonia: for I do pass
through Macedonia.

6 And perhaps with you I shall
abide, or also pass the winter, that ye
might send me forward wherever I go.

7 For I will not see you now in com-
ing forward; but I hope to remain
‘some time with you, if the Lord
permit.

8 And I will remain in Ephesus
even till Pentecost.

9 For a door has stood open to me,

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10 And if Timotheus come, see

I. CORINTHIANS XV. XVI.

ye that he be with you fearlessly: for
he works the work of the Lord, as 1
also.

11 Therefore no one should despise
him: and send ye him forward in
peace, that he might come to me: for
1 expect him with the brethren.

12 And concerning Apollos, the bro-
ther, 1 besought him much that he
would come to you with the brethren:
and the will was not altogether that he
should come now; and he will come
when he should have leisure.

13 Watch ye, stand in the faith, be
manly, be strengthened.

14 Let.all things be in love.

15 And I beseech you brethren, (ye
know the house of Stephanas, that it
is the first fruits of Achaia, and they
arranged themselves for service to tlie
holy ones,)

16 That also ye be subjected to such,
and to every one co-operating, and to
the wearied.

17 And I rejoice at the arrival of
Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achai-
cus: that they have filled up your
necessity.

18 For they refreshed my spirit and
yours: therefore observe ye such,

19 The churches of Asia greet you.
Aquila and Priscilla, with the church
at their house, greet you.

20 All the brethren greet ‘you.
Greet ye one another with a holy
kiss.

21 The greeting of Paul by my
hand.

22 Tf any love not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-
atha.

23 The grace of. the Lord Jesus
Christ with you.

24 My love with you all in Christ
Jesus. Amen.

4] The first to the Corinthians was written

from Philippon by Stephanas, and Fortuna-
tus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

ΘΠ CORTLN PE LAS

CHAPTER I.
PAUL, sent of Jesus Christ by
the will of God, and brother
Timothy, to the church of God being
in Corinth, with all holy ones being in
the whole of Achaia:

2 Grace to you and peace from God
our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Praised the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
compassion, and God of all comfort:

4 Who comforting us upon all our
pressure, that we may be able to com-
fort them in every pressure, by the
comfort by which we ourselves are
comforted by God.

5 For as the sufferings of Christ
abound in us, so by Christ abounds
also our comfort.

6 And whether weare pressed, for
your comfort and salvation, being well
wrought in endurance of the same
sufferings which we also suffer:
whether we are comforted, for your
comfort and salvation.

7 And our hope firm for you,
knowing, that as ye are participators
of the sufferings, so also of the
comfort.

8 For we wish you not to be ignor-
ant, brethren, of our pressure having
been tousin Asia, that. we were exceed-
ingly loaded, above strength, so that
we were in utter perplexity even to
live: /

9 And we ourselves have had the
sentence of death in ourselves, that
we should not have trusted in our-
selves, but in God raising the dead:

10 Who saved us from so great a
death, and does save: in whom we
have hoped also that he will yet
SAVE ;

11 And ye serving together for us
in prayer, that of many faces the
favor to us by many thanks be return-
ed by us.

12 For our boasting is this, the tes-
timony of our consciousness, that in

simplicity and purity of God, not in
fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of
God, we turned back in the world, and
more eminently to you.

13 For we write no others to you,
but what ye either know or also ob-
serve; and I hope that also even to
the end ye will observe ;

14 As also ye observed us by part,
that we are your boast, as also ye ours
in the day of the Lord Jesus.

15 And in this confidence I wished
to come to you before, that ye might
have a second grace ;

16 And by you to pass into Mace-
donia, and again from Macedonia, to
come to you, and by you to be sent
forward to Judea.

17 Therefore I resolved this, much
less did I use levity: or what I re-
solve, do I resolve according to the
flesh, that there be with me yea, yea,
and nay, nay?

18 And God faithful, for our word
to you was not yea or nay.

19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ,
who proclaimed in you by us, by me,
and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not
yea and nay, but was yea in him.

20 Forasmuch as the solemn prom-
ises of God in him yea, and in him
Amen, for glory to God by us.

21 And he making us firm with you
in Christ, and having anointed us, is
God;

22 Who also having sealed us, and
given the pledge of the Spirit in our
hearts.

23 And I eall upon God a witness
upon my soul, that, sparing you, I came
no more to Corinth.

24 Not that we are masters of your
faith, but we are aiders of your joy:.
for ye have stood in the faith.

CHAPTER II.
AND I determined this to myself,
not to come toyou again in sadness.
2 For if I grieve you, and who is he.

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making me glad, except he being
grieved by me?

3 And 1 wrote this same to you, lest,
coming, I should have sadness from
whom I ought to rejoice; trusting to
you all, that mine is the joy of you
all.

4 For out of much pressure and
anxiety of heart I wrote to you
through many tears; not that ye
should be grieved, but that ye might
know the love I have more abundantly
towards you.

5 And if any have grieved, he has
not grieved me, but by part; that I
might not overload you all.

6 Sufficient to such a one this en-
joyment of the esteem of the many.

7 So that on the contrary ye should
rather show kindness, and console,
lest perhaps such be swallowed down
with more abundant sadness.

8 Wherefore I beseech you to con-
firm love to him.

9 For, for this I also wrote, that
I might know the proof of you, if ye
are obedient for all things.

10 And to whom ye show any favor,
Talso: for also if I have shown any
kindness, to whom I have shown kind-
ness, through you in the face of
Christ ;

11 That we might not be taken
advantage of by Satan: for we are
not ignorant of his inventions.

12 And coming to Troas for the
good news of Christ, and a door havy-
ing been opened to me in the Lord,

13 Ihave had no relaxation to my
spirit, in my not finding Titus my
brother: but having taken leave of
them, I:went out to Macedonia.

14'Grace to God, always leading us
to triumph in Christ, and making
manifest the order of his knowledge
by us in every place. .

15 For we are to God a sweet odor
of Christ, in the saved, and in the lost:

16 Truly to those an odor of death
into death; and to those an odor of
life into life. And who sufficient for
these things ?

17 For we are not as the many adult-
erating the word of God: but as of
purity, but as of God, before the face
of God speak we in Christ.

II. CORINTHIANS, ΠΕ III.

CHAPTER III.
EGIN we again to recommend
ourselyes? or need we not, as
some, recommendatory epistles to you,
or recommendatory from you?

2 Ye are our epistle written in our
hearts, known and acknowledged by
all men:

3 Made manifest that ye are the
epistle of Christ served by us, not
written with ink, but with the Spirit
of the living God; not in tables made
of stone, but in fleshly tables of the
heart.

4 And we have such confidence
through Christ to God :

5 Not that we are sufficient of our-
selves to reckon anything as of our-
selves; but our sufficiency of God ;

6 Who rendered us fitting servants
of the new covenant; not of the letter,
but of the Spirit: for the letter kills,
and the Spirit makes alive.

τ And if the service of death, in
letters imprinted in stones, was in
glory, so that the sons of Israel could
not look intently to the face of Moses
for the glory of his face ; being left un-
employed:

8 How shall not rather the service
of the Spirit be in glory ?

9 For if the service of condemna-
tion glory, much more the service of
justice abounds in glory.

10 For 8180 that having been glorified
has not been glorified in this part, for
sake of the glory excelling.

11 For if that left unemployed by
glory, much more that remaining in

lory.

12 Therefore having such hope, we
use much freedom of speech :

13 And not as Moses put a veil up-
on his face, that the sons of Israel
should not look intently to the end of
that left unemployed:

14 But their minds were hardened:
for until this day the same veil upon
the reading of the old covenant re-
mains not uncovered ; for in Christ it is
left unemployed.

15 But even to this day, when Moses
is read, a veil lies upon their heart.

16 And whenever it turn to the
Lord, the veil is taken away.

17 And the Lord is the Spirit : and

IV., V.‏ ,זוז CORINTHIANS,‏ .זז

where the Spirit of the Lord, there
freedom.

18 And we all, shown as in a mirror
the glory of the Lord, with the face
uncovered, are transformed into the
same image from glory to glory, as
from the Spirit of the Lord.

CHAPTER IV.
ape this, having this service, as we
were compassionated, we lose not
courage ;

2 But have renounced the hidden
things of shame, not walking in craft,
neither adulterating the word of God ;
but by manifestation of the truth re-
commending ourselves to every con-
sciousness of man before God.

3 And if also our good news is hid,
in the lost is it hid:

4 In whom the God of this world
blinded the minds of the unbelieving,
so that the enlightening of the good
news of the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God, does not enlighten
them.

5 For we proclaim not ourselves,
but Christ Jesus the Lord; and our-
selves your servants for Jesus.

6 For God, having spoken light to
shine out of darkness, who shone in
our hearts, to the enlightening of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ.

7 And we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, that the eminence of
power be of God, and not of us.

8 Being pressed in every thing, but
not straightened ; being at a loss, but
not utterly perplexed ;

9 Being driven out, but not for-
saken; being cast down, but not de-
stroyed;

10 Always bearing about in the
body the death of the Lord Jesus, that
also the life of Jesus be made manifest
in our body. :

11 For we, the living, are always de-
livered to death for Jesus, that also
the life of Jesus be made manifest in
our mortal flesh.

12 So that death is truly energetic
in us, and life in you.

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lieved, therefore I spake: and we be-
lieve, and therefore we speak ;

14 Knowing that he having
the Lord Jesus will also raise
Jesus, and present us with you.

15 For all things for you, that grace,
having abounded by the many, might
abound in thanksgiving to the glory
of God.

16 Wherefore we lose not courage ;
but if also our man without is destroy-
ed, but he within is renewed day and
day.

17 For the present moment the
lightness of our pressure works to us
an eternal weight of glory, as eminence
upon eminence ;

18 We looking not at things seen,
but at things not seen : for things seen,
temporary ; and things not seen, eter-
nal.

raised
us by

CHAPTER V.
Ἔν -: we know that if our earthly
house of the tent were dissolved,
we have a building of God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens.

2 For also in this we groan, longing
to have our dwelling from heaven put
on:
3 If also being even clothed we shall
not be found naked.

4 For also being in the tent we
groan, being loaded: since we wish
not to be unclothed, but to be clothed,
that the mortal should be swallowed
up of life.

5 And he haying brought us about
to this same, God, he having also given
us the pledge of the Spirit.

6 Therefore being always confident,
and knowing that, being at home in
the body, we are absent from the
Lord :

7 ( For we walk by faith, and not by
external appearance: )

8 And we are confident, and are
contented rather to be absent from
the body, and to be at home in the Lord.

9 Wherefore also let us seek the
honour, whether being at home,
whether being absent, to be pleasing

13 And having the same spirit- of | to him.

faith, according to that written, I be-|

10 For we must all be made mani-

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fest before the judgment seat of
Christ ; that each might receive the
things for the body, for what he did,
good or bad. .

11 Knowing therefore the fear of
the Lord, we persuade men; and we
are made manifest to God; and I hope
also to have been made manifest to
your consciences.

12 For not again do we recommend
ourselves to you, but giving you 0608-
sion for boasting over us, that ye
might have for them boasting in face,
and not in heart.

13 For whether we be beside our-
selves, to God: or be 01 sound mind,
to you.

14 For the love of Christ holds us
together; having judged this, that if
one died for all, then all dead :

15 And he died for all, that the
living no more live to themselves, but
to him having died for them, and hav-
ing risen.

16 So that we from now know none
according to the flesh: and if also we
have known Christ according to the
flesh, but now we know no more.

17 So that if any in Christ, a new
creation : old things have passed away ;
behold, all have become new.

18 And all things of God, having
reconciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ, and given us the service of re-
conciliation ;

19 For as God was in Christ recon-
ciling the world to himself, not reck-
oning to them their faults; and hay-
ing set in usthe word of reconciliation.

20 For Christ therefore are we am-
bassadors, as of God beseeching by us:
we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye
reconciled to God.

21 For him not knowing sin, he
made sin for us; that we might be
the justice of God in him.

CHAPTER VI.

ND working together,we also be-
seech, lest also ye receive the

grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says, In an acceptable time
I listened to thee, and in the day of
salvation have I run to succor thee:
behold, now the acceptable time;

II. CORINTHIANS ΟἹ. VI.

behold, now the day of salvation.)

3 Giving no offence in any thing,
that the service be not blamed :

4 But in every thing recommending
ourselves as servants of God, in much
patience, in pressures, in necessities, in
extremities,

5 In blows, in imprisonments, in
disorders, in fatigues, in watchings, in
fastings;

6 In purity, in knowledge, in long-
suffering, in kindness, in the Holy
Spirit, in love unfeigned,

7 In the word of truth, in the pow-
er of God, through the weapons of
justice of the right hands and the left,

8 Through glory and ignominy,
through slander and applause: as
erring, and true;

9 As being ignorant, and knowing ;
as dying, and, behold, we live; as
being disciplined, and not killed ;

10 As being grieved, and always re-
joicing; as poor, and making many
rich; as having nothing, and possess-
ing all things.

11 Our mouth stands open to you,
O Corinthians, our heart has been en-
larged.

12 Ye are not contracted in us, but
ye are contracted in your bowels.

18 And for the same recompense,
(I speak as to children,) be ye your-
selves also enlarged.

14 Be not unequally yoked together
with the unbelieving: for what parti-
cipation to justice and iniquity ? and
what communion to light with dark-
ness ?

15 And what conformity to Christ
with Belial? and what part to the be-
lieving with the unbelieving ?

16 And what agreement to the tem-
ple of God with images? for ye are
the temple of the living God; as God
said, That I will dwell in them, and
will go round about; and will be their
God, and they shall be a people to me.

17 Therefore come out from the
midst of them, and be separated, says
the Lord, and touch not the unclean;
and I will receive you.

18 And I will be to you for a Father,
and ye shall be to me for sons and
daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

II. CORINTHIANS, VII, VIII.

CHAPTER VII.
HEREFORE having these declar-
ations, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all detilements
of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness
in the fear of God.

2 Receive us; we injured none, we
corrupted none, we took advantage of
none.

3 I speak not to condemnation: for
I have said betore, ye are in our hearts
to die together, and live together.

4 Much freedom of speech to me to-
ward you; to me much boasting over
you: Lam filled with consolation, 1 su-
perabound in joy in all your pressure.

5 For also, we having come to Mac-
edonia, our flesh had no relaxation,
but pressed in everything; without
conflicts, within fears.

6 But God, comforting the humble,
comforted us in the arrival of Titus;

7 And not only in his arrival, but
also in the comfort which he was com-
forted in you, announcing to us your
anxious desire, your lamentations, your
zeal for me; so that I rejoiced the
more.

8 For if I also grieved you in the epis-
tle, I regret not, and if I did regret :
for I see that that epistle, if also for a
time, grieved you.

9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were
grieved, but that ye were grieved to
repentance: for ye were grieved ac-
cording to God, that ye τὴ in
nothing by us.

10 For grief according to God works
repentance to salvation not to be re-
pented of: but grief of the world
works death.

11 For behold, this same that ye grieve
according to God, what care it wrought
inyou, but defence, but indignation,
but fear, but anxious desire, but zeal,
but punishing! In every thing ye re-
commended yourselves to be holy in
this affair.

12 Wherefore, if I also wrote to you,
not for him having been unjust, for
him having suffered injustice, but that
your care for us might be made mani-
fest to you before God.

13 Therefore have we been com-
forted in your comfort: and we re-

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joiced more abundantly for the joy of
‘itus, because his spirit has been re-
freshed from you all.

14 For if Ihave boasted anything to
him of you, I was not ashamed; but as
we spake all things to you in truth, so
also was our boasting over Titus the
truth.

15 And his bowels are more
abundantly to you, remembering the
obedience of you all, how with fear and
tremor ye received him.

16 I rejoice that I place confidence
in you in everything.

CHAPTER VIII.
ND we make known to yon,
brethren, the grace of God
given in the churches of Macedonia;

2 That in much proof of pressure
the abundance of their joy and their
poverty according to depth abounded
to the abundance of their simplicity.

3 For according to power, I testify,
and above power chosen voluntarily ;

4 Praying us with much entreaty
that we receive the grace and partici-
pation of the service for saints.

5 And not as we hoped, but they
gave themselves first to the Lord, and
to us by the will of God.

6 So that we besought Titus, that
as he began before, so also he would
complete to us this grace also.

7 But as ye abound in everything,
in faith, and in word, and in knowl-
edge, and in all care, and in love from
you to us, that also ye abound in this
grace.

8 1 speak not according to com-
mand, but by care of others, trying
also the purity of your love.

9 For ye know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that for you he was
in a state 01 beggary, being rich; that
ye in his poverty might be rich.

10 And in this 1 give an opinion:
for this is profitable to you, which not
only to do, but to will, ye began before
from last year.

11 And now also complete ye the
doing; that asa forwardness to will,
so also to complete, out of what is
possessed.

12 For if a forwardness lie before,

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according as any has, it is acceptable,
not as he has not.

13 For not that ease to others, and
pressure to you:

14 But of equality, now in this
time your abundance for their want,
that also their abundance be for your
want: that there be equality :

15 As has been written, He to
whom much, was not in excess; and
he to whom little, was not diminished.

16 And grace to God, having given
the same care for you in the heart of
Titus.

17 For truly he received the en-
treaty ; and being more earnest, he
went forth voluntarily to you.

18 And we sent with him the
brother whose approbation in the good
news through all the churches;

19 And not only, but also the hand
stretched out by the churches for our
fellow-traveller with this grace, served
> by us to the glory of the same Lord,
and to your forwardness:

20 Prepared for this, lest any blame
us in this abundance served by us:

21 Providing good things before-
hand, not only before the Lord, but
also before men.

22 And we sent with them our
brother, whom we proved in many
things being earnest many times, and
now much more earnest, with much
confidence in you.

23 Whether for Titus, my compan-
ion and co-worker to you: or our
brethren, the sent of the churches, the
glory of Christ.

24 Therefore the manifestations of
your love, and of your boasting for
us, shew ye to them, and to the face
of the churches.

CHAPTER ΙΧ.
io truly, concerning the service
to the holy ones, it is superfluous
for me to write to you:

2 For I know your forwardness,
which I boast of for you to the Mace-
donians, that Achaia was prepared
from last year; and zeal from you ex-
cited the many more.

3 And I sent the brethren, lest our
boasting for you be empty in this

II. CORINTHIANS, VIII., IX., א‎

part ; that, as I said, ye might be pre-
pared :

4 Lest if in some way the Mace-
donians come with me, and find you un-
prepared, we should be ashamed, (that
we should not say, ye) in this principle
of boasting.

5 Therefore I thought necessary to
beseech the brethren that they go be-
fore to you, and prepare beforehand
your praise, having been proclaimed
beforehand, this same to be prepared,
so as praise, and not as covetousness.

6 And this, He sowing sparingly
shall reap also sparingly ; and he sow-
ing in praises shall reap also in praises.

7 Each as he chooses in the heart;
not of grief, or of necessity: for
God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God able for all grace to
abound in you; having always all
sufficiency in everything, ye abound
in every good work:

9 (Ashas been written, Hescattered ;
he gave to the poor: his justice re-
mains forever.

10 And now he furnishing seed to
him sowing, and bread for 1000, fur-
nish and multiply your sowing-season,
and increase the fruits of your justice ;)

11 Enriched in everything in all
simplicity, which works through us
gratitude to God.

12 For the service of this office is
not only pie up the wants of the
saints, bu® also abounding through
many thanks to God;

13 By the proof of this service
honouring God for the subjection of
your assent +0 the good news of Christ,
and to the simplicity of mutual par-
ticipation to them and to all;

14 And by their prayer for you,
longing for you through the exceeding
grace of God upon you. ἢ πὸ

15 And grace to God for his in-
describable gift.

CHAPTER X.
ND I Paul myself beseech you
by the meekness and equity of
Christ, who in face truly low with you,
but at a distance bold towards you:
2 And I pray, being present, not to
be bold with the confidence which 1

II. CORINTHIANS, X., ΧΙ.

reckon to encounter against certain,
reckoning us as walking about accord-
ing to the flesh.

3 For walking in the flesh, we war
not after the flesh :

4 (For the weapons of our warfare
not fleshly, but powerful to God to the
taking down of fortified places ;)

5 Taking down reckonings, and
every elevation lifted up against the
knowledge of God, and taking captive
every thought to the obedience of
Christ ;

6 And having in readiness to avenge
every imperfect instruction, when your
obedience should be completed.

7 See ye things according to the face ?
If any has persuaded himself to be of
Christ, let him reckon this again of
himself, that, as he of Christ, so we
also of Christ.

8 For if I also boast something
more abundantly of our power, which
the Lord gave us for the building up,
and not for your taking down, I shall
not be ashamed:

9 Lest I seem as terrifying you by
epistles.

10 (For truly the epistles, he says,
weighty and strong; but the presence
of the body weak, and the word count-
ed as nothing.)

11 Let such a one reckon this, that,
such as we are in the word by the
epistles, being away, such also, being
present, in deed.

12 For we dare not appear or join
ourselves to certain of them recom-
mending themselves: but they meas-
uring themselves by themselves, and
joining themselves to themselves, do
not understand.

13 And we boast not of things im-
measurable, but according to the
measure of the rule which the God of
measure divided to us, to reach even
also to you.

14 For not as reaching to you we
stretch beyond ourselves: for also
even to you we came before in the
good news of Christ:

15 Not boasting in things immeas-
urable, in the toils of others; and
having hope, your faith being in-
creased, to be enlarged in you accord-
ing to our rule for abundance,

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16 To announce the good news in
things beyond you, not in another's
rule to boast for things prepared.

17 But he boasting, let him boast
in the Lord.

18 For not he recommending him-
self, this is acceptable, but whom the
Lord recomniends.

CHAPTER XI.
/ WOULD ye held me up a little in
my folly : and indeed bear with me.

2 For I am zealous of you with the
zeal of God: for I fitted you to one
husband, to present a pure virgin to
Christ.

3 And 1 am afraid lest, as the serpent
completely deceived Eve in his craft,
so your thoughts be corrupted from
the simplicity which in Christ.

4 For if he coming proclaim another
Jesus, which I proclaimed not, or ye
receive another spirit, which ye re-
ceived not, or other good news, which
ye received not, ye have held up well.

5 For I reckon myself to be nothing
greatly inferior to the sent.

6 And if also ignorant in the word,
but not in knowledge; but in every
thing, we having been made manifest
in all for you.

7 Or did I a sin, humbling myself
that ye might be exalted, because I
announced to you the good news of
God gratuitously ?

8 I stripped other churches, having
received pay, for your service.

9 And being present with you, and
having wanted, I acted not with neg-
ligence to any: ( for the brethren hav-
ing come. from Macedonia filled up
still more my want:) and I kept my-
self in every thing not burdensome to
you, and I will keep.

10 The truth of Christ is in me, for
this boasting shall not be shut up in
me in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you
not? God knows.

12 And what 1 do, and I will do, that
I shall not cut off the occasion of those
wishing the occasion; that in what
they boast, they be found as also we.

13 For such the falsely sent, crafty
workers, being transformed into the
sent of Christ.

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14 And not wonderful; for Satan
himself is transformed into a messen-
ger of light.

15 No great thing therefore if also
his servants are transformed as _ser-
vants of justice; whose end shall be
according to their works,

16 Again I say, lest any one should
think me to be mad; and if not so in-
deed, as mad do ye receive me, that I
might also boast myself some little.

17 What I speak, I speak not ac-
cording to the Lord, but as in mad-
ness, in this first principle of boast-
ing.

18 Since many boast according to
the flesh, I shall also boast.

19 For ye bear with the mad will-
ingly, being wise.

20 For ye bear, if any reduce you to
bondage, if any devour, if any receive,
if any be lifted up, if any skin you on
the face.

21 I speak according to dishonour,
as that we were weak. And in what
any dares, (I speak in rashness,) 1
dare also.

22 Are they Hebrews? 1 also. Are
they Israelites? I also. Are they
Abraham’s seed? I also.

23 Are they Christ’s servants? (I
speak being light-headed ) I above; in
toils more abundant, in blows more
excessively, in watchings more abun-
dantly, in deaths often.

24 Of the Jews five times I receiy-
ed forty, except one.

25 Thrice was I scourged with rods,
once was I stoned, thrice suffered I
shipwreck, I have made a night and
day in the deep ; es

26 In journeys often, in dangers -of
rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dan-
gers of the family, in dangers from
the nations, in dangers in the city, in
dangers in solitude, in dangers in the
sea, in dangers with false brethren ;

27 In fatigue and toil, in watehful-
nesses often, in hunger and thirst,
in fastings often, in cold and naked-
ness.

28 Besides things
traction daily, the
churches.

29 Who is weak,

outside, my dis-
care of all the

and I am not

_ Il. CORINTHIANS, ΧΙ. XII.

weak? who is offended, and I am not
inflamed ?

30 If I must boast, I will boast
things of my weakness.

31 God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ knows, he being praised
forever, that I lie not.

32 In Damascus king Aretas’ goy-
ernor watched the city of the Da-
mascenes, wishing to seize me:

33 And through a window in a bas-
ket was I let down by the wall, and I
escaped from his hands.

CHAPTER XII.
oe it is not profitable to me
to boast. For I will come to vis-
ions and revelations of the Lord.

21 knew a man in Christ before
fourteen years, (whether in the body,
I know not; whether out of the body,
I know not: God knows ;) such a one
having been carried off even to the
third heaven.

3 And I knew such a man, (whether
in the body, whether out of the body,
I know not: God knows ;)

4 That he was carried off into para-
dise, and heard words not to be told,
which it was not permitted man to
speak.

5 Of such a one will I boast : and of
myself I will not boast, except in my
weakness.

6 For if I be willing to boast, I shall
not be mad; for the truth will I say:
and I spare, lest any reckon for me
above what he sees me, or what he
hears of me.

7 And lest I be lifted up by the em-
inence of revelations, a thorn in the
flesh was given me, a messenger of
Satan, that he might cuff me, lest I be
lifted up.

8 For this thrice besought I the
Lord, that it remove away from me.

9 And he said to me, My grace suf-
fices thee: for my power is perfected
in weakness. Therefore very will-
ingly will I boast rather in my weak-
nesses, that Christ’s power may lodge
upon me.

10 Therefore am I contented in
weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessi-
ties in expulsions, in extremities for

II. CORINTHIANS, XII, XIII.

Christ: for when I am weak, then am
I strong.

111 have been mad boasting; ye fA

forced me: for I ought to have been
recommended by you: for I was not
greatly inferior to the sent, if also I
am nothing.

12 Surely the signs of one sent
was wrought in you in all patience, in
signs, and wonders, and powers.

13 For what is it which ye were in-
ferior to the rest of the churches, ex-
cept that I myself acted not with neg-
ligence to you? favor me for this in-
justice.

14 Behold, I have prepared to come
to you the third time; and I will not
act with negligence to you: for I seek
not your things, but you: for children
ought not to treasure up for parents,
but parents for children.

15 And I very willingly will ex-
pend and be expended for your souls;
if also loving you more abundantly, the
less I should be loved.

16 And let it be, I overloaded you
not: but being dexterous, I took you
by contrivance.

17 Not any of whom I have sent to
you have I by him taken advantage
of you.

18 I called for Titus, and sent with
a brother. Has Titus taken advan-
tage of you? walked we not in the
saine spirit ? not in the same steps ?

19 Again, think ye that we excuse
ourselves to you? before God in Christ
we speak: and all things, beloved, for
your building up.

20 For I am afraid, lest somehow,
having come, I find you not such
as I will, and I find you suchas ye
wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jeal-
ousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies,
whisperings, inflations, derangements :

21 Lest, coming again, my God
should humble me with you, and I shall
mourn for many of them having
sinned before, and not having 16-
pented for uncleanness, and fornica-
tion, and licentiousness which they
committed.

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CHAPTER XIII.
HIS third I come to you. By
mouth of two witnesses, and three,
shall every word be established.

21 have said before, and say be-
forehand, as being present the second ;
and being away now 1 write to them
having sinned before, and to all the
rest, that, if I should come again, I
will not spare:

3 Since ye seek proof of Christ
speaking in me, who to you is not
weak, but has power in you.

4 For also if he was crucified from
weakness, but he lives from the power
of God. For also we are weak in him,
but we live with him from the power
of God to you.

5 Try yourselves, if ye are in the
faith; prove yourselves. Or know ye
not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in
you, unless ye are not tried ?

6 And 1 hope that ye shall know
that we are not untried.

7 And I pray to God that ye do
nothing evil; not that we appear tried,
but that ye do good, and we be as un-
tried.

8 For we are not able anything
against the truth, but for the truth.

9 For we rejoice when we be weak,
and ye be able: and this also we pray,
your restoration.

10 For this I write these things be-
ing absent, that being present I should
not wound severely, according to the
power which the Lord gave me for
building up, and not for pulling
down.

11 As to the rest, brethren, rejoice.
Be adjusted, be comforted, think the
same, live in peace; and the God of
love and peace shall be with you.

12 Greet ye one another in a holy
kiss.

13 All the holy ones greet you.

14 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Spirit with
you all. Amen.

“| The second was written to the Corinthians

from Philippon of Macedonia, byTitus and
Lucas.

GALATIANS.

CHAPTER I.
PAUL, sent, (not from men, neither
by man, but by Jesus Christ, and
God the Father, having raised him
from the dead ;)

2 And with me all the brethren, to
the churches of Galatia:

3 Grace to you and peace from God
the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,

4 Having given himself for our sins,
that he might take us away out of this
present evil time, according tothe will
of God and our Father :

5 To whom the glory for the time of
times. Amen.

61 wonder that so quickly are ye
transferred from him having called
you by the grace 01 Christ to another
good news:

7 Which is not another: except
some are troubling you, and wishing
to pervert the good news of Christ.

8 But also if we, or a messenger
from heaven, announce good news to
you, more than what we have an-
nounced to you, let him be anathema.

9 As we said before, also now say I
again, If any announce to you good
news above what ye received, let him
be anathema.

10 For now do I persuade men, or
God? or seek I to please men? for if I
had yet pleased men, 1 should not
have been the servant of Christ.

11 But I make known to you, breth-
ren, the good news announced by me
that it is not according to man.

19 For 1 neither received it from
man, neither was I taught, but by the
revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For ye heard of my turning
about when in Judaism, that in excess
I drove out the church of God, and
laid it waste :

14 And I advanced in Judaism
above many like in my race, being
more abundantly zealous of paternal
traditions.

15 And when God was contented,
having separated me from my moth-
er’s womb, and having called me, by
his grace,

16 To reveal his Son in me, that I
might announce him the good news
in the nations; I consulted not with
flesh and blood :

17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem
to them sent before me; but I went
away to Arabia, and again returned
to Damascus.

18 Then after three years I came up
to Jerusalem to examine Peter, and re-
mained with him fifteen days.

19 And other of the sect I saw not,
except James the Lord’s brother.

20 And what I write to you, behold,
before God, that I lie not.

21 Then came I to the regions of
Syria and Cilicia ;

22 And was unknown by face to the
churches of Judea there in Christ.

23 And only they had heard, That he
then driving us out, now announces the
good news, the faith which he then felt
the absence of.

24 And they glorified God in me.

CHAPTER II.
Cee after fourteen years, again
went I up to Jerusalem with Bar-
nabas, having taken together Titus.

2 And I went up according to reve-
lation, and placed before them the
good news which I proclaim in the
nations, but apart to them highly es-
teemed, lest 1 run in vain, or ran.

3 But neither Titus, with me, being
a Greek, was forced to be circumcised :

4 And through false brethren intro-
duced privately, who came in privately
to spy out our liberty which we have
in Christ Jesus, that they might re-
duce us to slavery:

5 To whom we yielded in subjection,
not for an hour; that the truth of the
good news might remain with you.

6 And from them seeming to be

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GALATIANS, IL, IL, .

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something, (whatever they were, it| build again, I unite myself with the
concerns me nothing: God receives] transgressor.

not man’s face: ( for they seeming en-
trusted nothing to me:

7 But on the contrary, having seen
that I have been entrusted with the
good news 01 uncircumcision, as Peter
of cireumeision ;

§ ( For he having been energetic in
Peter for the mission of circumcision,
was energetic also in me for the
nations: )

9 And haying known the grace
given to me, James, and Cephas, and
Joln, seeming to be pillars, gave me
and Barnabas the right hands of com-
munion; that we for the nations, and
they for the circumcision.

10 Only that we remember the
poor; and this same was I forward to
do.

11 And when Peter came to Anti-
och, I opposed him to the face, for he
was to be rebuked.

12 For before certain came from
James, he ate with the nations: and
when they came, he drew down, and
separated himself, being afraid of them
of the circumcision.

13 And the rest of the Jews also
dissembled with him; so that Barna-
bas also was carried away with their
dissimulation.

14 But when I saw that they went not
upon the strait road according to the
truth of the good news, 1 said to Peter
before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest
according to the nations, and not
according to the Jews, why forcest
thon the nations to live as the Jews?

15 We by nature Jews, and not sin-
ners from the nations,

16 Knowing that a man is not justi-
fied from the works of the law, but
through faith of Jesus Christ, and we
believed in Jesus Christ, that we might
be justified from the faith of Christ, and
not from the works of the law: there-
fore from the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified.

17 And it, seeking to be justified in
Christ, we were found also ourselves
sinners, is Christ therefore the servant
of sin ? It may not be.

18 For if what I destroy, these I

19 For I through the law died to
the law, that I might live to God.

20 I am 6171101166 with Christ: and 1
live; yet not I, but Christ lives in
ine: and what 1 now live in the flesh
I live in the faith of the Son of God,
having loved me, and given himself for
me.

21 1 put not away the grace of God:
for if justice through the law, Christ
died in vain.

CHAPTER III.
UNWISE Galatians, who has
cast a spell upon you, not to obey

the truth, to whom before the eyes
Jesus Christ was written beforehand,
crucitied in you ?

2 This only wish I to learn from
you, Received ye the Spirit from the
works of the law, or from the hearing
of faith?

3 Are ye so unwise? having begun
in the Spirit, are ye now ו‎ in
the flesh?

4 Suifered ye so many things in
vain? if yet also in vain.

5 He therefore furnishing you the
Spirit, and working the powers in you,
is it from the works of the law, or
from the hearing of faith ?

6 As Abraham believed God, and it
was reckoned to him for justice.

7 Know ye therefore that they of
faith, these are sons of Abraliam.

8 And the writing, foreseeing that
of faith God justifies the nations, an-
nounced beforehand the good news to
Abraham, That in thee shall all na-
tions be praised.

79 So that they of faith are praised
with faithful Abraham.

10 For as many as are of the works
of the law are under the curse: for it
has been written, Cursed every one
who remains not in all written in the
book of the law to do them.

11 And that none is justified in the
law before God, is manifest: for, The
just shall live of faith.

12 And the law is not of faith: but,
The man haying done them shall live
in them.

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13 Christ redeemed us from the
curse of the law, having been a curse
for us: for it has been written, Cursed
every one hanging upon a tree:

14 That the praise of Abraham
might be to the nations in Christ Jesus ;
that we might receive the promise of
the Spirit through faith.

15 Brethren, I speak according to
man ; Although a man’s covenant, hay-
ing been confirmed, none annuls, or
orders an addition.

16 And to Abraham were the prom-
ises spoken, and to his seed. He says
not, And to seeds, as to many ; but as
to one: And to thy seed, who is Christ.

17 And I say this, the covenant con-
firmed before by God in Christ, the
law, having been after four hundred
and thirty years, does not annul, to
neglect the promise.

18 For if of the law the inheritance,
no more of promise: and God has
favored Abraham by promise.

19 What then the law? It was add-
ed on account of transgressions, ( till
the seed come to whom it was prom-
ised;) appointed by angels in the
hand of a mediator.

20 Anda mediator isnot of one, and
God is one.

21 The law then against the prom-
ises of God? It may not be: for if a
law had been given able to make alive,
truly justice would be by the law.

22 But the writing shut up all things
under sin, that the promise from faith
of Jesus Christ might be given to the
believing.

23 And before faith came, we were
guarded under the law, shut up to
faith about to be revealed.

24 So that the law was our preceptor
towards Christ, that we might be
justified from faith.

25 And faith having come, we are
no more under a preceptor.

26 For weare all sons 01 God through
faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For as many of you as were im-
mersed into Christ have put on Christ.

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither servant nor free, there
is neither male and female: for ye are
all one in Christ Jesus.

GALATIANS, IIL, Iv.

29 And if ye of Christ, then are ye
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise.

CHAPTER TV.
Ἄν I say, for as long time as the
heir is a child, he differs nothing
from a servant, being lord of all;

2 Butis under guardians and stew-
ards until the time appointed by the
father.

3 So also we, when we were child-
ren, were subjugated under the world’s
elements:

4 And when the completion of the
time was come, God sent his Son, born
of woman, born under the law,

5 That he might redeem them un-
der the law, that we might receive the
adoption as sons.

6 And because ye are sons, God
sent forth the Spirit of his Son into
your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

7 So that thou art no more a ser-
vant, but ason: and if a son, also an
heir of God through Christ.

8 But then truly, not having known
God, ye were in a servile condition to
them not being gods by nature.

9 And now, having known God,
and rather known of God, how turn ye
again to the weak and poor elements,
to which again ye wish anew to be in
a servile condition ?

10 Ye observe narrowly days, and
months, and times, and years.

111 am afraid of you, lest I have
been wearied for you in vain.

12 Be ye as I, for I also as you,
brethren, I pray you: ye injured me
nothing.

13 And ye know that through weak-
ness of the flesh I announced the good
news to you before.

14 And my temptation in my flesh,
ye counted not as nothing, nor spurn-
ed; but asan angel of God ye received
me, as Christ Jesus.

15 What then was your happiness ?
for I testify to you, that, if possible,
having plucked out your eyes, ye
would have given to me.

16 Have I then been your enemy,
speaking truth to you ? 7

17 They are zealous for you, not

GALATIANS, IV.; Υ.

well; but they wish to exclude you,
that ye might be zealous for them.

18 And good to be zealous always
in good, and not only in my being
present with you.

19 My children, for whom I am
again in travail until Christ be form-
ed in you,

20 And I would be present with
you now, and change my voice; for I
am perplexed about you.

21 Tell me, those wishing to be un-
der the law, do ye not hear the law?

22 For it has been written, that
Abraham had two sons, one by the
bondmaid, and one by the free.

23 But he truly of the bondmaid
was born according to the flesh; and
he of the free through the promise.

24 Which things are spoken figura-
tively: for these are the two covenants ;
one truly from mount Sinai, begetting
to bondage, which is Agar.

25 For Agar is mount Sinai in Ara-
bia, and now stands in the same rank
with Jerusalem, and isina servile con-
dition with her children.

26 But Jerusalem above is free,
which is mother of us all.

27 For it has been written, Be
cheered, O barren, bearing not; break
out and ery, she travailing not: for
many more the children of the deso-
late than she having a husband.

28 And we, brethren, as Isaac, are
children of promise.

29 But as then he born according to
the flesh drove out him according to
the Spirit, so also now.

30 But what says the writing? Cast
out the bondmaid and herson;- for
theson of the bondmaid shall not inher-
it with the son of the free.

31 Therefore, brethren, we are not
aren of the bondmaid, but of the

ree.

CHAPTER VY.

THEREFORE in the liberty which

Christ has freed us, stand ye, and
be not again held in the yoke of ser-
vitude.
> 2 Behold, I Paul say to you, that if
ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit
you nothing.

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8 And again to any man cirecum-
cised, I testify, that he is debtor to do
the whole Jaw.

4 Ye were neglected from Christ,
whoever are justified inthe law; ye
liave fallen from grace.

5 For we in Spirit by faith expect
the hope of justice.

6 For in Christ Jesus neither cir-
cumcision has any power, nor uncir-
eumcision; but faith being energetic
through love.

7 Ye were running well; who hin-
dered you not to obey the truth ?

8 The confidence not from him eall-
ing you.

9 A little leaven leavens the whole
mixture. :

101 have trusted to you in the
Lord, that ye will have nothing differ-
ent in mind; and he troubling you
shall bear judgment, whoever he be.

11 And 1, brethren, if I yet pro-
claim cireumeision, why am I yet
driven out? therefore the offence of
the cross is left unemployed.

12 I would also they shall be cut off
who having risen up against you.

13 For ye were called to liberty,
brethren ; only not liberty for an occa-
sion to the flesh, but through love
serve ye one another.

14 For all the Jaw is completed in
one word, in this; Thoushalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.

15 Andif ye bite and devour one
another, see ye that ye be not laid
waste by one another.

16 And I say, Walk in Spirit, and
complete not the desire of the flesh.

17 For the flesh desires against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh :
and these are adverse to one another:
that not the things ye would, these
should ye do.

18 And if ye are led by the Spirit,
ye are not under the law. *

19 And the works of the flesh are
manifest, which are; Adultery, forni-
cation, uncleanness, licentiousness,

20 Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes,
jealousies, wraths, intriguings, sedi-
tions, sects,

91 Envyings, slaughters, drunken-
ness, revelries, and the like: to these

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which I foretell you, פה‎ I have also said
before, that they doing such shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.

22 And the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kind-
ness, goodness, faith, i

23 Meekness, temperance: against
such is no law.

24 And they of Christ have cruci-
fied the flesh with the passions and
desires.

25 If we live in-the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.

26 Let us not be vainglorious, pro-
voking one another, envying one
another.

CHAPTER VI.
RETHREN, if a man be taken in
any fault, ye the spiritual, restore
such a one in the spirit of meekness ;
observing thyself narrowly, lest thou
also be tempted.
2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so
fill up the law of Christ.
3 For if any think to be something,
being nothing, he deceives himself.

4 And let each try his own work, |

and then in himself alone will he have
boasting, and not in another.

5 For each shall bear his own load.

6 Let him being taught the word
participate with him teaching in all
good things.

7 Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatever a man should
sow, that also shall he reap.

GALATIANS, V., VL

8 For he sowing 60 his flesh of the
flesh shall reap corruption; but he
sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit
shall reap eternal life.

9 And doing good let us not de-
spond: for in proper time we shall
reap, not being enervated.

10 Wherefore then as we have time,
let us work good to all, and chiefly to
them of the household of faith.

11 See ye how large letters I wrote
to you with mine own hand.

12 As many as wish to have an
agreeable demeanor in the flesh, they
compel you to be circumcised; only
lest they should be driven out for the
cross of Christ.

13 For neither they being circum-
cised themselves observe the law ; but
they wish you to be circumcised, that
they might boast in your flesh.

14 And it may not be to me to
boast, except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom the world
is crucified to me, and I to the world.

15 For in Christ Jesus neither cir-
cumcision has any power, nor uncir-
cumcision, but a new creation.

16 And as many as walk by this
model, peace upon them, and mercy,
and upon the Israel of God.

17 For the rest let none cause me
fatigues: for I bear the marks of the
Lord Jesus Christ in my body.

18 The grace of onr Lord Jesus
Christ with your spirit, brethren.
Amen.

4 To the Galatians, written from Rome,

EHPHESIANS.

CHAPTER I.
‘PAUL, sent of Jesus Christ by the
will of God, to the holy ones be-
ing in Ephesus, and to the faithful in
Christ Jesus:

3 Praised be God and the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, he having

praised us in every spiritual praise in

heavenly things in Christ :
4 As he chose us in him before the

2 Grace to you, and peace, from | foundation of the world, for us to be
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus | holy and blameless before him in love:

Christ,

5 Having determined us beforehand

EPHESIANS, 1., II.

for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ
to him, according to benevolence of
his will,

6 To the praise of the glory of his
grace, in which he rendered us accept-
able in the beloved.

7 In whom we have redemption by
his blood, the letting go of faults,
according to the riches of his grace;

8 In which he abounded to us in all
wisdom and intelligence ;

9 Having made known to us the
mystery of his will, according to his
benevolence which he purposed in
himself:

10 For the arrangement of the com-
pletion of the times, to unite in a whole
all things in Christ, both the things in
the heavens, and the things upon
earth; in him:

11 In whom also we were cast by
lot, determined beforehand according
to the purpose of him performing all
things according to the counsel of his
will:

12 For us to be to the praise of his
glory, who before hoped in Christ.

13 In whom ye also, having heard
the word of truth, the good news of
your salvation: in whom also having
believed, ye were sealed by the holy
Spirit of solemn promise,

14 Which is the pledge of our in-
heritance for the redemption of the
acquisition, to the praise of his glory.

15 For this, 1 also, having heard the
faith among you in the Lord Jesus,
and love to all the holy,

16 Cease not returning thanks for
you, making remembrance of you in
my prayers ;

17 That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, might
give you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in his knowledge:

18 The eyes of your understanding
enlightened; for you to know what is
the hope of his calling, and what the
riches of the glory ot his inheritance
in the holy ones,

19 And what the surpassing great-
ness of his power to us believing, ac-
cording to the action of the might of
his strength,

20 Which he performed in Christ,

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having raised him from the dead, and
he sat on his right hand in the heaven-
lies. dist j

21 Above every beginning, and au-
thority, and power, and property, and
every name named, not only in this
life, but in that about to be:

22 And placed all things under his
feet, and gave him head over all things
to the church,

23 Which is his body, the comple-
ot of him completing all things in
all.

CHAPTER II.
Vere ye being dead in faults and
in sins;

2 In which when ye walked accord-
ing to the life of this world, according
to the ruler of the power of the air, of
the spirit now energetic in the sons of
disobedience :

3 Among whom also we then all oc-
eupied ourselves in the eager desires
of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh
and the thoughts; and were by na-
ture children of wrath, as also the
rest.

4 But God, being rich in mercy,
by his much love which he loved us,

5 And we being dead in faults, he
made alive together with Christ, (by
grace are ye saved 5)

6 And raised together, and seated
together in heavenliesin Christ Jesus:

7 That he might show in times
coming the surpassing riches of his
grace in kindness to us in Christ Je-
sus,

8 For by grace are ye _ saved
through faith; and this not of you:
the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any one should
boast.

10 For we are his work, created in
Christ Jesus to good works, which
God prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.

11 Wherefore remember, that ye
then the nations in the flesh, being
reckoned Uncireumeision by the Cir-
cumcision in the flesh reckoned made
by hands ;

12 That ye were in that time with-
out Christ, alienated from the citizen-

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ship of Israel, and foreigners from the
covenants of solemn promise, having no
hope, and without God in the world:

13 And now in Christ Jesus ye
who then being far off have become
near in the blood of Christ.

14 For he is our peace, having made
both one, and having loosed the mid-
dle partition-wall of the enclosure ;

15 The enmity in his flesh, the law
of commands in enactments, having
left unemployed; that he might create
in himself one new man, making
peace ;

16 And that he might reconcile
anew both in one body to God by the
cross, having slain the enmity in it:

17 And having come, he announced
good news, peace to you afar off, and
to those near.

18 For by him we both have access
in one Spirit to the Father.

19 Wherefore then are ye no more
foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-
citizens of the holy, and the household
of God;

20 Built upon the foundation of the
sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ
himself being the corner stone ;

21 In whom all the building fitted
together increases into a holy temple
in the Lord:

22 In whom also ye are builded to-

ether for the dwelling of God in the
pirit.

CHAPTER III.
ON this, I Paul, the imprisoned of
Christ Jesus for you the nations,

2 Τῇ ye have heard of the distribu-
tion of the grace of God given to me
for you:

3 That by revelation hemade known
to me the mystery ; (as I before wrote
briefly,

4 By which ye, reading, can perceive
my understanding in the mystery of
Christ,)

5 Which in other generations was
not made known to the sons of men,
as now has been revealed to his holy
sent and to the prophets by the Spirit :

6 For the nations to be co-heirs, and
united in one body, and participators
of his solemn promise in Christ by
the good news:

Mig ΤΠ; TV.

7 Of which 1 became a servant, ac-
cording to the gift of the grace of
God given to me according to the en-
ergy of his power.

8 To me, the least of all the holy
ones, was thisgrace given, to announce
the good news in the nations, the un-
traceableriches of Christ.

9 And to enlighten all what the dis-
tribution of the mystery, concealed
from times immemorial in God, having
created all things by Jesus Christ :

10 That it might now be made
known to beginnings and powers in the
heavenlies by the church the mani-
fold wisdom of God,

11 According to the purpose of
times immemorial which he made in
Christ Jesus our Lord:

12 In whom we have freedom of
speech and access with confidence by
his faith.

13 Wherefore I desire not to lose
courage in my pressures for you, which
is your glory.

14 Tor this 1bend my kneesto the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

15 Of whom all the family in the
heavens and upon earth is named,

16 That he might give to you, ac-
cording to the riches of his glory, to
be strengthened with power by his
Spirit in the interior man 5

17 For Christ to dwell by faith in
your hearts; in love being rendered
firm, and the foundation laid,

18 That ye might be fully able to
comprehend with all the holy what
the length, and breadth, and depth, and
height ;

19 To know also the love of Christ,
surpassing knowledge, that ye might
be filled in all the fulness of God.

20 And to him being able to do
above all things more abundantly
above what we ask or think, according
to the power being energetic in us,

21 To him the glory in the church
in Christ Jesus to all generations of
the times of times. Amen.

CHAPTER IV.
TP HEREFORE I, the imprisoned in
the Lord, beseech you to walk
worthy of the calling which ye were
called,

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2 With all lowliness and meekness, | 3180 the rest of the nations, in the van-

with longsuffering,
other in love;

3 Striving earnestly to keep 6
unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace.

4 One body, and one Spirit, as also
ye were called in one hope of your
calling ;

5 One Lord, one faith, one immer-
sion,

6 One God and Father of all, who
over all, and through all, and in you
all.

7 And to each one of us was grace
given according to the measure of the
gift of Christ. ;

8 Wherefore he says, Having as-
cended into height, he made captivity
captive, and gave gifts to men.

9 (And so having ascended, what is
it except that he also descended first
into the lower parts of the earth ?

10 He having descended is the same
having ascended above all the heav-
ens, that he might fill up all things.)

11 And truly he gave the sent ; and
the prophets ; and the hearers of good
tidings; and the shepherds, and ‘the
teachers ;

12 For the adjusting of the holy,
for the work of the service, for the
building up of the body of Christ:

13 Until we all arrive to the unity
of the faith, and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to the perfect man, to
the measure of age of the filling up
of Christ.

14 That we be no more babes, tossed
about, and carried around by every
wind of doctrine, in the playing at
dice of men, in craft, with the artifice
of deceit ; : ,

15 And speaking the truth in love,
let us grow up into him in 811 things,
who is the head, Christ :

16 From whom all the body fitted
together and joined together by every
touch of the expenditure, according
to the energy in measure of one of
each part, makes the increase of the
body to the building up of itself in
6.

11 Therefore this I say, and testify
in the Lord, that ye no more walk as

bearing one an-|/ity of their mind,

18 Being darkened in understand-
ing, alienated from the life of God
by ignorance being in them, by the
hardness of their heart ;

19 Who no longer having had feel-
ing delivered themselves to licen-
tiousness, to the work of all unclean-
ness in overreaching.

20 And ye have not so learned
Christ ;

21 If ye heard him, and were taught
in him, as is the truth in Jesus:

22 For you to put away according to
the former mode of life the old man,
corrupted according to the eager de-
sires of deceit ;

23 And to be renewed in the spirit
of your mind ;

24 And to put on the new man,
created according to God in justice
and sanctity of truth.

25 Wherefore falsehood ye having
put away, speak the truth each with
his neighbor: for ye are members one
of another.

26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not
the sun go down upon your fit of an-
ger:

27 Neither give place to the ac-
cuser.

28 He stealing let him steal no
more: and rather let him be wearied
from fatigue, working good with the
hands, that he have to impart to him
having need.

29 Let not any fonl word go out of
your mouth, but if any good to the
building of necessity, that it might
give grace to them hearing.

30 And grieve ye not the Holy
Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed
to the day of redemption.

31 Let all harshness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and slander, be put
away from you, with all badness :

32 And be ye kind one to another,
having good bowels, favoring each
other, as also God in Christ Jesus fa-
vored you.

CHAPTER V.
E ye therefore imitators of God,
as dearly beloved children ;

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2 And walk ye in love, as also Christ
loved us, and gave himself for us a
gift and sacrifice to God for a smell of
sweet odor.

3 And fornication, and all unclean-
ness, or overreaching, let it not be
named with you, as becomes the holy ;

4 And obscenity, and silly discourse,
or wit, which things concern not; but
rather thankfulness.

5 For this ye are knowing, that
every fornicator, or unclean, or covet-
ous person, who is an idolater, has no
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and of God.

6 Let none lead you astray with
vain words: for by these things comes
the anger of God upon the sons of
disobedience.

7 Be ye not therefore partakers
with them.

8 For ye were then darkness, and
now light in the Lord: walk ye as
children of light :

9 (For the fruit of the Spirit in all
goodness and justice and truth;)

10 Trying what is pleasing to the
Lord.

11 And participate not with the un-
fruitful works of darkness, and rather
also confute.

12 For the things done secretly by
them it is also shameful to speak.

13 And all things refuted, by light
are made manifest: for everything made
manifest is light.

14 Wherefore he says, Awake, who
sleeping, and arise from the dead, and
Christ will enlighten thee.

15 See therefore how ye walk accu-
rately, not as unwise, but as wise,

16 Making purchase of time, for the
days are evil.

17 For this be not foolish, but un-
derstanding what the willof the Lord.

18 And be not drunk with wine, in
which is debauchery ; but be filled with
the Spirit ;

19 Speaking to yourselves on harps,
and songs, and spiritual odes, singing
and playing on the harp in your heart
to the Lord ;

20 Giving thanks always for all
things, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, to God and the Father ;

EPHESIANS V., VI.

21 Yielding obedience to one an-
other in the fear of God.

22 Women, yield ye obedience to
your own husbands, as to the Lord.

23 For the husband is the head of
the wife, as also Christ the head οἵ.
the church: and he is the saviour of
the body.

24 But as the church is subjected to
Christ, so also wives to their own hus-
bands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your own wives,
as also Christ loved the church, and
delivered himself up for it ; ᾿

96 That he might consecrate it, hav-
ing cleansed by the washing of water
in the word,

27 That he might present it to him-
self a glorious church, not having spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that
it be holy and blameless.

28 So ought men to love their own
wives astheirown bodies. He loving
his wife, loves himself.

29 For none at anytime hates his
own flesh ; but brings it up and cher-
ishes it, as also the Lord the church:

30 For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones.

31 For this a man shall. leave his
father and mother, and be joined to
his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I
speak to Christ and to the church.

33 But ye also altogether, let each
so love his own wife as himself: and
the wife that she fear her husband.

CHAPTER VI.
(eh ee, listen to your parents
in the Lord: for this is just.

2 Honour thy father and mother;
(which is the first command with scl-
emn promise ; )

3 That it may be well to thee, and
thou mayest be long time upon earth.

4 And, fathers, be not angry with
your children: but bring them up in
the instruction and reminding of the
Lord.

5 Servants, listen to lords according
to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in
simplicity of your heart, as to Christ ;

:6 Not with eye-service, as men-

EPHESIANS VI.

pleasers; but as servants of Christ, do-
ing the will of God from the soul ;

7 With affection serving the Lord,
and not men.

8 Knowing that whatever good each
might do, this he shall receive from
the Lord, whether a servant or free.

9 And, lords, do ye the same things
to them, letting go threatening : know-
ing that also your own Lord is in the
τ heavens; and distinction of persons is
not with him.

10 As to the rest, my brethren, be
strengthened in the Lord, and in the
strength of his power. 3

11 Put on the complete armor of
God, for you to be able to stand against
the artifices of the accuser.

12 For the wrestling is not to us
against blood and flesh, but against be-
ginnings, against powers, against the
chiefs of the world of darkness of this
life, against spiritual things of wick-
edness in heavenly things.

18 For this take up the complete ar-
mor of God, that ye might be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having
effected all things, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded
your loins around with truth, and put
on the armor of justice ;

15 And fastened under the feet in
preparation of the good news of peace;

16 Over all, having taken the shield

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of faith, in which ye shall be able to
quench all the inflamed darts of evil.

17 And take ye the helmet of salva-
tion, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God:

18 By all prayer and supplication
praying in all time in Spirit, and for
this same watching vigilantly in all
perseverance and supplication for the
holy :

19 And for me, that the word might
be given me, in the opening of my
mouth in freedom of speech, to make
known the mystery of the good news,

20 For which I am an ambassador
in perplexity : that in it I might speak
freely, as I ought to speak.

21 And that ye also might know
the things concerning me, what I do,
Tychicus will make all things known
to you, the dearly beloved brother and
faithful servant in the Lord:

22 Whom I sent to you for this
same, that ye might know the things
concerning us, and he might comfort
your hearts.

23 Peace to the brethren, and love
with faith, from God the Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Grace with all loving our Lord
Jesus Christ in incorruptibleness.
Amen.

4 To the Ephesians, written from Rome by
Tychicus.

CHAPTER I.
AUL and Timotheus, servants of
Jesus Christ, to all the holy in
Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the
overseers and servants:
2 Grace to you, and peace, from God
our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 I return thanks to my God for all
your remembrance,
4 Always in all my prayer for you
all with joy making prayer,
5 For your mutual participation in

the good news from the first day until
now;

6 Confident of this same, that he
having begun a good work in you will
complete till the day of Jesus Christ :

7 As it is just for me to think this
concerning youall, for my having you
in the heart; both in my bonds, and in
the justification and confirmation of
the good news, ye all being partakers
of grace with me.

8 For God is my witness, how I

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long for you all in the bowels of Jesus
Christ.

9 And this I pray, that your love
may abound yet more and more in
knowledge and all intelligence ;

10 For you to try things differing ;
that ye may be pure and not stum-
bling to the day of Christ ;

11 Filled with the fruits of justice,
by Jesus Christ, to the glory and
praise of God.

12 And 1 wish you to know, breth-
ren, that the things concerning me
have rather gone to the advancement
of the good news;

13 So that my bonds in Christ were
manifest in the whole pretorium, and
to all the rest ;

14 And many of the brethren in
the Lord, having trusted to my bonds,
more abundantly dared to speak the
word fearlessly. :

15 And some truly by envy and
strife, and some also by kindness of
disposition, proclaim Christ.

16 Some truly of hired labor δῃ-
nounce Christ, not purely, thinking to
bring pressure upon my bonds:

17 And some of love, knowing that
Iam placed for justification of the
good news:

18 For what? but in any manner,
whether in pretence, or truth, Christ
is announced ; and in this I rejoice, and
certainly I will rejoice.

19 For I know that this shall be
turned to me for salvation by your
prayer, and the furnishing more of
the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

20 According to my anxious expec-
tation, and hope, that in nothing shall
I be ashamed, but in all freedom of
speech, as always, and now shall
Christ be magnified in my body,
whether by life, whether by death.

21 For me to live is Christ, and to
die gain.

22 And if to live in the flesh, this
to me the fruit of work: and whether
I shall be taken away I know not.

23 For I am pressed together from
two, having one eager desire to be
loosed, and be with Christ: (rather
much better: )

PHILIPPIANS II., ΠῚ.

25 And confident in this, I know
that I shall remain, and shall remain
near together with you all for your
advancement and joy of faith:

26 That your boasting may abound
in Jesus Christ in me, for my coming
again to you.

27 Only live as citizens worthy of
the good news of Christ: that whether
coming and seeing you, whether being
absent, I shall hear the things concern-
ing you, that ye stand in one spirit,
one soul, fighting together in faith of
the good news;

28 And terrified in nothing by them
being hostile to you: which to them
is truly an indication of destruction,
and to you of salvation, and this from
God.

29 For upon you was it conferred as
a favor for Christ, not only to believe
on him, but also to suffer for him ;

30 Haying the same struggle which
ye saw in me, and now hear in me.

CHAPTER II.
IF therefore any consolation in
Christ, if any encouragement of
love, if any mutual participation of
the Spirit, if any compassions and
mercies,

2 Vill ye up my joy, that ye may
have the same in mind, having the
same love, unanimous, being one in
mind.

3 Nothing by hired labor, or vain-
glory; but in lowliness the leaders
hold each other above themselves.

4 Look ye each not on the things of
themselves, but also each the things of
others.

5 For let this bein mind among you,
which also in Christ Jesus ;

6 Who, being in the form of God,
thonght not robbery to be equal to
God:

7 But emptied himself, taking the
form of a servant, born in the likeness
of men:

8 And found in fashion as man, he
humbled himself, being obedient until
death, and the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore God has also exceed-
ingly exalted him, and favored him as

24 And to tarry yet longer in the|a gift with a name above every name:

flesh is more necessary for you.

10 That in the name of Jesus every

PHILIPPIANS IL, I.

knee should bend, of the heavenlies,
and of terrestrial things, and things un-
der earth ;

11 And every tongue should avow
that the Lord is Jesus Christ, to the
glory of the Father.

12 Therefore, my beloved, as ye
have always listened, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in
my absence, with fear and tremor effect
your own salvation.

13 For God is working in you also
to will and to work by benevolence.

14 Do ye all things without mur-
murings and discussions :

15 That ye be complete and pure,
children of God, blameless in, the
midst of a crooked and perverted gen-
eration, among whom ye appear as
luminaries in the world ;

16 Holding on to the word of life;
for boasting to me in the day of Christ,
for I ran not in vain, nor was I wea-
ried in vain. ὲ

17 But if also 1 am poured out up-
on the sacrifice and service of your
faith, I rejoice, and rejoice together
with you all.

18 And do ye also rejoice at the
same, and rejoice together with me.

19 And I hope in the Lord Jesus to
send Timothy quickly to you, that I
also be courageous, having known the
things concerning you.

90 For 1 have none having a like
soul, who naturally will have care for
the things concerning you.

21 For they all seek the things of
themselves, and not the things of
Christ Jesus.

22 And ye know his proof, that, as a
child to a father, he served with me in
the good news.

23 Him therefore I truly hope to
send, whenever 1 shall see from it the
things concerning me.

24 And I have trusted in the Lord
that I myself also shall come quickly.

25 And I thought necessary Epaph-
roditus, my brother, and cooperator,
and fellow soldier, and your sent, and
workman of my necessity, be sent to
you.

26 Since he was longing for you all,
and harassed because ye heard that he
was sick.

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27 For also he was sick near to
death: but God compassionated him;
and not him only, but also me, lest I
should have grief upon grief.

28 Therefore I sent him the more
earnestly, that, seeing him, ye might
again rejoice, and 1 be more free from
sorrow.

29 Therefore receive him in the
Lord with all joy ; and hold such es-
teemed.

30 Because for the work of Christ he
drew near to death, having exposed
the soul to danger, that he might fill
up your want of service to me.

CHAPTER III.
‘AS to the rest, my brethren, rejoice
in the Lord. To write thesame
things to you, tome is not slothful,
and to you safe.

2 Look out for dogs, look out for
evil workmen, look out for the in-
cision.

3 For we are the circumcision, ser-
ving God in spirit, and boasting in
Christ Jesus, and not trusting in the
flesh.

4 Although I might also have con-
fidence in the flesh. If any other
think to have confidence in the flesh,
I more:

5 Circumcision done the eighth
day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe
of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the He-
brews; concerning the law, a Phar-
isee ;

' 6 For zeal, driving out the church ;
for justice in the law, not to be found
fault. with.

7 But what things were gain to me,
these I have thought loss for Christ.

8 But surely, 1 also think all things
to be loss for the superiority of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord:
for whom I have been made to lose all
things, and I think to be offscourings,
that I shall gain Christ,

9 And be found in him, not having
my justice, that of the law,but that by
faith of Christ, the justice from God
by faith :

10 To know him, and the power of
his rising up, and the mutual partici-
pation of his sufferings, being render-

|ed conformable to his death ;

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11 If somehow I shall arrive at the
rising up of the dead.

12 Not that I have alreaedy attain-
ed or have been already perfected:
and I pursue, if I also may overtake,
for which also I was overtaken by
Christ Jesus.

13 brethren, I reckon not myself to
have been overtaken: but one, truly
forgetting things behind, and stretch-
ing still farther to things before,

14 I pursue toward the scope for
the prize of combat of the calling above
of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore, as many as are com-
pleted, let us have this in mind: and
if in any thing ye think otherwise,
God will also reveal this to you.

16 But, at what we before arrived,
to walk by the same rule, to think
the same.

17 be ye imitators together of me,
brethren, and observe narrowly those
walking thus, as ye have us fora type.

18 ( For many walk, of whom I said
to you often, and now also say weep-
ing, the enemies of the cross of Christ :

19 Whose end destruction, whose
God the belly, and their glory in
shame, having in mind earthly
things. )

20 For our citizenship is in the
heavens; from whence we also expect
the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ :

21 Who will change the body of our
humiliation, for it to be conformable to
the body of his glory, according to the
operation by which he is able to
place all things under himself.

CHAPTER IV.
THEREFORE, my brethren, dear-
ly beloved and longed for, my joy
and crown, thus stand ye in the Lord,
dearly beloved.

2. 1 beseech Euodias, and I beseech
Syntyche, to think the same in the
Lord.

3 And 1 also ask thee, worthy yoke-
fellow, aid those women who fought
in company with me in the good news,
and with Clement, and the rest of my
co-workers, whose names in the book
of life.

4 Rejoice in the Lord
again say I, Do ye rejoice.

always :

PHILIPPIANS IIL, IV.

5 Let your fitness be known to all
men. The Lord is near.

6 Have anxiety about nothing; but
in every thing by prayer and supplica-
tion with gratitude let your desires be
made known to God.

7 And the peace of God, surpassing
all understanding, shall watch your
hearts and your minds in Ohrist Jesus.

8 As to the rest, brethren, whatever
things are true, whatever venerable,
whatever just, whatever pure, what-
ever lovely, whatever prosperous ; if
any ability, and if any praise, reckon
up these things.

9 And what things ye learned, and
received, and heard, and saw in me,
these do; and the God of peace shall
be with you.

10 And I rejoiced in the Lord great-
ly, that once already ye recovered new
vigor; for thinking of me, upon whom
ye were thinking, and ye had not
time.

11 Not that’ 1 speak concerning
want; for 1 have learned, among whom
Lam, to be satisfied with my condi-
tion,

12 And I know how to be humble,
and I know how to abound in every
thing: and in all I am instructed also
to be full and to hunger, and to abound
and to be in want.

18 1 am strong for all things in
Christ strengthening me.

14 But ye did well, participating to-
gether in my pressure.

15 And ye also know, Philippians,
that in the beginning of the good
news, when I went out from Macedo-
nia, no church participated with me in
the word of donation and accepting,
except ye alone.

16 For also in Thessalonica, and
once, and twice, ye sent to my necessi-

17 Not that I covet a gift: but I
covet fruit abounding to your word.

18 And 1 have all, and abound: 1
have been filled, having received from
Epaphroditus the things from you, a
sinell of sweet odor, a sacrifice accepta-
ble, pleasing to God.

19 And God will fill up all your
need according +0 his riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.

PHILIPPIANS

20 And to God and our Father the
glory for the times of times. Amen.

21 Greet ye every one holy in Christ
Jesus.
you.

The brethren with me greet | 201186 with you all.

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22 All the holy greet you, and chief-
ly they from Ceesar’s house.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Amen.

q To the Philippians it was written from
Rome by Epaphroditus.

COLOSSIANS.

CHAPTER I.
PAtL, sent of Jesus Christ by the
will of God, and Timothy the
brother,

2 To the holy among the Colossians,
and the faithful brethren in Christ :
Grace to you, and peace, from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Wereturn thanks to God and the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, pray-
ing always for you,

4 Having heard of your faith in
Christ Jesus, and love to all the holy,

5 By the hope laid up for you in the
heavens, which ye heard before in the
word of the truth of the good news;

6 Being present to you as also in all
the world ; and is bearing fruit, as also
in you, from the day which ye heard
and knew the grace of God in truth:

7 As also ye learned from Epaphras
our beloved fellowservant, who is a
faithful servant of Christ for you;

§ He also having manifested to us
your love in the Spirit.

9 For this also we, from the day
which we heard, ceased not praying
for you, and asking that ye might be
filled with the knowledge of his will
in all wisdom and spiritual under-
standing ;

10 For you to walk worthy of the
Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing
fruit in every good work, and increas-
ing in the knowledge of God ;

11 In all power being able according
to the strength of his glory, in all pa-
tience and longsuffering with joy.

12 Returning thanks to the athe,
haying rendered us fitting for the

portion of the lot of the holy in light:

13 Who saved us from the power of
darkness, and transferred into the
kingdom of the Son of his love:

14 In whom we have redemption by
his blood, the remission of sins:

15 Who is the image of the invisi-
ble God, the firstborn of all creation :

16 For by him were all things crea-
ted, things in the heavens, and things
upon earth, things visible and invisi-
ble, whether thrones, whether domin-
ions, whether beginnings, whether
authorities: all were created by him,
and for him:

17 And he is before all, and all
things have been established by him.

18 And he is the head of the body,
the church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead ; that he might
be the first in all.

19 For in him was he pleased that
all fulness should dwell :

20 And by him to reconcile all
things anew to himself; having made
peace by the blood of his cross, by him,
whether things upon earth, whether
things in the heavens.

21 And you, once being alienated
and enemies in inind by evil works,
and now has he reconciled

22 In the body of his flesh by death,
to present you holy, and blameless,
and irreproachable before him:

23 If indeed ye remain in the faith,
founded and firmly fixed, and not
moved aside from the hope of the good
news, which ye heard, being pro-
claimed in all creation under heaven;
of which I Paul was a servant ;

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24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings
for you, and fill again the necessities
of the pressures of Christ in my flesh
for his body, which is the church.

25 Of which I was a servant, accord-
ing to the stewardship of God, given
to me for you, to complete the word of
God ;

26 The mystery hid from times imme
morial, and from generations, and now
has been manifested to his holy ones:

97 To whom God would make
known what the riches of the glory of
this mystery in the nations; which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory:

28 Whom we announce, reminding
every man, and teaching every man in
all wisdom ; that we may present every
man perfected in Christ Jesus:

29 For which also I am wearied,
struggling according to his operation,
working in me in power.

CHAPTER II.
OR I wish you to know how great
contest I have for you, and them
in Laodicea, and as many as have not
seen my face in the flesh ;

2 That their hearts might be com-
forted, being joined together in love,
and to all the riches of the complete
certainty of the understanding, to the
acknowledgment of the mystery of
God, and the Father, and of Christ;

3 In whom are hid all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.

4 And this I say, lest any mislead
you with persuasive arguments.

5 For if also 1 am away in the flesh.
but inthe Spirit am I with you, rejoic
ing and seeing vour order, and the firm.
ness of your faith in Christ.

6 Therefore as ye received Christ
Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

7 Being rooted and built up in him,
and rendered firm in the faith, as ye
were taught, abounding in it with grat-
itude.

8 See ye lest any be carrying you
oft by philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the tradition of men,
according to the elements of the
world, and not according to Christ.

9 For in him dwells all the comple-
tion of divinity bodily.

COLOSSIANS L, II.

10 And ye are completed in him,
who is the head of all beginning and
power:

11 In whom also were ye circum-
cised with the circumcision not made
by hands, in the putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh in the cireum-
cision of Christ ;

12 Buried together with him in im-
mersion, in which also were ye risen
together by the faith of the operation
of God, haying raised him from the
dead.

13 And you, being dead in faults
and uncireumcision of the flesh, he
made alive together with him, having
propitiated to you all faults;

14 Having wiped out the handwrit-
ing against us in enactments, which
was opposed to us, and he has taken it
from the midst, having nailed it to his
61088 }

15 Having stripped off beginnings
and powers, he made an example in
freedom of speech, having led them in
triumph in it.

16 Therefore let not any judge you
in food, or in drink, or in turn of a
festival, or of the new moon, or of
sabbaths:

17 Which are a shadow of things
about to be; and the body of Christ.

18 Let none condemn you being
willing in humility and religious wor-
ship of angels, going into what he has
not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind
of his flesh,

19 And not having power over the
Head, from whom all the body, by all
the senses of touch and connections
furnished and joined together, in-
creases with the increase of God.

20 If therefore ye died with Christ
from the elements of the world, why,
as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,

21 (Touch not; neither taste 5
neither shouldest thon handle ;

22 Which are all for corruption in
the using;) according to the com-
mands and doctrines of men?

23 Which things truly are having
the word of wisdom in worship 86-
cording to one’s will, and humility, and
prodigality of the body; not in any
honour to satisfying the flesh.

COLOSSIANS III. IV.

CHAPTER III.
לך‎ therefore ye be risen with Christ,
seek things above, where Christ is
sitting on the right hand of God.

2 Think of things above, and not up-
on those upon the earth.

8 For ye died, and your life has
been hid with Christ in God.

4 When Christ shall be manifested,
our life, then also ye with him shall be
made manifest in glory.

5 Therefore kill your members that
are upon the earth; fornication, un-
cleanness, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry :

6 For these comes the wrath of God
upon the sons of disobedience:

7 In which also ye then walked,
when ye lived in them.

8 And now ye also put them all
away ; anger, wrath, badness, slander,
shameful language out of your mouth.

9 Lie not to one another, having
put off the old man with his deeds ;

10 And having put on the new, be-
ing renewed in knowledge according
to the image of him having created
him :

11 Where no Greek and Jew, cir-
cumcision and uncireumcision, for-
eigner, Scythian, servant, free: but
Christ all things, and in all.

12 Put on therefore, as the chosen
of God, holy and beloved, bowels of
compassions, kindnesses, humility,
meekness, longsuffering ;

13 (Bearing one another, propitia-
ting one another, if any have a com-
plaint against any: as also Christ pro-
pitiated for you, so also ye.

14 And over all these, love, which
is the bond of completion.

15 And let the peace of God act as
umpire in your hearts, to which also
ye were called in one body: and be
grateful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly ; teaching and reminding
one another in all wisdom, playing
with harps, and songs, and spiritual
odes, with grace singing in your hearts
to the Lord.

17 And all whatever you do in word
and in work, all things in the name of
the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
and the Father by him,

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18 Women, place yourselves under
your own husbands, as was permitted
in the Lord.

19 Men, love ye the wives, and be
not embittered against them. :

20 Children, listen to parents in
all things: for this is pleasing to the
Lord.

21 Fathers, irritate not your child-
ren, lest they be discouraged.

22 Servants, listen ye in all things
to lords according to the fesh ; not in
eyeservice as pleasing nen; but in
simplicity of heart, fearing God:

23 And all, whatever ye do, work ye
from the soul, as to the Lord, and not
to men ;

24 Knowing that from the Lord ye
shall receive the reward of inheritance:
for ye serve the Lord Christ.

25 And he acting with injustice
shall be taken care of for what he did
unjustly: and there is no distinction
of persons.

CHAPTER IV.
ORDS, render ye to servants jus-
tice and equality; knowing that
ye also have a Lord in the heavens.

2 In prayer persevere, watching in
it in gratitude ;

3 Praying together also for us, that
God would open to us a door of the
word, to speak the mystery of Christ,
by which also I was bound;

4 That I might manifest, as is fitting
for me to speak.

5 In wisdom walk toward them
without, purchasing the time.

6 Your word always in grace, sea-
soned with salt, to know how it is fit-
ting for you to answer one another.

7 All things concerning me shall
Tychicus make known to you, a dear-
ly beloved brother, anda faithful ser-
vant and fellowservant in the Lord :

8 Whom I sent to you for this
same, that he might know the things
concerning you, and comfort your
hearts ;

9 With Onesimus, the faithful and
dearly beloved brother, who is of you.
They shall make known to youall the
things here.

10 Aristarchus my _ felloweaptive
greets you, and Marcus, sister’s son to

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Barnabas, (for whom ye received com-
mands: if he come to you, receive
him ; )

11 And Jesus, called Justus, they
being of the circumcision. These on-
ly fellowworkers in the kingdom of
God, which were a consolation to me.

1 Epaphras, who of you, greets you,
a servant of Christ, always contending
for you in prayers, that ye may stand
perfected and completed in all the will
of God.

15 For I bear testimony to him, that
he has much zeal for you, and for
them in Laodicea, and for them in
Hierapolis.

COLOSSIANS IY.
14 Luke, the dearly beloved physi-

cian, greets you, and Demas.

15 Greet the brethren in Laodicea,
and Nymphas, and the church in his
house.

16 And when the epistle shall be
read among you, make that also it be
read to the chureh in Laodicea; and
that ye also read that from Laodicea.

17 And say to Archippus, Look out
for the service which thou hast receiy-
ed in the Lord, that thou fill it.

18 The greeting of Paul by my
hand. Remember my bonds. Grace
with you. Amen.

4] It was written to the Colossians from
Rome by Tychicus and Onesimus.

I. THESSALONTANS.

CHAPTER I.
AUL, and Silvanus, and Timothy,
to the church of the Thessalo-
nians in God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and
peace, from God our Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ.

2 We return thanks to God always
for you all, making remembrance of
you in our prayers continually ;

3 Remembering your work of faith,
and fatigue of love, and patience of
hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before
God and our Father;

4 Knowing, brethren beloved, of
God your selection.

5 For our good news was not to
you in word only, but also in power,
and in the Holy Spirit, and in much
complete certainty ; as we know what
we were among you for your sake.

6 And ye were imitators of us, and
of the Lord, having received the word
in much pressure, with joy of the Holy
Spirit :

7 So that ye were types to all be-
lieving in Macedonia and Achaia.

8 For from you sounded forth the
word of the Lord not only in Macedo-

ynia and Achaia, but also in every place

your faith towards God went out; so
that we have no need to speak any
thing.

9 For they themselves proclaim of
us what entrance we hive to you, and
how ye turned to God from images to
serve the living aid true God;

10 And to wait forhis Son from the
heavens, whom he raised from the
dead, Jesus, saving us from coming
wrath.

CHAPTER II.
OR ye yourselves know, brethren,
our entrance to you, that it was
not in vain:

2 But also having suffered before,
and having been injured, as ye know,
among the Philippians, we acted free-
ly in our God to speak to you the
good news of God with much contest.

3 For our entreaty nor from error,
nor from uncleanness, nor in deceit :

4 But as we have been tried by God
to be entrusted with the good news, so
we speak; not as pleasing men, but
God, trying our hearts.

5 For neither once in word were we

I. THESSALONIANS > III.

flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pre-
text of covetousness ; God the witness:

6 Neither seeking glory of men, nor
of you, nor of others, being able to be
in weight, us the sent of Christ.

7 But we were gentle in the midst
of you, asa nurse should cherish her
children :

8 Solonging for you, we are con-
tented to impart to you, not only the
good news of God, but also our own
souls, because ye are dearly beloved to
us.
9 For ye remember, brethren, our
fatigue and toil: for also working night
and day, not to overload any of you,
we proclaimed to you the good news
of God.

10 Ye witnesses, and God, how
holily and justly and unblamably we
were to you the believing :

11 As ye know how each one of
you, as a father his children, comfort-
ing and encouraging, and testifying,

12 For you to walk worthy of God,
ealling you into his kingdom and
glory.

13 For this also we return thanks to
God continually, that, having received
the word of God from our report, ye
received not the word of man, but as
it is truly, the word of God, which is
also energetic in you the believing.

14 For ye, brethren, were imitators
of the churches of God being in Judea
in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered
the saine things by your own race, as
they also by the Jews:

15 They also having slain the Lord
Jesus, and their own prophets, and
having driven you out; and not pleas-
ing God, and opposite to all men;

16 Hindering us from speaking to
the nations that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins always: and the
wrath of God has come before upon
them even to the end.

17 And we, brethren, having been
separated from you for a due measure
of time, in face, not in heart, we were
the more excessively zealous to see your
face with much eager desire.

18 Wherefore we would have come
to you, I Paul, truly also once and
twice; and the adversary hindered us.

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19 For what our hope, or joy, or
erown of boasting? Arenot also ye
before our Lord Jesus Christ in his
arrival ?

20 For ye are our glory and joy.

CHAPTER III.
HEREFORE no more conceal-
ing, we were content to be left

among the Athenians alone:

2 And sent Timothy, our brother,
and servant of God, and our co-work-
er in the good news of Christ, in or-
der to make you firm, and comfort
you for your faith:

3 For none to be shaken in these
pressures : for ye yourselves know that
for this we are placed.

4 For also, when we were with you,
we told you before that we were about
to be pressed; as also it was, and ye
know.

5 For this I also,no more conceal-
ing, sent to know your faith, lest some
way he tempting have tempted you,
and our labor be in vain.

6 And now Timothy having come
to us from yon, and having announced
to usthe good news, your faith and love,
and that ye have good remembrance
of us always, greatly desiring to see us,
as we also you:

7 For this, brethren, were we com-
forted in you in all our pressure, and
necessity by your faith :

8 For now we live, if ye stand in the
Lord.

9 For what thankfulness’ can we re-
turn to God for you, for all the joy
with which we rejoice for you before
our God ;

10 Night and day praying exceed-
ingly to see your face, and to adjust
things wanting of your faith @

11 And God himself and our Fa-
ther, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct
our way to you:

12 And the Lord increase you and
make you to abound in love to one an-
other, and to all, as also we to you:

13 To make your hearts firm, com-
plete in holiness before God, and our
Father, in the arrival of our Lord Je-
sus Christ with all his holy ones.

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CHAPTER IY.
HEREFORE as to the rest, breth-
ren, we ask you, and beseech in
the Lord Jesus, as ye received from
us how ye must walk and please God,
that ye may more abound.

2 For ye know what orders we gave
you by the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, your
consecration, that ye should keep
away from fornication :

4 Yor each of you to know how to
ἌΣ his vessel in consecration and
10nour ;

5 Not in the passion of eager desire,
as also the nations not knowing God:

6 Not to pass over and have the ad-
vantage over his brother in business;
because the Lord just for all these, as
we told you before and testified.

7 But God has not called you to
uncleanness, but in consecration.

8 For surely therefore he despising,
despises not man, but God, he also
giving his holy Spirit for us.

9 And for brotherly love ye have
no need to write to you: for ye your-
selves are taught of God to love one
another.

10 For also ye do the same to all the
brethren, them in the whole of Mace-
donia: and we beseech you, brethren,
to more abound;

11 And that ye be ambitious to
remain quiet, and attend to your own
things, and work with your own hands,
as we enjoined you;

12 That ye should walk becomingly
to them without, and have need of
nothing.

13 And I wish you not to be igno-
rant, brethren, of them having been
asleep, that ye should not grieve, as
also the rest, they having no ‘hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died
and rose up, so also God by Jesus
Christ will bring with him them hay-
ing slept.

15 For this we say to you in the
word of the Lord, that we the living
being left at the arrival of the Lord
shall not get beforehand with them
having slept.

16 For the Lord himself in the
word of command, in the voice of the

I. THESSALONIANS IYV., V.

archangel, shall descend from heaven:
ee the des d in Christ shall be raised
rst:

17 Then we the living being left
shall be snatched up together with
them in the clouds, to the meeting of
the Lord in the air: and so we shall
always be with the Lord.

18 Therefore comfort ye one anoth-
er with these words.

CHAPTER V.
ND of the times and seasons,
brethren, ye have no need to
write to you.

2 For ye yourselves know accurate-
ly that the day of the Lord, as a thief
in the night, so comes.

3 For when they say, Peace and
security; then sudden ruin is upon
them, as anguish in her with child;
and they may not escape.

4 And ye, brethren, are not in dark-
ness, that the day as a thief overtake
you.

5 Ye are all sons of light, and sons
of day: we are not of night, nor of
darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as also
the rest; but let us watch and be
sober.

7 For they sleeping sleep in the
night; and they drunken are drunken
in the night.

8 And we, being of the day, let us
be sober, putting on the coat of mail
of faith and love; and a helmet, the
hope of salvation.

9 For God set us not for wrath, but
for the acquisition of salvation by our
Lord Jesus Christ,

10 He having died for us, that,
whether we watch or sleep, we should
live together with him.

11 Wherefore comfort one another,
and build up one another, as also ye
do.

12 And we ask you, brethren, to
know those being fatigued among you,
and set over you in the Lord, and
reminding you;

13 And to think them above ordi-
nary in love for their work. Live in
peace in yourselves.

14 And we beseech you, brethren,

J. THESSALONIANS VY.

remind the disorderly, encourage the
timid, sustain the weak, and be slow
to anger to all.

15 See that any return not evil to
any: but always pursue good to one
another, and to all.

16 Rejoice always.

17 Pray continually.

18 In every thing return thanks: for
this the will of Godin Christ Jesus
toward you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

20 Set not prophecies at nought.
| 21 Try all things; hold the good.

22 Keep away from all appearance
of evil.

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23 And the same God of peace con-
secrate you perfectly complete; and
your whole spirit and soul and body
be kept faultless to the arrival of our
Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Faithful he calling you, who also
will do.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Greet all the brethren in a holy
kiss.

27 I bind you by oath, for the epis-
tle to be read to all the holy brethren.

28 The Grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with you. Amen.

4 The first to the Thessalonians was written
from the Athenians.

tl, THHSSALONIANS.

CHAPTER I. ,

‘PAUL and Silvanus, and Timothy

to the church of the Thessaloni-

ans in God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ :

2 Grace to you, and peace, from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We ought to return thanks to
God always for you, brethren, as is
fitting, for your faith increases ex-
ceedingly, and the love of each one of
you all enlarges to one another;

4 So that we ourselves boast in you
in all the churches of God for your
patience and faith in all your expul-
sions and pressures which ye endure:

5 (A proof of the just judgment of
God,) for you to be deemed worthy
of the kingdom of God, for which ye
also suffer :

6 Even though just with God to re-
turn pressure to them pressing you ;

7 And to you being pressed a release
with us, in the revelation of the Lord
Jesus from heaven with the angels of
his power,

8 In fire of flame giving vengeance
to them not knowing God, and to
them not listening to the good news
of our Lord Jesus Christ :

9 Who shall undergo punishment,

eternal ruin from the face of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power ;

10 When he should come to be hon-
oured in his holy ones, and to be ad-
mired in all the believing, (that our
testimony among you was believed ) in
that day.

11 For which also we pray always
for you, that our God would deem
you worthy of the calling, and fill
all the benevolence of goodness, and
work of faith in power:

12 So that the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ be honoured in you, and
you in him, accordirg to the grace of
our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER II.
ND we ask you, brethren, con-
cerning the arrival of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and our assembling to-
gether to him,

2 For you not to be quickly shaken
in mind, neither be disturbed, neither
by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle
as by us, as that the day of Christ has
drawn near.

3 Let none deceive you in any man-
ner: for, except an apostasy come first,
and the man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition ;

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4 Who being opposed and lifted up
above all called God, or which is wor-
shipped; so that he as God sits in the
temple of God, showing himself that
he is God.

5 Remember ye not, that, yet being
with you, I spake these to you ?

6 And now ye know the withhold-
ing for him to be revealed in his time.

7 For the mystery of iniquity is al-
ready energetic: only he withholding,
even till he be out of the midst.

8 And then shall the Lawless one be
revealed, whom the Lord will destroy
with the spirit of his mouth, and leave
unemployed in the splendor of his ar-
rival :

9 Whose arrival is according to the
energy of Satan in all power and signs
and wonders of falsehood,

10 And in all deceit of iniquity in
the lost ; because they received not the
love of the truth, for them to be saved.

11 And for this, God shall send
them the energy of error, for them to
believe in falsehood :

12 That all might be judged not be-
lieving the truth but contented in in-
iquity.

13 And we ought to return thanks
to God always for you, brethren dear-
ly beloved by the Lord, that God
chose you from the beginning to sal-
vation in consecration of the Spirit
and belief of the truth :

14 To which he called you by our
good news, to the acquisition of the
glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 Therefore, brethren, stand, and
hold firmly the doctrines which ye
were taught, whether by the word, or
by our epistle.

16 And our Lord Jesus Christ him-
self, and God, also our Father, having
loved us, and given us eternal consola-
tion and good hope in grace,

17 Comfort your hearts, and support
you in every good word and work.

CHAPTER III.
S to the rest, pray, brethren, for
us, that the word of the Lord
may run, and be honoured, 88 also with
you :
2 And that we may be delivered

II. THESSALONIANS IL., III.

from unfit and evil men: for not faith
of all.

3 But the Lord is faithful, who
Supports you, and will watch from the
evil.

4 And we have had confidence in
the Lord for you, that what we an-
nounce to you, and ye do and will do.

5 And the Lord direct your hearts
into the love of God, and into the pa-
tience of Christ.

6 And we proclaim to you, breth-
ren, in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, for you to shrink from every
brother walking disorderly, and not
according to the doctrine which he re-
ceived of us.

7 For ye yourselves know that ye
ought to imitate us: for we were not
disorderly among you;

8 Neither ate we the bread of any
as a gift; but in fatigue and toil work-
ing night and day also, not to over-
laad any of you:

9 Not that we have not power, but
that we give ourselves a type to you
to imitate us.

10 For also when we were with you,
this we proclaimed to you, that if any
will not work, neither should he eat.

11 For we hear some walking dis-
orderly among you, working nothing,
but occupied unprofitably.

12 And to such we proclaim and be-
seech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
with freedom from care working, they
should eat their own bread.

18 And ye, brethren, lose not cour-
age doing good.

14 And if any listen not to our word
by the epistle, mark him, and mix not
together with him, that he may
change.

15 And deem not as an enemy, but
remind as a brother.

16 And the Lord of peace himself
give to you peace for all in every-
manner. The Lord with you all.

17 The greeting of Paul with my
hand, which is the sign in every epis-
tle: so I write.

18 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with you all. Amen.

4“ The second was written to the Thessalo-
nians from the Athenians.

CHAPTER I.
AUL, the sent of Jesus Christ ac-
cording to the command of God
our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, our
hope ;
2 To Timothy, genuine child in the
faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God

our Father, and Jesus Christ our,

Lord.

3 As I besought thee to remain in
Ephesus, going into Macedonia, that
thou mightest proclaim to some not
to teach another doctrine,

4 Neither hold to fictions and end-
less genealogies, which offer questions,
rather than the arrangement of God
in the faith:

5 (And the end of the proclamation
is love out of a pure heart, and a good
consciousness, and unfeigned faith:

6 Which some having missed turned
away to vain discourse ;

7 Wishing to be teachers of the law ;
neither understanding what they say,
nor of certain things they are assured.

8 And we know the law good, if any
use it lawfully ;

9 Knowing this, that the law is laid
down not for the just one, but for the
lawless and disorderly, for the profane
and sinful, for the wicked and unholy,
for the patricidesand matricides, for
manslayers,

10 For fornicators, unchaste, man-
stealers, liars, the perjured, and if there
be any other thing opposed to sound
doctrine ;

11 According to the good news of
the glory of the blessed God, with
which I was entrusted.

12 And Lam grateful to Christ Jesus
our Lord, having strengthened me, for
he deemed me faithful, having set
me in the service ;

13 Being before slandering, expel-
ling, and an abuser: but I was com-
miserated, because I did, not knowing,
in unbelief.

14 And the grace of our Lord super-
abounded with faith and love in Christ
Jesus.

15 Faithful the word, and worthy of
all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came
into the world to save the sinful; of
whom I am first.

16 But for this was I commiserated,
that in me first Jesus Christ might
show forth all longsuffering, for a
model to them about to believe on him
to eternal lite.

17 And to the King of times, im-
mortal, invisible, the only wise God,
honour and glory for the times of
times. Amen. )

18 This proclamation I set before
thee, child Timothy, according to the
gifts of prophecy led before upon
thee, that thou in them mightest war
the good warfare ;

19 Having faith, and a good con-
sciousness ; which some having re-
jected concerning faith suffered ship-
wreck :

20 Of whom 18 Hymenens, and Alex-
ander; whom I have delivered to
Satan, that they should not be taught
to blaspheme.

CHAPTER II.
ih BESEECH therefore, first of all,
supplications to be made, prayers,
entreaties, thanks, for all men;

2 For kings, and all them being
in eminence; that we may lead a gen-
tle and quiet life, in all devotion and
gravity.

3 For this good and acceptable be-
fore our Saviour God ;

4 Who wills all men to be saved, and
to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5 For one God, and one mediator of
God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6 Having given himself a ransom
for all, a testimony in his own time.

7 For which I was placed a herald,
and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ,

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2924 I. TIMOTHY
1 lie not; ( a teacher of the nations in
faith and truth.

8 I will ‘therefore men shall pray
in every place, lifting up holy hands,
without anger and reasoning.

9 And likewise the women in well-
arranged simplicity, with modesty and
discretion, arrange themselves ; not in
tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive
clothing ;

10 But (what becomes women pro-
fessing religious worship) with good
works.

11 Let the woman, in freedom from
care, learn in all subjection.

12 And I trust not the woman to
teach, neither to exercise authority
over the man, but to be in freedom
from care.

13 For Adam was first formed, then
Eve.

14 And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman, having been deceived,
was in the transgression.

15 And she shall be saved through
the bringing forth children, if they re-
main in faith and love and consecra-
tion with discretion.

CHAPTER III.
וו‎ UL the word, If any strive
for superintendence, he eagerly
desires a good work.

2 Therefore an overseer must be
irreprehensible, husband of one wife,
sober, of sound mind, well arranged,
hospitable, giving instruction ;

3 Not intoxicated, nota quarrelsome
person, not occupied in sordid gain ;
but equitable, without fighting, exempt
from avarice ;

4 Presiding well over his own
house, having the children in subjec-
tion with all gravity ;

5 (And if any know not to preside
over his own house, how shall he take
care of the church of God 7)

6 Not newly planted, lest rendered
proud he fall into condemnation of
the accuser.

7 And he must also have good tes-
timony froin them without; lest he fall
into reproach and the snare of the
accuser.

8 Deacons likewise grave, not speak-
ing equivocally, not holding to much

ie ΠῚ ΤΥ.

wine, not occupied in sordid gain;

9 Having the mystery of faith in
pure consciousness.

10 And let these also first be tried ;
then let them perform the 01166 of
footman, being blameless.

11 Wives also grave, not accusers,
sober, faithful in all things.

12 Let the deacons be husbands of
one wife, presiding well over the
children and their own houses.

13 For they having served well,
acquire to themselves a good step, and
much freedom of speech in the faith
whichin Christ Jesus.

14 These I write to thee, hoping to
come to thee quickly :

15 And if I delay, that thou should-
est know how thou inust be occupied
in the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, the pillar
and base of the truth.

16 And manifestly great is the
mystery of devotion: God was man-
ifested in the flesh, was justified in
the Spirit, was seen by angels, was
proclaimed in the nations, was believed
on in the world, was received up in

glory.
CHAPTER IV.
ND the Spirit says expressly, that
in later times some shall be re-
moved from the faith, holding to de-
ceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil
spirits 5

2In the hypocrisy of speaking
falsely ; burned with a hot iron in their
own consciousness ;

3 Hindering to marry, to keep from
victuals which God created for par-
ticipation, with thanks, for the faith-
ful and them knowing the truth.

4 For every created thing of God
good, and nothing thrown away, re-
ceived with thanks:

5 For it is consecrated by the word
of God and entreaty.

6 These having laid down to the
brethren, thou shalt be a good servant
of Jesus Christ, brought up in the
words of faith and good doctrine,
which thou hast closely followed.

7 And profane and old women’s
fictions reject, and exercise thyself in
devotion.

8 For bodily exercise is profitable to

I. TIMOTHY IVS V.

little: but devotion is profitable to all
things, having promise of life now,
and that about to be.

9 Faithful the word, and
all acceptance.

10 For, for this also we are wearied
and reproached, that we have hoped in
the living God, who is the Saviour of
all men, chiefly of the faithful.

11 Proclaim and teach these things.

12 Let none despise thy youth; but
be thou a type of the faithful, in word,
in intercourse, in love, in spirit, in
faith, in purity.

13 Till I come, hold to reading loud,
to entreaty, to doctrine.

14 Neglect not the power which in
thee, which was given thee by the gift
of prophecy, with the putting on of
hands of the council of elders.

15 Bestow diligent care upon these
things; bein them; that thy progress
may be manifest in all things.

16 Take heed to thyself, and to the
doctrine; remain in them: for doing
this, and thou shalt save thyself, and
them hearing thee.

CHAPTER V.
Ἄς elder 811010686 thou not re-
prove, but beseech as a father;
the younger as brethren ;

2 The elder women as mothers ; the
younger as sisters, in all purity.

3 Honour widows, truly widows.

4 And if any widow have children
or descendants, let them learn first to
be pious to their own house, and to re-
turn recompenses to their progenitors :
for this is good and acceptable before
God.

5 And she truly a widow, and for-
saken, has hoped in God, and remains
2 supplications and prayers night and

ay.

ὃ And she living luxuriously is
dead, living.

7 And these things proclaim, that
they might be irreprehensible.

8 And if any for his own, and
chiefly for his own household pro-
vide not, he has denied the faith, and
is worse than the unbelieving.

9 Let not a widow be chosen less
than sixty years, having been wife of
one man,

worthy of

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10 Testified of in good works; if
she have brought up children, if she
lodged strangers, if she washed the feet
of the holy, if she relieved the pressed,
if she followed every good work.

11 And the younger widows reject:
for when they conduct themselves
arrogantly against Christ, they wish
to marry :

12 Having judgment, for they put
away the first faith.

13 And at the same time also they
learn to be idle, going round about
the houses; and not only idle, but also
indulging in idle talk, and occupied
with unnecessary things, speaking
things not becoming.

14 1 wish therefore the younger to
marry, to bear children, to rule the
house, to give no occasion to him op-
posing for reproach.

15 For already have some turned
aside after Satan.

16 If any man or woman faithful
have widows, let them relieve them,
and let not the church be loaded ; that
it may relieve the truly widows.

17 Let the elders having presided
well be deemed worthy of double
honour, chiefly they being wearied in
word and doctrine.

18 For the writing says, Thou shalt
net muzzle the ox grinding. And, The
laborer worthy of his hire.

19 Against an elder receive not an
accusation from without, except from
two or three witnesses.

20 Them having sinned rebuke be-
fore all, that the rest also have fear.

21 I call to witness before God, and
the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen
angels, that thon watch these things
without preference, doing nothing by
bending.

22 Put hands swiftly upon none, nor
participate in others’ sins: keep thy-
self pure.

23 Drink no longer water, but use a
little wine for thy stomach and thy
frequent weaknesses.

24 Some men’s sins are manifest,
going before to judgment ; and also to
some they follow in the train.

25 Likewise also the good works of
some are manifest; and having these

| otherwise, it cannot be hid.

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CHAPTER VI.
jhe as many servants as are under
the yoke deem their own masters
worthy of all honour, that the name
of God and the doctrines be not de-
famed.

2 And let them having faithful
masters not despise, for they are
brethren ; but rather let them serve,
because they are faithful and dearly
beloved, they having mutually received
of the beneficence. These things
teach and beseech.

3 If any teach otherwise, and come
not up to the sound words of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine
according to devotion ;

4 He has been proud, knowing
nothing, but sick about questions and
disputes of words, of which is envy,
strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

5 Unprofitable occupations of men
corrupted in mind, and deprived of
the truth, thinking gain to be devo-
tion: be separated from such.

6 But devotion with contentment
is great gain.

7 For we brought nothing into the
world, it is manifest that neither are
we able to carry anything out.

8 And having sustenance and cover-
ing, with these let us be contented.

9 And they wishing to be rich fall
into temptation and a snare, and many
eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which
sink men into ruin and perdition.

10 For the root of all evils is the
love of money: which some striving
for, have been led astray from the
faith, and pierced themselves through
with many pains.

11 And thou, O man of God, flee
these things; and follow justice, de-

I. TIMOTHY

VI.

votion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

12 Contend earnestly the good con-
test of faith, take hold upon eternal
life, into which thou wert also called,
and hast confessed the good confes-
sion before many witnesses.

13 1 beseech thee before God, mak-
ing all things alive, and Christ Jesus,
he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate
the good confession ;

14 For thee to keep the command
spotless, irreprehensible, until the
appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ :

15 Which the blessed and only soy-
ereign shall show in his own times,
the King of those reigning, and Lord
of those ruling ;

16 Who only having immortality,
inhabiting inaccessible light; which
none of men saw, nor can see; to
whom honour and might forever.
Amen.

17 To the rich now in this life, pro-
claim not to be highminded, nor to be
hoping upon the uncertainty of riches,
but in the living God, offering us all
things richly for profit ;

18 To do good, to be rich in good
works, to be Tiberall qualified for par-
ticipation ;

19 Treasuring up to themselves a
good foundation for the future, that
they may lay hold upon eternal life.

20 Ὁ Timothy, watch that which
holds firm, turning aside from profane,
idle talk, and oppositions of knowl-
edge, bearing a false name:

21 Which some proclaiming have
missed their aim concerning the faith.
Grace with thee. Amen.

4 The first to Timothy was written from Lao-

dicea, which is the metropolis of Phrygia
Pacatiana.

1 hd th Gal

CHAPTER I.

2 To Timothy, dearly beloved child:

AUL, the sent of Jesus Christ by | Grace, mercy, peace, from God the
the will of God, according to the | Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

promise of life in Christ Jesus,

81 have grace to God, whom I

Ἱ,, ἢ.‏ ו ד

serve from the forefathers in pure con-
sciousness, as 1 have continual remem-
brance concerning thee in my prayers
night and day ;

4 Desiring earnestly to see thee,
remembering thy tears, that I may be
filled with joy ; ἢ

5 Receiving the report of unfeigned
faith in thee, which dwelt first in
thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother
Eunice; and I am persuaded that in
thee also.

6 By which I remind thee of the
cause to light up the favor of God,

which is in thee by the putting on of

my hands.

7 For God gave not to us the spirit
of timidity; but of power, and love,
and of soundness of mind.

8 Therefore shouldest thou not be
ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
nor of me his imprisoned: but par-
take of afflictions with the good news
according to the power of God;

9 Who having saved us, and called
us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own
purpose and grace, given us in Christ
Jesus before eternal times,

10 And now made manifest by the
appearance of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
having truly left death unemployed,
and having brought life and immor-
tality to light by the good news:

11 To which I was set a herald, and
sent, teacher of the nations.

12 By which cause 1 also suffer these
things: but Lam not ashamed: for I
know whom 1 have believed, and have
been persuaded that he is able to watch
my deposits to that day.

13 Hold the model of sound words,
which thou didst hear of me, in the
faith and love which in Christ Jesus.

14 Watch the good deposit by the
Holy Spirit dwelling in us.

15 Thou knowest this, that all they
dwelling in Asia turned away from
me; of whom are Phygellus and Her-
mogenes.

16 May the Lord give mercy to the
house of Onesiphorus; for many times
he refreshed me. and was not ashamed
of my perplexity :

17 But, being in Rome, he sought
me very diligently, and found.

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18 (May the Lord give to him to find
merey of the Lord in that day:) and
in how many things he served in
Ephesus, thou knowest better.

CHAPTER II.
eeu therefore, my child, be
strong in the grace which is in
Christ Jesus.

2 And what thou hast heard from me
by many witnesses, these things lay by
for faithful men, who will be sufticient
to teach others also.

3 Thou therefore suffer ill treat-
ment, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

4 None making war is entangled
with the affairs of life: that he may
please him having enlisted him.

5 And also if any contend for a
prize, he is not crowned, except he con-
tend for a prize lawfully.

6 The farmer toiling must first par-
ticipate in the fruits.

7 Observe what I say; for may the
Lord give to thee understanding in all
things.

8 Remember Jesus Christ raised
from the dead, of the seed of David,
according to my good news:

9 In which I suffer ill treatment, to
bonds, as an evil doer; but the word
of God has not been bound.

10 For this I endure all things for
the chosen, that they also might attain
the salvation which is in Christ Jesus
with eternal glory.

11 Faithful the word: For if we
died together, we shall also live to-
gether:

12 If we endure, we shallalso reign
together: if we deny, he will also
deny us:

13 If we believe not, he remains
faithful: he cannot deny himself.

14 Put these things in mind, calling
to witness before the Lord not to
wrangle for nothing useful, to the sub-
version of them hearing.

15 Be earnest to present thyself
acceptable to God, a worker without
shame, dividing rightly the word of
truth.

16 And avoid profane, empty dis-
courses: for they will proceed to more
of profanation.

17 And this word as a gangrene,

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will have an eating ulcer: of whom is
Hymeneus and Philetus;

18 Who concerning the truth missed
their aim, saying the rising up has
already been; and they subvert the
faith of some.

19 Truly the firm foundation of God
has stood, having this seal, The Lord
knows them being his. And, Let
every one naming the name of Christ
remove from iniquity.

20 And in a great house there is
not only gold and silver vessels, but
also wood and earthen; and some
truly for honour, and some for dis-
honour.

21 If therefore any cleanse himself

from these, he shall be a vessel for
honour, consecrated, and useful for
the master, prepared for every good
work.

22 And flee youthful, eager desires :
and follow justice, faith, love, peace,
with them calling upon the Lord
from a pure heart.

23 And silly and ignorant questions
refuse, knowing that they produce
strifes.

24 And the servant of the Lord
must not contend; but be gentle to
all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

25 In meekness instructing them
being in a contrary state; lest perhaps
God may give them repentance to the
acknowledgment of the truth;

26 That they may return toa state of
sobriety from the snare of the devil,
being taken alive by him at his will.

CHAPTER III.
ND this know, that in the last
days difficult times shall inter-
pose.

2 For men shall be self-lovers, lovers
of money, boastful, proud, slandering,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
wicked,

8 Devoid of natural affection, not
observing treaties, accusers, ungoyern-
ed, wild, not loving the good,

4 Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted
to pleasure more than loving God;

5 Having a form of devotion, and
having denied its power: and these
reuounce,

Il. TIMOTHY ,זז‎ III; Iv.

6 For of these are they going into
houses, and taking captive little wom-
en heaped up with sins, led away with
various eager desires,

7 Always learning, and never able
to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 And as Jannes and Jambres with-
stood Moses, so also these have with-
stood the truth: men corrupted in
mind, not tried concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further:
for their folly shall Le manifest to all,
as theirs also was.

10 And thou hast closely followed
my doctrine, mode of life, purpose,
faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

11 Expulsions, sufferings, which
were to me in Antioch, in lconium, in
Lystra; what expulsions I endured:
and the Lord delivered me from all.

12 And all wishing to live devoted-
ly in Christ Jesus shall be driven out.

13 And evil men and impostors
shall proceed to worse, deceiving, and
being deceived.

14 And remain thou in what things
thou hast learned and hast been con-
vinced of, knowing of whom thou
hast learned ;

15 And that from infancy thou hast
known the holy letters, able to render
thee wise to salvation by faith which
in Christ Jesus.

16 All writing divinely inspired,
and profitable for doctrine, for refuta-
tion, for correction, for instruction in

justice :

17 That the man of God might be
perfect, finished for every good work.

CHAPTER IV.
CALL to witness before God there-
fore, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
being about to judge the living and
the dead according to his appearance
and his kingdom ;

Proclain the word; keep fixed‏ ל
seasonably, and unseasonably ; refute,‏
censure, beseech, in all longsuffering‏
and teaching.‏

3 For the time will be when they
will not hear sound doctrine; but ac-
cording to their own eager desires they
will heap up to themselves teachers,
feeling itchings for a report ;

Il. TIMOTHY

4 And truly from the truth will
they turn away the hearing, and be
turned aside to fictions.

5 And thou be sober in all things,
suffer ill treatment, do the work of the
bearer of good news, render thy ser-
vice perfectly certain.

6 For I am already poured out, and
the time of my deliverance has been
fixed.

71 have contended earnestly the
good contest, 1 have completed the
course, I have kept the faith :

8 As to the rest, the crown of jus-
tice is laid up for me, which the Lord
will assign to me in that day, the just
judge: and not only to me, but also to
all them having loved his appearance.

9 Be earnest to come to me quick-
ly

10 For Demas has forsaken me,
having loved the time now, and has
gone to Thessalonica; Crescens to Ga-
latia, Titus to Dalmatia.

11 Luke alone is with me. Having
taken Mark, bring with thyself: for
he is useful for the service.

12 And Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.

13 The cloak which I left in Troas
with Carpus, coming, bring, and the
books, chietly the parchments.

IV. 229

14 Alexander the coppersmith show-
ed me much evil: (may the Lord give
back to him according to his works : (

15 Whom watch thou also; for he
greatly withstood our words.

16 In my first defence none was
present with me, but all forsook me;
(may it not be reckoned to them.)

17 But the Lord stood with me, and
strengthened me; that by me the
promulgation might be rendered per-
fectly certain, and all the nations might
hear: and I was delivered out of the
lion’s mouth.

18 And the Lord will deliver me
from every evil work, and save for his
heavenly kingdom : to whom the glory
for the times of times. Amen.

19 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the
house of Onesiphorus.

20 Erastus remained in Corinth: and
Trophimus I left in Miletum sick.

21 Be earnest to come before win-
ter. Eubulus greets thee, and Pudens,
and Linus, and Claudia, and all the
brethren.

22 The Lord Jesus Christ with thy
Spirit. Grace with you. Amen.

4 The second to Timothy, chosen the ‘irst
overseer of the church of the Ephesians,
was written from Rome, when Paul was
placed before Cxsar Nero the second time.

EES:

CHAPTER I.
AUL, servant of God, and sent of
Jesus Christ, according to the
faith of the chosen of God, and the
acknowledgment of the truth accord-
ing to devotion ;

2In hope of eternal life, (which
God, not false, promised before eternal
times ;

3 And manifested his word in his
own times, in the proclamation, which
I was entrusted with according to the
command of the Saviour our God ἢ

peace, from God the Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

5 For this I left thee in Crete, that
thou shouldest rectify things left be-
hind, and set elders in the city, as I
directed thee :

6 If any be irreproachable, the hus-
band of one wife, having faithful chil-
dren, not in accusation of licentious-
ness, or disorderly.

7 For a bishop must be irreproach-
able, as steward of God; not self-suffi-
cient, not prone to anger, not intemper-

4 To Titus, genuine child according | ate, not a striker, not occupied in sor-
to the common faith: Grace, mercy, | did gain.

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8 But hospitable, a lover of good, of
sound mind, just, holy, holding firm ;

9 Holding firmly the faithful word
according to instruction, that he may
be able also to beseech in sound doc-
trine, and to refute those opposing.

10 For many also are disorderly,
vain talkers and infatuates, especially
they of the circumcision :

11 Who must be restrained, who sub-
vert whole houses, teaching what they
ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

12 A certain of them said, their own
prophet, The Cretians always lars,
evil beasts, lazy bellies.

13 This testimony is true. For this
cause reprove them severely, that they
may be sound in the faith ;

14 Not holding to Jewish fictions,
and commands of men, having turned
away from the truth.

15 Allthings truly pure to the pure :
and to the defiled and unbelieving
nothing pure; but also their mind and
consciousness are defiled.

16 They confess toknow God; and
in works they deny, being abominable,
and disobedient, and to every good
work not tried.

CHAPTER II.
oe do thou speak what becomes
sound doctrine:

2 The aged men to be sober, grave,
of sound mind, sound in the faith, in
love, in patience.

3 The aged women likewise, becom-
ing holy in a serene state of mind, not
accusers, not slaves to much wine,
teachers of good; :

4That they render the young
women discreet, to be lovers of the
husband, lovers of the children,

5 Of sound mind chaste, remaining
at home, good subordinates to their own
husbands, that the word of God be
not defamed.

6 The younger men likewise beseech
to be of sound mind.

7 Concerning all things hold thy-
self a type of good works: in doctrine,
integrity, gravity, incorruptibility,

8 The word sound, not to be con-
demned; that he from the opposite
may be changed, having nothing bad
to say of you.

TITUS: 1.

9 Servants to be subordinate to their
own masters, to be pleasing in all
things; not contradicting ;

10 Not purloining, but showing all
good faith ; that they may adorn the
doctrine of the Saviour our God in all
things.

11 For the grace of God who saves,
was manifested to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying un-
godliness and eager worldly desires,
we should live discreetly, and justly,
and religiously, in the time now ;

13 Expecting the blessed hope, and
apppearance of the glory of the great
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ;

14 Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify to himself a distinguished
people, zealous of good works.

15 These things speak, and beseech,
and reprove with all order. Let none
despise thee.

CHAPTER ΤΙ
EMIND them to be subordinate to
beginnings and powers, to yield
obedience to authority, to be pre-
pared for every good work,

2 To slander none, to be without
fighting, equitable, showing all meek-
ness to all men.

3 For once we also were unwise
disobedient, deceived, being slaves to
eager desires and various pleasures,
living in vexation and envy, hated, and
hating one another.

4 And when the kindness and phi-
lanthropy of our Saviour God was
made evident,

5 Not of works in justice which we
did, but according to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regenera-
tion, and the renovation of the Holy
Spirit 5

6 Which he poured out upon us
richly by Jesus Christ our Saviour ;

7 That justified by his grace, we
might be heirs according to the hope
of eternal life.

8 Faithful the word, and I wish for
thee to be assured of these things,
that they having believed God might
turn their thoughts to excel in good
works, These thingsare good and prof-
itable to men.

TITUS III.

9 And foolish questions, and gene-
alogies, and strifes, and conflicts per-
taining to the law, avoid; for they are
unprofitable and vain.

10 A man, a heretie after one and
the second admonition, reject.;

11 Knowing such to be turned back,
and he sins, being self-condemned.

12 When I shall send Artemas to
thee, or Tychicus, be earnest to come
to meat Nicopolis: for there have I
chosen to pass the winter.

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13 Send forward zealously Zenas
pertaining to the law, and Apollos,
that nothing fail them.

14 And let ours also learn to excel
in good works for necessary uses, that
they be not unfruitful.

15 All they with me greet thee.
Greet them loving us in the faith.
Grace with you all. Amen.

4 To Titus, chosen by laying on of hands the

first overseer of the church of the Cretians,
was it written, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

PHILEMON.

PAUL, imprisoned of Jesus Christ,
and Timothy the brother, to Phi-
lemon, dearly beloved, and codpera-
ting,

2 And to the dearly beloved Apphia,
and to Archippus our fellow-soldier,
and the church in thy house:

3 Grace to you, and peace, from God
our Father, andthe Lord Jesus Christ.

4 1 thank my God, always making
remembrance of thee in my prayers,

5 Hearing of thy love and faith,
which thou hast to the Lord Jesus, and
to all the holy ;

6 So that the mutual participation
of thy faith might be effective in ac-
knowledgment of every good in you
to Christ Jesus.

7 For we have much grace and con-
solation upon thy love, for the bowels
of the holy are refreshed by thee,
brother.

8 Wherefore, having much freedom
of speech in Christ to enjoin thee
what concerns thee,

9 By love I beseech rather, being
such as Paul an aged man, and now
also the imprisoned of Jesus Christ.

101 beseech thee for my child whom
I begat in my bonds, Onesimus.

11 Once unprofitable to thee, but
now more profitable to thee and to

me:
12 Whom 1 sent back: and thou him,

that is, my bowels, receive again:

13 Whom I was wishing to retain
to myself, that for thee he might
serve mein the bonds of the good
news:

14 But without thy judgment 1
would do nothing ; that good might not
be as according to necessity, but ac-
cording to free will.

15 For perhaps therefore he was
separated fora time, that thou mightest
receive him forever ;

16 No more as aservant, but above
a servant, a dearly beloved brother,
especially to me, and how much rather
to thee, also in the flesh, and in the
Lord ἢ

17 If therefore thou hold me a par-
ticipator, receive him in addition as
me.

18 And if he injured thee any, or is
indebted, charge this to me.

19 I Paul wrote with my hand, I
will pay back: that I say not to thee,
for thou owest thyself to me also in
addition.

20 Yea, brother, may.I be profited
by thee inthe Lord: refresh my bow-
els in the Lord.

21 Having confidence in thy obedi-
ence | wrote to thee, knowing that
thou wilt do above what I say to thee.

22 And at the same time also pre-
pare for me a reception as a guest:

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for I hope that by your prayers I shall
be given as a favor to you.

23 Epaphras greets thee, my fellow-
captive in Christ Jesus ; 3

24 Marcus, Aristarchus,

Demas,
Lucas, my co-workers.

PHILEMON.

25 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with your spirit. Amen.

q It was written to Philemon from Rome, by
Onesimus a servant.

HEBREWS.

CHAPTER I.
(ον; formerly multifariously and
abundantly having spoken to the
fathers in the prophets,

2 At these last days spake to us in
the Son, whom heset heir of all things,
by w hom also he made the times ;

3 Who being the brightness of
glory, and the figure of his founda-
tion, and bearing all things by the
word of his power, having made by
himself the purification of our sins, he

sat down on the right hand of ‘the
Majesty among the highest ones;

4 Being so much better than the an-
gels, inasmuch as he has inherited a
more distinguished name than they.

5 For to which of the angels once
said he, Thou art my Son, I have this
day begotten thee? And again, I will
be to him for Father, and he shall be
to me for Son ?

6 And when again he should bring
in the firstborn to the habitable
globe, he says, And let all the angels
of God worship him.

7 And truly to the angels of God he
says, Who making his angels spirits,
and his workmen flames of fire.

8 And to the Son, Thy throne, O
God, for the time of time: a rod of
uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved justice, and hated
eee ; for this God anointed thee,

thy God, with the oil of lively joy
above thy partakers.

10 And, Thou, at the beginning,
Lord, didst lay the foundation of the
earth; and the heavens are the work

of thy hands:

11 These shall be destroyed; but
thou remainest ; and they all as a gar-
ment shall erow old ;

12 And asa cloak shalt thou turn
Hea round, and they shall be changed :
but tliou art the same, and thy years
shall not fail.

13 And to which of the angels has
he once said, Sit on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies the foot-
stool of thy feet ¢

14 Are they not all spirits qualified
for service, sent forth tor service for
them about to inherit salyation ?

CHAPTER II.
OR this ought we to hold above
measure to the things heard, lest
we slip away.

2 For if the word spoken by angels
was firm, and every transgression ‘and
bad instruction received the just pay-
ment of reward ;

3 How shall we escape, having neg-
lected such great salvation; which at
the beginning taken to be spoken by
the Lord, by them having heard was
made firm to us;

4 God confirming the testimony, to-
ees with signs and wonders, and

various powers, and partitions of the
Holy Spirit, according to his will?

5 For not to the angels has he sub-
jected the habitable globe about to be,
of which we speak.

6 And somewhere a certain one
testified, saying, What is man, that
thou rememberest hin? or the gon of
man, that thou reviewest him ?

7 Thou didst render him some little

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while less than angels; thou crownedst | ing, observe the sent and Chief Priest
hit with glory and honour, and didst| of our assent, Christ Jesus;

place him over the work of thine
hands:

8 All things didst thou place under
his feet. For in placing all things un-
der him, thou didst leave nothing
notsubjected to him. And now we
see not yet all things placed under
him.

9 But we see Jesus, made some
little while less than angels by the
suffering of death, crowned with glory
and honour; so that by the grace of
God he should taste of death for all.

10 For it became him, for whom all
things, and by whom all things, in
bringing many sons to glory, to per-
fect the chief of their salvation by
sufferings.

11 For he consecrating
being consecrated all of one
08086 he is not ashamed to
brethren,

12 Saying, I will announce thy
name to my brethren, in the midst of
the church will I praise thee.

13 And again, I will be confident in
him. And again, Behold I and the
young children which God gave me.

14 Since therefore the young child-
ren participated in flesh and blood, he
also likewise participated with them;
that by death he might leave unem-
ployed him having the strength of
death, that is, the devil;

15 And deliver them, as many as by
fear of death were always to live bound
by slavery.

16 For certainly he lays not hold of
angels; but of the seed of Abraham
he lays hold.

17 Wherefore in all things it was
necessary to be made like to the
brethren, that he might be a merciful
and faithful chief priest in things to-
wards God, in order to propitiate for
the sins of the people.

18 For in that he himself has snffer-
ed, having been tempted, he is able to
help the tempted.

CHAPTER III.
HEREFORE, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly call-

and they
: for whieh
6811 them

2 Faithful to him having made him,
as also Moses in his whole house.

3 For this was deemed worthy of
more glory than Moses, inasmuch as
he has greater honour of the house
having built it.

4 For every house is built by some-
body; and he having built all things,
God.

§ And truly Moses faithful in his
whole house, as a servant, fora testi-
mony of those things to be spoken;

6 And Christ as a son over his
house: whose house are we, if we
should hold freedom of speech and
the boast of hope וע‎ to the end.

7 Wherefore (as the Iloly Spirit
says, 11 to day ye hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the
exasperation, in the day of trial in the
desert :

9 Where your fathers tried me,
proved me, and saw my works forty
years.

10 Wherefore I was offended with
that generation, and I said, They al-
ways wander in heart ; and they knew
not my ways.

11 As I sware in my wrath, If they
shall come into my rest.)

12 See, brethren, lest there shall be
in any of you an evil heart of unbe-
lief, in removing away from the living
God.

13 But beseech one another accord-
ing to each day, as far as the day is
ealled; lest any of you be hardened
by deceit of sin.

14 For we have been partakers of
Christ, if we hold the beginning of
our foundation firm to the end;

15 In that it is said, To day if ye
will hear his voice, ye should not
harden your hearts, as in the exaspera-
tion.

16 For some, having heard, did ex-
asperate: but not all they having come
out of Egypt by Moses.

17 And with whom was he offended
forty years? was it not with them
having sinned, whose members fell in
the desert ?

18 And to whom sware he that they

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could not come into his rest, if not to
them having been disobedient ?

19 And we see they could not come
in through unbelief.

CHAPTER IV.
ET us therefore fear, lest a solemn
promise being left to come into
his rest, any of you should seem to
have failed.

2 For we also were announced of
the good news, as well as they: but-the
word of the report profited them not,
not being mixed with faith to them
having heard.

3 For we having believed come into
the rest, as he said, As 1 sware in my
wrath, if they shall come into my rest :
although the works having been from
the foundation of the world.

4 For he said somewhere of the
seventh thus, And God ceased in the
seventh day from all his works.

5 And in this again, If they shall
enter into my rest.

6 Since therefore it remains for
some to come into it, and they before
announced of the good news came not
in through unbelief:

7 Again he limits a certain day, say-
ing in David, To day, after such time ;
as it is said, To day if ye would hear
his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had caused them to
rest, he would not have spoken of an-
other day after these things.

9 Therefore a celebration of a sab-
bath remains to the people of God.

10 For he having come into his rest,
he also has ceased from his works, as
God from his own.

11 Therefore we should be earnest
to come into that rest, lest any should
fall in the same pattern of unbelief.

12 For the word of God living, and
effective, and more piercing than any
two-mouthed sword, and penetrating
even to the division both of soul and
spirit, both the joints and marrows,
and a critic of the reflections and
thoughts of the heart.

13 And there is no creation invisible
before him: and all things naked and
exposed, neck and face to view, to the
eyes of him with whom to us is the
word.

Tit) CVA ד‎

14 Ifaving therefore a great chief
priest, passed to the heavens, Jesus the
Son of God, we should hold firmly
the assent.

15 For we have not a chief priest
unable to suffer with our weaknesses;
but tried in all things as a resem-
blance, without sin.

16 We should therefore go with
freedom of speech to the throne of
grace, that we receive mercy, and find
grace for timely assistance.

CHAPTER V.
FOR every chief priest taken from
men is appointed for men for
things to God, that he bring both gifts
and sacrifices for sins :

2 Being able to moderate the pas-
sions to the ignorant, and deceived ;
since he also is surrounded with weak-
ness.

3 And for this he ought, as for the
people, so also for himself, to bring in
for sins.

4 And not any takes this honour to
himself; but the called of God, as also
Aaron.

5 So also Christ honoured not him-
self, to become chief priest; but he
having spoken to him, Thou art my
Son, to day have I begotten thee.

6 And also in another he says, Thou
apriest forever according to the order
of Melchisedec.

7 Who in the days of his flesh, both
prayers and supplications to him able
to save him from death, with strong
crying and tears, having offered, and
listened +0 by means of circumspec-
tion 5 /

8 Although being a Son, he learned
obedience from what he suffered ;

9 And being perfected, he became to
all them lending a willing ear to him
the origin of eternal salvation ;

10 Addressed by God the chief
priest according to the order of Mel-
chisedee.

11 Of whom great is the word to us,
and difficult of interpretation to speak,
since ye have been sluggish in the
hearing.

12 For also ye ought to be teachers
for the time, again ye have need for
some one to teach you the elements

HEBREWS V., VIL, דט‎

of the beginning of the sayings of God;
and have become those having need of
milk, and not of firm food.

13 For every one partaking of milk
is inexperienced in the word of jus-
tice: for he is a child.

14 And firm food is of the perfected,
of them by habit having the senses
exercised for the separation of good
and evil.

CHAPTER VI.
ו‎ having left the word
of the beginning of Christ, we
should go on to perfection ; not again
laying down the foundation of repent-
ance from dead works, and of faith
toward God,

2 Of the teaching of immersions,
and placing upon of hands, and of the
rising up of the dead, and of eternal
judgment.

3 And this will we do, if God even
permit.

4 For impossible for them once en-
lightened, and having tasted of the
heavenly gift, and having partaken of
the Holy Spirit,

5 And tasted of the good word of
God, and powers of the life about to
be,

6 And having fallen, again to renew
to repentance; crucifying to them-
selves the Son of God, and exposing
to ignominy.

7 For the earth drinking the rain
coming often upon it, and bringing
forth the vegetable fitting well to them
by whom it is cultivated, receives com-
mendation from God:

8 And producing thorns and _ briers
is rejected, after having been tried,
and near cursing; whose end for de-
struction.

9 And we have been persuaded of
you, dearly beloved, of better things,
and connected with salvation, if we
also thus speak.

10 For God 18 not unjust to forget
your work and fatigue of love, which
ye showed to his name, having served
to the holy ones, and serving.

11 And we desire each of you to
show the same earnestness to the com-
plete certainty of hope to the end:

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12 That ye be not sluggish, but im-
itators of them inheriting the promises
by faith and longsuffering.

13 For God promising to Abraham,
since he had none greater to swear by,
sware by himself,

14 Saying, Truly will I praise thee,
and multiplying will I multiply thee.

15 And so, having endured long, he
gained the promise.

16 For truly men swear by the
greater: and the oath for confirmation
to them the end of all controversy.

17 In which God, willing more
abundantly to show to the heirs of the
promise the firmness of his counsel, he
intervened by an oath:

18 That by two unalterable deeds, in
which it is impossible for God to de-
ceive, we might have a strong consola-
tion, taking refuge in holding firmly
the hope set before:

19 Which we have as an anchor of
the soul, unshaken and firm, and enter-
ing into that further within the veil;

20 Where the forerunner, Jesus,
went in for us, according to the order
of Melchisedec, being a high priest
forever.

CHAPTER VII.
4 OR this Melchisedec, king of Sa-
lem, priest of the most high God,
having met Abraham returning from
the cutting off of the kings, and praised
him ;

2 To whom also Abraham divided a
tenth from all ; (first truly interpreted
King of justice, and then also King of
Salem, which is, King of peace ;

3 Without father, without mother,
of unknown origin, neither having
beginning of days, nor end of life; and
likened to the Son of God; ( remains
a priest perpetually.

4 And behold how great this one,
to whom also Abraham the patriarch
gave the tenth of the first fruits.

5 And they truly of the sons of
Levi, receiving the 01166 of priest,
have a command to take a tenth part
from the people according to the law,
that is, from their brethren, although
having come out of the loins of Abra-
ham:

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6 And he not having his descent
traced from them received a tenth
from Abraham, and praised him hay-
ing the promises.

7 And without all controversy the
less is praised of the better.

8 And here truly dying men receive
tenths; but there he, bearing witness
that he lives.

9 And as the word says, through
Abraham, also Levi, receiving tenths,
has paid a tenth.

10 For yet was he in -his father’s
loins, when Melchisedec met him.

11 If truly therefore completion
were by the Levitical priesthood,
(for the people received legislation by
it,) what further need according to the
order of Melchisedee for another
priest to be raised, and not accord-
ing to the order of Aaron 4

12 For the priesthood being trans-
ferred, of necessity also isa transpo-
sition of law.

13 For he of whom these things

are said partook of another tribe, of

which none held to the altar.

14 For it is manifest that our Lord
has sprung out of Judah; to which
tribe Moses spake nothing of the
priesthood. |

15 And it is yet more abundantly
manifest : that according to the resem-
blance of Melchisedec has another
priest risen,

16 Who according to the law of a
fleshly command was not born, but
according to the power of an inde-
structible life.

17 For he testifies, Thou a priest
forever, according to the order of
Melchisedec.

18 For there is truly an annulling
of the command going before by its
weakness and unprofitableness.

19 (For the law completed nothing, )
but the bringing in of a better hope;
by which we draw near to God.

20 And as much as not without
sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath:

21 (For they truly without sacrifice
sanctioned by solemn oath became
priests; but he with the sacrifice sanc-
tioned by solemn oath by him, saying

HEBREWS VIL, VIIL

repent, Thou priest forever, according
to the order of Melchisedec:

22 According to this, Jesus has be-
come security of a better covenant.

23 And they truly are become many
priests, by reason of death being hin-
dered from remaining :

24 And he, because he remains for-
ever, has an inviolable priesthood.

25 Wherefore he is able to save en-
tirely those coming to God by him,
always living to supplicate for them.

26 For such a chief priest becanie
us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated
from sinners, and being higher than
the heavens ;

27 Who has no necessity according
to the day, as the chief priests, before
to bring up sacrifices for their own sins,
then for those of the people ; for this
he did once, having brought up him-
self.

28 For the law establishes men
chief priests having weakness; but
the word of the sacrifice sanctioned by
solemn oath, after the law, the Son,
haying been perfected forever.

CHAPTER, VIIL.
ND the summary to the things
spoken: We have such a chief
priest, who sat on the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens ;

2 A workman of holy things, and
of the true tent, which the Lord
pitched, and not man.

3 For every chief priest is appointed
to bring in gifts and sacrifices also:
wherefore it is necessary also for this
to have something which he might
bring.

4 For if truly he were upon earth,
he would not be a priest, there being
priests bringing in gifts according to
the law ;

5 Who serve the pattern and shadow
of heavenly things, as Moses was giy-
en an intimation of the divine will,
being about to complete the tent: for,
See, says he, thou make all things ae-
cording to the type shewed thee in
the mount. :

6 And now he has attained a more
distinguished office, in how much also

to him, The Lord sware, and will not|he is mediator of a better covenant,

HEBREWS

which was legislated upon better
promises.

7 For if that first was faultless, then
place was not to be sought for the
second.

8 For rebuking them, he says, Be-
hold, the days come, says the Lord,
and [ will complete for the house of
Israel and for the house of Judah a
new covenant:

9 Not according to the covenant
which I made to their fathers in the
day of my taking their hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; for they
remained not in my covenant, and I
heeded them not, says the Lord.

10 For this the covenant which I
will set to the house of Israel after
those days, says the Lord; giving my
laws into their mind, and upon their
hearts will I write them : and I will
be to them for God, and they shall be
to me for a people:

11 And they should not teach each
his neighbor, and each his brother,
saying, Know the Lord: for all shall
know me, from their little even to
their great ones.

12 For I will be merciful to their
iniquities, and their sins and their in-
justices will I remember no more.

13 In saying new, he has made the
first old. And that made old and be-
coming weak is near destruction.

CHAPTER IX.
oe truly therefore the first had
precepts of divine service for
him, and a worldly holy place.

2 For the first tent was prepared ;
(in which was the chandelier, and table,
and the setting up of the loaves ;) which
is called holy.

3 And after the second veil, the tent
called Holy of Holies;

4 Having the golden censer, and
ark of the covenant surrounded on all
sides with gold, in which was the
golden urn haying the manna, and
Aaron’s rod having budded, and the
tables of the covenant;

5 And above it the chernbs of glory
overshadowing the propitiatory; of
which it is not now to speak in turn.

6 And these thus prepared, truly to

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the first tent the priests always came
in, to complete the divine services.

7 And into the second the chief
priest alone once a year, not without
blood, which he brings near for him-
self, and the errors of the people:

8 This the Holy Spirit designating,
the way of the holies had not yet
been made manifest, the first tent yet
having a standing :

9 Which a parable for the time
placed in, according to which both gifts
and sacrifices are brought near, not
being able for consciousness to perfect
him serving ;

10 Only in food and drinks, and
different immersions, and precepts of
the flesh, being placed till the time of
amendment.

11 And Christ being present, a chief

priest of good things about to be, by
a greater and more perfect tent, not
made with hands, that is, not of this
creation ;
- 12 Neither by the blood of he-goats
and calves, and by his own blood he
went in once for all to the holies, hay-
ing found eternal deliverance.

13 For if the blood of bulls and he-
goats, and the ashes of a heifer be-
sprinkling the polluted, consecrates to
the purity of the flesh:

14 How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit
offered himself blameless to God,
purify your consciousness from dead
works to serve the living God ?

15 And for this he is mediator of a
new covenant, that death having been,
for redemption of the transgressions
for the first covenant, the called might
receive the promise of eternal inheri-
tance.

16 For where a will, the necessity
for the death of him having willed
to be brought forward.

17 For a will is firm by the dead:
since it has no power when he having
willed lives.

18 Wherefore neither was the first
consecrated without blood.

19 For every command spoken
according to law by Moses, to all the
people, having taken the blood of
calyes and he-goats, with water, and

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8081166 wool, and liyssop, and also the
book, and he sprinkled all the people,
20 Saying, This the blood of the
covenant which God enjoined to you.

91 And also the tent, and all the
vessels of the service, he poured all
over likewise with blood.

22 And almost all things are puri-
fied according to the law with blood;
and without blood-letting there is no
remission.

23 Therefore truly anecessity for the
patterns of things in the heavens to
be purified with these; and the
heavenly things themselves with bet-
ter sacrifices than these.

24 For Christ came not into the holy
places made with hands, the figures of
the true; but into heaven itself, now
to be shown clearly to the face of God
for us:

25 Neither that he should offer him-
self many times, as the chief priest
comes in to the holy places yearly with
blood pertaining to others ;

26 (Since he must haye suffered

many times from the foundation of

the world:) but now once at the termi-
nation of the times for the annulling
of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he
been shown clearly.

97 And inasmuch as it is reserved
to men once to die, and after this the
judgment :

28 So Christ, once offered to have
borne the sins of many, of the second
time, without sin, shall be seen to them
expecting him for salvation.

CHAPTER X.
OR the law having a shadow of
good things about to be, not the
same image of the things, with these
sacrifices which they bring in yearly
in continuance never can render per-
fect them coming thereto.

2 For would they not have ceased
tobe brought in? because they serv-
ing have no more consciousness of
sins, once purified. ᾿

3 But in these, a reminding of sins
yearly.

4 For the blood of bulls and he-
goats cannot take away sins.

5 Wherefore coming into the world,

HEBREWS IX., .א‎

he says, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou ad-
justed to me :

6 And with whole burnt offering
for sin wast thou not contented.

7 Then 8816 I, Behold, I am here
(in the head of the book it was writ-
ten of me,) O God, to do thy will.

8 Farther back, saying, That sacri-
fice and bringing in and whole burnt
offerings and for sin thou wouldest
not, neither wert contented with ;
which are brought in according to
law ;

9 Then he said, Behold, I am here
to do, O God, thy will. He takes
away the first, that he might set up the
second,

10 In which will we are consecrated
by the bringing in of the body of Je-
sus Christ once.

11 And truly every priest has stood
daily serving and bringing in many
times the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins:

12 But this, having brought in one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God;

13 As to the rest, awaiting till his
enemies be put a footstool of his feet.

14 For by one offering has he per-
fected forever the consecrated.

15 And also the Holy Spirit testi-
fies to us: for after haying said be-
fore,

16 This the covenant which I will
establish with them after those days,
says the Lord, giving my laws upon
their heart, and upon their minds will
I write them ;

17 And their sins and their iniqni-
ties will I remember no more.

18 And where remission of these, no
more bringing in for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, free-
dom of speech for the entering in of
the holies by the blood of Jesus,

20 A way publicly declared and liv-
ing, which he consecrated to us,
through the veil, that is, his flesh ;

21 Anda great priest over the house
of God ;

22 Let us approach with a true heart
in complete certainty of faith, having
our hearts besprinkled from an eyil

HEBREWS X., XI.

consciousness, and haying our bodies
washed with pure water.

23 We should hold the assent of
hope not bending; (for faithful he
having promised ; )

24 And we should observe one
another for the incitement of love and
good works :

25 Not forsaking the assembling of
ourselves together, as the custom to
some; but beseeching: and by so
much the more, inasmuch as ye see
the day drawing near.

26 For we sinning voluntarily after.

receiving the knowledge of the truth,
there is left no more a sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain terrible expecta-
tion of judgment and jealousy of fire,
being about to devour the adversaries.

28 Any one having rejected Moses’
law, without compassion dies by two
or three witnesses :

29 Of how much worse punishment,
think ye, shall he be deemed worthy,
having trodden down the Son of God,
and deemed the blood of the covenant
common, in which he was consecrated,
and having outraged the Spirit of
grace ?

30 For we know him having said,
Vengeance to me, I will give back,
says the Lord. And again, The Lord
will judge his people.

31 Terrible to fall into the hands of
the living God. ;

32 And reeall to mind the former
days, in which, having been enlighten-
ed, ye endured a great combat of suf-
ferings ;

33 This, truly, being exposed to
public view both by reproaches and
pressures ; and this, having been par-
takers of those thus overturned.

34 For ye also suffered together
with me in bonds, and received the
pillage of your possessions with joy,
knowing to have in yourselves a better
and abiding substance in the heavens.

35 Throw not away therefore your
freedom of speech, which has great
payment of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience,
that, having done the will of God, ye
might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while only, he

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coming will come, and will not tarry.
88 And the just one shall live by
faith; but if he draw down, my soul
is not contented in him.
39 And we are not of drawing down
to perdition; but of faith to the acqui-
sition of the soul.

CHAPTER XI.
ND faith is the foundation of
things hoped for, the proof of
things not seen.

2 For by this were the elders testi-
fied of.

3 By faith we perceive that the
times were adjusted by the word of
God, so that things seen have been
born not of things brought to light.

4 By faith Abel brought near a
greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by
which he was testified of to be just,
God testifying of his gifts; and by it
he being dead yet speaks.

5 By faith Enoch was transferred
not tosee death; and was not found,
because God had transferred him: for
before his transferring he had been tes-
tified of, to have pleased God.

6 And without faith it is impossible
to please: for he approaching to God
must believe that he is, and isa remu-
nerator to them seeking him out.

7 By faith Noah, having an intima-
tion of the divine will of things not
yet seen, being circumspect, prepared
an ark for the salvation of his house ;
by which he condemned the world,
and by faith became an heir of justice.

8 By faith Abraham, being called,
listened, to go forth into the place
which he was about toreceive for an
inheritance; and he came out, not
knowing where he is coming.

9 By faith he dwelt in the land of
promise, as a strange land, having
dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob,
co-heirs of the same promise:

10 For he awaited a city haying
foundations, whose artificer and mak-
er is God.

11 By faith Sara also herself received
power for the laying down of seed, and
brought forth during the time of age,
for she deemed him faithful haying
promised.

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12 Wherefore also from one 6
they born, and these of him having
been dead, as the stars of heaven for
multitude, and as the sand near the lip
of the sea innumerable.

13 According to faith died all these,
not having received the promises, but
having seen them from afar, and been
persuaded, and having embraced, and
assented that they are strangers and
newly arrived from a foreign country
upon earth.

14 For they saying such things show
clearly that they seek a country.

15 And truly if they remembered
that from which they came out, they
liad time to have returned. .

16 And now they feel an ardent de-
sire for a better, that is, a heavenly :
wherefore God is not ashamed of
them to be called their God: for he
prepared for them a city.

17 By faith Abraham had brought
near Isaac, being tried: and he having
received the promises brought near
the only born,

18 To whom it was spoken, That in
Tsaac shall seed be called to thee:

19 Reckoning that God was also able
to raise from the dead ; whence he also
received him ina parable.

20 By faith concerning things about
to be, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

21 By faith Jacob,dying, blessed each
of Joseph’s sons; and worshipped, up-
on the extremity of his rod.

22 By faith Joseph, dying, made
mention of the departure of the sons
of Israel: and charged concerning his
bones.

23 By faith Moses, born, was hidden
three months by his parents, because
they saw a shrewd child; and they
were not afraid of the edict of the king.

24 By faith Moses, having become
great, refused to be reckoned the son
of Pharaoh’s daughter ;

25 Having chosen rather to be
treated ill with the people of God, than
to have the enjoyment of sin for a
time ;

26 Having deemed the reproach of
Christ greater riches than treasures in
Egypt: for he looked to the payment
of reward.

27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not

HEBREWS ,.1א‎ XII.

having feared the king’s wrath: for, as
seeing > the invisible, he was strong.

28 “By faith he has kept the pascha,
and the pouring out of blood, lest he
destroying the first born should touch
them.

29 By faith they passed through the
Red sea as by dry land: w hich the
Egyptians having tried were swal-
lowed down.

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell,
having been surrounded for seven
days.

31 By faith the harlot Rahab per-
ished not with the unbelieving, having
received the spies with peace.

32 And what more do I say? for
the time will fail me recounting of
Gedeon, Barak, and also Samson “and
Jephthae ; David also, and Samuel,
and the prophets :

33 Who by faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought justice, attained the promises,
shut up the mouths of lions,

34 Quenched the power of fire, es-
caped the mouth of the sword, were
strengthened from weakness, were
strong in war, turned away the armies
of strangers.

35 Women received their dead from
-| rising up: and others were beaten, not
receiving redemption ; that they might
attain a better resurrection.

36 And others received trial of jest-
ings and scourges, and further, of
bonds and imprisonment :

37 They were stoned, they were
cut by sawing, they were tried, they
died by the slaughter of the sword:
they wandered about in sheepskins
and goatskins; being in want, pressed,
treated ill;

38 (Of whom the world was not
worthy :) wandering about in solitary
places, and mountains, and caves,
and holes of the earth.

39 And these all, having been testi-
fied of by faith, received not the prom-
ise:

40 God having foreseen something
better fur us, that without us they
should not be completed.

CHAPTER XII.
W HEREFORE we also having

such a cloud of witnesses lying

HEBREWS XII.

round about us, having laid down
every weight, and sin easily captiva-
ting, by patience we should run the
race set before us,

2 Looking in the distance to Jesus
the author and completer of the faith ;
who for the joy laid before him en-
dured the cross, having despised the
shame, and sat down on the right hand
of the throne of God.

3 For reckon over him having en-
dured such contradiction of the sinful
against himself, lest being harassed, ye
labor in your souls.

4 Ye have not yet resisted until
blood, fighting against sin.

5 And ye have totally forgotten the
entreaty which is spoken to you as to
sons, My son, neglect not the instruc-
tion of the Lord, nor be enervated he-
ing rebuked by him:

6 For whom the Lord loves he cor-
rects, and he chastises every son
which he receives.

7 If ye endure correction, God
treats you as sons; for who is the son
which the father corrects not?

8 And if ye are without correc-
tion, of which all are partakers, then
are ye spurious, not sons.

9 Since we truly have fathers of our
flesh instructors, and we were influ-
enced: shall we not rather bein sub-
jection to the Father of spirits, and we
shall live?

10 For they truly for afew days,
according as it seemed to them, cor-
rected; but he for profit, in order to
partake in his holiness.

11 And truly every correction for
the present seems not to be for joy,
but grief: and later it returns the
peaceful fruit of justice to them be-
ing exercised by it.

12 Wherefore set upright the re-
laxed hands, and palsied knees;

13 And make straight wheel-ruts to
your feet, lest the lame thing be
turned aside; and it should rather be
healed.

14 Follow peace with all, and con-
secration, without which none shall
see the Lord:

15 Observing narrowly lest any be
failing of the grace of God: lest any

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root of bitterness springing forth aloft
give trouble, and by this many be de-
tiled ;

16 Lest any fornicator, or profane,
as Esau, who for one act of eating
sold his primogeniture.

17 For ye know also afterwards,
wishing to inherit the praise, he was
disapproved of: for he found no place
for a change of mind, although having
sought it with tears.

18 For ye have not come to the
mount being handled, and burned with
fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness,
and to a violent storm,

19 And to the sound of the trum-
pet, and the voice’ of words; which
they, having heard, implored that the
word be not put before them:

20 (For they did not bear that being
assigned, And if a beast should touch
the mountain, it shall be stoned, or
shall be pierced with a missile weapon:

21 And so dreadful was that being
made to appear, Moses said, I am ter-
rified and trembling: )

22 But ye have come to mount Sion,
and to the city of the living God,
heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of
angels,

23 To the assembly of people, and
church of the firstborn, transcribed in
the heavens, and to God the Judge of
all, and to the spirits of the just per-
fected,

24 And to Jesus the mediator of
the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, speaking better things than
Abel.

25 See that ye refuse not him speak-
ing. For if they escaped not, having
refused him giving an intimation of
the divine will on earth, much more
we, who having turned back from him
from the heavens:

26 Whose voice ‘then shook the
earth: and now he has proclaimed,
saying, Yet once more I shake not the
earth only, but also the heaven.

97 And the Yet once more, makes
manifest the transferring the things
shaken, as of things made, that the
things not being shaken might remain.

28 Wherefore we receiving a king-
dom unmoved, we should have grace

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by which we might serve God accept-
ably, with reverence and circumspec-
tion :

29 For also our God isa consuming
fire.

CHAPTER XIII.
(ee brotherly love remain.

2 Forget not hospitality: for by
this some knew not having treated
angels with friendship.

3 Remember them ת1‎ bonds as
bound together with them; them
treated ill, as the same being in the
body.

4 Marriage honoured in all, and the
bed unpolluted: but fornicators and
adulterers God will judge.

5 The disposition exempt from ava-
rice; being contented with present
circumstances: for he has said, 1 will
not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

6 So that being confident, we say,
The Lord aiding me, and I will not
fear what man will do to me.

7 Remember them guiding you,
who spake to you the word of God:
of whom, observing narrowly the
issue of the mode of life, imitate the
faith:

8 Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day
the same, and for ever.

9 With various and strange teachings
be not carried about. For good the
heart be rendered firm by grace; not
by food, in which they having walked
about were not profited.

10 We have an altar, of which they
serving the tent have no power to eat.

11 For of whom the blood of the
living ones is brought for sin into the
holies by the chief priest, the bodies
" of these are burned without the camp.

12 Wherefore also Jesus, that he
might consecrate the people by his
own blood, suffered without the camp.

13 Therefore we should come to

MOM.

him without the camp, bearing his
reproach.

14 For here have we no abiding
city, but we seek that about to be.

15 By him therefore we should
always bring up the sacrifice of praise
to God, that is, the fruit of the lips
assenting to his name.

16 And the doing good and mutual
participation forget not; for with such
sacrifices God is well pleased.

17 Believe them guiding you, and
yield: (for they watch vigilantly for
your souls, as going to return the word,)
that with joy they might do this, and
not lamenting: for this unprofitable
for you.

18 Pray for us: for we have trust-
ed that we have a good consciousness,
in all things wishing to be well occu-
pied.

19 And I beseech the more abundant-
ly to do this, that I might the more
speedily be restored to you.

20 And the God of peace, having
brought up from the dead, the great
Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood
of the eternal covenant, our Lord
Jesus Christ,

21 Put you in proper order in every
good work for doing his will, doing in
you the thing pleasing before him, by
Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the
time of times. Amen.

22 And I beseech you, brethren,
hold up the word of entreaty: for I
also sent to you in a few words,

23 Ye know the brother Timothy
having been set at liberty ; with whom,
if he come more speedily, I shall see
you.
| 24 Greet all them guiding you, and
all the holy.

25 They from Italy greet you. Grace
with you all. Amen.

4 It was written to the Hebrews from Italy
by Timothy.

JAMES.

CHAPTER I.

AMES, servant of God and the

Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve
tribes in the dispersion, health.

2 Deem all joy, my brethren, when
ye fall into various trials ;

3 Knowing that the proof of your
faith works patience.

4 And let patience have a perfect
work, that ye be perfect and entire,
being left behind in nothing.

5 If any of you is forsaken of wis-
dom, let him ask of God, giving to all
plainly, blaming not; and it shall be
given him.

6 And let him ask in faith, being at
variance in nothing. For he being at
variance is like the surge of the sea be-
ing moved by the wind and put in
motion.

7 For let not that man think that he
shall receive any thing of the Lord.

8 A man divided in opinion unsteady
in all his ways. :

9 And let the humble brother boast
in his elevation :

10 And the rich, in his humiliation:
for as the flower of the grass he shall
pass by.

11 For the sun sprang up with heat,
and dried up the grass, and its flower
fell out, and the decorum of its face
was destroyed: so also shall the rich
be dried up in his goings.

12 Happy the man who endures
temptation: for being tried, he shall
receive the crown of life, which the
Lord promised to them loving him.

13 Let none say being tempted, that
Iam tempted of God: for God is not
tempted of evils, and he tempts none:

14 And each is tempted from his
own lust, being drawn out, and decoy-
ed.

15 So then lust conceiving, brings
forth sin: and sin performed, pro-
duces death.

16 Be not led astray, my dearly be-
loved brethren.

17 Every good donation and every

perfect gift is from above, coming
down from the Father of lights, with
whom not one change, or shadow of
turning.

18 ΠΣ willed he brought forth
by the word of truth, for us to be
some first fruit of his creatures.

19 Wherefore, my dearly beloved
brethren, let every man be quick to
hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

20 For man’s anger works not the
justice of God.

21 Wherefore having put away all
sordid avarice, and excess of wicked-
ness, in meekness receive the implant-
ed word, able to save your souls.

22 And be doers of the word, and
not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

23 For if.any 18 8 hearer of the word,
and not a doer, he is like a man ob-
serving the face of his creation in a
mirror :

24 For he observed himself, and
went away, and straightway forgot of
what kind he was.

25 And he having stooped into the
perfect law of liberty, and remained,
he being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of work, he shall be happy in his’
doing. J

26 If any among you seem to be re-
ligious, bridling not his tongue, but
deceiving his heart, the religion of this
one vain.

27 Religion pure and unpolluted
before God and the Father is this, To
take a view of the orphans and widows
in their pressure, to keep himself free
from stain from the world.

CHAPTER II.
Y brethren, have not the faith of
our Lord Jesus Christ, of glory,
with distinction of faces.

2 For if there come into your syna-
gogue a man wearing gold rings on
his fingers, in brilliant clothing, and
there come in also a beggar in filthy
clothing ;

3 And ye look toward him bearing

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the brilliant clothing, and ye say to
him, Sit thou well here; and to the
beggar ye say, Stand thou there, or
sit here under my footstool:

4 Were ye not separated’ among
yourselves, and become judges of evil
reflections / .

5 Hear, my dearly beloved brethren,
Has not God chosen the beggars of
this world rich in faith, and heirs of
the kingdom which he has promised to
them loving him ?

6 And ye have despised the beggar.
Do not the rich bring you into sub-
jection, and draw you before tri-
bunals ?

7 And do they not defame the good
name called upon you?

8 If yet ye complete the royal law
according to the writing, Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do
well:

9 And if ye make distinction of
faces, ye work sin, being convicted
under the Jaw as transgressors.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole
law, and stumble in one, has become
bound of all.

11 For he having said, Thou should-
est not commit adultery, said also,
Thou shouldest not kill: and if thou
commit not adultery, and dost kill,
thou hast become a transgressor 01 6
law.

12 So speak ye, and so do, as about
to be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For unpropitiated judgment to
him not doing merey; and mercy
boasteth against judgment.

14 And what protit, my brethren,
if any say he has faith, and should not
have works? can faith save him ?

15 And if a brother or sister be
naked, and be failing of daily food,

16 And any of you say to them, Re-
tire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye
fed; and ye give them not things fit-
ting the body ; what profit ?

17 So also faith, if it have not works,
is dead by itself.

18 But certain will say, Thou hast
faith, and I have works: show me thy
faith without thy works, and I will
show thee my faith from my works.

19 Thou _ believest that there is one

God; thou 00686 well: and the evil
spirits believe, and shudder.

20 And wilt thou know, O empty
map, that faith without works is dead ἢ

21 Was not Abraham our father
justified by works, having brought up
18886 his son upon the altar ?

22 Thou seest that faith codperated
with his works, and from works was
faith perfected.

23 And the writing was completed,
saying, And Abraham believed God,
and it was reckoned to him for justice :
and he was 681160 the Friend of God.

24 Therefore ye see that man is
justified from works, and not from
faith alone.

25 And likewise also was not Rahab
the harlot justified by works, having
received the messengers, and cast out
by another way ἢ

26 Fer as the body without the
spirit is dead, so also faith without
works is dead.

CHAPTER III.
lee ye not many teachers, my breth-
ren, knowing that we shall receive
the greater judgment.

2 For in many things we all stumble.
If any stumble not in word, this a
perfect man, able to govern by a
bridle also the whole body.

3 Behold, we put bits in the horses’
mouths, that they should yield to us;
and we lead their whole body.

4 Behold also ships, being so great,
and driven by hard winds, are led by
the smallest rudder, wherever the de-
sire of him steering should will.

5 So also the tongue is a small
member, and vaunts itself. Behold,
how great a wood a little fire in-
flames !

6 (And the tongue a fire, a world of
iniquity:) so the tongue is placed in
our members, defiling the whole body,
and burning the wheel of creation;
and burned by hell.

7 For every nature of beasts, and
also of birds, of creeping things, and
also of things in the sea, is tamed,
and has been tamed by the nature of

‘man:

8 And the tongue none of men can

JAMES IIL, IV, V.

tame; an ungovernable evil, full of
deadly poison.

9 With it we praise the God and
Father; and with it we curse men,
those made according to the similitude
of God.

10 Out of the same mouth comes
forth blessing and cursing. There is no
need, my brethren, for these things so
to be.

11 Much less from the same aper-
ture does a fountain bubble out sweet
and bitter ?

12 The fig tree, my brethren, can-
not make olives, or the vine, figs: so no
fountain can make salt and sweet water.

13 Who wise and knowing among
you? let him show out of a good
mode of life his works in meekness
of wisdom.

14 And if ye have bitter envy and
intrigue in your heart, boast not, and
lie not against the truth.

15 This is wisdom coming not down
from above, but ‘earthly, natural,
resembling an evil spirit. ἡ

16 For where envy and intrigue,
there confusion and every bad deed.

17 And the wisdom from above is
truly first pure, then peaceful, deco-
rous, docile, full of mercy and good
fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

18 And the fruit of justice is sown
in peace by those making peace.

CHAPTER IV.
HENCE wars and fights among
you? are they not hence, out ot
your sensual pleasures making war in
your members ?

2 Ye eagerly desire, and have not:
ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot
succeed: ye fight and wage war, and
ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because
ye ask wickedly that ye might expend
upon your sensual pleasures.

4 Adulterers and adulteresses, know
ye not that the friendship of the world
is the enmity of God? whoever there-
fore would wish to be the friend of
the world is set the enemy of God.

5 Or think ye that the writing says
vainly, That the spirit longs for
envy, which dwelt in us?

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6 And he gives greater grace.
Wherefore he says, God resists the
proud, but gives grace to the humble.

7 Be subjected therefore to God.
Resist the accuser, and he will flee
from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will
draw near to you. Cleanse the hands,
ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye
double souled.

9 Toil, and mourn, and weep: let
your laughter be turned to mourning,
and joy to dejection.

10 Be ye humbled before the Lord,
and he will lift you up.

11 Speak not against one another,
brethren. He speaking against a broth-
er, and judging his brother, speaks
against the law, and judges the law:
and if thou judge the law, thou art
ποῦ a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one legislator, able to
save and to destroy: who art thou
that judgest another ¢

13 Come on now, ye saying, To day
or to morrow let us go to this city,
and do there one year, and let us trade,
and derive profit :

14 ( Which know not that of the
morrow. For what your life? For it
isa steam, appearing for a little, and
then invisible.)

15 For you should say, If the Lord
will, and we live, and should do this,
or that.

16 And now ye boast in your arro-
gance: all such boasting is evil.

17 Therefore to him knowing to do
good, and not doing, to him it is sin.

CHAPTER V.
6, on now, ye rich, weep, utter-
ing loud 69108 of grief for the
misfortunes coming upon you.

2 Your riches have become corrupt-
ed, and your garments have been
moth-eaten ;

3 Your gold and silver is become
rusty ; and their rust shall be for a wit-
ness to you, and shall eat your flesh as
fire. Ye have gathered up treasures
in the last days.

4 Behold, the hire of laborers hav-
ing reaped your farms, withheld by
you, cries out, and the cries of the

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reapers have entered into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth.

5 Ye have led a luxurious life upon
the earth, and have rioted in luxury ;
ye have nourished your hearts, as in
the day of slaughter.

6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed
the just one; and he resists you not.

7 Therefore be longsuffering, breth-
ren, even to the arrival of the Lord.
Behold, the farmer awaits the precious
| fruit of the earth, being longsuffering
for it, even till he should receive the
early and late rain.

8 Be longsuffering, ye also; make
your hearts firm: for the arrival of the
Lord has drawn near.

9 Groan not against one another,
brethren, that ye be not condemned:
behold, the judge stands before the
door. 3

10 Take a pattern of affliction, my
brethren, and of longsuffering, the
prophets, who spake in the name of
the Lord.

11 Behold, we esteem those endur-
ing happy. Ye have heard of the
patience of Job, and-ye see the end of
the Lord; that the Lord is very com-
passionate and merciful.

12 And before all things, my breth-
ren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor
by earth, nor any other oath: and let
your yea be yea; and nay, nay; that
ye fall not under judgment.

JAMES V.

13 Does any suffer among you? let
him pray. Is any cheerful? let him
play on the harp.

14 Is any sick among you? let him
call for the elders of the church; and
let them pray over him, having anoint-
ed him with oil in the name of the
Lord :

15 And the prayer of faith shall
save him being sick, and the Lord will
raise him up; and if he should have
wrought sins, it shall be remitted to
him. .

16 Acknowledge your faults to one
another, and pray for one another, that
ye might be healed. The prayer of
the just, being energetic, is very pow-
erful.

17 Elias was a man haying similar
feelings with us, and in prayer he
prayed for it not to rain: and it rained
not upon the earth for three years and
six months.

18 And again he prayed, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth shot
forth her fruit.

19 Brethren, if any among you be
led astray from the truth, and any
should turn him back ;

20 Let him know, that he having
turned the sinful from the error of lis
way shall save a soul from death, and
shall cover a multitude of sins.

Ge lables.‏ ד

CHAPTER I.
es sent of Jesus Christ, to
the chosen strangers of the dis-
persion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappado-
cia, Asia, and Bithynia,

2 According to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, in the consecra-
tion of the Spirit, to obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be
multiplied.

3 Praised the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, who according
to his great mercy having begotten us
again toa living hope, by the rising
up of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and unfading, kept in
the heavens for us,

5 Who by the power of God watch-
ing ourselves by faith to salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.

i BETER? 1 I.

6 By which ye are transported with
joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,)
aving grieved in various temptations:
7 That the proof of your faith,
much more precious than perishing
gold, and being tried by fire, might be
found to praise and honour and glory
at the revelation of Jesus Christ :

8 Whom not having seen, ye love;
in whom,now not seeing, but believing,
ye are transported with joy unaltera-
ble, and highly valued :

9 Receiving the end of your faith,
the salvation of souls.

10 For which salvation the proph-
ets sought and inquired anxiously,
they having prophesied of the grace
to you:

11 Searching for whom or what
time the Spirit of Christ which in
them manifested, testifying before-
hand the sufferings to Christ, and the
glories after these.

12 To whom it was revealed, that
not to themselves, but to us they were
serving these things, which now have
been again proclaimed to you by
> them having announced the good news
in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven ;
into which angels eagerly desire to
stoop and creep.

13 Wherefore having girded up the
loins of your mind, living abstemious-
ly, hope perfectly upon the grace
brought to you in the revelation of
Jesus Christ;

14 As children of obedience, not as
formerly conforming yourselves to
eager desire in your ignorance :

15 But according to the holy one
calling you, also should ye yourselves
be holy in all turning back ;

16 For it has been written, Be ye
holy ; for I am holy.

17 And if ye call upon the Father,
judging without distinction of persons
according to the work of each, in fear
be occupied in the time of your so-
journing :

18 Knowing that not with corrupti-
ble things, silver and gold, were ye re-
deemed from your yain mode of life
transmitted from your fathers;

19 But with precious blood, as of a
lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ :

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20 Known truly before the founda-
tion of the world, and made manifest
in the last times for you,

21 Who by him believing in God,
having raised him from the dead, and
having given him glory; that your
faith and hope should be in God.

22 Waving purified your souls in the
hearing of the truth by the Spirit to
unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure
hearts love ye one another cordially :

23 Begotten again, not of corrupted
seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of
God, living and remaining forever.

24 For all flesh as grass, and all the
glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass dried up, and the flower fell
out:

25 And the word of the Lord re-
mains forever. And thisis the word
having announced good news to you.

CHAPTER II.
HEREFORE setting aside all
wickedness, and all artifice, and
dissimulations, and envies, and all cal-
umnies,

2 As new born babes, long for the
sincere milk pertaining to the word,
that ye might be nourished with it:

31f ye have tasted’that the Lord is
good.

4 To whom approaching, a living
stone, truly disapproved of by men, and
chosen by God, highly valued,

5 And ye yourselves are built, as 117-
ing stones, a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to bring up spiritual sacri-
fices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ.

6 Wherefore also it holds in the
writing, Behold, I place in Zion a cor-
ner stone, chosen, highly valued: and
he believing on him shall not be
ashamed.

7 Therefore honour to you believ-
ing: and to the unbelieving, the stone
which the builders disapproved of has
become the head of the corner,

8 And a stone of stumble, and rock
of offence, they disbelieving the word
stumble: to which also they were set.

9 And ye a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for
acquisition ; so that ye should proclaim

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the excellencies of him having called
you out of darkness into his wonderful
light :

10 Who once not a people, and now
the people of God: they not commis-
erated, and now commiserated.

11 Dearly beloved, I beseech as so-
journers and strangers, to keep off from
fleshly passions, which war against
the soul;

12 Having your turning back good
in the nations: that, in what they speak
against you as doing evil, from good
works, they having beheld, might
praise God in the day of inspection.

13 Be subjected to every creation
proceeding trom man on account of
the Lord: whether to the king, as hay-
ing superiority ;

14 Or to chiefs, as sent by him for
the punishing of them doing evil, and
the praise of them doing good.

15 (For so is the will of God, those
doing good to silence the want of
knowledge of the foolish men :)

_ 16 As free, and as not having liberty
fora covering of wickedness, but as
the servants of God.

17 Honour all. Love the brother-
hood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Servants being subjected to mas-
ters in allfear; not only to the good
aud equitable, but also to the crooked.

19 For this is grace, if any by con-
sciousness of God bear grief, suffering
unjustly.

20 For what glory, if, sinning and
being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing
good, and suffering, ye endure, this is
grace with God.

21 For to this were ye ealled: for
also Christ suffered for you, leaving
behind to you an underwriting, that
ye should follow upon his footsteps :

22 Who did no sin, nor was deceit
found in his mouth:

23 Who, being reviled, reviled not
back ; suffering, he threatened not ; and
delivered to him judging justly ;

24 Who himself bear up our sins in
his body upon the wood, that we, re-
moved from sins, should live to jus-
tice : by whose bloody mark ye were
healed.

25 For ye were as sheep going|

I. PETER 11 III.

astray ; but now have turned about to
the Shepherd and inspector of your
souls.

CHAPTER III.
IKEWISE, wives, being subject
to their own husbands; that also,
if any believe not the word, by the
turning back of wives might be gain-
ed without the word ;

2 Having beheld in fear your pure
turning back.

3 Whose outside let it not be of the
interweaving of hairs, and of putting
round of gold, or of putting on of gar-
ments, the arrangement ;

4 But the hidden man of the heart,
in the uncorruptedness of a mild and
quiet spirit, which is before God of
great price.

5 For so once also the holy women,
hoping in God, arranged themselves,
being subjected to their own husbands:

6 (As Sara listened to Abraham,
calling him lord: whose children ye
are, ) doing good, and not fearing any
terror.

7 Men, likewise, dwelling together
according to knowledge, as showing
honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining
to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace
of life; that your prayers be not cut
off.

8 And finally, all unanimous, suffer-
ing together, loving the brethren, hay-
ing good bowels, an affectionate dispo-
sition :

9 Not returning evil for evil, or rail-
ing for railing: and on the contrary
prayer; knowing that to this were ye
called, that ye might inherit praise.

10 For he wishing to love life, and
to see good days, let him cause his
tongue to cease from evil, and his lips
from speaking deceit:

11 Let him bend away from evil,
and do good; let him seek peace, and
follow it.

12 For the eyes of the Lord upon
the just, and his ears to their prayer:
and the face of the Lord against them
doing evil.

13 And who going to injure you, if
ye be imitators of good ?

14 But if ye also suffer for justice,

I, PETER IIL, IV.

happy are ye: be not afraid of their
fear, neither be troubled ;

15 And consecrate the Lord God in
your hearts: and being ready always
for a justification to every one asking
you the word of the hope in you with
meekness and fear :

19 Having a good consciousness ;
that, in what they speak evil against
you, as doing evil, they threatening
your good turning round in Christ
should be ashamed.

17 For better, doing good, if the will
of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

18 For Christ also once suffered for
sins, the just one for the unjust, that
he might bring us near to God, truly
put to death in the flesh, and made
alive by the Spirit :

19 In which also having gone, he
proclaimed to the spirits in prison ;

20 They having been once unbe-
lieving, when the longsuffering of
God waited in Noah’s days, the ark
being prepared, in which few, that is,
eight souls were saved by water.

21 By which also the figure, immer-
sion, now saves us (not by laying aside
of the filth of the flesh, but the ques-
tion of a good consciousness toward
God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ :

22 Who is on the right hand of
God, having gone into heaven; angels
and authorities and powers subjected
to him.

CHAPTER IV.
HEREFORE Christ having suffer-
edfor us in the flesh, also arm
ye yourselves with the same mind:
(for he having suffered in the flesh
has ceased from sin 5)

2 That no more to the eager desires
of men, but to the will of God, should
he live the remaining time in the
flesh.

3 For the time of life passed over
suilicient for us to have wrought the
will of the nations, having gone in
licentiousness, eager desires, drunken-
ness, revellings, drinkings, and crimi-
nal idolatries :

4 In which they are astonished, you
not running together in the same pour-
ing out of lavish expense, blasphem-
ing:

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5 Who shall return the word to him
holding in readiness to judge the liv-
ing and the dead.

6 For also for this was the good
news announced to the dead, that truly
they might be judged according to
men in the flesh, and live according to
God in the spirit.

7 And the end of all has drawn
near: be ye therefore of sound mind,
and live abstemiously in prayers.

8 More than all having intent- love
among yourselves: for love shall cover
a multitude of sins.

9 Being hospitable to one another
without murmurings.

10 As each received favor, serving
the same among yourselves, as good
stewards of the manifold grace of
God.

11 If any speak, as the oracles of
God; if any serve, as of the strength
which God furnishes: that in all God
might be praised by Jesus Christ, in
whom is the glory and strength for
the time of times. Amen.

12 Dearly beloved, be not astonished
at the refining of fire in you, being for
trial to you, asa strange thing hap-
pening to you:

13 But, inasmuch as ye participate
in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice;
that also, in the revelation of his glory,
ye might rejoice, transported with
joy.
14 If ye be reproached in the name
of Christ, ye happy ; for the spirit of
glory and of God rests upon you: by
them truly he is defamed, and by you
he is praised.

15 For let not any of you sufferasa
murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as
an inspector, in what pertains to others.

16 And if asa Christian, let him not
beashamed ; and let him praise God in
this portion.

17 For the time for judgment to
have begun from the house of God:
and if first from us, what the end of
them not believing the good tidings of
God?

18 And if the just one with difficul-
ty be saved, where shall the irreligious
and sinful appear ?

19 Therefore let them also suffering
according to the will of God commit

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their souls in doing good, as to a faith-
ful Creator.

CHAPTER V.
HE elders among you I beseech, a
fellow elder, and witness of the
sufferings of Christ, and a participa-
tor of the glory which is about to be
revealed :

2Tend the flock of God which
among you, inspecting, not by force,
but voluntarily; neither occupied in
sordid gain, but of a ready will;

3 Neither as ruling over the por-
tions obtained by lot, but being types
of the flock.

4 And the chief Shepherd having
been manifested, ye shall be attired
with an unfading crown of glory.

5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject-
ed to the elders. And all being subject
to one another, be wrapped up in hu-
mility : for God opposes the proud,
and gives grace to the humble.

6 Therefore be humbled under the
strong hand of God, that he might lift
you up in due measure:

7 Having cast all your care upon

I. PETER IV., V.

him ; for to him is the care for you.

8 Be abstemious, watch; for your
adversary the accuser, as a roaring
lion, walks around, seeking whom he
might swallow down:

9 Whom resist firm in the faith,
knowing that the same of sufferings
are completed by your brotherhood in
the world.

10 And the God of all grace, having
called us to his eternal glory in Christ
Jesus, may he put you in proper order,
having suffered a little time, may
he support you, make firm, lay the
foundation.

11 To him the glory and the
strength for the time of times. Amen.

12 By Silvanus, to you the faithful
brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly,
beseeching, and bearing testimony
this to be the true grace of God in
which ye stand.

13 The chosen together in Babylon,
greet you; also Marcus my son.

14 Greet one another in a kiss of
love. Peace to all you which in Christ
Jesus. Amen.

II. PETER.

CHAPTER I.
IMON Peter, servant and sent of
Jesus Christ, to them having re-
ceived by inheritance equally hon-
oured faith with us in the justice of our
God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

2 May grace and peace be multiplied
to you in the knowledge of God, and
of Jesus our Lord,

3 As his divine power having be-
stowed upon us all things which for
life and devotion, by the knowledge
of him haying called us by glory and
fitness :

4 (By which the greatest and pre-
cious promises are bestowed upon us:
that by these ye might be participa-
tors of the divine nature, having es-

caped from the corruption in the world
through eager desires.)

5 And also this same, having brought
in at the side all earnestness, furnish
in addition in your faith fitness; and
in fitness knowledge ;

6 And in knowledge self-control;
and in self-control patience; and in
patience devotion ;

7 And in devotion brotherly love;
and in brotherly love, love.

8 For these being to you, and
abounding, they establish you not with-
out effort, neither unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For in whom these are not pres-
ent, he is blind, being affected with
shortness of sight, having taken for-

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getfulness of the cleansing formerly οἵ" tion, and denying the master having

his sins.

10 Wherefore rather, brethren, be
earnest to have your calling and selec-
tion made firm: for doing these, ye
should not once stumble :

11 For so shall an entrance be fur-
nished richly to you in addition into
the eternal kingdom of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.

12 Wherefore I will not neglect to
remind you always of these things,
though having known, and being sup-

orted in the present truth.

13 And I deem just, in as far as I
am in this tent, to arouse you by put-
ting in mind;

14 Knowing that the laying aside of
my.tent is swift, as also our Lord
Jesus Christ manifested to me.

15 And I shall also be earnest for
you always to have, after my exit, this
putting in mind to be done.

16 For not having followed ingen-
iously contrived fictions, we made
known to you the power and presence
01 our Lord Jesus Christ, but having
been spectators of his majesty.

17 For having received from God
the Father honour and glory, and such
a voice brought to him froin the mag-
nificent glory, This is my dearly be-
loved Son, in whom I was contented.

18 And this voice brought from
heaven we heard, being with him in
the holy mountain.

19 And we have the prophetic word
more firm; which holding to, ye do
well, as to a light shining in a dusty
place, even till the day shine through,
and the morning star spring up in
your hearts:

20 Knowing this first, that every
prophecy of the writing is not of pri-
vate solution.

21 For prophecy was not once
brought by the will of man: but holy
men of God spake, being moved by
the Holy Spirit.

CHAPTER II.
κοῦ; also were there false prophets
among the people, as also among
you shall be false teachers, who shall
privately bring in doctrines of perdi-

purchased them, having brought upon
themselves swift destruction.

2(And many shall follow their
licentiousness ; by whom the “way of
truth shall be defamed.)

3 And by covetousness with feigned
words shall trade in you: to whom
judgment since a long while is not in-
active, and their perdition sleeps not.

4 For if God spared not the angels
having sinned, but delivered up, hurled
into Tartarus, to cords of darkness,
having been kept for judgment ;

5 And spared not the old world,
but Noah the eighth, a herald of jus-
tice, he watched, having brought an
inundation upon the world of the irre-
ligious ;

6 And the cities of Sodom and Go-
morrha having reduced to ashes, con-
demned with a catastrophe, a pattern
set to them about to act irreligiously ;

7 And just Lot, being harassed by
the licentiousness of the lawless for
the turning back, he delivered:

8 (For the just one in seeing and
hearing, dwelling among them, from
day to day tried the just soul with
lawless works ;)

9 The Lord knows to deliver the re-
ligious out of temptation, and to keep
the unjust restrained for the day of
judgment ;

10 And chiefly them going after the
flesh in eager desire of defilement, and
despising dominion. Self-sufficient,
rash men, they tremble not, defaming
glories.

11 Where angels, being greater in
strength and power, bring not defaming
judgment against them to the Lord.

12 But these, as natural irrational
living creatures, having been for catch-
ing and destroying, defaming in what
things they are ignorant of ; and shall
be destroyed in their corruption ;

13 Receiving the reward of injus-
tice, deeming luxurious indulgence
pleasure in the day. Spots and blem-
ishes, rioting in their deceits, feasting
together with you ;

14 Having eyes full of an adulteress,
not ceasing from sin ; decoying unsta-
ble souls: having a heart exercised

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with
curse :

15 Having forsaken the straight way,
they were led astray, having followed
in the*way of Balaam son of Bosor,
who loved the reward of injustice ;

16 And he had reprehension for his
own iniquity: the dumb ass speaking
in man’s voice impeded the insanity
of the prophet.

17 These are fountains wanting wa-
ter, clouds impelled by a hurricane;
for whom the obscurity of darkness
has been kept forever.

18 For speaking excessive things of
vanity, they decoy with the eager de-
sires of the flesh, for licentiousness,
them haying truly escaped from those
turned back in error.

19 Promising them liberty, they be-
ing servants of corruption: for by
whom any 18 conquered, by him has he
been made to serve.

20 For if having eseaped the pollu-
tions of the world by the knowledge
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
and again entangling with these, they
be conquered, the last things have been
to them worse than the first.

21 For it was better for them not to
have known the way of justice, than,
having known, to turn back from the
holy command delivererd to them.

22 And that of the true proverb has
happened to them, The dog having
turned back to his own vomit; and the
sow having been washed to the rolling
of the mire.

CHAPTER III.
OW this, dearly beloved, the sec-
ond epistle 1 write to you; in
which I awaken your pure mind by
putting in remembrance :
2To remember the words spoken
before by the holy prophets, and the
command of us the sent of the Lord
and Saviour:

3 Knowing this first, that in the last
of the days shall mockers come for de-
ceiving, going according to their own
eager desires,

4 And saying, Where is the solemn
promise of his presence? for from the
time the fathers were set to sleep, so

covetousness ;

I]. PETER. Τ|.; II.

children of a] continue all things from the beginning

of creation.

5 For being willing this is unknown
to them, that the heavens were a long
while ago, and the earth having stood
out of water and by water, by the
word of God:

6 By which then the world, over-
flowed with water, perished:

7 And now the heavens and the
earth, by the same word are stored up,
being kept for fire to the day of judg-
ment and of the perdition of irrelig-
ious men.

8 And let not this one thing be un-
known to you, dearly beloved, that one
day with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord puts not off the solemn
promise, as some deem slowness; but
is longsuffering to us, not willing any
to perish, but all should have room for
repentance.

10 And the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night ; in which
the heavens shall pass away with a
loud noise, and the elements, suffering
from excessive heat, shall be dissolved,
and the earth and the works in it shall
be burned down.

11 Therefore all these being dis-
solved, of what race ought ye to be in
holy turning round and devotion,

12 Expecting and seeking earnestly
the presence of the day of God, during
which the heavens being on fire shall
be dissolved, and the elements going to
be burned are melted away ?

13 But we expect new heavens and
anew earth, according to promise, in
which dwells justice.

14 Wherefore, dearly beloved, ex-
pecting these, be earnest, spotless and
blameless, to be found by him in

eace.

15 And the longsuffering of our Lord
deem ye salvation ; as also our dearly
beloved brother Paul, according to the
wisdom given him, wrote to you ;

16 As also in all the epistles, speak-
ing in them of these things ; in which
are some things difficult to understand,
which the unlearned and unstable per-
vert, as also the rest of the writings,
to their own perdition.

II. PETER 11.

17 You therefore, dearly beloved,

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18 And grow ye in the grace and

knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led| knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
away by theerror of the lawless, ye fall | Jesus Christ. To him the glory now

from your own stability.

and to the day of eternity. Amen.

CHAPTER I.
HAT was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which
we have מ800‎ with our eyes, which we
beheld, and our own hands felt, con-
cerning the word of life;

2 (And the life was manifested, and
we have seen, and we testify, and an-
nounce to you the eternal life, which
was with the Father, and was mani-
fested to us;)

3 What we have seen and heard we
announce to you, that ye also might
have communion with the Father, and
with his Son Jesus Christ.

4 And these we write to you, that
your joy might be filled up.

5 And this isthe message which we
have heard from him, and we announce
to you, that God is light, and no dark-
ness is in him.

6 If we say that we have commun-
ion with him, and walk in darkness,
we are deceived, and do not the truth:

7 But if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have communion
with one another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ cleanses us from every
sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not
in us.

9 If we acknowledge our sins, he is
faithful and just that he let go sins to
us, and cleanse us from all injustice.

10 If we say that we have not sin-
ned, we make him a liar, and his word
is not in us.

CHAPTER II.
Y little children, I write these to
you, that ye sin not. And if

any sin, we have an intercessor with
the Father, Jesus Christ the just :

2 And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for ours only, but also
for the whole world.

3 And in this we know that we
have known him, if we should keep his
commands.

4 He saying, I have known him, and
not keeping his commands, is a liar, and
in him is not the truth.

5 Whoever should keep his word,
truly in him has the word of God
been completed: in this we know that
we are in him.

6 He saying he remains in him
ought, as he walked about, so also he to
walk about.

7 Brethren, I write no new com-
mand to you, but an old command
which ye had from the beginning.
The old command is the word which

‘ye heard from the beginning.

8 Again, I write a new command
to you, which is true in him and in
you: for the darkness is passed away,
and the true light already shines.

9 He saying he is in the light, and
hating his brother, is in the darkness
even until now.

10 He loving his brother remains in
light, and there is no stumbling-block
in him.

11 And he hating his brother is in
darkness, and walks about in darkness,
and knows not where he goes forward,
for darkness has blinded his eyes.

121 write to you, little children,
for your sins are let go for his name.

13 I write to you, fathers, for ye
have known him from the beginning.
I write to you, young men, for ye

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have conquered the evil. I write to
you, young children, for ye’ have
known the Father.

141 wrote to you, fathers, for
ye have known him from the begin-
ning. I wrote to you, young men, for
ye are strong, and the word of God
remains in you, and ye have conquered
the evil.

15 Love not the world, nor the
things in the world. If any love the
world, the love of the Father is not
in him.

16 For every thing which in the
world, the eager desire of the flesh, and
the eager desire of the eyes, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father, but
is of the world.

17 And the world passes away, and
its eager desires: but he doing the
will of God remains for ever.

18 Young children, it is the last
hour: and as ye have heard that anti-
christ comes, and now many antichrists
have come; whence we know that it
is the last hour.

19 They went out from us, but they
were not of us: for if they had been
of us, they had remained with us, but,
that they might be manifested, that
they are not all of us.

20 And ye have an anointing from
the Holy One, and know all things.

21 I have not written to you because
ye know not the truth, but because
ye know it, and that no lie is of the
truth.

22 Who isa liar if not he denying
that Jesus is the Christ? He is anti-
christ, denying the Father and the
Son.

23 Every one denying the Son,
neither has the Father : he acknowledg-
ing the Son, has also the Father.

24 What therefore ye have heard
from the beginning, let remain in you.
If it remain in you what ye heard
from the beginning, ye also shall
remain in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise which
he promised us, eternal life.

26 These I wrote to you concerning
them deceiving you.

27 And the anointing which ye
received from him remains tn you,

I. JOHN IL, ΠΙ.

and ye have no need that any teach
you: but as the same anointing
teaches you of all things, and is true,
and is no lie, and as it taught you, ye
shall remain in him.

28 And now, little children, remain
in him; that, when he be manifested,
we might have freedom of speech,
that we be not shamed from him in
his presence.

29 If ye know that he is just, ye
know that every one doing justice has
been born of him.

CHAPTEP III.
EE ye, what kinu of love the
Father has given us, that we
should be 681160 the children of God:
for this the world knows us not, for
it knew him not.

2 Dearly beloved, now are we the
children of God, and it has not yet
been manifested what we shall be:
and we know that, if he be manifested,
we shall be like him; for we shall see
him as he is.

3 And every one having this hope
in him purifies himself, as he himself
is pure.

4 Every one doing sin also does
lawlessness ; for sin is lawlessness.

5 And ye know that he was mani-
fested that he might let go our sins;
and in him is no sin.

6 Every one remaining in him sins
not: every one sinning has not seen
him, nor known him.

7 Little children, let none deceive
you: he doing justice is just, as he is
just.

8 He doing sin is of the accuser;
for the accuser sins from the begin-
ning. For this was the Son of God
manifested, that he might loose the
works of the accuser.

9 Every one born of God does not
sin; for his seed remains in him: and
he cannot sin, for he has been born
of God.

10 In this the children of God are
manifest, and the children of the ac-
cuser: every one not doing justice is
not of God, and he not loving his
brother.

11 For this is the message that ye

I. JOHN IIL, IV.

heard from the beginning, that we
should love one another.

12 Not as Cain was of the evil one,
and slew his brother. And for what
slew he him? Because his works were
evil, and those of his brother just.

13 Be not amazed, my brethren, if
the world hate you.

14 We know that we have passed
from death to life, for we love the
brethren. He not loving the brother
remains in death.

15 Every one hating his brother isa
manslayer: and ye know that no man-
slayer has eternal life remaining in
him.

16 In this have we known love, for
he set his soul for us: and we ought
to set the souls for the brethren.

17 And whoever has the life of the
world, and sees his brother having
need, and should shut up his bowels
from him, how remains the love of
God in him ?

18 My littie children, we should not
love in word, neither in tongue; but
in work.and truth.

19 And in this we know that we
are of the truth, and we will yield our
hearts before him.

20 For if our heart condemn us,
for God is greater than our heart,
and knows all things.

21 Dearly beloved, if our heart con-
demn us not, we have freedom of
speech towards God.

22 And whatever we ask, we receive
of him, for we keep his commands,
and do things pleasing before him.

23 And this is his command, That
we believe on the name of his Son
Jesus Christ, and love one another, as
he gave us command.

24 And he keeping his commands
remains in him, and hein him. And
in this we know that he remains in us,
by the Spirit he gave us.

CHAPTER IV.
EARLY beloved, believe not
every spirit, but try the spirits if
they are of God: for many false proph-
ets have come out into the world.
2 In this ye know the spirit of God:
Every spirit which acknowledges Jesus

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Christ haying come in the flesh is of
God:

3 And every spirit which acknowl-
edges not Jesus Christ having come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is
that of antichrist which ye have heard
comes; and now is already in the
world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and
have conquered them: for greater is
he in you, than he in the world.

5 They are of the world: for this
they speak of the world, and the
world hears them.

6 We are of God: he knowing God
hears us; he is not of God who hears
us not. By this we know the spirit of
truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Dearly beloved, we should love
one another: for love is of God; and
every one loving has been born of
God, and knows God.

8 He not loving knows not God;
for God is love.

9 In this was the love of God mani-
fested in us, that God has sent his
only born Son into the world, that we
might live by him.

10 In this is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son a propitiation for our sins.

11 Dearly beloved, if God so loved
us, we ought also to love one another.

12 None has ever seen God. If we
love one another, God remains in us,
and his love is completed in us.

13 In this we know that we remain
in him, and he in us, for he has given
us of his Spirit.

14 And we have seen and testify
that the Father has sent his Son a
Saviour of the world.

15 Whoever acknowledges that Je-
sus is the Son of God, God remains in
him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and have be-
lieved the love which God has in us.
God is love; and he remaining in
love remains in God, and God in him.

17 In this has love been completed
with us, that we might have freedom
of speech in the day of judgment:
for as he is, so are we in this world.

18 Fear is not in love; but perfected
love casts out fear: for fear has re-

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straint. And he fearing has not been
perfected in love.

19 We should love him, for he first
loved us. |

20 If any say, I love God, and hate
his brother, he is a liar: for he not
loving his brother whom he has seen,
God whom he: has not seen, how can
he love?

21 And this command have we from
him, That he loving God love his
brother also.

CHAPTER V.
VERYONKE believing that Jesus
is the Christ has been born of God:

and every one loving him having be-
gotten, loveshim also begotten of him.

2 In this we know that we love the
children of God, when we love God,
and keep his commands.

3 For this is the love οὗ God, that we
keep his commands: and his commands
are not heavy.

4 For everything begotten of God
conquers the world: and this is the
victory having conquered the world,
our faith.

5 Who is he conquering the word,
if not he believing that Jesus is the
Son of God ?

6 This is he having come by water
and blood, Jesus the Christ ; not by wa-
ter alone, but by water and blood.
And the Spirit is testifying, for the
Spirit is trath.

7 For three are testifying (in heaven,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Spirit: and these three are one.

8 And three are testifying in the
earth,) the spirit, and the water, and
the blood: and the three are for one.

9 If we receive the testimony of
men, the testimony of God is greater :
for this is the testimony of God which

JOBS, ἐὺ:‏ יד

he has testified concerning his Son.

10 He believing in the Son of God
has the testimony in himself: he not
believing God has made him a liar;
for he has not believed the testimony
which God has testified of his Son,

11 And this is the testimony, that
God has given us eternal life, and this
life is in his Son.

12 He having the Son has life; and
Hig not having the Son of God has not
ife. :
13 These I wrote to you believing
in the name of the Son of God; that
ye might know tliat ye have eternal
life, and that ye might believe in the
name of the Son of God.

14 And this is the freedom of speech
which we have toward him, that, if we
ask anything according to his will, he
hears us:

15 And if we know that he hear us,
whatever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions which we have asked
of him.

16 11 any see his brother sinning a
sin not to death, he shall ask,-and he
will give him life to them sinning not
to death. There isa sin to death: 1
say not of that, that he should ask.

17 All injustice is sin: and there is
a sin not to death. :

18 We know that every one born of
God sins not; but he born of God keeps
himself, and evil touches him not.

19 We know that we are of God,
and the whole world lies in evil.

20 And we know that the Son of
God has come, and has given us un-
derstanding, and we know him true,
and we are in him true, in his Son
Jesus Christ. This is the true God,
and eternal life.

21 Little children, watch yourselves
from idols. Amen.

Ἰ J OEE:

HE elder to the chosen mistress
and to her children, whom I love

in truth; (and not I only, but also all
they having known the truth ;)

Il. JOHN.

2 For the truth remaining in us, and
shall be with us forever.

3 There shall be with you grace,
mercy, peace, from God the Father,
and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the
Son of the Father, in truth, and love.

4 I was greatly rejoiced that I found
of thy children walking about in the
truth, as we received a command from
the Father.

5 And now I entreat thee, mistress,
not as writing a new command, but
what we had from the beginning, that
we should love one another.

6 And this is love, that we walk
about according to hiscommands. This
is the command, That as ye heard from
the beginning, ye should walk in it.

7 For. many cheats come into the
world, they not acknowledging Jesus
Christ coming in the flesh. This is the
cheat and antichrist.

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8 Look to yourselves, lest we should
destroy what things we have wrought,
but we should receive a full reward.

9 Every one passing by, and not re-
maining in the teaching of Christ, has
not God. He remaining in the teach-
ing of Christ, the same also has the
Father and the Son.

10 If there come any to you, and
bring not this teaching, receive ye him
not into the household, and to rejoice
tell him not:

11 For he telling him to rejoice,
partakes of his evil works.

12 Having many things to write to
you, I was not willing by paper and
ink: but I hope to come to you, and
to speak mouth to mouth, that our joy
might be filled up.

13 The children of thy chosen sister
greet thee. Amen.

elder to the dearly beloved‏ ו
Gaius, whom 1 love in truth.‏

2 Dearly beloved, I pray, above all
things that thou succeed and be in
good health, as thy soul succeeds.

3 For I was greatly rejoiced, the
brethren coming and testifying to thy
truth, as thou walkest about in the
truth.

4 [have no joy greater than these
that 1 hear my children walking in
truth.

5 Dearly beloved, thou doest faith-
fully whatever thou dost work for the
brethren, and for strangers ;

6 Who testified to thy love before
the church: thou shalt do well, having
sent them forward worthily of God.

7 For, for his name went they forth,
receiving nothing from the nations.

8 Therefore ought we to receive such,
that we might be workers together in
the truth.

9 I wrote to the church: but Diot-

rephes, seeking the superiority over
them, receives us not.

10 Therefore, if 1 should come, I will
put him in mind of his works which he
does, talking silly against us with evil
words: and not being satisfied in these,
neither does he himself receive the
brethren, and hinders those being
willing, and 68818 out of the church.

11 Dearly beloved, imitate not evil,
but good. He doing good is of God:
and he doing evil has not seen God.

12 It has been testified to Deme-
trius by all, and by the truth itself:
and we also testify; and know that our
testimony is true.

13 I have many things. to write, but
I will not by ink and pen write to
thee: 6

14 And I hope presently to see thee,
and we will speak mouth to mouth.
Peace to thee. The friends greet thee.
Greet the friends by name. 4

JUDE.

JDE, servant of Jesus Christ, |

and brother of James, to the con-
secrated in God the Father, and the
kept in Jesus Christ, the called:

2 Mercy to you, and peace, and love,
be multiplied.

3 Dearly beloved, making all dili-
gence to write to you of the common
salvation, I had necessity to write to
you, beseeching to fight for the faith
once delivered to the holy ones.

4 For certain men entered in by
stealth, long ago written of before-
hand for judgment, irreligious, having
changed the grace of our God into li-
centiousness, and denying the only
Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 And I wish to remind yon, ye
having once known this, that the Lord,
having saved the people out of the
land of Egypt, the second time de-
stroyed them not having believed.

6 Also the angels not having kept
their beginning, but having left their
own habitation, he has kept in per-
petual chains under darkness for the
judgment of the great day.

7 As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the
cities about them, debauched in like
manner to these, and having gone away
after other flesh, are set before a sam-
ple of eternal fire, enduring punish-
ment.

8 And likewise indeed these dream-

ing truly defile the flesh, and despise
dominion, and defame glories.

9 But Michael the archangel, when
fighting with the accuser, discussed con-
cerning the body of Moses, dared not
to bring the judgment of defamation,
but said, May the Lord censure thee.

10 And these truly what things
they know not they defame: and what
things naturally, as irrational animals,
they know, in these they corrupt them-
selves.

11 Woe to them! for they went in
the way of Cain, and were poured out
in the error of Balaam for a reward,
and they were destroyed in the con-
troversy of Core.

12 These are spots in your loves,

feasting together fearlessly, taking
care of themselves: clouds wanting
water, carried about by winds; decay-
ed trees, unfruitful, twice dead, up-
rooted ;

13 Fierce waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shames; wandering
stars, to whom the obscurity of dark-
ness has been kept forever.

14 And also of these prophesied
Enoch, the seventh from Adam, say-
ing, Behold, the Lord came with ten
thousands of his holy ones,

15 To do judgment to all, and to
convince all their irreligious of all
their works of irreligion which they
have impiously acted, and of all the
hard things which the sinful irrelig-
lous spake against him.

16 These are murmurers, discon-
tented, going according to their eaget
desires; and their mouth speaks ex-
ceeding bulky things, admiring faces
on account of advantage. .

17 And ye, dearly beloved, remem-
ber the words spoken before by the
sent of our Lord Jesus Christ ;

18 For they said to you that in the
last time shall be deceivers, going ac-
cording to the eager desires of their
impieties.

19. These are they separating them-
selves, sensual, not having the Spirit.

20 And ye, dearly beloved, building
up yourselves in your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit,

21 Keep yourselves in the love of
God, awaiting the merey of our Lord
Jesus Christ to eternal life.

22 And truly compassionate some,
discriminating :

23 And some save in fear, snatching
out of the fire; hating also the coat
stained from the flesh.

24 And to him able to watch your-
selves from falling, and to place blame-
less before his glory with transport of
JOY>
25 To the only wise God our Sa-
viour, glory and majesty, and strength
and power, also for now and for all
times, Aien.

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REVELATION.

CHAPTER I.
HE Revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave to him, to show to
his servants what things must be with
speed ; and he signified having sent by
his angel to his servant John:

2 Who bare witness to the word of
God, and to the testimony of Jesus
Christ, as much as he saw.

3 Happy he reading, and they hear-
ing the words of the prophecy, and
keeping the things written in it, for
the time is near.

4 TOHN to the seven churches

which in Asia: Grace to you,
and peace, ‘from him who being, and
who was, and who coming; and from
the seven Spirits which are before his
throne ;

5 And from Jesus Christ, the faith-
ful witness, the first born from the
dead, and the chief of the kings of the
earth. To him having loved us, and
washed us from our sins in his blood,

6 And he made us kings and priests
to God and his Father; to him the
glory and strength for the times of
times.

7 Behold, he comes with clouds; and
every eye shall see him, and they who
goaded him: and all the tribes of the
earth shall lament on account of him.
Yes, Amen.

8 1 am the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end, says the Lord,
who being, and who was, and who
coming, the Omnipotent Ruler.

9 I John, and your brother, and par-
taker in pressure, and in the kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ, I was in
the island called Patmos, for the sake
of the word of God, and for the testi-
mony of Jesus Christ.

10 I was in the Spirit in the day
pertaining to the Lord, and I heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trum-
pet, saying,

11 1 amthe Alpha and the Omega,
the first and the last : and, What thou

seest, write in a book, and send to the
seven churches which in Asia; to Eph-
esus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos,
and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to
Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.

12 And I turned back to see the
voice which spake with me. And hay-
ing turned back, I saw seven gold
chandeliers ;

13 And in the midst of the seven
chandeliers one like to the Son of
man, dressed ina garment descending
to the feet, and girded at the breast
with a golden girdle.

14 And his head and hairs white as
white wool, as snow, and his eyes as a
flame of fire ;

15 And his feet as brass of Lebanor,
as refined by fire in a furnace; and
his voice as the voice of many waters.

16 And having in his right hand seven
stars: and going out of his mouth a
sharp two-mouthed sword: and his
sight as the sun shines in his power.

17 And when I saw hin, I fell at his
feet as dead. And he put his right
hand upon me, saying to me, Be not
afraid; I am the the first and the last:

18 And he living, and I was dead ;
and, behold, I am living for the times
of times, Amen; and have the keys of
hades and of death.

19 Write the things thou hast seen,
and which are, and which are about to
be after these things;

20 The mystery of the seven stars
which thou sawest upon my right hand,
and the seven golden chandeliers. The
seven stars are the messengers of the
seven churches: and the seven chan-
deliers which thou sawest are the
seven churches.

CHAPTER II.
O the messenger of the Ephesian
church write: Thus says he hold-
ing the seven stars in his right hand,
he walking about in the midst of the
seven golden chandeliers ;

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REVELATION II.

231 know thy works, and thy fa-|witness, who was slain with you,

tigue, and thy patience, and that thou
canst not bear the wicked: and thou
hast tried them saying they are sent,
and are not, and thou hast found them
liars : ᾿

3 And thou hast borne, and thou
hast patience, and for my name hast
thou been wearied, and thou hast not
been broken by toil.

4 But I have against thee, for thou
hast let go thy first love.

5 Therefore remember whence thou
hast fallen, and repent, and do the first
works; and if not, I come to thee
quickly, and I will move the chande-
lier out of its place, except thou re-

ent.

6 But this hast thou, that thou dost
hate the works of the Nicolaitanes,
which I also hate.

7 He having ears, let him hear what
the Spirit says to the churches; To
him conquering I will give to eat of
the tree of life, which is in the midst
of the pleasure garden of God.

8 And to the messenger of 6
church of the Smyrnians write; Thus
says the first and the last, who was dead
and he lived ;

9 I know thy works, and pressure,
and poverty, (but thou art rich) and
the blasphemy of them saying them-
selves to be Jews, and are not, but the
synagogue of the adversary.

10 Neither be afraid of what things
thou art about to suffer: behold, the
accuser is about to cast of you into
prison, that ye might be tried ; and ye
shall have pressure ten days: be thou
faithful until death, and I will give
thee the crown of life.

11 He having ears, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches;
Ile conquering should not be injured
by the second death.

12 And to tle messenger to the
calling out in Pergamos write: Thus
says he having the sharp two-mouthed
sword ;

13 I know thy works, and where
thou dwellest, where the throne of
Satan: and thon holdest my name,
and hast not denied my faith, and in
the daysin which Antipas my faithful

where Satan dwells.

14 But I have a few things against
thee, for thou hast there them holding
the teaching of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumbling-block before
the sons of Israel, to eat things sacri-
ficed to idols, and to commit forni-
cation.

15 So also hast thou them holding
the teaching of the Nicolaitanes, which
I hate.

16 Repent; and if not, I come to
thee swiftly, and will wage war with
them with the sword of my mouth.

17 He having ears, Jet him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches ;
To him conquering will I give to eat
from the hidden manna, and I will
give him a white small stone, and
upon the small stone a new name writ-
ten, which none knew except he re-
ceiving.

18 And to the messenger of the
church among the Thyatirians write ;
Thus says the Son of God, having his
eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like
the brass of Lebanon ;

19 I know thy works, and love, and
service, and faith, and thy patience,
and thy works ; and the last more than
the first.

20 But I have a few things against
thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jez-
ebel, calling herself a prophetess, to
teach and to lead my servants astray
to commit fornication, and to eat things
offered to idols.

21 And I gave her time that she
might repent of her fornication ; and
she repented not.

22 Behold, 1 will cast her into a bed,
and them committing adultery with
her into great pressure, except they
repent of their works.

23 And her children will I kill in
death ; and all the churches shall know
that Tam he searching the reins and
hearts : and I will give to you each ac-
cording to your works.

24 And Isay to you, and to the rest
among the Thyatirians, as many as
have not this teaching, and who know
not the burden of Satan, as they say ;
I will cast no other burden upon you.

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25 But what ye have, hold ye until
I come.

26 And he conquering, and keeping
my works till the end, I will give him
power over the nations :

27 And he will rule them with an
iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware
shall they be rubbed together: as 1
also have received of my Father.

28 And I will give him the morning
star.

29 He having ears, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches.

CHAPTER III.
ND to the messenger of the
church in Sardis write: Thus says
he having the seven spirits of God,
and the seven stars ; 1 know thy works,
that thou hast aname that thou livest,
and art dead.

2 Be watching, and make firm the
remaining things, which are about to
die: For I have not found thy works
perfected before God.

3 Remember therefore how thou
hast received, and heard, and do thou,
and repent. If therefore thou watch
not, I will come upon thee as a thief,
and thou shalt not know what hour
I shall come upon thee.

4 Thou hast a few names also in
Sardis which stained not their gar-
ments; and they shall walk about with
me in white things: for they are
worthy.

5 He conquering, the same shall be
surrounded in white garments; and 1
will not wipe out his name from the
book of life, but. I will acknowledge
his name before my Father, and be-
fore his messengers.

6 He having ears, let him hear what
the Spirit says to the churches.

7 And to the messenger of the
church: in Philadelphia write; Thus
says the holy, the true, he having the
key of David, he opening, and no one
shuts ; and he shuts, and no one opens;

8 I know thy works: behold, I have
given before thee an open door, and
none can shut it, for thou hast a little
ΕΟΥ̓͂ΡΗ and hast kept my word, and

ast not denied my name.

9 Behold, I give of the synagogue

of Satan, of them saying themselves
to be Jews, and are not, but they lie;
behold, I will make them that they
come and worship before thy feet, and
they should know that I have loved
thee.

10 For thou didst keep the word of
my patience, and] will keep thee from
the hour of temptation, about to come
upon the whole habitable globe, to try
them dwelling upon the earth.

11 Behold, I come swiftly: hold
what thou hast, that none take thy
crown.

12 He conquering, I will make him
a pillar in the temple of my God, and
without shall he no more come forth:
and I will write upon him the name of
my God, and the name of the city of
my God, the new Jerusalem, which
comes down from heaven from my
God: and my new name.

18 He having ears, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches.

14 And to the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; Thus says
the Amen, the faithful and true wit-
ness, the beginning of the creation of
God; ’

15 I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor boiling: I would thou
shouldest be cold or boiling.

16 For so thou art tepid, and neither
cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit
thee out of my mouth.

17 For thou sayest, That I am rich,
and have abounded, and have need of
nothing; and thou knowest not that
thou art wretched, and pitiable, and
poor, and blind, and naked ;

18 I counsel thee to buy gold of me
refined by fire, that thou mightest be
rich; and white garments, that thou
mightest be surrounded, and that the
shame of thy nakedness might not be
made manifest; and anoint thine eyes
with eyesalve that thou mightest see.

191, if as many as I love, I re-
buke and correct: be emulous there-
fore, and repent.

20 Behold, I stand before the door,
and knock: and if any hear my voice,
and open the door, I will come in to
him, and will sup with him, and he
with me. ~

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21 116 conquering, will I give to him
to sit with me on my throne, as 1. 0
conquered, and sat down with my Fa-
ther on his throne.

22 He having ears, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches.

CHAPTER IY.
FTER these things I saw, and,
behold, a door opened in heaven:
and the first voice which 1 heard as of
a trumpet speaking with me; saying,
Come up here, and I will show thee
what things must be after these.

2 And instantly I was in the spirit :
and, behold, a throne was set in heaven,
aud one sitting upon the throne.

3 And he sitting was like the vision
to a jasper stone and a sardine; anda
rainbow round about the throne, like
the vision to an emerald.

4 And round about the throne twen-
ty-four thrones: and sitting upon the
thrones I saw twenty-four elders, sur-
rounded with white garments; and
they had golden crowns upon their
heads.

5 And from the throne go forth
lightnings, and thunders, and voices:
and seven torches of fire burning be-
fore the throne, which are the seven
Spirits of God. ~

6 And before the throne a sea of
glass like crystal: and in the midst of
the throne, and round about the
throne, four living creatures full of
eyes before and behind.

7 And the first living creature like a
lion, and the second living creature like
a calf, and the third living creature hay-
ing the face as a man, and the fourth
living creature like a spreading eagle.

8 And the four living creatures, one
by itself, had six wings together round
about; and within full of eyes; and
they have no rest day and night, say-
ing, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, the
Omnipotent Ruler, who was, and who
being, and who coming.

9 And when the living creatures
shall give glory and honour and thanks
to him sitting on the throne, and to
him living forever and ever,

10 The twenty-four elders will fall
before him sitting on the throne, and

REVELATION IiII., IV., V.

will worship him living forever and
ever, and will cast their crowns before
the throne, saying,

11 Worthy art thou,O Lord, to re-
ceive glory, and honour, ‘and power;
for thou didst create all things, and
by thy will they are, and they were
created.

CHAPTER V.
NDI saw upon the right hand of
him sitting upon the throne, a
book written within and behind, seal-
ed with seven seals.

2 And I saw a strong angel pro-
claiming with a great voice, Who is
worthy to open the book, and to loose
its seals ?

3 And none was able in heaven, nor
upon earth, nor under the earth, to
open the book, nor to look upon it.

4 And I wept much, that none was
found worthy to open and to read the
book, neither to look upon it.

5 And one of the elders says to me,
Weep not: behold, the Lion conquer-
ed, he being of the tribe of Judah, the
Root of David, to open the book, and
to loose its seven seals.

6 And 1 saw, and, behold, in the
midst of the throne and of the four
living creatures, and in the midst of
the elders, a Lamb standing as having
been slain, having seven horns and
seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits
of God sent into all the earth.

7 And he came and took the book
from the right hand of him sitting up-
on the throne.

8 And when he*teok the book, the
four living creatures and the twenty-
four elders tell before the Lamb, hay-
ing each harps, and golden bowls full
of incenses, which are the prayers of
the holy. 1 Ι

9 And they sing a new song, saying,
Worthy art thou to take the book, and
to open its seals: for thon wert slain,

and didst purchase us to God by thy

blood from every tribe, and tongue,
and people, and nation ;

10 And madest us kings and priests
to our God: and we shall reign upon
the earth.

11 And Isaw, and heard the voice

REVELATION: Vi, VI., VII.

of many angels round about the throne
and the living creatures and the elders:
and their number was myriads of
myriads, and thousands of thousands ;

12 Saying with a great voice, Wor-
thy is the Lamb slain to receive power,
and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honour, and glory, and praise.

13 And every creature which is in
heaven, and in earth, and under the
earth, and upon the sea, which are,
and all things in them, heard I saying,
To him sitting upon the throne, and to
the Lamb, praise, and honour, and
glory, and strength, for the times of
times.

14 And the four living creatures
said, Amen. And the twenty-four
elders fell and worshipped him living
for the times of times.

CHAPTER VI.
agp I saw when the Lamb opened
one of the seals, and 1 heard one
of the four living creatures saying, as
the voice of thunder, Come and see.

2 And I saw, and beho!d a white
horse: and he sitting upon him having
a bow ; and a crown was given to him:
and he went forth conquering, and that
he might conquer.

3 And when he opened the second
seal, I heard the second living creature
saying, Come and see.

4 And another horse came forth
fiery red: and it was given to him sit-
ting upon him to take peace from the
earth, and that they should slaughter
one another: and a great sword was
given to him.

5 And when he opened the third
seal, 1 heard the third living creature
saying, Oome and see. And 1 saw,
and behold a black horse, and he sit-
ting upon him having a balance in his
hand.

6 And I heard a voice in the midst
of the four living ereatures saying, A
measure of wheat for a drachma, and
three measures of barley for adrachma;
and thou shouldest not injure the oil
and the wine.

7 And when he opened the fourth
seal, 1 heard a voice of the fourth liv-
ing creature saying, Come and sce.

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8 And I saw, and behold a pale
horse: and he sitting above him the
name to him Death, and Hades follows
with him. And power was given to
them to kill upon the fourth of the
earth, withsword, and by famine, and
by death, and by wild beasts of the
earth.

9 And when he opened the fifth
seal, I saw under the altar the souls of
the slain for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they had:

10 And they cried with a great
voice, saying, Till when, Lord, holy
and true, dost thou not judge and
avenge our blood of them dwelling up-
on earth ?

11 And to each were given white
robes; and it was said to them, that
they should rest for a little time, till
also their fellowservants be filled up,
about to be killed, as also they.

12 And I saw when he opened the
sixth seal, and, behold, there was a
great shaking ; and the sun was black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as
blood ;

13 And the stars of heaven fell to
the earth, asa fig tree casts her un-
timely figs, shaken by a great wind.

14 And the heaven was separated as
a book turned round ; and every mount
and isle were moved from their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and
the great, and the rich, and the captains
of thousands, and the powerful, and
every servant, and every one free, hid
themselves in caves and in rocks of the
mountains ;

16 And they say to the mountains
and rocks, Fall upon us, and hide us
from the face of him sitting upon the
throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath
has come; and who can stand ?

CHAPTER VII.

ND after these things I saw four
angels standing upon the four
corners of the earth, holding the four
winds of the earth, that the wind blow
not upon the earth, nor upon the sea,

nor upon any tree.
2 And I saw another angel having

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come from the rising of the sun, hav-
ing the seal of the living God: and he
cried with a great voice to the four
angels, to whom it was given to in-
jure the earth and the sea,

3 Saying, Injure not the earth,
neither the sea, neither the trees, until
we should seal the servants of God
upon their foreheads.

4 And I heard the number of the
sealed: an hundred and forty-four
thousand sealed of all the tribes of the
sons of Israel. ᾿

5 Of the tribe of Judah twelve
thousand sealed. Of the tribe of
Reuben twelve thousand sealed. Ot
the tribe of Gad twelve thousand
sealed.

6 Of the tribe of Aser twelve thou-
sand sealed. Of the tribe of Neptha-
lim twelve thousand sealed. Of the
tribe of Manasses twelve thousand
sealed.

τ Of the tribe of Simeon twelve
thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Levi
twelve thousand sealed. Of the tribe
of Issachar twelve thousand sealed.

8 Of the tribe of Zabulon twelve
thousand sealed. Of the tribe of Jo-
seph twelve thousand sealed. Of the
tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand
sealed.

9 After these things I saw, and, be-
hold, a great multitude, which none
could number it, of all nations, and
tribes, and peoples, and tongues, stand-
ing before the throne, and before the
Lamb, having put round white robes,
and palm trees in their hands ;

10 And crying with a great voice,
saying, Salvation to our God sitting
upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

11 And all the angels stood round
about the throne, and the elders and
the four living creatures, and they fell
before the throne upon their faces,
and worshipped God,

12 Saying, Amen: praise, and glory,
and wisdom, and gratitude, and honour,
and power, and strength, to our God
for ever and ever. Amen.

13 And one of the elders answered,
saying to me, These having put round
white robes, who are they? and
whence came they ?

REVELATION VII. VIII.

14 And I said to him, Lord, thou
knowest. And he said to me, These
are they coming out of great pressure,
and they washed their robes, and
whitened their robes in the blood of
the Lamb.

15 Therefore are they before the
throne of God, and serve him day and
night in his temple: and he sitting
upon the throne will dwell among
them.

16 They shall hunger no more, nor
thirst any more; nor should the sun
fall upon them, neither any heat.

17 For the Lamb in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall guide
them to living fountains of water: and
God shall wipe out every tear from
their eyes.

CHAPTER VIII.
arte when he opened the seventh
seal, there was silence in heaven
about half an hour.

2 And I saw the seven angels who
stood before God ; and seven trumpets
were given to them.

3 And another angel came and was
placed by the altar, having a golden
censer; and many perfumes were
given him, that he might give to the
prayers of the holy upon the golden
altar before the throne.

4 And the smoke of the perfumes
went up, with the prayers of the holy,
from the angel’s hand before God.

5 And the angel took the censer,
and filled it from the fire of the altar,
and east into the earth: and there
were voices, and thunders, and light-
nings, and an earthquake.

6 And the seven angels having the
seven trumpets prepared themselves
that they might sound the trumpets.

7 And the first angel sounded the
trumpet, and there were hail and fire
mingled with blood, and it was cast in-
to the earth: and a third of the trees
were burned down, and all green
grass was burned down.

8 And the second angel sounded
the trumpet, and as a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the
sea: and the third of the sea was
blood;

REVELATION VIIL., IX.

9 And the third of the creatures
which in the sea, died, those having
souls; and the third of the ships were
destroyed.

10 And the third angel sounded the
trumpet, and a great star fell from hea-
ven, burning as a torch, and it fell
upon a third of the rivers, and upon
the fountains of waters;

11 And the name of the star is
081160 Wormwood: and the third of
the waters is into wormwood; and
many of men died of the waters, for
they were rendered bitter.

12 And the fourth angel sounded
the trumpet, and the third of the sun
was stricken, and a third of the moon,
and a third of the stars; that a third
of them might be darkened, and the
day shone not, a third af it, and the
night likewise.

13 And I saw, and heard one angel
flying in the midst of heaven, saying
with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, to
them dwelling upon earth from the
rest of the voices of the trumpet of
the three angels, about to sound the
trumpet !

CHAPTER IX.
ND the fifth angel sounded the

trumpet, and I saw a star fallen |

from heaven to the earth: and there
was given to him the key of the well
of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the well of the
bottomless pit; and a smoke went up
out of the well, as the smoke of a
great furnace; and the sun was dark-
ened, and the air, from the smoke of
the well.

3 And out of the smoke came forth
locusts into the earth: and power was
given them, as the scorpions of the
earth have power.

4 And it was said to them that they
should not injure the grass of the
earth, neither any green, nor any tree;
except the men only which have not
the seal of God upon their foreheads.

5 And it was given them that they
should not kill them, but that they
should be tortured five months: and
their torture as the torture of a scor-
pion, when he should strike a man.

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6 And in those days shall men seek
death, and not find it; and_ shall
eagerly desire to die, and death shall
flee from them.

7 And the likenesses of the locusts
like horses prepared for war; and
upon their heads as crowns like gold,
and their faces as men’s faces.

8 And they had hair as women’s
hair, and their teeth were as of lions.

9 And they had coats-of-mail, as
coats-of-mail of iron; and the voice
of their wings as the voice of chariots
of many horses running to war.

10 And they have tails as scorpions,
and goads were in their tails: and
their power to injure men five months.

11 And they have a king over them,
the angel of the abyss, the name to
him in Hebrew Abaddon, and in
Greek he has the name Apollyon.

12 One woe has passed; behold,
there come two. woes more after these.

13 And the sixth angel sounded the
trumpet, and I heard one voice from
the four horns of the golden altar
which is before God,

14 Saying to the sixth angel who
had the trumpet, Loose the four angels
bound in the great river Euphrates. ἡ

15 And the four angels were loosed,
prepared for an hour, and a day, and
a month, and a year, that they might
kill the third of men.

16 And the number of troops of
cavalry, two hundred thousand thou-
sand: and 1 heard their number.

17 And thus I saw the horses in
the vision, and them sitting upon them,
having fiery coats-of-mail, and of deep
purple, and sulphurous: and _ the
horses’ heads as lions’ heads; and out
of their mouths went forth fire and
smoke and sulphur.

18 By these three were the third of
men killed, from fire, and from smoke,
and from brimstone, coming forth out
of their mouths.

19 For their powers are in their
mouth, and in their tails: for their
tails like serpents, having heads, and
with them they injure.

20 And the rest of men who were
not killed by these blows, neither re-
pented of the works of their hands,

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that they should not worship evil
spirits, and images of gold, and silver,
and brass, and stone, and wood: which
neither can see, neither hear, neither
walk:

21 And they repented not of their
slaughters, nor of their charms, nor
of their fornications, nor of their
thefts.

CHAPTER X.
ND I saw another strong angel
coming down from heaven, sur-
rounded with a cloud: and a rainbow
upon the head, and his face as the sun,
and his feet as pillars of fire:

2 And he had in his hand a small
book opened: and he set his right foot
upon the sea, and the left upon the
earth,

3 And he cried with a great voice,
as a lion roars: and when he cried,
the seven thunders spake their voices.

4 And when the seven thunders
spake their voices, I was about to
write: and 1 heard a voice from heay-
en saying to me, Seal what the seven
thunders spake, and thou mayest not
write these.

5 And the angel which I saw stand-
ing upon the sea and upon earth lifted
up his hand to heaven,

6 And sware by him living for ever
and ever, who created the heaven, and
all in it, and earth, and all things in it,
and the sea, and all in it, that time
shall be no more:

7 But in the days of the voice of
the seventh angel, when he should be
about to sound the trumpet, and the
mystery of God should be finished, as
he announced the good news to his
servants the prophets.

8 And the voice which I heard from
heaven again speaking with me, and
saying, Go, take the little book opened
in the hand of the angel having stood
upon the sea and upon the earth.

9 And I came forth to the angel,
saying to him, Give me the little book.
And he said to me, Take, and eat it
‘up; and it shall render thy belly bit-
ter, but in thy mouth shall it be sweet
as honey.

10 And I took the small book from

REVELATION IX., ,א‎ XI.

the angel’s hand, and I was eating it;
and in my mouth was as honey, sweet :
and when I ate it, my belly was bitter.

11 And he says to me, Thou must
again prophesy to peoples, and na-
tions, and tongues, and many kings.

CHAPTER ΣΙ.
ND areed was given me like a
rod: and the messenger stood,
saying, Arise, and measure the temple
of God, and the altar, and them wor-
shipping in it.

2 And the court-yard that without
the temple throw out, and thou mayest
not measure it: for it was given to the
nations: and the holy city shall they
tread under foot forty-two months.

3 And I will give to my two wit-
nesses, and they shall prophesy one
thousand two hundred and sixty days,
surrounded with sackcloth.

4 These are the two olive trees, and
the two chandeliers which haying
stood before the God of the earth.

5 And if any would injure them,
fire goes forth out of their mouth, and
devours their enemies: and if any
would injure them, so must he be put
to death.

6 These have power to shut up
heaven, that the rain should not wet
in the days of their prophecy: and
they have power over the waters to
turn them to blood, and to strike the
earth with every blow, as often as
they wish.

7 And when they should finish their
testimony, the wild beast coming up
out of the abyss shall wage war with
them, and shall conquer them, and kill
them.

8 And their slain bodies upon the
spacious way of the great city, which
is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.

9 And they from the people and
tongues and nations shall see their
slain bodies three days and a half, and
they shall not suffer their slain bodies
to be put into tombs.

10 And they dwelling upon the
earth shall rejoice over them, and
shall be gladdened, and shall send
gifts to one another; for these two

REVELATION ,זא‎ XII.

prophets tortured them dwelling upon
the earth.

11 And after three days and a half

the Spirit of life from God came upon
them, and they stood upon their feet :

and great fear fell upon those behold-
ing them.

49 And they heard a great voice
from heaven saying to them, Come up
here. And they went up to heaven
in the cloud; and their enemies be-
held them.

13 And in that hour was a great
earthquake, and a tenth of the city
fell, and there were slain in the
shaking seven thousand names of
men: and the rest were terrified, and
they gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe passed away ;
behold, the third woe comes swiftly.

15 And the seventh angel sounded
the trumpet; and great voices were int
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the
world were our Ὁ Lord’s, and his Christ’s ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever.

16 And the ~ twenty-four elders,
which before God sitting upon their
thrones, fell upon their faces, and
worshipped God,

17 Saying, We return thanks to
thee, O Lord God, the Omnipotent
Ruler, who being, and who was, and
who coming ; for thou hast taken thy
great power, and reigned.

18 And the nations were angry, and
thy wrath came, and the time of the
dead, to be judged, and to give reward
to thy servants the prophets, and to
the holy, and to them fearing thy
name, the small and great; and to
destroy then destroying the earth.

19 And the temple of God was
opened in heaven, and the ark of his
covenant was seen in his temple: and
there were lightnings, and voices, and
thunders, and shakings, and great hail.

CHAPTER XII.
pee a great sign was seen in
heaven ; a woman surrounded by
the sun, and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve
stars :
2 And having in the womb she

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eries, having the pains of childbirth,
and making trial to bring forth.

3 And another sign was seen in heay-
en; and behold a creat fiery red dra-
gon, having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his heads seven diadems.

4 And his tail draws the third of
the stars of heaven, and he cast them
into the earth: and the dragon stood
before the woman about to bring forth,
that when she should bring forth he
might devour her child.

5 And she brought forth a son, a
male, who is about to rule all nations
with an iron rod: and her child was
snatched up to God, and his throne.

6 And the woman fled into the des-
ert where she has a place prepared
from God, that they might nourish
her there a thousand two hundred and
sixty days.

7 And war was in heaven; and Mi-
chael and his angels waged war against
the dragon; and the “dragon ו‎ waged
war and his angels,

8 And were not strong; nor was
place more found for them in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast
out, the old serpent, called 6
Devil, and Satan, he deceiving the
whole habitable globe: he was east in-
tothe earth, and his angels were cast
out with him.

10 And I heard a great voice saying
in heaven, Now was salvation and
power, and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ: for the
accuser of our brethren was cast down,
he accusing them before our God, day
and night.

11 And they conquered him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of
their testimony ; and they loved not
their souls till death.

12 For this rejoice, ye heavens, and
they dwelling in them. Woe to them
inhabiting the earth and the sea! for
the devil came down to you, having
great wrath, knowing that he has little
time.

13 And when the dragon saw that
he was cast into the earth, he drove
out the woman who brought forth the
male.

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14 And to the woman were given
two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly to the desert, to her place,
where she is nourished there a time,
and times, and half a time, from the
face of the serpent.

15 And the serpent cast after the
Woman water out of his mouth as a
river, that he might make her torn
away by a river.

16 And the earth helped the woman,
and the earth opened her mouth, and
swallowed down the river which the
dragon cast out of his mouth.

17 And the dragon was angry at
the woman, and went out to make
war with the rest of her seed, those
keeping the commands of God, and
having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER XIII.
ND I stood upon the sand of the
sea, and I saw coming up from
the sea a wild beast, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten diadems, and upon his heads
the name of blasphemy.

2 And the wild beast which I saw
was like a panther, and his feet as of a
bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a
lion: and the dragon gave him his
power, and his throne, and great au-
thority.

3 And I saw one of his heads as
slaughtered to death; and his death-
blow was healed : and the whole earth
wondered after the beast.

4 And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power to the wild beast:
and they worshipped the wild beast,
saying, Who like the beast ? who shall
be able to war with him ?

5 Anda mouth was given him speak-
ing great things and blasphemies ; and
power was given him to make war
forty-two months.

6 And he opened his mouth in
blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, and his tent, and them dwell-
ing in heaven.

7 And it was given him to make
war with the holy, and to conquer
them: and power was given him over
every tribe, and tongue, and nation.

8 And all they dwelling upon earth

REVELATION XIL., XIII, XIV,

shall worship him, whose names have
not been written in the book of life of
the slain Lamb from the foundation of
the world.

9 If any have an ear, let him hear.

10 If any bring together to captivity
he shall proceed into captivity: if any
shall kill with sword, he shall be kill-
ed with the sword. Here is the pa-
tience and faith of the holy.

11 And I saw another wild beast
coming up out of the earth; and he
had two horns like a lamb, and he
spake as a dragon.

12 And all the powers of the first
beast he does before him, and he makes
the earth and all dwelling in it that
they should worship the first wild
beast, whose death-blow was healed.

13 And he does great signs, that al-
so he might make fire come down from
heaven to the earth before men,

14 And he deceives them dwelling
upon earth by the signs which were
given him to do before the wild beast ;
saying to them dwelling upon earth, to
make an image to the wild beast, who
has the blow of the sword, and he lived.

15 And it was given him to give
spirit to the image of the wild beast,
that the image of the wild beast might
speak, and might make as many as
should not worship the image of the
wild beast that they be killed.

16 And he makes all, small and
great, and rich and poor, and free and
servants, that he should give them a
stamp upon their right hand, or upon
their foreheads :

17 And that no one could buy or
sell, except he haying the stamp, or
the name of the wild beast, or the
number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him hay-
ing intelligence calculate the number
of the wild beast: for it is the num-
ber of a man; and his number Six
hundred and sixty-six.

CHAPTER XIV.
ND I saw, and, behold, a Lamb
standing upon mount Sion, and
with him a hundred forty-four thou-
sand, having the name of his Father
written in their foreheads.

REVELATION XIV., XV.

2 And 1 heard a voice from heaven,
as the voice of many waters, and as
the voice of great thunder: and 1
heard the voice of harp-players play-
ing on their harps:

3 And they sing as a new song be-
fore the throne, and before the four
living creatures, and the elders: and
none could learn the song, except the
hundred forty-four thousand, pur-
chased from the earth.

4 There are they who were not con-
- taminated ‘by women; for they are
virgins. These are they following the
Lamb wherever he should lead. These
were purchased from men, first fruits
to God and the Lamb.

5 And guile was not found in their
mouth: for they are blameless before
the throne of God.

6 And I saw another angel flying in
the midst of heaven, having the last-
ing good news to announce to them
dwelling upon the earth, and to every
nation, and tribe, and tongue, and
people,

7 Saying with a great voice, Fear
God, and give glory to him; for the
hour of his judgment has come: and
worship ye him having made the
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of waters.

8 And another angel followed, say-
ing, She fell, Babylon fell, the great
city, for all nations has she given to
drink of ‘the wine of the wrath of her
fornication.

9 And the third angel followed

them, saying with a great voice, If

any worship the wild beast and his
image, and receive the stamp upon his
forehead, or upon his hand,

10 And the same shall drink of the
wine of the wrath of God, mingled
pure in the cup of his anger; and he
shall be tortured in fire and sulphur
before the holy angels, and before the
Lamb:

11 And the smoke of their torture
goes up forever and ever: and they
have no rest day and night, those wor-
shipping the wild beast and his im-
age, and if any receive the stamp of
his name.

12 Here is the patience of the holy:

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here they keeping the commands of
God, and the faith of Jesus.

13 And 1 heard a voice from heaven,
saying, Write, Happy the dead who
dying in the Lord trom henceforth:
Yes, says the Spirit, that they might
cease from their fatigues; and their
works follow with them.

14 And I saw, and behold a white
cloud, and upon the cloud he sitting
like the Son of man, having upon his
head a golden crown, and in his hand
a sharp sickle.

15 And another angel went forth
out of the temple, crying with a
great voice to him sitting upon the
cloud, Send thy sickle, and reap: for
the hour has come to thee to reap;
for the earth’s harvest was dried up.

16 And he sitting upon the cloud
cast his sickle upon the earth; andthe
earth was reaped.

17 And another angel came forth out
of the temple which in heaven, the
same also having a sharp sickle.

18 And another angel came forth
from the altar, having power over fire ;
and he called with a great ery to him
having the sharp sickle, saying, Send
thy sharp sickle, and harvest the grapes
of the vineyard of the earth; for her
grapes were fully ripe.

19 And the angel cast his sickle into
the earth, and harvested the earth’s
vineyard, and cast into the great wine-
press of the wrath of God.

20 And the winepress was trodden
under foot without the city, and blood
came out of the winepress, even to the
horses’ bridles, from sixteen hundred

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CHAPTER XV.

ve I saw another sign in heaven,
great and wonderful, seven an-
gels haying the seven last blows; for
in them was the wrath of God finished.
2 And I saw as a sea made of glass
mingled with fire: and they conquer-
ing from the wild beast, and from his
image, and from his stamp, and from
the number of his name, standing up-
on the sea made of glass, having harps

of God.
3 And they sing the song of Moses
the servant of God, and the song of the

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Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful
thy works, O Lord God, Omnipotent
Ruler; just and true thy ways, King of
the holy.

4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,
and glorify thy name? for thou alone
holy: for all nations shall come and
worship before thee; for thy justices
were made manifest.

5 And after these things I saw, and
behold, the temple of the tent of testi-
mony was opened in heaven :

6 And the seven angels came forth
out of the temple, having the seven
blows, clothed in linen, pure and shin-
ing, and being girded about the breasts
with golden girdles.

7 And one of the four living crea-
tures gave the seven angels seven gol-
den bowls full of the wrath of God,
living forever and ever.

8 And the temple was filled with
smoke from the glory of God, and from
his power; and none could come into
the temple, till the seven blows of the
seven angels were finished.

CHAPTER XVI.
ee ך‎ heard a great voice out of
the temple saying to the seven
angels, Go forward, and pour out the
vials of the wrath of God in the
earth.

2 And the first went forth, and
poured out his vial upon the earth;
and a bad and evil sore was upon the
men having the stamp of the wild
beast, and them worshipping his
image.

3 And the second angel poured out
his vial into the sea; and it was blood
as of a dead body: and every living
soul died in the sea.

4 And the third angel poured out
his vial into the rivers, and into the
fountains of waters; and it was blood.

5 And I heard the angel of the
waters saying, Just, O Lord, art thou,
who being, and who was, and who
wilt be, for thou didst judge these
things.

6 For they poured out the blood of
the holy, and of the prophets, and thou

REVELATION XV., XVI.

7 And I heard another from the
altar saying, Yes, O Lord God, the
Omnipotent Ruler, true and just thy
judgments.

8 And the fourth angel poured out
his vial upon the sun; and it was giv-
en him to parch up men with fire.

9 And men were parched up with
great heat, and they blasphemed the
name of God, having power over
these blows: and they repented not to
give him glory.

10 And the fifth angel poured out
his vial upon the throne of the wild
beast ; and his kingdom was darkened;
and they pressed their tongues for
pain,

11 And they blasphemed the God
of heaven for their pains and for their
ee and they repented not of their
work.

12 And the sixth angel poured out
his vial upon the great river Euphra-
tes; and its water was dried up,
that the way of the kings of the ris-
ings of the sun might be prepared.

13 And I saw out of the mouth of
the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the wild beast, and out of the mouth
of the false prophet, three unclean
spirits like frogs.

14 For they are the spirits of
demons, doing signs, to go out upon
all the kings of the earth and of the
whole habitable globe, to gather them
together for the war of that great
day of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.

15 ( Behold, I come asa thief. Hap-
py he watching, and keeping his
garments, lest he walk naked, and
they see his shame.)

16 And he gathered them together
in a place called in Hebrew Armaged-
don.

17 And the seventh angel poured
out his vial into the air; and a great
voice went out from the temple of
heaven, from the throne, saying, It is
done.

18 And there were voices, and thun-
ders, and lightnings; and there was a
great shaking, such as was not since the
time men were upon earth, such a

didst give them blood to drink; for| great shaking.

they are worthy.

19 And the great city was in three

REVELATION 71, XVIL, XVIII.

parts, and the cities of the nations fell:
and great Babylon was remembered
before God, to give her the cup of
the wine of the wrath of his anger.

20 And every island fled, and the
mountains were not found.

21 And great hail, as the weight of
a talent, comes down from heaven
upon men: and men blasphemed God
for the blow of the hail; for its blow
is exceedingly great.

CHAPTER XVII.

ND one of the seven angels hav-
ing the seven vials, came and
spake with me, saying to me, Come;
I will show thee the judgment of the
great harlot sitting npon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the
earth were debauched, and they dwell-
ing upon the earth were intoxicated
from the wine of her harlotry.

3 And he brought me away in the
spirit into the desert: and I saw a
woman sitting upon a scarlet wild
beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.

4 And the woman surrounded with
purple and scarlet, and covered with
gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full
of abominations and the impurity of
her harlotry:

5 And upon her forehead a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HAR-
LOTS, AND OF THE ABOMINA-
TIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 And I saw the woman intoxicated
from the blood of the holy, and from
the blood of the witnesses of Jesus:
and I wondered, seeivg her, with great
wonder.

7 And the angel said to me, Why
didst thou wonder? I will tell thee
the mystery of the woman, and of
the wild beast lifting her up, having
seven heads and ten horns.

8 The wild beast that thou sawest
was, and is not; and is about to come
up from the abyss, and go forward to
perdition: and they dwelling upon
the earth shall wonder, whose names
have not been written upon the book

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of life from the foundation of the
world, seeing the wild beast that was,
and is not, although he is.

9 Here the mind having wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains,
where the woman sits upon them.

10 And there are seven kings: five
fell, and one is; the other has not yet
come; and when he should come, he
must remain a little.

11 And the wild beast which was,
and is not, and this is the eighth, and
is of the seven, and goes forward
into perdition.

12 And the ten horns which thou
sawest are ten kings, which took not
yet the kingdom; but take power as
kings one hour with the beast.

13 These have one purpose, and
their power and authority will they
transmit to the wild beast.

14 These will wage war with the
Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer
them: for he is Lord of lords, and
King of kings: and they with him
called, and chosen, and faithful.

15 And he says to me, The waters
which thou sawest, where the harlot
sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.

16 And the ten horns which thou
sawest upon the wild beast, these
shall hate the harlot, and shall make
her desolate and naked, and they shall
eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire.

17 For God gave to their hearts to
do his purpose, and to do one purpose,
and to give their kingdom to the wild
beast, till the words of God be ful-
filled.

18 And the woman which thou
sawest is the great city, having king-
dom over the kings of the earth.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ND after these things I saw an-
other angel coming down from
heaven, having great power; and the
earth was enlightened from his glory.
2 And he cried with a great, strong
voice, saying, She fell, Babylon the
great fell, and became the dwelling of
devils, and the prison of every unclean
spirit, and the prison of every unclean
and detested bird.

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3 For of the wrath of the wine of
her fornication have all nations drunk,
and the kings of the earth were de-
bauched with her, and the wholesale
merchants of the earth were rich from
the power of her luxury.

4 AndI heard another voice from
heaven, saying, Come out of her, my
people, that ye partake not of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues.

5 For her sins were followed even
to heaven, and God remembered her
injustices.

6 Give back to her as also she gave
back to you, and double to her double
things according to her works: in the
cup in which she mixed, mix to her
double.

7 As much as she glorified herself,
and led an insolent life, give her so
much torture and grief: for in her heart
she says, 1 sit a queen, and am no
widow, and I should see no grief.

8 Therefore in one day shall her
blows come, death, and grief, and fam-
ine; and she shall be burned down in
flre: for strong the Lord God judging
her.

9 And weep for her, and lament over
her, shall the kings of the earth hay-
ing been debauched with her, and
having led an insolent life, when they
see the smoke of her burning,

10 Standing from far off for fear of
her torture, saying, Woe, woe, the great
city Babylon, the strong city! for in
one hour thy judgment came.

11 And the wholesale merchants of
the earth shall weep and mourn over
her; for their cargo will none pur-
chase more:

12 The cargo of gold, and silver,
and precious stones, and pearls, and
fine linen, and purple, and silk, and
scarlet, and all fir wood, and every
ivory vessel, and every vessel of pre-
cious wood, and of iron, and brass, and
marble,

13 And cinnamon, and perfumes,
and ointment, and frankincense, and
wine, and oil, and the finest wheat
flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep,
and of horses, and of chariots, and of
bodies, and of souls of men.

REVELATION XVIII.

14 And the harvest fruit of the
eager desire of thy soul departed from
thee, and all fat and brilliant things
departed from thee, and thou shouldest
find them no more.

15 The wholesale merchants of
these things, having been rich from
her, shall stand from far off for fear
of her torture, weeping and mourn-
ing,

16 And saying, Woe, woe, the great
city, surrounded with fine linen, and
purple, and scarlet, and adorned with
gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
forin one hour was so great riches laid
waste.

17 And every pilot, and all the
crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and
as many as work the sea, stood from
far off,

18 And cried, seeing the smoke of
her burning, saying, What like the
great city !

19 And they cast earth upon their
heads, and cried, weeping and mourn-
ing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in
which all having ships in the sea were
rich by her value! for in one hour was
she rendered a desert.

20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and
the holy sent, and the prophets; for
God judged your judgment of her.

21 And one strong angel lifted up a
stone as a great millstone, and cast
into the sea, saying, Thus with ex-
citement shall Babylon, the great city,
be cast down, and be found no more.

22 And the voice of harp players,
and musicians, and flute players, and
trumpeters, should be heard in thee no
more; and every artist of every art be
found no more in thee; and the voice
of the millstone should be heard no
more in thee;

23 And the light of the lamp no
more should shine in thee; and the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice
of the bride, should no more be heard
in thee: for thy wholesale merchants
were leaders of the earth ; for with thy
charms were all nations led astray.

24 And in her was found the blood
of the prophets, and of the holy, and
of all those slain upon the earth.

REVELATION XIX., XX.

CHAPTER XIX.
aye after these things I heard the
great voice of a vast multitude
in heaven, saying, Alleluia ; Salvation,
and glory, and honour, and power, to
the Lord our God :

2 For true and just his judgments:
for he judged the great harlot, who
corrupted the earth with her harlotry,
and he avenged the blood of his ser-
yants from her hand.

3 And the second time they said,
Alleluia. And her smoke goes up for
ever and ever.

4 And the twenty-four elders and
the four living creatures fell and wor-
shipped God sitting upon the throne,
saying, Amen; Alleluia.

5 And a voice from the throne came
out, saying, Praise our God, all his
servants, and they fearing him, also
small and great.

6 And I heard as the voice of the
vast multitude, and as the voice of
many waters, and as the voice of pow-
erful thunders, saying, Alleluia: for
the Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler,
reigned. 1

7 Let us rejoice, and be transported
' with joy, and let us give glory to him:
for the marriage of the Lamb came,
and his wife prepared herself.

8 And it was given her that she put
on fine linen, pure and shining: for
τε linen is the justification of the

oly.

9 And he says to me, Write, Happy
they called to the marriage supper of
the Lamb. And he says to me, These
are the true words of God.

10 And I fell before his feet to
worship him. And he says to me, See,
not: I am thy fellowservant, and of
thy brethren having the testimony of
Jesus: worship God: for the testimo-
ny of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

11 And I saw heaven opened, and
behold a white horse; and he sitting
upon him called Faithful and True,
and in justice he judges and makes war.

12 And his eyes as a flame of fire,
and upon his head many diadems ;
having a name written, which no one
knows, except himself.

13 And surrounded with a garment

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dipped in blood : and his name is called
The Word of God.

14 And the armies in heaven fol-
lowed him upon white horses, clothed
in fine linen, white and clean.

15 And out of his mouth went forth
a sharp sword, that with it he might
strike the nations: and he shall rule
them with an iron rod: and he treads
the winepress of the wine of the wrath
aud anger of God, the Omnipotent
Ruler.

16 And he has upon the garment
and upon his thigh the name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF
LORDS.

17 And I saw one angel standing in
the sun; and he cried with a great
voice, saying to all the birds flying in
the midst of heaven, Come and gather
yourselves to the supper of the great
God;

18 That ye might eat the flesh of
kings, and the flesh of captains of
thousands, and the flesh of the strong,
and the flesh of horses, and of them
sitting upon them, and the flesh of all,
free and servants, and of small and
great.

19 And I saw the wild beast, and
the kings of the earth, and their
armies, gathered together to war with
him sitting upon the horse, and with
his army.

20 And the wild beast was seized,
and with him the false prophet having
done signs before him, with which he
deceived them having received the
stamp of the wild beast, and them
worshipping his image. Living, were
they two cast into the lake of fire
burning with sulphur.

21 And the rest were killed by the
sword of him sitting upon the horse,
coming out of his mouth: and all
birds were satiated from their flesh.

CHAPTER .אא‎
ND I saw an angel coming down
out of heaven, having the key
of the abyss, and a great chain in his
hand.

2 And he seized the dragon, the old
serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,

and bound him a thousand years,

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REVELATION XX., ΧΧΙ.

3 And he cast lim into the abyss,| written in the books, according to

and shut him up, and affixed a seal
above him, that he should no more
deceive the nations, until the thousand
years be finished: and after these
things he must be loosed a little time.

4 Aud I saw thrones, and they sat
upon them, and judgment was given
them: and the souls of them beheaded
with an axe for the testimony of Je-
sus, and for the word of God, and who
worshipped not the wild beast, nor
his image, and took not the stamp
upon their foreheads, and upon their
hands; and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.

5 And the rest of the dead returned
not again to life even till the thousand
years be finished. This the first
rising up.

6 Happy and holy he having a part
in the first rising up: over these has
the second death no power, but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ,
and they shall reign with him a thou-
sand years.

7 And when the thousand years
should be finished, Satan shall be
loosed from his prison,

8 And he shall go forth to deceive
the nations that in the four corners of
the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather
them together for war: whose num-
ber as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up upon the
breadth of the earth, and they sur-
rounded the camp of the holy, and
the beloved city: and fire came down
from God out of heaven, and devoured
them.

10 And the devil deceiving them
was cast into the lake of fire and sul-
phur, where are the wild beast and
false prophet, and they shall be tor-
tured day and night for ever and ever.

11 And I saw a great white throne,
and him sitting upon it, from the face
of whom the earth and the heaven
fled; and there was found no place for
them.

12 And 1 saw the dead, small and
great, standing before God; and the
books were opened : and another book
was opened, which is of life: and the

their works.

13 And the sea gave the dead in it;
and death and hades gave the dead in
them : and they were judged each one
according to their works.

14 And dsath and hades were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the 866-
ond death.

15 And if any was not found writ-
ten in the book of life, he was cast
into the lake of fire.

CHAPTER XXI.
Nati I saw a new heaven anda
new earth: for the first heaven
and first earth passed away; and the
sea was no more.

2 And I John saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a great voice from
heaven saying, Behold the tent of God
with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God
himself shall be with them, their God.

4 And God shall wipe out every
tear from their eyes; and death shall
be no more, neither grief, neither ery-
ing, nor trouble shall be more: for the
first things departed.

5 And he sitting upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new.
And he says to me, Write: for these
words are true and faithful.

6 And he said to me, It has been. I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the be-
ginning and the end. I will give to
him thirsting of the fountain of the
water of life gratuitously.

7 He conquering shall inherit all
things; and 1 will be God to him, and
he shall be son to me.

8 But to the cowardly, and unbe-
lieving, and to the abominable, and
murderers, and to fornicators, and
charmers, and to idolaters, and to all
the lying, their part in the lake burn-
ing with fire and sulphur: which is the
second death.

9 And there came to me one of the
seven angels having the seven vials
full of the seven last plagues, and he

dead were judged from the things|spake with me, saying, Come, I will

REVELATION XXI., XXII.

show thee the bride, the wife of the
Lamb.

10 And he brought me away in the
spirit upon a mountain great and
high, and showed me the great city,
the holy Jerusalem, coming down out
of heaven from God,

11 Having the glory of God: and
her luminary like a 11085 precious
stone, as jasper stone, shining like crys-
tal ;

12 And having a wall great and
high, having twelve gates, and at the
gates twelve angels, and the names in-
scribed, which are of the twelve tribes
of the sons of Israel:

13 From the sunrising three gates ;
from the north three gates; from the
south three gates; and from ths sun-
setting three gates.

14 And the wall of the city having
twelve foundations, and in them the
names of the twelve sent of the Lamb.

15 And he speaking with me had a
golden reed that he might measure the
city, and her gates, and her wall.

16 And the city les quadrangular,
and her length is so large, such also
the breadth: and he measured the city
with the reed, at twelve thousand
stadia. Her length, breadth, and
height are equal.

17 And he measured her wall, an
hundred forty-four cubits, the mea-
sure of a man, which is the angel.

18 And the interior construction of
her wall wasa jasper: and the city
pure gold, like pure erystal.

19 And the foundations of the wall
of the city adorned with every pre-
cious stone. The first foundation a
jasper; the second, a sapphire; the
third, a chalcedony ; the fourth an em-
erald :

20 The fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth,
a sardius; the seventh, a chrysolyte ;
the eighth, a beryl; the ninth, a topaz ;
the tenth, a chrysoprasus ; the οἷον:
enth, a hyacinth | the twelfth, an ame-
thyst.

21 And the twelve gates twelve
pearls; each one of the gates was of
one pearl: and the broad way of the
city pure gold, as transparent amber.

22 And a temple saw I not in her:

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for the Lord God, the Omnipotent
Ruler, is the temple and the Lamb.

23 And the city has no need of the
sun, nor of the moon, that they shine
in her: for the glory of God enlight-
ened her, and her light the Lamb.

24 And the- nations of the saved
shall walk about in her light: and the
kings of the earth shall bring their
¢lory and honour into her.

25 And her gates should not be
shut by day: for no night shall be
there.

26 And they shall bring the glory
and the honour of the nations into her.

27 And there came not into her any-
thing common, and any doing abomi-
nation, and a lie: but they written in
the book of life of the Lamb.

CHAPTER XXII.
a ND he showed me the pure river
of the water of life, shining as
erystal, going out of the throne of
God and of the Lamb.

2 In the midst of her broad way and
of the river, hence and thence, the
tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a
month each one returning its fruit:
and the leaves of the tree for the cure
of the nations.

3 And there shall be no more curse:
and the throne of God and of the
Lamb shall be in her; and his servants
shall serve him:

4 And they shall see his face; and
his name upen their foreheads.

5 And night shall not be there; and
they have no need of a lamp, and the
light of the sun; for the Lord God
shall enlighten them: and they shall
reign for ever and ever.

6 And he said to me, These words
faithful and true: and the Lord God
of the holy prophets sent his angel to
show to his servants what must be with
speed.

7 Behold, I come quickly: happy
he keeping the words of the prophecy
of this book.

8 And I John seeing these things,
and hearing. And whenI heard and
saw, I fell down to w orship before the
feet of the angel pointing out to me
these things.

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9 And he says to me, See, not: for I
am thy fellowservant, and of thy breth-
ren the prophets, and of them keeping
the words of the prophecy of this
book ; worship God.

10 And he says to me, Thou mayest
not seal the words of the prophecy of
this book : for the time is near.

11 He being unjust, let him be un-
just yet: and he being filthy, let him
be filthy yet: and the just, let him do
justice yet: and the holy, let him be
holy yet.

19 And behold, I come swiftly ;
and my reward with me, to give back
to each as shall be his work.

13 Iam Alpha and Omega, the be-
ginning and the end, the first and the
last.

14 Happy they doing his commands,
that their power shall be in the tree of
life, and they might come in at the
gates to the city.

15 And without, dogs, and charmers
and fornicators, and murderers, and
idolaters, and every one loving and
doing a lie.

REVELATION XXII.

16 I Jesus sent mine angel to testify
these things to you, tothe churches. 1
am the root and stock of David, the
shining and morning star.

17 And the Spirit and the bride
say, Come. And let him hearing say,
Come. And let him thirsting come.
And let him wishing, take the water of
life freely.

18 For I testify to every one hearing
the words of the prophecy of this
book, If any add to these things, God
will add to him the blows written in
this book :

19 And if any take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy,
God will take away his part from the
book of life, and from the holy city,
and from the things written in this
book.

20 He testifying says, Yes, I come
swiftly. Amen. Yes,come, Lord Je-
sus.

91 The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ with you all. Amen.

THE END.

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